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ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.) [Opera latina.] Commentaries by Averroes and Leonardus Aretinus. Venice: [Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio] for Octavianus Scotus, 26th April 1496. Super-chancery 2 o (324 x 213 mm). Collation : a-p 8 q 6 r-z \\n \\c \\g A-B 8 C 1 0 D-F 8 G 1 0 (a1r Metaphisica , r1r Praedicabilia Porphyrii , r6r Praedicamenta , s8v Perihermenias , v1v Principia Porretani cum magi Alberti commento , x8v Priora analyticum , A1v Posteriora analyticum , D1r Topicorum , G2v Elenchorum , G10v blank); a-m 8 n 6 o 8 (a1r Ethicorum , f2v Politicorum , o7r colophon, o7v quire register). 375 leaves only (of 376; final blank removed). 53 lines and headline. Gothic types 22:130 (head-lines), 29:90 (text of greater part), 20:170 (head-lines in a few quires), 32:85 (text in a few quires) and 14:68 (commentary). Numerous woodcut diagrams in text, decorated and historiated initials. (Some occasional pale marginal dampstaining, few wormholes penetrating from end, occasionally catching letters.) Modern calf antique, by Scott Keller for Abel Berland, some deckle edges preserved; quarter-morocco folding case. Provenance : some marginalia in an early hand -- Lt.-Col. Helmuth Sprinz (according to description in Sotheby's catalogue of Soudek's collection) -- Professor Josef Soudek, sold Sotheby's, New York, 12 December 1995, lot 1 to Abel Berland. Third Latin edition of Aristotle's Opera . The woodcut initials include portraits of Jacobus de Voraigne and Niccolò Malermi which were first used in Venetian vernacular editions of the Legenda aurea and Bible . Goff and GW unite Aristotle's natural philosophy ( Physica , etc.) with the rest of his writings as parts I and II of a single edition. In fact, the two were printed and marketed separately. The only complete, unified edition of Aristotle's works printed in the fifteenth century was that from the Gregorii's shop for Benedetto Fontana, issued a few months after the present. HC 2190 * ; GW 2340; BMC V, 348 (IB 21110); Sander 590; Goff A-965 II.