Aristotle, Opera, Basel, Bebel and Isengrin, 1539, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards

Aristotle

Απαντα... Opera quaecunque impressa hactenus extiterunt omnia... Basel: Johann Bebel and Michael Isengrin, 1539

2 volumes in one, folio (346 x 222mm.), text in Greek, woodcut printer's device on title-pages and at end, woodcut initials and diagrams, with blank leaf pp4, contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, two clasps, binding slightly rubbed

A reprint of the 1531 Basel edition, produced by Erasmus and Simon Grynaeus.

LITERATURE:

VD16 A 3280

PROVENANCE:

Francesco Antonio Romano Nocher (of Rovereto, 1717-1798), inscription on inside front cover dated 1777 and engraved armorial pasted above; Presbyter Antonius Frigo (of Borgo Valsugana, 1777-1825), inscription beneath; Biblioteca canonicale, Borgo Valsugana, stamp on title-page