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De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque eius contra Regem coniuratione, foedo cum Bothuelio adulterio,...

De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque eius contra Regem coniuratione, foedo cum Bothuelio adulterio, nefaria in maritum crudelitate & rabie, horrendo insuper & deterrimo eiusdem parricidio: plena, & tragica planè historia.

N.p. but London: John Day, no date but, 1571.

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Bound in near-contemporary English or possibly Scottish sheep, covers bordered with a single gilt and double blind rule, gilt thistle ornament on the boards, spine double gilt ruled in compartments. Title with small typographical ornament, woodcut initials, authors name mss. in contemporary hand on title, price ‘4s’ above, ‘Dupplin Castle’...

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The Roman Actor. A Tragaedie. As it hath diuers times beene, with good allowance acted, at the...

The Roman Actor. A Tragaedie. As it hath diuers times beene, with good allowance acted, at the private play-house in the Black-Friers, by the Kings Majesties Servants. Written by Philip Massinger.

London: Printed by B[ernard]. A[lsop]. and T[homas]. F[awcet]. for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1629.

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A very good copy in early 20th c. three-quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards, rebacked. Contents lightly toned and with scattered light browning, last leaf dusty with fraying and browning at its edges. Two headlines shaved. With a woodcut printer’s device on the title, woodcut head-pieces and an initial.First...

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The Fatall Dowry: A Tragedy, As it hath beene often acted at the Priuate House in Blackefryers,...

The Fatall Dowry: A Tragedy, As it hath beene often acted at the Priuate House in Blackefryers, by his Maiesties Seruants. Written by P.M. and N.F.

London: Printed by Iohn Norton, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop at the Crane, in Pauls Church-yard, 1632.

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A fine copy with good margins bound in early 20th c. red crushed morocco (rebacked) with gilt turn-ins, by Riviere & Son. A few discreet marginal repairs, title with small imperfection to upper blank margin, small rust spot on E4, head of a few leaves soiled, verso of final leaf...

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Annotationes Phi. Melanchthonis, omnium eruditiss. In euangelium Matthaei pro communi...

Annotationes Phi. Melanchthonis, omnium eruditiss. In euangelium Matthaei pro communi christianismi commodo.

Tübingen, Ulrich Morhart the Elder, June, 1523.

Price: $7,600.00

Three works bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, ruled and stamped in blind, both clasps intact, with light stains and smudges. The text is in excellent, crisp condition, the last three leaves with a slim worm trail affecting a couple of words on each leaf. Contemporary manuscript index...

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Ursache Warumb die gemainde und Kirchen Christi ungegrünten Concilien nit sollen stadt geben,...

Ursache Warumb die gemainde und Kirchen Christi ungegrünten Concilien nit sollen stadt geben, sonder bey der Bibel, das ist bey dem rainen Wort Gottes, festhalten und bleyben, auss Latein Ph. Mel. verdeutschet durch Justum Jonam Doct.

Regenspurg: Hans Khol, 1553.

Price: $3,500.00

Modern paste-paper boards. A very nice copy with just a few instances of light soiling.The German-language edition, translated by Justus Jonas the Elder, of Melanchthon’s “Causae quare et amplexae sint, et retinendam ducant doctrinam, quam profitentur, ecclesiae, quae Confessionem Augustae exhibitam imperatori sequuntur & quare iniquis iudicibus, collectis in synodo...

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Chronica compendiosissima ab exordio mundi usque ad annum 1534. Tractatus de septuaginta...

Chronica compendiosissima ab exordio mundi usque ad annum 1534. Tractatus de septuaginta hebdomadibus Danielis. Adjectae sunt epistolae duae christiani regis Aethiopiae, Davidis, ad Clementem septimum, anno Domini 1533 destinatae

Antwerp: Symon Coquus [i.e. Simon Cocus, or Cock], 1534.

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Bound in 19th century green morocco, elaborately decorated with large corner-pieces and borders in gilt and blind, spine in 5 compartments, titled direct to spine, a.e.g, a fine, clean copy, cut a little close at the head but never touching the text. With 7 and 8-line metal-cut historiated initials throughout...

