Leonico Tomeo (Niccolò) De varia historia libri tres, nuper in lucem editi, second edition, repairs to first 3 leaves, including title, [Graesse, IV, 166; Baudrier VIII, 66. Durling 2796], [bound with] Dialogi, lacking 2 blank ff., woodcut printer’s device to titles, intermittent worm trail to blank lower margin, light browning, a few marginalia, circa 17th century half calf, over patterned paper boards, a.e.r., joints splitting, shelf mark label to spine, worn and wormholed, spine perished, 8vo, Gryphius, Lyon, 1532. *** Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus (1456-1531), Italian, professor of Philosophy in Padua. Renown in Padua as the first professor to teach Aristoteles in the original Greek. One of his pupils was the young Nicolaus Copernicus. He was highly praised by Erasmus Roterodamus as a universal genius.