Aristotle. [Opera omnia, graece], edited by Desiderius Erasmus and Simon Grynaeus, 2 vol. in 1, collation: α8 a-z aa-tt8; A-O8 P6 Q-Z AA-HH8 II6, text in Greek, woodcut printer's device to titles and verso of final f. in each vol., woodcut historiated initials, later ink marginalia, underlining in pencil at start, some marginal water-staining, spotting or light foxing, occasional staining, contemporary blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps, corners worn, soiled and rubbed, folio (335 x 201mm.), Basel, Johann Bebel, 1531. ⁂ Erasmus' monumental edition of Aristotle - the second edition in Greek, preceded only by the 5 volume Aldine edition, which was textually incomplete (lacking the Poetics and Rhetoric), the present is accordingly the first complete Opera in Greek. Edited in collaboration with Simon Grynaeus, it is dedicated by Erasmus to Thomas More's son John. A handsome and desirable copy bound in contemporary pigskin. Provenance: 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). Literature: Adams A1730.
Aristotle. [Opera omnia, graece], edited by Desiderius Erasmus and Simon Grynaeus, 2 vol. in 1, collation: α8 a-z aa-tt8; A-O8 P6 Q-Z AA-HH8 II6, text in Greek, woodcut printer's device to titles and verso of final f. in each vol., woodcut historiated initials, later ink marginalia, underlining in pencil at start, some marginal water-staining, spotting or light foxing, occasional staining, contemporary blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps, corners worn, soiled and rubbed, folio (335 x 201mm.), Basel, Johann Bebel, 1531. ⁂ Erasmus' monumental edition of Aristotle - the second edition in Greek, preceded only by the 5 volume Aldine edition, which was textually incomplete (lacking the Poetics and Rhetoric), the present is accordingly the first complete Opera in Greek. Edited in collaboration with Simon Grynaeus, it is dedicated by Erasmus to Thomas More's son John. A handsome and desirable copy bound in contemporary pigskin. Provenance: 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). Literature: Adams A1730.
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