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MASTERPIECES OF HIGH RENAISSANCE LOMBARD ILLUMINATION Three very large historiated initials cut from a set of choirbooks.
Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.
![Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime a Paris. De lentreprise et voyage de Napples. Auquel est compris commant le roy Charles huitiesme de ce nom a banyere desployee passa et rapassa de iournee en iournee depuis Lyon iusques a napples et de napples iusques a Lyon. E[n]semble plusieurs aultres choses faictes et composees par reverend pere en dieu monsigneur octovie[n] de sainct Gelais evesque da[n]golesme et par Maistre Andry de la vigne secretaire de monsieur le duc de Savoye avec aultres.](https://prd.assets.books.quaritch.com/images/G2700_03.JPG)
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EARLY OTTOMAN QUR'AN signed Ghaybi bin ‘Umar, Edirne.
Ottoman Turkey, dated the end of Muharram AH 822 (February AD 1419).
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THE FIRST WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPUCHIN MISSION TO MARANHAO, BRAZIL Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins en l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte des singularitez admirables & des meurs merveilleuses des Indiens habitans de ce pais avec les missives et advis qui ont este envoyez de nouveau …
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
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SAFAVID QUR’AN HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY A QAJAR SCHOLAR Qur’an.
Persia (probably Shiraz), sixteenth century, c. AD 1600 and c. AD 1850.
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‘THE GREATEST OF THE MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARIES’ Catholicon.
[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), not after 1475.]
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MARRIAGE, THE MOON, A MANUAL FOR CONFESSORS, AND MORE Sammelband of ten works.
Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber, c. 1481–1491.
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BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS 156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
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IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius Dyscolus: De constructione; Herodianus: De numeris.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25 December 1495.]
![Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii [– Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit explanatio nomenclaturae botanicae] … Tomus primus [– tertius].](https://prd.assets.books.quaritch.com/images/G2399_08.JPG)
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KARL POPPER'S 'CONJECTURING AND REFUTING':
THE PHILOSOPHER'S CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS, AND REWORK
A substantial archive of books and associated working papers from one of the most important philosophers of modernity; from the archive of his assistant, Dr Ivan Slade.
London et al., 1960s–1970s.
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THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT EUROPEAN STUDY OF CHINA
TRANSLATED AT HAKLUYT'S REQUEST
The Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome of China, and the Situation thereof: togither with the great Riches, huge Citties, politike Governement, and rare Inventions in the same. Translated out of Spanish by R. Parke.
London, Printed by J. Wolfe for Edward White, 1588 [or 1589].
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THE LAST JUDGEMENT Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from a Gradual.
Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.
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MISSIONARY MARTYRS IN JAPAN Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion que padecio. Memorias sacras, de los martyres de las ilustres religiones de Santo Domingo, San Francisco, Compañia de Jesus, y crecido numero de seglares, y con especialidad, de los religiosos del orden de N.P.S. Augustin …
Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.
