Lot 406
Aristotle
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Petri Victorii commentarii in primum librum Aristotelis De arte poetarum … secunda editio. Florence: in officina Iuntarum, Bernardi filiorum, [1572], 1573. Folio, Giunta device on the title-page, large woodcut historiated initials and one woodcut Greek initial, 18th century diced calf, with gilt arms on both covers of the Earl of Malmesbury, red morocco lettering piece, edges rubbed water staining of the lower outer corner of last third, a few marginalia, one or two leaves a little discoloured, lacking the final leaf with colophon
Note: Adams A1906; Riley 182
Provenance: Head of the title-page inscribed "Societatis Jeus Dilingae"
Ioannis Grammatici Philoponi Alexandrei commentaria in libros de generatione, et corruptione Aristotelis: ex colloquiis Hammonii Hermeae, propriisque eius considerationibus; Hieronymo Bagolino Veronesi interpreter. Venice: apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1543. Folio, large printer's device on the title-page, a small version repeated at the end, 18th century diced calf, gilt arms on the covers of the Earl of Malmesbury, joints rubbed, title-page a little spotted
Note: Not in Adams. Riley with the 1540 edition, the BM with the 1543 edition with both the Greek and Latin text. The present edition has the Latin text only (2)