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Jac. Augusti Thuani Historiarum sui temporis tomus primus[-septimus].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Swift's Reading Collection Folio D228 .T5 1733 t.1-7
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617.
- Standardized Title:
- Historia sui temporis
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617.
- Europe--History--1517-1648.
- Europe.
- History.
- Genre:
- Subscription lists (Publishing) -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree)
- Elias, Susan Homans (honoree)
- Suffield, Edward, Lord (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 7 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 38 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Historiarum sui temporis tomus primus
- Half-title: Historiarum sui temporis libri CXXXVIII
- Place of Publication:
- Londini : Excudi curavit Samuel Buckley, MDCCXXXIII [1733]
- Contents:
- Tom. 1. Lib. I-XXIV (1546-1560)
- t. 2. Lib. XXV-XLVIII (1560-1570)
- t. 3. Lib. XLIX-LXXIII (1570-1581)
- t. 4. Lib. LXXIV-XCIX (1581-1590)
- t. 5. Lib. C-CXXIII (1590-1600)
- t. 6. Lib. CXXIV-CXXXVIII (1600-1607). Item Nic. Rigaltii De rebus Galliae Lib. III (1607-1610)
- t. 7. Sylloge scriptorum varii generis et argumenti : in qua plurima de vita, moribus, gestis, fortuna, scriptis, familia, amicis, et inimicis Thuani scitu dignissima continentur : ex quibus partim antehac editis, partim ineditis, nuc vero primum collectis atque huic editioni Historiae additis, consicitur.
- Notes:
- Title pages of v. 1-6 in red and black.
- Vol. 1 has half-title: "Jac. Aug. Thuani Historiarum sui temporis libri CXXXVIII".
- Vol. 6 includes "Nic. Rigaltii De rebus Galliae a fine Jac. Aug. Thuani libri tres" on p. 441-497.
- Vol. 7 has title: "Sylloge scriptorum varii generis et argumentii ... " and includes "Commentariorum de vita sua libri sex".
- Subscribers' list in preliminaries of v. 1.
- Engraved vignette on title pages, head- and tail-pieces.
- Woodcuts: initials and tailpieces.
- Printed marginalia.
- Main text (v. 1-6) is complete in CXXXVIII books.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.
- Library copy in full leather with blind-stamped covers; six raised bands on spine; gold-stamped spine panels; red morocco label on spine with title stamped in gold; cover edges stamped in gold; all edges speckled red.
- Vol. 1 has bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Vol. 7 has leaf 6C2 misbound before 6C1.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T98490
- Passmann-Vienken, III, p. 1845
- Contains:
- Rigault, Nicolas, 1577-1654. De rebus Galliae.
- Thou, Jacques-Auguste, 1533-1617. Commentariorum de vita sua.
- Thou, Jacques-Auguste, 1553-1617. Sylloge scriptorum varii generis et argumenti.
- OCLC:
- 7502417
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