Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

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Aristotle, Thibaud Payen (publisher) | Six works in one volume, Lyon, 1559, contemporary limp vellum

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2,500 - 3,500 USD

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2,000 USD

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Aristotle

(I) Physicorum Aristotelis, seu De Naturali auscultatione, libri octo. Ioanne Argyropylo Byzantio, & Francisco Vatablo Gallo interpretibus; [Bound with:] (II) De coelo libri quator, Ioanne Argyropolo Byzantino interprete; [And:] (III) De generatione et corruptione libri duo. Francisco Vatablo interprete; [And:] (IV) Meteorologicorum... libri quator, Francisco Vatablo interprete; [And:] (V) De anima libri tres. Ioanne Argyropylo Byzantio interprete; [And:] (VI) Aristotelis Stagiritae. Lyon: Theobaldum Paganum, 1559


6 works in one volume, 8vo (160 x 104 mm). Title-page to each volume with printer's device, woodcut initials; library stamps to title-page, slight marginal dampstaining. Contemporary limp vellum, ?later manuscript title on spine ("ARISTOTEL | Auscutatione | Libri octo"), remains of two pairs of ties; soiled.


REFERENCES

(I) USTC 152728; (II) USTC 152628; (III) USTC 152631; (IV) USTC 152707; (V) USTC 152626; (VI) not listed in USTC


PROVENANCE

Albertus Magnus Library/Dominican College Library, River Forest, Illinois: inkstamps to front free endpaper and title-page

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