ARISTOTELES (384-322 B.C .). Opera , in Greek. With works by Galen (129-199? A.D .), Theophrastus (c.370-c.287 B.C .), Philo Judaeus (c.30 B.C.-45 A.D .), Alexander Aphrodisiensis (fl. early 3rd century), and other authors. Edited by Aldus, Thomas Linacre, Justin Decadyos, Gabriel Bracius, Niccolò Leoniceno, and others. Venice: Aldus Manutius 1 November 1495-June 1498.
ARISTOTELES (384-322 B.C .). Opera , in Greek. With works by Galen (129-199? A.D .), Theophrastus (c.370-c.287 B.C .), Philo Judaeus (c.30 B.C.-45 A.D .), Alexander Aphrodisiensis (fl. early 3rd century), and other authors. Edited by Aldus, Thomas Linacre, Justin Decadyos, Gabriel Bracius, Niccolò Leoniceno, and others. Venice: Aldus Manutius 1 November 1495-June 1498. 5 volumes, super-chancery 2° (313 x 210mm). Collation as GW. 234; 300; 468; 292 (of 520, bound without Theophrastus works); 330 leaves. 30 lines and headline (no headline in part 1). Type: 1:146Gk, 7:114Gk, 3:108R, 4:81R, 2:114R. Numerous woodcut floral and interlace headpieces and Greek initials, woodcut diagram in pt.I:I1r, cancel-strip on III:kk10v pasted in. (Occasional light spotting and occasional staining, heavier in about eight leaves, vol. V with repaired light marginal worming in two quires and occasional dampstaining.) Early 20th-century russia, gilt fillet frame on sides, spines lettered in gilt (vol. IV stained on upper cover). Provenance : early annotations in Greek, underlining, in vols III and V -- Walter Ashburner, Florence (1864-1936; a founder of the British Institute of Florence and Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford; stamps). EDITIO PRINCEPS of the works of Aristotle and of all other texts included. The Aristotle was the most important Greek-printing project of the 15th century, and it was the greatest achievement in Aldus's Greek publishing programme. He employed agents to search throughout Europe, including England, for manuscripts of the works, and gathered Greek scholars to edit them. The parts were issued and marketed separately, and Aldus's 1498 broadside advertisement of Libri graeci impressi (Einblattdruck 897) priced them individually according to the number of sheets. The present set omits the works by Theophrastus on plants from part IV. These same works are also absent from other sets, such as those at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Library, Weimer, and Cambridge University Library. In addition, several copies of Theophrastus on its own are known. HC *1657; GW 2334; BMC V, 553, 555-6, 558; IGI 791; CIBN A-504; BSB-Ink A-698; Bod-inc A-384; Flodr 19:1 (Aristoteles); Klebs 83.1; PMM 38; Goff A-959.
ARISTOTELES (384-322 B.C .). Opera , in Greek. With works by Galen (129-199? A.D .), Theophrastus (c.370-c.287 B.C .), Philo Judaeus (c.30 B.C.-45 A.D .), Alexander Aphrodisiensis (fl. early 3rd century), and other authors. Edited by Aldus, Thomas Linacre, Justin Decadyos, Gabriel Bracius, Niccolò Leoniceno, and others. Venice: Aldus Manutius 1 November 1495-June 1498.
ARISTOTELES (384-322 B.C .). Opera , in Greek. With works by Galen (129-199? A.D .), Theophrastus (c.370-c.287 B.C .), Philo Judaeus (c.30 B.C.-45 A.D .), Alexander Aphrodisiensis (fl. early 3rd century), and other authors. Edited by Aldus, Thomas Linacre, Justin Decadyos, Gabriel Bracius, Niccolò Leoniceno, and others. Venice: Aldus Manutius 1 November 1495-June 1498. 5 volumes, super-chancery 2° (313 x 210mm). Collation as GW. 234; 300; 468; 292 (of 520, bound without Theophrastus works); 330 leaves. 30 lines and headline (no headline in part 1). Type: 1:146Gk, 7:114Gk, 3:108R, 4:81R, 2:114R. Numerous woodcut floral and interlace headpieces and Greek initials, woodcut diagram in pt.I:I1r, cancel-strip on III:kk10v pasted in. (Occasional light spotting and occasional staining, heavier in about eight leaves, vol. V with repaired light marginal worming in two quires and occasional dampstaining.) Early 20th-century russia, gilt fillet frame on sides, spines lettered in gilt (vol. IV stained on upper cover). Provenance : early annotations in Greek, underlining, in vols III and V -- Walter Ashburner, Florence (1864-1936; a founder of the British Institute of Florence and Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford; stamps). EDITIO PRINCEPS of the works of Aristotle and of all other texts included. The Aristotle was the most important Greek-printing project of the 15th century, and it was the greatest achievement in Aldus's Greek publishing programme. He employed agents to search throughout Europe, including England, for manuscripts of the works, and gathered Greek scholars to edit them. The parts were issued and marketed separately, and Aldus's 1498 broadside advertisement of Libri graeci impressi (Einblattdruck 897) priced them individually according to the number of sheets. The present set omits the works by Theophrastus on plants from part IV. These same works are also absent from other sets, such as those at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Library, Weimer, and Cambridge University Library. In addition, several copies of Theophrastus on its own are known. HC *1657; GW 2334; BMC V, 553, 555-6, 558; IGI 791; CIBN A-504; BSB-Ink A-698; Bod-inc A-384; Flodr 19:1 (Aristoteles); Klebs 83.1; PMM 38; Goff A-959.
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