St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, was one of the four great fathers of the Latin Church. In his Confessiones he described the influence of God's action on the individual, and in De Civitate Dei he shows theology in relation to the history of mankind and God's action in the world.[PMM] The unique value of this very rare edition of his work is not its early date, for both Confessiones and De Civitate Dei had been printed nearly a century earlier, but the fact that it also contains commentaries about his life and work by both Erasmus and Possidius in a section entitled "Vita et moribus Augustini" (Life and customs of Augustine). This edition was printed in Venice in 1552, but the printer's name is found nowhere in the volume. Our research has failed to uncover another copy of this edition at any other library in the United States.[ME]