Аукцион Bidspirit | CHALONER THOMAS: (1521-1565)

CHALONER THOMAS: (1521-1565) - CHALONER THOMAS: (1521-1565) English poet and statesman, famed for his Latin poetry and military and diplomatic service to four Tudor monarchs, and remembered as the first translator into English of Erasmus's Praise of Folly (1549). A rare ink ownership signature and inscription ( 'Sum Thomae Chaloneri' ) and date, 1557, in his hand to the head of the folio title page removed from Wolfgang Lazius's Commentariorum Reipub. Romanae illius, in exteris provincijs, bello acquisitis, constitutae, libri duodecim (1551). Very slightly irregularly trimmed to the margins and with some wormholes, only very slightly affecting the signature, G