ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C. and THEOPHRASTUS. D.c.287 B.C.


En tibi candide lector, Aristotelis et Theophrasti historias, quibus cuncta fere quae Deus Opt. Max. homini contemplanda & usurpanda exhibuit, adamussim complectuntur. Basel: Andreas Cratander, March 1534. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (283 x 188 mm). Titles and colophon with woodcut printer's device, numerous woodcut initials. Early vellum, spine with gilt lettered morocco label. Minor marginal worming at beginning, some minor staining. Latin translations by Theodore Gaza and Pietro Alcionio of the principal zoological writings by Aristotle, and Historia plantarum and De causis by Theophrastus. His treatises on plants, written as counterparts to Aristotle's works on animals, came to be regarded as part of the Aristotelian corpus. Book IX of the Historia includes a discussion of the medicinal properties of plants, one of the earliest surviving herbals. Durling 271; See Garrison-Morton 275.