Lot 398
Aristotle
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
[Opera omnia … Averrois Cordubenis in ea opera, omnes, qui ad haec usque tempora peruenere commentarii…]. Venice: apud Iuntas, 1562-1575. 11 volumes in 13, 8vo., device on the title-page, title-page of volume 11 printed in red and black, contemporary vellum, a mixed set with condition varying considerably, volume 2 with damaged binding, staining, partial loss of paper at foot of title and following leaves (damage repeated at the end), volume 6 with some stains and discolouration, binding of volume 10 wormed and upper cover detached, there are occasional instances of worming in some volumes, sold with all faults (13)
Footnote
Note: Not in Adams; Riley 11 (with 11 volumes in 14); Index Aureliensis 108.599. The general title page and contents are in volume 11. Volume 3 in our set is from an earlier edition and dated 1562. Volume 8 is bound up following an imperfect volume . (The set includes a seprate volume 7). The edition includes commentaries by Averroes, Levi ben Gersham, Marco Antonio Zimara, Bernardino Tomitano, and Michael Psellus.