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THE MOST INFLUENTIAL LOGIC TEXT FROM ARISTOTLE TO THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY First edition in English (first published in French in 1662) of the work known as the Port-Royal Logic, “the most influential logic text from Aristotle to the end of the nineteenth century” ( Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ). The manual was published across Europe, with several editions in English over the following decades. The publication, still in use in France into the 20th century, set the form of manuals of logic for the next two hundred years, in particular its division of the subject into the theory of conception, of judgement, of reasoning, and of method. The work was strongly influenced by Descartes. Octavo (179 × 109 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, later black label and gilt date to spine, red speckled edges. Shadow of removed bookplate to front pastedown. Slight rubbing around joints and extremities, small marginal wormhole from pp. 75 to end sometimes with affecting lettering without loss to sense, very faint running dampstain at head, contents otherwise crisp, a few terminal gatherings with peripheral staining, slight loss to margin of E6; a very good copy. ¶ ESTC R7858; Wing A3723. £1,750 [152934]
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a set of the Aldine Aristotle, whereas this edition cost 2 crowns (P. S. Allen, Erasmus, Epist. 2432, note). With a few exceptions, Grynaeus follows the order of Aristotle’s works presented in the Aldine edition of 1495–98. He adds, in the second volume, the Rhetoric (on the art of persuasion) and the Poetics (the first extant philosophical treatise on literary theory), both of which had been omitted in the Aldine edition. Printed on the title page is Erasmus’ dialogue between a scholar and a bookseller, a poem in Greek iambics, which is its first appearance in print. The edition was reprinted in 1539 and 1550. This 1531 edition is uncommon – Adams locates only the Cais copy in all Cambridge holdings. The contemporary reader has added marginal notes, mostly in Latin, in a reddish-pink ink to the Categoriae, the De animalibus, and the Physica, including many manicules.
2 parts in 1 volume as issued, folio (340 × 206 mm). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, catches and clasps. Printed in Greek letter throughout, woodcut printer’s palm-tree device on titles. Both parts bound without the terminal leaves, which are blank save for printer’s device. Binding in exceptional condition, the original clasps intact, without wear, and only very minor rubbing and soiling; worming to front free endpaper, lighter worming in margins of first 48 leaves, occasional pale browning to the outer edges, small chip at head of part 1 f. 59, contents generally very fresh. A superb copy. ¶ Adams 1730. £25,000 [153213] 4 ARNAULD, Antoine, & Pierre Nicole. Logic; or, the Art of Thinking. London: printed by T.B. for H. Sawbridge, 1685
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