1584, ERASMUS, ST AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, WORKS 1st
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
- Desiderius Erasmus"
This is a opportunity to own a 1st Venice Edition print that is only found to exist at a couple libraries worldwide. Non for sale on the open market and probably never will be unless relinquished from one of these facilities. *****A Must Have if You Collect Books about History and Christianity***** These books are extremely scarce and will soon be lost from the journals of time!
AUGUSTINE the late Bishop to OPERUM SEGMENT NONUS.TERTIUS COMPLECTENS PTA didaktik, That is Pertinent which is nearer to teach- Very Rare -
(DIUI AURELII AUGUSTINI HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI,OPERUM TOMUS NONUS.TERTIUS COMPLECTENS TA DIDAKTIKA, HOC EST, QUAE PROPIE AD DOCENDUM PERTINENT)
THE FAMOUS HUMANIST, DESIDERIUS ERASMUS (1469-1536), WAS THE FIRST TO PREPARE AN EDITION OF THE BASED ON THE WORK OF AMERBACH BUT INCLUDING THE THREE WORKS OMITTED IN AMERBACH'S 1506 VERSION. BESIDES CORRECTING ERRORS IN THE PREVIOUS EDITION, ERASMUS ADDED HIS OWN OBSERVATIONS. THIS TEN VOLUME EDITION OF AUGUSTINE'S WORKS WAS PRINTED BY THE FIRM OF JOHANN FROBEN AND APPEARED IN BASEL FROM 1528 TO 1529. IT WAS REPRINTED SEVERAL TIMES BY FROBEN'S FIRM AND BY OTHER PUBLISHERS. AT AUCTION IS A FIRST THUS PRINTING OF THIS VERSION, PUBLISHED IN VENICE IN 1584.
"A must have for any Christian Antiquities Library"
FULL WHITE VELLUM SPINE LETTERED AND DECORATED IN GILT. THICK:[II]; 262 PP; [III]. (650+ DENSE COLUMNS), DOUBLE-COLUMNED W/TYPESET, ITALICIZED MARGINAL TYPESET NOTES. THICK, LAID PAPER. EMBELLISHED W/WOODCUT VIGNETTE TO TITLE PAGE, HANDSOME HISTORIAN WOODCUT INITIALS, ETC.
Condition
TEXT BLOCK IN EXCELLENT (FINE) CONDITION.
LEAVES BRIGHT; CLEAN ADDITIONAL NAME AND STAMP TO TITLE PAGE, UNKNOWN
CONTEXT. WELL PRESERVED.
LIGHT HANDLING/SHELVING WEAR TO BOARDS (FRONT BOARD JUST SLIGHTLY BOWED) AS
PHOTOGRAPHED, INCLUDES RUBBED SPOT REAR EDGE. BOOK *IS* SQUARE; STRAIGHT,
CLEAN; BRIGHT; TEXT BLOCK EXCELLENT; ETC.
LEATHER VELLUM w/ATTRACTIVE ANTIQUARIAN PATINA.
APPROXIMATE SIZE. 7" X 9".
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