BASILE DE CÉSARÉE
Divi Basilii Magni Caesareae Cappadociae quondam archiepiscopi omnia quae in hunc diem Latino sermone donata sunt opera, nunc demum praeter caeteras editiones solerti industria, nec minùs accurata collatione ad fidem Graecorum aliquot exemplarium synceriori lectioni restituta, multísque libris aucta : Quorum omnium ordinem & cathalogum versa pagina docebit. Praefiximus quator indices : prior, res & verba continet : alter, scripturae sacrae locos à Basilio explicatos complectitur : tertius, habet similitudines : postremus, paroemias authori familiares
Apud Sebastianum Nivellium|Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris] • (Paris) 1566|22 x 34 cm|relié
First edition produced by Jean Gillot (according to the preface). Large printer's mark on title page, very handsome, with two storks quarreling over a worm, with 4 biblical episodes in medallions around the main figure. Printed in two columns. Listed in Index aureliensis.
Contemporary full vellum binding. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label from the 17th century, with lack to left corner, removing the letter O from opera. Numerous wormholes to head and foot compartments. Folded corners, two of which damaged. Scattered foxing. A thin paper strip under the title. Lacking the endpaper before the title. Leaf 637 backed on verso with old paper, the following leaf being
Contemporary full vellum binding. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label from the 17th century, with lack to left corner, removing the letter O from opera. Numerous wormholes to head and foot compartments. Folded corners, two of which damaged. Scattered foxing. A thin paper strip under the title. Lacking the endpaper before the title. Leaf 637 backed on verso with old paper, the following leaf being
€1,200