Live auction - Lot 894
[Antwerp imprint]
Epistolae D. Ignatii, Polycarpi, Martialis, Dionysii, Antonii magni, vetustissimorum scriptorum, qui aut Apostolis, aut Apostolorum discipulis usi sunt doctoribus.
Antwerp, J. Grapheus for J. Steelsius, 1540
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
8vo: 82-[6] ff. (cut short at top, title stained, some ff. soiled, a few blank top corners partly torn off, final f. underlaid).
19th-c. leather, flat spine (rubbed).
Antwerp ed. of the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch (35-107) and other apologists, one of the basic early Christian theological texts. Woodcut mark at the end. Ref. NKr 1160. - BCNI 1703. - Pettegree NB 16166. - Not in Adams, STC Dutch (BL). Prov. Libr. stamps on title erased. - Arenberg copy (pen note on front endpaper). - Mod. bookpl.