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Cathecismo de la doctrina Christiana, en lengua zaapoteca. Leonardo MEXICO. INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES....

Cathecismo de la doctrina Christiana, en lengua zaapoteca.

Puebla: Por la viuda de M. de Ortega [Manuela Cerezo], y por su original en la Oficina palafoxiana de dicha ciudad, 1776.

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Bound in later vellum, remains of ties. Text fresh and crisp with two tiny, in-prick wormholes in the lower margin, touching a few letters.Second edition of a catechism with Zapotec and Spanish text printed in double columns. The book's preliminaries are dated in Oaxaca in 1732. Medina discusses an alleged...

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Arte De Lengua Mexicana, dispuesto por orden, y mandato de N. Rmo P. Fr. Francisco Treviño,...

Arte De Lengua Mexicana, dispuesto por orden, y mandato de N. Rmo P. Fr. Francisco Treviño, predicador theologo, padre de la santa Provincia de Burgos, y comissario general de todas las de la Nueva-España, y por el reverendo, y venerable diffinitorio de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio. Dedicado al bienaventurado S. Antonio de Padua.

Mexico: Por Francisco Rodríguez Lupercio, 1673.

Price: $12,500.00

Text in Spanish and Nahuatl. A very good copy bound in contemporary vellum (soiled, fore-edge of rear cover nibbled.) Mild soiling to text, v. light dampstain to first two leaves, inner margin of first two leaves with small defects, upper corner of text and blank outer margin of last few...

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Cathecismo Romano, traducido en Castellano, y Mexicano por el P.F. Manuel Perez. Manuel MEXICO....

Cathecismo Romano, traducido en Castellano, y Mexicano por el P.F. Manuel Perez.

Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723.

Price: $10,600.00

Bound in original limp vellum, re-cased, endpapers renewed. A nice copy with light scattered stains. Provenance: small collector’s stamp “G” on title.Sole edition of this important translation of the Catholic catechism into Nahuatl, which marks a significant development in translation theory and practice. Father Pérez was one of Mexico's leading...

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Some Account of Mines, and the advantages of them to this kingdom. With an appendix relating to...

Some Account of Mines, and the advantages of them to this kingdom. With an appendix relating to the mine-adventure in Wales.

London: Printed by W. B. for John Wyat, 1707.

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Title printed within double-ruled border. Contemporary paneled calf (joints cracking, foot of spine worn), raised bands on spine, green morocco label. A nice copy with just a short (2 cm.) worm-track to last 5 leaves touching one letter. Rare. 5 copies recorded in North America: Folger, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Minnesota...

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A mirour for magistrates: being a true chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of such...

A mirour for magistrates: being a true chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of such vnfortunate princes and men of note, as haue happened since the first entrance of Brute into this iland, vntill this our latter age. Newly enlarged with a last part, called A winter nights vision, being an addition of such tragedies, especially famous, as are exempted in the former historie, with a poem annexed, called Englands Eliza.

London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1610.

Price: $25,000.00

A fine copy, bound in 17th c. calf, rebacked, with only minor cosmetic blemishes.This edition collects all three earlier parts of “Mirrour for Magistrates” and adds “A Winter Nights Vision” and “Englands Eliza,” written by Richard Niccols. “Shakespeare was familiar with it and used the story of Queen Cordelia for...

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Ambassades Mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies, vers les...

Ambassades Mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies, vers les Empereurs du Japon. Contenant plusieurs choses remarquables arrivées pendant le voyage des Ambassadeurs; et deplus, la Description des Villes, Bourgs, Chateaux, Forteresses, Temples & autres batimens: Des animaux, des Plantes, Montagnes, Riviéres, Fonteines; Des moeurs, coutumes, Religions & habillemens des Japonois: Comme aussi leurs exploits de guerre, & les révolutions tant anciennes que modernes que ces Peuplles ont essuyées. Le toot Enrichi de Figures dessinées sur les lieux, & tiré des Mémoires des Ambassadeurs de la Compagnie.

