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Eustratius, Archbishop of Nicaea. Commentaria in Libros Decem Aristotelis de Moribus ad Nicomachum, una cum Textu suis in Locis Adiecto, edited by Paulus Manutius, Greek and some Roman type, title in Greek and Latin, dedication in Latin, text in Greek, large woodcut printer's device to title and verso of otherwise blank final f., initial spaces with guide-letter, the first 75 pp. with early ink marginalia in Greek and underlining (some marginalia trimmed), title lightly soiled, occasional spotting or light foxing, 18th century Roman Jesuit College inscription to head of title, dark brown crushed morocco, gilt, by The French Binders, Garden City, N.Y., [Adams A1803; Ahmanson-Murphy 282; Renouard, Alde, 116:6; EDIT 16 CNCE 18395], folio, Venice, [Heirs of Aldus Manutius & Heirs of Andrea Torresani], [July, 1536].

⁂ A solid copy with good margins of the editio princeps of these commentaries on Aristotle's Ethics, with evidence of early scholarship. The work was dedicated by Paulus Manutius to Georges de Selve, a French ambassador in Venice, who was later immortalised, along with his friend Jean de Dinteville, in Hans Holbein's picture The Ambassadors.

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Eustratius, Archbishop of Nicaea. Commentaria in Libros Decem Aristotelis de Moribus ad Nicomachum, una cum Textu suis in Locis Adiecto, edited by Paulus Manutius, Greek and some Roman type, title in Greek and Latin, dedication in Latin, text in Greek, large woodcut printer's device to title and verso of otherwise blank final f., initial spaces with guide-letter, the first 75 pp. with early ink marginalia in Greek and underlining (some marginalia trimmed), title lightly soiled, occasional spotting or light foxing, 18th century Roman Jesuit College inscription to head of title, dark brown crushed morocco, gilt, by The French Binders, Garden City, N.Y., [Adams A1803; Ahmanson-Murphy 282; Renouard, Alde, 116:6; EDIT 16 CNCE 18395], folio, Venice, [Heirs of Aldus Manutius & Heirs of Andrea Torresani], [July, 1536].

⁂ A solid copy with good margins of the editio princeps of these commentaries on Aristotle's Ethics, with evidence of early scholarship. The work was dedicated by Paulus Manutius to Georges de Selve, a French ambassador in Venice, who was later immortalised, along with his friend Jean de Dinteville, in Hans Holbein's picture The Ambassadors.

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