Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ARISTOTLE, attributed to. De coloribus libellus. Greek text with Latin translation and commentary by Simone Porzio. 197, [3] pages, including errata leaf at end. 4to, 218x135 mm, modern binding of vellum-backed boards covered with 16th-century printed liturgical leaves; scattered marginal dampstains, opening leaves browned, title soiled, with later owner's monogram stamp. 19th-century owner's handwritten table of contents on blank verso of last leaf. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1548

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first separate edition in the original greek of a treatise on the theory of color falsely ascribed to Aristotle, and first edition of the Latin version by Porzio. Hoffmann I, 289.