Historiae Anglicae. Libri Xxvi...Accesit Praeter Alia Nonulla Series. Regum Anglicae a Primus Initiis Usque ad Hancaetatem. Ex Nova Editione.
Lugduni Batavorum: Joannis Maire, 1649. Full-Leather. Good / No Jacket. Item #000220
All books present.12mo. Full vellum. Yapped edges. Title written on spine. [8], 878. small tear along upper front pastedown endpaper. bookworm holes throughout, affecting some passages of text. Vellum soiled, slightly warped boards, but otherwise in good condition. Polydore Vergil was an Italian humanist and scholar. While living and working as a diplomat in England, he was commisioned by King Henry VII to write a history of Britain up to the Norman conquest. Vergil completed the text in 1512-13, which was later published in 1534. The manuscript version appears as 25 books, but in 1521-24 Vergil made a series of additions, expanding the sections into into an eventual 26 books.
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