Name: Auction: Basil the Great, Saint (330-379) [Title in Greek] Opera Graeca quae ad nos extant omnia
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1638 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs 

Sale number: 725 Our Wednesday 08 February 2023 auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs include a superb copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the masterpiece of the private press movement, a unique association copy of the Cranwell edition of T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a first-edition set of The Lord of the Rings complete with the dust jackets, a remarkable naval document signed by Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, a dedicated section of books and manuscripts relating to India and South Asia including autograph letters by Mahatma Gandhi, and more.

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Basel: Froben, 1551. Folio (31.8 x 21cm), contemporary blind-tooled calf laid down on modern reverse-bevelled wooden boards with spine renewed, covers containing two concentric panels of repeating allegorical motifs including Adam and Eve tasting the forbidden fruit (captioned 'PECCATVM'), the crucifixion ('SATIFACIO' [sic]), and similar, text in Greek, printer's woodcut device to title-page and final page, woodcut initials and headpieces throughout, Luebeckische Stadt-Bibliothek deaccession stamp to verso of title-page, heavily wormed (reducing towards middle), browning towards rear [Adams B331; VD16 B 639]

Basil the Great, Saint (330-379)

[Title in Greek] Opera Graeca quae ad nos extant omnia

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