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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

Level: Item

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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