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(ESTIENNE IMPRINT). [PSEUDO-]ARISTOTLE [and] THEOPHRASTUSABAA

Title in Greek then: ARISTOTELIS ET THEOPHRASTI SCRIPTA QUAEDAM

1557ref. ST16215jGeneva: Ex Officina Henrici Stephani 1557. 172 x 105 mm. 6 3/4 x 4 1/8". 4 p.l. 17-168 i.e. 152 pp. mispaginated but complete. Edited by Henri Estienne. Simple but appealing 18th century tan calf covers with triple gilt fillet border smooth spine divided into panels by plain and dotted gilt rules gilt starburst centerpiece gilt titling marbled endpapers. Printer's device on title page. Renouard 116:3; Schreiber 142; Dibdin II 500; Hoffmann I 287-88; Hoffmann III 524; USTC 450450. ◆Joints and extremities lightly rubbed minor offsetting from turn-ins to endpapers and flyleaves leaves with a touch of browning to head edge isolated small marginal spots or minor smudges but still an extremely pleasing copy clean and fresh internally in a well-preserved binding. Rarely seen in the marketplace this collection of Greek texts printed in the exquisite Estienne "grecs du roi" type includes four parts: the 23 "Characters" of Theophrastus along with that author's essay on the senses and perception; the pseudo-Aristotle "De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus" "On Marvellous Things Heard"; and an essay on springs rivers and pools by the first century A.D. Greek philosopher Sotion. In "Characters" Theophrastus ca. 371 - ca. 287 B.C. delineates such human foibles as gossiping grumbling and boasting while the text once attributed to Aristotle is a series of anecdotes about inexplicable phenomena in the natural world a genre of classical literature known as paradoxography. The classical texts are followed by the critical notes of Henri Estienne 1528 or 1531-91 who rivaled Aldus Manutius in combining publishing with scholarship. In discussing this work Dibdin says "whatever H. Stephen did is worth consulting." Henri also contributed to the typography used here the smallest size of the "grecs du roi" cut for his father Robert by Claude Garamond--it is based on the Greek script written by the precocious Henri when he was 10 years old. Ex Officina Henrici Stephani unknown books

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · Estados Unidos3900,00 US$≈ 3477,49 €

TheophrastusABAA

The Characters of Theophrastus With a Strictly Literal Translation of the Greek into Latin and With Notes and Observations on the Text In English: For the Benefit of Hertford College.By the late Richard Newton D.D. and Principal

1754ref. 15495Oxford: Printed; and to be had of R. Clements and J. Fletcher…et al. 1754 First edition. Contemporary calf rubbed rebacked with old spine laid down. Octavo. Main text in Greek and Latin on facing pages. Extensive notes and observations in English. Covers rubbed corners worn. Armorial bookplate of William Frere 1775-1836 master of Downing College and later vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. Later pencil notations by a later student one dated 1932. A little light foxing. A good copy. The translator/compiler is Richard Newton 1676-1753 was educated at Christ Church College Oxford becoming a doctor of divinity in 1710. In 1710 he became principal of Hart Hall in Oxford where he tried to implement educational reforms. Running into opposition he oversaw its transformation into Hertford Colege. "Its statutes were the work of Newton and embodied his ideas on education… He would oversee tutors and students with equal strictness. Regular and rigorous academic exercises were to guarantee scholastic standards. Great power reposed in the principal who doubled as bursar. The principal in a manner more appropriate to a hall than to a college selected fellows. Future principals following Newton's own example were to be chosen exclusively from alumni of Westminster and Christ Church. Newton was keen too that an economical regime should attract undergraduates from less affluent backgrounds and compete for members against other colleges within the university. As principal he watched vigilantly over the domestic economy of the house. He calculated that the annual expenses of an undergraduate could be cut to about £31. He also waged an unavailing battle against the distractions that seduced the young from their studies. His frugal regimen at Hertford of 'small-beer and apple dumplings' was easily mocked"Oxford DNB. An able translator he produced this as part of his academic work and it was published posthumously. Printed; and to be had of R. Clements and J. Fletcher…[et al.], unknown books

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PARACELSUS, Theophrastus (1493-1541).ABAA

Theophrastus Paracelsus Naturliches Zauber-Magazin: worinnen als in einem Auszug aus dessen Schriften allerley zur Lust und Nutzen insbesondere aber auch Oekonomische Kunsten u. bewahrt erfundene Curen an Menschen u. Vieh enthalten sind zum allgemeinen Nutzen herausgegeben.

