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1700WB16426Paris: Chez Nicolas le Gras 1700. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 155 x 94mm. Pagination: 341pp. 2. Folding map for Poland before p. 1 and for Sweden Norway and Denmark before p. 225. Period French speckled calf minor tear in the map for Sweden minor edgewear otherwise good and sound. This is the eighth volume of the Voyages. <br/><br/> Chez Nicolas le Gras hardcover books
1669001031Amsterdam: Giovanni Buaeu 1669. Full Vellum. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 16 471 57; 415 41 139 23 pp. 3 parts in two volumes. Including etched additional title and 2 blanks. Popular political and literary satires in the form of news reports from Parnassus. Brunet 1019 singles this edition out as the prettiest. Also Graesse 456. Eighteenth century Italian vellum with morocco lettering pieces. Armorial bookplates of Wilmopt Earl of Lisburne. Some scattered foxing. Binding is tight vellum is attractive and healthy. Very good or better! <br /><br /> Giovanni Buaeu hardcover books
163119968London: Thomas Harper 1631. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 4to. xvi 871 14 index pp extra engraved title page by Thomas Cecil eighteen woodcut illustrations six full-page. Foliation can be supplied upon request. Text is printed within a ruled frame with headpieces tailpieces and floriated initials. Contemporary full polished calf with hand-tooled decorative borders in blind to both boards six raised bands red morocco label with gilt lettering on backstrip edges speckled red. A good copy internally bright and crisp with light scattered foxing lacks the portrait of John Weever but has the extra engraved title-page and original index the original title-page appears to have been carefully cut along the margins and mounted on what was formerly the ffep the engraved title-page is similarly mounted on a blank leaf from the book that has been detached and slipped in covers are rubbed and scuffed joints are shaken and split though still attached .Notwithstanding these defects the contents are clean intact and very good. In addition to being a discourse on its subject this work is a compilation with commentary on epitaphs arms and inscriptions on tombs monuments church windows et al. The work focuses on the dioceses of Canterbury London Norwich and Rochester. Lowndes and DNB both citing Wharton's Anglia Sacra note that John Weever 1576-1632-poet anthologist and antiquary-made extensive errors in the interpretation of numbers and in transcription. However both note the work's great utility to historians and biographers. Writing in 1899 Sidney Lee who wrote the Weever entry in DNB points out that " .almost all sepulchral inscriptions in Weever are now obliterated" and that "despite its defects Weever's book is invaluable." This copy conforms to the collation and pagination in ESTC S118104 and the Melvyl/UCR record. Recorded copies are often defective lacking either preliminary blanks engraved title-page the frontis portrait or the index. STC 2nd 25223. Lowndes p. 2867-68. NCBEL 1:1158; NUC 653 p. 270. Thomas Harper hardcover books