AUCTION 58: A COLLECTION OF RARE AND INTERESTING BOOKS, FROM THE 15TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY
By HELIOS
Mar 9, 2025
HELIOS AUCTIONS 1050 Second Avenue Gallery # 52 New York, NY 10022 USA, United States
A massive and varied collection of rare books and related material, ranging from 15th century incunabula and Reformation era Christian religious tomes, to 17th and 18th century scientific, philosophical, and medical texts, all the way to a First Edition of Einstein's Meaning of Relativity. Throughout this catalogue are swashbuckling adventures of the 18th and 19th centuries, Jewish and Islamic manuscripts, maps and atlases, and grand histories, among many other interesting subjects. Truly something for every type of collector.
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LOT 30:

1566 TERTULLIANUS 2 VOLUMES 16TH CENTURY ANTIQUE AD COMPLURES VETERES

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1566 TERTULLIANUS 2 VOLUMES 16TH CENTURY ANTIQUE AD COMPLURES VETERES

TERTULLIANUS, Quintus Septimus Florens.

Operum tomus primus [-secundus].

Ad complures veteres e Gallicanis Germanicisque bibliothecis conquisitos codices recognitus non omissis accuratis annotationibus

Paris, Andreas Wechel; 1566

2 volumes

Size 4 1/4 by 6 1/4"

[112] - 760; [64] - 751 - [1] pp

edited by Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547)

Wood engraved on full page on p. 641 (concerning heaven and hell, in relation to Gnosticism).

Some period marginal annotations.

Pretty engraved initials.

Wormhole in the lower inner margin of part of the pages in 2nd volume.

modern half-vellum, red edges

Tertullian ( Latin: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c. 155 AD – c. 220 AD) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.[2][3] He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism.

Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity", as well as "the founder of Western theology".

Tertullian originated new theological concepts and advanced the development of early Church doctrine. He is perhaps most famous for being the first writer in Latin known to use the term trinity

Tertullian was never recognized as a saint by the Eastern or Western Catholic churches. Several of his teachings on issues such as the clear subordination of the Son and Spirit to the Father, as well as his condemnation of remarriage for widows and of fleeing from religious persecution, contradict the doctrines of these traditions, and his later rejection of orthodoxy for Montanism has led these communions to refrain from considering him a Church father, important ecclesiastical writer though he was.

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