Ethicorum, sive ad moribus, ad Nichomachum filium,
Printer's woodcut device and ornamental initials in second work.
2 works in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary German roll-tooled pigskin, central panel with the arms of Wurttemberg, signed "H. C." [Hans Cantzler]; outer border of medallion heads and foliage (worn, remains of vellum ties). 1563
I. Perionius' highly regarded Latin translation of the Nicomachean Ethics, edited by Daniello Barbaro. It is followed by the epitome of the work by Ermolao Barbaro (pp. 325-384) and by the Compendium on Aristotle's text by Cuthbert Tunstall (pp. 385-562), first published in Paris in 1556. Tunstall was an renowned scholar and one of the most important English diplomats of the 16th century; he was one one of Erasmus' patrons who assisted in the production of the second edition of his Greek New Testament, and also cast his eye over More's Moriae Encomium.
II. Third edition of the Greek text of the Nicomachean Ethics, to be edited by Joannes Sturm, the German educationalist, with prefaces by Sturm and the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives.
Bound in a contemporary pigskin binding signed by Hans Cantzler (Haebler I, 74, XIX).
Provenance: Franciscan ownership inscriptions on fly-leaf and title-page dated 1657.
I. Adams A1831. VD16 A3424. Hoffmann I, p. 338/9/ II. Adams A1808. Ritter 80. Hoffmann I, p. 291. This edition not in VD 16.
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