Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 21,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
ARISTOTLE. De caelo et mundo. With commentary by Thomas Aquinas and Petrus de Alvernia; edited by Hermannus de Virsen. Woodcut text diagrams. 76 leaves. bound with: ALBERTUS MAGNUS. De coelo et mundo. Edited by Hieronymus de Monopoli. [1], 2-65, [1] leaves, including initial blank. and: ALBERTUS DE SAXONIA. Quaestiones in Aristotelis libros de caelo et mundo. Edited by Hieronymus Surianus. [52] leaves, including final blank. Together, 3 volumes in one, all printed in Gothic type. Folio, 312x216 mm, contemporary binding of beech boards with leather stripped from spine exposing alum-tawed leather sewing supports, outer half of front cover and front free paper missing, rear cover loose; tiny wormholes through covers and front and back of contents not impairing legibility, occasional marginal soiling, some light dampstaining in lower margins, scattered early marginalia; modern 1/4 morocco folding case. Early ownership inscription of Johannes Baptista Catius of Novara on second leaf of first work; 18th-century owners' inscriptions on initial blank of the second work and title of the third. (Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 18 August 1495); (Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 18 November 1490); (Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 24 October 1492)

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cosmological sammelband containing Aristotle's principal work on the subject, elaborating his geocentric model of the universe, and 2 medieval commentaries:
Third edition, and first to include the text by Aquinas and Petrus de Alvernia. The original edition appeared in 1473. Hain 1689(=1531); GW 2355; BMC V, 445; Goff A978; ISTC ia00978000.
first edition. Hain-Copinger 511; GW 594; this edition not in BMC; Goff A227; ISTC ia00227000.
Second edition after the first of 1481. Hain 576; GW 796; BMC V, 440; Goff A347; ISTC ia00347000.