Author: Carlo Boucheron
Title: De Thoma Valperga Calusio
Description: Taurini, Edebant Chirio et Mina, 1833. First edition. Hardback. In the original paper boards, a scarce first edition of Carlo Boucheron's biography of this mentor Tommaso Valperga Caluso. The first edition of this work. A scarce work. In the original Latin. A biography of the life of Tommaso Valperga Caluso. Caluso was an Italian philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was also a member of the congregation of the Oratory. Caluso was an excellent linguist, learning English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, and also knew Coptic, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. At the University of Turin he taught Oriental languages, and was also the director of the astronomical observatory of Palazzo Madama. The author, Italian philologist Carlo Boucheron, was under the guidance of Caluso, who taught him Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. Boucheron later went on to teach Greek literature at the University of Turin. With a half-title. With a vignette to the title page. Bound without the frontispiece. In paper covered boards. Externally, sound. Loss to the spine and to the front joint. Rubbing, marking, and discolouration to the boards. Spine label is lifting a little. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front board. Cracks to the head and tail of the rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Dampstains to the first few pages. Pages uncut to the top edge. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: carolo boucheron boucheron de thoma valperga calusio Tommaso Valperga Caluso boucheron philosophy None
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Title: De Thoma Valperga Calusio
Description: Taurini, Edebant Chirio et Mina, 1833. First edition. Hardback. In the original paper boards, a scarce first edition of Carlo Boucheron's biography of this mentor Tommaso Valperga Caluso. The first edition of this work. A scarce work. In the original Latin. A biography of the life of Tommaso Valperga Caluso. Caluso was an Italian philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was also a member of the congregation of the Oratory. Caluso was an excellent linguist, learning English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, and also knew Coptic, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. At the University of Turin he taught Oriental languages, and was also the director of the astronomical observatory of Palazzo Madama. The author, Italian philologist Carlo Boucheron, was under the guidance of Caluso, who taught him Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. Boucheron later went on to teach Greek literature at the University of Turin. With a half-title. With a vignette to the title page. Bound without the frontispiece. In paper covered boards. Externally, sound. Loss to the spine and to the front joint. Rubbing, marking, and discolouration to the boards. Spine label is lifting a little. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front board. Cracks to the head and tail of the rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Dampstains to the first few pages. Pages uncut to the top edge. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: carolo boucheron boucheron de thoma valperga calusio Tommaso Valperga Caluso boucheron philosophy None
Price: GBP 55.00 = appr. US$ 78.54 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 663P17
- Book number: 663P17
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