Description:
Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. AD 200) Commentaria in Duodecim Aristotelis Libros de Prima Philosophia. Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1551. Folio, large woodcut printer's device showing a celestial globe with a female figure seated on top, different large emblematic woodcut device on colophon leaf; this text was published only in Latin, a translation from four Greek manuscripts prepared by the Spanish scholar Juan Genesia Sepulveda and first printed in Rome in 1527, this edition not in Hoffmann or Brunet; text printed in roman letter and italic type in two columns throughout, bound in full modern calf, 12 x 8 1/4 in.
A-Z6, AA-CC6 (CC6 blank & present).
Estimate $400-600
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