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GOZZE, Niccolò Vito di (1549-1610). Discorsi ... sopra le Metheore d'Aristotele. Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1584.
4° (195 x 146mm). Woodcut device on title and recto of final leaf, text-diagrams, initals, head- and tailpieces. (Variable browning and staining.) Contemporary light-browned morocco, gilt central arms and cornerpieces of gilt interlacing 'C's, gilt edges (tiny worm holes at head and tail of spine, extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly darkened). Provenance: Charles de Valois, Duc d'Angoulême (1573-1650; binding, Olivier 2600, fers 4 and 7, and then by descent to:) -- Franciscan monastery at Guiche, in Charolais (inscription on title, library dispersed after the Revolution).
EXTREMELY RARE discussion on Aristotelian physics in a fine binding from the library of the Duke of Angoulême. ONLY ONE RECORD CAN BE TRACED OF A COPY SELLING AT AUCTION IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD (Sotheby's 29th July 1963, lot 338).
4° (195 x 146mm). Woodcut device on title and recto of final leaf, text-diagrams, initals, head- and tailpieces. (Variable browning and staining.) Contemporary light-browned morocco, gilt central arms and cornerpieces of gilt interlacing 'C's, gilt edges (tiny worm holes at head and tail of spine, extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly darkened). Provenance: Charles de Valois, Duc d'Angoulême (1573-1650; binding, Olivier 2600, fers 4 and 7, and then by descent to:) -- Franciscan monastery at Guiche, in Charolais (inscription on title, library dispersed after the Revolution).
EXTREMELY RARE discussion on Aristotelian physics in a fine binding from the library of the Duke of Angoulême. ONLY ONE RECORD CAN BE TRACED OF A COPY SELLING AT AUCTION IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD (Sotheby's 29th July 1963, lot 338).
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