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Europae speculum : or, A view or survey of the state of religion in the westerne parts of the world : VVherein the Romane religion, and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same, are notably displayed: with some other memorable discoveries and commemorations

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Type of record: Book

Title: Europae speculum : or, A view or survey of the state of religion in the westerne parts of the world : VVherein the Romane religion, and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same, are notably displayed: with some other memorable discoveries and commemorations

Other titles: Relation of the state of religion; View or survey of the state of religion in the westerne parts of the world

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Trv/SAN

Creator(s): Sandys, Sir Edwin (1561-1629)

Publisher: Printed by T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke, and are to be sold by George Hutton

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1637

Language: English

Size and medium: [8], 248 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280869

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001274819705181

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Anon., By Sir Edwin Sandys, whose name appears in the preface.


Fifth edition, second authorized.


Headpieces; initials.


First published in an unauthorized edition, 1605, with title: A relation of the state of religion: and with what hopes and policies it hath beene framed, and is maintained in the severall state of these westerne parts of the world.


The device (Cotes for Sparke) McKerrow 424, but surrounded on all 4 sides by a printed motto, appears on verso of title-leaf.


View or survey of the state of religion in the westerne parts of the world.


Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 21721.

Additional description

Marking and imperfections: ink deletions and repairs on title-page p.[iii], publisher's repudiation of (one of) the 1605 edition(s) for Simon Waterson as unauthorised, has this name struck through in ink p.113, faintly printed lines inked in. Endpapers from psalms and book of sermons. Inscription, struck through, on flyleaf, Ex dono Edmundi Crooke Gilberto Tongues: 10th die martii 1637 . Seventeenth century signature, Tho. Aldersey , on title-page

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