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ARISTOTE.

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ARISTOTE.
Aristotelous tou stageiritou tà sozómena = Operum Aristotelis stagiritae philosophorum, Nova editio, Graecè & Latinaè.

Geneva: Samuel Crispin, 1605.

In-folio, (20)-946 pages. Contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed, boards decorated with cold framing of fillets and roulettes, the two outer roulette frames alternating tiger flowers and antique vases, the inner frame, profiles in medallion and segmented foliage. Some pagination errors without missing.

Reissue of Isaac Casaubon's bilingual Greek-Latin edition, the first of Aristotle's complete works, which originally appeared in 1590. The Greek and Latin versions are printed facing each other on two columns.

First volume only (of two). It contains: Vita, Categoriae, De interpretatione, Topica, vari trattati sugli animali, De Sophisticis, Phisicae auscultationes, De Caelo, Metereologicorum libri, De mundo, De anima, De sensu, De memoria, De somno, De longitudine et brevitate vitae, De spiritu, Quaestiones mecanichae, etc.

(First cap missing, spine restored in places, first hinge split for 15 cm, endpapers renewed, small marginal wormholes, one corner of leaf awkwardly restored).