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EARLY OTTOMAN QUR'AN signed Ghaybi bin ‘Umar, Edirne.
Ottoman Turkey, dated the end of Muharram AH 822 (February AD 1419).
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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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BRITAIN’S FIRST EMBASSY TO CHINA Archive of letters and documents from the Macartney Embassy to China.
Britain and China, 1792–1833.
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THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF DAS KAPITAL Capital. A critical analysis of capitalist production … translated from the third edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and edited by Frederick Engels.
London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887.
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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.
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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.
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THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT EUROPEAN STUDY OF CHINA
TRANSLATED AT HAKLUYT'S REQUEST
The Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome of China, and the Situation thereof: togither with the great Riches, huge Citties, politike Governement, and rare Inventions in the same. Translated out of Spanish by R. Parke.
London, Printed by J. Wolfe for Edward White, 1588 [or 1589].
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THE LAST JUDGEMENT Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from a Gradual.
Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.
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MISSIONARY MARTYRS IN JAPAN Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion que padecio. Memorias sacras, de los martyres de las ilustres religiones de Santo Domingo, San Francisco, Compañia de Jesus, y crecido numero de seglares, y con especialidad, de los religiosos del orden de N.P.S. Augustin …
Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.
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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.
Imprinted at London by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker … 1589.
