Diana of George of Montemayor / translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong, of the Middle Temple gentleman.
Contemporary full leather binding sewn on leather cords. Blind tooled square on boards. Boards might be decorated with sprinkled ink. Large ink spill on front board. Small leather repair on spine. Red splatter fore edges. Vellum guards on fly leaves.
Date on vellum hinge: January of 6 day 1697. Multiple signatures and inscription on front fly leaves. Signatures are from a female reader: Jane [Weymes]?
Front flyleaf marginalia reads: I see a foole and a foole sees me but/ I never saw shuch a foole til I saw thee.
Montemayor, Jorge de, 1520?-1561.
At London: Printed by Edm. Bollifant
1598
Pérez, Alonso, active 16th century.
Yong, Bartholomew, 1560-1621?
Bollifant, Edmund, -1602, printer.
Bishop, George, -1611, bookseller.
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Page dimensions: 28.5 x 18.7. Laid paper.
[8], 496 p. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
English
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FOLIO PQ6414 .A35 1598
ESTC S122233
Sixteenth Century
The theorike and practike of moderne warres, discoursed in dialogue wise ... : Comprehended in sixe bookes.
Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Limp vellum binding. Bits of alum tawed ties at fore edge. Hand written spine label. Housed in black slip case.
Signed by John Smythe. Signed by Sir William Goring.
Marginalia on back cover paste down from a third reader.
Illustration on page 72 lightly cut off at fore edge. Seems to have happened with initial printing and not the result of a page trim.
Barret, Robert, active 1600.
London : Printed for William Ponsonby
Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, bookseller.
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, -1601, dedicatee.
Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of, 1580-1630, dedicatee.
Smythe, John, former owner.
Goring, William, Sir, former owner.
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Page dimensions: 27.5 x 18.4. Laid paper.
[8], 247, [7] pages : illustrations, diagrams ; 28 cm (fol.)
English
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U101 .B26 1598
ESTC S106853
Sixteenth Century
A dictionarie in Spanish and English / first published into the English tongue by Ric. Perciuale, gent., now enlarged and amplified ... all done by John Minsheu, professor of languages in London, hereunto for the further profite and pleasure of the learner ... is annexed an ample English dictionarie, alphabetically set downe with the Spanish words thereunto adioyned ...
A Spanish grammar ...
Pleasant and delightfvll dialogves in Spanish and English : profitable to the learner, and not vnpleasant to any other reader
English language -- Dictionaries -- Spanish.
Spanish language -- Dictionaries -- English.
Full leather binding. Possibly decorated with India ink. Marbled fore edges. Gilt stamp spine decorations. Leather gilt spine label reads : Minsheus Dictionary.
Bookplates of Henry Duke of Kent, 1713, and Thomas Philips Earl de Grey.
Perceval, Richard. A Spanish grammar ..., Imprinted at London : By Edm. Bollifant, 1599. Issued together. Library copy also bound with: Minsheu, John. Pleasant and delightfull dialogues in Spanish and English ..., Imprinted at London : by Edm. Bollifant, 1599.
Perceval, Richard, 1550-1620.
London: By Edm. Bollifant
1599
Minsheu, John.
Kent, Henry Grey, Duke of, 1671?-1740, former owner.
De Grey, Thomas Philip De Grey, Earl, 1781-1859, former owner.
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[8], 391, [1] p. ; 28 cm. (fol.) / [4], 68 pages ; 28 cm
English, Spanish
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PC4640 .P4 1599
ESTC S115747 , ESTC S115752
Sixteenth Century
A fruteful treatise of predestination and of the diuine prouidence of god : with an apology of the same, against the swynyshe gruntinge of the epicures and atheystes of oure time : whereunto are added, as depending of it a very necessary boke againste the free wyll men, and an other of the true iustification of faith, and of the good workes proceadynge of the same, made dialoge wyse by Iohn Veron.
Predestination -- Early works to 1800.
Providence and government of God -- Early works to 1800.
Bayntun, William. d. 1785. former owner. William Bayntun of Gray's Inn, d. 1785. Title page signed: Bayntun anno 1551 / Gray's Inn.
Daniel-Tyssen, John Robert, 1805-1882, former owner. Two extant bookplates. The larger bookplate belongs to John Robert Daniel Tyssen (1805-1882), uncle of William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909). Our copy is no. 462 in Seymour De Ricci, A hand-list of a collection of books and manuscripts belonging to the Right Ho. Lord Amherst of Hackney at Didlington Hall, Norfolk (Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1906). (Bookplate identified by John Lancaster).
