London: Printed and sold by the booksellers 1738. Hardcover. Acceptable. 19th edition. A banned book on human reproduction. Falsely attributed to Aristotle. Presumed to be authored by Dr. William Salmon 1644-1713. 164 pages: illustrations woodcuts ; 15 cm. Bound in contemporary full calf. Boards bowed. Minor edge wear to margins a few pages have a tear at the half way point. Includes the frontispiece portrait of a hairy woman who bore a black child. <br> "The Dirty Book of the Early Modern Period. It was sold furtively by country peddlers and in general stores and taverns; regular booksellers seldom advertised it though they usually had it under the counter" - Library Company. First published in 1684 and banned in England until 1961 Aristotle's Masterpiece was the first English sex book that served as a popular guide to human reproduction and pregnancy. In the 18th century "this small book became the best-selling guide to pregnancy and childbirth . going into more editions than all other popular works on the topic combined." Fissell Mary. "Hairy Women and Naked Truths: Gender and the Politics of Knowledge in "Aristotle's Masterpiece". The William and Mary Quarterly 60.1 2003: 43-74. Frontispiece portrait of a hairy woman followed by a black child. This illustration served "as a warning of the effigies of the Maid all hairy and an infant that was born black by the Imagination of the Parents." This engraving also appeared in early editions and was the author's warning to those who engaged in sinful sex. Other Titles: Aristotle's Master-Piece Completed; Treasure of health or The family physician. Family physician. Aristotle's Masterpiece. Aristotle's master piece. Aristotle's compleat masterpiece. Aristotle's complete master piece. Aristotle's complete masterpiece. <br> Side note: Colin Schultz wrote a lovely little article about this book for the January 7 2013 issue of the Smithsonian magazine. Included is a copy of his article for your enjoyment. <br> Provenance: From the library of Augusta C. Janney a Pennsylvania Quaker. Printed and sold by the booksellers hardcover
London : Printed and sold by the Booksellers 1776-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 12mo. Thirteenth edition. Early 20th century scarlet leather gilt marbled endpapers. Hinges cracked text block seperating rubbing lacking frontis occasional spotting. A reading copy. London : Printed, and sold by the Booksellers hardcover
Dover Publications Inc. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. We have dispatched from our book depository; items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. We are committed to providing you with reliable and efficient service at all times. 07/21/1997 Dover Publications Inc. paperback
Venice: Apud Hieronymum Scotum 1554-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Original vellum. Minor soiling to cover. Good binding and cover. Later leather binding straps. Later end pages. Printer's device on title page. Text generally clean a few lines of early marginal notation and underlining. Collated: A-L8 M-M6 N-N4 in 8's with the title as leaf A1. Faint stain on first few leaves. Edito princeps 1535. Refs: British Museum p. 44. STC Italy Vol I. p. 99; Not in Brunet. <br><br> Johannes Philoponus John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria was an important Aristotelian commentator and Christian theologian. John's commentaries on Aristotle were influential on medieval and early modern thinkers in Europe such as Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Galileo. Philoponus has been seen as an important precursor to the establishment of empirical philosophy. <BR> In this book Philoponus comments on Aristotle's De Anima On the Soul and substantially modifies Aristotle's ideas. His commentary deals specifically with Aristotle's theory of light "Philoponus contends that Aristotle' view fails to account both for the laws of optics. Philoponus modifies the theory so as to save the phenomena he proceeds to re-interpret the term Energeia not as a state of actuality but rather as an 'incorporeal activity' which besides constituting the transparency of the medium is also capable of warming bodies.Due to this novel interpretation of Aristotle's terminology light is now understood not statically but as something dynamical." - Stanford Philosophical Encyclopedia. <BR>It should also be noted that since Michael Hayduck's edition Berlin 1897 it is generally assumed by scholars that the third book of the commentary that had been ascribed to John Philoponus wasoriginally written by Stephanus of Alexandria as is attested in the manuscript Parisinus gr. 1914 11th/12th cent. An important early work in physics and natural philosophy. Venice: Apud Hieronymum Scotum hardcover
