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Sale 2683 - Lot 170

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Manuscript in Latin.
I Pars Philosophi. I Æ Logica.

Tours, 1768.

Thick quarto volume, text on laid paper; consisting of 831 pages plus index; written in a clear consistent hand throughout; title page created with stamps or stencils, bearing an episcopal wax seal; bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, spine tooled in gilt with label; some damage to headcap; according to the colophon, the text transcribed by Joseph-Henri Edmond Quirit de Coulaine, "philosophicus alumnus," dictated under a "celeberrimo philosophiae professore" of Tours named Bourguin or perhaps Bourquin; 7 3/8 x 5 5/8 in.