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Books, Autographs & Prints / Part I

Tuesday 30 March 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Titoli nobiliari - Selden, John

Tituli honorum [...] juxta editionem tertiam londinensem years 1672 which accessisse dicuntur Seldeni emendationes et additamenta latine vertit notasque addidit Simon Johannes Arnold, 1696

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Frankfurt, Jeremia Schrey, & amp; Henrich Johann Erben Meyer: Johann Michael Goderitsch, 1696. In 4º. Front door with chalcographic portrait of the author, frontispiece in red and black, with 6 engraved copper plates, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, initials and friezes engraved in wood, light browning, more intense on some cards, rare blooms, coeval binding in parchment, handwritten author and title on the spine, slight defects. & nbsp;



Specialist Notes

First and only Latin edition of the work of the well-known English jurist and politician John Selden (1584 - 1654) first printed in English in 1614. The treatise is an accurate study of noble titles in Greco-Roman antiquity, in Europe, within the Catholic and Orthodox Church, in the East and in Asia.

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