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TERTULLIANUS (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS) Opera, Basel, Froben, 1528 image 1
TERTULLIANUS (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS) Opera, Basel, Froben, 1528 image 2
THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
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TERTULLIANUS (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS)
Opera, Basel, Froben, 1528

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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TERTULLIANUS (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS)

Opera, edited by B. Rhenanus, printer's woodcut device on title, large historiated woodcut initials, sprinkled single wormholes to opening leaves (reducing to 1 or 2 later), quite extensive marginal annotations in Latin (and 8 small ink sketches) in several hands, contemporary blindstamped and gilt calf over wooden boards, gilt-stamped "Opera Tertuliani" on upper cover, and with four "acorn" devices on each cover, brass corner-pieces, clasps and catches (without straps), old paper label on spine, extremities of spine refurbished [Adams T406], folio (300 x 202mm.), Basel, Froben, 1528

Footnotes

The second edition of the collected works of Tertullian in a contemporary binding stamped with the title on the upper cover, and extensively annotated. It contains several drawings in the margins including Lucretia, a braying ass and a stag pierced by an arrow. On p.616 the reader has struck through a passage, marking it with a pointing hand and note that the text has been printed twice.

Provenance: Wolfgang Englelbert von Auersperg (1610-1673), governor of Carniola, inscription on title-page, with note that book was added to the library (at Ljubljana) in 1655; Fuerstlich Auerspergsche Fideicommisbibliothek zu Laybach, bookplate.

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