[Rarebooks] A Scarce Work. Rome. 1573

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Sixtus III, Pope.LIBER DE DIVITIIS.  Eiusdem Liber De Malis Doctoribus, de Operibus Fidei, & Judicio Futuro.... Omnium Nunc Primum in Lucem Edita, ac Jacobum Salvatorem Solanium.... Diligenter Emendata....Rome: Josephus de Angelia: In Aedibus Populi Romanum. 1573.  First edition.  8vo.  (16(,247,(9)pp. Index.  Title with woodcut device.  Title with an early ownership signature and its blank verso with a manuscript table of contents.  Cont. vellum, hand lettered spine.
$750
  Writings of the 5th century Pope, edited by the Spanish theologian and mathematician  G. S. Solano; it includes a long chapter on chastity (pp.148-217) .  Not in Adams,  BL Italian STC (Supplement) p.75, with the note "wrongly attributed to Sixtus III".  
  OCLC currently records only one American holding (UCLA).

Kenneth KarmioleP.O. Box 464, Santa Monica, CA 90406410-266-1910.  kkarmiole at yahoo.com