Leonico Tomeo, Opuscula, Venice, 1525, modern calf

Niccolò Leonico Tomeo

Opuscula nuper in lucem aedita. (Venice: Bernardino Vitali, 23 February 1525)

4to (211 x 145mm.), title printed in red within a woodcut border, woodcut initials, text in italics and roman type, woodcut diagrams, with blank leaves s4 and H6, modern calf, gilt and gauffered edges (remaining from an earlier binding), final quire (containing errata) browned

First edition of Leonico's commentaries on sections of Aristotle (De motu animalium and De incessu animalium) and Plato, with paraphrased Latin versions of the originals, based on his lectures at Padua.

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