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Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of...

Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment.

London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564.

Price: $18,000.00

A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe’s “Martyrs”, shows six reformers being burned at the...

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Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad...

Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad soueraygne Lady, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of Englande Fraunce, and Irelande, Quene, defender of the fayth. &c. Anno 1559

London: Imprinted… in Povles Churcheyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cavvood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie, 1559.

Price: $22,000.00

Bound in 19th c. marbled boards. A fine, wide-margined copy. The title is set within an architectural woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 83) with Cawood’s monogram in the shield. A large woodcut initial (of Arcas and Callisto?) appears on leaf A2.With the signature of the 16th c. book collector Humphrey...

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De Vita et Morib. Ignatii Loiolae: qui Societatem Iesu fundavit, libri III. of Loyola Ignatius,...

De Vita et Morib. Ignatii Loiolae: qui Societatem Iesu fundavit, libri III

Rome: Apud F. Zannettum, 1585.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum. A fine, fresh copy with small, discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and the outer blank margin of another. Light toning to a couple of signatures otherwise bright and crisp.Maffei, author of the influential history of the Jesuit missions in Asia, wrote...

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Theatrum crudelitatum hæreticorum nostri temporis. Richard Rowlands, alias Verstegan

Theatrum crudelitatum hæreticorum nostri temporis.

Antwerp: Apud Adrianum Huberti, 1587.

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Illustrated with 29 half-paged engravings of torture, murder, and execution. Bound in modern blind-ruled vellum with ornaments and central arabesques. A very good copy, lightly soiled and with some marginal foxing. Minor blemishes, small ink spot (leaf L2), small wax drips (leaf B3). There is a tiny tear in blank...

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