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ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT ANNOTATED BY THE AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL THAT WON THE FIRST MEXICAN NATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE HONOURABLE MENTION AT THE FIRST LATIN AMERICAN PRIZE NOVEL CONTEST IN NEW YORK (1940-41).Large 4to. Initial blank, title leaf, 197 ff., final blank. Occasional pen annotations in dark blue ink throughout the text by the author. Elegant presentation binding in brown soft faux leather with gilt letterings stamped on front cover and spine. Brown synthetic cloth endpapers with light reflective effect creating wavy lines. Typed on high-quality paper (handmade?), thin and very crisp, showing pattern of half rising suns as watermark. Trimmed edges styled unevenly, rough irregular surface. A few marks, chipping and rubbing to binding, mostly along board extremities and spine. We did not manage to locate duplicates nor other similar typescripts in public libraries. Excellent condition. An exceptional item through which the final steps of the novel's genesis can be studied. Thanks to the…
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ORIGINAL ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPT, FIRST MEXICAN NATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. Nayar. Novela Mexicana.
by MENÉNDEZ, Miguel Ángel
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Officio della B. V. Maria per tutti i tempi dell'anno ... [legato con] Officio de’ Morti, dello Spirito Santo, e della Santa Croce, con i sette Salmi Penitenziali. Ed altre divote Orazioni.
by [CATHOLIC CHURCH] MAZZINELLI, Alessandro (Comm.)
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SUMPTUOUS ROMAN BINDING, ELABORATELY GILTFIRST EDITION. 8vo, 2 works in 1 vol., IV, [20], 407, [1] pp. Vignettes on both t-ps, frontispiece engraved by Arnold van Westerhout after Giuseppe Passari, 13 full-page copper plates in the text and numerous tailpieces. Text and titles printed in red and black as well as the decorated initials. Sporadic light marginal foxing and occasional mild browning, masterly restored headcap. An excellent copy. Beautiful and elegant contemporary Roman binding in full mottled calf, richly gilt-tooled with classical floral motifs. Spine in six compartments. Round red morocco inlays to the centre of the boards with embossed initials "M. V." (Maria Vergine), surrounded by stars and within shining suns; stamped putti at the four cardinal directions. Original marbled endpapers, soberly gauffered edges gilt.
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Omnium gentium mores, leges & ritus ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, a' Ioanne Boëmo Aubano Teutonico nuper collecti, & novissimè recogniti. Tribus libris absolutum opus, Aphricam, Asiam, & Europam describentibus. Non sine indice locupletissimo
by BOEHME, Johann (Ed.).
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8vo, pp. 303, [25]. Italic letter, some Roman, printed side notes. Woodcut historiated initials. Occasional light age toning. Period blind-stamped black leather with some skilful restorations, all edges red. Early restorations of blank corners at last few leaves of index. Original endpapers, light candle burning on small area of head fore-edge. Overall, a very good copy.Early edition of this popular book dedicated to the descriptions of the customs of various peoples from all around the world, which, although essentially composed of extracts from classical authors, represents the first systematic attempt at ethnography. It was first printed in 1520 and went soon through several editions. The work is divided in three books: the first one concerns Africa, the second Asia and the third one Europe.
Adams B2267 (1542 edition); Sabin 6117; USTC 147666.
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Opera Postuma, Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur.
by SPINOZA, Baruch
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"DEUS SIVE NATURA"B.d.S. [Benedict de SPINOZA]. Opera Postuma, Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur.[Amsterdam], 1677, [Jan Rieuwertsz].FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [40], 614, [32]; [2], 112, [8]. Without the engraved frontispiece portrait, found in only a very small number of copies and probably not originally issued with this edition. Woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. Woodcut vignette on title, decorative woodcut tail-piece and initials. Negligible withdrawal stamp of German university library on t-p and verso. Early C20th binding in half calf and decorated paper. Light soiling to t-p. Internally crisp, fresh and clean. A good copy.First edition of Spinoza's posthumous works, which "have served, then and since, with the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, to immortalize his name" (PMM). It includes his influential Ethica, more geometrico demonstrata, the work which established Spinoza's reputation as a rationalist and "atheist." It is considered the first systematic exposition of pantheism…
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