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ARISTOTLE.
[
Works in Greek.]
Volume 5 (of 6): [Ethica.] [24], 646, [2] pages,
including blank 2*8 and final colophon leaf. 8vo, 167x110 mm, contemporary German
blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with panel stamps depicting allegorical figures of
Caritas and Fides on covers, front cover additionally stamped A S B at top, brass catches
and clasps; infrequent minor foxing, scattered early marginalia; red edges.
Venice: sons of Aldus (for Federico Torresani), 1552
[800/1,200]
Self-contained volume of the ethical writings of Aristotle, from the 1551-53 collected edition.
Renouard, page 150(5); New UCLA 422; Hoffmann I, 274.
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ARRIANUS, FLAVIUS.
De expedit[ione] Alex[andri] Magni, Historiarum
Libri VIII
[
and other texts]. Greek text with Latin translation by Bonaventura Vulcanius.
[12], 198 [
i. e., 200]; 68 [i. e., 70], [12] pages, including blank d6. Folio, 342x215 mm, 17th-
century calf gilt with Laurin arms on covers, minor restoration at top of spine; contents
clean apart from minor spotting on title.
[
Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1575
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST VULCANIUS EDITION
of the principal early history of the campaigns of Alexander the
Great, written in the 2nd-century A.D. Also included are the author’s Indica, a continuation
dealing with India and the voyage from there to Persia by Alexander’s officer Nearchus, and
writings on Alexander by Plutarch. Hoffmann I, 377; Schreiber 195. This copy may have
been bound for Count Henri-Florent Laurin (1618-62), whose large engraved obituary por-
trait by Pieter de Jode II after Abraham van Diepenbeke is mounted on the front pastedown.
Cf. Jonghe d’Ardoye, Armorial Belge du Bibliophile, page 788.
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