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De furtiuis literarum notis vulgo

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Edited by Giacomo Castelvetro.

Includes three volvelles, the moving parts of which were printed together on a separate quarter-sheet (plate).

Signatures: [dagger]⁶ *⁴ A-2D⁴ 2E⁶.

Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials; tables;…

Itinera mundi

Title page
First 3 words of title in Hebrew characters.

Hebrew and Latin in parallel columns.

"Tractatus Alberti Bobovii Turcarum imp. Mohammedis IVti olim interpretis primarii, De Turcarum liturgia" has separate title page, dated 1690, and pagination.

Posthumous works of the learned Sir Thomas Browne, kt. M.D. late of Norwich

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"Miscellanies," "Repertorium" and "Antiquitates capellae" have each a separate titlepage, pagination and register; each part of the 'Miscellanies' has separate pagination and register.

'Miscellanies' includes 'An account of Island, alias…

Britannia

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Errata on p. [26] at end. Pages 69-75 are engraved illustrations, the plates are engraved maps; additional woodcut and metal cut illustrations throughout text. Printed at Eliot's Court Press--cf. STC. With additional engraved title page, signed:…

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

Heroologia Anglica

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H.H. = Henry Holland. The title page is engraved by Crispijn van de Passe; the portraits are engraved by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe. The first "o" in "Heroologia" is a Greek omega. Printer's and publisher's names from STC. With a final…

Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt libri XVIII

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Title in red and black; engraved printer's device; numismatic illustration (page 2, 2nd sequence); includes index.

Pauli Iouii Nouocomensis Episcopi Nucerini Historiarum sui temporis tomus primus

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Publisher from Adams.
Signatures: vol. 1: *⁸ a-z⁸ A-2O⁸ (2N1 numbered Mm, 2O8 blank); vol. 2, pt. 1: a-z⁸ A-Z⁸; vol. 2, pt. 2: Aa-Zz⁸ AA-VV⁸.

Pauli Iouii Nouocomensis Episcopi Nucerini Historiarum sui temporis tomus primus

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Publisher from Adams; Signatures: vol. 1: a-z A-2O (2N1 numbered Mm, 2O8 blank); vol. 2, pt. 1: a-z A-Z; vol. 2, pt. 2: Aa-Zz AA-VV.

Pauli Iouii Nouocomensis Episcopi Nucerini Historiarum sui temporis tomus primus

Publisher from Adams.
Signatures: vol. 1: *⁸ a-z⁸ A-2O⁸ (2N1 numbered Mm, 2O8 blank); vol. 2, pt. 1: a-z⁸ A-Z⁸; vol. 2, pt. 2: Aa-Zz⁸ AA-VV⁸.
Armorial bookplates (unidentified), signed "J. Neuschuander del. et sculp. à Besançon"; pictorial ex…

Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates

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Variant: t.p. printed in black and red; The last leaf is blank; Date on t.p. made with turned Cs; Title ornament; headpieces; initials; With printed shoulder notes; "Ad Britannicarum antiquitatum collectanea appendix gemina" has special t.p. with…

Hērōdianou historiōn biblia

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Added engraved t.p., signed "Joan. Walter inventor, Matth. Kusell sc." ; Latin translation by Angelo Poliziano; Greek and Latin in parallel columns; "Promptuarium Herodiani, seu, Index Herodiani absolutissimus ... ": [16], 524 [i.e. 562], [82] pages

Thomæ de Elmham Vita & gesta Henrici Quinti, Anglorum Regis

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An advertisement for this work was issued by Tho. Hearne: 'Advertisement. Just printed in octavo ...' [1728]--cf. ESTC; Tailpieces, headpieces, initials; Signatures: a-e⁴, f², A-3G⁴, 3H²;
Page 283 incorrectly numbered 183; Title within double line…