Eusebius, Two works in Greek, Paris, Estienne, 1544-1545, later stamped calf

Eusebius Caesariensis

Two Estienne editions in Greek in one volume, 1544-1545, comprising:

Ευαγγελικης προγαρασκευης βιβ. πεντακαιδεκα. Evangelicae praeparationis lib. XV. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1544, upper corner of title-page clipped

Ευαγγελικης αποδειξεως βιβλια δεκα. Evangelicae demonstrationis lib. X. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1545 (1546), small stain on Ff1

2 works in one volume, folio (316 x 207mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-pages, different woodcut device on final verso, text in Greek, woodcut initials and headpieces, nineteenth-century English calf tooled in blind in period style, spine with blind-tooling in compartments, red and green calf lettering-pieces, binding slightly rubbed and scraped

First edition of the Greek text of two works by Eusebius, written to justify Christian rejection of Greek religion and philosophy in favour of that of the Hebrews.

LITERATURE:

USTC 149170 & 160189; Schreiber, Estienne 77

PROVENANCE:

obscured inscription on title-page; Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857), classicist and bishop of London, armorial bookplate