Italia antiqua : opus post omnium curas elaboratissimum; tabulis geographicis aere expressis illustratum. - Clüver, Philipp, 1580-1622; E. W. 1605-1676 (Edward Worsley) (Lugduni Batavorum : Ex officina Elseviriana, 1624)
Copy 1, vol. 1 : frontispiece with Philippus Cluverius portrait, his coat of arms and motto ('Sufficit mihi gratia domini'). Engraved title page.
Copy 1, vol. 1 & 2 : no annotations.
Copy 2, vol. 2 : in ink on title page 'Emptus fui ab io 1630'
Copy 2 volume 2: Note in ink [17th century hand] on front endpapers 'Julius obsequius de .[..?] dig[?]s' . On back endpapers, possibly in same hand, beginning 'In St Peter Church in St Albans' followed by the epitaph of Richard Skipwith found in that church.
Latin with Greek.
Copy 2 volume 1 & 2: Written in ink on half-title page 'Sum Benjamini Peere [infinity symbol]. D[omi]ni .1627.' Copy 2 Vol 1: 'Haec 3ia volumina, eiusdem Authoris, pretij sunt - 2ll - 12sh - 0d.' '28 Aug. 1654 haec 3 a vol: empta sunt a Pollard biblio. pro - [scribbled over]'.
Copy 2 volume 2: 'Edw. Worseley'.
Keywords: Manuscript waste; Autographs; Inscriptions