Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS, Saint. Of the Citie of God. Commentary by Juan Luis Vives. [18] (of [20]), 861 [i. e., 860], [4] pages; lacks initial blank. Folio, 310x200 mm, 17th-century calf with later cloth lettering piece, worn; dampstaining in lower portion of contents, worming in blank lower margins toward beginning, title soiled, torn in lower margin, and mounted, repair in lower margin of next 2 leaves. London: G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620

Additional Details

Second edition of a translation by John Healey, the first into English, originally published in 1610. STC 917.