Live auction - Lot 716
[Philosophy - Prize book]
De philosophia pars prima, id est, Academicarum questionum [...]. De finibus bonorum et malorum lib. V. Tusculanarum questionum lib. V.
Lyon, J. Frellon II (by S. Barbierus), 1562
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Lot description
8vo: 456 pp. (occ. spotting, numerous contemp. marg. annotations, some ff. cut short).
Later calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, speckled edges (corners bumped).
Rare academic edition, given by the French humanist J. Boulier, of this philosophical work by one of the greatest classical philosophers.
Ref. Baudrier V:259. - Adams C-1765.
Bound with, same author, place, ed. and date: De officiis [...] libri tres. Item de amicitia, de senectute: paradoxa & de somnio scipionis [...]. 311 pp. (marg. last f. starting to fray). Treatise in which the author gives his conception of the best way to live, behave and observe moral obligations. Ref. Not in Baudrier or Adams.
Prov. Prize book awarded to Eugène Bossaert from Ypres on September 9, 1718 at the Jesuit college in Antwerp (ms. entry). - W.A. Swets (mod. bookpl.).