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Tanner (Matthias) Societas Jesu

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fine engraved allegorical frontispiece and full-page allegorical illustration preceding each of the book's four parts by Melchior Kuessel after C.Screta, numerous half-page engraved illustrations in text, Robert Southey's copy, signed at foot of title, other name on title, large Lincoln's Inn bookplate, small 'sold' stamp, first few ff. little frayed, foxed and marked, contemporary calf, covers elaborately decorated in blind, small gilt Lincoln's Inn stamp on front cover, worn, hinges cracked, [Palau 327222; Sabin 94332; Sommervoegel VII 1860; Streit I 652], folio, Prague, Typis Universitatis, 1675.

***Scarce work with fine illustrations by the best exponents of the Bohemian baroque school, mostly depicting the various gruesome martyrdoms suffed by Jesuit missionaries around the world..

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