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Title: Decreta Caesareae Maiestatis, Ordinumque Imperii in Comitiis Augustanis
Author: Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558).
Publisher: Martinus Rotarius.
Place: …
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Title: Decreta Caesareae Maiestatis, Ordinumque Imperii in Comitiis Augustanis
Author: Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558).
Publisher: Martinus Rotarius.
Place: "Louvain" (Leuven), Belgium.
Publication date: 1551.
Description: Small 4to. 1st edition, 1551. Latin text. Lacks A2-3, woodcut arms on title, errata f. at end, marginal wormholes, browned, name at foot of title and errata, long note in an elegant 16th century italic hand on verso, old vellum, rubbed & marked, rebacked, new endpapers.
Measures: .5 W x 5.5 D x 7.5 H inches.
Provenance: Diego de Colmenares (1586-1651, historian, author of Historia de... Segovia y...Castilla,1637); names on title and at end.
NOTE: Rare , USTC N° 408702 (lists only 2 copies). There exists also a similar edition with the name of the printer '' Reinerus Velpius''. This last edition seems to be more common; USTC lists 8 copies.
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- Dimensions
- 0.5ʺW × 5.5ʺD × 7.5ʺH
- Styles
- Traditional
- Period
- 16th Century
- Country of Origin
- Belgium
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Animal Skin
- Paper
- Woodcut
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Antique White
- Condition Notes
- Very good; pages trimmed (upper margin to page number). Very good; pages trimmed (upper margin to page number). less
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