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Vico Equense, Giuseppe Cacchi, 1586. In folio. Architectural title page with a portrait of the author surrounded by the principal examples of human and animal physiognomies studied in the text, a full-page portrait of the dedicatee, Cardinal Aloisio Estense, two full-page engravings of a man and a woman (repeated), 81 engravings in the text (including numerous repetitions), trimmed lower margin of the title page, some minor restorations, light foxing and browning, contemporary half-leather binding, signs of wear, particularly at the edges. Brown cloth and cardboard slipcase. Archiepiscopal ownership stamps on the title page, second leaf, and at the end. Paper bookplate on the inside cover.
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An extremely rare original edition, printed in Vico Equense, in which the Neapolitan philosopher and alchemist Giovanni Battista Della Porta (1535-1615) expounded his physiognomic theories, in some ways anticipating the ethnological studies of Johann Kaspar Lavater some two centuries later. From a typographical perspective, it is an extraordinary testament to the liveliness of 16th-century Southern publishing, even in small provincial towns.
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