[Rarebooks] FS: Gallonio's work on martyrdom and torture w/24 woodcuts. Rome: 1594

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Gallonio, Antonio. DE SS. MARTYRUM CRUCIATIBUS... Rome: Ex Typographia Congregationis Oratorij apud S. Mariam in Vallicella. 1594. First Latin trans. 4to. (12),264,(32)pp. Index. Illustrated with 24 full-page woodcuts with letterpress descriptions at bottom. Large woodcut on title of Virgin Mary and child Jesus. Final leaf with only a woodcut device on recto. 18th c. calf, gilt, tan calf spine label, over marbled boards. Minor worming in blank fore-margin of title and first leaf. Cont. ownership signature on title page. Occasional light foxing of text.        $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)

The first Latin translation of Gallonio's (d. 1605) famous work on Christian martyrdom and torture. The Italian edition first appeared in 1591. Adams G162.
 

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