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The imperiall historie: or the lives of the emperours, from Iulius Caesar... vnto this present yeere ... First written in Spanish by Pedro Mexia: and since continued by some others, to the death of Maximilian the second; translated into English by W. T.: and now corrected, amplified and continued to these times by Edward Grimeston

Archive Print Item: BC Lt q/MEX

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Type of record: Book

Title: The imperiall historie: or the lives of the emperours, from Iulius Caesar... vnto this present yeere ... First written in Spanish by Pedro Mexia: and since continued by some others, to the death of Maximilian the second; translated into English by W. T.: and now corrected, amplified and continued to these times by Edward Grimeston

Other titles: Historia imperial y cesárea

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt q/MEX

Creator(s): Mexia, Pedro (1496-1552)

Additional creator(s): Traheron, W (Other); Grimeston, Edward (Other)

Related people: Traheron, W; Grimeston, Edward

Publisher: printed by H. L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1623

Language: English

Size and medium: [10], 867, [1]p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/276945

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000457009705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

An enlarged edition of The historie of all the Romane emperors, 1604.


Translated by W. Traheron (NUC).


Additional engraved title-page.


Imprint expanded from STC.


Indexed in: STC (2) 17852.

Additional description

On a fly-leaf at the front, and on the blank verso of the last leaf of text, are some notes on the work, with page references, in a seventeenth-century hand. In the binding are fragments of a seventeenth-century Welsh Bible. With armorial bookplate and signature of William Danby, and library label of Viscount Mersey of Bignor Park

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