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Item Opera Maxentii Johannis, Servi Dei, pulchra vetustatis Monumenta, in codem Codicerepreta; Edited by Johannes Cochlaeus

Item Opera Maxentii Johannis, Servi Dei, pulchra vetustatis Monumenta, in codem Codicerepreta; Edited by Johannes Cochlaeus

by Fulgentius of Ruspe [Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius]

Heganau: Thomas Anshelm for Johann Koberger, 1520. First edition. leather_bound. Later full vellum. Very good. 102 leaves (35 leaves) (1 leaf). Folio, 29.5 x 22 cm. General and diviinional titles within woodcut borders. The author, born in modern day Tunisia in 462. He became a monk writing works to help instruct the Chrisitans of Africa. As bishop of Ruspe in Tunisia he was later banished to Sardinia in 520 after complaints from the local Arian clergy. The editor, a German humanist and a leading Roman... Read more about this item
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£2,096.61
Les Reports des Divers Special Cases Argue & Adjudge en le Court del bank le Roy... [bound with] Le Second Part [Mes le primer en temps] de les reports du Thomas Siderfin..

Les Reports des Divers Special Cases Argue & Adjudge en le Court del bank le Roy... [bound with] Le Second Part [Mes le primer en temps] de les reports du Thomas Siderfin..

by Siderfin, Thomas

London: Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires, For Samuel Keble at the Turks-Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleetstreet [and same] and Daniel Brown at the sign of the Black Swan and Bible without Temple Bar, 1684. First editions. Folio, 31x20cm, [4], 467, [83]pp and [8], 179, [11]pp. To the reader sections and licence-to-print leaves for each publication in English, the remainder of each in French. Law buckram, red and black spine labels... Read more about this item
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£411.10
Psalterium Davidicum Graecolatinum

Psalterium Davidicum Graecolatinum

Antwerp: Ioan. Steelsii, 1543. Full Calf. Good. 16mo. 113 by 75 mm. Paginated partially in ink, with about 330 leaves. Psalms rendered in both Greek and Latin. Held only by Aberdeen, Luzern and SSB (Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek), according to OCLC First Search, although there were other contemporaneous versions of the same. Condition: calf of binding scuffed somewhat heavily in places, with extremities, joints and edges rubbed. Minor wormholing in early leaves -- no effect on readability.
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£1,027.75
Quaestionum Juris Publici, Libri Duo, Quorum Primus Est de Rebus..

Quaestionum Juris Publici, Libri Duo, Quorum Primus Est de Rebus..

by [Laws of War] Bynkershoek, Cornelius van

Leiden: Joannem van Kerckhem, 1737. First edition. 4to, 20x16cm, [xxiv], 384, [32]pp. Title in red and black with engraved vignette illustration. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked with original spine label laid in. Former owner's bookplate and stamp to front pastedown, lacking front free endpaper else clean internally. Boards a bit rubbed at corners. An attractive copy. Perhaps one of Dutch writer, Cornelius van Bynkershoek's (1673-1743), most important and influential works, being a study... Read more about this item
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£328.88
Het Voorhof der Ziele

Het Voorhof der Ziele

by De Hooghe, Romein, illustrator. Hoogstraeten, Frans Van

Rotterdam: Fransois van Hoogstraeten, 1668. Full Vellum. Very Good. 4to. 18.5 by 14 cm. [16], 199, [9] pp. With title and 60 additional high Baroque copper engravings, slightly over half-page in size, by de Hooghe. Landwehr 325. Each emblem with a Dutch caption and either Latin or Spanish (one in Italian) caption as well, followed by Dutch verse. The title might be translated as "Fore-court of Souls". This was the first book illustrated by de Hooghe. Contemporary or near contemporary... Read more about this item
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£1,438.85
Thomae Smithi Angli De republica Anglorum libri tres:quibus accesserunt chorographica illius descriptio, aliique politici tractatus

