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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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BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS 156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
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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.
![Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei excellentiis [with additions by Ludovicus Brognolo].](https://images.quaritch.com/G3005_04.JPG)
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HOMILETIC WORK
ANNOTATED BY MACHIAVELLI'S LAST CONFESSOR
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.
![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.](https://images.quaritch.com/V488_11.JPG)
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GOTHIC CHRONICLES AND MIRROR FOR PRINCES 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].
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Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from a Gradual.
Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.
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‘A POLITICAL THINKER OF THE HIGHEST CALIBRE’ Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.
Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.
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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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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
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.
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A CATALAN INDULGENCE FOR THE REPAIR OF THE CATHEDRAL OF LÉRIDA Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan), incipit ‘A Honor …’, granted by Cardinal Luis de Milá, Bishop of Lérida.
[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.]
