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[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
A Bond from Tresor Royal
Part Transcription: "No. [blank]. Je Pierre Gruyn, Conseiller de Roy en ses Conseils, Garde de son Tresor Royal, Confesse avoir reçû comptant en cette Ville de Paris, de [blank] ... Quittance du Garde du Tresor Royal, Année mil six cent quatre-vingt…
Tags: 17th century, France, French, loan, parchment, Paris, printed, Royal Treasury
A brief view of the late troubles and confusions in England
Running title: A view of Englands troubles, from 1640, to 1660.
Signatures: A-I⁸ K⁸(-K8).
Pages 148, 149 misnumbered '149', '148', respectively. Several other mispaginations.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug: 2."
Signatures: A-I⁸ K⁸(-K8).
Pages 148, 149 misnumbered '149', '148', respectively. Several other mispaginations.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug: 2."
A chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Text is continuous despite errors in pagination.
Originally published in 1663 as: A brief chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Title page in red and black.
Originally published in 1663 as: A brief chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Title page in red and black.
A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne
In verse.
Printer's name from STC.
The emblems are printed from plates originally engraved by Crispijn van de Passe the elder for "Nucleus emblematorum" by Gabriel Rollenhagen (STC).
With an additional title page, engraved, "Emblemes.…
Printer's name from STC.
The emblems are printed from plates originally engraved by Crispijn van de Passe the elder for "Nucleus emblematorum" by Gabriel Rollenhagen (STC).
With an additional title page, engraved, "Emblemes.…
Tags: 17th century, emblemes, folio, frontpiece
A Collection of poems on affairs of state
A- M-l = Andrew Marvell. Signatures: A-D⁴. In this edition Dryden's name in title is spelled with a "y" and "By" in line 15 is printed in upper and lower case. Pages 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 32 incorrectly numbered 23, 22, 19, 18, 28, 29, 32, 33.…
Tags: 17th century, political poetry, quarto, satire, signed binding
A compleat history of the lives and reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son and successor, James the Sixth, King of Scotland; and (after Queen Elizabeth) King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First, (of ever blessed memory)
Errors in pagination, text is consistent.
Title page printed with a double border.
Head- and tailpieces, initials.
Text printed with a single border and marginalia.
Dated divisional title.
Title page printed with a double border.
Head- and tailpieces, initials.
Text printed with a single border and marginalia.
Dated divisional title.
A discourse of the nationall excellencies of England
Signatures: A⁸ B-G⁸ K-Q⁸ R⁴.
Quires H & I possibly cancelled?; text is continuous despite pagination.
This work is mostly on the subject of English military history, but also includes chapters on agriculture, religion, government and…
Quires H & I possibly cancelled?; text is continuous despite pagination.
This work is mostly on the subject of English military history, but also includes chapters on agriculture, religion, government and…
Tags: 17th century, agriculture, annotations, England, law, military history, octavo
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 customs of England, collected out of the most authentick authors, both ancient and modern, by Capt.…
Tags: 17th century, England, grangerized, heraldry, nobility
A generall historie of France
A translation of: "Inventaire général de l'histoire de la France."
Supplemented mostly from works of Pierre Matthieu.
Engraved title-page, signed "Renold Elstrack sculpsit."
Text continuous despite pagination irregularities.
First leaf…
Supplemented mostly from works of Pierre Matthieu.
Engraved title-page, signed "Renold Elstrack sculpsit."
Text continuous despite pagination irregularities.
First leaf…
A generall historie of the Netherlands
Largely a translation of: Le Petit, Jean François. La grande chronique.
In this edition Grimeston includes a translation of Le Petit's preface from "La grande chronique" and mentions in the translator's preface that the continuation of the…
In this edition Grimeston includes a translation of Le Petit's preface from "La grande chronique" and mentions in the translator's preface that the continuation of the…
A new history of the succession of the crown of England
"Licens'd, June 9. 1690. J. Fraser."; "A Catalogue of the Historians cited in the following Collection, and the Times when they lived"--Page [8]; Signatures: A-I.
A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent
Title vignette (Sheldonian Theater).
With frontispiece portrait of the author on leaf a2v.
With imprimatur on verso of the title page (a3v).
"The life of Mr. Somner" by White Kennett precedes "The history of the Roman ports and forts in…
With frontispiece portrait of the author on leaf a2v.
With imprimatur on verso of the title page (a3v).
"The life of Mr. Somner" by White Kennett precedes "The history of the Roman ports and forts in…
A true relation of all the remarkable places and passages observed in the travels of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Howard
Printer from STC. Signatures: A² B-IF⁴ K⁴( -K4). Running title reads: A relation by way of iournall [journall], &c.
Tags: 17th century, Germany, quarto, travel
Actes and Monuments
The sixth time newly imprinted, with certaine additions thereunto annexed, Anno 1610, Mense Octobris.
Titles of v. 1-2 within illustrated woodcut borders; woodcut illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
The "plates" are woodcuts after C3…
Titles of v. 1-2 within illustrated woodcut borders; woodcut illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
The "plates" are woodcuts after C3…
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Liber chronicarum
Hand-coloured by Johann Kruyshaar c. 1521, his and other early marginal notes (some shaved) intermittently throughout, including his catalogue of the…