Fh.2.09
[Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti]
Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti. Una cum rerum Asiaticarum et Ægyptiacarum chronico, a temporis historici principio usque ad extremum templi et reipublicæ Judaicæ excidium producto. Jacobo Usserio, Archiep. Armachano et Hiberniæ Primate, digestore. Accedunt tria ejusdem opuscula, I. De chronologia Veteris Testamenti. II. De Macedonum et Asianorum anno solari. III. De symbolis. Quibus omnibus præfixa est Jacobi Usserii vita, à Th. Smitho S.T.D. conscripta.
Half title: Jacobi Usserii Annales.
Editio nova, in qua Annales nunc primùm manu auctoris emendatiores & auctiores prodeant: unà cum indicibus rerum & locorum; quibus addita est annorum mundi cum annis Olympiadum & urbis conditæ collatio.
Genevæ, : Apud Gabrielem De Tournes et Filios., M.DCC.XXII. [1722]
[16], LXVIII, 652, [100], 124, 19, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 40 cm. (fol.)
Chiefly in Latin, with Greek and Hebrew quotations.
Edited by Jean Le Clerc; "De symbolis" edited by Thomas Barlow.
With half title page: 'Jacobi Usserii Annales', enclosed within plain double-ruled letterpress border.
"Vita Jacobi Usserii Archiepiscopi Armachani, & totius Hiberniae Primatis: scriptore Thoma Smithio, ..." (caption title): p. I-LV.
"Jacobi Usserii Armachani Chronologia sacra. ... Editionem accurante Thoma Barlovv ..." and "Jacobi Usserii Armachani, De Romanae ecclesiae symbolo Apostolico vetere, ..." have separate half-titles, pagination (124 p. sequence and final 19 p. respectively) and register; "Jacobi Usserii Armachani Annalium pars prior. ..." and "Jacobi Usserii Armachani Annalium pars posterior. ..." in 652 p. sequence have divisional half-titles (leaves A1r and Oo1r respectively).
Signatures: [par.]⁴ 2*⁴ dagger-5dagger⁶ 6dagger⁴ A-2M⁴ 2N⁶ 2O-4M⁴, a-l⁴ m⁶, ²A⁶ B-I⁴ K⁶ L-N⁴ O⁶, ⁴A¹⁰.
With woodcut title page vignette (printer's device, with motto: 'Quod tibi fieri non vis alteri ne fe ceris' and the initials F D T).
Title page printed in red and black, enclosed by a simple double-ruled letterpress frame.
With woodcut historiated initials, head- and tail-pieces.
With a portrait (plate) of Ussher, signed: "J.G. Seiller sculps.".
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
18th-century sprinkled brown calf; gold double fillets to form a border; gold-tooled spine compartments; six gold-tooled raised bands; gold-tooled board edges; red morocco spine label; marbled endpapers.
Previously: Fd.1.11.
Bible Chronology.
History, Ancient Chronology.
History, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Barlow, Thomas, 1607 - 1691 editor.
Smith, Thomas, 1638 - 1710 author.
Le Clerc, Jean, 1657 - 1736 editor.
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Gabriel de Tournes et fils publisher.
Switzerland Geneva.
lat grc heb
B35311