May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
RUFINUS, TYRANNIUS, of Aquileia. Opera quae exstant omnia . . . tomus primus. Edited by Domenico Vallarsi. Engraved map showing the location of monastic communities in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. [4], xxviii pages, 424 columns; 662 columns. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 409x282 mm, contemporary vellum boards with slight discoloration and surface imperfections; contents clean apart from minor worming on pastedowns, perforated stamp of Meadville Theological School on title, and marginal soiling on first page of second part. 19th-century booklabels of the bookseller Hector Bossange and the Unitarian scholar and educator Frederic Huidekoper (1817-92). wide-margined copy. Verona: Pietro Antonio Berno & Jacopo Vallarsi, 1745

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all published of the first collected edition of the works of a monk and theological author (circa 345-411) of greater importance for his translations of Greek patristic writings into Latin.