(Religion & Philosophie) - [ARISTOTELES]; THOMAS Aquinas.- Expositio Divi Thomas Aquinatis doctoris Angelici super octo libros physicorus Aristotelis [...]. (Venetiis [Venise], heredii Luceantonii Junte, 1539, mense maii). In-f° : [6]-147 lvs...
Estimation :
800 / 1.000
Adjudication :
1.100 €
Description
(occasional light soiling and foxing, wormholes at the inner margin of the first half of the vol. and at the last lvs, 2 corners with small lack of paper). Modern binding by Blair Jeary : calf, boards decorated with a double blind tooled border of fillets with little ornaments in the corners, ribbed spine (small marks of use).
Very rare edition of Aristotle's "Physics", with extensive commentary of Thomas Aquinas (1st Giunta ed. : 1535). Translated by Joannes Argyropoulos (c. 1393-1487), Byzantine exile Greek professor in Florence and Rome and edited by Bartolomeo de Spina (1475-1546), papal Dominican scholar. Illustrated with 1 large figurative woodcut (showing the Triumph of Thomas Aquinas over Averroes) and 57 schematic woodcuts in the text. Nice typography on two columns with numerous initials; large printer's device on the title-page and on the last numbered leaf. # Camerini 423; # not in Adams, Machiels, Mortimer, Soltész, STC Italy. ▲ Provenance : Biblioteca Porziuncola, Franciscan library at Assisi (stamps); Alexandrius Quadrius (handwritten mention). fl Rarissime édition de la "Physique" d'Aristote avec les commentaires de Thomas d'Aquin, donnée par de Spina. Belle édition ornée d'1 grand bois figurant le triomphe de Thomas d'Aquin sur Averroës et de 57 bois in texto. Plein veau moderne (pet. gal. de vers marg.).
Very rare edition of Aristotle's "Physics", with extensive commentary of Thomas Aquinas (1st Giunta ed. : 1535). Translated by Joannes Argyropoulos (c. 1393-1487), Byzantine exile Greek professor in Florence and Rome and edited by Bartolomeo de Spina (1475-1546), papal Dominican scholar. Illustrated with 1 large figurative woodcut (showing the Triumph of Thomas Aquinas over Averroes) and 57 schematic woodcuts in the text. Nice typography on two columns with numerous initials; large printer's device on the title-page and on the last numbered leaf. # Camerini 423; # not in Adams, Machiels, Mortimer, Soltész, STC Italy. ▲ Provenance : Biblioteca Porziuncola, Franciscan library at Assisi (stamps); Alexandrius Quadrius (handwritten mention). fl Rarissime édition de la "Physique" d'Aristote avec les commentaires de Thomas d'Aquin, donnée par de Spina. Belle édition ornée d'1 grand bois figurant le triomphe de Thomas d'Aquin sur Averroës et de 57 bois in texto. Plein veau moderne (pet. gal. de vers marg.).
