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Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali … con una appendice del centro di gravità d’alcuni solidi.

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THE FIRST MODERN TEXTBOOK OF PHYSICS
ANNOTATED BY PIERRE VARIGNON GALILEI, Galileo. Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali … con una appendice del centro di gravità d’alcuni solidi.

Leiden, Elzevier, 1638.

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations … In two volumes. Vol. I [– II].

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THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN ECONOMIC THOUGHT
VISCOUNT SYDNEY'S COPY SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations … In two volumes. Vol. I [– II].

London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776.

Dialogo … sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. 

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‘MADE THE HELIOCENTRIC SYSTEM A COMMONPLACE’ GALILEI, Galileo.  Dialogo … sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. 

Florence, G.B. Landini, 1632. 

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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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]. 

Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les empires, monarchies, royaumes, états, républiques …

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WITH 68 MAPS DELISLE, Guillaume. Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les empires, monarchies, royaumes, états, républiques …

Amsterdam, Jean Covens and Corneille Mortier, 1733.

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]. 

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.

Librorum Francisci Petrarche impressorum annotatio.  De ignorantia suiipsius et multorum liber I.  De ocio religiosorum liber I … 

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OWNED AND ANNOTATED BY ULISSE ALDROVANDI PETRARCH, Francesco.  Librorum Francisci Petrarche impressorum annotatio.  De ignorantia suiipsius et multorum liber I.  De ocio religiosorum liber I … 

Venice, Simone da Luere for Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 27 March 1501. 

A single folio leaf (389 x 281 mm.), containing Luke XVII:23–XIX:13 (leaf 230 of volume 2), double column, 42 lines per column, rubricated in red and blue (headlines in alternating red and blue lombard letters, chapter initial in red with numerals alternating in red and blue, red capital strokes).

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A NOBLE FRAGMENT
A LEAF FROM THE GUTENBERG BIBLE BIBLIA LATINA. A single folio leaf (389 x 281 mm.), containing Luke XVII:23–XIX:13 (leaf 230 of volume 2), double column, 42 lines per column, rubricated in red and blue (headlines in alternating red and blue lombard letters, chapter initial in red with numerals alternating in red and blue, red capital strokes).

[Mainz: Printed by Johann Gutenberg & Johann Fust, c. 1450-1455, not after August 1456.]

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. 

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.

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.

Opera. 

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FROM THE FIRST VENETIAN PRESS LACTANTIUS.  Opera. 

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472. 

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. 

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica. 

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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS
EVER WRITTEN ON PAPAL SUPREMACY AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  Summa de potestate ecclesiastica. 

Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473. 

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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Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia … With maps and other engravings.

A DILETTANTE ANTIQUARIAN IN THE MIDST OF A SUDANESE INVASION WADDINGTON, George and Barnard HANBURY.

Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia … With maps and other engravings.

First edition, with interesting provenance, a ‘polished and amusing account’ (Moorehead) detailing George Waddington’s travels from Wady Halfa to Merowe in northern Ethiopia in the company of the troops of Muhammad Ali Pasha.

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EROTIC EPISTOLARY NOVEL BY A POPE PIUS II (Nicolaus von WYLE, editor). 

Epistolae familiares. 

Second Koberger edition of the Epistolae familiares of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405–1464), the great Renaissance humanist who became Pope Pius II in 1458, a handsome copy enhanced with manuscript additions comprising epistolary models, a German-Latin wordlist, and medical recipes. 

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HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH [HOLBEIN, Hans, the Younger.] Christian von MECHEL (engraver).

Le Triomphe de la Mort, gravé d’après les dessins originaux de Holbein par Chrétien de Méchel Graveur a Basle.

Rare nineteenth-century reprint of Mechel’s engravings after the magnificent set of woodcuts by Hans Holbein (1497–1543), in which the grinning figure of Death surreptitiously claims a host of victims ranging from popes to paupers.

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