CANEPARI, Pietro Maria.: - Lot 129

CANEPARI, Pietro Maria.: De Atramentis cujuscumque Generis | Opus sane novum, hactenus a nemine promulgatum | In sex Descriptiones digestum | Auctore, Petro Maria Canepario, Cremensi, Medico, & Philosopho, Venetiis Medicinam profitenti; London, J. Martin, 1660. In-8, (8 ff), 568 pages. Full calf (Binding damaged: headbands missing, jaws split at the bottom, worm gallery in the margin of about ten leaves). First study on the preparation of writing ink, in particular oily pigments, sympathetic inks and mineral colors, with a 'treatise on sulfuric acid. First English edition of this important work, first published in 1618 in Venice. Provenance: Bibliothèque humaniste du Morbihan.