LIPSIUS, Justus. Iusti Lipsi De cruce libri tres ad sacram profanámque historiam vtiles, vnà cum notis.
Antuerpiae, ex officina Plantiniana, apud Viduam, & Ioannem Moretum, 1594
A rare first edition, in its second issue, on the history of crucifixion rituals as punishment for non-citizen Roman criminals in antiquity.
This work by the important Louvain philologist and humanist Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) presents a terminology he invented to distinguish the different types of cross used in capital executions.
4to; 245x170 mm. Full vellum binding. Gilt title on label on spine. The titlepage and leaves B1 and B2 are missing. 19 illustrations in the text. Browning and slight defects on margins of few pages.