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Credit: Sales catalogue 5: Frank R. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![conteined in the Foure Buikes of Regiam nee: Folio, Old calf. Edinb aoe 2 Corners of title a little frayed and remargined. 683 SMITH (Sir Thomas).—The Common- wealth of England and the Maner of Gouern- ment thereof. Compiled by the Honourable Sir Thomas Smith,....With new additions of the chiefe Courts in England, and the Offices thereof by the said Author. Newly Corrected and Amended. 4to. Boards. 1612 12/6 S.T.C. 22863. Corner of title repaired in facsimile, small corner torn from leaf of preface. Printed in BLACK LETTER. 684 SOMNER (William).—Julii Caesaris Portus Iscius Illustratus : Tractatum utrumque Latine vertit Edmundus Gibson. 8vo. Contemp. calf. With map of the Roman Ports. Oxford. i 685 SPAIN.—An Account of Spain: being a New Description of that Country and People. Written by a French Gentleman, who was in disguise aboard the English Fleet: With an account of the most remarkable transactions of that Fleet. 8vo. Orig. calf. 1700 6/6 686 SPEED (John).—The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Habits, &. The Third Edition. Revised, enlarged, and newly corrected. Folio, Old calf, numerous woodcuts. 1631 15/- No issue of this date is recorded in the S.T.C. The title and portrait are mounted. Fine clean copy. 687 SPELMAN (Sir John).—Aeldredi Magni Anglorum Regis Invictissimi vita tribus libris comprehensa. Folio, Contemp. calf. With 6 portraits of Alfred on two plates. 5 plates of coins and other illustrations. Fine and tall copy. Oxford. 1678 15/- 688 SPENCER (John).—A Discourse concerning Prodigies: the Second Edition corrected and enlarged. To which is added a Treatise concerning Vulgar Prophecies. 8vo. Half morocco. 7/6 689 SPENSER (Edmund)—The Faerie Queene. Sm. folio, Half calf. [Colophon] London, Printed by H. L. for Matthew Lownes. tee Wanting title. Woodcut head-piece to each canto. A good copy of the complete text. 690 SPENSER (Edmund).—Works, viz., The Faery Queen, The Sheperds Calendar, The History of Ireland, etc. Whereunto is added An Account of His Life, with Some Other New Additions Never Before In Print. Folio, 8th. cent. calf, red leather label, with frontis- piece. 1679 £3/15/- This is the fourth and last folio edition of Spenser and it contains several pieces here printed for the First Time. It is also the first edition to contain a Memoir of Spenser and * An Index of unusual words explained.” This copy has the engraving of Spenser’s tomb which is often missing. Femall 691 STAFFORD — (Anthony).—The Glory : or, The Life and Death of our Blessed Lady, the Holy Virgin Mary. Gods own immaculate Mother : To whose sacred Memory the Author dedicates these his humble Endeav- ours. A Treatise worthy the reading, and > meditation of all modest women, who live under the Government of Vertue, and are obedient to her Lawes. Sm. 8vo. Old calf. With 4 engraved plates. 1635 25/- S.T.C. 23123. Some marginal notes shaved and some outer margins at end wormed, otherwise clean copy. For an interesting account of this work see Wood’s Athenae Oxon- iensis (Bliss Ed. vol. 3. p. 33). There are 48 pp. of verses to the Virgin Mary. 692 STANFORD (Sir Wm.)—An exposicion of the kinges prerogatiue collected out of the great abridgement of Justice Fitzherbert and other olde writers....Whereunto is annexed the Proces to the same Prerogatiue appertaining. 1568. 4to. Boards, cloth back. Buiacx LetTer. Richard Tottel, 1568 £1/10/- S.T.C. 23214. Wanting | leaf (K6) Second edition. Three dedications to Sir Nic. acon, the first, in English, by the printer ; the second, in Latin, by the author ; and the third in English by the same. 693 STATUTES.—A Kalendar, or Table, Com- prehending the effect of all the Statutes that haue beene made and put in print, beginning with Magna Charta, until Anno 4. Jacobi : hereunto is annexed an Abridgement of all the Statutes, etc. Collected by Ferdinand Pulton. Folio, Contemp. calf. Buack LETTER. Corners of title and first few leaves repaired (text untouched) and wanting last leaf of table. Except for defects mentioned a large and sound copy. 1608 25/- S.T.C. 9548. See also under Pulton. 694 STATUTA civitatis Parmae. Folio, 18th century Italian binding of boards with leather back. Leaf 1 mounted, MS index ai end, and note of ownership by a notary. Parma, Angel us Vgoletus. 1494 £6/6/- Books printed at Parma in the 15th. century are rare. Hain 15016. 695 STOW.—The Abridgement of the English Chronicle, First Collected by M. John Stow, and after him augmented with very many memorable Antiquities, and continued with matter forreine and domesticall, unto the end of the yeare 1610. By E. H. Gentleman. Sm. 8vo. Old calf. Buacx Letrer. 1611 16/6 S.T.C. 23331. Woodcut title dust soiled, slightly damaged, and mounted and wanting the last leaf (A8) of preliminarries. 696 STOW (John).—The Annales or Generall Chronicle of England, begun first by maister John Stow, and after him continued and augmented with matters forreyne, and domest- ique, auncient and moderne, unto the ende of this present yeere 1614, by Edmond Howes, gentleman. Folio, Old calf, back a_ little defective. Woodcut title cut close and mo unted, | leaf of dedication and | leaf of index repaired ajfecting. a few words. Printed in Btacxk Lerrer. London. Thomas Adams. bs 27/- 697 STRAUCHIUS (Gyles).—Breviarium Chro- nologicum. Being a Treatise describing the terms and most celebrated characters, periods and epocha’s us’d in Chronology. 8vo. Orig. calf, engraved frontis. 1699 3/6](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33156232_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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