[Rarebooks] FS: Boethius. Venice: 1489

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(INCUNABULA) Boethius, Anicius M.T.S.   DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIAE [with] 
DE DISCIPLINA SCHOLARIUM [with the Commentary of Thomas Aquinas]. (Venice: 
Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus. Jan 9, 1489). Folio. ff.(102) complete. 
Double column text. Woodcut printer’s device on recto of final leaf. Nicely 
bound in modern brown calf, tooled in antique style with blind stamped panels 
and geometrical design, with gilt tooled flowers. A very attractive and 
appropriate binding. This copy with some minor worming to the first 8 leaves and the 
final 2 leaves. Some light soiling & some early annotations to the text.     
$8,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
A scarce edition of this very popular and often reprinted text in the 15th 
century. No copy has appeared in the American auction records in the past 30 
years. Goff B786; BMC V, 437. There are two issues of this work; ours is the one 
which has A1 recto blank.

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