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Set an alertRare first edition, illustrated at the end of the volume with two folding plates.
Only two copies recorded in the CCF (BnF and Strasbourg). Backer & Sommervogel III, 1242 (59).
Our copy is preserved in its original provisional yellow paper wrappers,
With a few minor spots of foxing on the folding plates.
The Neapolitan Jesuit Raffaele Garrucci (1811–1885) devoted his work to the study of the Church Fathers as well as to both pagan and Christian antiquities.
He became one of the foremost disciples of Father Giuseppe Marchi, alongside the renowned Giovanni Battista de Rossi.