Oliva,Joannis Pauli (Giovanni Paolo Oliva, 1600-1681)
Title
In selecta scripturae loca ethicae commentationes IN GENESIM. Cui accessere commentationes item ethicae in Canticum Canticorum. Tomus primus.[Complete in one volume]
PlacePub
Lugduni (Lyons)
Publisher
Ffr. Anissoniorum et Joannis Posuel
Date
1677
Illustrations
Copperplate frontis after Gian Lorenzo Bernini (engraved by Franciscus Spiere) + large copperplate device on titlepage [145x104mm] + copperplate Moses receiving the tablets with multitudes below + on page 1 with expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni F. Vent
Description
Folio blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards on five raised bands (lacks clasps/darkened mainly to lower cover/rubbed/spine splitting but tight and sound) All edges green. Half-title +Frontis +Titlepage printed in red and black +[6p=Preface] +359pp +[61pp=index] +145pp +[30p=index]+[1p=errata]. Two ownership labels, a Jesuit Scriptorium & The Writer's Library, London. A few dusty fingerings to the first leaves else an exceptionally clean, wide margined handsomely bound copy, the first volume in the separate Works of Oliva completed in six volumes, this the commentary on Genesis complete, see also the other volumes by Oliva each volume,or set of volumes, complete in itself together making the complete 6 volume Works of Oliva.
Booknumber
V69677
Price
Price: GBP 150.00 or USD 184.00
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