Joannes Philoponus, Eis tà ystera analytika Aristotelous ypomnema, Venice, Paolo Manuzio & Heirs of Torresano, 1534, eighteenth-century calf

Joannes Philoponus. Joannes Philoponus. In posteriora resolutoria Aristotelis commentarium, incerti authoris in eadem. Eustratii in eadem [Latin and Greek]. (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, December 1534)

[Bound following:] Joannes Philoponus. Comentaria in Priora analytica Aristotelis. Magentini comentaria in eadem Libellus de syllogismis [Greek]. (Venice: Giovanni Francesco Trincavelli for Bartolomeo Zanetti, April 1536)

A second, regular-paper copy bound with the editio princeps of Joannes Philoponus's commentary on Aristotle's Analytica Priora.

2 works in one volume, folio (295 x 200 mm). In posteriora resolutoria Aristotelis commentarium: Greek types, 54 lines plus headline. collation: a-p⁸ q⁴ aa-hh⁸ ii⁴: 192 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and ii4v, one large woodcut foliated initial, woodcut knotwork headpiece, a few woodcut diagrams, initial spaces with guide-letters. Comentaria in Priora analytica Aristotelis: Greek types, 54 lines plus headline. collation: A⁶ B-E⁸ f-o⁸ p¹⁰ (-p¹⁰) aa-ee⁸ ff⁶: 163 (of 164) leaves (lacking blank p10). Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and ff6v, woodcut initials and headpieces, those on A3r printed in red, numerous woodcut diagrams. (Some light marginal dampstaining, a few marginal wormholes.)

binding: Eighteenth-century English polished calf (300 x 215 mm), plain endpapers, edges sprinkled red. (Rebacked, extremities a bit worn, stained.)

provenance: William Montgomery Crook (1860-1945), bookplate — Giorgio Veroli (1890-1952), bookplate; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Rare Italian literature of the XV-XIX centuries … collected by the late Giorgio Di Veroli, New York, 28-29 February 1956, lot 467 (part); purchased by — unidentified owner — William Salloch, Ossining, New York, his ticket — Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10 January 1968, lot 63; purchased by — unidentified owner ($70) — Giorgio Angiolo Eduardo Uzielli (1915-1984), bookplate; Sotheby's New York, Fine Books and Manuscripts including … property from the estate of Giorgio Uzielli, 24 September 1986, lot 100 (part; lot realized $5,225). acquisition: Purchased at Sotheby's via E. K. Schreiber. references: (1) UCLA 276; Adams P1044; Cataldi Palau 139; Edit16 27216; Renouard 113/9; USTC 836417 (2) Adams P1040; Edit16 38443; USTC 836422