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1076 - Historiae ecclesiasticae, Part One, containing Eusebius’s [...] Book 10. The same author’s Life of Constantine the Great, Book 4. Constantine’s Oration [...] Oration by the same Eusebius [...]. Leuven: S. Sassenus II for the heirs of A. Brickmann, 1569, 8vo: [31-1 bl.]-361 [= 363]-1 bl. (occasional spotting). Contemporary overlapping vellum, ink-titled flat spine, blue edges (traces of a paper label on the spine, weak hinges, some small stains). Part 1 (self-contained) of the Latin translation by John Christopherson (d. 1558), confessor to Queen Mary I of England, of Eusebius’s *Church History*, together with Latin translations of other Greek ecclesiastical historians. It was edited posthumously by Edward Godsalve (d. 1568), a recusant priest from Cambridgeshire. Ref. STCV. Formerly owned by Christopher Weilhamer (?) (old manuscript entry on title page). - Old manuscript entry.

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€200 - 300

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Historiae ecclesiasticae, Part One, containing Eusebius’s [...] Book 10. The same author’s Life of Constantine the Great, Book 4. Constantine’s Oration [...] Oration by the same Eusebius [...]. Leuven: S. Sassenus II for the heirs of A. Brickmann, 1569, 8vo: [31-1 bl.]-361 [= 363]-1 bl. (occasional spotting). Contemporary overlapping vellum, ink-titled flat spine, blue edges (traces of a paper label on the spine, weak hinges, some small stains). Part 1 (self-contained) of the Latin translation by John Christopherson (d. 1558), confessor to Queen Mary I of England, of Eusebius’s *Church History*, together with Latin translations of other Greek ecclesiastical historians. It was edited posthumously by Edward Godsalve (d. 1568), a recusant priest from Cambridgeshire. Ref. STCV. Formerly owned by Christopher Weilhamer (?) (old manuscript entry on title page). - Old manuscript entry.

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Cartography, atlases, old manuscripts, old and rare books
Friday, December 4
01:00 PM
19/2 Rue aux Laines
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

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