Gallonio (Antonio) De sanctorum Martyrum Cruciatibus… Liber cum figuris Romae in aere incises per Ant. Tempestam…, 3 parts in one, printer’s woodcut device on title, engraved additional title (dated 1659), 44 full-page engravings in very good impression, after Antonio Tempesta, from the designs of Giovanni Guerra from Modena (painter to Pope Sixtus V), captions within woodcut borders, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, small repair to Aa2 & Niiiv, minor dust soiling, slightly later speckled calf, gilt fillets, a.e.g., new endpapers, rubbed and scuffed, [Brunet II 1468; Bartsch, XVII, no 498-544. -- Cigognara, no 2035], 4to, Claude Cramoisy, Paris, 1660. *** Fourth edition in Latin, of Gallonio’s illustrated encyclopaedia of the tortures inflicted on the early Christians, based on the Acts of the Martyrs and authors like Cicero and Valerius Maximus. The tortures are classified according to the techniques used: crucifixion, suspension, flagellation, burn, capitation. This edition also contains reprints of Girolamo Maggi, ‘De equuleo’, on pages (263-302), and Justus Lipsius, ‘Trium . . . librorum de cruce compendium’, on pages (303-322). Antonio Gallonio (1566-1605) was a member of the Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri. His work is considered the Catholic counterpart of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.