[ARISTOTLE]

Das aller edelst und bewertest Regiment der gesundthait, Auch von allen verborgne[n] kunsten un[d] Kunigklichen Regimenten Aristotelis, das er dem grossmechtigen Kunig Alexandro zu geschriben hat. Au! Arabischer sprach durch Meister P

      Augsburg: H. Steiner. 22. April 1532. Modern vellum covered boards 8vo . German translation of the collection of secrets (Secreta secretorum), largely dealing with health, that has been attributed to Aristotle. This is the third appearance of this translation; Steiner published all three with the first appearing in 1530. The work deals, in seventy-one chapters, with diet, health, diseases, medicines, etc. In addition it has political advice for rulers, on life in general and making intelligent decisions in life; such as how to recognize the best wines, advice on drunkenness and recipes for hangovers, etc. The title woodcut depicts the translator dedicating the book to the king. The full-page woodcut is of Alexander the Great standing in the royal military dress of a renaissance warrior.#11;Ferguson in his Bibliographical notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets (third suppl. pp. 6-7, no. 5) describes Steiner's 1531 edition, noting the works rarity and also that although a few supplementary texts have been left out that appeared in the Latin Secreta Secretorum of 1520, the present work "has not however been disemboweled like the English translation of 1702" [4], 48 leaves. With title woodcut and 1 full-page woodcut. Running heading on a few leaves is slightly cropped. Small tear repaired (covering up a few letters but no loss). ! VD 16, A 3629; IA (= Cranz) 107.931; Durling 300; cf. Wellcome I, 458 & Dodgson II, 112, 11