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FROM THE PILLONE LIBRARY WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING
ARISTOTLE. De natura animalium libri novem. De partibus animalium libri quattuor. De generatione animalium libri quin[que]. Latin translation by Theodorus Gaza. Woodcut architectural border on a1r. [6], 106 leaves. Folio, 310x210 mm, contemporary Belluno(?) 1/4 blind-ruled morocco, wooden boards with handwritten abbreviated title in ink on front cover, brass catches, lacks clasps, top of spine chipped; light dampstaining in upper margin of opening leaves. Bookplates of Thomas Brooke, Pierre Berès, and Crawford W. Adams, M.D. (sale, 5 May 1982, lot 11). Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 18 November 1492
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Notes: Second edition of Aristotle's principal zoological writings, originally published in 1476. GW 2351; BMC V, 343; Klebs 85.2; Garrison-Morton 274, 275, 462.
bound with: Celsus, Aurelius Cornelius. De medicina. lx, [2] leaves, including initial blank. Roman type. Dampstaining in lower margins through most of volume. Venice: Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 8 July 1493. Third edition. Dating from the 1st century A.D. and first published in 1478, "our fundamental source for the history of Alexandrian medicine; the greatest medical work of antiquity after those of Hippocrates and Galen" (Sarton). GW 6458; BMC V, 417; Goff C366; Klebs 260.3; Norman 426; Garrison-Morton 20; Sarton I, 240.
from the collection of books formed in the 16th century by the pillone family of belluno, with fore-edge paintings and decorated covers by Cesare Vecellio (1521-1601), which was acquired in the 19th century by Thomas Brooke. The fore edge of this copy shows miscellaneous animals, birds, and butterflies, with "ARIS." below. The contemporary marginalia throughout the volume are possibly in the hand of Antonio Pillone, founder of the library. Berès, Bibliothèque Pillone 3; Hobson, "The Pillone Library," The Book Collector, Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 1958), page 30.
See also lots 58, 206, and 332.
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