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Wilhelmi Langi de annis Christi libri duo : primus varios variarum gentium annos & tempora exponit: secundus, in duas divisus partes, priori epochas nobiliores, quæ Christi Domini passionem antecedunt; posteriori ipsum Dominicæ nativitatis & passionis tempus demonstrat ..

Lange, Villum, 1624-1682, Maire, Joannes, printer, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL · 1649 · Lugduni Batavorum : Ex officina Ioannis Maire · 8 pictures

A 1649 Latin chronology in two books on the years and dates of Christ, printed at Leiden by Joannes Maire for scholarly readers, with a copy once owned by John Adams. The pictures are woodcut printer's ornaments: a central crest with a figure amid scrolling foliage, and decorated initial letters H and M framed by leafy strapwork, a model for dense hand-cut ornament and historic letterforms.

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