Venice: Aldine Press, ca. 1591 , "Trattato Della Chiesa" ("Treaty of the Church")...Nel quale sono dichiarate le principali controuersie nate a nostri tempi intorno a questa materia..." by Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, first Italian edition. Translated from the "Traité de la verité de la religion chrétienne contre les athées, épicuriens, payens, juifs, mahométans et autres infidèles" (first published in Antwerp, 1581). Aldine anchor on the title page, and "Triumph over Death" illustration opposite page 1. Marbled edge papers. Brown leather boards and spine with three raised bands, title in gilt letters. Extremities rubbed and worn with losses. Endpapers age toned and soiled. Some pages with bent corners. Edges trimmed, probably at the time the book was rebound. Apprx 5-3/4"T.
Aldine press was most famous for introducing italics to typography, or as contemporaries called it "Aldine Type."
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