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Series: Italian books before 1601 -- rolls 166-167; Italian books before 1601 -- rolls 237-238, item 4; Italian books before 1601 -- roll 303
Publisher: In domo Aldi
Published: 1497
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: grc; lat
Number of pages: 460
Work titles: Historia animalium
Notes: Edited by Aldo Manuzio and Franciscus Caballus.

Imprint from Latin and Greek colophons (leaf 2[Chi]7v). The Greek colophon wrongly gives the date as '1447'.

First edition.

Chronologically the second of the five volumes of Aristotle issued by Aldo Manuzio, but considered by him to follow the third.

Signatures: 2a[2alpha]-2z[2psi]¹⁰ 2&[2omega]¹⁰ 2[Alpha]-2[Pi]¹⁰ 2[Rho]²(2[Rho]1+'2[Rho]'¹⁰) 2[Sigma]-2[Psi]¹⁰ 2[Chi]⁸ 2[cross]⁸ (2[Rho]2, [Chi]8 blank).

Many errors in foliation.

Woodcut headpieces and initials.

A line of text omitted at the foot of leaf 2[kappa]10v has been printed on a separate slip and pasted in.

Quire 2[Rho] consists of a 10-leaf quire signed '2[Rho]', around which has been wrapped a bifolium signed '2[Rho]', which supplies (on leaf 2[Rho]1r only) text inadvertently omitted. Cf. BM 15th cent.

Printed on sheets of "super-chancery"-size paper.

Includes 19 tracts of Aristotle (some not genuine), and 5 of Theophrastus.

Hain, 1657*(3).

Proctor, 5553.

Goff, A-959(3).

GW, 2334(3).

BM 15th cent., V, 555 (IB.24423-25).

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, 1497:2.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ia00959000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2643-2643A.

Bequest; William King Richardson; 1951; 50R-112 v.3

Text in Greek, with minor portions in Latin.

From the Solomon M. Hyams Collection.

Without rubrication. Bookseller's ticket of C.E. Rappaport, Rome. Sheets [delta] [delta]3-4 reversed in binding.

Imperfect: the final leaf has been inserted from another copy.

This copy has the cancel slip pasted at foot of leaf 2[kappa]10v.

Without rubrication. A few contemporary MS marginalia in Greek.

Bound in 19th century half brown morocco and marbled boards, covers and edges gilt.
Table of contents: title: (From title page): Aristotelous peri zōōn historias; title: peri zōōn moriōn; title: peri zōōn poreias; title: peri psychēs; title: peri aisthēseōs kai aisthētou; title: peri mnēmēs kai tou mnēmoneuein; title: peri hypnou kai egrēgorseōs; title: peri enypniōn; title: peri tēs kath' hypnon mantikēs; title: peri zōōn kinēseōs; title: pero zōōn geneseōs; title: peri makrobiotētos kai brachybiotētos; title: peri neotētos kai gēros kai anapnoēs kai zōēs kai thanatou; title: peri pneumatos; title: peri chrōmatōn - physiognōmika; title: peri thaumasiōn akousmatōn; title: peri Xenophanous kai Zēnōnos kai Gorgiou dogmatōn; title: peri atomōn grammōn; title: Theophrastou peri ichthyōn; title: peri ilingōn; title: peri kopōn; title: peri osmōn; title: peri hidrōtōn.