Browse Items (145 total)

  • Collection: 17th Century

The historie of Guicciardin

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Signatures: A-4A?,
Includes index,
Covers the years 1490-1534,
Printer's device on t.p.

Eadmeri, monachi Cantuariensis, Historiae nouorum, siue, Sui saeculi libri VI

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Signatures: [cross]⁴ 2[cross]⁶ A² B-S⁴ T⁴(±T3.4) V-2E⁴ 2F² (1st and last leaves blank).
T3.4 are a cancel bifolium in apparently all copies. Cf. STC (2nd ed.).
Title page printed in red and black.
"Ioannis Seldeni Ad Eadmerum & Notae &…

Nero Caesar, or, Monarchie depraued

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With an added engraved title page dated 1623 and signed: Fr: Delaram sculptor.
Translator of Lucius Florus = Edmund Bolton. The dedication is signed: Philonactophil.
Printers identified as T. Snodham and B. Alsop; "Alsop pr. B-M; Snodham the rest…

The historie of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth

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Translation of Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha, Translator's pref. signed: R.N. [i.e. Robert Norton],
The frontispiece is engraved by Francis Delaram from a painting by Nicholas Hilliard

The historie of Edvvard the Fovrth, King of England

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"Chiefly compiled from materials collected by his father, Thomas Habington"--DNB.
Signatures: A² B-T⁶ V⁸.
Title within double-rule border, text within ruled border.
Head-pieces, tail-piece, initials.
Printer's device (McKerrow 283) on title…

The history of the life and reigne of Richard the Third

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Printer's name from Wing CD.,
Frontis. portrait (plate) signed: Cross sculp.

An history of the civill vvarres of England, betweene the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke

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A translation of part 1 of: Istoria delle guerre civili d'Inghilterra tra le due case di Lancastro e Iore.
With an additional title page, engraved, "An history of the ciuill warres of England betweene the two howses of Lancaster and Yorke .…

The second part of the history of the civill warres of England between the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke

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Imprimatur on leaf A2v: Imprimatur May 18. 1645: Na. Brent.
A translation of part 2 of: Istoria delle guerre civili d'Inghilterra tra le due case di Lancastro e Iore.
The names "Edward the fourth . fifth" and "Richard the third, . seventh" are…