ARISTOTLE (384-322 B. C.). Two of the separate volumes of the collected works of Aristotle in Greek, edited by Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596). Frankfu

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  ARISTOTLE (384-322 B. C.). Two Separate Volumes of the Collected Works of Aristotle in Greek, edited by Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596), Bound in One Volume. Frankfurt: Andreae Wcheli Heredes, Joann. Aubrium & Claudium Marnium, 1587. Titles include: Varia Opuscula. De Xenophanis... De Lineis Insecabilibus... De Audibilibus... Physiognomonica, De Coloribus, De Plantis Libri Duo. [And:] De Animalium Historia Libri. X. Addita e Theophrasto Collectanea Quaedam de Animalibus. 4tos. [4], 398, [2] pp. Indexed. With some woodcut illustrations. Woodcut device on titles, repeated on last leaf but larger. [And:] [4], 484, [2] pp. Indexed. Woodcut device on title. Title in Greek and Latin. Text in Greek, section of commentary in Latin. Bound together in contemporary flexible vellum. Covers blocked and decorated in blind. Rare. Two out of the eleven eventual volumes of this work, the set seldom found complete. 

  Condition

  Binding soiled, front hinge cracked, but holding, boards worn, bumped. Gauffered edges. Text with some toning and minor stains. A very good copy. 

• Provenance

  Bookplate of the Harvard College Library on the fp. Riley, Aristotle Texts and Commentaries states: "the volumes, each unnumbered and with special titles, were also issued separately." "Fabricius, says Buhle, judges rightly of this edition, when he pronounces it to be more excellent and complete than any that had been before published... Besides containing the correctikons of former publications, and an improved text, there are three indexes to each volume: the first is a short synopsis of the heads of each tract or book; the second an Index 'Verborum Graecorum;' and the third a Latin Index 'Rerum Memorabilium.' In addition to Aristotle's works, it comprehends some tracts of Theophrastus..." (Dibdin, Introduction to the Greek and Latin Classics, 4th Edition, I, p. 314). 

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