Sales catalogue 11: R. Lier & Co.

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/4
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 11: R. Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    68 leaves, the first blank. With printer’s device at the end. Ato. Old limp vellum. Bologna, Ugo Rugerius, 1488. Frs. 675.— Hain-Copinger 1930. Proctor Suppl. I, 6567a. Pellechet 1268. Only one copy in French Public Libraries. According to Census no copy in America. Second dated edition. This compilation of selections from Aristo‘eles etc. and from commentaries is to a great extent devoted to natural sciences and medicine. Some of the et corruptione. De meteoris. De sensu et sensato. De memoria et remini- scentia. De sunno et vigilia. De respiratione et aspiratione. De motu cordis. De animalibus etc. etc. The excerpts from Aristoteles are followed by a few sections, excerpts from Averroes, Seneca, Boethius etc. Book-plate: Edward Gibbon Esq. Excellent copy with very wide margins of this very rare and interesting work. APICIVS INREQVO QVINARIA. 6. ARISTOTELES. Problemata. Acc. Carmen de vita et morte Aristotelis. 36-44 lines. Black letter. 50 leaves. Boards. (Inc.-pap.) Small 4to. (Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, about 1490). Frs. 600.— Gesamtkatalog 2471. Copinger 623. Br. M. I, 279. Voulliéme, Berlin O08: 222 Preetar. 1393. No copy in America according to Census. . Very rare edition. The « Problemata » are of strictly medical interest. About 20 leaves treat only of « De coitu ». « The pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata date from the Alexandrian era and were an anonymous compilation from two books of «medical problems» and from the Hippocratic Collection » (Neuburger). Prices in Swiss Francs
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