Amsterdam: Jacob de Meurs, 1680.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in seventeenth-century calf. Illustrated with an added engraved title page, 1 engraved folding map, 25 double-paged engraved views, and 71 text engravings. The main title is printed in red and black with an engraved vignette. The second part of the work is introduced by a divisional title page: "Ambassade...

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Ragguaglio delle Antichità e Rarità che si conservano nella Galleria Mediceo-Imperiale di...

Ragguaglio delle Antichità e Rarità che si conservano nella Galleria Mediceo-Imperiale di Firenze. Parte I [all published] Opera Di Giuseppe Bianchi Custode Della Medesima…

Florence: Nella stamperia Imperiale, 1759.

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A crisp, bright copy in original three-quarter calf and speckled paper over boards, spine with floral ornaments (light wear). The text is adorned with attractive woodcut initials and headpieces.First edition of the first guide to one of the world’s most important museums. This guide to the Medici collections of the...

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Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l’art, qui composent le...

Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l’art, qui composent le cabinet de M. Davila, avec figures en taille-douce.

Paris: M. Lambert for Briasson, 1767.

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Bound in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with morocco labels, light wear, small imperfections. Internally, all three volumes are in excellent condition. All 30 plates are crisp and in fine impressions.First and sole edition of this comprehensive catalogue of the collection of Pedro Francisco Dávila. The Dávila catalog (as it...

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Musurgia Universalis sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X. libros digesta. Athanasius MUSIC....

Musurgia Universalis sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X. libros digesta.

Rome: Ex Typographia Hæredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1650.

Price: $18,000.00

Two volumes bound as one. With an added engraved title page engraved by Baronius (possibly Jean Baron) after Johannes Paul Schor, an engraved portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria engraved by Paulus Pontius after Schor, and 21 added engraved plates, numbered I-III, IV/V, VI-X, XI/XII, XIII-XXIII, that is, with...

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The Safegard of Saylers: or, Great Rutter, Containing the courses, distances, soundings, flouds...

The Safegard of Saylers: or, Great Rutter, Containing the courses, distances, soundings, flouds and ebbs, with the markes for the entring of sundry harboroughs, both of England, France, Spain, Ireland, Flanders, and the Sounds of Denmarke, with other Necessary Rules of common Navigation. Translated out of Dutch into English, by Robert Norman, hydrographer. Newly Corrected with Discovery of a new Spits.

London: Printed by T[homas]. F[awcet]. for G. Hurlock, and are to be sold at his Shop at St. Magnus-corner, 1647.

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A very fine, fresh copy. Bound in modern blind-ruled calf. Very small tear at upper blank margin of title, no loss. With an elaborate woodcut title border [McKerrow & Ferguson 302] showing celestial and terrestrial spheres, mariners standing on column bases taking sightings with mariner’s staves, a ship, and a....

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Speculum Nauticum. A Looking Glasse for Sea-men: Wherein they may behold a small Instrument...

Speculum Nauticum. A Looking Glasse for Sea-men: Wherein they may behold a small Instrument called the Plain Scale, whereby all questions nauticall, and propositions astronomicall are very easily and demonstratively wrought. Published for the use and benefit of such as will make good use of it. By Iohn Aspley, student in physick, and practitioner of the mathematicks, in the citie of London. The fourth Edition corrected.

London: Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by George Hurlock, at his shop at Saint Magnus corner, 1647.

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A very crisp and clean copy. A very fine, fresh copy. Bound in modern blind-ruled calf. Two small ink marks at foot of title. Complete with the final blank leaf. Illustrated with diagrams and two small woodcuts of the instrument (the plane scale). Ornamental initials, and headpieces. Excellent.A fine copy...

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COSTRUZIONE ED USO DEL COMPASSO DI PROPORZIONE. Giovanni NAVIGATION. Pagnini

COSTRUZIONE ED USO DEL COMPASSO DI PROPORZIONE.

NAPLES: IGNAZIO RUSSO, 1753.

