Lot no. 8
ARISTOTE. Ad Nicomachum filium de moribus, quæ Ethica nominantur, libri decem. Paris, Simon de Colines, 1540. 4 parts in one volume in-4, laced vellum (pastiche binding). First edition of Joachim Périon's Latin translation, complete with its three appendices published separately but under the same date: Joachimi Perionii de optimo genere interpretandi commentarii. - Ex Platonis Timæo particula, Ciceronide Universitate libro respondens. - Ciceronis in Arati Phænomena interpretatio. The first is a collection of Perion's commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics.
The whole was printed in Greek and Latin by Jean Loys de Thielt on behalf of Simon de Colines. Simon de Colines had already published a translation of Aristotle's Ethics by Jean Argyropylus, with commentaries by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, in 1522 and 1530.
Early Marginalia at the beginning of the Ethics.
Mottling.
Renouard, Colines, pp. 323, 333, 334 and 320.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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