TWO VOLUME SET bound together of a polemical work by the renowned Italian journalist and anticlerical polemicist Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini (1799-1862). Contains the author`s portrait as frontispiece. 185x125mm. XXIII+341+317 pages. Marbled board Hardcover with cloth corners and spine. Gilt spine label. Cover rubbed. Cover corners and edges, and spine edges bumped and peeling. Spine worn and peeling. Sticker on front endpaper. Ex-library copy with stamps on title pages and several text pages. Small pen inscription on first title page. Pages age-stained and slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This rare comprehensive historic-critical treatise on the Gospels by an influential 19th-century Italian writer is in good condition.