ARISTOTLE; and THEOPHRASTUS En tibi candide lector Aristotel

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ARISTOTLE; and THEOPHRASTUS. En tibi, candide lector, Aristotelis et Theophrasti historias. [28], 164 [i. e., 264], [2]; [40], 320, [9] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 18th-century 1/2 calf gilt; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end. Fortescue armorial bookplate. Basel: (Andreas Cratander, March) 1534

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Latin translations by Theodore Gaza and Pietro Alcionio of the principal zoological writings by Aristotle, and De causis et historia plantarum by Theophrastus, the earliest work of scientific botany. In this copy the former are bound after the latter. Garrison-Morton 87.1, 274, 276, 462, 568 (other editions); Hoffmann I, 330, and III, 531.