Author: BATESIUS, G.
Title: Vitae selectorum aliquot virorum qui doctrina, dignitate, aut pietate inclaruere.
Description: London, George Wells, 1681. 4to. (24, 1x18, 6cm). [iv], 749[=805], 1[=portrait] pp. Blind-stamped calf. (somewhat chafed; hinges weakening; slight worming (in margins) of first few pages; small (marginal) tear in p.262 and 401; slightly spotted; a few light, marginal waterstains; a few pen/pencil annot.; small hole in p. 318). ¶ Provenance: ms.owner's entry: "Is. Crouch, Sti. Edmundi in Aula, Oxon. 1777." (Isaac Crouch was vice-principal of St.Edmunds Hall from 1783). Bookplate of Arthur Rickards, Pembroke College. ¶ Collection of biographies, laudatory/funerary poems etc. by numerous authors, collected by William Bates. On the lives of Henry Chichele; William Waynflete; Savonarola; Bembo; Erasmus; Budé; Scaliger; Puteanus; Scévole de Sainte-Marthe and many others. ¶ Graesse VI.374; Brunet V.1323.

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