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Godfrey Of Boulogne: Or The Recovery Of Jerusalem. Done into English heroicall verse, by Edward Fairefax Gent.And now the second time imprinted, and dedicated to His Highnesse: together with the life of the said Godfrey
by Tasso, Torquato, (1544-1595) Tr. Edward Fairfax (c. 1580-1635)
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- Used
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- Second Edition, 1st editions was published in 1600
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- 1624
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- This copy is bound in full modern calf . This has the ownership signature on the dedication page of Susanna Knollys
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London: Printed by [Eliot's Court Press, for] Iohn Bill, printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiesty, 1624. Second Edition, 1st editions was published in 1600. This copy is bound in full modern calf . This has the ownership signature on the dedication page of Susanna Knollys. STC (2nd ed.), 23699; Folio; 27.5 x 17 cm. Signatures: ¶⁴ )(⁴ A⁴… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now the sixt time published, with some new additions. Also a supplement of a defect in the third part of this history, by Sir W.Alexander Knight. Whereunto is now added a sixth booke.
by Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)
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- Used - A very nice copy, with minor worming in the bottom margins not effecting the text. n
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- 1627
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- This copy is bound in full modern English calfskin in a contemporary style, It has spine label. This copy has the ownership of E
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London: W[illiam] S[tansby, Humphrey Lownes, and Robert Young] for Simon Waterson, 1627. This copy is bound in full modern English calfskin in a contemporary style, It has spine label. This copy has the ownership of Eliza: Sippi ...heetory... 1658. A very nice copy, with minor worming in the bottom margins not effecting the text. n. This edition contains… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence. Concerning the most noble, and renowned English Nation. By the study, and travell of R.V. Dedicated unto the Kings most excellent Majestie
by Verstegan, Richard. (1550-1640)
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- Used - There are Eleven engravings by Verstegan himself, (copies/re-cut for copies printed in England but very faithfully so) that appe
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- Second edition (the first printed in England)
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- 1628
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- This copy is bound in original sheep rebacked about 100 years ago
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London: Iohn Bill, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1628. Second edition (the first printed in England). This copy is bound in original sheep rebacked about 100 years ago. There are Eleven engravings by Verstegan himself, (copies/re-cut for copies printed in England but very faithfully so) that appear in the text including the title vignette of the tower… Read more about this item Item Price
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Physick for families. Or, The new, safe and powerful way of physick, upon constant proof established; enabling every one, at sea or land, by the medicines herein mentioned, to cure themselves, their friends and relations, in all distempers and diseases. Without any the trouble, hazzard, pain or danger of purgers, vomiters, bleedings, issues, glisters, blisters, opium, antimony and quicksilver, so full of perplexity in sickness. By William Walwyn physitian.
by Walwyn, William Walwyn, (1600-1681)
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- Used - Two Copies in N.America: U.S. National Library of Medicine , University of Minnesota ,UCLA Other copies I have located are at Br
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- Third edition, the first was printed in 1674.
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- 1696
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- This copy is bound in a red textured cloth with "Birmingham Medical Institute" on the spine as well as "Walwyn's Physic-1696."
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London: J.R. and are to be sold by the author, 1696. Third edition, the first was printed in 1674. . This copy is bound in a red textured cloth with "Birmingham Medical Institute" on the spine as well as "Walwyn's Physic-1696.". Two Copies in N.America: U.S. National Library of Medicine , University of Minnesota ,UCLA Other copies I have located… Read more about this item Item Price
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An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The third edition with additions
by Drake, Judith Drake, (fl. 1696-1723)
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- Used
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- Third EDITION (a year after the first edition.)
