Lot 395
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Summa Catholicae fidei contra gentiles. Rome: Heirs of Antonius Bladius & Joannes Osmerius, 1570, folio, edited by Franciscus de Sylvestris, [i.e. vol. 9 of the Bladus Opera Omnia], woodcut with portrait on title-page, device on otherwise blank last leaf, later boards, worn, inner margin of title restored, occasional discolouration [cf. Adams A1394]; Julian, the apostate Opera. Leipzig: M.C. Weidmann & J. Gleditsch, 1696, folio, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, half-title, contemporary blindstamped vellum with central arabesque, some browning; Cotlerius, Johannes Baptista S.S. patrum qui temporibus apostolicis floruerunt. Antwerp: Huguet, 1698, 2 volumes, folio, titles with vignette and printed in red and black, Greek and Latin text, contemporary panelled calf, some light marginal dampstaining, short tear and wormhole to title of volume 1, neatly rebacked, morocco labels (4)