5 - [ARISTOTLE - MELANCHTHON].

[ARISTOTLE - MELANCHTHON]. The Works of Aristotle. Book III. Containing Moral Philosophy, together with Rhetoric and Poetics […] Metaphysics, Book XIV, with an appended “Most Learned Commentary” by Philip MELANCHTHON on this very work […]. Basel, [Hieronymus Gemusæus], 1542. In-folio, sowskin on wooden boards, extensive decoration of fillets and scrolls with medallion portraits and cold-stamped allegorical figures adorning the covers, ribbed spine, traces of clasps, title in ink on the edge (contemporary binding). †4, A-S6, T8, V-Z6, a-z6, aAA-eEE6, A-G6, H4, a*-c*6, A6 & B4. Illustrated initials; several woodcut geometric figures (“Qvastiones mechanicae,” ff. z2–aAA3). Handwritten table of contents on the reverse of the title page, along with a few marginal annotations from the period and passages underlined in brown ink (“Vita Aristotelis,” ff. †3 & †4); small alphabetical leather bookmarks to mark the pages of the Index. Some slight marginal water stains. THIRD PART OF ARISTOTLE’S WORKS COMMENTED BY MELANCHTHON IN A BINDING WITH DECORATION CHARACTERISTIC OF THE HUMANIST PERIOD, adorned with medallion portraits of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Martin Luther, and Philip Melanchthon, as well as allegorical figures representing “spes,” “fides,” “charitas,” and “ivsticia.”