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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.
TERTULLIANUS (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS) Opera, Basel, Froben, 1528
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TERTULLIANUS (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS)
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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