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- 1697
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- Bound in contemporary, speckled calf, ruled in blind. with spine is rebacked with "Female Sex" gilt spine
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London: A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel at the Peacock, in Fleetstreet, 1697. Third EDITION (a year after the first edition.). Bound in contemporary, speckled calf, ruled in blind. with spine is rebacked with "Female Sex" gilt spine. With an engraved frontispiece, "The Compleat Beau". 'An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex" (1696)… Read more about this item Item Price
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Prosper de vita contemplatina atque actuali : sive de norma ecclesiasticorum
by Prosper of Aquitanus ±c. 499-505 (more likely Julian Pomerius)
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- Used - This copy has some light wear, glue residue at front with free endpaper glued to front paste-down at inner margin; mild cracking
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- First and second editions , Copies are known mixed with sheets f
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- 1587
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- Bound in early green sturdy vellum slight cracking at joint; paste-downs with bookplates
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Speyer: Peter Drach, 1587. First and second editions , Copies are known mixed with sheets from the 1486 printing (Goff P1022); cf. J. Dane, Abstractions of evidence in the study of manuscripts and early printed books (Farnham, 2009) pp.96-100. Bound in early green sturdy vellum slight cracking at joint; paste-downs with bookplates. This copy has some light wear, glue… Read more about this item Item Price
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Marci Fabij Quintiliani Oratoriarum institutionum libri duodecim diligenter emendati. : Index capitum totius operis ea serie qua explicabuntur
by Quintilian, Marcus Fabius 35-96ad
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- Used - This book, is an archaeology project waiting to happen. To begin from the outside, the binding is obviously utilitarian and quit
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- Matching custom clamshell box with vellum spine.
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- first edition of this forgery
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- 1518
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- This copy is bound in paste paper covered boards, made up of both early printed waste leaves and re-purposed manuscript material
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Lyons: Not Aldus: [Lyons] : [.s.n.] Lyon. 1518 (19 November) {It looks like Lyon: [Jaques Myt] for Barthèlemi Trot(h)}, 1518. first edition of this forgery. This copy is bound in paste paper covered boards, made up of both early printed waste leaves and re-purposed manuscript materials with many repairs and vellum spine. ( see images below). This copy Housed… Read more about this item Item Price
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The theory of the earth: containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone or is to undergo till the consummation of all things. The two first books concerning the deluge and concerning paradise. (with) The theory of the earth: containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things. The two last books, concerning the burning of the world, and concerning the new heavens and new earth. (with) A review of The theory of the earth and of its proofs, especially in reference to scripture
by Thomas Burnet (at Charter House.) 1635?-1715
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- Used - Three Folio volumes bound together 31.5 x 19cm. (pt1&2). Π2 A4 a4,B-Z⁴ Aa-Ff4 (pt3&4). A6 B-U4 (Review). X-Z
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- Two double page engravings of the earth (Western and Eastern Hemispheres), depicting the world as it was known then with Califor
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- Third edition [The first two parts were published in 1681 in Lat
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- 1697
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- Bound in contemporary full calf with hand written title on spine
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London: R[oger]. N[orton]. for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's-Head in S. Paul's Church- Yard, 1697. Third edition [The first two parts were published in 1681 in Latin under the title "Telluris Theoria Sacra," and three years later in its English translation; the second part, The Two Last Books containing the burning of the world, and concerning the new heavens… Read more about this item Item Price
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Quaestiones circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae
by Aquinas, Thomas
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- 1493
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- Vellum spine over paste boards
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Rome: Johann Besicken, 1493. Vellum spine over paste boards. Octavo 19 x 13.5 cm Signatures : a8 Fol. 8 blank and present. Old bibliographies assigned this to Plannck, later revised to Besicken.
Besicken worked at Basel in 1483, and at Rome from 1493 until 1510, partly with various partners. Most of the woodcut capitals employed by Besicken… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tractatulus solennis de arte [et] vero modo p[rae]dicandi. ex diuersis sacro[rum] doctorum scripturis. Et principaliter sacratissimi xp[ist]iane ecclesie doctoris Thome de Aquino. ex p[ar]uo suo quoda[m] tractatulo recollectus. vbi s[ecundu]m modu[m] [et] formam materie presentis procedit. Una cu[m] tractatulo eximij doctoris Henrici de hassia de arte predicandi sequitur vt infra Bound with. Tractatulus eximii doctoris Hernici de Hassia de arte predicandi valde utilis
by Aquinas , St. Thomas Aquinas Pseudo ; 1225-1274 Erroneously attributed to Aquinas. Compiled from works by Jacobus de Fusignano (ca. 1333) and that attributed to Henricus de Hassia
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- Used - Veer clean copy.
