AUGUSTINE, Saint, of Hippo; HEALEY, John (translator).

Of The Citie of God:

with the learned comments of Jo. Lodovicus Vives, Englished first by J.H. and now in this second Edition compared with the Latine Originall, and in very many places corrected and amended.

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107412

London, Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620

£9,500

First published in 1610, this is the second edition of John Healey's translation of Saint Augustine's City of God. A fine copy in contemporary binding.

This second edition in English was revised by William Crashaw (1572-1626) and includes the commentary of Juan Luis Vives (first published in Basel, 1522), which Vives wrote at the suggestion of Erasmus. Saint Augustine discusses 'the wickednesse of art Magicke' and other matters relating to devils, demons and spirits in books eight and nine.

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Second edition in English; folio, (33 x 22.5 cm); woodcut vignette to title, inscription to title upper margin 'Jno Poley de Boxted 1711', contemporary neat annotation to front blank (a short biography of Augustine), occasional dust-soiling; near-contemporary speckled calf, blindstamped initials 'W.P.' to front board, some light wear, lacking rear endpaper, front free endpaper wormed and soiled to margins, front hinge cracked, otherwise a remarkably fresh example; [20], 861 [i.e. 860], [4]pp.