1603 SANCTI AMBROSII antique PIGSKIN BOUND FOLIO w/BISHOP'S COAT of ARMS Vol.1-2

Ambrosius, S. 

Opera, ex editione romana. Sacrae scriptvre contextum, ad faciliorem lectorum intelligentiam, ex ipsa sancti doctoris lectione, & ex LXX interpretum, quos potissimum sequitur, translatione erutum, complectente.

Volumes 1-II (of 5)

Paris, (Comp. de la Grand Navire), 1603

 With woodcut printer's marks on the title pages 

Original beautiful blind-tooled pigskin bindings over wooden boards, with embossed Jesuit's bishop coat of arms supralibros on the front cover.
Spine with raised bands and manuscript title

2 intact clasps

- G 3.10252 - Ebert 496 - Graesse I, 99 - 

Title page with ownership inscription dated 1881 by Albertus Ritschl (1822-1889), Protestant theologian.

 Very good condition, minor wear

 Size: 10 3/4 by 16 1/2"

Text in Latin
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Reprint of the edition of the works of the Church Father Ambrose, published in Rome between 1579 and 1587, prepared by Cardinal Felice Peretti di Montealto (1521-1590), later Pope Sixtus V. 
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