May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Paulus Venetus [Nicoletti] (1369-1429)
Super Libris Posteriorum cum Tabula [Expositio in Libros Posteriorum Aristotelis].

Venice: Mandato & Expensis Luc'Antonio Giunta, 16 March 1521.

Folio, 115 numbered leaves (lacking final leaf, likely blank), printed in gothic letter, two columns throughout, illustrated with metalcut text diagrams of geometrical shapes; figural woodcut initials with cherubs, colophon with large printer's woodcut device, contemporary notes throughout; bound in modern half parchment with repurposed musical manuscript leaves covering both boards, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.

Venetus was an Augustinian philosopher in the tradition of Duns Scotus, the Scholastics, and nominalists. This is his commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics.

Not in Adams; rare at auction.