Lot 104 , Ex-Libris Ratcliffe College - five small vellum-covered volumes in Latin, 16th and 17th century,

Ex-Libris Ratcliffe College - five small vellum-covered volumes in Latin, 16th and 17th century, comprising: Senecai Tragediae cum praefatione H. Avantii, Venetiis, Aldus, 1517 (fragment of t.p. only) - C. Crispo Sallustio, De Catilinae Coniuratione (n.d. but Aldus dolphin and anchor to t.p.) - Boethius (Theodor), Anicii Manlii Torquati Seuerini Boethii De Consolatione Philosophiae, Lib. V, Lugduni, Apud Alexandrum Marsilium, 1581 - Epistolarum Pauli Manutii Libri XII...,Bernae, Excudebat Ioannes le Preux, 1601 - Des. Erasmi Rot. Moriae Encomium cum G. Listrii Coment..., Amsterodami, Apud Guiljelmum Blauw, 1629, all with later vellum covers and Ratcliffe College book plates, largest 16 x 9cm
Estimate £200-300

Epistolarum is complete, there are no added prints.


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Sold for £460