ARISTOTLE De natura animalium libri novem 1492 Bound with

Sale 1997 - Lot 17

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FROM THE PILLONE LIBRARY WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING ARISTOTLE. De natura animalium libri novem. De partibus animalium libri quattuor. De generatione animalium libri quin[que]. Latin translation by Theodorus Gaza. Woodcut architectural border on a1r. [6], 106 leaves. Folio, 310x210 mm, contemporary Belluno(?) 1/4 blind-ruled morocco, wooden boards with handwritten abbreviated title in ink on front cover, brass catches, lacks clasps, top of spine chipped; light dampstaining in upper margin of opening leaves. Bookplates of Thomas Brooke, Pierre Berès, and Crawford W. Adams, M.D. (sale, 5 May 1982, lot 11). Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 18 November 1492

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Second edition of Aristotle's principal zoological writings, originally published in 1476. GW 2351; BMC V, 343; Klebs 85.2; Garrison-Morton 274, 275, 462.