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Poesis philosophica, vel saltem, reliquiae philosophicae, in Greek. Edited by Henri Estienne. [Geneva:] Henri Estienne, 1573. With 3 (of 5) blanks, without blank b1.8. Woodcut device on title, a few narrow woodcut headpieces. [Bound with:] ARISTOTLE and THEOPHRASTUS. Scripta quaedam, in Greek. Ed. by H. Estiene. Paris: Henri Estienne, 1557. Woodcut device on title. 2 works in one volume, 8º (164 x 100mm). 18th-century English red straight-grained morocco, gilt spine, gilt fillet round sides, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: Edward Cane (armorial bookplate) – ecclesiastical black stamp on title – William Burrell (perhaps the art collector, 1861-1958; title stamps) -- Edward Ingram Watkin (1888-1981, writer and translator; bookplate).
Editio princeps of the first work, and editio princeps of some texts in the second work. The first work is 'A VOLUME OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN THOUGHT, which rightly belongs on the same shelf with the first editions of Plato and Aristotle’ (Schreiber). It contains the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers: Empedocles, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Cleanthes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Democrates, etc. Adams P-1682 and A-1964; Renouard 140, 8; Hoffmann III, p.234 and I, p.287; Schreiber 142 and 187.
Editio princeps of the first work, and editio princeps of some texts in the second work. The first work is 'A VOLUME OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN THOUGHT, which rightly belongs on the same shelf with the first editions of Plato and Aristotle’ (Schreiber). It contains the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers: Empedocles, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Cleanthes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Democrates, etc. Adams P-1682 and A-1964; Renouard 140, 8; Hoffmann III, p.234 and I, p.287; Schreiber 142 and 187.
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