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Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) De Cruce Libri Tres Ad Sacram Profanámque Historiam Utiles. Unà cum Notis.
Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, apud Viduam & Joannem Moretum, 1594.
First edition, quarto, engraved device to title page, illustrated with twenty-two text engravings illustrating in the main people being crucified in a variety of ways, large printer's woodcut device to final leaf, verso of ffep with contemporary manuscript inscription, some verses titled, "Elogia Crucis," with thoughts on the cross from Tertullian, Augustine, Ephrem the Syrian, and Prudentius; bound in contemporary parchment over boards, staining to top outside corner of four leaves; 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
