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- Tags: 16th century
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,
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…
Virorum doctorum de disciplinis benemerentium effigies XLIIII
[The Nine Worthies : ornament designs with portraits of kings and heroes.]
Diversarum gentium armatura equestris
[Collection of portrait prints, 16th century]
Saint Albans chronicle
Title and imprint from colophon, leaf 2b7r.
The first leaf has a large cut of the royal arms. The motto "Hec rosa…
Speculum Britanniae.
Tags: 16th century, Eliot's Court Press, Middlesex, travel
Britannia
A memorial of suche princes, as since the tyme of King Richarde the seconde, have been unfortunate in the Realme of England.
The…
Tags: 16th century, banned works, England, folio, Great Britain, history, purchase, royalty
Magna Charta
Latin and Law French.
Imprint from colophon in v. 2.
Volume 2 has title: Secunda pars veterum statutorum. "The date of this title page varies: 1555 or 1556"--STC.
Volume 1:…
Tags: 16th century, Great Britain, history, law, Magna Carta, marginalia, purchase
The historie of France
In the Huntington copy, the second Earl of Bridgewater has signed the name "Tho: Dannett" to the dedication.
Colophon reads: London printed…
Tags: 16th century, folio, France, history, manuscript waste, purchase
The Florentine historie
Translator's dedication signed: Thomas Bedingfeld.
Printer's and publisher's names from colophon.
Running title reads: The historie of Florence.
The last leaf is blank.
Entered 2 October…
Tags: 16th century, Florence, folio, history, Italy, manuscript waste, purchase
Polycronycon
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
Tags: 16th century, banned works, England, folio, Great Britain, history, Ireland, marginalia, Schulich gift, Scotland, Wales
The historie of George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albanie : containing his famous actes, his noble deedes of armes, and memorable victories against the Turkes, for the faith of Christ : comprised in twelue bookes
Printer's name from STC.
With sonnet by Edmund Spenser on leaf [par.]8r.
Printer's device on title-page; head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed…
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Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret
100 seventeenth-century window-mounted engraved portrait plates with manuscript biographies on facing pages; the first 50 biographies with decorative…