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LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MURDER, AND FOOTBALL
The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge with all the Processe of the Cessions, Warrantes Supercedias & all that longeth to ony Justyce to make Endytementes of haute Treason petyt Treason Felonyes Appeles Trespas upon Statutes, Trespas contra Regis Pacem Nocumentis with dyvers Thynges more as it appereth in the Kalender of the same Boke.
[Colophon: London, Richard Pynson], [1505–6?].
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'THE BIBLE OF EUROPEAN SINOPHILIA' A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, containing the Geography and History (natural as well as civil) of those Countries, enrich’d with general and particular Maps, and adorned with a great number of Cuts, from the French of P. J. B. Du Halde, Jesuit: with Notes geographical, historical, and critical; and other Improvements, particularly in the Maps, by the Translator …
London, T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738 [–1741].
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CONTEMPORARY CALF, WITH THE WORLD MAP 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.
London, ‘George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie’, 1589.
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MASTERPIECES OF HIGH RENAISSANCE LOMBARD ILLUMINATION Three very large historiated initials cut from a set of choirbooks.
Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.
![Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime a Paris. De lentreprise et voyage de Napples. Auquel est compris commant le roy Charles huitiesme de ce nom a banyere desployee passa et rapassa de iournee en iournee depuis Lyon iusques a napples et de napples iusques a Lyon. E[n]semble plusieurs aultres choses faictes et composees par reverend pere en dieu monsigneur octovie[n] de sainct Gelais evesque da[n]golesme et par Maistre Andry de la vigne secretaire de monsieur le duc de Savoye avec aultres.](https://prd.assets.books.quaritch.com/images/G2700_03.JPG)
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THE FIRST WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPUCHIN MISSION TO MARANHAO, BRAZIL 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.
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SAFAVID QUR’AN HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY A QAJAR SCHOLAR Qur’an.
Persia (probably Shiraz), sixteenth century, c. AD 1600 and c. AD 1850.
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‘THE GREATEST OF THE MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARIES’ Catholicon.
[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), not after 1475.]
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MARRIAGE, THE MOON, A MANUAL FOR CONFESSORS, AND MORE Sammelband of ten works.
Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber, c. 1481–1491.
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BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS 156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
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IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius Dyscolus: De constructione; Herodianus: De numeris.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25 December 1495.]
![Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii [– Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit explanatio nomenclaturae botanicae] … Tomus primus [– tertius].](https://prd.assets.books.quaritch.com/images/G2399_08.JPG)
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KARL POPPER'S 'CONJECTURING AND REFUTING':
THE PHILOSOPHER'S CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS, AND REWORK
A substantial archive of books and associated working papers from one of the most important philosophers of modernity; from the archive of his assistant, Dr Ivan Slade.
London et al., 1960s–1970s.
