Lot 424
Aristotle
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Simplicii …commentaria in octos libros Aristotelis de physico auditu; nunquam antea excusa, Lucillo Philaltheo interprete. Paris: apud Ioannem Roigny, [in fine: excudebat Io. Lodicus Tiletanus]1544. Folio, device of a printer press on the titlepage, crible initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled pigskin over wooden boards, head and edges rubbed, titlepage a little dusty, some marginalia in an early hand, some lines neatly ruled through
Footnote
Note: Adams A1898. Not in BL, Riley or Schwab
For the printer's device, see Davies no 247. The large decorated initials are probably designed by Geofrey Tory and are illustrated and described by Johnson Decorative initials no 53.