[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1st ed. of Brerewood's commentary on Aristotle's "Ethics". 1640

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Brerewood, Edward. TRACTATUS ETHICI: SIVE COMMENTARII IN ALIQUOT ARISTOTELIS 
LIBROS AD NIOCHOMACHUM, DE MORIBUS... Oxford: Excudebat Guilielmus Turner, 
Impensis Eduardi Forrest. 1640. Sm. 4to. (16),246pp. Ruled title, woodcut 
headpieces. Cont. calf, rebacked.     $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The scarce first edition of Brerewood’s commentary on the first four books of 
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Edward Brerewood (1565-1613), an antiquary 
and mathematician, graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1590, and later 
became professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London (1596). A diligent and 
retiring scholar, Brerewood published nothing in his lifetime; that task was 
left to his nephew Robert, who inherited his uncle’s manuscripts along with 
his vast library. He was assisted by Thomas Sixesmith, a fellow of Brasenose 
College, who published the present work. STC 3627; Madan, OXFORD BOOKS (1640) #2.

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