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Item #5507 Trivmpho Parthenico qve en Glorias de Maria, Santissima immaculadamente concebida,...

Trivmpho Parthenico qve en Glorias de Maria, Santissima immaculadamente concebida, celebrò la Pontificia, Imperial y Regia Academia Mexicana. En el biennio, que como su Rector la governò el Doctor Don Juan de Narvaez, Tesorero General de la Santa Cruzada en el Arçobispado de Mexico, y al presente Cathedratico de prima de Sagrada Escritura. Describelo D. Carlos de Siguenza, y Gongora, Mexicano, y en ella Cathedratico proprietario de Mathematicas.

Mexico: Por Juan de Ribera, en el Empedradillo, 1683.

Price: $35,000.00

Bound in 18th c. three-quarter sheep and marbled paper over boards, gilt spine with attractive floral tools. Binding worn at the corners with some exposure of the boards beneath the leather; small losses to the marbled paper, some wear to the fore-edge of the lower board. A nice copy with...

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Item #5517 Breve relatione della vita e morte del P. Ludovico Buglio, Missionario della Cina,...

Breve relatione della vita e morte del P. Ludovico Buglio, Missionario della Cina, scritta dal Padre Filippo Grimaldi nella Corte Imperiale di Pekin. Alli 4 ottobre 1682.

[Rome?]: ca. 1683.

Price: $24,000.00

Bound in modern marbled papered boards with leather title label in gilt to the upper board. 17th c. manuscript in ink in a fine secretarial hand, on laid paper with watermark of an anchor within circle. Fine condition, leading edge untrimmed. A little light spotting on the first leaf, very...

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Item #5511 Relaçaõ Summaria da Prizam, Tormentos, e glorioso Martyrio dos Veneraveis Padres...

Relaçaõ Summaria da Prizam, Tormentos, e glorioso Martyrio dos Veneraveis Padres Antonio Joseph, Portuguez, e Tristam de Attimis, Italiano, Ambos da Companhia de Jesus, da V. Provincia da China.

Lisbon: Francisco da Silva, 1751.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in later sheep, boards ruled with gold filet, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and morocco title label (spine sunned, hinges and extremities rubbed, a second label with date loosely inserted). With the ex libris label of H. P. Kraus on the front paste-down. Title with woodcut Jesuit device...

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Item #5502 Ave Maria, sive Maria ab Angelo variis linguis salutata, cui omnia a se collecta...

Ave Maria, sive Maria ab Angelo variis linguis salutata, cui omnia a se collecta scriptaque D D D, P. A. Pfister, S.J.

Chang-hai [Shanghai]: Mission catholique de Tou-cé-wei, 1882.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in recent quarter morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and contrasting title label lettered in gilt. Extremely rare. I have located only 1 copy (at Villanova) in North America.Lithographically printed on leaves folded in the traditional Chinese manner; partly unopened; both the title-leaf and the final...

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Item #5515 [Drop title] Allocutio SSmi. Dni. Nostri BENEDICTI PP. XIV. habita in Consistorio...

[Drop title] Allocutio SSmi. Dni. Nostri BENEDICTI PP. XIV. habita in Consistorio Secreto die 16. Septemb. 1748. De pretiosa morte Petri Martyris ex Ordine Praedicatorum, Episcopi Mauricastrensis, Vicarii Apostolici Provinciae Fo-Kiensis in Regno Sinensi.

[Rome?]: No printer [Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide?], undated but presumably, 1748.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in early 20th c. half morocco and cloth over boards (upper board sunned and with a slim, vertical stain); A very good copy on thick paper, with light old horizontal fold lines, paper a little toned, and slim, very light damp-stain in the margin. I have not traced another...

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Item #5505 Discorso Sopra Il Principio Di Tvtti I Canti D'Orlando Fvrioso. Laura Terracina,...

Discorso Sopra Il Principio Di Tvtti I Canti D'Orlando Fvrioso

Venice: Appresso Gabriel Giolito De'Ferrari, 1559.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in late 20th c. morocco, gilt. With an attractive woodcut headpiece and the Giolito device on the title page. The fine portrait of Laura Terracina, set within an ornate frame, appears on the verso of the same leaf. With woodcut initials and 46 woodcut scenes taken from the 1542...

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Item #5074 Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti di Giorgio Vasari,...

Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti di Giorgio Vasari, pittore & architetto aretino; parte prima e seconda [-terza] ; in questa nuoua edizione diligentemente riviste, ricorrette, accresciute d'alcuni ritratti, & arricchite di postille nel margine.

