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| Year: | 1525 |
| Last Name: | Tomeo |
| First Name: | Niccolo Leonico |
| Title: | Opuscula nuper in lucem aedita quorum nomina proxima habentur pagella [BOUND WITH] Dialogi, nunc primum in lucem editi quorum nomina proxima pagina habentur. 1524 |
| Publisher: | Bernardinus Vitalis Venetus |
| City: | Venice |
| Country: | Italy |
| Binding Detail: | contemporary Venetian blindstamped/blindtooled morocco, traces of ties, green page edges with manuscript lettering "Mechanice\Arist" on lower edge, with later gilt morocco title label |
| Condition: | mild age wear and rubbing, rebacked preserving original spine |
| Notes: | 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 two small woodcut illustrations on page XXXXI; the first printed dental illustration. Also, includes the Errata sheets at the end. 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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