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Speculum Britanniae.
The title page is engraved and signed "Pieter Vanden Keere scalp: [sic] 1593." Variant 1: title page unsigned. Identification of printer from STC. With Elizabeth I's arms on (A)2v. Variant 2: this page blank. With an Anglo-Saxon alphabet on (A)4v.…
La cronologia ecclesiastica del reuerendo padre f. Onofrio Panuinio Veronese, frate eremitano di Santo Agostino
Date of publication precedes printer's name on title page.
Signatures: a? A-M?.
Title page vignette (sun within figurative frame); head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Text printed in two columns within borders.
Signatures: a? A-M?.
Title page vignette (sun within figurative frame); head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Text printed in two columns within borders.
The historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton.
Translator's dedication signed: Thomas Danett.
With a final errata leaf.
For additional details on copies, see Michael Jones, "The reception of the Memoirs of Philippe de Commynes in early modern Britain" in "1521-2011 Philippe de Commynes"…
With a final errata leaf.
For additional details on copies, see Michael Jones, "The reception of the Memoirs of Philippe de Commynes in early modern Britain" in "1521-2011 Philippe de Commynes"…
History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes
Lacks title page; trimming affects marginal notes; leaf 2M8 torn, affecting printed marginalia; wormtrack. Annotations in early and modern hands ; signed "Liber Richardi Framptoni" on [fleuron]6v (crossed out), 2L4v and 3O2v. A translation, with some…
Polycronycon
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
By Ranulf Higden, whose name appears on 2a3r.
Translated by John Trevisa, who is named on 2a3r.
Higden's work, divided into 7 books and extending to the year 1348, was originally written in Latin.…
Includes index.
By Ranulf Higden, whose name appears on 2a3r.
Translated by John Trevisa, who is named on 2a3r.
Higden's work, divided into 7 books and extending to the year 1348, was originally written in Latin.…
The first and second volumes of Chronicles
Compiled by Holinshed, William Harrison, and Richard Stanyhurst. Edited by John Hooker, who continued the work to 1586, with the assistance of Francis Thynne on the Scottish continuations, and with Thynne, Abraham Fleming and John Stow on the other…
De rebus in Hibernia gestis
Includes index and errata.
English translation available in our reference collection.
English translation available in our reference collection.
Fabyan's chronicle
Title within woodcut border with printer's initials. Cf. McKerrow & Ferguson, no. 20.
Special title page for volume 2: The seconde volume of Fabyans cronycle conteynyng the cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, from the begynnyng of the reygne of…
Special title page for volume 2: The seconde volume of Fabyans cronycle conteynyng the cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, from the begynnyng of the reygne of…
The charter of Romney Marsh
"The ordinance of Henry of Bathonia, justice of our Lord King Henry ... made by precept of the same Lord the King, vpon contention arisen betweene the foure and twenty jurors, and the men of Romeney Marsh, touching reparation of the walles and…
Le Historie vinitiane di Marco Antonio Sabellico, diuise in tre deche con tre libri della quarta deca
Foliated.
Title page followed by twenty-one pages of index.
Woodcut architectural border to title page ; woodcut head-pieces; woodcut initials.
Colophon the same as imprint on title page.
Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568) translated only a small part…
Title page followed by twenty-one pages of index.
Woodcut architectural border to title page ; woodcut head-pieces; woodcut initials.
Colophon the same as imprint on title page.
Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568) translated only a small part…
Cronologia del mondo di M. Francesco Sansouino diuisa in tre libri
A world chronology printed by the son of its compiler, who "composed a new chronological chart ... who had consulted astronomers and antiquarians in correcting the dates in Jacopo Filippo, and who then wrote a short history of the work of all his…
Caroli Sigonii Historiarum de regno Italiae libri quindecim
Colophon reads: Venetiis, Ex officina Stellae Iordani Ziletti. 1574.
Historie di Giovanni Simonetta delle memorabili et magnanime imprese fatte dallo inuittissimo Francesco Sforza, duca di Milano nella Italia tradotta in lingua thoscana da Cristoforo Landino fiorentino, con la uita, statura & costumi di esso Sforza
Device of Andrea Arrivabene on title page.
Signatures: *?-3*? A-3D? 3E? (E4 blank?, wanting).
Woodcut initials.
Includes index.
Signatures: *?-3*? A-3D? 3E? (E4 blank?, wanting).
Woodcut initials.
Includes index.
Certain discourses, written by Sir John Smythe, Knight.
Concerning the formes and effects of diuers sorts of weapons, and other verie important matters militarie, greatlie mistaken by diuers of our men of warre in these daies; and chiefly, of the mosquet, the caliuer and the long-bow; as also, of the…
The boke named the gouernour
Printer from STC.
Title in woodcut border; black letter.
Purchased Schulich-Woolf Collection fund, Jan. 2016.
Title in woodcut border; black letter.
Purchased Schulich-Woolf Collection fund, Jan. 2016.
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A display of heraldry
The fifth edition much enlarged with great variety of bearings, To which is added A treatise of honour military and civil, according to the laws and…