[Rarebooks] FS: EUSEBII PAMPHILI ECCLESIASTIAE HISTORAE 1659.

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Eusebius Pamphili (or Pamphilius). Bishop of Caesarea; Valois, Henri 
de. EUSEBII PAMPHILI ECCLESIASTIAE HISTORAE LIBRI DECEM: EIUSDEM DE 
VITA IMP. CONSTANTINI, LIBRI IV: QUIBUS SUBJICITUR ORATIO CONSTANTINI 
AD SANCTOS, & PANEGYRICUS EUSEBII HENRICUS VALESIUS GRAECUM TEXTUM 
COLLATIS IV.MSS. CODICIBUS EMENDAVIT, LATINE VERTIT & ADNOTATIONIBUS 
ILLUSTRAVIT. Parisiis [Paris]: Excudebat Antonius Vitre, 1659. [4], 
[48], 14, 665, [12], 320, [7] pp. Engraved device on title page, 
engraved initial letters and head pieces. Folio (33 cm). Vellum blind 
stamped with device and rules, raised bands (hardback).  First 
edition, thus. [Title also in Greek: Eysebioy toy Pamfiloy 
Ekklesiastike istoria].  Collation: a'4 e'4 i'4 o'4 u'4 aa4 ee2 *4 
**4, A-Pppp4, Qqqq2, a-rr4, ss2, t1, Rrrr1. Double columns in Greek 
and Latin. Brunet 1110.

Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea (b.260-70), and contemporary with 
Constantine the Great, is rightly called the Father of Church 
History. "The position of Eusebius, at the close of the period of 
persecution, and in the opening of the period of the imperial 
establishment of Christianity, and his employment of many ancient 
documents, some of which have since been lost, give these works a 
peculiar value" (CE). The work was later added to by others including 
Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, and Evagrius. The best and most 
important edition is that of Henri de Valois (Valesius) who published 
his first edition of the Greek text, with a new Latin translation and 
with copious critical and explanatory notes at Paris in 1659, which 
also included Eusebius' Vita Constantini (the remainder of the 
collection of the early Greek historians of the Church was published 
in two subsequent folio volumes ending in 1673). "For the elucidation 
of Eusebius' History we owe more to Valesius than to any other man. 
His edition of the text was an immense advance upon that of 
Stephanus, and has formed the basis of all subsequent editions, while 
his notes are a perfect storehouse of information from which all 
annotators of Eusebius have extensively drawn. Migne's edition 
(Opera, II 45-906) is a reprint of Valesius' edition of 1659" 
(Schaff, Post-Nicene Fathers, 98).

ABPC shows only one copy has come up at auction in the last 40 years, 
at Quaritch in 1984.

Institutional bookplate on the free front endpaper noting the book 
was a gift of Michael J. O'Farrell, the first Bishop of the Diocese 
of Trenton, with his bookplate on the half title. Spine curled and 
partially detached at the bottom, boards soiled and worn, front 
board, endpaper, first blank, and half-title loose, a few notations 
to title page and occasionally in text, some light scattered foxing, 
small chips to the lower corners of three leaves not affecting text, 
otherwise quite clean.  [26670]   $500.00

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