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AGOSTINI, Giuseppe (1573-1643). ‘In octo libros physicorum’, commentary on Aristotle’s Physica , [probably Rome], 1605. Text in dark brown and gold, title page with decorative ink border featuring the Bubali arms and the date 1605, 16 ink drawings marking chapter openings. In Latin, c.251 leaves, 4to (200 x 135mm) , (title page restored, some instances of ink acidification to the text and drawings). Early 17th-century Roman brown morocco gilt tooled binding, bearing the arms of the Bubali family of Rome and the name ‘Francisci de Bubalis’ (spine expertly repaired). Box. Provenance : Francesco de Bubali, 17th century – unidentified 20th-century armorial bookplate.
AGOSTINI, Giuseppe (1573-1643). ‘In octo libros physicorum’, commentary on Aristotle’s Physica , [probably Rome], 1605. Text in dark brown and gold, title page with decorative ink border featuring the Bubali arms and the date 1605, 16 ink drawings marking chapter openings. In Latin, c.251 leaves, 4to (200 x 135mm) , (title page restored, some instances of ink acidification to the text and drawings). Early 17th-century Roman brown morocco gilt tooled binding, bearing the arms of the Bubali family of Rome and the name ‘Francisci de Bubalis’ (spine expertly repaired). Box. Provenance : Francesco de Bubali, 17th century – unidentified 20th-century armorial bookplate. An appealing manuscript commissioned by a member of the Roman nobility at the beginning of the 17th century, this commentary on Aristotle’s Physica , one of the seminal texts of Western science, comes from a scholar that the patron – Francesco de Bubali – may have been familiar with: the Jesuit Giuseppe Agostini taught in Rome from 1603-1609, and the present manuscript, with its fine drawings from the natural world in brown ink and gold and splendid binding, seems to date from 1605.