MAJOR, John (1469-1550). Historia Maioris Britanniae, tam Angliae quam Scotiae. [Paris]: Josse Badius Ascensius, 13 April 1521. 8° (196 x 130mm.). Title with woodcut printer's device, large woodcut of the arms of Scotland, woodcut initials. (Some staining.) 16th-century reversed calf with oval blind stamp on covers (rebacked, worming to upper covers). Provenance: Kenneth, Earl of Beaufort? (inscription dated 1685). FIRST EDITION. Renouard III p. 62; Adams M-228. -- Julius CAESAR (100-44 B.C.). Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1544. Title with woodcut vignette, **5 verso and **6 recto blank, 2 wood-engraved maps (one folding, the other on two facing pages), 5 woodcut illustrations. (Ownership inscription? erased from title, upper margin of title close-shaved, tear to upper margin of c1.) Adams C-38. Bound with: EUTROPIUS. Epitome belli Gallici ex Suetnii Tranquilli monumentis, 1544. Title with woodcut vignette. 2 works in 1 volume, 8° (165 x 100mm.). 19th-century vellum-backed boards. Provenance: Colbert Library (inscription). -- With two others (Francesco SANSOVINO. Le Antichità di Beroso Caldeo Sacerdote, et d'altri Scrittori, cosi Hebrei, come Greci, & Latini. Venice: Altobello Salicato, 1583. 8° (220 x 165mm.). -- AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII. Leiden: Peter van der Aa., 1693. 4°). (4)

MAJOR, John (1469-1550). Historia Maioris Britanniae, tam Angliae quam Scotiae. [Paris]: Josse Badius Ascensius, 13 April 1521. 8° (196 x 130mm.). Title with woodcut printer's device, large woodcut of the arms of Scotland, woodcut initials. (Some staining.) 16th-century reversed calf with oval blind stamp on covers (rebacked, worming to upper covers). Provenance: Kenneth, Earl of Beaufort? (inscription dated 1685). FIRST EDITION. Renouard III p. 62; Adams M-228. -- Julius CAESAR (100-44 B.C.). Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1544. Title with woodcut vignette, **5 verso and **6 recto blank, 2 wood-engraved maps (one folding, the other on two facing pages), 5 woodcut illustrations. (Ownership inscription? erased from title, upper margin of title close-shaved, tear to upper margin of c1.) Adams C-38. Bound with: EUTROPIUS. Epitome belli Gallici ex Suetnii Tranquilli monumentis, 1544. Title with woodcut vignette. 2 works in 1 volume, 8° (165 x 100mm.). 19th-century vellum-backed boards. Provenance: Colbert Library (inscription). -- With two others (Francesco SANSOVINO. Le Antichità di Beroso Caldeo Sacerdote, et d'altri Scrittori, cosi Hebrei, come Greci, & Latini. Venice: Altobello Salicato, 1583. 8° (220 x 165mm.). -- AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII. Leiden: Peter van der Aa., 1693. 4°). (4)

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MAJOR, John (1469-1550). Historia Maioris Britanniae, tam Angliae quam Scotiae. [Paris]: Josse Badius Ascensius, 13 April 1521. 8° (196 x 130mm.). Title with woodcut printer's device, large woodcut of the arms of Scotland, woodcut initials. (Some staining.) 16th-century reversed calf with oval blind stamp on covers (rebacked, worming to upper covers). Provenance: Kenneth, Earl of Beaufort? (inscription dated 1685). FIRST EDITION. Renouard III p. 62; Adams M-228. -- Julius CAESAR (100-44 B.C.). Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1544. Title with woodcut vignette, **5 verso and **6 recto blank, 2 wood-engraved maps (one folding, the other on two facing pages), 5 woodcut illustrations. (Ownership inscription? erased from title, upper margin of title close-shaved, tear to upper margin of c1.) Adams C-38. Bound with: EUTROPIUS. Epitome belli Gallici ex Suetnii Tranquilli monumentis, 1544. Title with woodcut vignette. 2 works in 1 volume, 8° (165 x 100mm.). 19th-century vellum-backed boards. Provenance: Colbert Library (inscription). -- With two others (Francesco SANSOVINO. Le Antichità di Beroso Caldeo Sacerdote, et d'altri Scrittori, cosi Hebrei, come Greci, & Latini. Venice: Altobello Salicato, 1583. 8° (220 x 165mm.). -- AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII. Leiden: Peter van der Aa., 1693. 4°). (4)