A Treatise [The History] of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent. Published by James Brome, M.A. Rector of Cheriton, and Chaplain to the Cinque-Ports. To which is prefixt the life of Mr. Somner.

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First edition in contemporary calf, raised bands to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5''. Contains [xvi] 118, [ii] 117 [xvi] printed pages of text, engraved portrait frontispiece. Includes a Catalogue of the Lord-Wardens of the Cinque Ports. Somner's earliest work was The Antiquities of Canterbury; or a Survey of that ancient Citie, with the Suburbs and Cathedral, London, 1640, dedicated to Archbishop Laud (reissued 1662; 2nd edit, by Nicholas Batteley, London, 1703). At the suggestion of Meric Casaubon he acquired a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon, and then wrote Observations on the Laws of King Henry I, published by Roger Twysden in 1644, with a new glossary. He made collections for a history of Kent, but abandoned this undertaking; this book being a portion of the work published at Oxford in 1693 by the Rev. James Brome, with notes by Edmund Gibson, and a life of the author by White Kennett. Joints cracked, rubbing to the covers, lengthy text to the front free flypaper, paper clean and fresh with only minimal age toning to the paper edges. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Antiquarian]. N° de ref. del artículo 47169

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