Price: $3,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum over boards. Foxing. Complete with the 15 engraved plates.Little is known of the author other than that he wrote another book on navigation in 1750. This work on the sector was translated into Spanish in 1758. By the time this book was published, the design of the...

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An addition declaratorie to the bulles, with a searching of the maze. Scene [sic] and allowed....

An addition declaratorie to the bulles, with a searching of the maze. Scene [sic] and allowed

London: by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, 1570.

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Bound in modern half-morocco, spine with title tooled in gold. A fine copy with negligible soiling and several early annotations (leaf A4 “The form of oath to be ministered unto papists”; B1 “qualifiers”, B2 note on St. Francis.).A rare work from a time of great instability in the reign of...

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Cases in Midwifry. Revis’d and publish’d by Edward Hody. William OBSTETRICS. MIDWIFERY....

Cases in Midwifry. Revis’d and publish’d by Edward Hody.

London: Printed for B. Motte…and T. Wotton, 1734.

Price: $6,000.00

With 3 engraved plates (1 folding). Bound in contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments (small repairs to spine and corners), new red morocco label. A very fine and clean copy with very minor blemishes as follows: Opening leaf, last page and last plate a little creased, a few leaves...

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Opera] Edited by Andrea Navagero. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 B. C.-17 A. D

[Opera] Edited by Andrea Navagero.

Venice: In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, 1515-, 1516.

Price: $9,600.00

Three volumes bound in matching 19th c. parchment, Aldine device in gold on the boards, spines with citron morocco labels, gilt. Volumes mis-numbered on spines. Marbled endpapers. A tall set, overall clean with minor blemishes (see descriptions of individual volumes below.).Edited by the Venetian poet Andrea Navagero (1483—1529), official historian...

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Metamorphoseon libri XV. Manuscript on paper. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC - 17 AD

Metamorphoseon libri XV. Manuscript on paper.

[Germany]: No later than September, 1462.

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A complete, dated 15th century manuscript of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”, written in a German cursive bookhand, with contemporary interlinear and marginal glosses throughout (for comparison, see Lieftinck, Manuscrits datés conservés dans les Pays-Bas, Vol. I, plate 457 showing a similar hand, Germany 1470). Beautifully preserved, the text in immaculate condition, the...

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Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumenta. Ex postrema Iacobi Micylli...

Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumenta. Ex postrema Iacobi Micylli recognitione.

Frankfurt: Joh. Feyerabend for S. Feyerabend, H. Takke and P. Fischer, 1587.

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Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin, ruled and tooled in blind, with sheaves of wheat and medallion portrait heads (soiled, minor defect to pigskin of lower board, lacking clasps. Internally a nice copy with the very faintest of toning, some 17th c. line numbering, a very few, insignificant stains, and a....

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I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura di Andrea Palladio. Ne’ quali, dopo vn breue trattato de’...

I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura di Andrea Palladio. Ne’ quali, dopo vn breue trattato de’ cinque ordini, & di quelli auertimenti, che sono piu necessarij nel fabricare; si tratta delle case private, delle vie, de i ponti, delle piazze, de i Xisti, et de’ tempij

Venice: Apresso Bartolomeo Carampello, 1581.

Price: $24,000.00

Bound in 18th-century speckled calf, spine tooled in gold (extremities worn, a few scrapes to the boards, corners bumped, small losses to gilding on spine and label.) A fine, crisp copy internally with minor faults: the slightest hint of discoloration in some signatures, occ. marginal blemishes, light soiling to upper...

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Relation des missions du Paraguai, traduite de l'italien de M. Muratori. Lodovico Antonio...

Relation des missions du Paraguai, traduite de l'italien de M. Muratori

Paris: chez Bordelet, libraire, rue S. Jacques, vis-à-vis le Collége de Jésuites, à Saint Ignace, 1754.

Price: $3,500.00

This is an attractive copy in contemporary mottled calf, spine richly tooled in gold, light wear to head and foot of spine and extremities. The text is in fine condition with a few small marginal stains (lvs. G1-2, N8, O1) and another small stain to the margins in the final...

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