LACTANTIUS, LUCIUS CAECILIUS FIRMIANUS [c 250 - c 325]
Opera. De diuinis institutionibus libri septem....
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, Modoetiensismall 1494, with his printers mark on the final leaf. Small folio [312mm, text 307mm], 90 of 90 leaves, printed in roman type in single column; with decorative uncoloured woodcut initials. A few contemporary ink notations in the margins and some light old damps marks in the right-hand corner of bottom margin. Generally very clean. Pencil notations on endpapers with two small cuttings laid on. Bound in a later 19th century half calf binding boards rubbed and worn at edges. Loosely enclosed letters from C.R.H. Taylor [Turnbull library] and John Kaplan [Public Library of N.S.W.] Also a page of notes from Kaplan, regarding the printer.
Hain 9817; Proctor 5056
Provenance: Library of Carl R. Straubel. With his name in light pencil on endpaper.