Avicenna on metaphysics in 1495
Cleaned, restored and recently rebound in brown buckskin, together with a 1966 reprint, a rare 1495 Venetian first of Avicenna’s Metaphysica made €26,000 (£22,260) in a Reiss & Sohn (18% buyer’s premium) sale. The price was slightly under estimate but a record nonetheless.
In this work which was offered on May 16-18, the Persian polymath and philosopher Abu Ali ibn Sina…