Lugduni : Apud Iacobum Bubonium Lyon 1590-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2 Volumes bound in One. Folio; 39 x 25 cm. Handsomely bound in modern period-style brown calf. 5 raised bands. Gilt lettering to red leather spine label. Fine binding and cover. New endpapers. Collated: 10 755 pp. 2 595 pp. 32. Conservation to title page margin. Library stamp to verso of title page. Staining to title page. Internally an attractive copy mostly clean and unmarked with a scattered faint spots. Text in 2 columns Greek and Latin side by side. Small marginal dampstain to final 40 pages of index. Refs: Adams A1736. Brunet I 459. Dibdin I 315. <br><br> Issac Casaubon was one of the preeminent French scholars of his day. "Casaubon's residence in England was an incalculable stimulus to the industry and research of the new "Anglican" school that was rising over the heads of the puritan groups." The Cambridge History of English and American Literature; Volume VII. Cavalier and Puritan. P. 10-13 His wide scholarship and commentaries on classical studies was highly valued <br> Casaubon's Operum Aristotelis Stagiritae 1590 was the first Greek and Latin edition of the entire works opera omnia of Aristotle. Casaubon's edition was reprinted four times and his text would be the standard until the late 18th century. Causabon was heavily influenced by Petrus Ramus who attempted to reform educational and scholastic learning of the 16th and 17th century. Greek: Aristotelous Tou Stageiritou Ta sozomena Lugduni : Apud Iacobum Bubonium [Lyon] hardcover
Printed for the Booksellers 1806-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Full contemporary calf. Red spine label. Good binding and cover. 269 1 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. Toning. Marginal discoloration to corner of first 3 end pages. Faint marginal dampstain to first few pages. An important English work on popular medicine with emphasis on obstetrics and reproduction falsely attributed to Aristotle. See: Austin R.B. Early American medical imprints 75; Shaw & Shoemaker 9860. An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform Volume 3 Supplement p. 30. Contents the same as those in The works of Aristotle compleat in four parts London 1749. Presumed to be authored by William Salmon 1644-1713. Printed for the Booksellers hardcover
Venetiis: Brandinus & Octavianus Scotus 1542-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Folio. 2 85p 48p 1. Bound in modern leather. 4 raised bands. Gilt title to second compartment. Printers imprint to final leaf. Fine binding and cover. New FFEP. Marginal dampstain throughout. Otherwise clean unmarked pages. <br><br>John Philoponus also known as John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria was a Christian and Aristotelian commentator and the author of a considerable number of philosophical treatises and theological works. A rigorous sometimes polemical writer and an original thinker who was controversial in his own time John Philoponus broke from the Aristotelian-Neoplatonic tradition questioning methodology and eventually leading to empiricism in the natural sciences. He established his own independent thinking in his commentaries and critiques of Aristotle's On the Soul and Physics. In the latter work Philoponus became one of the earliest thinkers to reject Aristotle's dynamics and propose the 'theory of impetus': i.e. an object moves and continues to move because of an energy imparted in it by the mover and ceases movement when that energy is exhausted an early that was the first step towards the concept of inertia in modern physics. <br>His works were widely printed in Latin translations in Europe from the 15th century onwards. His critique of Aristotle in the Physics commentary was a major influence on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Galileo Galilei who cited Philoponus substantially in his works often citing him more than Plato. Philoponus' main significance in the history of science lies in his being at the close of antiquity the first thinker to undertake a comprehensive and massive attack on the principal tenets of Aristotle's physics and cosmology an attack unequaled in thoroughness until Galileo. <br><br> LC: Adams P1058 Venetiis: Brandinus & Octavianus Scotus hardcover
London: George Routledge and Sons. Hardcover. 12mo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine brown with gold print raised bands; Boards half bound with leather to spine and corners marbled paper to boards light wear to corners and spine caps; Text block has gilt top edge cracked front hinge intermittent spine breaks mild age-toning to paper; 383 pages. FP New Rockville Stock. <br/><br/> George Routledge and Sons hardcover
