BINDING – PORPHYRY (c.234-c.305). Porphyrii Institutiones ad Chrysaorium, Aristotelis Categoria .... Quarta Editio. Paris: Thomas Richard, 1551. [Bound with:] ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.) -- Aristotelis Stagiritae de Interpretatione. Paris: 1551 [And:] -- Aristotelis Priorum Analyticorum. Paris: 1551 [And:] -- Aristotelis Posteriorum Analyticorum. Paris: 1551 [And:] -- Aristotelis Topicorum libri octo... editio secunda. Paris: 1543. [And:] -- Aristotelis de Reprehensionibus fallacibus et captiosis liber. Paris: 1551. 8 works bound in one volume, 4° (226 x 159mm).Woodcut devices on titles and initials, one diagram in the text. (Occasional light browning and spotting.) , sides paneled in blind with portrait medallions of Mars (upper) and Lucretia (lower) in gilt, ‘A. BUXUS’ on upper cover, gilt corner arabesques, gilt flower-heads in spine compartments (neat repairs at hinges, spine ends and other extremities, a little stained). Provenance: A. du Bouys (binding, flyleaf inscription; annotations presumably in his hand) – Dalaret (17th-century title inscriptions). -- annotations in a neat early hand in first three works and the flyleaves.Collected works of Aristotle edited by Joachim Périon (1498/9-1559): 'It is with Joachim Périon... who made a comprehensive attempt to translate Aristotle anew during the middle years of the sixteenth century, that we find the high water mark of a humanistic approach to translating Aristotle' (Charles B. Schmitt. Aristotle and the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: 1983, pp.72-73). Includes the editor's Annotationes euisdem Perionii in eosdem libros. Several pairs of Mars and Lucretia tools were used in France and England in the mid 16th century but the pair on this binding do not appear to be recorded.

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BINDING – PORPHYRY (c.234-c.305). Porphyrii Institutiones ad Chrysaorium, Aristotelis Categoria .... Quarta Editio. Paris: Thomas Richard, 1551. [Bound with:] ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.) -- Aristotelis Stagiritae de Interpretatione. Paris: 1551 [And:] -- Aristotelis Priorum Analyticorum. Paris: 1551 [And:] -- Aristotelis Posteriorum Analyticorum. Paris: 1551 [And:] -- Aristotelis Topicorum libri octo... editio secunda. Paris: 1543. [And:] -- Aristotelis de Reprehensionibus fallacibus et captiosis liber. Paris: 1551. 8 works bound in one volume, 4° (226 x 159mm).Woodcut devices on titles and initials, one diagram in the text. (Occasional light browning and spotting.) , sides paneled in blind with portrait medallions of Mars (upper) and Lucretia (lower) in gilt, ‘A. BUXUS’ on upper cover, gilt corner arabesques, gilt flower-heads in spine compartments (neat repairs at hinges, spine ends and other extremities, a little stained). Provenance: A. du Bouys (binding, flyleaf inscription; annotations presumably in his hand) – Dalaret (17th-century title inscriptions). -- annotations in a neat early hand in first three works and the flyleaves. Collected works of Aristotle edited by Joachim Périon (1498/9-1559): 'It is with Joachim Périon... who made a comprehensive attempt to translate Aristotle anew during the middle years of the sixteenth century, that we find the high water mark of a humanistic approach to translating Aristotle' (Charles B. Schmitt. Aristotle and the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: 1983, pp.72-73). Includes the editor's Annotationes euisdem Perionii in eosdem libros. Several pairs of Mars and Lucretia tools were used in France and England in the mid 16th century but the pair on this binding do not appear to be recorded.

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BINDING – PORPHYRY (c.234-c.305). Porphyrii Institutiones ad Chrysaorium, Aristotelis Categoria .... Quarta Editio. Paris: Thomas Richard, 1551. [Bound with:] ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.) -- Aristotelis Stagiritae de Interpretatione. Paris: 1551 [And:] -- Aristotelis Priorum Analyticorum. Paris: 1551 [And:] -- Aristotelis Posteriorum Analyticorum. Paris: 1551 [And:] -- Aristotelis Topicorum libri octo... editio secunda. Paris: 1543. [And:] -- Aristotelis de Reprehensionibus fallacibus et captiosis liber. Paris: 1551. 8 works bound in one volume, 4° (226 x 159mm).Woodcut devices on titles and initials, one diagram in the text. (Occasional light browning and spotting.) , sides paneled in blind with portrait medallions of Mars (upper) and Lucretia (lower) in gilt, ‘A. BUXUS’ on upper cover, gilt corner arabesques, gilt flower-heads in spine compartments (neat repairs at hinges, spine ends and other extremities, a little stained). Provenance: A. du Bouys (binding, flyleaf inscription; annotations presumably in his hand) – Dalaret (17th-century title inscriptions). -- annotations in a neat early hand in first three works and the flyleaves.

Collected works of Aristotle edited by Joachim Périon (1498/9-1559): 'It is with Joachim Périon... who made a comprehensive attempt to translate Aristotle anew during the middle years of the sixteenth century, that we find the high water mark of a humanistic approach to translating Aristotle' (Charles B. Schmitt. Aristotle and the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: 1983, pp.72-73). Includes the editor's Annotationes euisdem Perionii in eosdem libros. Several pairs of Mars and Lucretia tools were used in France and England in the mid 16th century but the pair on this binding do not appear to be recorded.

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