Search Results: Titles starting with Q from George Robert Minkoff, Inc.

Hardcover. Fine. George Lokert (Editor). Text in Latin. Title-page printed within an architectural historiated border with columns, flowerpots, dolphins, grotesques etc., and with Badius woodcut device depicting a printing press. Illustrated with woodcut diagrams in text; numerous woodcut and metalcut white-on-black decorative and historiated initials of various sizes (some as large as 14-line). Folio. 19th-century full vellum over thick boards, flat spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label. All edges rouged; silk bookmark attached. Paris, printed by Badius Ascensius for Conrard Resch, 1516. First Edition of this important compilation of commentaries on Aristotles writings on the natural sciences by 3 leading medieval scholars working at the University of Paris. Jean Buridans commentary on De anima, Themo Judaeis commentary on Meteorologica and George Lokerts Tractatus proportionum are printed here for the first time (Editio Princeps). Jean Buridan was an eminent French Aristotelian philosopher,… Read More