London: Moritz & Chambers. Hardcover. 32mo; Fair/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine red with tan and black print; Boards in red cloth with black and tan print mild bumps to corners wear to edges and hinges spine head torn away exposing binding tear along rear hinge shelfwear; Textblock tinted red on all edges endpapers brown with age paper age-toned and brittle spine break at page 510 pencil erasure on front flyleaf; 512 pages illustrated with color plates. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. <br/><br/> Moritz & Chambers hardcover
London: Printed for and sold by J. W. etc. n.d. 1740. Twenty-Fifth Edition. thin 12mo. 152pp.; VG; rebound in black leather paneled spine with red label and gilt lettering; frontispiece of Aristotle; interior clean with no writing; age-toning to edges else good; shelved case 3. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. <br/><br/> Printed for and sold by J. W. etc. hardcover
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1902. Reprint. Reprint; Octavo; VG/no-DJ; Spine is blue with gold text; Boards have general shelf wear hinges are cracked bumping edge wear design is clear; Text block has general signs of handling age-toning some loose pages chipping content is clear; pp 339; Additional cost may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. <br/><br/> Swan Sonnenschein & Co hardcover
1542. 10mo in vellum; condition: G; front cover warped upwards; spine repaired with thick tape; open gutter at front but binding strong; paper age-toned with only a few pages discolored; contains minimal underlining and some marginalia throughout; long inscription inside front cover and on back of title page; text in very tight print and highly readable; shelved in Case # 3. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. <br/><br/> hardcover
Roslyn New York: Walter J. Black 1943 Library Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Classics Book Club Edition. Major Publisher. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Book is pristine except for a personal library label inside the front cover. Roslyn, New York: Walter J. Black, 1943 hardcover
Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1794. Hardcover. Quarto; xx 219 pp. Original gilt-decorated morocco; large paper edition; all edges gilt. Rebacked with new spine and spine label. VG; boards rubbed particularly at spine and extremities; previous owner's signature and pencil notes on front endpaper. Text in Greek and Latin. Scarce. Shelved in Case 10. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. <br/><br/> E Typographeo Clarendoniano hardcover
London: W. B. 1728. Hardcover. 16mo 124 pages; rebound in modern 1/4 black leather with burgundy label and gilt lettering dark gray cloth boards; tears with no text loss; all edges and corners chipping wear and material loss; consignment; shelved in Case #4. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. <br/><br/> W. B. hardcover
Paris France: Hique J. Vrin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. Trade Paperback. A Trade Paperback with edgewear and light scuffing to the covers the spine has some creasing. Tightly bound with a bright and unmarked interior. Text is in the French language. ; 12mo 7" - 7�" tall; 539 pages . Hique J. Vrin paperback
Bobbs Merrill 1977-01-01. Paperback. Good. Book is in good condition cover has some wear along the edges and corners. Spine has a mild crease. Bobbs Merrill paperback
New York:: Heritage Press 1964. Hardbound. BINDING/CONDITION: printed cloth all edges sprinkled with a maroon shade matching the printed decorations; the spine is slightly faded a Very Good book with a Very Good slipcase. small 4to 10.25 inches tall. Description: Portrait plates by Leonard Baskin; sixteen Greek notables most prominent to the text are portrayed. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and S H Butcher; introduction by Horace M Kallen. Formatted with a wide outside margin to allow for very occasional editorial notes. This includes the publisher's insert The Heritage Club Sandglass. Heritage Press hardcover
Compass Books 1967-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. Book is in acceptable condition cover has wear including stains wear along the edges. The edge of the pages have stains. There is underlining and highlighting throughout the book. Compass Books paperback
Leipzig:: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusii 1780. 1780. 8vo. xliv 256 12 pp. Index; light scattered foxing throughout especially at free end-papers and first and last few pages lacks free front end-paper. Original mottled paper-backed boards; heavily worn hinges starting. Library label remnant to spine rubber stamp verso title-page Hartford Theological Seminary blind-stamp to both the first and last 3 leaves. Good. SCARCE. First edition of this work edited by Harless originally Harles who was a German classical scholar and bibliographer. Siegfried Lebrecht Crusii, 1780. hardcover
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