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Heading: (Aristotle)
Author: Taylor, Thomas
Title: A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, in four books. In which his principal physical and metaphysical dogmas are unfolded; and it is shown, from indubitable evidence, that his philosophy has not been accurately known since the destruction of the Greeks. The insufficiency also of the philosophy that has been substituted by the moderns for that of Aristotle, is demonstrated
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for the Author by Robert Wilks
Date: 1812
Item # : 184371
Sale Number   363
Lot Number   5
Sale Name    
Rare Books, including the Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine
Sale Date   09/13/2007
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 800
High Estimate   $ 1,200
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Description:
xxviii, 577 pp. (folio) 12¼x9½, modern half morocco & marbled boards, new endpapers. First Edition.
Issued also as Vol. X of the limited edition of Aristotle's works translated by Taylor.
Condition:
Light foxing to prelims. and last 20 or so pages, some minor soiling, else very good or better, a full-margined, untrimmed copy.
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