RARE BOOK LIST V Rare Book List V ERASMUSHAUS HAUS DER BÜCHER AG • BÄUMLEINGASSE 18 • 4001 BASEL • +41 61 228 99 44 •
[email protected] • WWW.ERASMUSHAUS.CH RBL 5_2-09-19.indd 1 02.09.2019 10:18:59 Illustration on cover n° 6 60 RBL 5_2-09-19.indd 2 02.09.2019 10:18:59 1 AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354-430). Tam in vetus quam in novum testamentum, Commentarij, ex omnibus eiusdem Lucubrationibus passim, in ordine utriusque capitum ... Two volumes in one folio (330x215 mm). [16] ll., 571; 770 pp. (of 774; without leaves Nn1 and Nn6 which have been omitted at the time of the binding), one leaf of errata. Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, spine on four bands, head and foot with leather braided headbands, two clasps of which one replaced by a modern replica, pastedowns of vellum, the anterior using a vellum leaf of a 15th century manuscript of the Psalms. Hinges and foot of spine strengthened, leather with superficial cracking, title slightly soiled one corner torn, dampstaining to the last thirty leaves, slight soiling to leaves SSs6 and TTt1. Basel, J. Herwagen, 1542. chf 600 A fine copy of the first edition of Saint Augustine’s Bible commentaries provided by the theologian Johannes Gast who was active as an editor and corrector for many prestigious printers in Basel between 1533 and his death in 1552. Gast’s important edition of Augustine is already cited in Conrad Gesner’s Bibliotheca universalis of 1545 and Conrad Lycosthenes’ Elenchus scriptorum omnium of 1551. One of the rolls on the binding bears the date 1542.