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Certaine secrete wonders of nature : containing a description of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them : gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane / [translated] by E. Fenton.

Accession number
PML 3268
Creator
Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.
Published
London : Imprinted by H. Bynnemann, 1569.
Notes
Entered in 1st ed. of STC (no. 10787) under Fenton; actually a translation by Fenton of Boaistuau's Histoires prodigieuses.
Title within border of type ornaments; printer's mark (McKerrow 149) on verso of last leaf.
Full imprint: Imprinted at London, by Henry Bynneman dwelling in Knightrider streat, at the signe of the Mermaid. Anno. 1569. Cvm Privilegio ad Imprimendvn Solvn.
A translation of Boaistuau's Histoires, 1560.
1st and only ed. (STC 10787).
Description
[6], 148 leaves : ill. ; 19 cm.
Provenance
Signatures on title page: Arundel (i.e. Henry Fitzalen, 12th earl of Arundel) and Rich'd Wigley; on flyleaf: Ludlow.
Binding
Original dark brown sheep's leather binding; in dark brown case.
Classification
Department