Torgny Schunnesson Rare Books

Basile (Sanctus Basilius Magnus); (330 - 379)

Basile (Sanctus Basilius Magnus); (330 - 379); Sancti Patis Nostri Basilii Magni Cæsaræ Cappadociæ archiepiscopi OPERA OMNIA I-III. Nunc denvo Græce et Latine coniunctim edita, & collatione Codicum maniscriptorum,præcipue Bibliotheca Regis Cristianisimi, cum in Greæco Textu, tum interpretatione correcta. 3 volumes. Complete. Claude Sonnius (Cladium Sonnium),Paris, MDCXXXVIII( (1638). Second volume dated 1637, but I think its wrong.
Three contemporary full leather folio volumes professionally rebacked and with restored corners. Boards with slight signs of use, but a firm and tight set. A few pages mildly frayed in outer margins, else a clean copy with only few, weak spots. Old autographed notes on front free endpaper up in the first volume. Autographed exlibris "Caroli Beaumont" (endpaper) and "Jos. Beaumont" (discrete on title-page). Also on title-page "Eccl. Cath. Roffen, 1757." (Rochester Cathedral). Printed in Greek and Latin in two columns. Autographed notes in Latin in severel margins. Exlibris inside front boards. Full page engraved portrait of Basilius in the first volume. Title-pages printed in red and black with large engraved vignettes. Vol. I; Frontispiece, (XX), 804 p. , last blank. Halftitle with small repair in outer corner below. Vol. II; 808 p. , last blank. With autographed name "J. Newcome, 1727" inside front board. Vol. III; (IV), 632 p. + 144 p., (II) blanks, LXXVI , last blank. Lacking rear empty endpaper.
A reprint of the first Greek-Latin edition 1618.