Translated by Thomas Stapleton (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition of 475 unnumbered copies, of which 450 copies are for sale. 4to, xx + pp479. Text in red & black and illustrated with Queen Elizabeth I coat of arms to Pvii, 2 full page b/w woodcuts and 1 half page woodcut along with map of england in red and black. The three woodcut illustrations depict St Augustine preaching before the king of Kent, Ĉthelberht of Kent with his bishops of St Paul's and Rochester, and King Oswald raising a cross before a battle (the Battle of Heavenfield) Hardcover no dust jacket. binding of tan leather spine with gilt titles over marbled boards in good+ condition with some shelf wear to top & tail of spine and edges of boards with some small marks to boards and a little darkening to spine. Inside except for the very odd spot or mark, all pages in very good clean and bright condition. A very nice copy of this 1930 facsimile of the original Translated by Thomas Stapleton, the first edition of Historia Ecclesiatica in English being published in Antwerp in 1565. Very scarce. This is a heavy book and may cost more postage for overseas orders.

Hardcover. Limited edition. 2 volumes, quarto, original natural linen spines and blue boards; xx, 479 pp., edges untrimmed Originally published in Antwerp in 1565 by John Laet. Edition of 475 copies Boards lightly soiled, previous owner's small ex-libris label to front endpaper of first volume, else veru good and internally fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+ binding. Limited Edition. Quarto; in holland backed boards with printed paper spine labels; fresh copies with limited shelfwear; a bit of soiling to the back board of Volume I; bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume else contents clean and binding sound; single bifolium prospectus laid in. Ransom notes that it was issued both in two volumes in boards and one volume in calf; that being the case it is far more common in calf than in this two volume format.~~Limited Edition, one of 475 copies of which 450 were for sale. (Ransom 63). Very Good+ binding.