L’Eglise de la Circoncision (The Church from the Circumcision)

Bagatti, Bellarmino; Alebert Storme (trans.). L’Eglise de la Circoncision (The Church from the Circumcision). Jerusalem: Imprimerie des PP. Franciscains, , 1965. First edition. Small quarto (23.3 by 16.4 cm). 6, [2], 288 pp., profusely illustrated with 114 b/w photo-reproductions, maps, and figures in the French Language text. With bibliography, table of biblical references, and index. Dark brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Faintest rubbing at cover extremities, else a fine, clean copy.

First edition of this archaeological and iconographic study of the Judaeo-Christians. Translated from the author’s Italian manuscript into French. Publications du Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collection minor, no. 2. Nearly Fine. Hardcover. (54549) $75