Lot 429
Aristotle
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Vincentii Madii Brixiani et Bartholomaei Lombardi Veronensis in Aristotelis librum De poetica communes explanationes: Madii vero in eundem librum propriae annotations. Eiusdem De ridiculis: et in Horatii librum De arte poetica interprete … Venice: in officina Erasmiana Vincentii Valgrissi, 1550. Folio, printer's device on the title-page, a larger version repeated at the end, decorative woodcut initials, Greek and Latin text, lacking the final blank leaf, modern limp vellum, a.e.g., new endpapers, perforated stamp of the University of Chicago Libraries on the title-page, one or two leaves a little discoloured
Footnote
Note: Adams M79; Riley 180. This translation was first published in Venice in 1536.
Provenance: From the Libraries of the University of Chicago (cancelled on the verso of the title-page). A pencilled note on the title also noting it as a duplicate from the University of Wisonsin. Terracotta University of Chicago library label tipped in.