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Lot 196
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
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[MINIATURE BOOKS]. BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Severinus. De consolatione philosophiae libri V. Cum praefatione P. Bertii. Amsterdam: Johan Blaeu, 1649.
87 x 51mm. Engraved title. Contemporary Dutch vellum (minor soiling). Provenance: Johannes Bilderbeeck (contemporary signature on front free endpaper).
A fine small format of Boethius' philosophical work, edited by the humanist theologian and scholar Pierre Bertius (1565-1629). At the end "De metris Boethianis libellus" and "Locorum et versuum Graecorum...".Welsh 1347; USTC 1013944; STCN (only one copy, Amsterdam). Not in Bondy, Spielmann, COPAC, Bn-Opale plus.