Lot 281

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Saint (c.1090-1153). Opera, Basel, 1552, 2 vols. bound in one, folio, contemporary calf (rebacked). With 6 other works in 7 vols. (8)

Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer price: £650
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

BARNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Saint (c. 1190-1153).  Opera, quæ quidem colligi undequaque in hunc usque diem poture. Basel: Per Johannem Hervagium, March 1552. 2 volumes bound in one [but signatures and column numbers continuous throughout], folio (360 x 250mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, printed in double column, initials (some marginal fraying to first few leaves, some mainly marginal spotting and staining and inconspicuous worming). Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: old signatures ([?]"J. Wattes" and "Fowler [?]Cumings") on title. With 6 other works in 7 vols., namely the same author's Opera. Quatuor prioribus tomis complectens (Paris, Sumptibus Petris Aubouyne, Petri Emery, Caroli Clousier, 1690, 2 vols., contemporary calf, rebacked preserving old spines), Thomas Aquinas's Summa totius theologiæ (Cologne, 1604, contemporary calf, copious later annotation and printed material inserted at the front), Livy's Historicorum Romanorum (Frankfurt, 1627 [bound with the same author's:] Libros observationes, ex variis auctorum lucubrationibus collecta, per Wilhelmum Godelevæum, Frankfurt, 1627 [and:] Janus Gruterus's Ad Cornelium Tacitum discursus aliquot ... Editione secunda auctiores, Frankfurt, 1627, 3 works bound in one vol., contemporary calf, rebacked preserving fragments of old spine), David Blondel's De la Primaute en l' Eglise (Geneva, 1641, later calf-backed paper boards), Polybius's Les Histoires ... avec les Fragmens ou Extraits du Mesme Autheur, contenant la pluspart, des Ambassades (Paris, 1655, contemporary calf, rebacked) and Eusebius Pamphili's Ecclesiasticæ historiæ libri decem (Paris, Typis Petri le Petit, 1678, 2 vols. bound in one, contemporary calf, rebacked), all folios. The lot sold not subject to return. (8)

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