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SCALIGER, Julius Caesar (1484-1558). Exotericarum Exercitationum Liber XV. Frankfurt: Claudii, Johannis, and Andreae Marnii, 1612. 8vo. Printer’s device with woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with yapped edges and manuscript titles on spine (darkening to spine, dust stains, notations). Julius Caesar Scaliger was a renowned scholar and physician who today is best remembered for his work Exotericarum Exercitationum, first printed in 1557, which established his reputation in the eyes of admirers such as Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz and Sir William Hamilton as “the best modern exponent of the physics and metaphysics of Aristotle.”