MEDITATIONS AND CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE SUFFERINGS OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST; IN WHICH THE HISTORY OF THE PASSION, AS GIVEN BY THE FOUR EVANGELISTS, IS CONNECTED, HARMONIZED AND EXPLAINED, WITH SUITABLE PRAYERS AND OFFICES OF DEVOTION. IN THREE PARTS, CONTAINING: I. THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST IN THE GARDEN, AND BEFORE THE SPIRITUAL COURT OF THE JEWS, II. HIS SUFFERINGS BEFORE THE CIVIL TRIBUNAL OF PILATE AND HEROD, III. HIS SUFFERINGS ON MOUNT GOLGOTHA.
Book Details + Condition: Printed for F. Low (New York). First American Edition, 1811. Two-volume hardcover set. Full leather boards with gilt to spine. 864 pages between the two volumes (I: 430 pp, II: 434 pp). An in-depth commentary on the "Passion of the Christ" by a noted 18th-century German Theologian. For both volumes: firm binding; rubbing to leather's edges; toning and foxing to endpapers (with a bit interspersed in pages); interior is clean and free of markings.