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October 12, 08:25 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Boccadiferro, Lodovico. Nova explanatio topicorum Aristotelis. [Venice]: Accademia Veneziana, 1559
Boccadiferro 💛(1482-1545) taught philosophy at Bologna; this is the second publication of one of his works by the Accadem🍌ia Veneziana.
Folio (287 x 192 mm). Roman and italic type, 50 lines plus headline. collation: a2 A-Z Aa-Kk4: 134𝄹 leaves. Engraved vignette on title-page. (Unobtrusive worming to some margins, occasional light spotting, inscription on title-page partially washed out.)
binding: Contemporary limp vellum (293 x 203 mm), upper cover with the arms of Anton Fugger stamped in black and dated 1586, manuscript lettering along spine, remnants from two pairs of ties. (Extremities slightly soiled and creased, ๊front endpaper ༺detached but present.)
provenance: Anton Fugger (there are two Anton Fuggers, 1552-1616 and 1563-1616, it is uncertain whose is the binding stamp) — Johann Christoph Steinninger (inscription) — Fürstbischof von Würzburg (inscription). acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, 1979. references:ꩵ UCLA 599 ও(not in collection); Edit16 73; Renouard 274/20