HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA EUSEBII [EVSEBII]. CAESARIENSIS VIRI DE VITA AC LITERIS OPTIME MERITI ECCLESIASTICA HISTORIA; QUAE TUM INIURIA TEMPORUM, TUM INCURIA CALCOGRAPHORUM PENITUS OBSOLESCEBAT, SUMMA FIDE RECOGNITA, PRISTINAEQ INTEGRITATI RESTITUTA IN LUCEM EDUCTA EST, CUM INDICE PRINCIPALIU SENTENTIARU HAC IN EXCELLENTI HISTORIA CONTENTARU SERIE ALPHABETICA ADAMUSSIM COLLECTO & EMENDATO. HABES AMICE LECTOR IN PROXIME SEQUENTI PAGINA NON INELEGANTEM EPISTOLAM HUIUSCE PRAECLARI OPERIS SUMMAM UTILITATEM ABUNDE COMPLECTENTEM, QUAM DOMINUS GAUFRIDUS BOUSSARDUS SACRAE THEOLOGIAE DOCTOR HUIC OPERI PRAEPONI CURAUIT

[Lugduni]: [Benedictus Bonnyn], 1533. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A sixteenth century printing of Eusebius's Church History or Historia Ecclesiastica, edited by Geoffroy Boussard (1439-1522), a French theologian, canonist, and author. A pioneer work in its time, which gave a narrative account of Early Christianity from the 1st to 4th Century from a Christian historian's perspective. Text in Latin. Title page in black and red, with an elaborate border. Engraved initials throughout, and printer's device on the final page. Paper loss to the top corner of i6 and i7, affecting the foliation and with very slight loss to the text. Bound in early vellum, with titling in ink on the spine. Usual shelfwear to the binding, with small scuffs and tears, and a unobtrusive paper label on the bottom of the spine. Collates complete. 8o: A-B8 C4 a-m8 [$4 (-C4) signed]; 116 leaves; [20], XCVI ff. Lawrence Barnell Phillips The Dictionary of Biographical Reference p. 179 accessed 11/1/2019 | . (Lawrence Barnell Phillips The Dictionary of Biographical Reference p. 179 accessed 11/1/2019 | ). Very Good binding. (Inventory #: 289426)