AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). Opus quaestionum. Edited by Augustinus de Ratisbona and Jodocus Badius Ascensius. Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 25 April 1497. Chancery 2° (280 x 200mm). 283 leaves (of 286, Ff1 and Ff2 supplied in facsimile, without final blank). Gothic types. Initial spaces with printed guide-letters, printer's device on Pp9v. (Some marginal dampstaining.) 16th-century calf over wooden boards tooled in blind with foliate and floral roll-tools, possibly British, brass catches and clasps, old spine label (extremities lightly rubbed, rebacked preserving some of the original backstrip). Provenance: Boies Penrose II (bookplate) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 14).

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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). Opus quaestionum. Edited by Augustinus de Ratisbona and Jodocus Badius Ascensius. Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 25 April 1497. Chancery 2° (280 x 200mm). 283 leaves (of 286, Ff1 and Ff2 supplied in facsimile, without final blank). Gothic types. Initial spaces with printed guide-letters, printer's device on Pp9v. (Some marginal dampstaining.) 16th-century calf over wooden boards tooled in blind with foliate and floral roll-tools, possibly British, brass catches and clasps, old spine label (extremities lightly rubbed, rebacked preserving some of the original backstrip). Provenance: Boies Penrose II (bookplate) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 14).

RARE FIRST EDITION of this important text by St Augustine of Hippo and THE ONLY EDITION PRINTED BEFORE 1500. HC *1965; GW 2915; BMC VIII, 301; BSB-Ink A-894; CIBN A-711; Goff A-1297.