Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
EUSEBIUS PAMPHILUS; SOCRATES SCHOLASTICUS; and EVAGRIUS SCHOLASTICUS. The Ancient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Hundred Yeares after Christ . . . translated out of the Greek Tongue, by Meredith Hanmer . . . Fourth Edition corrected and revised. Hereunto is added Eusebius His Life of Constantine . . . With Constantines Oration to the Clergie. [Translated by Wye Saltonstall].<> [12], 598, [20]; [4], 163 pages. Black letter. Folio, contemporary calf with modern morocco spine label, bottom of spine restored; early owner's note in lower margin of last preliminary page, D4-5 torn in outer margin with some loss to sidenotes. STC 10576. London: George Miller, 1636

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Hanmer's translation, the first into English, was originally published in 1577. Hoffmann II, 111; STC 10576.<