Thomae Smithi Angli De republica Anglorum libri tres:quibus accesserunt chorographica illius descriptio, aliique politici tractatus

by Smith, Sir Thomas

Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1630. Later printing. Hardcover. Contemporary full vellum with wallet edges. Very good/Near fine. 404 pages. 24mo, 11 x 5 cm, [*1-*24,A1-Z24,Aa1-Cc8], first published posthumously in 1583. A trusted Protestant counsellor of Elizabeth I, he and John Cheke were the great classical scholars of the time in England. This, his best known work went through numerous printings, and is in the Elzevir series, "Petites Republiques." WILLEMS 337. Engraved title depicting allegorical... Read more about this item
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£263.10
ATHANASII KIRCHERI, SOCIETATIS IESU. MAGNES SIVE ARTE MAGNETICA OPUS TRIPARTITUM. QUO UNIVERSAMAGNETIS NATURA, EIUSQUE IN OMNIBUS SCIENTIJS & ARTIBUS USUS, NOVA METHODO EXPLICATUR, ETC

ATHANASII KIRCHERI, SOCIETATIS IESU. MAGNES SIVE ARTE MAGNETICA OPUS TRIPARTITUM. QUO UNIVERSAMAGNETIS NATURA, EIUSQUE IN OMNIBUS SCIENTIJS & ARTIBUS USUS, NOVA METHODO EXPLICATUR, ETC

by KIRCHER, Athanasius

Rome: B. Deuersin, & Z. Masotti, 1654. Third, and best, Edition. Hardcover. Two small institutional stamps on the title page with an early annotation. Worming to the title and first few pages as well as the last few of the index and the binding, extensive on a few pages; the rest of the text fine. Folio (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in contemporary vellum; [xxxii (including engraved title-page)], 618, [24] pages. Title page printed in red and black with engraved printer's device; additional engraved title... Read more about this item
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£7,708.12
An Easie and Familiar Method Whereby to Judge the Effects Depending on Eclipses, Either of the Sun or Moon

An Easie and Familiar Method Whereby to Judge the Effects Depending on Eclipses, Either of the Sun or Moon

by [Charles II] Lilly, William

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, and H. Blunden, at the Castle in Corn-Hill, 1652. First edition. 4to, 18x13cm, [2], 36pp. Incomplete. A-E4, lacking pgs 37-44. Paper boards sewn in red and gold floral patterned silk with metallic rickrack trim. Armorial Plate of Charles II attached to front board, sewn in under inner flap. Loose front endpaper, loose title, and then remainder of signatures, including rear endpaper, attached to each other with remnants of an old spine, and laid in. Old stab... Read more about this item
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£616.65
Two Early Sixteenth Century Editions of Classical Histories, One Edited by Erasmus

Two Early Sixteenth Century Editions of Classical Histories, One Edited by Erasmus

by Attractive Editions of Quintus Curtius and Orosius

Quintus Curtius Rufus, De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. Cum annotationibus D. ErasmiFolio. [4], LXXXIX leaves; [10], 124 pages. Late sixteenth (?) century leather; light scuffing, hinges cracked but cords holding tightly; insect damage to text block with loss of text throughout; margins in Orosius trimmed close, affecting title image. First printing of Erasmus' critical edition of Quintus Curtius. This first century Roman biography of Alexander the Great was an early Renaissance bestseller, with... Read more about this item
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£1,644.40
THE HARMONY OF BIRDS. A Poem Printed By John Wight In The Middle Of The Sixteenth Century And Now Reprinted By James E.Masters

THE HARMONY OF BIRDS. A Poem Printed By John Wight In The Middle Of The Sixteenth Century And Now Reprinted By James E.Masters

Shaftesbury: The High House Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown; soiling and small stains to cover. Very Good. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cloth-backed blue boards with paper labels on the spine and front cover, extra labels tipped in at rear. One of 1000 copies printed on pure rag paper. Volume IV translated from the Greek by Stephen Mackenna. Part of the Library of Philosophical Translations. Copy #46 of 170 printed on hand-made paper.
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£36.01
Antoine Vérard. Illustrated Monographs No. VII.

