[Rarebooks] FS: Eusebius' "Opera", the issue with additional text. Basel. 1559

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Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea. ...OPERA: Quae Magna Hactenus Doctoru[m]
Virorum Industria... Omnia Castigatiora & Locupletiora... Basel:
Henricum Petri. (1559). Folio. 2 volumes in 1. (32),765,(3)pp.;ff.223.
Title page within a fine woodcut border. Final leaf blank but for the
printer's woodcut device (hammer and anvil) on the verso. Orig. pigskin
over oak boards. Orig. brass catches, clasps not preserved. A number of
very small worm holes through the preliminary leaves, not affecting
readability. With the 1710 ownership signature on the title of "M.
Jacobi Poitzelic Lindau" and with his numerous erudite annotations in
the margins of many pages in the first volume, as well as the
preliminary flyleaf; old library rubberstamp at the base of the
title-page, and the later bookplate of Stae. Mariae de Petra
Gyrante.	$3,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
There are two issues of this collected works of Eusebius, one in which
the second section ends on f.170, and the other (less common) on f.223.
The ff.223 issue adds the chronicles of Flavius Magnus Aurelus
Cassiodorus (6th c.) and that of Hermannus Contractus (11th c.). Both
contain the historical additions written by St. Jerome. Editors were
George, of Trebizond and Marcus Hopper. The 1559 printing is not
recorded by Adams, who does record Petri's 1549 printing (E1071), which
also appeared in two issues. Adams notes 3 copies, 2 of which end at
f.170 ("to Ff4") and 1 copy, as ours, with text ending at f.223. VD 16
E4262 only
records the ff.170 issue.

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