Lot 531
Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Caesarea
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
The auncient ecclesiastical histoires of the first six hundred years after Christ written in the Greeke tongue by... Eusebius, Socrates and Euagrius. London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1585, folio, 4 parts in one volume, translated by Meredith Hammer, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and ornaments, with the three blank leaves R4, YY4 and Dddd6, contemporary calf with central gilt-stamped decorative oval on sides, raised bands, head and tail of spine and one corner worn
Footnote
Note: A very attractive copy in a contemporary binding. STC 10572
Provenance: Edwarde Pytt 1588, inscription on title. Booklabel of Pytt's Book Room, Kyre Park. Edward Pytt was Queen's Remembrancer to Elizabeth.