Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; et al. Scripta quaedam. Greek text; edited with notes by Henri Estienne. [8], 17-168 pages. 8vo, old vellum with calligraphic spine title in ink, spine darkened, front hinge split; marginal browning throughout, opening leaves loose, title lightly soiled, with old inscription, front free endpaper lacking. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1557

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First edition of a collection of Greek texts, some printed for the first time, including 23 of the Characters of Theophrastus; his De Sensu, a fragmentary treatise on sense perception; the pseudo-Aristotelian De mirabilibus auscultationibus; and writings by Sotion, Archytas of Tarentum, and Athenaeus. Hoffmann I, 287-88; Schreiber 142.