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1703 History of Netherlands 80 Years War Dutch Hooft Philip II of Spain Portrait
Pieter Hooft was a 17th-century Dutch writer known for both his histories and his plays. While his plays outnumber his other works, his 'History of the Netherlands' is perhaps the most thorough 17th-century history of Holland. This enormous work focuses heavily on the Eighty Years' War and the Dutch conflicts with Spain. Note the inclusion of impressive, full-page engraved portraits including those of:
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Philip II of Spain
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Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
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Hendrik van Brederode
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Margaret of Parma
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Louis, Prince of Nassau
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Franciscus Baldez
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John of Austria
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Matthias I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
Item number: #20867
Price: $795
HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon
P.C. Hoofts Nederlandsche historien, seedert de ooverdraght der heerschappye van kaizar Karel de Vyfden op koning Philips zynen zoon, tot het einde der landtvooghdye… Read More

1632 1ed Constantinople Byzantine Gyllius Istanbul Elzevier TURKEY Turks RARE
The best edition of Gyllius!

Petrus Gyllius was a French natural scientist from the 16th-century whose works ranged from topographical to studying about fish of the Mediterranean Sea. His most famous work was 'De Topographia Constantinopoleos', a topographical sketch of the city of Constantinople and Byzantine culture and politics. Published by Elzevier in Lyon, this 1632 first edition features the classic illustrated title page that Elzevier was known for; this page includes a city view of Constantinople.
Item number: #8139
Price: $750
GILLES, Pierre
P. Gyllii De Constantino Poleos topographia lib. IV.
Lugduni Batavorum: Elzevir, 1632. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [14], 15-422, [6]
o References indicate that the index at the end of this volume makes this the best edition.
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References: Willems 367; Goldsmid II, 66;
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Language: Latin
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Binding: Vellum;… Read More

1632 1ed Gyllius Thracio Constantinople Byzantine Elzevier TURKEY Bosporus
The best edition of Gyllius!

Petrus Gyllius was a French natural scientist from the 16th-century whose works ranged from topographical to studying about fish of the Mediterranean Sea. According to Blackmer, Gyllius works are
"among the earliest works to describe Constantinople and the Thracian Bosphorus. They provided authentic and reliable sources of information for early travelers."

This first Elzevier edition of Gyllius's 'Bosporo Thracio' is the first book written on the Bosporus, or the Strait of Istanbul. It provides a detailed account of the history of Istanbul as well as an in-depth look at Byzantine archaeology.
Item number: #8140
Price: $750
GILLES, Pierre
P Gyllii de Bosporo Thracio lib III.
Lugduni Batavorum: Elzevir, 1632. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 379, [5]
o References indicate that the text "vicit annos LX.V. menses" on the recto of p.379 makes this the (first… Read More

1661 OVID Tristia & Fastor + 1665 Quintilian + RARE Provenance Earl of Strafford

A rare pairing of two 17th-century printings of ancient literature from Ovid and Quintilian. The Ovid tome, from 1661, features his famed works of 'Fastor' and 'Tristia', and the Quintilian includes his declamations. Two fine, leather-bound tomes.

Item number: #23339
Price: $750

OVID, P Naso

P. Ovidii Nasonis operum, tom. 3. Fastor. lib. Tristium. De Ponto &c.

Lvgdvni Batavorvm, : apud Petrum Leffen, 1661.

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QUINTILIANO, Marco Fabio

M. Fab. Quintiliani Declamationes undeviginti…tomus ii

Lugd. Batav. et Roterodami: Ex officina Hackiana, 1665.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 works
o Ovid – [16], 492, [6], 400, [30]
o Quintilian – [4], 784, [8]
· Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Thomas Earl of Strafford, 1712
o Lieutenant-General Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the 2nd creation), KG (1672–1739), was an English peer, diplomat and statesman who… Read More

1613 STATIUS Rome Mythology Achilles Thebaid Silva influenced Chaucer & Dante

Papinius Statius was a 1st-century Roman poet remembered for his epic poems 'Thebaid', 'Silvae' and 'Achilleid'. These works tell famous stories of mythology and iconic heroes – namely Oedipus and Achilles. These poems were known to have had significant influence on Juvenal as well as into the 12th-century on Chaucer, Dante, and Boccaccio as well as Dryden and Grotius in the Renaissance.

