Girolamo Cardan. De Utililtate ex adversis capienda Libri IV. Franekeræ, 1648....

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Girolamo [Jerome, or Hieronymus] Cardan [Cardano]. De Utililtate ex adversis capienda Libri IV. Franekeræ: Idzardus Balck, 1648.

Octavo. Engraved title page, decorated initials. (?)8, (2?)2, 3I8, 3K-3L4, 3M2. [20], 879 p, [20] pages. Contemporary calf, decorated gilt spine, title gilt.

Binding worn, rubbed, cracked and chipped, surface loss and corner bumps, gilt on spine faded and chipped, joints partially repaired; holograph notes on endpapers including old owner's signature on front free endpaper "Maurice Jerrod", R2 tear, Nn3 top corner missing, some loss of text, few small tears to outer margins, minor smudges and soiling; else in very good condition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.      

"The work on the Uses of Adversity was divided into four books, of which the first treated generally of all kinds of adversity, and of the preparation of the mind against imminent ills; the second treated of bodily adversity, as deformity, disease, age, death; the third book treated of adversity in fortune, as through poverty, envy, exile, anger of princes, prison; and the last book treated of adversity through one's relations, as through wife and children. It was thus naturally closed with the history of his misfortune through his son. The whole work is written in the temper of a follower of Epictetus, and contains many allusions to its author's private history." -Morely, Jerome Cardan, pp. 244-45.

STCN: 164808. NLM 17th Cent: 2144. Wellcome II: 299. Adams C: 679 (1561 ed.). Caillet 1: 2026 (1672 ed.). Index Aureliensis VI: 517 (1561 ed.).