Aristotle Walaeus Antonius (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In good condition. Vellum typically browned, lightly discolored with rounded corners and worn edges. Spine extremes chipped, worn from shelf wear. Manuscript spine with marginalia on front board. Wanting paste downs. Medieval binder's waste in rear. Previous owner's name in old hand scribbled out on title page. Light dampness staining to mid gutter, does not affect text. Text block typically toned with light foxing. Free of marginalia. Please see photos. Scarce and desirable Elzevir text by Walaeus a Dutch Calvinist minister, theologian and academic. Walaeus was on good terms with Hugo Grotius with the rise of theological tension between the Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants. This work in particular was based on courses at Middleburg school. In defending an eclectic moral philosophy that would nevertheless be acceptable to Christians, he chose the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle as a basis, to be corrected, despite a view that Plato was the superior moral philosopher as Aristotle was the better physicist.