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- ISTC it00272000. CIBN; T-193; HC; 1355 bound with (HC 8397) IG;
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- 1483
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- Bound in modern vellum over boards
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Straßburg or Köln or Deventer: Husner? or Quentell? or Jacobus de Breda, 1483. ISTC it00272000. CIBN; T-193; HC; 1355 bound with (HC 8397) IG; 2586; GW; M46053; ISTC locates only one US copy, Huntington. Internet Access: https://data.cerl.org/istc/it00272000 http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/M46053.htm. Bound in modern vellum over boards. Veer clean copy.. Quarto 20×14 cm. Signatures: AA-BB⁶ (BB6 blank) & A8 The tract… Read more about this item Item Price
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De secretis mulierum cum commento
by Albertus Magnus (pseudo)
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- Used
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- 1501
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- Bound in modern paste boards backed in vellum. Some restorations to the last leaves covering small parts of the text, uniform, a
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Venetiis: Per Jo. Alvisium de Varisio, 1501. Bound in modern paste boards backed in vellum. Some restorations to the last leaves covering small parts of the text, uniform, and light browning of the first issue, but a very good, margined and fresh copy. Ancient maniculæ, notes and passim attention signs. (McLemore, "Medieval Sexuality, Medical Misogyny, and the Makings of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Suetonius Tranquillus [de Vita Caesarum], cum Philippi Beroaldi et Antonii Sabellici commentariis, cum figuris nuper additis. - "À la fin" : Commentaria Philippi Beroaldi nec non Marci Antonii Sabellici in Suetonium Tranquillum foeliciter Venetiis exacta, per Joannem Rubeum Vercellensem, anno Domini MCCCCCVI, die VIII. januarii
by Suetonius Tranquillus
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- Used
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- First edition
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- 1506
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- This copy is bound in modern quarter vellum. Dampstain at upper right, and throughout light dampstain at headband. dampstaining
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Venice: Ioa[n]nem Rubeum, 1506. First edition. This copy is bound in modern quarter vellum. Dampstain at upper right, and throughout light dampstain at headband. dampstaining in the headpiece towards the gutter, sporadically lightly foxing, in parts lightly (a few pp. more heavily) browned, at the beginning and at the end slightly worm-hole. 80 woodcuts in text and numerous initials. Particularly… Read more about this item Item Price
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Das aller edlest und bewertest Regiment der gesundtheyt, Auch von allen verßorgen Künsten un[d] Königklichen Regimenten Aristotelis. Das er dem Großmechtigen König Alexandro zůgeschrieben hatt. Auß Arabischer Sprach durch Meister Philipsen, dem Bischoff Vonn Valentia, der Stadt Jerapolis, In das latein verwandelt, Nachmals auß dem latein in das Teütsch gebracht, Bey Doctor Johann Lorchner zů Spalt (So beyder Keyser Frydrichs un[d] Maximilians Loeblicher gedechtnuß Rath un[d] Mathematicus gewesen) nach seinem tod geschribe[n] gefunden zůauffenthaltung un[d] Fristung yn gesundtheit menschlichem lebenn zů gůtt, Durch Johann Besolt in Truck verordnet
by Aristotle (pseudo) Tr. Johannes Lorchner. Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al- (864?-925?)
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- Used - Quarto: 20 x 15cm. Signatures: A-M⁴ N². This is the First German edition translated by Johannes Lorchner and edited by Johann
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- First German edition
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- 1530
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- Bound in Modern half vellum with label on spine (somewhat stained, slightly discolored in the margins). The title page has dense
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Augsburg. [[The Place of publication not identified (but most likely Augsburg ]: Most likely by H. Steiner, 1530. First German edition. Bound in Modern half vellum with label on spine (somewhat stained, slightly discolored in the margins). The title page has dense contemporary annotations, first and last few pages somewhat waterstained. Quarto: 20 x 15cm. Signatures: A-M⁴ N². This… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eusebius Pa[m]phili de eua[n]gelica preparac[i]o[n]e ex greco in latinu[m] translatus Incipit feliciter
by Eusebius (c. 260-c. 340)
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- Used
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- One of the earliest editions most likely the Second, (editio pri
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- 1473
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- This copy is bound in new quarter calf over original wooden boards. Capitals supplied in Red and Blue
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Ulrich Zel, Cologne's first printer, learned his craft from Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz. He began printing in Cologne probably in 1465: I[ Cologne, Ulrich Zel, not after 1473], 1473. One of the earliest editions most likely the Second, (editio princeps: Venice 1470). This copy is bound in new quarter calf over original wooden boards. Capitals supplied in Red and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Les Devises héroïques, de M. Claude Paradi, chanoine de Beaujeu, du seigneur Gabriel Symeon et autres aucteurs
by Paradin Claude
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- Used
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- Third edition expanded to 217 Emblems
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- 1567
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- Bound coeval limp laced case parchment. a clean copy in original condition
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Anvers: De l'imprimerie de C. Plantini, (PLANTIN), 1567. Third edition expanded to 217 Emblems. Bound coeval limp laced case parchment. a clean copy in original condition. 217 woodcuts Each woodcut is accompanied by a motto, followed by an explanation. Landwehr Romantic Nº 569; VOET, The Plantin Press, N° 1953." Réimpression de l'édition donnée par Plantin en 1561, & illustrée… Read more about this item Item Price
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La vita el transito: Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi)
by Eusebius of Caesarea
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- Used - ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*; GW 9466]. - United States: Walters Library & Huntington Library.
