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    • Author/Creator:Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617.
    • Uniform Title:[Relationi universali Parte 2. English]
    • Title:An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weales in the worlde : relating their scituations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters / translated into English, and enlarged, with an addition of the relation of the states of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary, and Spaine; in no language euer before imprinted.
    • Published/Created:Printed at London : For Iohn Iaggard, 1603.
    • Physical Description:[4], 268 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)

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      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
        Request for use in the YCBA Study Room

      • Call Number: G97 .A23 1605
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: BAC copy has ms marginal annotations throughout. Bookplate of Coker Court on inside of upper board. Ms inscription "West Newton Servers" on recto of first free end-paper. Bound with: A briefe description of the whole worlde / George Abbot. London: Printed for Iohn Browne, and are to be sold at his shoppe in S. Dunstans churchyard in Fleet-streete, 1605.
    • Notes:Translation into English from the original Italian of part 2 of Giovanni Botero's Relationi universali. The English translation was first published in 1601 as The traveller's breviat.
      Translator's dedication signed: R.I., i.e. Robert Johnson.
      STC attributes printing to Robert Barker.
      Signatures: [A]² B-2L⁴ 2M².
      Woodcut vignette on t.p., woodcut initials.
    • Format:Book
    • References:Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 3400
      English short title catalogue, S100518
    • Subjects:Geography--Early works to 1800.
      World history--Early works to 1800.
      Europe--History--Early works to 1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Coker Court--Bookplate.
    • Genre/Form:Woodcuts.
    • Also listed under:Jaggard, John, -1623?, publisher.
      Barker, Robert, -1645, printer.
      Johnson, Robert, active 1586-1626, translator.
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