8vo, 285 - [3] pp, woodcut printer's device on title page. Last leaf blank. Cardboard binding, hinges worn. Ref. Voet 596b ; Adams A-1996. We add: idem. Adversus gentes, libri VII. Editio novissima. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1651. 3 parts in 1 vol. in- 4to, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette (C. Van Dalen). Some foxing and dampstaining. Contemporary vellum binding, soiled (together: 2 vol.)
Arnobius of Sicca, in North Africa, was a Christian convert writing in the time of the Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century ad. His most famous work, Against the Pagans, was written shortly after his conversion (c.ad 302), and is a brilliant defense of his new religion using arguments taken from the cream of pagan learning."" Ref. Arnobius of Sicca: The Case Against the Pagans (1949)
