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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. (Continens partitiones, resolutiones q's, exemplum earum, quas in omnia eiusdem Aristotelis opera Auctor meditabatur. Adiunctis quibusdam Scholijs, quaestionibus, & in digressiones Averrois digressionibus. Omnia a Hieronymo Bovio Ferrarien. collecta & edita. Ad Sereniss. Principem Alfonsum II. Ferrariae Ducem.). Folio; 12 ¾ in. x 8 ¼ in; page size: 31.6 x 20.2 mm. 475 pp. including charts (.de Mente humana): pp.7-14. Ecclesiastical approval, Register. Fine woodcut printer's device of pine tree with motto: "Sua cuique dies" on verso p. 475. Heraldic title page woodcut & fine woodcut heading & initials. Old calf with simple single & double lined rules framing a 3 ½ in. x 2 ½ in. gilt heraldic stamp on front & back covers featuring an oval of tied bays surrounding a shield with angel-head crest & 3 bees & chevron within the shield & name: IAC. AVGVUST. THVANVS. Spine in 7 compartments with 6 monograms formed of the letters I A D T. See J. Pearson Catalogue "Two Hundred Books.World's Greatest Book Collectors" p. 20 #27 for De Thou's & his wife's armorial bookbinding. Age related defects are present to the binding, with some leather partially worn off of the spine and corners. The covers show some wear and abrasions. Heraldic gilt medallions are quite clear but gilt titling & monograms on spine are faded. The binding is unrestored. No copy of the Montecatini De Anima was reported by libraries in US in the pre-1956 NUC or Supplement & is in itself quite a rare book. Text edges show light age tanning, but generally the text block is clean & sound. In ink in upper right of front paste down: Vestibule 1ere T. B 49 (this location mark has transferred to facing endpaper). In pencil on same front endpaper a former owner has added this thought from T. F. Dibdin: "Volumes from the Library of Grolier and De Thou - names dear to Book-Collectors: as an indifferent copy has hardly ever yet been found which was once deposited on the shelves of Either Dibdin, Tour Ed II. II. 51." and a former owner's name also in pencil: "J. P. Gram 1918, Nov." Few items from the library of this great scholar come to sale today. Weight: 3 ½ lbs. (Latin text). Resources relating to this subject (not necessarily mentioning this item): "Books From the Library of Jacques Auguste De Thou" by L. J. Lloyd in Book Handbook No. 1, London: The Book Centre, 1947, pp.1-17. "Aristotle: texts and commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library. A catalogue by Lyman W. Riley" UPP, (1961).

4°, circa 21,5 x 16,5 cm. 2 ff., 121 pp., num. ff. 122-146 Dark green morocco, with de Thou's arms on sides, and monogram on back, gilded fore-edges "Cat. Bibl. Nat., 138, 315. Uncommon collection of early Christian texts including the first edition of the "Commonitorium" of Saint Vincent of Lérins, the anti-Pelagian treatise of St. Phoehadius and several books by St. Faustus. "Fine copy of a scarce book containing a number of valuable texts not easily found elsewhere, thus e.g. the curious poem: De mortibus boum (on a cattle-plague stopped by Christian prayer not pagan sacrifice) by Sanctus Severus Endeleichus." (Goldschmidt List3-237a - this very copy offered in 1932). - Endpapers with some shadow from the glue, later engraved bookplate, inside clean, very slightly rubbed, very nice and elegant, De Thou's copy with his first arms (before his marriage). ".

circa 13,5 x 8 cm. 8 ff., 259 pp., with 2 full-page engraved portraits Contemporary full calf with gilded spine and large gilded arms on both covers "VD17 3:309767H. First Latin edition of the biography of Diego Lainez (1512-1565) the second Superior General of the Society of Jesus after the death of Ignatius of Loyola. Added is the life of the biblical scholar Alfonso Salmeron (1515-1585), one of he first Jesuits who is best known for his Scriptural commentaries. The author Pedro de Ribadeneira (1527-1611) had been a companion of both as well as of Ignatius. - BOUND WITH: 2. Illustriss. Principis Philippae, Lotharingiae Ducissae, &c. Quae marito defuncto S. Clarae ordinem amplexa est, vita. Conscripta a virginibus, quae in eodem cum ea vixerunt Monasterio, idiomate gallico, edita iussu Illustriss. Cardinal. De Vaudemont. Nunc in latinum translata. Köln, Mylius, 1604. 42 ff. VD17 23:312799R. First Latin edition of this life of Philippe de Gueldres (1465-1547), Duchess consort of Lorraine who after the death of her husband and when her son assumed the throne retired in 1519 to the couvent de Clarisses at Pont-à-Mousson. - Armorial binding of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) with his arms and those of his second wife Gasparde de La Chastre, and the conjoint monogram "I A G" (i.e. Jacques Auguste Gasparde). First title with an older small stamp of a convent, some browning but mostly clean, only slightly rubbed. Pretty and very elegant binding. ".