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In defensio[n]es Sancti Thomae ab impugnationibus magistri Nicholai Magistrique Mathie.

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Rare Spanish Incunable from the Doheny Collection DEZA, Diego de. In defensio[n]es Sancti Thomae ab impugnationibus magistri Nicholai Magistrique Mathie.

Seville, Meinardus Ungut and Stanislaus Polonus, 4 February 1491.

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

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‘A POLITICAL THINKER OF THE HIGHEST CALIBRE’ AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].   Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from a Gradual.

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[GRADUAL.] Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from a Gradual.

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

A large archive of printed and manuscript material, including drafts of shows and lectures, including portions of Mont Blanc, Mont Blanc to China, poetry, dramatic pieces, a juvenile poem, letters to his sister Laura, a copy of his will.

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MONT BLANC, POMPEI, CHINA (AND DANCING MUMMIES) SMITH, Albert. A large archive of printed and manuscript material, including drafts of shows and lectures, including portions of Mont Blanc, Mont Blanc to China, poetry, dramatic pieces, a juvenile poem, letters to his sister Laura, a copy of his will.

[1820s to 1860s.]

Opera.

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FROM THE FIRST VENETIAN PRESS LACTANTIUS. Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

Histoire de la mission des peres capucins en l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte des singularitez admirables & des meurs merveilleuses des Indiens habitans de ce pais avec les missives et advis qui ont este envoyez de nouveau ...

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THE FIRST WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPUCHIN MISSION TO MARANHAO, BRAZIL ABBEVILLE, Claude d’. Histoire de la mission des peres capucins en l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte des singularitez admirables & des meurs merveilleuses des Indiens habitans de ce pais avec les missives et advis qui ont este envoyez de nouveau ...

Paris, François Huby, 1614.

Poliphili hypnerotomachia, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat [La hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, cioè pugna d’amore in sogno]. 

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THE MOST FAMOUS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE [COLONNA, Francesco.]  Poliphili hypnerotomachia, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat [La hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, cioè pugna d’amore in sogno]. 

Venice, [heirs of Aldus], 1545. 

The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or over Land, to the most remote and farthest distant Quarters of the Earth at any Time within the Compasse of these 1500 Yeeres.

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CONTEMPORARY CALF, WITH THE WORLD MAP HAKLUYT, Richard. The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or over Land, to the most remote and farthest distant Quarters of the Earth at any Time within the Compasse of these 1500 Yeeres.

Imprinted at London by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker … 1589.

Processionarium ordinis fratrum praedicatorum.

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EARLY SPANISH MUSIC PRINTING A WITNESS TO RENAISSANCE READERSHIP [PROCESSIONAL, Dominican use.] Processionarium ordinis fratrum praedicatorum.

Seville, Meinardus Ungut and Stanislaus Polonus, 3 April, 1494.

Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium congregationis S. Salvatoris, Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Denuo reformatae, auctae, summis illustratae, indiceq. locupletissimo exornatae. 

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PRINTED ON VELLUM [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.] Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium congregationis S. Salvatoris, Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Denuo reformatae, auctae, summis illustratae, indiceq. locupletissimo exornatae. 

Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592.

The Federalist: A Collection of Essays written in Favor of the new Constitution, as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 …

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
IN ORIGINAL BOARDS [HAMILTON, Alexander, James MADISON, and John JAY]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays written in Favor of the new Constitution, as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 …

New York: Printed and sold by John and Andrew M’Lean … 1788.

156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits. 

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BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS [LOO, Pieter van, (attributed).]  156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits. 

[Holland, c. 1760–80]. 

Le rozier historial de France contenant deux roziers.  Le p[re]mier rozier contient plusieurs belles rozes et boutons de instructions … pour roys, princes … et gens de guerre … Le seco[n]d rozier autreme[n]t croniques abregees contient plusieurs belles rozes … extraits … de la maison de Fra[n]ce et de Angleterre. 

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GOTHIC CHRONICLES AND MIRROR FOR PRINCES [ROZIER.]  Le rozier historial de France contenant deux roziers.  Le p[re]mier rozier contient plusieurs belles rozes et boutons de instructions … pour roys, princes … et gens de guerre … Le seco[n]d rozier autreme[n]t croniques abregees contient plusieurs belles rozes … extraits … de la maison de Fra[n]ce et de Angleterre. 

Paris, [Gilles Couteau for François Regnault], 26 February 1522 [i.e. 1523]. 

Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei excellentiis [with additions by Ludovicus Brognolo]. 

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HOMILETIC WORKANNOTATED BY MACHIAVELLI'S LAST CONFESSOR ANTONIUS de Vercellis.  Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei excellentiis [with additions by Ludovicus Brognolo]. 

Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, [for Alexander Calcedonius], 16 February 1492/93. 

Letter of Indulgence (<i>in Catalan</i>), <i>incipit </i>‘A Honor …’, granted by Cardinal Luis de Milá, Bishop of Lérida.

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A CATALAN INDULGENCE FOR THE REPAIR OF THE CATHEDRAL OF LÉRIDA [INDULGENCE.]  Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan), incipit ‘A Honor …’, granted by Cardinal Luis de Milá, Bishop of Lérida.

[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

Autograph working manuscript of a collection of essays and pensées entitled ‘La Marche du Jeu’.

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MAQUETTE BY JEANINE FRICKER FRICKER, Bernard. Autograph working manuscript of a collection of essays and pensées entitled ‘La Marche du Jeu’.

Circa 1946-52.

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Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme, della Terra di Promissione, e quasi di tutta la Soria ricuperata da’ Christiani: raccolta in XXIII libri, da Guglielmo Arcivescovo di Tiro, & gran Cancelieri del Regno di Gierusalemme. La quale continua ottantaquattro anni per ordine, fin’al Regno di Baldoino IIII …

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Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme, della Terra di Promissione, e quasi di tutta la Soria ricuperata da’ Christiani: raccolta in XXIII libri, da Guglielmo Arcivescovo di Tiro, & gran Cancelieri del Regno di Gierusalemme. La quale continua ottantaquattro anni per ordine, fin’al Regno di Baldoino IIII …

First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s (1130–1186) important account of the first two crusades and of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, with the addition of a seventeenth-century manuscript detailing a uniquely Italian rendition of the tale of the Wandering Jew.

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PANAMERICAN HEROINE – PERILS, PIRATES, AND PARAMOURS [CHIARI, Pietro (attributed).]

L’Americana ramminga cioè Memorie di donna Jnnez di Quebrada scritte da lei stessa, ed ora pubblicate da M.G. Di S. sua confidente amica.

First edition, rare, of ‘the first Italian novel with a pan-American outlook’ (Catucci, trans.).

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PRESENTED BY THE TRANSLATOR VIRGIL Maro, Publius, and Giovanni Andrea dell’ANGUILLARA (trans.). 

Il primo libro della Eneida di Vergilio, ridotto da Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara in ottava rima … 

First edition of the first book of Anguillara’s verse translation of the Aeneid, a copy printed on strong paper and inscribed by the author.  The humanist, poet, and successful translator of Ovid Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara (1517–1572) undertook to translate into Italian ottava rima the first four books of Virgil’s Aeneid, but only printed two.  According to Argelati, Anguillara left his Aeneid unfinished on purpose in order not to stand in competition with his friend, the translator Annibal Caro; ‘Had he finished it, it would have been more pleasing to read than any of the above named [Caro and Domenichi as well as others] if we can judge by this specimen’ (G. Baretti, The Italian Library (London, 1757), p. 132). 

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