Bologna: Presso gli heredi di Euangelista Dozza, 1647.

Price: $20,000.00

An extremely fine, bright set. Bound in 17th c. mottled calf, the spines richly gilt (some crackling and wear to the boards). Trivial faults as follows: very short (a few millimeters) worm-trail in the outer margins in the latter half of Vol. I, a small marginal damp-stain in the lower...

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Item #5509 Exercicios Espirituales de San Ignacio, acomodados a el estado, y Profession...

Exercicios Espirituales de San Ignacio, acomodados a el estado, y Profession Religiosa, de las Señoras Virgenes, Esposas de Christo; instruido con vn diario, breve; pero suficiente de todos los éxercicios cotidianos para que se empiezen à exercitar, dispuesto por el P. Prefecto de la Congregacion de la Purissima fundada con autoridad apostolica en el Colegio Maximo de San Pedro, y San Pablo de la Compañia de Iesus de esta corte. Dedicados a las Mismas Señoras Religiosas Virgenes Esposas de Christo.

Mexico: Herederos de la viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1695.

Price: $10,600.00

Bound in late stiff vellum (ties defective, boards slightly bowed). A very good copy with some instances of scattered light foxing, text-block edges dyed an even yellow with blue speckles. Light soiling and wear to the title with some faint adhesion scars; soiling and foxing to the final leaf (with...

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Item #5508 Theatro de virtudes politicas, que constituyen á un Principe: Advertidas en los...

Theatro de virtudes politicas, que constituyen á un Principe: Advertidas en los monarchas antiguos del Mexicano Imperio, con cuyas efigies se hermoseó el Arco triumphal ...

Mexico: Por la viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1680.

Price: $35,000.00

Bound in 19th c. blind-ruled pebbled morocco, surface wear to the hinges (the boards still firmly attached). A very good, clean copy with some small, discreet repairs in the blank outer margin of a number of leaves, never affecting the text; a small worm-trail in the upper margin (not affecting...

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Item #5352 Sammelband of Five Works by Fortunio Liceti: “De regulari motu minimaque parallaxi...

Sammelband of Five Works by Fortunio Liceti: “De regulari motu minimaque parallaxi cometarum caelestium disputationes,” “De terra unico centro motus singularum caeli particularum disputationes,” “De centro, & circumferentia libri duo,” “De natura, et arte libri duo,” “De luminis natura & efficientia libri tres”.

Udine: (all five works) Nicola Schiratti, 1640.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in contemporary carta rustica (light soiling and small stains.) Fine, fresh copies internally with occ. reader's pencil ticks in some blank outer margins and some blemishes as follows: First work with some damp-staining in the lower margin, leaves D2-D3 with ink stains. In the fourth, gathering F is lightly...

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Item #5506 Arte de la lengua japona, dividido en quatro libros según el arte de Nebrixa, con...

Arte de la lengua japona, dividido en quatro libros según el arte de Nebrixa, con algunas voces proprias de la escritura, y otras de los lenguages de Ximo, y del Cami, y con algunas perifrases, y figuras

Mexico: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1738.

Price: $28,000.00

Bound in contemporary vellum. Manuscript annotation at front endpaper “Este libro va para D. Sebastian de Arauna beneficiado, y cura en la Villa de Helorrio en el Señorio de Vizcaya”.An extremely rare Japanese grammar, printed in Mexico for the use of Franciscan missionaries to Japan. It also includes a number...

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Item #5484 Historia del glorioso martirio di sedici sacerdoti martirizati in Inghilterra per la...

Historia del glorioso martirio di sedici sacerdoti martirizati in Inghilterra per la confessione, & difesa della fede catolica, l'anno 1581, 1582, & 1583 : con vna prefatione, che dichiara la loro innocenza; Con vna prefatione, che dichiara la loro innocenza; composta da quelli, che co essi praticauanomen tre erano viui, & si trouorno presenti al lor giuditio, & morte. Tradotta di lingua inglese in italiana da vno del Collegio inglese di Roma. S'è aggiunto il martirio di due altre sacerdoti, & vno secolare inglesi, martirizati l'anno 1577. & 1578.

Macerata: Appresso Sebastiano Martellini, con licenza de' superiori, 1583.

Price: $9,500.00

Bound in 19th c. ivory vellum (hinges repaired at head and foot, light soiling, spine label fragmentary), the boards ruled in gold, the spine gold-tooled with repeating floral tools. Illustrated with six engraved plates of Catholic priests being abused, apprehended, tortured and executed (described in detail, below.) With a woodcut...