1779ref. TK0066Frankfurt & Leipzig:: 1779 1779. 8vo. IV 246 20 pp. Engraved frontispiece title-vignette showing a bunch of grapes woodcut head & tailpieces index; title & final leaf each reinforced at hinge with white tape frontispiece is mounted on the adjoining newer free endsheet; waterstains. Later quarter vellum boards vellum tips; some staining to upper cover upper joint cracked. Good. Paracelsus' Natural Magic Magazine: containing as an extract from his writings all sorts of things for pleasure and benefit but especially economic arts and proven cures for humans and animals published for the general benefit. / This is an alchemical recipe book of concoctions for a myriad of needs some agricultural for using specific plants for medicinal cures treatments etc. each based on the writings of Paracelsus. A random sampling: p. 46 On the problem of caterpillars and how to prevent them from eating away your fruit trees. p. 36. How to catch large and small mice. p. How to fatten geese to give them large livers to make foie gras. p. 132. To remove stains from clothes. p. 150. How to give wine a sweet taste. p. 194 How to cultivate/make wine in the autumn. p. 210. Against the red aphid and fire. p. 162 The Queen's lemonade. p.---. How to make paper. p. 80. How to make beer pp. 176 more. A lot of attention is given to colors farben. / "Das Buch ist eine Sammlung von allerlei Zauberkunsten Recepten fur Menschen u. Thiere gegen Ungeziefer Hausmitteln u. s. w. auch sympathetischen Mitteln". - Spatere Ausgabe erstmals 1771 erschienen. – Erste u. letzte Bll. im Zuge der Neubindung im Falz verstarkt in den Randern gebraunt feuchtfleckig Titel starker u. zudem angestaubt insgesamt wohlerhalten. PROVENANCE: Koller auction 18 March 2015 lot 275. REFERENCES: Graesse Bibl. magica 49; Sudhoff 465. 1779 hardcover books

Jeff Weber Rare Books · Suiza500,00 US$≈ 445,83 €

THEOPHRASTUS; THEODORUS GAZAABAA

Theophrasti Eresii. De Historia Plantarum liber decem Graece & Latine. In quibus Textum Graecum variis Lectionibus emendationibus hiulcorum supplementis: Latinam Gazae versionem nova interpretatione ad margines: totum Opus absolutissimis cum Notis tum Commentariis: item rariorum Plantarum iconibus illustravit.

1644ref. M14453Amstelodami: apud Henricum Laurentium 1644. 1644. Folio in 6s. 20 418 417-694 495-529 730-994 997-1187 1 88 pp. Numerous mispaginations noted. With the magnificent engraved title and 600-700 decorative botanical woodcuts. Text in 2 columns index not paginated parallel texts in Greek and Latin. Bound recently in full antique-style speckled calf richly gilt-tooled in a masterfully elegant binding; some neat paper mends to gutter front & back leaves some leaves variously stained at edges in the rear pages 950-988 browned. New endleaves. The splendid Bodaeus van Stapel edition of Theophrastus' seminal work Enquiry into Plants beautifully illustrated with hundreds of fine woodcuts of all the known plants. This is the first edition by edited by Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel 1602-1636 who died prior to the book being issued. This edition of Bodaeus van Stapel is the most important and influential edition of Theophrastus. The book is the first comprehensive systematization all known plants and as such important in the history of plant science. Plants of the new world America Asia and Africa are included. / The editor Bodaeus van Stapel is known for this particular work the Latin version of Theophrastus' Historia plantarum the text completed before his death in 1636 and published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1644 by his father. / Thomas Frognall Dibdin wrote of this edition: "This edition displays great care and research; the notes are numerous and learned and all botanical information to be gleaned from Aristotle Pliny Dioscorides and other ancient writers seems to be embodied in this work. The conjectures of Scaliger Constantine and Salmasius and also incorporated; and although Haller has censured Bodaeus for occasionally wandering from his subject and introducing a few errors the present this edition of 1644 is nevertheless an edition well deserving of the curious botanist's attention: for it has collected into one body the opinions of the old writers on the subject of plants. It contains some wood-cuts of the rarer species which are much better uncoloured than coloured." - Thomas Frognall Dibdin An Introduction to The Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics . . . London 1808 vol. II p. 285. / This edition of Theophrastis is "one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastis" - Hunt. / "It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing but curiously enough to the American botanist as well for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia other parts of the New World and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel but others seem original in this work." - Harley Harris Bartlett Fifty-five Rare Books for the botanical library of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt. Clements Library 1949. / SEE: Theophrastus. Enquiry into Plants. With an English translation by Arthur Hort. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1916. / McDiarmid J. B. 'Theophrastus.' In: Dictionary of Scientific Biography edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie. New York 1976. Vol XIII pp. 328-334. / Morton Alan G. History of Botanical Science. London and New York 1981. / Negbi Moshe. 'The scientific cradle of botany - Theophrastus and other pioneers.' In: Israel Journal of Plant Sciences vol 58 pp. 309-18. 2010. / Sharples Robert W. Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for this Life Writings Thought and Influence. Commentary Vol. 5. Sources on Botany. Leiden: Brill 1995. apud Henricum Laurentium, 1644. unknown books

