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October 1520
ALEXANDER Aphrodisaeus. In Sophisticos Aristotelis Elenchos, commentaria, Gk. Ed. Ercole Girlando. Royal 4° (278 x 185mm). Collation: A-G8 H6 I4 (A1r Latin and Greek title including the first appearance of woodcut Aldine device Fletcher no. f6, A1v editor's Latin dedicatory letter to abbot Hieronymus Canossius, I4v device f6 repeated). 66 leaves. Greek type 3bis:90 (text), italic 1:80 (dedication).
BINDING: vellum. PROVENANCE: the first and final quire have been supplied from another copy.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of this important Peripatetic commentary on bk. 9 of Aristotle's Topics. This edition is the posthumous fulfillment of an old promise of Aldus's to keep publishing the ancient commentators on Aristotle. Isaac 12899; Adams A-672; Hoffmann I, 116; R 89:4
ALEXANDER Aphrodisaeus. In Sophisticos Aristotelis Elenchos, commentaria, Gk. Ed. Ercole Girlando. Royal 4° (278 x 185mm). Collation: A-G8 H6 I4 (A1r Latin and Greek title including the first appearance of woodcut Aldine device Fletcher no. f6, A1v editor's Latin dedicatory letter to abbot Hieronymus Canossius, I4v device f6 repeated). 66 leaves. Greek type 3bis:90 (text), italic 1:80 (dedication).
BINDING: vellum. PROVENANCE: the first and final quire have been supplied from another copy.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of this important Peripatetic commentary on bk. 9 of Aristotle's Topics. This edition is the posthumous fulfillment of an old promise of Aldus's to keep publishing the ancient commentators on Aristotle. Isaac 12899; Adams A-672; Hoffmann I, 116; R 89:4