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AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS, Saint. De civitate Dei. [208] leaves, including final blank. Gothic type. Rubricated. 4to, 240x173 mm, later calf over wooden boards with contemporary blind-tooled leather covers laid down, heavily worn medieval vellum manuscript leaves as endleaves; opening leaves soiled, scored early monastic ownership inscriptions on blank recto of first leaf, last leaf with another inscription dated 1508 and with horizontal strip excised from blank lower margin and restored. (Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 9 February 1486/87)
Twelfth edition; the first was printed in 1467. This edition is the first production of this press. Hain 2055; GW 2882; BMC V, 436; Goff A1238; ISTC ia01238000.
