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Horace with 17th Century Harvard Provenance. Poemata.
Geneva: Petrus Albertus, 1629.
12mo, lacking leaves at the end, not collated, disbound, lacking both boards, signed twice on ffep by Thomas Mighill (1639-1689) and dated 1659; according to the Harvard College Steward's account books, Mighill was charged for "commons, sizinges, gallery rome, and tuition," and was graduated in 1663, taking a second degree in 1666; several other early Harvard signatures on the title and free endleaves include Solomon Williams [A.B. 1719 or 1742] and Isaac Bayley [A.B. 1681]; 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.
See Sibley's Harvard Graduates; and Arthur Norton's "Harvard Text-Books and Reference Books of the 17th Century," published in The Colonial Society of Massachusetts's Transactions, Volume 28: April, 1933, https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/582.
