Aristotelis Politica et Oeconomica ex Editione Friderici Sylburgii. Cum Versione Latina Dionysii Lambini et Synopsi Analytica Gul. Du Vallii [= Aristotle's Politics and Economics from the Edition of Friedrich Sylburg. With the Latin Version of Dionysius Lambinius ... ]

Oxonii [= Oxford]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano [= At the Clarendon Press], 1810. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. [9], ii-cxi, [2], 2-373, [3]; [5], 378-757, [3] pp. Early nineteenth-century (ca. 1830) full calf with gilt borders on each board, spines in five compartments with a maroon and a black morocco label lettered in gilt on each spine, gilt decorations and flourishes on each spine. Text in Greek and Latin, with the notes and commentary in Latin. Edited and compiled by Friedrich Sylburg, with the Latin translation by Dionysius Lambinius, and with notes by Guillaume Du Val. Graesse 215. Moss 129. Sylburg received praise from both Moss and Dibdin for his scholarship on Aristotle's writings. Aristotle's Politics are sometimes regarded as the natural sequel to his Nicomachean Ethics: once one knows what it is for a human being to flourish, one can consider how the laws of human society can best guide and promote said flourishing. Aristotle undertook a massive effort to examine dozens of Greek city-state constitutions, and aimed to discern the best and the worst political principles within them. His Politics then stands as a sort of history of Greece and its political structures. The Politics also contains an examination of the theory behind various forms of government: monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, etc. Aristotle's Economics contains a thorough examination of both macro and microeconomics in ancient Greece. The economics of a city-state, a kingdom, and of an individual's home are all dissected here (and the philosophy behind good home and wealth management is discussed at length). Both his Politics and Economics were highly influential on medieval society, and pre-1850 publications of these works have become difficult to find in commerce. A touch of rubbing to the extremities. An armorial bookplate on each volume's front pastedown, very light, occasional pencil marginalia.