Admirable euents
Subtitle: selected out of foure bookes
By: written in French by the Right Reverend, Iohn Peter Camus, Bishop of Belley ; together with Morall relations, written by the same author ; and translated into English by S. Du Verger
Contributors: Brooks, William, active 1631?-1640, bookseller; Brugis, Thomas, active 1640? translator; Du Verger, S., translator; Harper, Thomas, -1656, printer; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Harper for William Brooks, and are to be sold at his shop in Holborn in Turnstile Lane.
Published: 1639
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Parables
Other titles: Admirable events selected ovt of fovre bookes; Certain moral relations
Work titles: Evenemens singuliers
Notes: Translation of selections from "Les evenements singuliers, ou, Histoires diverses" and "Relations morales."

Signatures: Áı áı B-Źı 2Áþ.

Title within ornamental border; headpieces; initials.

Separate title page on leaf K6r for "Certain Moral Relations Selected out of the two Books written therof in French, By The right Reverend Father Iohn Peter Camous Bishop of Belley, Anno Domini 1628." With imprint: "London, Printed by Thomas Harper for William Brooks, and are to be sold at his shop in Holborn in Turnstile Lane. 1639."

Errata on last leaf, 2A4r.

"Certain moral relations" (p. [139]-357)--has special title page.

English Short Title Catalogue S107416

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 4549

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., page 84 (see also Shakespeareana, entry 2194)

Cataloged 20151130 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.4072.18 bound in early calfskin panelled in blind. The title is stamped in gilt on the spine. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown, along with a dealer's description. Errors are corrected in an early hand.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.3553.1 is a fragment only, comprised of pages 59-68 and is bound in ca. 19th-century maroon morocco and marbled papers. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown and an auctioneer's description, from the Halliwell-Phillipps sale of June 13, 1859, is present on the verso of the front free endpaper. Early pen trials and marginalia are present throughout.