DE SS. MARTYRUM CRUCIATIBUS Liber. Quo instrumenta & modi quibus ijdem martyres olim torquebantur, simul perspicue descripta, & tabulis aeneis accuratissime expressa sunt.
by Gallonius,Ant. (ie Antonius or Antonio Gallonio)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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Blockley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Antwerp: Andreae Frisi, 1668. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (45 numbered) of cruel tortures, including the engraved pictorial titlepage by Antonio Tempesta large copperplate printer's device of man consulting books in a library (optimi Consultores Mortui). Duodecimo contemporary calf blind rules with corner floral ornaments spine with gilt label (top cover nearly detached, tips worn, chipped to head/foot of spine) All edges red sprinkled. Engraved Titlepage of the stoning of a martyr +Titlepage +(19pp dedication & preface) +(1p blank) +576pp +(47pp index) +(1p blank) A-Cc12. Page 456 with small adhesion obscuring 2 or 3 letters and initial. Inscription E.lib R.S. on blank back of engraved Title. Endpapers bit browned else a clean tight neat copy needing repair to front hinge. All copperplates are present, shewing gruesomely detailed plates of all the possible torture methods being administered to the martyrs, which also are in crisp V.G. condition.The early editionshad fewer plates (from 25 with later additions)
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- Abbey Antiquarian Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- DE SS. MARTYRUM CRUCIATIBUS Liber. Quo instrumenta & modi quibus ijdem martyres olim torquebantur, simul perspicue descripta, & tabulis aeneis accuratissime expressa sunt.
- Author
- Gallonius,Ant. (ie Antonius or Antonio Gallonio)
- Illustrator
- Copperplates (45 numbered) of cruel tortures, including the engraved pictorial titlepage by Antonio Tempesta large copperplate p
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Andreae Frisi
- Place of Publication
- Antwerp
- Date Published
- 1668
- Keywords
- martyrs torture persecution Christianity
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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Abbey Antiquarian Books
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Blockley, Gloucestershire
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