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- 1487
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- Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label "Transito di
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Venice: Hannibal Foxius, 1487. Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label "Transito di. ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*; GW 9466]. - United States: Walters Library & Huntington Library.. This collection of pseudonymous works are now considered to have been composed anonymously in the thirteenth or fourteenth century by Dominicans in Rome. These Epistles here attributed… Read more about this item Item Price
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La vita el transito
by Eusebius of Caesarea
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- Used
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- 1487, June1
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- Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label "Transito di
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This collection of pseudonymous works are now considered to have been composed anonymously in the thirteenth or fourteenth century by Dominicans in Rome. These Epistles here attributed to threefamous Bishops who were contemporaries of St Jerome Eusebius of Cremona 347-420, Augustine ofHippo 354- 430 and Cyril of Jerusalem 313-386.,
ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*;
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Suetonius Tranquillus VILLVS [de Vita Caesarum], cum Philippi Beroaldi et Marci Antonii Sabellici commentariis, cum figuris nuper additis.
by Suetonius , Tranquillus approximately (69±- 122 AD) Commentary by Philippi Beroaldi and Marci Antonii Sabellici.
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- Used
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- First Illustrated edition
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- 1506
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- This copy is bound in modern quarter vellum.
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This is the first edition with woodcut title and 80 woodcuts in text and numerous initials. Particularly noteworthy is the depiction of the birth of Caesar (f. 1), la plus ancienne illustration de l'opération césarienne (Sander). The word formation sectio caesarea - caesarean section (actually from Latin caedere = to cut out) is related to this caesarean (section) birth of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Medtationes divi Augustini episcopi Hyppoensis Soliloquia eivsden Manuale eidsdem Castigaissime
by Augustine ,Pseudo-Augustine; Saint Augustine 354-430; Bernard of Claravallensis 1090-1153; Peter Damian 1007-1072; Saint Anselm of Canterbury, 1033-1109; Vincent Ferrer 1350-1419; Maffeo Vegio 1407-1458; Pope Pius II,(Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini)
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- Used - Bound in later full vellum, a large copy with some deckle edges. Octavo, 14 ½x10 Cm. Signatures: π4, a-n8, o10 [colophon], l8,
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- ] Woodcut printer's device C on leaf o9 verso. For Britannicus's
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- 1498
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- This is a large and clean copy
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Brescia: Angelus Britannicus de Pallazolo Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliograìfico, 1498. ] Woodcut printer's device C on leaf o9 verso. For Britannicus's device C, see BM 15th cent., VII, 972 . Second edition variations in texts though. This is a large and clean copy. Bound in later full vellum, a large copy with some deckle edges. Octavo, 14 ½x10… Read more about this item Item Price
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Seneca de quattuor virtntibus [sic] cardinalibus cū cōmēto. with [German transl. and adapt. M. de Braga.]
by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D..& Martin of Braga (c. 515-580) {In fact by Martinus Dumiensis, Archbishop of Braga (Bracara).}
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- Used - This copy has water stains in the margins never challenging the legibility, mostly marginal.
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- One of the first printed works with German translations of Senec
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- 1490
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- Bound in modern boards covered with an antiphonal leaf. All the capitals are stroked in red There are contemporary manuscript an
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Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, 1490. One of the first printed works with German translations of Seneca. There are some small but interesting variations in this book. From the copy of the same edition available to see on BSB #M214: Electronic facsimile: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München For example the München copy has different spacing of the type causing line endings to be… Read more about this item Item Price
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