  We report our discovery of a nearby wide binary system, LP 714-37 AB.
Phan-Bao et al. identified LP 714-37 as a mid-M dwarf during a
cross-identification of the NLTT and DENIS catalogues. Our CCD images resolve
the system into a binary with a projected angular separation of 1.8 arcsec, or
33 AU, and low-resolution optical spectra give spectral types of M5.5 (LP
714-37A) and M7.5 (LP 714-37B). This makes LP 714-37 AB one of very few widely
separated (separation > 30 AU) very low-mass binary systems known in the field,
and we discuss it in the context of the multiplicity properties of very
low-mass stars and brown dwarfs.
