CASTRO, Alfonso de. Adversus omnes haereses. Cologne: Melchior Novesianus, 1543. 2°. 242 leaves (collation as Adams). Roman and Greek types, 55 lines and headline, printed marginalia. Fine woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, title device.
CASTRO, Alfonso de. Adversus omnes haereses. Cologne: Melchior Novesianus, 1543. 2°. 242 leaves (collation as Adams). Roman and Greek types, 55 lines and headline, printed marginalia. Fine woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, title device.

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CASTRO, Alfonso de. Adversus omnes haereses. Cologne: Melchior Novesianus, 1543. 2°. 242 leaves (collation as Adams). Roman and Greek types, 55 lines and headline, printed marginalia. Fine woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, title device.

[Bound with:]

EUTHYMIUS Zigabenus. Commentaria in quatuor Evangelia ex Chrysostomi aliorumque scriptis collecta. Translated by I. Hentenius. Louvain: Rutger Rescius, February 1544. 316 leaves (collation as Adams). Roman, italic and occasional Hebrew type, 46 lines and headline, printed marginalia. Woodcut ornamental initials.

2 works in one volume, 2° (312 x 204mm). (Slight worming in first 2 leaves, some light browning, faint dampstain.)

BINDING: contemporary Munich binding for Bonaccorso Grino, blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, the sides panelled with rolls incorporating initials I.P. (Haebler Rollen- und Plattenstempel, I, p.332, 5) and H.S./H.S.P., floral and fleuron tools, remains of 2 fore-edge clasps (neat split in leather on front cover, some light stains). Provenance: Bonaccorso Grino (kinsman by marriage to Pillone, binding); Odorico Pillone (edges); Sir Thomas Brooke (bookplate); Berès 87.

VECELLIO FORE-EDGE PAINTING: the author seen from over his right shoulder, wearing the Franciscan habit, seated on a Savonarola chair, writing in a book at a desk, in a room with grey dado and grey and pink marbled wall behind, author's name and title lettered vertically, name lettered horizontally. Other edges white marbled with grey.

Adams C-966 and E-1116.