FR. Thomae Marae Mamachii Ord. Praed. Theologi Casanatensis Originum et Antiquitatum Christianarum Libri XX. Tomus Tertius, In Typographio Palladis Excudebant Nicolaus, et Marcus Palearini, Superiorum Facultate, 1751, 466pp, vellum, 8 x 10.5", 8vo

Fair condition.  Some wear and staining to front and rear boards.  Tips are bumped.  Worming on 461 to rear board.  Spine is still legible with some wear to headcap.  Red speckling on fore edges.  Title page in black and red; red is still crisp.  Marginalia on flyleaf.  Library bookplate on front pastedown (Ex Bibliotheca Borgiana legate College de Propaganda Fide).  Library stamp on flyleaf and title page (St. Francis Xavier's College Library, Antigonish, N.S.).  Toning, tea-staining, and age-staining throughout.  Some instances of ink-staining.  Upper corner of 357pp-360pp were cut improperly and extend beyond the normal fore edge.  Includes 5 fold-out plates and numerous engravings.  Binding intact.  Please see photos.

Thomas Maria Mamachi (December 4, 1713 - June 7, 1792) was an Italo-Greek Dominican theologian and historian.  Originum et Antiquitatum Christianarum was intended to be Mamachi's great work, but his labors in the field of dogma and jurisprudence absorbed so much of his time that he published only four of the twenty books that he had planned.  The listing is for vol. 3 only; a scarce find in the commercial market.