
Lot 89•
AUGUSTINUS De civitate dei [with commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet], folio (291 x 204mm.)
14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
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AUGUSTINUS
De civitate dei [with commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet], 250 leaves (of 256, quire "K" supplied from another edition), 55 lines of text flanked by 64 lines of commentary, and headline, double-column, gothic letter, short repaired tears touching text of 2 leaves (b5 and t2), margins of opening 10 leaves slightly softened and frayed, ink marginalia on approximately 15 leaves in an early hand [ISTC ia01246000; BMC III 695; Goff A1246; GW 2890; HC 2068*], Freiburg im Breisgau, [Kilianus Piscator (Fischer)], 1494; De trinitate, 80 leaves, 54 lines and headline, double-column, gothic letter, a few single wormholes in text, final few leaves browned and softened at fore-margin, full-page manuscript notes in an early English hand on blank verso of final leaf [ISTC ia01346000; BMC III 695; Goff A1346; HC 2040*], [Freiburg im Breisgau: Kilianus Piscator (Fischer)], 1494, 2 works in 1 vol., sixteenth century English blindstamped calf over wooden boards by John Reynes, with his lilies, falcon, bee and dog roll [Oldham 437] enclosing panel of diamond pattern of pineapples [Oldham 437], rebacked, rubbed, without clasps, folio (291 x 204mm.)
Footnotes
Provenance: "Edward Baskerville doctor of devinitie", sixteenth century ownership inscription in lower margin of fol. 2 of the first work (with later inscription "Sum Thomae Rawlins [liber]" at head of the same page); presentation inscription of John Sprint to J.F. Wagner, Hampstead, 19 July 1658 on front free endpaper; Alexander Thompson of Bachory, bookplate; S. Pottesman (1904-1978); Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 October 1979, lot 36 (catalogue included in the lot). See illustration on preceding page.