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UNRECORDED DEVOTIONAL TRIPTYCH A letterpress and engraved folding ‘cartagloria’ or altar card.
Paris, ‘chez Pierre Sintonct, rue S. Iacques à la Syreine, de l’imprimerie de Pierre du Pont’, [c. 1650].
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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 Luis de Mila, Bishop of Lérida.
Lérida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.
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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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PLAUTINE PLAYS FROM THE LIBRARY OF AN ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT Plautinae viginti comediae emendatissimae cum accuratissima ac luculentissima interpraetatione doctissimorum virorum Petri Vallae Placentini ac et Bernardi Saraceni Veneti.
Venice, Simone Bevilacqua for Marco Firmiano, 17 September 1499.
![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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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.
![Aureum roasariu[m] theologie ad sente[n]tia[rum] quattuor libros pariformiter quadripertitu[m], ex doctrina doctoris Subtilis, suo[rum]q[ue] sequaciu[m] Sa[n]cto[rum] etia[m] Thome Aq[ui]natis Bonave[n]ture q[ue] ac multor[um] solido[rum] doctor[rum] …[– Secu[n]dus … – Tertius… – Quartus liber rosarii theologie aurei ad Sente[n]tia[rum]…].](https://images.quaritch.com/G701_02.JPG)
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RARE MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA Aureum roasariu[m] theologie ad sente[n]tia[rum] quattuor libros pariformiter quadripertitu[m], ex doctrina doctoris Subtilis, suo[rum]q[ue] sequaciu[m] Sa[n]cto[rum] etia[m] Thome Aq[ui]natis Bonave[n]ture q[ue] ac multor[um] solido[rum] doctor[rum] …[– Secu[n]dus … – Tertius… – Quartus liber rosarii theologie aurei ad Sente[n]tia[rum]…].
Hagenau, Henri Gran, 9 September 1503 [– 14 May 1504; – 2 August 1507; – 2 December 1508].
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WITH MANUSCRIPT WORLD MAP BY A CONTEMPORARY READER Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis.
[Venice, printer of Pomponius Mela, 1477].
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EROTIC EPISTOLARY NOVEL BY A POPE Epistolae familiares.
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 17 July 1486.
![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)
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UNRECORDED AND CENSORED Hore intemerate dei genitricis virginis Marie secundum usum Romane ecclesie.
Paris, Thielman Kerver, 6 November 1508.
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GRANDIOSE GARDENS Li giardini di Roma con le loro piante, alzate e vedute in prospettiva, disegnate ed intagliate da Gio. Battista Falda. Nuovamente dati alle stampe ...
Rome, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, [early eighteenth century?].
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SOUTHEY’S COPY, WITH A LONG NOTE Altare Christianum: or, the dead Vicar’s Plea. Wherein the Vicar of Gr. being dead, yet speaketh, and pleadeth out of Antiquity, against him that hath broken downe his Altar. Presented, and humbly submitted to the consideration of his Superiours, the Governours of our Church.
London, Printed by Richard Badger. 1637.
TRAVELS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN LEGUAT, François.
A new voyage to the East-Indies by Francis Leguat and his companions. Containing their adventures in two desart islands, and an account of the most remarkable things in Maurice Island, Batavia, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Island of St Helena, and other places in their way to and from the desart isles. Adorn’d with maps and figures.
First English edition of this remarkable – albeit quite possibly imaginary – account of the adventures of the French explorer François Leguat (c. 1637–1735) in the Indian Ocean at the end of the seventeenth century.
