Psychology.’ Liceti (Fortunio)

Psychologia anthropine [Greek], sive De ortu animæ humanæ libri 3, woodcut printer’s device to title, ornaments, slight browning, occasional spotting, early bibliographical annotation to front endpaper, contemporary vellum boards, a little soiled, 8vo, Johannes Saur, Frankfurt & Main, 1606.

*** Treatise on human embryology originally published in 1602. Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657) was a philosopher and doctor from Padua, taught in Pisa, Padua and Bologna, and held the first chair of philosophy in Padua. Friend and antagonist of Galilei, he wrote several works, including a curious treatise on genetic malformations, ‘De monstris’ (1616).