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CHAUNCY, MAURICE. Historia aliquot nostril saeculi Martyrum. [8], 65, [3] leaves. 4to, 179x140 mm, blind-tooled brown morocco in period style by Bernard Middleton; scattered marginal foxing, early underscoring and marginalia. (Mainz: Franz Behem), 1550
first edition of a collection of tracts relating to the suppression of the Carthusian Order in England following Henry VIII's break with Rome, including an account of the trial of Sir Thomas More on B3r-C4r. "Chauncy is a valuable source for the last years of the Carthusians in England, through the accounts that he left of events to which he was often an eyewitness" (ODNB). Shaaber C236. With the signature of Étienne Baluze ("Stephanus Baluzius Tutelensis," 1630-1718), librarian to the French statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
