Lot 357: LICETI, FORTUNIO

DE ORTU ANIMAE HUMANAE LIBRI TRES. GENOA: GIUSEPPE PAVONI, 1602, 4TO (224 X 145MM.), WOODCUT DEVICE ON TITLE, PEACOCK DEVICE AT END, CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM, [KRIVATSY 6964], TWO SMALL WORMHOLES IN OUTER BLANK MARGINS NOT AFFECTING TEXT, SMALL WORM-TRACK IN LAST FEW LEAVES TOUCHING A FEW LETTERS OF INDEX, SPINE REPAIRED Ibid. De perfecta constitutione hominis in utero liber unus. Padua: Pietro Bertelli, 1616 4to (219 x 165mm.), woodcut device on title, large woodcut device at colophon, contemporary carta rustica, uncut, [Krivatsy 6965], lightly browned and a little stained, spine renewed Ibid. De natura primo-movente libri duo. Padua: Giulio Crivellari, 1634, first edition, 4to (198 x 144mm.), woodcut author's device on title-page, contemporary vellum, stamp of the Bibliotheca de propaganda fide on title together 3 volumes

Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657), a friend and adversary of Galileo, was a prolific author and a pioneering embryologist.