Beards.- Olmo (Marc Antonio) Physiologia Barbae Humanae, first edition

Beards.- Olmo (Marc Antonio) Physiologia Barbae Humanae, first edition, title in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut illustration on Y1r, short tear in 2I1, some light browning, scattered spotting and marginal damp-staining, a few faint creases towards end, without sig.K appendix as usual, contemporary limp vellum, upper hinge torn at head, spine with contemporary ms title, [Bruni-Evans 3713 ;Krivatsy 8425], folio, Bologna, Giovanni Batista Bellagamba, 1601. *** One of the earliest works on the physiology of human beards.

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