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 and Theophrastus, Venice, Aldus. 1513, contemporary half tooled morocco over wooden boards

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Aristotle and Theophrastus. Habentur hoc volumine haec Theodoro Gaza interprete. Aristotelis De natura animalium. lib. ix. Eiusdem De partibus animalium. lib iiii. Eiusdem De generatione animalium. lib. v. Theophrasti De historia plantarum. lib. ix... Alexandri Aphrodisiensis problemata duobus libris... (Venice: Aldo Manuzio and Andrea Torresano, February 1513)


A reprint of the 1504 Aldine edition (lot 145) of Theodorus Gaza's translation of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus on natural history, though with the original dedication letter from Gaza to Nicholas V reinserted (it did not appear in the 1504 edition). These versions had a long history in print, the first edition of Gaza's De animalibus appearing in 1476, and had a substantial influence on subsequent editions.


Folio (310 x 210 mm). Roman type, with Greek in quires O-P, 53 lines plus headline. collation: a12 b-n8 o-p6 q-z8 A-M8 N6 O- P8: 302 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-pages and O8v. (Occasional staining or browning, a few small wormholes, last leaf with small chip at fore-edge.)


binding: Contemporary Italian half morocco over wooden boards (335 x 225 mm), tooled with ropework and leafy designs, remains of four clasps, strip of medieval manuscript used as spine liner. (Binding slightly worn, head of spine repaired, upper joint cracking, lacking 3 straps and 2 catchplates.)


provenance: inscription on flyleaf dated 1561, "Filloris Cassio novitoris" — "Alexanderi Medani liber", early inscription on flyleaf (there was an Alessandro Midani recorded in Verona at the end of the sixteenth century) — Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1994 [according to Bergé catalogue] — Pierre Bergé, Alde Manuce (1450-1515), une collection, sale, Geneva, 19 November 2004, lot 73, CHF 25,000. acquisition: Purchased from Bergé sale. references: UCLA 111; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 112; Edit16 2879; Renouard 65/11

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