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This is the myrrour or glasse of helth necessary and nedefull for euery person to loke in

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Author's name from p. 13: "I Thomas Moulton doctour of diuinitie ...";
Signatures: A-G? H?;
Black letter, historiated woodcut head-piece and tail-piece on verso of title, woodcut white-on-black initials throughout.

Theatrum crudelitatum hæreticorum nostri tempori

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Author's name from preface caption, page 3 ; First edition ; Signatures: A-M? ; Illustrated title page ; Latin verses by Jean Boch accompany each illustration

The works of Flavius Josephus

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Title page in red and black.

The vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke, beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme,

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By Edward Hall, whose name appears on [fleuron]2r.
Continued from 1532 by Richard Grafton from Hall's notes.
Printer's name from colophon.
"The pitifull life of kyng Edward the. v.", "The politique gouernaunce of Kyng Henry the. vii.", and "The…

The tragedies, gathered by Ihon Bochas, of all such princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune since the creacion of Adam, vntil his time

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A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovanni. De casibus illustrium virorum.

Publication date conjectured by STC.

The eighth book begins new foliation on 2A1.

The last leaf, usually lacking, bears the title page to "A memorial of suche…

The supplement to Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures

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Translation of: Supplement au livre de l'antiquité expliquée et representée en figures.

The work is divided into five volumes, but paginated and signed continuously (most copies are bound as a single volume).

The title is taken from the…

The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier

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A translation, by John Phillips, of: Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste. Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier.

Printer's name from Wing CD.

The second part has separate title page with imprint "printed in the year, 1678", pagination and…

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…

The Romane historie

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The first word of the title is xylographic.

"The topographie of Rome" is a revised translation of: Marliani, Bartolomeo. Topographia antiquae Romae.

The "Breviaries" are a translation of: Florus, Lucius Annaeus. Epitomae rerum Romanarum (for…

The Roman history of Lucius J. Florus Made English

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Added illustrated title-page, engraved (by F. H. Van Hove).
Head-pieces.
Signatures: [pi]² C-S⁸.
Translator's dedication signed: Jo. Davies.