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RUFUS FESTUS, SEXTUS.
Libro della historia de Romani.
Italian transla-
tion by Giovanni Vincenzo Belprato. 44 [i. e., 45], [3] leaves, including penultimate
colophon leaf and final blank. Mostly printed in italic type. 8vo, 155x102 mm, limp vellum
with portion of chapters 26-27 of Cicero’s De amicitia in 15th-century humanist hand on
both sides of rear cover, spine darkened, with later handwritten title in ink; title soiled, scat-
tered marginal foxing and dampstains.
(Florence: Bernardo Giunti), 1550
[300/500]
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RYCQUIUS, JUSTUS [or RYCKE, JOSSE DE].
De capitolio Romano com-
mentarius.
16 engraved plates, including one folding. [16], 562, [29] pages, including
etched additional title by Romeyn de Hooghe. 24mo, 126x77 mm, contemporary vellum
boards; occasional light toning and faint spotting, short partial separation in creases at top
of folding plate, free endpapers lacking.
Leiden: Daniel, Abraham & Adrian à Gaasbeeck, 1669
[200/300]
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SANDFORD, FRANCIS.
A Genealogical History of the Kings of England,
and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c. From the Conquest, Anno 1066. to the Year
1677.
6 engraved plates, all but one double-page, and numerous double- or full-page and
text illustrations, by
WENCESLAUS HOLLAR
and others. [12], 82 pages, 83-94 leaves, 95-578,
[12] pages, including errata leaf at end. Folio, 361x227 mm, later calf, rebacked retaining
darkened and worn original backstrip; minor restoration at bottom of title, V
2
and *
2
dampstained with traces of mold, repairs in gutter of 2B
2
slightly affecting text, blank lower
outer corner of 2C1 restored, light dampstaining in lower outer corners toward end.
Bookplate of Bury Public Library, their stamp on title.
London: Tho. Newcomb for the Author, 1677
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
.
Moule, pages 202-03; Wing S651.
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[ROWLANDS or VERSTEGAN,
RICHARD.]
A Restitution of Decayed
Intelligence: In antiquities. Concerning
the most noble, and renowmed English
nation.
11 engraved illustrations, includ-
ing full-page depiction of the author’s
coat of arms. [24], 338, [13] pages. 4to,
178x131 mm, early 19th-century russia,
rebacked, endpapers renewed; contents
browned, blank upper margin of title
restored.
Antwerp: Robert Bruney for
John Norton and John Bill in London,
1605
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
,
“a seminal work of Anglo-
Saxon scholarship” (ODNB). Pages 85-86
contain the first account in English of the legend
of the Pied Piper of Hameln. STC 21361.
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