Antoine Vérard. Illustrated Monographs No. VII.

by MACFARLANE (John)

London: Printed for The Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press. 1900. First Edition, 4to, xxxii,143,[1]pp., frontis., title printed in red and black, 79 facsimile woodcuts, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, a very good copy. Vérard was one of the earliest publishers to popularise the illustrated book. Provenance: from the library of Dr Elizabeth Armstrong with her signature to front-free endpaper.
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£102.13
A Century of Dutch Manuscript Illumination

A Century of Dutch Manuscript Illumination

by Delaisse, L.M.J

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine. 102 pages in text. 161 black and white illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Index. California Studies in the History of Art, 6:Walter Horn, General Editor. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M403. "The best art historical study of Dutch manuscript painting from its early period in the late 14th century to the late 15th century.
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£41.11
Mercurii Philosophici Firmamentum Firmianum Descriptionem et Usum Globi Artificialis Coelestis..

Mercurii Philosophici Firmamentum Firmianum Descriptionem et Usum Globi Artificialis Coelestis..

by Thomas, Corbinianus

Frankfurt & Leipzig: N.P., 1730. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Johann Christoph Berendt. P. Corbiniano [Corbinianus] Thomas. Mercurii Philosophici Firmamentum Firmianum Descriptionem et Usum Globi Artificialis Coelestis, ac Asterismos ejusdem ad ineuntem annum 1730. reductos LXXXVI. Iconismis æri incisis exhibens. Authore P. Corbiniano Thomas, Benedictino Elchingensi, AA. LL. et Philosophiæ Doctore, ac in Alma et Archi-Episcopali Universitate Salisburgensi Matheseos Porfessore Ordinario. Cum... Read more about this item
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£7,399.80
The Decorated Letter

The Decorated Letter

by Alexander, J.J.G

New York: Braziller, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 40 pages. Forty-color plates, and eighteen black and white figures. Bibliography. With critical commentary on each color plate by the author. Owner notation.
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£20.56
Ujalat ul Jografiya (the Geographic brief - عجالة الجغرافيا) The first atlas geographic work to be printed by Muslims, the text volume of Atlas-i Cedid

Ujalat ul Jografiya (the Geographic brief - عجالة الجغرافيا) The first atlas geographic work to be printed by Muslims, the text volume of Atlas-i Cedid

by Mahmoud Rayf Efendi, Mahmud Raif Pasha

45 x 38 cm. Ottoman Turkish text. printed by Abdurrahman el Muderris in 1219 AH, 1804 AD.
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£32,888.00
Cl. Claudianus, Theod. Pulmanni Craneburgii Diligentia, & fide summa, à vetustis codicibus restitutus. Antverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1571. [Bound with] AD CL Claudiani V. C. Opera Martini Antonii Del Rio Notae. Antverpiae, Plantini 1572 [Bound with] Aviani Aesopicarum Fabularum Liber, A Theod. Pulmanno Craneburgio ex Membranis in ucem editus. liber A Theod. Pulmanno neburgio ex membranis in Lucem Editus.Antverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1572

Cl. Claudianus, Theod. Pulmanni Craneburgii Diligentia, & fide summa, à vetustis codicibus restitutus. Antverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1571. [Bound with] AD CL Claudiani V. C. Opera Martini Antonii Del Rio Notae. Antverpiae, Plantini 1572 [Bound with] Aviani Aesopicarum Fabularum Liber, A Theod. Pulmanno Craneburgio ex Membranis in ucem editus. liber A Theod. Pulmanno neburgio ex membranis in Lucem Editus.Antverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1572

by Claudien (Claudius Claudianus); Martin Antoine Del Rio; Flavius Avianus (Christopher Plantin, Printer)

