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[POLEMON, JOHN.] All the famous battels that have bene fought in our age throughout the worlde, as well as by sea as lande... collected out of sundry

[POLEMON, JOHN.] All the famous battels that have bene fought in our age throughout the worlde, as well as by sea as lande... collected out of sundry good authors. Title within historiated woodcut border. [4], 337, [3] pages. Black letter. 4to, contemporary limp vellum, worn and soiled, with holes in spine, upper portion of front cover missing; some dampstaining, small hole in title repaired on verso causing slight loss to border; cloth folding case. London: Henry Bynneman & Francis Coldock, [1578]

  • Notes: first edition of a collection of descriptions from various sources of over 40 major battles fought in Great Britain, on the Continent, and in the eastern Mediterranean, from Tarro in 1495 to Lepanto in 1572. A continuation was published in 1587. STC 20089.

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