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The historye of Italye : a booke exceding profitable to be red: because it intreateth of the astate of many and dyuers common weales, how they haue bene, and now be gouerned

by: Thomas, William, d. 1554; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. MB (BRL); John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL)

Publication date: 1561

Topics: Italy -- History -- 476-1492, Italy -- Description and travel

Publisher: Imprinted at London : ... by Thomas Marshe

Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

Language: English

Signatures: [pi]A, [paragraph], A-Iii([pi]A4, T4 blank)

Colophon dated 1561

Leaves [4] and [76] (first count) are blank

Sig. A is found in two settings: leaf 1v has catchword "enough" or "enoughe."

"The table of this present booke, by letter": leaves [5]-[8]

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library

John Adams' signature on title page: "John Adams."

Printed marginalia

John Adams Library copy inscribed: "Tho. Berefforde[?]"

STC (2nd ed.)

ESTC

Also available on microfilm

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894