Bibliothecis Catenis Patrum Variisque Veterum by Ittig Thomas Alberti Felde (1 results)

First Edition. Pagination: [8], clxii, 802, [82]. Tryphone: [6], 40 pp. Contemporary vellum with yapp edge, old ink title to spine, old owner?s signatures to bottom of front pastedown. Jacobi Friderici (18th c. writer?). Very minor browning (as usual), otherwise a fine copy. Illustrations: Portrait frontispiece, wooduct initial and decorative head and tail pieces. "The works of Ittigius who is called "diligens antiquitatis ecclesiasticae cultor" by Cave, may afford helps to the study, as well as collection, of the earlier Fathers of the Church: a study not less gratifying than profitable; and instrumental alike to the illustration and confirmation of the truths of Christianity" [-Dibdin]. A comprehensive bibliography of the early church fathers organized by geographic location. OCLC locates only 2 copies of the Felde work. Citations: Graesse III: 439. Besterman 6087-88. Dibdin I:73.