De consensu evangelistarum. - Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. (Lauingen : [Printer of Augustinus, De Consensu Evangelistarum])
First edition.
Chancery folio. Wide-margined copy bound in 19th-century paneled morocco gilt by Holloway. Rubricated, with large red painted initials at the openings of books 3 and 4, woodcut initials, many painted over in red. Provenance: occasional marginalia - Eichstatt, Bavaria, Dominicans, St. Peter (bookplate dated 1742 on first leaf), Henry Hucks Gibbs (1819-1907, 1st Baron Aldenham, merchant banker; armorial bookplate of Aldenham House, Herts and signature dated 1866); Elaine and Alexander Rosenberg - acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, New York, February 3, 1966.--dealer's description.
Signatures: [a-k[superscript]10, l[superscript]8] = 108 leaves. (1st & last, blank & genuine).
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