Price: £900
Subject: History
Published Date: 1662
Stock Number: 64917
(Your basket is currently empty)Quibus historici probatissimi, non solùm ordine quo sunt legendi catenatim recensentur, sed doctorum etiam virorum de singulis judicia subnectuntur. Nec-non unde singulorum in historia vel brevitas dilatari vel de sectus suppleri, vel perplexitas expediri, vel mutilationes deniq; temporum injuria factæ resarciri possint, indicatur. À Deg. Wheare prælect. Camden. primo. Editio quarta. Quibus jam appenditur Mantissa de historicis gentium particularium quà antiquioribus qu recentioribus; cum aliis additamentis (ut versa pagina indicat) per N.H. è C.C.C
Description: pp. [xxxii], 342; 15, [1], 12mo, contemporary (presumably Oxford) calf, double blind ruled borders on sides, additional pair of vertical blind rules towards the spine, with a fleur-de-lys in every corner, spine defective at top and tail, wear to covers with some loss of surface, partial or complete, exposed boards coloured in, narrow fly-leaves from an early edition of Ammianus Marcellinus, that at the end mostly torn away, some early annotations, but faded and illegiblePublication Details: Oxford: W. Hall for Thom. Robinson, 1662
Notes: First published in 1623 with title: De ratione et methodo legendi historias dissertatio (STC 25325); first published as "Relectiones hyemales" in 1637, as a revised version of the first 1625 Oxford edition (STC 25326). ESTC records 5 copies in the UK (3 in Oxford libraries), plus Folger.Wheare's 'reputation rests less upon these lectures [as first Camden Professor of Ancient History, the oldest chair of history in England] than upon his Latin manual on how to read and profit from history, which he composed and published at the beginning of his tenure, and revised and expanded in subsequent ed...more
Bibliography: (ESTC R200580 (5 copies in the UK, 3 of them in Oxford; Folger only elsewhere); Madan, III, 2619)
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