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St. Augustine, of the citie of God / with the learned comments of Io. Lod. Vives ; Englished by J. H[ealy].

Accession number
PML 37191
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Published
London : George Eld [for T. Thorp], 1610.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March, 1924.
Notes
First edition in English (STC 916).
Misnumbered pages: 86 for 87; 243-246 for ...
Bound in at end are the original end-papers which are two printer's proof-sheets of the first edition (1605) of Bacon's "Two books ... of the proficience and advancement of learning." One sheet signed Gg2 and is numbered 26; the other is numbered 28. Text comprises Ggl[superscript]b-Gg2[superscript]a and Gg3[superscript]b-Gg4[superscript]a [numbered 28].
Description
9 p.l., 921 p., 4 l. ; (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
On t.p. the autographs of Henry Hindley and James Henderson, 1774.
Provenance
Henry Hindley; James Henderson; Herschel V. Jones; Roland L. Redmond.
Binding
Contemporary [ca. 1610] English calf, repaired in brown marbled board box by Lahey.
Classification
Department