Lot 399
Aristotle
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
[Greek title] Operum … Graece & Latine … adscriptis ad oram libri … in quibus plurima nunc primum in lucem prodeunt, ex bibliotheca Isaaci Casauboni … accesserunt … fragmenta … Lyons: apud Iacobum Bubonium, 1590. 2 volumes, folio, large device on the title-pages of both volumes, text in two columns of Latin and Greek, some Ms. marginalia (cropped), some water staining to the outer margins of volume 1, some staining through pages 521-545 (with repairs and some loss of text), lacking the final page of volume 1, slight water staining of the lower margins of volume 2, lacking the last signature with the Indices.
Note: Adams A 1736
Operum … adiecta est vita Aristotelis … ac sriptis eiusdem, commentatio doctissima per Philippum Melancthonem … Basle: [n.p, Oporinus?], 1538. Volume 2 only of three volumes, with Hh4 a blank, woodcut initials, orginal roll tooled calf, rubbed and worn and lacking the lower board, , Melancthon's name scorred out on the title-page and at the head of the Life, uniform paper discolouration throughout, margins of titlepage and first few leaves a little frayed, single worm hole through first couple of signatures
Note: Adams A 1741, but not describing Hh4 as a blank; Riley 9 (with only two volumes)
Omnia facile princeps opera … extant omnia … in tres tomos digesta … Accesserunt in singulos libros argumenta, nunc primum ex optimis graecorum commentariis in Latinam linguam converesa … Basle: ex officina Ioan. Oporini, 1548. Volume 1 of 3, folio, printer's device on the title-page, woodcut initials, later calf, rubbed and worn, spine partly detached, worm hole in the margin through two thirds, some marginal water staining
Note: Adams 1743; Riley volume 2 only. Contains the Isagoge of Porphyrius, the Categoriae, Hermenias De interpretatione, the Analytica priora [posteriora], Topica, Sophistici elenchii (4)