Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 260
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
GREGORY of Nyssa, Saint. Opera quae extant omnia. Latin translation by Pietro Francesco Zino, Johannes Leunclavius, Georgius Trapezuntius, Gentien Hervet, and Laurentius Sifanus. [6] leaves, 966 columns, [12] leaves. Folio, 338x220 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with panel stamp of Madonna and Child on covers, brass catches and clasps, spine chipped at top, cloth shelf label at bottom, small wormholes through covers and front and back of contents not impairing legibility; contents dampwrinkled with light dampstain in upper inner corner of opening leaves, otherwise generally clean, inscription of the Bavarian Cistercian Abbey of Kaisersheim on title, accession number on next leaf. Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1573

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Second collected edition in Latin after the first of 1562; the original Greek text was published in 1615-18. Hoffmann I, 187.