Origen. Opera omnia, edited by Charles de Larue, 4 vol., text in Greek and Latin, half-titles, titles printed in red and black and with woodcut device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt spines in compartments and with red morocco labels, joints splitting, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, folio, Paris, Jacob Vincent, 1733-1759.
⁂ Important edition of the works of the early Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria. The editor was a gifted Benedictine at Meaux, who was sent to Paris in 1712 to assist Bernard de Montfaucon with his studies.
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