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Annales rerum gestarum Ælfredi Magni
Includes index p. 178-181.
With a list of subscribers on 7 p. at the end.
Title page in red and black; a variant has the title page printed in black only.
Signatures: a-e⁴ A-L⁴ M² N-X⁴ ²X⁴ Y-Z.⁴
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Alfred…
With a list of subscribers on 7 p. at the end.
Title page in red and black; a variant has the title page printed in black only.
Signatures: a-e⁴ A-L⁴ M² N-X⁴ ²X⁴ Y-Z.⁴
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Alfred…
Tags: 849-899, Alfred, King of England
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…
Gerardi Joannis Vossii Ars historica, sive, De historiae, & historices naturâ, historiaeq́ue scribendae praeceptis commentatio ad illustrissimum virum, Joannem Beckium.
Signatures: *⁴ A-T⁴ V².
Last page blank.
Printer's device on title page (man digging the earth with a shovel, motto: Fac et spera; signed: C. v. Dalen sc.);
initials; printed marginal notes.
Title page printed in red and…
Last page blank.
Printer's device on title page (man digging the earth with a shovel, motto: Fac et spera; signed: C. v. Dalen sc.);
initials; printed marginal notes.
Title page printed in red and…
Tags: historiography, manuscript waste
The lives of illustrious men
With a half title page.
Dedication signed: Leopold William Finch.
Signatures: A-M¹².
Title within double line border; head and tail piece
Dedication signed: Leopold William Finch.
Signatures: A-M¹².
Title within double line border; head and tail piece
V. Cl. Gulielmi Camdeni, et illustrium virorum ad G. Camdenum Epistolæ.
Title page in red and black.
Initial.
Printed side notes.
The first leaf bears half-title on recto and portrait on verso.
Half-title reads: Camdeni et illustrium virorum epistolæ.
Engraved portrait signed: R. White sculp.
Includes "V.C.…
Initial.
Printed side notes.
The first leaf bears half-title on recto and portrait on verso.
Half-title reads: Camdeni et illustrium virorum epistolæ.
Engraved portrait signed: R. White sculp.
Includes "V.C.…
[Britannia. English]
A translation of: Britannia. Identification of printer from STC. With an additional title page, engraved, lacking imprint: Britannia Page 299 misnumbered 287; other errors in pagination. "Scotland" has a divisional title and separate pagination.…
Tags: 17th century, Britain, Eliot's Court Press, England, maps
[Collection of portrait prints, 16th century]
Bound with: Virorum doctorum de disciplinis benemerentium effigies XLIIII / Philippe Galle. Antwerp, 1572 -- Nine worthies / Nicolaes de Bruyn. Amsterdam: Assuerus van Londerseel, 1594 -- Diversarum gentium armatura equestris / Abraham de Bruyn.…
[Letter from Edward IV to Maximilian, Duke of Austria and Burgundy regarding a case of piracy against English subjects.]
Letter, 25 lines, written with brown ink in chancery hand, large initial "E" with calligraphic flourishing, tag for seal cut out from lower border and with very fragmentary private seal of Edward IV in red wax.
Endorsement on verso: "Lettre du Roy…
Endorsement on verso: "Lettre du Roy…
Tags: 15th century, correspondence, piracy, purchase, royalty
[The Nine Worthies : ornament designs with portraits of kings and heroes.]
Title and publication information from British Museum Collection online. Plates signed: "Nicola de Bruin fecit, Assuwerus van Londerseel excudit, 1594", or variation thereof. Roundels including portraits surrounded by decorative elements. Bound with:…
10 Shares for 50 Yen Each
Part Transcription (incomplete): "Inter National Trading Trust Co. L't'd. Five Hundred Yen. ... This is to certify that the person herein named is the registrated holder of ten shares of this company, subject to the provisions of the articles of the…
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Polychronicon
Translated and continued by John Trevisa; revised and expanded to 1460 by William Caxton.Imprint from ISTC; colophon (referring to the preparation of…