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ARNOBIUS, Afer

Disputationum adversus gentes libri octo. Nunc primum in lucem editi, [ed. Faustus Sabaeus]
Rome
Francesco Priscianese
1542
€380 - €500

Folio (31 x 21 cm), [3]-CII [= 102]-[1] ff. Capital spaces with guide-letters. (missing 2 final Errata ff.; sl. toned, some unobtrusive dampstaining, tear in title underlaid, tear at top of i2 of 2nd work, minor worming in inner margin final ff.). Editio princeps of the early Christian apologist Arnobius (d.
330) by the Roman humanist Fausto Sabeo (1478-1558). It is one of very few books from this Roman press.
Ref. Edit16 3083. - Adams A-1994. Prov. Library stamps. Bound with - LACTANTIUS - Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia [...]. Accesserunt Xysti Betuleii Augustani pia ac erudita commentaria, nunc primum in lucem edita. Basel, Heinrich Petri, March 1563. [24]-559-[21] pp. Woodcut mark on title and at the end. Small woodcut p. 122. Contemp. leather, covers with gilt central ornament, flat spine (front cover loose, rubbed, lower joint split). Very good copy

Collected works of another Christian apologist, edited by the Augsburg humanist Sixt Birck (1501-1554).
Ref. VD16 L-42. - Adams L-27

Humanism