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PARACELSUS, or Theophrastus Bombastus von HohenheimABAA

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TREATISE ON THE PLAGUE BY PARACELSUS “THE LUTHER OF MEDICINE” Zwey Bücher … von der Pestilentz und ihren Zufällen

1564ref. 60128vo. 112 ff pages 2 and 110-112 are blank. Bound in modern paneled calf with gilt-stamped fleurons on front and back covers raised bands. Generally good. The first edition of this plague treatise by Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim 1493-1541 the "Luther of Medicine" and one of the key figures in the history of medicine. Written originally in Nördlingen in 1529-1530 it remained unpublished during Paracelsus' lifetime and subsequently taken up and edited for publication by the Paracelsian scholar Adam von Bodenstein 1528-1577. The latter dedicated it to Johann Rudolph Stör von Störenberg Abbot of Murbach and Luders. In addition to the study on pestilence the text includes two short works by Paracelsus: "Vom Preservatiff durch den Schwebel" and "Von der Mummia." In the primary tract Paracelsus for the first time presents his complex theory on the origins of the plague which he believed were the result of astrological and corporeal events set in motion by human sins. "This anthropocentric view of an individual disease is in harmony with Paracelsus' whole philosophy and indeed with Renaissance philosophy in general" Pagel p. 179. Paracelsus also postulates the importance of the principle of sulphur the corresponding agent of the planet Mars in pestilence's causation. He believed that sulphur hidden in three minerals—antimony arsenic and marcasite—affected three corresponding organs: the groin the axillae and the ears. The chapters on causation are followed by sections on remedies. The doctor must cure the agent causing the disease rather than the symptoms of the disease Paracelsus writes. Humoral pathology and its insistence on diet is of no use. "Paracelsus' plague remedies include sulphur spirit of vitriol sulphur sublimate and metals also—for external treatment of boils—toads and decoctions of beetles designed to remove the evil of magnetic attraction but herbs and drugs as prescribed by Ficino and Agrippa are greatly amplified and still appear in a prominent place" Pagel pp. 180-181 n. 151. The editor of this volume Adam von Bodenstein was one of the key figures in the revival of Paracelsian ideas in the German lands in the middle of the sixteenth century. A son of a radical reformer he believed in transmutation of metals into gold and played a key role in the publication of over 80 works by Paracelsus. For his Paracelsianism he was excluded from the faculty and council of Basel University. OCLC records US copies at NYAM NLM Wash. U and UMn. Karl Sudhoff Bibliographia Paracelsica Berlin 1894 60; Walter Pagel Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance Boston 1982 2nd revised edition; Georgiana D. Hedesan "Alchemy Potency Imagination Paracelsus's Theories of Poison" in John Arrizabalaga Ole Peter Grell Andrew Cunningham eds. It All Depends on the Dose: Poisons and Medicines in European History. The History of Medicine in Context Series New York 2018 pp. 81-102; Peter J. Forshaw "'Paradoxes Absurdities and Madness:' Conflict over Alchemy Magic and Medicine in the Works of Andreas Libavius and Heinrich Khunrath" Early Science and Medicine vol. 13 no. 1 2008 pp. 53-81. Paul Messerschmidt hardcover books

