?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
NEMESIUS. De natura hominis. Greek text with Latin translation by Nicasius Ellebodius. 181, [11]; 142 pages; lacks the final blank. 8vo, 153x97 mm, 17th-century vellum boards, spine darkened, few stains on covers; margins trimmed slightly entering chapter numbers in table of contents on M8v in Nemesius, varying toned or browning, early underscoring and partly cropped marginalia. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1565
first edition in the original greek of a 4th-century treatise seeking to reconcile Platonic and other Greek ideas about the soul and human physiology with Christian doctrine. "Nemesius . . . was one of the first to propose that mental processes were localized in the cells or ventricles of the brain"--Garrison-Morton 571 (1512 edition in Latin). Hoffman II, 614; Voet 1728.bound with: ARISTOTLE. Peri psyches biblia tria. Greek text. 120 pages; lacks the title and following 15 preliminaries. Leipzig: Ernst Vögelin, 1564. Hoffmann I, 286.
