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ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.). Mechanica Graeca, emendata, Latina facta & commentariis illustrata. ab Henrico Monantholio. Paris: Jeremiah Perier, 1599.
4o (222 x 155 mm). Text in Greek and Latin; title printed in red and black with printer's device, numerous woodcuts and diagrams in text. (Title stained, some occasional spotting and light browning.) Contemporary limp vellum.
FIRST EDITION of "the earliest known engineering textbook, doubtfully attributed to both Aristotle and Straton of Lampsakos" (Honeyman). Adams A-1846.
4o (222 x 155 mm). Text in Greek and Latin; title printed in red and black with printer's device, numerous woodcuts and diagrams in text. (Title stained, some occasional spotting and light browning.) Contemporary limp vellum.
FIRST EDITION of "the earliest known engineering textbook, doubtfully attributed to both Aristotle and Straton of Lampsakos" (Honeyman). Adams A-1846.