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A NOBLE FRAGMENT
A LEAF FROM THE GUTENBERG BIBLE
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.]
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EROTIC EPISTOLARY NOVEL BY A POPE Epistolae familiares.
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 17 July 1486.
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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS
EVER WRITTEN ON PAPAL SUPREMACY
Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.
Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.
![Abtruck ains lateinnischen sandtbrieues an babstliche heiligkeit, von künigklicher wurden zu Portegall diss iars aussgangen, von der erobere stat Malacha: anderen künigrychen und herschafften in India, auch gegen auffgang der sunnen, erstlich zu Rom in latein getruckt und nachmaln iu [<i>sic</i>] teüsch gebracht.](https://images.quaritch.com/T5098_01.JPG)
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ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED IMAGES OF AN INDIGENOUS AMERICAN Abtruck ains lateinnischen sandtbrieues an babstliche heiligkeit, von künigklicher wurden zu Portegall diss iars aussgangen, von der erobere stat Malacha: anderen künigrychen und herschafften in India, auch gegen auffgang der sunnen, erstlich zu Rom in latein getruckt und nachmaln iu [sic] teüsch gebracht.
[Strassburg, Matthias Hüpfüff, 1513.]
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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.]
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THE LOTHIAN COPY Carmina.
[Milan, Philippus de Lavagnia] for Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen [in Venice], 1475.
![Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei excellentiis [<i>with additions by </i>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 e 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 e 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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BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS 156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760-80.]
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‘THE MOON SHINES BRIGHT’ A Recantation of an Ill Led Life: or, a Discoverie of the High-way Law. With ... many cautelous Admonitions and full Instructions, how to know, shunne, and apprehend a Thiefe ... The third edition, with Additions.
London, Printed by A.M. for Richard Meighen ... 1634.
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EDITIO PRINCEPS – WITH MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS De censuris et De sponsalibus et matrimonio.
Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 23 September 1474.
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PALLADIO’S VITRUVIUS De architectura libri decem, cum commentariis … multis aedificiorum, horologiorum, et machinarum descriptionibus, & figuris, una cum indicibus copiosis, auctis & illustratis.
Venice, Francesco Franceschi & Johann Criegher, 1567.
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WITH MANUSCRIPT WORLD MAP BY A CONTEMPORARY READER Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis.
[Venice, printer of Pomponius Mela, 1477].
![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].](https://images.quaritch.com/GH371_02.JPG)
THE GERMAN DON QUIXOTE COMPLETE [CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.]
Don Quixote Von Mancha, Abentheurliche Geschichte. Erster [– Anderer] Theil.
First edition, first issue, of the first complete translation of Don Quixote into German. An earlier translation under the title ‘Juncker Harnisch aus Fleckenland’ (Frankfurt 1648, reprinted 1669 (the Cöthen 1621 edition is a ghost)) comprised only the first twenty-two chapters of Part I. The translator here signs himself ‘J.R.B.’ under a dedication to Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orleans. The engravings are cut by Diodati from those prepared by Bouttats for the 1662 Brussels edition.
