AUTHOR: Aristotle. TITLE-PAGE TRANSCRIPTION: ARISTOTELIS ET | THEOPHRASTI | HISTORIAE, | Cùm de natura Animalium, tum de Plantis | & earum Causis, cuncta ferè, quae Deus opt. | max. homini contemplanda exhibuit, ad | amussim complectentes: nunc iam suo resti- | tutae nitori, & mendis omnibus, quoad fieri | potuit, repurgatae. | CUM INDICE COPIO- | SISSIMO: | Ex quo superfluum quod erat, decerpsimus: quod uerò | necessarium nobis uisum est, superaddidimus. | [eagle? perched on pedestalled sphere with serpents entwined below pedestal vertically on each side of sphere, the words IN VIRTUTE, | ET FORTUNA on each side of image] | LUGDUNI, | Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, | sub scuto Veneto, | M. D. LII. | Cum Privilegio Regis. COLLATION: 18 x 13 cm., 8º: a-e8 a-z8 A-H8 [$5 signed] pp. [1-80], 1-97, 106-107, 100-495, [1-17] (misnumbereing 54 as 44, 108 as 66, 218 as 196) CONTENTS: alr Title page. a2r And. Cratander Lectori Salutem. a3r Index. e4v In reliquos Aristotelis de animalibus libros index. a1r Theodori Gazae thessalonicensis praefatio in libros de animalibus Aristotelis. a6r Aristotelis stagiritae de histoira animalium. q3r Aristotelis de partibus animalium et earum causis. y4v Aristotelis de generatione animalium. G1v Aristotelis de communi animalium gressu. H2v Aristotelis de communi animalium motione. I1r Vocabula Latina et Graeca. secundum Latinarum literarum ordinem, ex libris Aristotelis de animalibus. BINDING: Parchment wrapper with contemporary stitched repair. NOTES: Colophon: Lugduni, excudebat Nicolaus Bacquenoius, M. D. LII. Edited by Andreas Cratander. Translation of Aristotle’s [Peri ta zoia istoriai, Peri zoion morion, Peri zoion geneseos, Peri zoion kineseos, Peri zoion poreias (romanized form)]; and Theophrastus’ [Peri phuton istorias, Peri phuton aition (romanized form)] KEYWORDS: 1. Zoology 2. Botany-Pre-Linnean works. I. Theophrastus. II. Gaza, Theodoros (ca. 1400-ca. 1475) III. Alcinio, Pietro (1487-1527) IV. Cratander, Andreas. LOCATION: Q155.A716 1552 OTHER CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS: UCLA; UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library