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Paris, Matthew: Historia Maior: Juxta Exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque Maiori Minorique Historiis Chronicisque MSS, In Bibliotheca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabridgiae, Cottoniaque, fidelitèr. Paris, Guillielmi Pele, 1644. Folio; Engraved headers and footers and decorated initial letters; PP: half title, title page, (xii) Preface and Preface to 1571 edition, (vi) Protestantium Testimonia, (iv) Pontificiorum Testimonia, (iv) Notae, 680 (In Maiorem Historiam), (iv) Adversaria sive Variantes, (xlix) Variantes Lectiones, (VIII) In Historiam, (xliv) Index Rerum, (iii) Index Comitum, (iv) Index Archiepisoporum, (iv) Index Cognomiumum, (ii) Vitae Duorum Offarum title page, (iii) In Vitas Regum Abbatumque, (iv) In Vitas Regm Offarum, (iii) Duorum Offarum, 215 (Incipit Historia de Offa, (ix) Index Rerum. Rebound in dark brown morocco. Ex Worth Abbey Library with label on pastedown and accession number at foot of title page and new endpapers (original rear one present). Half title underlined in ink and on the reverse is an early note neatly written in Latin about some mispagination, but the text is continuous. Lacking the frontis portrait; some browning.
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Paris, Matthew: Historia Maior: Juxta Exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque Maiori Minorique Historiis Chronicisque MSS, In Bibliotheca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabridgiae, Cottoniaque, fidelitèr. Paris, Guillielmi Pele, 1644. Folio; Engraved headers and footers and decorated initial letters; PP: half title, title page, (xii) Preface and Preface to 1571 edition, (vi) Protestantium Testimonia, (iv) Pontificiorum Testimonia, (iv) Notae, 680 (In Maiorem Historiam), (iv) Adversaria sive Variantes, (xlix) Variantes Lectiones, (VIII) In Historiam, (xliv) Index Rerum, (iii) Index Comitum, (iv) Index Archiepisoporum, (iv) Index Cognomiumum, (ii) Vitae Duorum Offarum title page, (iii) In Vitas Regum Abbatumque, (iv) In Vitas Regm Offarum, (iii) Duorum Offarum, 215 (Incipit Historia de Offa, (ix) Index Rerum. Rebound in dark brown morocco. Ex Worth Abbey Library with label on pastedown and accession number at foot of title page and new endpapers (original rear one present). Half title underlined in ink and on the reverse is an early note neatly written in Latin about some mispagination, but the text is continuous. Lacking the frontis portrait; some browning.
Estimated at £100 - £150