Religious Literature

The City of God

On the City of God: Against the Pagans, Two and Twenty Books: A Most Worthy Work ... With the commentaries of Thomas Valois and Nicholas Triueth, and also the additions of James Passauant, and the theological truths of Francis Maron.

Author: Diui Aurelij Augustini Hipponensis

Publisher: Directory ... compiled with a certain index, 1520 (Recently in Lyon: at the expense and efforts of Ioannis Koburger, bookseller from Nuremberg: printed by the skilled engraver Jacobus Sacon ... published on the 15th day of October, 1520.)

1 volume in folio, Pp. (299, \1!; 62 c.); Binding in half-leather from the nineteenth century, preserving the antique plates. BOUND WITH: Augustinus, Aurelius. Divine Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, On the Supreme Trinity, which is God: To Aurelius, Bishop of Carthage: fifteen books: ... To which the theological truths of the enlightened doctor Francis Maronis are most aptly connected. Directorium ... compiled with a certain index, 1520 (Printed in Lyon: at the expense and efforts of Joannis Koburger, citizen of Nuremberg: through the skilful and vigilant care of Jacobus Sacon, 1520, on the second day before the Kalends of ..., PP. (110, \6 c.)) Slow but solid binding, good margins, woodcut initials, slight browning, some stains, minor watermarks mainly on the white margins of the first leaves. Contemporary underlining and marginal glosses. NB: The annotations of De Civitate have been mistakenly placed after De Trinitate, but both works are complete.