[Rarebooks] FS: Eusebius' history of the early Chuch, translated into English. London: 1585

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Eusebius Caesariensis et al. THE AUNCIENT ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORIES OF THE 
FIRST SIX HUNDRED YEARS AFTER CHRIST, Written in the Greek Tongue by Three 
Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. 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 Lives and 
Endes of the Prophetes, Now Perused and Corrected by Meredith Hanmer, Doctor of 
Divinitie. London: Imprinted... by Thomas Vautrollier... 1585. Folio. 
(12),190,(201)-404,(4),(405)-600,(22)pp. Complete. 20th century 1/2 brown calf, 
gilt, over cloth, extremities slightly rubbed. Head of title with a short 
clean tear and a couple of stains. Minor browning and staining throughout, as 
usual, but a well-margined and sound copy.     $1,500.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
The second edition (first was published in 1577). Meredith Hanmer was an 
assiduous scholar of the early church and this English translation is his 
major work. STC 10573.

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