AUGUSTINUS AURELIUS Saint De civitate Dei 1475

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AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS, Saint. De civitate Dei. 303 (of 306) leaves; lacks [a]1 and [H]9-10, all blank. Gothic type. Folio, 285x214 mm, contemporary blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards, formerly chained, rebacked; light marginal soiling on opening leaves, inscription erased from blank upper margin of a2r, few insignificant dampstains in upper margins at end, lacks front free endpaper. Bookplate of Count Oswald von Seilern. wide-margined copy. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1475

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Sixth edition of St. Augustine's vindication of Christianity. GW 2879; BMC V, 175; Goff A1235; Printing and the Mind of Man 3 (1467 original edition).