Quarter leather binding with marbled papers. Red and black leather spine labels. Gilt lettering and stamps. Spine stamps are a griffin's heads which the British Armorial Bindings connects to William Bayntun. Bayntun probably had the book bound after he acquired it. Boards disengaged. Housed in red slip case.
Signatures: [par.]8 *4 A-O8 P3 Q6; 2A-E8 F6.
Foliation at the top is misnumbered at 49-56: 48(F8), 50 (G1), 49 (G2), 53 (G3), 51 (G4), 55 (G5), 53 (G6), 57 (G7), 55 (G8), 57 (H1), 58 (H2).
The ESTC lists this book as printed in 1561. The red slip case states 1560, the spine label 1557, and the inside signature 1551.
Véron, John, -1563.
[1561]
Bayntun, William. d. 1785. former owner.
Daniel-Tyssen, John Robert, 1805-1882, former owner.
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Page dimensions: 13.6 x 8.4. Laid paper.
[12], 55, 57-115, [9]; 43, [5] leaves ; 13 cm (8vo)
English
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234.9 .V54
ESTC S119106
Sixteenth Century
The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and New Testament. (Geneva Bible)
Rough calf full leather binding. Blind tooled panel stamp on boards. Gilt and black leather spine label.
Bookplate for W. Holmes St. J.B. Coll.
Ex Libris John Martin (1904-1996). Presented to Special Collections by Dr. John Martin.
Short Title Catalog numbers determined by the printing of Esther I.1: seven/ and twenty provinces.
Imprinted at London : By the Deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie., 1599. [i.e. Amsterdam : J.F. Stam, after 1640?]
1599 [i.e. 1640?]
Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.
Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574.
Loyseleur, Pierre, approximately 1530-1590.
Tomson, Laurence, 1539-1608.
Junius, Franciscus, 1545-1602.
Barker, Christopher, 1529-1599, printer.
Sternhold, Thomas, -1549. Whole book of psalms.
Hopkins, John, -1570. Whole book of psalms.
Martin, John, 1904-1996, former owner. IaU
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Page dimensions: 23.3 x 17.6. Laid paper.
[4], 190, 127, 121, [11] leaves, [10], 93, [11] p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. (4to in 8s)
English
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BS170 1630
ESTC S101813
Sixteenth Century, Seventeenth Century
Bible. English. Bishops' Bible.
John Moreton, 1674. His name and the date are on the reverse of the title page for the Apocrypha.
Thomas Moreton, 1695. His name and the date are on the reverse of the title page for the Apocrypha.
Full leather possible late 17th century rough calf binding. Rebacked with a red leather and gilt spine label. Evidence of clasps. Blind tooled square on boards."Tho Moreton" inscribed on the front board. Red splatter fore edge. End band intact. Housed in a clamshell.
Title page photo facsimile from British Museum.
Marginalia on the last page of Deuteronomy and the following title page for the second part. Mostly crossed out. Title page repaired. Marginalia on the title page for the third part. Mostly crossed out. Title page repaired. Marginalia on title page for the fourth part. Mostly crossed out. Title page repaired.
Incomplete copy: title page and preliminary leaves (26? l.) and leaves 124-125, 129, 137-138, 2 last leaves and double map wanting. Several leaves cut and mounted with some loss of text.
Manuscript signature "William" in margin of first page of the book of Jeremie (Jeremiah). It has been cut off confirming that the text block was trimmed before being bound in its current binding. |
Baptism record of the children of Thomas and Elizabeth Moreton on the reverse of the title page for the Apocrypha.
The last four pages of Revelation are manuscript most likely written by Thomas Moreton in 1692. The hand matches the one used in the baptism record. He also wrote four more pages including the text "Christus vere satisfecit pro peccatis"(1 page) and "Paragraphe appon the Hymn of St. Ambrose" (3 pages). The final page is dated 1692.
Imprinted at London : In Powles Churcheyarde by Richarde Iugge, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie
1572
Moreton, John, former owner.
Moreton, Thomas, former owner.
Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.
Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1559, author of introduction, etc.
Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.
Heath, Nicholas, 1501?-1578.
Jugge, Richard, approximately 1514-1577, printer.
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. Prologue of Saint Basil the great, upon the Psalmes.
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Page dimensions: 39.1 x 25.3. Laid paper.
[25], cclxx, clxxxix [i.e. cxc], cv, [1], cxxxviii, [2] leaves : ill. (woodcuts), geneal. table (woodcut), map (woodcut) ; 37 cm. (fol.)
English
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Super FOLIO BS175 1572
ESTC S121300
Sixteenth Century