Shelfmark
Ep.4.24
Author
Title
Rerum Scoticarum historia, / auctore Georgio Buchanano Scoto. Ad Jacobum VI. Scotorum regem. Accessit De jure regni apud Scotos dialogus, eodem Georgio Buchanano auctore.
Varying form of title
Rerum Scoticarvm historia
Publication, distribution, etc.
Amsterodami, : apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, M.DC.XLIII. [1643]
Physical description
[8], 67, [1], 750, [38] p. ; 8vo.
Note
Includes index.
Note
Title in red and black; woodcut printer's device (la Minerve, Rahir no. 19) on t.p.; initials.
Citation/references note
Rahir, E. Les Elzevier, 986
Citation/references note
Willems, A. Elzevier, 993
Citation/references note
Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, 627
Provenance
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.
Provenance
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.
Provenance
Inscription on front pastedown: Nicholas Smith, no. 17.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731 on rear board.
Provenance
18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
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.
Copy-specific note
Some marginal annotations and faint textual underlining. More annotation on blank leaves at rear.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Af.8.2, W993, Ecc1.4, Cc.7.12.
Subject
Scotland History 16th century.
Subject
Scotland History To 1603.
Added entry--name
Elzevir, Louis, 1604 - 1670 printer.
Added entry--name
Buchanan, George, 1506 - 1582 De jure regni apud Scotos.
Added entry--name
Balmerino, John Elphinstone, ? - d. 1649 former owner.
Added entry--name
Lithgow, Gideon, fl. 1628 - 1662 former owner.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Amsterdam.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B37950