Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans, in Europa, Africa, Asia, et America, contra gentiles, Mahometanos, Judaeos, Haereticos, impios, pro Deo, fide, ecclesia, pietate
Subtitle: Sive Vita, et mors eorum, qui ex Societate Jesu in causa fidei, & virtutis propugnatae, violentâ morte toto orbe sublati sunt
By: Auctore R. Patre Mathia Tanner è Societate Jesu, SS. theologiae doctore
Publisher: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, per Joannem Nicolaum Hampel Factorem
Published: 1675
Place of publication: Pragae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 548
Subjects: Biography; Early works to 1800; Missions; Christian martyrs; Jesuits
Other titles: Vita, et mors eorum, qui ex Societate Jesu in causa fidei, & virtutis propugnatae, violentâ morte toto orbe sublati sunt; Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem pro Deo, et Christiana religione militans, in omnib[us] mundi partibus fortitudinis suae trophaea erigit
Notes: Fully engraved, added title page reads: Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem pro Deo, et Christiana religione militans, in omnib[us] mundi partibus fortitudinis suae trophaea erigit.

Each section (Europe, Africa, Asia, and America) has its own fully engraved title page. Includes numerous engravings of martydoms, either by torture, burning, beheading, drowning, stabbing, or burying the Jestuit martyrs.

"Societas Iesu inter America persecutiones in pretiosum Adamantem annuli Dei dura", p. [433]-548, has fully engraved divisional title page, and includes biographies of Jesuit martyrs in Brazil, Florida, New Spain, Peru, Paraguay, and New France.

Signatures: pi²)o(² A-4A⁴ 4B²( -4B2) (pi1, pi2 and 4B1 versos blank).

[2] blank leaves, [16], 548, [4] p.: ill. (engravings); 31cm.  Signatures: pi² (o)² A-3A⁴ 3B²(-3B2).  Added engraved t.p.; the illustrations engraved by Melchior Küsell after designs of Charles Screta.  Tooled leather.Spine: "Tanneri Societas Jesu militans"; "HSIII 20." Ownres' sig. First blanks and engaving loose. Plate of Joseph Gillow, Preston.

Added engraved title page; the illustrations engraved by Melchior Küsell after designs of C. Screta.

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Errata: p. [4], 3rd count, i.e. 4B1 verso.

Includes index-4A4 recto to 4B1 recto.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, vol. VII, column 1860

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, p. 14

European Americana, 675/164

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), vol. II, p. 845

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), entry 327222

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, vol. I, entry 652