Ethnography.- [Boemus (Johannes)] The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and Lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike and Asie, [translated by William Watreman], first English edition, black letter, title with woodcut architectural frame, large woodcut criblé initials, lacking both blanks *4 and Z4 (as often), faint contemporary ink inscription to head and foot of title (slightly trimmed at head, also one or two side-notes), some light soiling, slight worming to inner margin occasionally affecting text, with black letter printer's waste used as front free endpapers (none to rear), contemporary limp vellum with ties, rubbed and stained, lacking ties, later armorial bookplate mounted on front pastedown, preserved in morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, [ESTC S102775; STC 3197], 8vo, by Jhon Kingstone and Henry Sutton, 1555.

⁂ Scarce. The first scientific attempt at ethnographic classification, and including the earliest extracts of Josephus in English.