[Rarebooks] FS: Laws of the Augustinian Order of Eremites. Rome: 1555

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Cristoforo da Padova. CANONES VERBI DEI CONCIONATORIBUS ORDINIS FRATRUM EREMITARUM S. AUGUSTINI Praescripti A... Chistophor Patavino Eiusdem Ordinis Priore Generali. Rome: (Antonio Blado). 1555. First edition. 4to. ff.(6). Including the final blank. Large woodcut on title page of St. Augustine at the Crucifixion. Modern full morocco. A little contemporary underlining.	$850.00 (trade discount allowed)
First edition (the second appeared 3 years later) of the thirty-seven articles to be obeyed by the Augustinian Order of Eremites, written by the Prior General of the Order. A rare Blado imprint. Censimento CNCE 13799 (locating only 2 copies at Rome, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and the Biblioteca Angelica); Fumagali and Belli 167. Not in BMC, Adams, or OCLC.


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