Live auction - Lot 1080
Opera omnia quae exstant e quibus, post ultimam P. Colvii editionem, philosophici libri per Bon. Vulcanium Brugensem.
Paris, Fr. Reze, 1601
Hammer price: €
270
€ 120 / 200
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Lot description
12mo: [16]-623 pp. (some browning).
Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, red leather title label (front board loose, corners rubbed, lower joint splitting, def. at tail).
Rare edition and compilation of the works of the Latin writer Apuleius (ca. 125-180) by the Bruges humanist Petrus Colvius (1567-1594), augmented by Bonaventura de Smet said Vulcanius of Bruges.
Ref. Cp. BnF. - This ed. publ. by Reze not recorded in the main databases.
Prov. Coll. Reg. Med. Lond. (bookpl.). - Stamps.
Joined: 1. Quintus Curtius Rufus - Rerum Alexandri Magni Libri VIII superstites. Leiden, Elzevier Press, 1622. 2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo: [28]-353, [8]-96-[24] pp. (outer margin of engr. title frayed). Contemp. overl. vellum (some def. on lower overl. vellum). Elzevier edition of the history of Alexander the Great by the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus (fl. 1st c.). Ill. with an engr. title. Ref. STCN. Prov. Stamps. - 2. Lipsius, Justus - De constantia libri duo, qui alloquium praecipue continent in publicis malis. Amst., G. Blaeu, 1633. 24mo: [10]-100-[16] pp. (some dampstaining). Contemp. blind- and gilt-ruled calf. Later pocket ed. (1st 1584) of Lipsius’ philosophical dialogue on life in troubled times. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. STCN. Prov. Stamps. (3 vol.)