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ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C .). Opera , in Greek. Edited by Erasmus and Simon Grynaeus. Basel: Johannes Bebel, 1531. 2 volumes in 1, 2o (337 x 210mm). Engraved device on title and verso of last leaves, engraved historiated initials. (First title and last leaf soiled and with small losses in the fore-margin, occasional marginal dampstain.) Contemporary roll-tooled pigskin (lacking catches and clasps, corners rubbed, soiled). Provenance : indistinct inscriptions, one of these dated 1563; some marginalia and underlining perhaps in one of these hands -- Sebastian Müller (title inscription dated Mansfeld, 1572, recording the gift to:) -- Gaspard Hesdelin -- Albert Frick (small title inscription dated Jena 1734) -- P. Passloch (signature dated 1935).
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C .). Opera , in Greek. Edited by Erasmus and Simon Grynaeus. Basel: Johannes Bebel, 1531. 2 volumes in 1, 2o (337 x 210mm). Engraved device on title and verso of last leaves, engraved historiated initials. (First title and last leaf soiled and with small losses in the fore-margin, occasional marginal dampstain.) Contemporary roll-tooled pigskin (lacking catches and clasps, corners rubbed, soiled). Provenance : indistinct inscriptions, one of these dated 1563; some marginalia and underlining perhaps in one of these hands -- Sebastian Müller (title inscription dated Mansfeld, 1572, recording the gift to:) -- Gaspard Hesdelin -- Albert Frick (small title inscription dated Jena 1734) -- P. Passloch (signature dated 1935). ERASMUS'S EDITION OF ARISTOTLE, produced in collaboration with Simon Grynaeus. Erasmus dedicates the work to John, son of his friend Thomas More. Adams A-1730; Brunet I,458; Graesse VIII, 210.