Antverpiae: Christophori Plantini. Good. 1571. First Edition. Hardcover. This is a nice, clear example of early printing from the famous Plantinian press. Chriophori Plantini (1520 - 1589) was a well-known French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Amsterdam. He is perhaps the most famous printer of this era. The buildings housing the famous press are still in existence and are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This book contains three separate works in one volume, with separate title... Read more about this item
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£534.43
Salname Hedjaz, the first yearbook of hedjaz

Salname Hedjaz, the first yearbook of hedjaz

by The Ottoman authority in Hejaz

182 p. Ottoman Turkish text. The first official year book printed in the lithograph press in Mecca. Early work to be printed in Hedjaz. Rare.
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£8,222.00
The Reports of that Learned Sir Henry Hobart Knight: late Lord Chiefe Justice of his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster..

The Reports of that Learned Sir Henry Hobart Knight: late Lord Chiefe Justice of his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster..

by [Founding Father Signed] Hobart, Sir Henry

London: Printed by the Assignes of Iohn More Esquire, 1641. First edition. 4to, 21x17cm, complete and continuous despite the many pagination errors, which a prior owner has attempted to correct in manuscript, 489 (i.e. 463), [6]pp. Ownership signatures of Nicholas Vandike (Van Dyke) and Kensey Johns. Few annotations throughout, mostly to table of contents at rear, most in a 17th century hand. From the library of Maurice E. Locke of Dallas with stamps to pastedowns. Chipping to margin of final leaf and... Read more about this item
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£1,027.75
I Quattro Primi Libri di Architettura di Petro Cataneo Senese

I Quattro Primi Libri di Architettura di Petro Cataneo Senese

by Cataneo, Pietro

Vinegia (Venice): Aldus. In casa de' figliuoli di Aldo, 1554. First Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good. Folio, 34.5 by 24 cm. [116] pp. (2 unnumbered leaves, including title, 54 numbered leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves.) Title vignette with Aldus anchor emblem. Repeated on last page. 42 woodcut illustrations, seven of which are full page, in addition to 53 woodcut letter devices, each with a small vignette illustration. Condition: later brown morocco rubbed heavily in corners, less so, along joints,... Read more about this item
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£3,699.90
Quattuor novissima cum multis exemplis pulcherrimis que sunt occasio salutis

Quattuor novissima cum multis exemplis pulcherrimis que sunt occasio salutis

by Gérard de Vliederhoven (ƒl end of the14th -early15th centuries) and to Dionysius Carthusiensis

Cologne: Quentell, 1492. This copy has rubrication on the first few pages with a very nice Lombard initial at the beginning of the text. Quarto. 19 X 14 cm Signatures: a-g⁶ [Lacks leaves g 3.4; GW notes: "In einem Teil der Aufl. fehlt das Doppelbl. g3.4, dessen Ausfall keine merkliche Störung des Textes bedeutet."] ["In part of the edition the double sheet g3.4 is missing, the failure of which does not mean any noticeable disturbance of the text.]. Accipies Woodcut" used by Quentell; depicting St... Read more about this item
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£11,510.80
De Dictis Factisque Memorabilibus collectanea: a Camillo Gilino latina facta

De Dictis Factisque Memorabilibus collectanea: a Camillo Gilino latina facta

by Fulgosi, Baptistae Fulgosi. 1453-1504

Milan: Giacomo Ferrari, 1509. Editio princeps, a Latin translation of the Italian manuscript original, which was never printed. Bound in full early vellum. EDIT 16 CNCE 19894 JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675,; 1:49; Alden, J.E. European Americana,; 509/6; BM STC Italian, 1465-1600,; 281Thacher,; II, p. 100 (Miscellanea); Adams,; F1148; Isaac,; 13634; BM STC Italian, 1465-1600,; p. 281; NUC pre-1956Sabin; 26140; JCB; I, 49; Harrisse Additions; no. 34. Libreria Otto Lange. Catalogue No. 48. CATALOGUE OF BOOKS... Read more about this item
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£5,344.30
Diogenis lærtii historiographi de philosophorum vita decem per q[uam] fecundi libri ad bene beateq[ue] viuendu[m] co[m]motiui

Diogenis lærtii historiographi de philosophorum vita decem per q[uam] fecundi libri ad bene beateq[ue] viuendu[m] co[m]motiui

by Diogenes Lærtius , (Tr: Ambrosius Traversarius 1386-1439.)

