Aristotle Anon (2 results)

Condition: Wie neu. 9 x 13cm. 528 pages, with text illustrations and colour plates. Original illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear, some creasing to spine. Historical Sex-Manual, disguised as works of Aristotle. Discusses Virginity (and what it is), How Virginity may be lost, How a woman should order herself in order to conception, ["A woman that would conceive should observe that she does not use the act of coition too often; for gatiety gluts the womb and renders it unfit for office (!) - There are two things that demonstrate this: i.e., that common whores (who often use copulation) have never, or rarely, any children: for the grass seldom grows in a path that is commonly trodden in. The other is, that women, whose husbands have been long absent, do, after copulation with them again, conceive very quickly" / "Women ought to take great care that their imagination be pure and dear, that their child may be well formed"]. The book also discusses causes and cure of Barrenenss, Of the Hot Distempers of the Womb, The Diseases of the Womb, Palmistry, shewing the various judgments drawn from the hand, includes a choice of remedies for the several distempers to the human body, (Crabs, Herpes, Hysteria etc.). Aristotle's Masterpiece, also known as The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher, is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular in England from the early modern period through to the 19th century. It was first published in 1684 and written by an unknown author who falsely claimed to be Aristotle. As a consequence the author is now described as a Pseudo-Aristotle, the collective name for unidentified authors who masqueraded as Aristotle. The title of the work was possibly chosen because Aristotle was seen as a sex expert in early modern England. Another popular pseudo-Aristotelian text which covered sex and reproduction, Aristotle's Problems (1595), had been responsible for this reputation. The real Aristotle had also written works about the reproduction of animals (such as History of Animals and Generation of Animals) and was considered an authority on scientific matters in general.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover worn, esp. bs. w bumped corners. Very slightly cracked front hinge. Annotations on fpd. Stains and small annotation on rep and rpd. Scattered small creases, a few stains, annotations and underlinings but on the whole in very good and clean condition. I: Aristotelis Politicorum. Libri octo. Cum perpetua Danielis Heinsii. /./, in omnes libros Paraphrasi, Emendatius editi, notis illustrati, & ad disputandum publice propositi, Autore & Præside Severo Christophoro Olpio (Severus Christoph Olpius), /./. Cum Indice locupletissimo. (Aristotle), (Daniel Heinsius, transl), (Severus Christoph Olpius, ed). Georgii Sengenwaldi, Jenæ, 1660. (xiv) + 48 + 866 + (li, index + errata) pp (pp 861-866 erroneously paginated 831-836). II: Usus Practicus Arboris Consangvinitatis et Affinitatis in foro Saxonico. Tribus Disputationibus /./ subjectus à Benedicto Carpzov (Johann Benedikt Carpzov). Disputatio I: Amadeo (Amadeus) Eckolt. Disputatio II: Alberto à Schulenburg. Disputatio III: Rudolpho Holst Chilonio Holsato. Tobiæ Riesens, Lipsiæ, (1648). (xcvi) + (liv) + (iiv) pp. III: Defensionis necessariæ problemati de explodenda Ethica Aristotelis oppositæ, A Scholis seu animadversionibus Ethicis, per virum Rev. M. Laur: Pau. Epilc. Strengnensem, in eandem, non impiam, utscribit, sed honestam defensionem acerbè institutis acæditis, Legitima Vindicatio. /./ Suscepta à Ioni Magni (Jonas Magni Wexionensis) Phil. Practicæ in Academia Ubsaliense Profess. Publico. Eschillus Matthiæ, Ubsaliæ, 1616. (cxviii) pp. A few pages slightly chipped. IV: Specimen: Seu, Formula instrumenti, catholicæ pacis cum Deo et piis hominibus parandæ; Juxta exemplar Londinense, paucis tamen immutatis. 1658. 8 pp. V: Formula Instrumenti, Catholicae Pacis, Cum Deo & Piis Hominibus, parandae: Id est; Pacificationis Christianae ineundae ratio, vel via; ex substantia fidei & pietatis; Sive Articulis Positivis Fidei Et Vitae, a Deo revelatis, Catholicis ad Salutem necessariis, denique Romano-Catholicorum, Lutheranorum, & Reformatorum; vel consensu symbolico, vel consentanea doctrina receptis, Piis Ecclesiae Christi membris, examinanda & diiudicanda proponitur: Sub Litera A. (1658). 31 pp. VI: Dissertatio Super rebus gestis Philippi Amyntæ F. Quam Præside Samuele Pufendorf (Samuel von Pufendorf). Publico eruditorum examini submittit Guilielmus Julius Coyet Nobil. Suecos. (Wilhelm Julius Coyet). Adriani Wyngaerden, Heidelbergæ, 1664. 48 pp. 12mo. 1388 pp. Latin.…