Sale 2488 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 16, 2018

173 173 c   ALDINI, GIOVANNI. Habillement du Pompier pour le préserver de l’Action de la Flamme. Hand-colored etched frontispiece depicting a test of Aldini’s fire-resistant helmet and suit. 15, [1] (of [3]) pages; lacks last leaf listing firefighting paraphernalia exhibited in Milan in 1828. 8vo, 219x135 mm, contemporary blank wrappers, somewhat spotted and soiled; contents foxed; partly unopened. Milan: Imprimerie Impériale et Royale, [1828] [300/500] only edition in french of the first description of the use of asbestos to create protective clothing and other gear for firefighters; an Italian version was published the same year. A professor of experimental physics at Bologna and nephew of Luigi Galvani,Aldini (1762-1834) was better known for his work on galvanism and animal electricity. Not in ABPC; RBH cites only the copy offered by Goodspeed in 1963, and none at auction. 174 c   (ARISTOTLE.) Themistius; and Alexander of Aphrodisias. Libri paraphraseos Themistii . . . In Posteriora Aristotelis. In Physica. In libros de anima [etc.] . . . Alexandri Aphrodisaei Enarratio de anima ex Aristotelis institutione. Latin translations by Ermolao Barbaro and Girolamo Donato. 111 [i. e., 116], [16] leaves. Folio, 299x208 mm, 18th-century vellum boards, joints partly cracked; contents dampwrinkled with light marginal dampstaining through most of volume, upper outer corner of front free endpaper restored. Booklabel of Domenico Quercia (1730-82), Abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Scurcola, on last leaf; modern bookplate of Luigi Russo on front pastedown. (Venice: [Simone Bevilacqua], 14 July 1502) [400/600] Fourth edition of a 1481 collection of paraphrases by or attributed to Themistius of Aristotelian writings on logic, physics, psychology, memory, sleep, and dreams.This edition also reprints the commentary by Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle’s De anima, which first appeared separately in 1495. Hoffmann III, 471.