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Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries. Translated from the original French, at the command of King Henry VIII by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. Reprinted from Pynson's edition of 1523 and 1525.
Volume 1, London, 1812.
Sans titreSir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries. Translated from the original French, at the command of King Henry VIII by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. Reprinted from Pynson's edition of 1523 and 1525.
Volume 2, London, 1812.
Sans titreHugo Robinson, Annalium Mundi Universalium, Origines Rerum (& Progressus) Sacras juxta ac Seculares ab Orbe Condito tradentium.
(Annals of the Universal World, the origins of things and the progress of those who handed down sacred and secular things from the foundation of the world).
A single volume, complete with fourteen books. Published by Thomas Pierce, London 1677.
Sans titreArchbishop John Spotswood, The History of the Church of Scotland, Beginning the Year of our Lord A.D. 203, and continued to the end of the reign of James VI.
Content includes:
The Progress of Christianity
The Persecutions and Interruptions of it
The Foundations of Churches
The Erecting of Bishoprics
The Building and Endowing Monasteries and other Religious Places
The Succession of Bishops in their sees
The Reformation of Religion and the frequent disturbances of that Nation, by Wars, Conspiracies, tumults, schisms.
Published in London, 1655.
Sans titreThe History of the Holy War
Lewis Maimbourg, Translated by Dr. John Nalson
Being an Exact Account of the Expeditions of the Kings of England and France, and several other of the Christian Princes, for the Conquest of Jerusalem, and the rest of the Holy Land.
Published in London, 1686.
Repaired and Re-bound: S.A. Stewart, 1991.
Sans titreThe Institution, laws, and ceremonies of the most noble order of the Garter: work furnished with variety of matter, relating to honor and noblesse.
By Elias Ashmole
Published London, 1672
Elias Ashmole was one of the founding members of the Royal Society, a collector and antiquary. He produced the history of the Order of the Garter, during his appointment to the College of Arms as Windsor Herald in 1660.
This printed book contains lavish illustrations by Wenceslaus Hollar.
Bernard de Montefaucon (1655-1741)
L'antiquite expliquee (en francois et en latin) et representee en figures.
(Explain the ancients in French and in Latin and represent them in figures)
5 volumes and 5 supplementary volumes
Published in Paris, 1719
Various illustrations depicted within each volume.
Antiquity explained and represented in figures is a work in 15 volumes by the Benedictine of Saint-Maur Bernard de Montfaucon published in 1719 and 1724. For Montfaucon, Antiquity is not limited to the Greeks , Romans and Egyptians , but includes the Germans , Gauls , Parthians .
The drawings are by Sébastien Leclerc , Nicolas de Largillierre and Jean Audran , engraved by Audran and Leclerc.
Dedicated to Count Victor Marie d'Estrées , who had become the symbol of antiquarian literature, this luxury work accompanied by 1,120 plates was sold by subscription for the first time in France . It was a great success since the 1,800 copies quickly sold out upon publication, and a second print run of 2,000 had to be produced the same year. Another reissue was published in 1724, accompanied by 5 volumes of Supplement.
Sans titreJanus Gr Uterus
Inscriptiones Antiquae Totis Orbis Romani
Published in Amsterdam 1707.
Folio, 4 vols.