Aristotle, Poetica, Venice, Aldus, 1536, later tan calf gilt

ARISTOTLE. Aristotelis Poetica, per Alexandrum Paccium... in Latinum conversa. Venice: Paolo Manuzio & heirs of Andrea Torresano, 1536

First separate Aldine edition of the Greek text of the Poetics, with the first complete translation into Latin, by Alessandro de' Pazzi, both of which proved influential on the reception of Aristotle's Poetics.

8vo (154 x 95 mm). Italic and Greek type, 30 lines plus headline. Collation: A-C⁸ D⁴ α-γ⁸ δ⁴: 56 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. 

Binding: Later tan calf (161 x 103 mm), covers ruled in gilt, spine gilt in five compartments with floral design, edges stained red. (Extremities lightly rubbed, a few light stains, upper joint cracked.) 

Acquisition: Purchased from E.K. Schreiber, New York, 1989. References: UCLA 281; Edit16 2904; Renouard 115/4