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TELESIUS, Bernardinus (1509-1588). Varii de naturalibus rebus libelli . Edited by Antonio Persio. Venice: Felix Valgrisius, 1590. 4° (223 x 150mm). Woodcut diagrams in second treatise, ornamental initials, printer's device on each title. (Ink smudges on 1 leaf.) Modern boards covered with 15th-century vellum missal leaf (stained). Provenance : Johann Pezold, medical writer(?), inscription dated 1 Aug. 1680. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Telesio's shorter treatises, including the FIRST EDITION OF 5 OF HIS WORKS, edited by one of his disciples, Antonio Persio. In developing an anti-Aristotelian natural philosophy Telesio "anticipated the absolute space and time of Newtonian physics" (DNB 13, 279), and anticipated Hobbes, Descartes and Spinoza in his treatment of ethics. The volume comprises 8 parts (9 works), each with a separate title-page and pagination, accompanied by a general title, index and errata. The works are: De cometis et Lacteo circulo libellus and De his quae in aere fiunt ; De iride ; De mari ; Quod animal universum ab unica animae substantia gubernatur ; De usu respirationis ; De coloribus ; De saporibus ; De somno . Part two of the first treatise and parts 3 and 6 had been published previously. Adams T-294.