[Rarebooks] FS: The "Editio Optima" of Minucius Felix's "Octavius". Leyden: 1709

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Minucius Felix, Marcus. OCTAVIUS, cum Integris Woweri, Elmenhorstii, 
Heraldi & Rigaltii Notis... Ex Recensione Jacobi Gronovii... Leyden: Cornelium 
Boutestein & Samuelem Luchtmans. 1709. 8vo. (20),496,(24)pp. Index. 1 full-page 
copper engraving and a number of text engravings. Title printed in red & 
black with an engraved vignette. Cont. vellum with blind ruled compartments 
with 4 gilt acorn ornaments in the central compartment, and with a large 
central royal coat-of-arms on both covers. A fine copy.     $450.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
See Dibdin, GREEK & LATIN CLASSICS, Volume I, p. 211, calling this edition 
"emphatically and justly called the Editio Optima of the author." The 
"Octavius" by Minucius Felix, written in the third century, has been called "the 
finest Latin apology for Christianity."

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