Live auction - Lot 881
De consolatione philosophiae libri quinque. Editi a Petro Bertio.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1620
€ 1.000 / 1.500
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Lot description
32mo, 6,6 x 4,5 cm : 301-[3 bl.] pp. (titlep. sl. brown., some ff. trimmed somewhat short).
Cont. calf (corners and sides sl. rubbed), double gilt fillet on covers, flat spine orn. "à la grotesque" (head defect., joints rubbed and locally splitting), a.e.g. Good copy.
Very rare early ed. of Boethius' philosophical work by the humanist theologian and scholar Pierre Bertius (Beveren 1565-Paris 1629). At the end "De metris Boethianis libellus" and "Locorum et versuum Graecorum...". Ref. Welsh 1340 (= Mikrobiblion 36). - Bondy p. 9. - STCN (only one copy, Leiden : lacking last f.). - Not in Spielmann, COPAC, Bn-Opale plus.