The French Academie. Fvlly discovrsed and finished in foure bookes. I. Institution of manners and callings of all estates. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man. 3. A notable description of the whole world, etc. 4. Christian philosophie ... This fourth part neuer before published in English / All written by the first author Peter de la Primavday.

  • La Primaudaye, Pierre de, approximately 1545-
Date:
1618
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Also known as

Académie françoise. English

Publication/Creation

London : [J. Legate Printed for Thomas Adams], 1618.

Physical description

12 unnumbered leaves (first blank), 1,038 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves (last blank) : title page with historiated woodcut border ; (folio)

References note

STC 15241
ESTC S108295
STC (2nd ed.), 15237

Notes

Engraved t.p
Each part has special t.p
Translator's dedication to part 1 signed: T.B.C. [i.e. Thomas Bowes, clerk?] of Brit. Mus. Catalogue
Signatures: [par.]⁶ *⁶ A-3T⁶ [
Errors in paging: p. 74, 80, 128, 131, 173, 176, 347-48, 390, 470, 503, 536-38, 571, 786, 799, 870-71, 876, 909 misnumbered 72, 90, 218, 121, 175, 349-50, 389, 460, 501, 546-48, 577, 776, 790, 868-69, 879, 990 respectively
Printed by T. Legat
Includes index

Contents

Pt. 1. Institution of manners and callings of all estates --pt. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man / translanted out of the 2nd ed., which was reuiewed and augm. by the author --pt. 3. A notable description of the whole world, &c. / Englished by R. Dolman --pt. 4. Christian philosophie, instructing the true and onely means to eternall life / translated out of French by W.P. [W. Philip?]

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