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Sammelband.- Aristotle. Physicorum libri, collation: *-**8 a2 b-n8 o4, multiple ink ownership inscriptions to title in early hand and a library stamp, 1558, bound with De caelo libri quatuor, collation: a-g8 h2 *6 **4, 1553 and De generatione et corruptione libri duo, collation: aa-dd8 ee2, 1558 and Meteorologicorum libri quatuor, collation: A-K8, woodcut illustrations or diagrams, 1558 and De anima libri tres, collation: a-f8 g6, 1558 and De sensu et sensili, memoria et reminiscentia..., collation: a-i8 k6, lacking k6 (presumably blank), 1558, together 6 works in 1, all titles with woodcut printer's devices, occasional ink underlining or line markings and small notes to margins, more frequent to first work, works 2 & 3 with manuscript ink alteration to title imprint date, generally clean with occasional instances of light foxing, later ink inscription to front endpaper and pastedown, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, stamped in blind in a panel design surrounding a central oval of a male head in profile, presumably intended to be Aristotle, paper labels to spine, an instance of neat (?early) repair to lower cover, some staining, brass clasps, housed within a custom-made modern drop-back box, 8vo (c.163 x 108mm.), Lyon, Antoine Vincent.

⁂ An excellent sammelband of six important Aristotelian works of natural philosophy and more scientific areas in an ornate contemporary binding, covering physics, the heavens, ontology and biology, meteorology, the soul, and the senses and memory among others. Seemingly a scarce imprint, all by Calvinist bookseller Antoine Vincent in Lyon, with USTC listing no copies of any in the UK.

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Sammelband.- Aristotle. Physicorum libri, collation: *-**8 a2 b-n8 o4, multiple ink ownership inscriptions to title in early hand and a library stamp, 1558, bound with De caelo libri quatuor, collation: a-g8 h2 *6 **4, 1553 and De generatione et corruptione libri duo, collation: aa-dd8 ee2, 1558 and Meteorologicorum libri quatuor, collation: A-K8, woodcut illustrations or diagrams, 1558 and De anima libri tres, collation: a-f8 g6, 1558 and De sensu et sensili, memoria et reminiscentia..., collation: a-i8 k6, lacking k6 (presumably blank), 1558, together 6 works in 1, all titles with woodcut printer's devices, occasional ink underlining or line markings and small notes to margins, more frequent to first work, works 2 & 3 with manuscript ink alteration to title imprint date, generally clean with occasional instances of light foxing, later ink inscription to front endpaper and pastedown, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, stamped in blind in a panel design surrounding a central oval of a male head in profile, presumably intended to be Aristotle, paper labels to spine, an instance of neat (?early) repair to lower cover, some staining, brass clasps, housed within a custom-made modern drop-back box, 8vo (c.163 x 108mm.), Lyon, Antoine Vincent.

⁂ An excellent sammelband of six important Aristotelian works of natural philosophy and more scientific areas in an ornate contemporary binding, covering physics, the heavens, ontology and biology, meteorology, the soul, and the senses and memory among others. Seemingly a scarce imprint, all by Calvinist bookseller Antoine Vincent in Lyon, with USTC listing no copies of any in the UK.

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