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Item #5495 Il discorso della s. Laura Terracina; sopra il principio di tutti i canti di Orlando...

Il discorso della s. Laura Terracina; sopra il principio di tutti i canti di Orlando Furioso.

Venice: in Frezzaria al Segno della Regina, 1579.

Price: $3,000.00

Title printed within a typographic border, with numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Bound in 17th c. sprinkled sheepskin (with some discreet repairs), spine richly gilt with title and floral tools. Occasional light foxing, margin cut a bit close at the head, small stain at lower corner of gatherings E....

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Item #5493 Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non...

Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt. Praemissae epistolae Galilaei de iis, quae post editionem Nuncii Siderii ope perspicilli, nova & admiranda in coelo deprehensa sunt. Item Examen praefationis Joannis Penae Galli in Optica Euclidis, de usu optices in philosophia.

Augsburg: typis Davidis Franci, 1611.

Price: $80,000.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum (re-cased, with discreet repairs, quires re-sewn onto the original sewing supports), manuscript title to spine. A very good copy, with a number of slim worm-trails discreetly filled, some occasionally entering the text, with instances of -very deft- restoration of a few letters or the occasional...

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Item #4718 Veteres Vicentinae urbis atque agri inscriptiones, per Bernardinum Trinagium, nunc...

Veteres Vicentinae urbis atque agri inscriptiones, per Bernardinum Trinagium, nunc primum in lucem editae

Vicenza: Ex typographia G. Angelerii, 1577.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in modern boards. A very nice, crisp copy, title lightly soiled and with small burn hole, leaves A4 and D4 with light stains, blank verso of final leaf with contemporary annotations (light shine-through on recto). Elaborate woodcut printer’s device on title. With decorative woodcut borders throughout. EXTREMELY RARE. I....

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Item #5457 Le antichità romane ossia raccolta delle più interessanti vedute di Roma antica....

Le antichità romane ossia raccolta delle più interessanti vedute di Roma antica. [Bound with] CORAZZARI, LUDOVICO (1758? - 1810?) - Bassorilievi in bronzo delle porte del tempio di S. Pietro in Vaticano di Roma opera del celebre Antonio Pollajouli. (Rome: Pietro Paolo Montagnani, 1793 or after) [and] LASINIO, CARLO (1759-1838); BALZER, JOHANN (1738-1799). Logge del Vaticano a sua eccell.za il sig Barone Cav. dell'ordine di Dannebrogne ... Ermanno De Schubart. Rome: Nicola de Antoni, n.d. [1802]

Rome: presso l’autore, 1819-, 1823.

Price: $48,000.00

A fine, complete set of Rossini's masterpiece, with all 101 engraved plates, bound with two other suites of plates (see below). Bound in contemporary quarter mottled calf and sprinkled paper (plover papier) over heavy boards. The plates are untrimmed, with deckled edges throughout. Dust-soiling to some margins. One short tear...

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Item #5454 [De vita XII Caesarum]. Commentationes conditae a Philippo Beroaldo in Svetonium...

[De vita XII Caesarum]. Commentationes conditae a Philippo Beroaldo in Svetonium Tranquillum. Additis quamplurimis annotamentis: quae ut facilius cognoscantur. Asterien * notavimus. Cali Svetonii vita per Philippum Beroaldum. Call Svetonii vita per Sabellicum. Cum commento eiusdem. Philippi Beroaldi vita per Bartholomeum Blanchinum. Habes insuper mi lector candidae ipsius Tran. Svetonii tabulam vocabulorum.

Venice: per Philippum Pincium Mantuanum, 18 February, 1510.

Price: $16,000.00

The title page features a fine woodcut (8 x 11.5 cm.) depicting the birth of Caesar (repeated in the text). The text is illustrated with an additional 71 small woodcut scenes (50 x 75 mm). Bound in contemporary (Swiss or German) half pigskin over original wooden boards, the pigskin richly...

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Item #5419 A Prognostication everlasting of ryght good effecte. Leonard ASTRONOMY. HOROLOGY....

A Prognostication everlasting of ryght good effecte.

London: Thomas Gemini, 1556.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in modern calf by Bernard Middleton. A fine copy on thick paper with minor defects. The book is illustrated with a woodcut zodiac man (hand-colored in this copy) on the title, numerous woodcut instruments, diagrams, and illustrations that include a model of the Geocentric Solar System, and an illustration...

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Item #5450 In Carum Lucretium poetam commentarii a Ioanne Baptista Pio editi: codice Lucretiano...

