Theophrastus: De historia plantarum; De causis plantarum [Greek]. Together with Pseudo- Aristotle Problemata and Mechanica, the genuine Metaphysica, Pseudo- Alexander Aphrodisiensis Problemata, and Theophrastus Metaphysica. Edited by Aldus Manutius. Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, 1 June 1497. Page of text from Aristotle’s Metaphysica (leaf 91r) with woodcut headpiece and woodcut initial [Pi] decorated in deep blue and dull gold; with marginal annotations in Latin written in dull gold in a humanist hand. Sp Coll Hunterian Bh.2.8 (vol. 2 of a work bound in two volumes).

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