[Aristotle] Theophrastus, De historia plantarum, [Lyon, c. 1506], later French calf for Thomas de Morand

[Aristotle] Theophrastus. ...Theophrasti de historia plantarum lib. ix. Et decimi principium duntaxat. Eiusdem de causis plantarum lib. v. [Lyon: Baldazare de Gabiano? 1506?]

A third copy, very tall, preserving a number of deckle edges.

8vo (170 x 96 mm). Italic type, 32 lines plus headline. collation: *-**⁸ A-Z⁸ AA-LL⁸ MM¹²: 300 leaves. (Occasional light staining or browning, last leaf with small wormholes.)

binding: French seventeenth-century calf with double gilt fillet border and central gilt arms of Thomas de Morand du Mesnil-Garnier [Olivier 2134 fer 1] (175 x 103 mm), spine gilt in compartments. (Binding repaired at edges and spine heavily restored.)

provenance: Costantino Odescalchi of Como, sixteenth-century inscription on title-page — Thomas de Morand du Mesnil- Garnier (1584-1626), arms on binding — Vincenzo Marini, bookplate (his library sold in 1896) — Reiss & Sohn, Königstein, 26-27 October 2010, lot 942. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Robin Halwas. references: UCLA 1128 (all volumes); Renouard 308/19 (all volumes); USTC 154947; D.J. Shaw, "The Lyons counterfeit of Aldus's italic type", in The Italian Book 1465-1800 (1993), appendix, no.22