Of ghostes and spirites walking by nyght : and of strange noyses, crackes, and sundry forewarnynges, whiche commonly happen before the death of menne, great slaughters & alterations of kyngdomes / one booke, written by Lewes Lavaterus of Tigurine and translated into Englyshe by R.H.

Accession number

PML 6261

Creator

Lavater, Ludwig, 1527-1586.

Published

London : H. Benneyman for Richard VVatkyns, 1572.

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes

R.H. = Robert Harrison.
a² b⁴ c² text; A-Ee² in 4s
"Faultes escaped in the print," p. [14].
First edition.
"1st 2 leaves printed with R. Jugge's types; the rest by Bynneman."--STC

Description

8 unnumbered leaves, 220 pages ; 19 cm

Provenance

Book-plate of Francis Freeling; autograph Isaac Reed, 1800; Autograph notes of Dr. Farmer on verso of c[superscript]2; Theodore Irwin; Pierpont Morgan.

Binding

Half calf.

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Of ghostes and spirites walking by nyght : and of strange noyses, crackes, and sundry forewarnynges, whiche commonly happen before the death of menne, great slaughters & alterations of kyngdomes / one booke, written by Lewes Lavaterus of Tigurine and translated into Englyshe by R.H.