8vo (174 x 128 mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title-page, woodcut head-and-tail-pieces and initials, numerous in-text woodcuts. (A few repaired tears, some dampstaining.) Modern calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges sprinkled red (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some rubbing, joints starting). Provenance: a few annotations in early hand.

 

Third edition in English of Huarte’s work, first published in Spanish in 1575, and then  translated into Italian by M. Camillo Camilli in 1582. Carew translated the work from the Italian into English. Cornish translator and antiquary Carew was known for his Survey of Cornwall (1620). Huarte’s’ work is considered to be "the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology" (Garrison-Morton). ESTC 006193407.