Rome: Francisco Priscianese, [1542, i.e. 1543?]., 1543. folio. ff. [5], 102, [1]. lacking blank a6 & blank R8. initial spaces with guide letters. A tall copy, bound in 17th century red morocco, gilt back, all edges gilt (extremities worn, spine faded & chipped at ends, light soiling to title, occasional faint foxing). Provenance: ownership entry on title of Étienne Baluze (‘Stephanus Baluzius Tutelensis’) [1630-1718], French historian and librarian to Colbert, Syston Park engraved armorial bookplate & monogram book label of J.H.Thorold, leather ex-libris of bookseller E.P.Goldschmidt, with his ms. note regarding the Baluze inscription. First Edition. Edited by Fausto Sabeo. A vigorous defence of the Christian faith and powerful sarcastic attack on the absurdities of contemporary pagan cults. Arnobius was a distinguished rhetorician at Sicca in Proconsular Africa during the reign of Diocletian before his conversion to Christianity. The present work, which was written about 303 A.D., is a valuable source of information concerning the forms of idolatrous worship, temples, idols, and the Graeco-Roman mythology of the time. While the colophon cites the date ‘1542’, the dedication is dated ‘September 1543’. Adams A1994. BM STC Italian p. 56. Brunet I 491. Graesse I 225.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

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Bookseller: D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB) (CA)
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Title: Disputationum Adversus Gentes Libri Octo Nunc primum in lucem editi
Author: ARNOBIUS
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Rome: Francisco Priscianese, [1542, i.e. 1543?].
Date Published: 1543
Keywords: 16TH-CENTURY THEOLOGY MYTHOLOGY IDOLATRY
Bookseller catalogs: 16th-Century;

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