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Flores historiarum

Paris, Matthew (1200-1259); Parker, Matthew (1504-1575)

1570

Title within ornamental border. Many errors in numbering of pages including insertion of unnumbered leaf between p. 218 & 219 in 2d group of paging. The part covering the period from A.D. 1259 to ...

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Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae historiae libri vigintiseptem

Virgil; Grynäus, Simon (1493-1541)

1570

Printer's device on title-page.

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1577, the firste volume of the chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande : conteyning the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting unto the Conquest : the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde 1571 : the description and chronicles of Yreland, likewise from the firste originall of that nation, untill the yeare 1547 (v.1)

Holinshed, Raphael (1580); Wolfe, Reyner (1573); Harrison, William (1534-1593); Stanyhurst, Richard (1547-1618)

1577

Title page of v. 2: 1577, the laste volume of the chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, with their descriptions : conteyning the chronicles of Englande from William Conquerour utill this pre...

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Rerum Britannicarum, id est Angliae, Scotiae, vicinarumque insularum ac regionum: scriptores vetustiores ac præcipui : Galfredi Monumetensis, cognomento: Arturi de origine & gestis regum Britanniæ libri XII... [etc.]

Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph (1100?-1154); Gildas (516?-570?); William of Newburgh (1136-1201?); Commelinus, Hieronymus (1550-1597); Froissart, Jean (1338?-1410?); Pontico Virunio, Ludovico (1520)

1587

Edited and printed by Hieronymus Commelinus: cf. p. [3]. Commelinus's device on title page. Several errors in paging, including 349-352 omitted in numbering. Rervm Britannicarvm.

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Annales rerum Anglicarum, et Hibernicarum, regnante Elizabetha, ad annum salutis M.D. LXXXIX (v.1)

Camden, William (1551-1623); Waterson, Simon (1584-1634); Stansby, William (1597-1638)

1615-27

The titlepage to vol.2 reads: Tomus alter Annalium rerum Anglicarum... siue pars quarta ... Londini, Excudebat Guil. Stansby, Impensis Simonis Waterson, 1627.

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