[Rarebooks] FS: Beautiful copy of the 1540 edition of Saint Basil's "Opera... Omnia"

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea. OPERA... OMNIA, Sive Recens Versa, Sive ad Graecos Archetypos ita Collata per Wolfgangum Musculum... Basil: Ex Officina Heruagiana. 1540. Folio. 2 volumes in 1. (40),581,(3);438,(2)pp. Printer's device on both titles, and on verso of final leaf. Woodcut initials throughout. A very clean copy in orig. blind and roll-tooled pigskin. Spine with 4 raised bands and a black morocco gilt tooled label.    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the first edition of Church father St. Basil's complete works, edited by the Reformed humanist Wolfgang Musculus. The translations are by numerous scholars including Desiderius Erasmus. Of note regarding this copy are two lines below the colophon reading, "M. Jodocus Nass, Anno MDLXIIII." This appears to be a type set inked stamp of the German Catholic writer and preacher Johann Nass (active circa 1565). Adams B335.

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