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Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1588. In 2 °. & Nbsp; Frontispiece within a beautiful woodcut architectural frame, portrait of the author on the reverse, numerous large illustrations in the text engraved in wood, depicting fruits, plants, herbs, 7 headboards at the beginning of each book, engraved initials, missing the index at the end ( A-C⁴), typographical repetition of pp. 57-58 and 63-64 (missing pp. 59-60, 61-62), first loose papers, some woodworm holes, some slight halo of humidity, stamp cut on the title page with small loss of text, coeval parchment binding , missing spine, defects. Ex libris by Umberto Calamida.
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First edition. Richly illustrated treatise and of notable interest for the surprising and risky correlations that the author proposes between the physiognomies of the animal, vegetable and human kingdom. These correspondences for Della Porta respond to his well-known "Doctrine of the Signatures" according to which the external appearance of every natural element reveals by analogy its therapeutic function, therefore a walnut, which resembles the brain, will have a curative link with this organ, the same happens in the case, for example, of a kidney bean.
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