Ethicae doctrinae elementa, et Enarratio libri quinti Ethicorum. Additae sunt Quaestiones de iuramentis, de excommunicatione [...].

8vo: [16]-302-[2] pp. (toned, marginally sl. dampstained, top edge partly ink-stained).

16th-c. blind-stamped pigskin, covers with portraits of Emperor Maximilian II (upper cover) and Augustus, Elector of Saxony (lower cover), spine on 4 raised bands (warping, darkened, worming in spine and lower cover, flylvs torn out). Good copy.

Later ed. (1st 1550) of a treatise on moral philosophy, including a commentary on Book 5 of Aristotle’s Ethics, by the Wittenberg humanist Melanchthon (1497-1560). Woodcut mark on title. Ref. VD-16 ZV-2767 [2: Halle, Jena].- Cp. Claus (Melanchthon) 1550.116 (1st ed.) and 1560.120 (1st Lufft ed.).- Not in Adams, BnF, Cranz/Schmitt, STC German (BL). Bound with: Cicero, Marcus Tullius - De officiis libri III. Item, De senectute; De amicitia; Paradoxa; et Somnium Scipionis, cum annotationibus Victorini Strigelii [...]. Wittenberg, Heirs of J. Krafft sr., 1579. [24]-380 pp. Rare ed. of Cicero’s philosophical writings, with a commentary by the Lutheran theologian and Jena-Leipzig-Heidelberg professor Strigelius (1524-1569). Woodcut mark on title. Printed in italics. Ref. VD-16 C-3219.- Ind. Aurel. 139582.- Not in Adams, Bn-Opale plus, STC German (BL). Prov. On front cover blind-stamped initials "F C B" and date "1580". - Old ownership entries on 1st title, i.a. "Samuelis Christoph de Vizakna" (Transylvania). - A number of cont. marg. ms. notes.