The excellent and pleasant worke of Iulius Solinus Polyhistor : Contayning the noble actions of humaine creatures, the secretes & providence of nature, the description of countries, the maners of the people: with many mervailous things and strange antiquities, serving for the benefitt and recreation of all sorts of persons
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Type of record: Book
Title: The excellent and pleasant worke of Iulius Solinus Polyhistor : Contayning the noble actions of humaine creatures, the secretes & providence of nature, the description of countries, the maners of the people: with many mervailous things and strange antiquities, serving for the benefitt and recreation of all sorts of persons
Other titles: Polyhistor
Classmark: BC H de W/SOL
Creator(s): Solinus, C Julius
Additional creator(s): Golding, Arthur (1536-1606) (Other)
Related people: Golding, Arthur
Publisher: Printed by I. Charlewoode for Thomas Hacket
Publication city: At London
Date(s): 1587
Language: English
Size and medium: [228] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/296716
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003614659705181
Description
Signatures: A-Y⁴, Aa-Ff⁴, Gg².
Running title reads: Iulius Solinus Polyhistor.
A reissue of STC 22896, with quires A-C partly reset and reimposed; A2r last line has: wryting. STC 22896 was itself a reissue, with cancel title-page, of an edition published earlier in 1587, under the title "The worthie worke of Julius Solinus... [etc.].
Text printed in gothic.
Also issued as part of some copies of: Mela, Pomponius. The rare and singuler worke of Pomponius Mela, that excellent and worthy cosmographer, of the situation of the world: London, 1590.
Additional description
Bound in olive green morocco, gilt-tooled, in facsimile of an Italian binding executed for Maioli at Venice about 1560. From the collection of Lord Howard de Walden
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