Apr 14, 2003 - Sale 1968

Sale 1968 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 9,775
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LEIPZIG ARISTOTELIAN SAMMELBAND, PROFUSELY ANNOTATED ARISTOTLE. Opus . . . de moribus ad Nicomachu[m] filium. 108 leaves. Folio, 313x210 mm, contemporary 1/4 pigskin, wooden boards, brass catches, lacks backstrip, leather on rear cover, and clasps; numerous tiny wormholes through covers and opening leaves, not impairing legibility, occasional light browning and dampstaining, dense contemporary marginalia and interlinear annotations throughout, first 2 gatherings loose. (Leipzig: Martin [Landsberg] of Würzburg, 1511)

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The Nicomachean Ethics in the Latin translation by the Byzantine scholar Joannes Argyropoulos (1415-87), first published circa 1480.