The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares After Christ, Written in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius.
Meredith HanmerLondon: Richard Field, 1619.
First Edition.
28cm x 18cm. [10], 192, 203-598, [18] pages. Full brown leather, gilt lettering.
Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina wrote 10. bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople wrote 7. bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch wrote 6. bookes. Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues and ends of the Prophets, Apostles, and 70. Disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer Doctor of Diuinitie. Last of all, herein is contained a briefe chronographie collected by the said translator, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories.
Recently rebound in full leather with new endpapers, with earlier 2 front flyleaves and 1 rear flyleaf. Minor soiling, occasional pencil marginalia. Very Good Condition.
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