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Thomas Aquinas - Sanctus Thomas super anima. Sancti doctoris. Thome de aquino: in tres libros Aristotelis De anima: profundissima commentaria cum duplici textu Venice, Lucantonio Giunta, 1518. In 2nd. 86 cc. Text on two columns in Gothic typeface, text of Aristotle in Latin, woodcut initials, slight water gouge, slight defect in inner margin of first fascicles, later period binding in stiff vellum, red boards, slight defects.

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Thomas Aquinas - Sanctus Thomas super anima. Sancti doctoris. Thome de aquino: in tres libros Aristotelis De anima: profundissima commentaria cum duplici textu Venice, Lucantonio Giunta, 1518. In 2nd. 86 cc. Text on two columns in Gothic typeface, text of Aristotle in Latin, woodcut initials, slight water gouge, slight defect in inner margin of first fascicles, later period binding in stiff vellum, red boards, slight defects.

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