Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

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Aristotle, De historia animalium, Venice, Aldus, 1553, contemporary red morocco gilt by Niccolò Franzese

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Aristotle. Aristotelis De historia animalium disciplinam et reliquos huic disciplinae agnatos libros continens tomus III. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio (for Federico Torresano), 1553 (1552)


This is one volume from a six-volume set of Aristotle in Greek, printed by the sons of Aldo for Federico Torresano, between 1551 and 1553.


For the binding tools, see A. Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, plates VI (b), XV (b), XVI, XVII, XVIII (b), dating the binding to ca. 1553.


8vo (168 x 118 mm). Greek type, 32 lines plus headline. collation: *-**8 AAA-ZZZ8 aaa-zzz8 AAa-MMm8: 480 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut initials, manuscript notes in Italian on front pastedown. (Occasional slight browning or foxing.)


binding: Contemporary Roman red morocco elaborately gilt by Niccolò Franzese (174 x 126 mm), an outer border of leafy circle tools surrounding a panel of leafy tendrils and azured tools, spine with similar gilt decoration and two later vellum panels in the top and bottom compartments with manuscript lettering, edges gilt and gauffered with a ropework design, stubs from two pairs of ties, offsetting on rear pastedowns from a folio edition of the Canones et decreta of the Council of Trent. (Extremities slightly rubbed, upper joint repaired, later endpapers.)


provenance: Armorial library label on inside front cover (probably Italian). acquisition: Purchased from Wolfgang J. Kaiser, Frankfurt am Main, 1998. references: UCLA 439; Cataldi Palau 183; Edit16 2936; Renouard 156/7

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