ANTIQUITATES CHRISTIANAE: OR, THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE HOLY JESUS: AS ALSO THE LIVES, ACTS & MARTYRDOMS OF HIS APOSTLES. IN TWO PARTS : THE FIRST PART, CONTAINING THE LIFE OF CHRIST, WRITTEN BY JER. TAYLOR, LATE LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR. THE SECOND, CONTAINING THE LIVES OF THE APOSTLES, WITH AN ENUMERATION, AND SOME BRIEF REMARKS UPON THEIR FIRST SUCCESSOURS IN THE FIVE GREAT APOSTOLICAL CHURCHES, BY WILLIAM CAVE, D.D. CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY
London: Printed by E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R. Royston, Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty, 1678. Leather-bound. Folio, 14.5 in. x 8.8 in., pp. [6], I - LI, [13], I-XXVI, i - vii, [3], 1-145, [11], 151-282, [10], 289-432, [24], 1-176. Six title pages. Illustrated with engraved frontis and 17 additional engravings, some double page, by William Faithorne.
Contemporary full calf with a thin black triple-rule framing the boards. Six raised bands to spine. No spine label. Front and rear boards detached, but present. Chipping to boards and spine; cracking to spine. Front board corners deteriorated. Opening title page in black and red ink. Printed marginalia. No free endpapers; frontis detached but present. Previous owner's signature tidily inked to top of title page. A few light stains, but pages are generally bright and supple. Textblock is solid. Fair. Item #88874
Five additional title pages include:
1) The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution; Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever-Blessed Jesus Christ, The Savior of the World. With Considerations and Discourses upon the Several Parts of the Story; and Prayers Fitted to the Several Mysteries. In Three Parts. The Sixth Edition. By Jer. Taylor
2) The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: Beginning at the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Untill Hos Baptism and Temptation Inclusively: With Considerations and Discourses upon the Several Parts of the Story; and Prayers fitted to the Several Mysteries. The First Part.
3) The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus:: Beginning at the Time of His First Miracle, Untill the Second Year of His Preaching: With Considerations and Discourses upon the Several Parts of the Story; and Prayers fitted to the Several Mysteries. The Second Part.
4) The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus:: Beginning at the Second Year of His Preachings, Untill His Ascension: With Considerations and Discourses upon the Several Parts of the Story; and Prayers Fitted to the Several Mysteries. The Third Part.
5) Antiquitates Apostolicae: Or, The Lives, Acts and Martydoms of the Holy Apostles of Our Savior, To Which Are Added the Lives of the Two Evangelists, SS. Mark and Luke. As Also A Brief Enumeration and Account of the Apostles and Their Successors for the Forst Three Hundred Years in the Five Great Apostolical Churches. By William Cave.
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