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Footnotes
First editions of two works by Leonico Tomeo (1456-1531), bound together in a contemporary Venetian binding. Includes his commentaries on Aristotle's De animalium motu, De animalium incessu, and Mechanica, the last demonstrating mechanical principles, including an explanation of the action of a dental forceps illustrated with a small woodcut illustration.
Provenance: "Io. Ant. Rossenius", early ownership inscription on first title; Jacob Manzoni, bookplate; Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836-1925, physician and inventor of the clinical thermometer, and a probable source for the character Lydgate in George Eliot's Middlemarch), bookplate; Dawsons of Pall Mall, old catalogue entry pasted-in on front free endpaper.





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