Live auction - Lot 1143
[Antwerp]
Epistolarum D. Hieronymi Stridonensis decas prima, cum & mendis plurimis repurgata, tum pereruditis scholiis illustrata, studio & opera Henrici Gravii [...].
HIERONYMUS (St.)
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
Antwerp, W. Silvius, 1568
8vo: [16]-254-[2 bl.] pp. (toned, some marginal staining, single wormhole throughout touching a few letters, blank bottom corner E4 torn off).
Later vellum, flat spine with blind-st. title, a.e.g. Good copy.
Very rare Antwerp ed. of the letters of St Jerome, ed. by the Leuven born humanist theologian H. Gravius (1536-1591), who ended his career in the Vatican Library. Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. Pettegree (NB) 14906. - BCNI 3123. - Not in Adams, Anet, BT, STC Dutch etc. - No copy in Belgian libraries.
Prov. Old shelfmark on title. - Unidentified old armorial bookpl.