1532 De Varia Historia Libri Tres, Nuper in Lucem Editi. Index Insuper Tum Capitum, Tum Eorum Quae Notatu Digna Sunt Locupletissimius Dialogi. Quorum Nomina Proxima Pagella Habentur

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Leather Binding, Scarce

Two volumes in one, containing two works by Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus, 'De Varia Historia Libri Tres' and 'Dialogi', both published in 1532. The second edition of 'De Varia Historia Libri Tres'. A scarce work. In the original Latin. Both title pages with the printer's device, showing a gryphon carrying a box or weight, which is suspended by a winged sphere. The words 'Virtute Duce, Comite Fortuna' is printed in the printer's device. 'De Varia Historia Libri Tres' is collated, complete, with the signatures running as a-z8. Collated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Oxford Libraries. The last leaf is blank. No collation available for 'Dialogi'. The signatures for 'Dialogi' run as a-q8, r6. 'De Varia Historia Libri Tres' is a work of history, largely concerning the history of the Mediterranean, and the bordering countries in antiquity. Discussing Sardinia, the influences of Greece, North Africa, the tribes of Numidae, the Balearic Islands, the story of the tyrant of Syracuse, and more. 'Dialogi' is Thomaeus' major philosophical work, showing his perspective that Platonic and peripatetic theories had to be mediated against the spreading Averroism philosophy. In this work are ten philosophical dialogues, much in the imitation of Plato and Cicero. They speak on a variety of subjects, including divinity and forms of premonition, as well as gastronomy and medicine. Written by Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus, a Venetian scholar and philosopher. He was one of the first Professors of Greek descent to teach Greek in Padua. Printed by Sebastianus Gryphius. Gryphius was a German bookseller printed and humanist. He mostly published law and administration works in Gothic script, as well as Latin classics, and translated classical Greek into Latin.