Chaloner (Sir Thomas, the elder, 1521-1565). Autograph inscription signed, 'Sum Thomae Chaloneri 1557', inscribed at the head of a printed title-page of Wolfgang Lazius' Commentariorum Reipub. Romanae illius. in exteris provincijs, bello acquistis, contstitutae, libri duodecim, [1551], title-page cut down and peppered with worm holes including two touching lettering of 'Thomae', sheet size 33 x 17.5 , together with: Chamberleyne (or Chamberlayne, or Chamberlin, John, 1562-1645). Autograph Letter Signed, 'John Chamberleyne', 17 December 1634, to Sir Robert Pie (or Pye), telling that Lord Tottington gave him a note to send 'and I shall intreat you to send me but two lynes of your receipt thereof, and yf nothinge canne be done before Fridaie morninge, I have intreated S[i]r Henrie Knolles to put you in minde of my busines w[i]th whome I have left a blancke for the L150 and will leave another for this L50 and soe ye rest', a little dust soiling, two small holes to left edge not affecting text, one page with integral address leaf and remains of seal, 8vo (Qty: 2) A rare autograph. 'To the Elizabethans, Chaloner's fame rested not on his English works, but on his Latin poetry, his military and diplomatic service to four Tudor monarchs, and his escape from drowning off the coast of Algiers. But today he is mostly remembered as the first translator into English of Desiderus Erasmus's In Praise of Folly (1549)', ODNB.
Chaloner (Sir Thomas, the elder, 1521-1565). Autograph inscription signed, 'Sum Thomae Chaloneri 1557', inscribed at the head of a printed title-page of Wolfgang Lazius' Commentariorum Reipub. Romanae illius. in exteris provincijs, bello acquistis, contstitutae, libri duodecim, [1551], title-page cut down and peppered with worm holes including two touching lettering of 'Thomae', sheet size 33 x 17.5 , together with: Chamberleyne (or Chamberlayne, or Chamberlin, John, 1562-1645). Autograph Letter Signed, 'John Chamberleyne', 17 December 1634, to Sir Robert Pie (or Pye), telling that Lord Tottington gave him a note to send 'and I shall intreat you to send me but two lynes of your receipt thereof, and yf nothinge canne be done before Fridaie morninge, I have intreated S[i]r Henrie Knolles to put you in minde of my busines w[i]th whome I have left a blancke for the L150 and will leave another for this L50 and soe ye rest', a little dust soiling, two small holes to left edge not affecting text, one page with integral address leaf and remains of seal, 8vo (Qty: 2) A rare autograph. 'To the Elizabethans, Chaloner's fame rested not on his English works, but on his Latin poetry, his military and diplomatic service to four Tudor monarchs, and his escape from drowning off the coast of Algiers. But today he is mostly remembered as the first translator into English of Desiderus Erasmus's In Praise of Folly (1549)', ODNB.
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