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IVES, Joannes Ludovicus (1492-1540). De anima & vita Libri tres. Eiusdem argumenti Viti Amerbachii de Anima Libri IIII. Lyons: A. Vincenti, 1555. 8o (170 x 103 mm). (Lacking leaf aa1, title-leaf to Amerbach's treatise, some minor marginal browning.) Contemporary limp Spanish vellum. Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscriptions on title (one dated 1566) and incantations on front free endpaper (dated 1573), apparently Spanish. Cf. Adams V-940 (citing a Lyons edition published by Joannes Frellonius with the same collation, pagination and printer); BM/STC French p. 446; Norman 2160 -- De Anima & vita Libri tres. Eiusdem argumenti Viti Amerbachii de Anima Libri IIII. Philippi Melanthonis Liber unus. Zurich: Jacob Gessner, 1563. 8o (163 x 104 mm). Contemporary vellum from a 12th or 13th-century theological manuscript over wooden boards (head of spine torn, a few other defects). This copy from an issue (or state) differing from the three cited in Adams: with the correct spelling of "Index" in headline on a5r (Cf. Adams V-941), but containing the line "Cum Indice duplici" above the imprint on the title-page (Cf. Adams V-943). Norman 2161. (2)