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This week's blog is descriptions of a few more incunabula not represented in NYC libraries #1 Two Incunabula bound together. One Very Rare, printed at Vienne by Eberhard Frommolt. Both rubricated at the same time and both signed by the... Continue Reading →
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This week's blog is descriptions of Seven incunabula not represented in NYC libraries. 284JAridstotle/Burley 1500. https://data.cerl.org/istc/ib01301000 Boston Public, Newberry Library, Library of Philadelphia, Uof Illinois, 4466J Balthasar de Portahttps://data.cerl.org/istc/ib00039000Huntington , SMU, Yale658J Eusebius 1487https://data.cerl.org/istc/ih00257000 The Walters Library, Huntington Library2305JPelbartus de Themeswar 1501. https://data.cerl.org/istc/ip002525000238J Peregrinus of Opolehttps://data.cerl.org/istc/ip00267000Bryn Mawr College, (ff 239-278) ,Harvard... Continue Reading →
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284J Aristotle , --Gualtherus Burlaeus. (Walter Burley (c. 1275–1344/5 )) Expositio Gualteri Burlei super decem Libros Ethicorum Aristotelis (Contains the text of Robert Grosseteste’s translation of the Nicomachean Ethics) Venice: Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, 4 September 1500 Price $15,500 Folio, 12... Continue Reading →
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A truly striking pig blind stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards with a blind stamped image of Aristotle, with eight works of Aristotle on scientific subjects. All rare editions. 688J sammelband ARISTOTELES. Physicorum Aristotelis libri. [Of Physics]. Joanne Argyropylo &... Continue Reading →
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Early Printed BooksSpring 2024. Part A These 19 books are the authors whose names begin with A from Fascicule Nº 52 1) 508J Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471, attributed name.The following of Christ. Writen in Latine by Thomas of Kempis Canon... Continue Reading →
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The first medieval theologian to develop a systematic treatise on free will, the virtues, and the natural law. 586J Guillermus Altissodorensis, or William of Auxerre, c.1150-1231 Summa aurea in quattuor libros sententiarum : a subtilissimo doctore Magistro Guillermo altissiodore[n]si edita. quam nuper... Continue Reading →
Philosophia Mentis et Sensuum (1698): Jesuit Aristotelianism and Empirical Philosophy
Rare 1698 Augsburg–Dillingen edition of Tolomei’s Philosophia mentis et sensuum, a Jesuit Aristotelian synthesis embracing new science and empiricism.
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