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MINUCIUS FELIX, Marcus. Octavius -- CYPRIAN, Saint (d. 258). De idolorum vanitate, edited by Nicolaus Rigaltius, Paris: Mathurin du Puis, 1643. 4° (204 x 145mm). Title printed in red and black. (Upper margin lightly waterstained.) [Bound with:] COMMODIANUS. Instructiones adversus gentium Deos, Toul: S. Belgrand & I. Laurentius, 1650. 4° (204 x 145mm). Title printed in red and black. (Unobtrusive waterstaining in upper margin.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with old spine mostly relaid, corners bumped, leather partly torn away from fore-edge of lower cover). Provenance: Richard Warner (ownership inscription on pastedown, dated 1760); Floyer Sydenham, translator of Plato, "Richard Warner ... gave this book to Floyer Sydenham" (inscription below Richard Warner).
Octavius, a dialogue between a pagan, a christian and their mutual friend, is Minucius Felix's only work handed down to us. This copy has the important provenance of Floyer Sydenham, an English Greek scholar (1710-1787). [See lot 185 for a copy of Sydenham's translation of Plato's Works.]
Octavius, a dialogue between a pagan, a christian and their mutual friend, is Minucius Felix's only work handed down to us. This copy has the important provenance of Floyer Sydenham, an English Greek scholar (1710-1787). [See lot 185 for a copy of Sydenham's translation of Plato's Works.]
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