ARISTOTLE. Mechanica Graeca, emendata, Latina facta & Commentariis illustrata. ab Henrico Monantholio. Paris: Jeremiam Perier, 1599. Greek and Latin text; title printed in red and black with printer's device, numerous woodcuts and diagrams in text. Small 4to, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties; some pale marginal dampstaining, some early marginalia (including diagrams). See Honeyman I,145 ("The earliest known engineering textbook, doubtfully attributed to both Aristotle and Straton of Lampsakos"); Adams A1846.

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ARISTOTLE. Mechanica Graeca, emendata, Latina facta & Commentariis illustrata. ab Henrico Monantholio. Paris: Jeremiam Perier, 1599. Greek and Latin text; title printed in red and black with printer's device, numerous woodcuts and diagrams in text. Small 4to, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties; some pale marginal dampstaining, some early marginalia (including diagrams). See Honeyman I,145 ("The earliest known engineering textbook, doubtfully attributed to both Aristotle and Straton of Lampsakos"); Adams A1846.

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