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Rerum Scoticarum historia, / auctore Georgio Buchanano Scoto. Ad Jacobum VI. Scotorum regem. Accessit De jure regni apud Scotos dialogus, eodem Georgio Buchanano auctore.
Rerum Scoticarvm historia
Amsterodami, : apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, M.DC.XLIII. [1643]
[8], 67, [1], 750, [38] p. ; 8vo.
Includes index.
Title in red and black; woodcut printer's device (la Minerve, Rahir no. 19) on t.p.; initials.
Rahir, E. Les Elzevier, 986
Willems, A. Elzevier, 993
Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, 627
Inscription on t.p.: J Balmerino. Possibly the signature of John Elphistone, second Lord Balmerino (d. 1649) or of his son, John Elphinstone, third Lord Balmerino (1623-1704). Binding stamped with initials I L B.
Inscription on front flyleaf: Gidn. Lithgo. In a different hand: empt. e[??] 29 [??] 1649. Gideon Lithgow may be the Gideon Lithgow who was printer to the University of Edinburgh in the 1640s and 1650s.
Inscription on front pastedown: Nicholas Smith, no. 17.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731 on rear board.
18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Seventeenth century brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled triple fillet frame; intials 'I L B' and sun fleuron blind tooled onto both boards; blind tooled triple fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters; red sprinkled edges.
Some marginal annotations and faint textual underlining. More annotation on blank leaves at rear.
Previous shelfmarks: Af.8.2, W993, Ecc1.4, Cc.7.12.
Scotland History 16th century.
Scotland History To 1603.
Elzevir, Louis, 1604 - 1670 printer.
Buchanan, George, 1506 - 1582 De jure regni apud Scotos.
Balmerino, John Elphinstone, ? - d. 1649 former owner.
Lithgow, Gideon, fl. 1628 - 1662 former owner.
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Netherlands Amsterdam.
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B37950