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EPIPHANIUS of Constantia, Saint (ca. 315-403). Ad physiologum. Eisudem in die festo Palmarum sermo. Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1588. Small 8° (169 x 110mm). Parallel text in Greek and Latin, woodcut printer's device on title, one full-page portrait and 25 etched half-page illustrations after Pieter van der Borcht within typographical borders (browned and spotted). Contemporary limp vellum with armorial drawn in ink on front cover (spine worn). Second edition. The first was published in Rome a year earlier. Adams E248; BM STC Dutch, p. 69; Landwehr Low Countries 162; Nissen ZBI 1301; Praz p. 55.
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