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Aristoteles. Politicorum ad Nicomachum lib(er) primus Raphaelis Volaterrani argumenta in eosdem Leonardo Aretino interprete.

With woodcut printer’s device on title. 195, (1) leaves. Small 8vo. Modern full calf over 4 raised bands. – Venetijs (Venice), Hieronymus Scotus, 1542 (at the end: 1543).

Authoritative Venice edition of the eight book of Politics by the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) with the comments by the Italian Renaissance Raffaele Maffei da Volterra (1451–1522). The translation is the one by Leonardo Bruni (Aretino, 1369–1444). – Title leaf with old owner’s inscription, paper restoring to lower portion of leaf. Leaf K4 bound before leaf K3. Good and mostly clean copy in am appropriate recent binding. – Best.-Nr. 19981