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ARISTOTLE. Stagiritae Peripateticorum Principis, Ethicorum ad Nicomachum libri decem. Translated by Johannes Argyropylus, commentary by Donatus Acciaiolus. Paris: Andreas Wechel for Jean Roigny, 1555.
2° (303 x 200mm). Title with woodcut device, woodcut diagrams and initials. (Some quires with worm track in upper outer margin.) Contemporary London calf, covers with three sets of triple fillets ruled in blind, gilt stylised corner fleurons, gilt crowned Tudor rose in the centre, spine in five compartments with raised bands (cf. M.M. Foot The Henry Davis Gift, 1983, vol. II, no. 40), two quires from Aben Ezra's Hebrew commentary on the Decalogue and Sebastian Münster's Latin translation (Basel: Froben, 1527, 8°) inserted as flyleaves, (spine repaired at head and foot, rubbed). Provenance: Robert Copley (signatures on endpapers); Joseph Penington (signatures on endpapers; possibly Sir Joseph Pennington, 1678-1744, 2nd Baron Muncaster and Comptroller of the Excise Cash from 1723 to 1731).
2° (303 x 200mm). Title with woodcut device, woodcut diagrams and initials. (Some quires with worm track in upper outer margin.) Contemporary London calf, covers with three sets of triple fillets ruled in blind, gilt stylised corner fleurons, gilt crowned Tudor rose in the centre, spine in five compartments with raised bands (cf. M.M. Foot The Henry Davis Gift, 1983, vol. II, no. 40), two quires from Aben Ezra's Hebrew commentary on the Decalogue and Sebastian Münster's Latin translation (Basel: Froben, 1527, 8°) inserted as flyleaves, (spine repaired at head and foot, rubbed). Provenance: Robert Copley (signatures on endpapers); Joseph Penington (signatures on endpapers; possibly Sir Joseph Pennington, 1678-1744, 2nd Baron Muncaster and Comptroller of the Excise Cash from 1723 to 1731).