Lot 407
Aristotle
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Petri Victorii commentarii in tres libros Aristotleis De arte dicendi … [with the Greek text]. Florence: in officina Bernardi Iunctae, 1548. Folio, device on verso of the last leaf, modern full blind tooled calf, title-page and verso of last leaf a little dusty, blind library stamp on the title-page. [ Adams A1941; Riley 216]
Petri Victorii commentarii in VIII libros Aristotelis De optimo statu civitatis …. Iisdem, ad verbum Latine expressis … [with the Greek text and translation by Vettori]. Florence: apud Iuntas, [in fine: apud haeredes Bernardi Iuntae], 1576. Folio, device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf, modern vellum, with the signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun on the title-page. [ Adams A1913; Riley 190]
Petri Victorii commentarii … in tres libros Aristotleis De arte dicendi, nunc primum in Germania editu … [with the Greek text].Basle:[ex officina Ioannis Oporini, 1549]. [bound with] Francisci Robortelli … in librum Aristototelis De arte poetica … Basle: per Ioannemm Hervagium, 1555. Folio, first work with device on the title-page, the second with device on the titlepage and oon the verso of the last leaf, text of the first work in two columns, 18th century half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, title-page of the first work a little dusty and with early ownership inscriptions, second work with marginalia in an ealy hand, water staining through roughly half the work. [First work: Adams V672; Riley 217; the second work: Adams A1904. Not in Riley].
Aristotelis … omnia quae extant opera … Averrois Corubensis in ea opera omnes qui a nos pervenere commentarii … Venice: apud Iuntas, 1550-1553. Volumes 1, 4, 7 & 8 only of 11volumes, volumes 7 & 8 bound together, printer's devices on the title-pages and on the verso of the last leaves, the general title which prefaces volume 1 printed in red with coat of arms printed in red and yellow heightened in gold, woodcut diagrams, volumes 1, 7 & 8 in contemporary vellum, volume 4 in 18th century half calf, marbled boards, spine of volume 7 & 8 worn and chipped, library stamps on the general title-page, device cut from the title-page of volume 4, ownership inscriptions on the titles of volumes 1 and 7, first couple of leaves of volume 4 stained. [Adams A1745; Riley 21 with volume 3 only] (6)