CARDULO, Fulvio, editor. Passio sanctorum martyrum, Getulij, Amantij, Cerealis, Primitiui, Symphorosae, ac septem filiorum, notis & digressionibus illustrata Fuluij Carduli , Rome, apud Franciscum Zanettum, 1588
8vo. 100ff. Woodcut Jesuit emblem on title-page, 2 wormholes in upper margins, one occasionally just affecting text and repaired in a few leaves, in recent limp vellum.
PRESENTATION COPY of this first edition of the history of the martyrdom of several obscure Christians at the time of Hadrian, inscribed on the title-page 'P.F. Cardulus Abbatiae [a small town in the province of Como] hunc lib. dono dedit' and, above, another contemporary ownership inscription of the Jesuit College of Abbadia.
Censimento C1469; not in BMC, Adams or NUC
£350
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