Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Aristoteles. Opera omnia quae extant, graece et latine. Veterum ac recentiorum interpretum, ut Adriani Turnebi, Isaaci Casauboni, Iulj Pacij studio emendatissima. 2 vols.

Titles printed in red and black. With engr. title vignette (repeated) by L. Gaultier. 16 leaves, 184, 1251 pp., 18 leaves; 2 leaves, 131, 1104 pp., 16 leaves. Large folio. Contemp. full vellum over 6 raised bands with gilt stamped supralibros. – Paris, Antonius Stephanus for the Societas Graecarum Editionum, 1629.

Second edition in folio of the Du Val edition of Aristotle’s works, parallelely printed in Greek and Latin. The first edition curated by the French physician and philosopher Guillaume Du Val (1572–1646) was published in 1619 in four quarto volumes. The title vignette shows the portrait of Aristotle. – Brunet I, 459. – Occasional worm traces to lower margins in volume II. Good and clean copy in all. – Best.-Nr. 25901