LIPSIUS (Justus) - De Cruce. Libri tres. Ad sacram profanamque historiam utiles. Unà cum notis - Antverpiae ; ex officina Plantiniana, apud viduam & Joannem Moretum, 1594 - 1 small volume In-4° (24,50x18,20 cm) - [16], 120, [7], [1 blank] pages - Text in Latin with passages in Greek - Title browned with small tears and angular lack, white stain in internal margin, yellowed leaves, scattered halos - Typographical mark on title and on front of last leaf - Letters, Lettering, caps, 21 intaglio engravings in text and 1 full page by Peeter Van der Borcht - Modest posterior binding in ivory half vellum, boards marbled with soft cardboard - Handwritten bookplate and old annotations to the title - Curious work by Justus Lipsius dedicated to the torture of the cross in antiquity - Sought after.

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