In Carum Lucretium poetam commentarii a Ioanne Baptista Pio editi: codice Lucretiano diligenter emendato

Bologna: typis excussoriis editum in ergasterio Hieronymi Baptistæ de Benedictis Platonici Boniensis [Girolamo Benedetti], 1511.

Price: $18,000.00

Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment (lightly soiled, with a peppering of wormholes on the spine) with a citron wash label, gilt, on the spine. An excellent, broad-margined copy on heavy paper. Title lightly soiled, some instances of marginal foxing, occasional light marginal stains (toward the end of the text)...

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Item #5452 Relacion de la persecucion que uvo en la Yglesia de Iapon y de los insignes martyres,...

Relacion de la persecucion que uvo en la Yglesia de Iapon y de los insignes martyres, que gloriosamente dieron su vida en defensa de n[ost]ra santa Fé, el año de 1614 y 615. [with, as issued] Relacion del Martyrio de quarenta y cinco christianos que padecieron por nuestra santa Fe en las tierras de Arima en Noviembre de 1614.

Mexico: Por Ioan Ruyz, 1616.

Price: $30,000.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, with two of four ties preserved. Title-page with woodcut Jesuit device; woodcut headpieces and initials. An attractive, unsophisticated copy with broad margins in its original binding. Light stain on title and following two leaves. Early paper repair at outer margin of title page (removing an...

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Item #5489 Relazione della cattura, e del viaggio del Brasile a Lisbona, e da Lisbona a Genova de...

Relazione della cattura, e del viaggio del Brasile a Lisbona, e da Lisbona a Genova de PP. Gesuiti da Provincia del Brasile.

[Genoa]: 29 July, 1760.

Price: $8,500.00

Manuscript in Italian written in a neat cursive in brown/black ink on laid paper. With some minor foxing, some folding lines, the creases slightly flattened, the bottom edge of the leaves is slightly frayed. Otherwise in very good condition.A harrowing, eye-witness account by a Jesuit Father of the Province of...

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Item #5476 A memoriall of a Christian life. Wherein are treated all such thinges, as apperteyne...

A memoriall of a Christian life. Wherein are treated all such thinges, as apperteyne vnto a Christian to doe, from the beginninge of his conuersion, vntil the ende of his perfection. Deuided into seauen treatises: the particulars whereof are noted in the page followinge. Written first in the Spanishe tongue, by the famous religious father, F. Lewis de Granada, prouinciall of the holie order of Preachers, in the prouince of Portugal.

Rouen: George L’oyselet, 1586.

Price: $10,500.00

The Lyell-Doheny copy, bound in 17th c. calf, later re-backed in lighter speckled calf, corners bumped, boards gilt-ruled. A fine copy with some wear to the title page and paper repairs to the upper corner of the first two leaves (not affecting the text), a few margins soiled. Occasional blemishes...

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Item #5004 Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui...

Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui Monstra quaedam nova & rariora ex recentiorum scriptis addidit. Editio Novissima. Iconibus illustrata.

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.

Price: $9,500.00

Bound in contemporary stiff vellum (soiled, repair to the foot of spine.) The text is in very good condition with a handful of lightly browned gatherings, a few instances of spotting, scattered marginal soiling and light marginal foxing. The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by...

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Item #5488 La Grande Danse macabre des hommes et des femmes ; Historiée et renouvellée de vieux...

La Grande Danse macabre des hommes et des femmes ; Historiée et renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps […] Avec Le débat du Corps & de l’Ame, La Complainte de l’Ame d’amnée, l’Exhortation de bien vivre & de bien mourir, La Vie du mauvais Ante Christ, Les quinze signes du Jugement.

Troyes: chez Jean-Antoine Garnier, ca. 1766 to, 1773.

Price: $16,500.00

Bound with: Le Grand Calendrier et Compost des bergers, composé par le berger de la Grande Montagne, Avec le Compôt naturel reformé selon le retranchement des dix jours, par le Pape Gregoire III. Ensemble la manière comme se doit gouverner le Berger pour empêcher qu’aucun Sorciers ne fassent mourir...

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Item #5444 Perspectiva communis. John OPTICS. Peckham, Luca Gaurico, c. 1230 – 8 December...

Perspectiva communis

Venice: Giovanni Battista Sessa, June, 1504.

Price: $11,000.00

Bound in modern vellum. Title with large woodcut showing the author in his study, surrounded by books, lecturing his students, one of whom takes notes. Sessa's cat-and-mouse printer's device appears on the same leaf.,The text is illustrated with 77 woodcut diagrams. A very fine copy, crisp and bright. There is...

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