Lot 90

PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA
LA PHYSIONOMIE HUMAINE





Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 January 2019 at 11:00 GMT
£400
Description
Nouvellement traduite en François par le Sieur Rault. Rouen: Jean & David Berthelin, 1655. First edition of this translation, 8vo., numerous woodcuts in the text, contemporary limp vellum, light worming of the lower margins of pp.515-531, tear across p. 287, slight paper discolouration throughout, inscribed "ex libris PC" in an early hand on the title page and the letters PC stamped in blind on the covers