This 1613 edition was published in Rouen by Romanum de Beauvais.
Item number: #20645
Price: $499
STATIUS, Publius Papinius
P. Statii Papinii : Opera quæ extant
Rothomagi [Rouen]: Apud Romanum de Beauvais, iuxtaporticum Beatæ Mariæ, 1613.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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520, 4
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~5in X 3.25in (12.5cm x 8.5cm)
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1579 VIRGIL Aeneid Georgics Bucolics Italian Renaissance Fabricius Leipzig RARE

"If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell."
― Virgil, The Aeneid

A rare and highly desirable early 17th-century edition of the works of Virgil. Virgil is regularly considered one of the greatest Roman poets because of his poems, 'Eclogues,' 'Georgics,' and 'Aeneid' – some of the most important works of western literature. This 1579 edition was collected and edited by Georg Fabricius and is bound in impressive, stamped vellum.

Item number: #23651
Price: $995

VIRGIL

P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Indvbitata. Bvcolicon. Georgicon. Aeneis

Lipsiae: Ioannes Steinman, 1579.

Details:
· Collation:
o [18], 683, [1]
· References: not on USTC
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.75in x 4.25in (17cm x 10.5cm)

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1724 VIRGIL Aeneid Georgics MAP Eclogues Bucolics Mythology RARE Heinsius Latin

"Audaces fortuna iuvat- (Fortune favors the bold)."
― Virgil

Virgil is regularly considered one of the greatest Roman poets. His epic poems, 'Eclogues,' 'Georgics,' and 'Aeneid' are some of the most important works of western literature and describe mythology, medicine, astronomy, war and military, rhetoric, agriculture, and more!

This 1724 Latin edition was published in Amsterdam, collected and edited by Nicholas Heinsius.

Item number: #24146
Price: $499

VIRGIL

P. Virgilii Maronis opera

Amstelodami: Apu[d] Henricum du Sauzet, [1724].

Details:
· Collation: Complete
o [64], 387, [41]
o Engraved title page
o 1 folding map
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
· Size: ~5.25in X 3.25in (13.5cm x 8cm)

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1696 1ed VIRGIL Aeneid MAP Georgics Eclogues Bucolics Mythology Jesuit Larue

"Audaces fortuna iuvat- (Fortune favors the bold)."
― Virgil

Virgil is regularly considered one of the greatest Roman poets. His epic poems, 'Eclogues,' 'Georgics,' and 'Aeneid' are some of the most important works of western literature and describe mythology, medicine, astronomy, war and military, rhetoric, agriculture, and more!

This 1696 printing of the works of Virgil includes commentary and notes by Charles de Larue. Larue was considered the most popular and well-recognized Jesuit writers and translators during his lifetime. In fact, his edition of Virgil is perhaps the best edition collected by a 17th-centurty Jesuit hand. This impressive first edition contains the oft-lacking folding map!

Item number: #21957
Price: $599

VIRGIL

P. Virgilii Maronis opera : Interpretatione et Notis illustrauit Carolus Ruaeus

Londini: Impensis A. Swalle, & T. Childe, ad insigne Monocerotis, in Cometerio Paulino, 1696. First… Read More

1880 The Pacific Tourist American West INDIANS Utah Mormons Railroad Illustrated
'The Pacific Tourist' is a late 19th-century American travel guide designed to provide travelers with information on the American west. This guide includes details on the Pacific Railroad as well as descriptions and notes on iconic sights. Notable locations include:
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Salt Lake City
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Mormon Temple
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Brigham Young offices and homes
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Great Plains
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Prairie dog city
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Hunting excursions
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Indian scenes, teepees
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Landscapes
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Twin Sisters Rocks
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Teapot Rock
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Devil's Gate gorge, Wyoming

Item number: #15665
Price: $499
SHEARER, Frederick
The Pacific tourist. Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel
New York: Adams & Bishop, Publishers, 1880.