Martayan Lan, Inc. · Estados Unidos6500,00 US$≈ 5795,81 €

THEOPHRASTUSABAA

NOTATIONES MORUM

1599ref. ST16215hLugduni Lyon: Excudebat Guichard Julliéron apud Antoine de Harsy 1599. Editio Altera Second Edition; EDITIO PRINCEPS of books 24-28. 173 x 109 mm. 6 7/8 x 4 1/4". 12 p.l. 349 1 pp. 24 leaves.Edited by Isaac Casaubon. 18th century French polished calf smooth spine gilt in compartments with central floral sprig surrounded by leaf tools gilt lettering of owner's name Brunck at tail of spine red morocco label marbled endpapers older repairs to joints. Printer's device on title page. Text in Greek and Latin. Title page with ink ownership inscription of Bibliothèque Villelufpen and Richard Brunck; isolated ink marginalia in Hebrew Arabic Greek or Latin. Dibdin II 501; STC French 419; Graesse VII 125; USTC 158510. ◆A couple of short scratches and two small water stains to upper board shallow chip to head of spine leaves somewhat browned due to paper quality a couple of tiny rust spots but a very good copy clean and fresh internally in a sound binding. From the library of a notable--and perhaps notorious--classical scholar this is an important edition of the Greek philosopher's "Characters" with Isaac Casaubon's revisions to his translation and commentary of 1592 and the addition of five sections printed here for the first time that Casaubon had recently discovered at the Palatine Library. One of the earliest known works of psychology "Characters" contains pithy descriptions of the various types of human foibles noted by the Oxford Companion for their "remarkable vivacity and keenness of observation." A pupil of Aristotle and the master's successor as head of the school of Peripatetic philosophy Theophrastus ca. 371 - ca. 287 B.C. wrote widely on a number of subjects ranging from ethics to physics to botany he is considered the "father" of the last discipline. He would have considered these descriptions of such characters as "The Flattering Man" "The Stupid Man" and "The Oligarch" a minor work but it is one that has weathered the centuries. The present translation and commentary marked a milestone in the life of the great classical scholar Isaac Casaubon 1559-1614. Sandys says "It is not until we reach his commentary on the 'Characters' of Theophrastus 1592 that we find a work that is marked by his distinctive merit an interpretation of a text of the most varied interest founded on wide reading and consummate learning. It was a work that won the highest praise from Scaliger." Dibdin called the commentary "a rich mine of Grecian literature." Former owner Richard François Philippe Brunck 1729-1803 was a classical scholar of considerable note who devoted his leisure to the critical revision of the Greek poets. According to Britannica "He spent considerable sums of money in publishing editions of the Greek classics." Flaunting the established mode of editing and criticism he did not hesitate to make clarifying changes to difficult or inscrutable passages of text--whether these alterations were supported by manuscript authorities or not. Deprived of his royal pension by the French Revolution Brunck was forced to sell portions of his library in 1790 and again in 1801. Excudebat Guichard Julliéron apud Antoine de Harsy unknown books

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · Estados Unidos1976,00 US$≈ 1761,93 €

ARISTOTLE (384 BC-322 BC) --THEOPHRASTUS (371 BC-287 BC) SYLBURG, Freidrich, ed (1536-1596) B C B C B C B CABAA

Greek title Aristotelis et Theophrasti Metaphysica. Addita in fine Varia locurum lectio partime e diversis editionibus partim ex interpretibus. Addita item prater Indicem capitum duo rerum ac verborum Inventaria; Latinum & Graecum

1585ref. D11004Frankfurt am Main: Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli heirs of Andreas Wechel MDLXXXV 1585. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 210 x 149mm. 16 blank leaves at front and back 4 318 2 pages including final leaf with Wechel printers device. Title also with Wechels woodcut printers device a pegasus soaring over a caduceus pair of cornucopia and shaking hands AW monogram twice. Edited by Friedrich Sylburg. Dedicated to French scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger 1540-1609. Latin dedication notes and index. Greek text 18th-century calf marbled endpapers and red edges rebacked; light edgewear light marginal foxing title lightly browned. Likely remaining for several generations at the library of Balliol College Taylor Institution Oxford number B.181 deaccessioned sometime in the early 20th century two bookplates on front pastedown. Collection of Francis Howard Forbes 1881-1957 professor of Greek language and literature at Amherst College his round pictorial bookplate of Attic-style scribes on front pastedown. This particular copy was cared for by Oxford institutions for a good part of its history then crossed into a New England personal library of a classical scholar sometime in the early 20th century. This is the self-contained volume from the 1584-1587 collected edition of the works of Aristotle in Greek and the Metaphysica of Theophrastus. Friedrich Sylburg 1536-1596 was a German classical scholar who made important contributions to several popular Greek texts of the later sixteenth century like Estiennes Greek Thesaurus. In 1583 Sylburg resigned from an educational post he held at Lich and moved to Frankfurt to work as leading active editor for the enterprising Wechel publishers. The humanist printers flourished in three distinct cities; Paris Frankfurt and Hanau. Andreas Wechel settled the firm in Frankfurt and distinguished it mainly by publishing neo-Latin literature classical philology and works by Ramus and his followers. The relationship between Sylburg and the Wechel printers was a seamless match; this 1585 edition of Aristotle was praised for its great critical power and finesse. It is widely regarded as the authoritative edition of its kind. Sound example of a sixteenth century published work on Aristotelian principles born from the inventive relationship between scholar and press.Fabricius-Harles III 444; Hoffmann I 275 and 289. Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli (heirs of Andreas Wechel) hardcover books

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