IOANNIS BAPTISTAE PORTAE NEAPOLITANI. LIBRI IV. QVI ab extremis, quae in hominum corporibus conspiciuntur signis, ita eorum naturas, mores, & consilia (egrejiis ad viuum expressis Iconibvs) demonstrant, vt intimus animi recessus penetrare videantur. Omnibus omnium ordinum studiosis lectu utiles, maximeque incundi. Nunca ab inumeris mendis, quibus pacim Neapolitana scatebat editio emendadti primunq; in Germania in Lucem editi. Cum luplice rerum & Verborum Indice longolocupletissimo [Vinheta do impressor]. M. D. C. I. [1601]. VRSELLIS. Typis Cornelii Sutori, sumptibus Ion[a]e. Rosae Fr.

In 8º [de 18x12 cm) com [xiv], 534, xlix pags.

Encadernação da época inteira de pele com ferros a ouro na lombada.

Ilustrado com gravuras no texto representando as analogias metonímicas das características somáticas entre homens e animais.

Exemplar com acidulação natural e generalizada do papel; e vestígios de trabalho de traça no interior sem afectar a leitura do texto.

 Binding: contemporay full calf gilt at spine. Copy with general paper foxing due to quality of paper; and marginal worming.

Illustrated with engravings on the text depicting human / animal somatic characters.

Diamond 23.5: “Porta's PHYSIOGNOMONIA is also often a very amusing work, and its charming illustrations which explore the analogies between the various human types and their animal counterparts, can deliver many a bracing gasp of recognition, and more than a chuckle or two Third (?) edition, preceded by the editions of 1586 and 1593”.