[Rarebooks] FS: Prideaux's "Essay... for Reading All Sorts of Histories" Oxford: 1655

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Prideaux, Mathias. AN ESSAY AND COMPENDIOUS INTRODUCTION FOR READING ALL SORTS OF HISTORIES: Contrived in a More Facile Way Then heretofore Hath Been Published... The Third Edition, in Which Is Added a Synopsis of Councels by John Prideaux... Oxford: Printed for Leonard Litchfield Printer to the University. 1655. Sm. 4to. 2 parts in 1, each with its own title page (the second title, written by John Prideaux, is dated 1654). (8),351,(35);(2),58,(4)pp. Indices (part 1 only). Titles printed in within ornamental woodcut borders. Cont. polished calf, tan calf label. Some pencil underlining of first 65 pages.    $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
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