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USSHER, JAMES, Archbishop of Armagh. Annales. [10], 554, [10]; [4], 702, [22] pages. 2 volumes. Folio, contemporary calf gilt, spines damaged, recased, endpapers renewed; occasional browning and light marginal dampstaining. 18th-century ownership inscription of the Marques de Alegrete; bookplate and embossed stamp of Alfonso Cassuto. London: J. Flesher for L. Sadler, 1650; J. Flesher for John Crook, 1654
first edition of the author's most famous work, a world chronology in which he calculated the date of Creation as 23 October 4004 B.C. Wing U147-48. With the oversize bookplate of Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721), Bishop of Avranches and principal editor of the Delphine series of Latin classics, on the rear pastedown in each volume.