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1649 Palaephatus On Incredible Things Greek Mythology Miracles Dragons Elzevier
'On Incredible Things' is a collection of ancient Greek myths written by Palaephatus. While no record of an author named Palaephatus ever lived, scholars are unable to properly identify the true author of these myths. Each of the sections of this work describe an amazing feat of Greek mythology followed by a statement of believability or authenticity. The work is filled with accounts of miracles, monsters and dragons, and mythical creatures, and much more. Interestingly, there is little mention of Greek gods making them more human than god-like.
This 1649 edition of Palaephatus was published by the famed Dutch publishing company Elzevier. Edited and translated into Latin by Cornelius Tollius.
Item number: #10833
Price: $750
PALAEPHATUS
Palaephati de incredibilibus. Cornelius Tollius in latinum sermonem vertit et notis illustravit
Amstelodami : Apud L. Elzevirium, 1649. 1st edition
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1727 ECONOMICS Panarithmologia Money Coins Finance 100s+ Tables Leybourn Trade

William Leybourn was a 17th-century scholar known for his studies in math, military, commerce and trade, and land surveying. Perhaps his most important and best work was 'Panarithmologia' – a guidebook and pocket manual for merchants and traders. Leybourn published this book to offer help for goldsmiths, carpenters, grocers, plumbers, and countless other tradesmen through hundreds of calculation tables! Leybourn himself claims this book to be "more complete than any of its kind".

Item number: #21760
Price: $599

LEYBOURN, William

Panarithmologia'…

London: Printed by W. Pearson, for J. and B. Sprint, G. Conyers, 1727.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o Unpaginated (~228)
• Provenance: Handwritten – John Hall, 1734
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~5.75in X 3.5in (14.5cm x 9cm)
• Quite scarce

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1854 World Panorama America INDIANS Hunting GOLD Australia Arabia China Africa

William Pinnock's 'Panorama of the Old Word and the New' was written to give a 'living picture' of the countries of the world as they were in the 1850s. Pinnock sought to achieve this by including information on what he deemed as most important – boundaries, political condition, manners, customs, peculiarities, modes of life, and an occasional look at history for Europe, Asia, America (North and South) and Africa. Pinnock makes use of excellent illustrators to bring the panorama to life with engravings of animals, hunting, Native Americans, gold digging in Australia, and a myriad of costumes, scenes, and portraits of places and peoples.

This 1854 edition is embellished with several hundred engravings from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists!
Item number: #11052
Price: $499
PINNOCK, William
Panorama of the old world and the new: comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the… Read More

1683 World Religions Scottish Ross Pagan Occult Idols Witchcraft Rites + HERESY

Alexander Ross was an important Scottish controversialist writer who is remembered for his various attack writings on prominent figures such as Hobbes, Harvey, and Browne. He also published a series of works on astronomy and religion in which he defines aspects of world theological beliefs. The focus of 'Les Religions du Monde', 'Religions of the World', was to demonstrate that these religions were practicing heresy and idol worship. He provided context on the practices of figures such as John Huss, Michael Servetus, and Mahomet.
This fine, 1683 English edition also includes 18 impressive portrait engravings.