Paris: Guy or Jean Marchant, for Jean Petit, 1509. Modern binding in 3/4 calf, marbled boards, marbles end leaves. With the . Ex libris of Jos Nève. Portrait of a philosopher at his writing table on verso of title page.(see back cover of this catalogue. Charming woodcut on last page (Marchant's device). Some nice woodcut initials. Marginal annotations and underlinings.. https://data.cerl.org/istc/id00226000 GW VII Sp.436a Goff D226; H 6197?; Aquilon p. 91; Frasson-Cochet 106; Moreau I 317: Moreau,... Read more about this item
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£3,288.80
Privilegia Urbis Panormi Collecta Iussu Praetoris Petri Specialis

Privilegia Urbis Panormi Collecta Iussu Praetoris Petri Specialis

by Fardella, Enrico Mazzarese (Foreword)

Palermo: Accademia Nazionale Di Scienze Lettere E Arti. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth lettered in gold. Very good. Approx 700 pages. 30 x 21 cm. Introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi. Photographic reproduction of the 15th century Codice Speciale held at the Bibliotec Comunale di Palermo. Reproduces text in red and black, and in myriad colors, the intricate illuminated letters of the original Codex.
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£41.11
Onomasticon Pollucis vocabularii index in latinum tralatus..

Onomasticon Pollucis vocabularii index in latinum tralatus..

by Pollux, Julius

Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1502. First edition. Pollux, Julius [Poludeukes, Ioulios] (fl. 2nd cent. A.D.). [Onomasticon] Pollucis vocabularii index in latinum tralatus, ut vel graece nescientibus nota sint . . . Folio. [104]ff. Venice: apud Aldum, April 1502. 296 x 201 mm. 18th or early 19th cent. gilt-ruled calf, a little rubbed, rebacked preserving original gilt spine. Fine copy. Editio princeps. Pollux, a Greek grammarian and sophist from Alexandria, was appointed professor of rhetoric at the Academy in... Read more about this item
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£8,222.00
De tesseris Hospitalitatis Liber singualris, In quo hospitii universum, apud veteres potissimum, expenditur. Amstelodami, Sumptibus Andreæ Frissi 1670. 12mo, engraved frontispiece by F. Bloteling, engraved vignette on title, 9 engraved plates (2 folding) illustrations in the text, index at end, [12], 227, [25] pp. [Bound with:-] TOMASININ (Jac Philippi) Episcopi Æmoniensis Titvs Livivs Patvinvs

De tesseris Hospitalitatis Liber singualris, In quo hospitii universum, apud veteres potissimum, expenditur. Amstelodami, Sumptibus Andreæ Frissi 1670. 12mo, engraved frontispiece by F. Bloteling, engraved vignette on title, 9 engraved plates (2 folding) illustrations in the text, index at end, [12], 227, [25] pp. [Bound with:-] TOMASININ (Jac Philippi) Episcopi Æmoniensis Titvs Livivs Patvinvs

by TOMASININ (Jac Philippi)

Amstelodami, Sumptibus Andreæ Frissi., 1670. engraved vignette on title, 2 folding plates, index at end,125, [17]pp. Two works in one, 12mo, bookplate of Revd., Geo., Innes, College, Warwick. contemporary calf, upper cover detached, lower joint a little wormed, gilt title and date on spine.
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£268.75
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