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Lot 195

ALBERTUS MAGNUS
Tabula tractatuum parvorum naturalium, [colophon:] Venice, heirs of Octavianus Scotus, 1517

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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ALBERTUS MAGNUS

Tabula tractatuum parvorum naturalium, Gothic type, in 2 columns, 4 to 14-line woodcut initials, printer's device on colophon, blank lower margin of A1 replaced, light dampstain in lower fore-corner throughout, several ink annotations in several early hands, modern half vellum, folio (312 x 210mm.), [colophon:] Venice, heirs of Octavianus Scotus, 1517

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First collected edition of eighteen treatises (listed on the title-page) by Albertus Magnus, including the first appearance of De Vegetabilibus et plantis, "a masterpiece for its independence of treatment, its accuracy and range of detailed description, its freedom from myth, and its innovation in systematic classification" (DSB), and also, incidentally, the first work to mention spinach in Western literature.

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