Shelfmark
Gd.3.01
Author
Title
A German diet: or, The ballance of Europe. Wherein the power and vveaknes glory and reproch vertues and vices plenty and vvant advantages and defects antiquity and modernes of all the kingdoms and states of Christendom are impartially poiz'd. At a solemn convention of som German princes in sundry elaborat orations pro & con. Made fit for the meridian of England, by James Howell Esq..
Varying form of title
Ballance of Europe
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's Armes in Saint Paul's Church-yard., 1653..
Physical description
[8], 39, [1], 37-68, 68, 51, [9] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm (2o)
Note
Title page in red and black.
Note
Title printed within a double-ruled border.
Note
Signatures: [superscript pi]A² A-K² [superscript chi]L² L-S² 2A-2R² 3A-3N² *² [par.]².
Note
Quire * has square brackets around signatures.
Note
Includes index.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R4173
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), H3079
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front endpaper, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary sheepskin, with repair at head of spine; boards have double-blind-fillet border frames; spine has double-blind-fillet bands; board edges blind-tooled; text block edges sprinkled red.
Copy-specific note
Quires * and [par.] (index) bound between [superscript pi]A2 and A1.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fd.3.19.
Subject
National characteristics, European Early works to 1800.
Subject
Europe Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Moseley, Humphrey, ? - d. 1661 publisher.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B47777