AMBROSE, Saint, Bisop of Milan Officiorum libri tres Venice, (apud Bartholomaeum Caesanum), [1553?]
16mo. 168ff. (including the final blank). Small woodcut portrait of St Ambrose on title-page and 2 fine white-on-black woodcuts at the end, occasional unimportant discolouration, 2 early ownership inscriptions deleted from title-page and title-verso, in later sixteenth century calf, lacks ties.
A scarce edition (outside Italian libraries) of St Ambrose’s great work with two unusual woodcuts.
£675
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