Item number: #20200
Price: $750
ROSS, Alexander
Pansebeia, or, a view of all religions in the world : with the several church-governments from the creation, till these times : also, a discovery of all known heresies in all ages and places, and choice observations and reflections throughout the whole
[London] Printed… Read More

1696 World Religions Scottish Ross Pagan Occult Witchcraft Rites HERESY Pansebia
Alexander Ross was an important Scottish controversialist writer who is remembered for his various attack writings on prominent figures such as Hobbes, Harvey, and Browne. He also published a series of works on astronomy and religion in which he defines aspects of world theological beliefs. The focus of 'Les Religions du Monde', 'Religions of the World', was to demonstrate that these religions were practicing heresy and idol worship. He provided context on the practices of figures such as John Huss, Michael Servetus, and Mahomet.
This fine, 1696 English edition also includes 17 impressive portrait engravings.
Item number: #24635
Price: $750
ROSS, Alexander
Pansebeia, or, a view of all religions in the world : with the several church-governments from the creation, till these times : also, a discovery of all known heresies in all ages and places, and choice observations and reflections throughout the whole
London: printed… Read More

1679 SAINTS of SICILY Pantheon AGATHA Calogerus Gerland Agrigento Vitus Elias

"Pantheon Siculus" is a rare, 17th-century survey of the lives of the saints of Sicily. Written by Francesco Carerra, this book offers short biographical sketches on the lives of famous Sicilian saints including most notably, Saint Agatha who was known for her martyrdom at the age of 20 for her resolute faith. Other saints found in this work include:
· Albert of Trapani
· Saint Elias
· Calogerus the Anchorite
· Gerland of Agrigento
· Gregory of Agrigento
· Joseph the Hymnographer
· Olivia of Palermo
· Saint Rosalia
· Saint Vitus
· And more

Item number: #23964
Price: $750

CARRERA, Francesco

Pantheon Siculum Sive, Sanctorum Siculorum Elogia

Genuae: Marci Antonii Ferri, 1679. 1st edition

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [20], 368, [10]
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
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1578 History of FRANKS & Frankish France King Henry III Poland Catherine Medici

Jean Papire Masson was a 16th-century French humanist who was a professor and scholar under Catherine d'Medici. One of his works, 'Annals', describes the history of the Franks, describing the lives of important royals, through King Henry III of France and Poland.
Item number: #12519
Price: $795
MASSON, Jean Papire
Papirii Masoni Annalium libri quatuor, quibus res gestae Francorum explicantur : ad Henricum Tertium Regem Franciae et Poloniae.
Lutetiae [Paris] : Apud Nicolaum Chesneau : Excudebat Henricus Thiery, MDLXXVIII [1578].

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[12], 503, [79]
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
· Size: ~6.75in X 4.5in (17.5cm x 12cm)
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1711 Paradise Lost John Milton Poetry Tonson English Thomas Newton Illustrated

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

'Paradise Lost' follows the biblical story of the Fall of Man and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Milton himself states that purpose for this book was to "Justify the ways of God to Men". It covers the characters Adam, Eve, and Satan, and the roles each played in the development of religious culture and idolatry.

It was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.
"[Paradise Lost shows] Milton's peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.

This 1711 edition was published… Read More

1775 Paradise Lost John Milton + Paradise Regained Allegory Poetry 2v SET

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

'Paradise Lost' follows the biblical story of the Fall of Man and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Milton himself states that purpose for this book was to "Justify the ways of God to Men". It covers the characters Adam, Eve, and Satan and the roles each played in the development of religious culture and idolatry.
It was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.
"[Paradise Lost shows] Milton's peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.
Item number: #19069
Price: $599
MILTON, John… Read More

1707 Paradise Lost John Milton Poetry Tonson English Thomas Newton Illustrated

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

'Paradise Lost' follows the biblical story of the Fall of Man and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Milton himself states that purpose for this book was to "Justify the ways of God to Men". It covers the characters Adam, Eve, and Satan, and the roles each played in the development of religious culture and idolatry.

It was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.
"[Paradise Lost shows] Milton's peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.

This 1707 edition was published… Read More

1760 Paradise Lost John Milton Poetry English Illustrated ART Newton RARE Marvell

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

'Paradise Lost' follows the biblical story of the Fall of Man and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Milton himself states that purpose for this book was to "Justify the ways of God to Men". It covers the characters Adam, Eve, and Satan and the roles each played in the development of religious culture and idolatry.

It was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.
"[Paradise Lost shows] Milton's peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.

This 1760 London edition includes… Read More