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THE ALDINE GREEK PSALTER [PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor. Ψαλτηριον.

Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October 1498].

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.

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CHIVALRY ILLUMINATED: A ROYAL COMMISSION? [LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.] 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.

[Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]

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EARLY OTTOMAN QUR'AN QUR’AN, signed Ghaybi bin ‘Umar, Edirne.

Ottoman Turkey, dated the end of Muharram AH 822 (February AD 1419).

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A PLAYWRIGHT’S JONSON JONSON, Benjamin. The Workes …

London, Will Stansby, 1616.

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 …

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THE FIRST WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPUCHIN MISSION TO MARANHAO, BRAZIL ABBEVILLE, Claude d’. 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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A POETICAL PEARL IN ENGLAND EYB, Albertus de. Margarita poetica.

Paris, Ulrich Gering, 29 November 1478.

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SAFAVID QUR’AN HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY A QAJAR SCHOLAR QUR’AN. 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’ BALBUS, Johannes. Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), not after 1475.]

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MARRIAGE, THE MOON, A MANUAL FOR CONFESSORS, AND MORE [INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.] Sammelband of ten works.

Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber, c. 1481–1491.

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BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS [LOO, Pieter van, attributed.] 156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

[Holland, c. 1760–80].

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IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME GAZA, Theodorus. 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].

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ANNOTATED BY THE AUTHOR’S PUPIL ALLIONI, Carlo. Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii [– Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit explanatio nomenclaturae botanicae] … Tomus primus [– tertius].

Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

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FROM THE FIRST VENETIAN PRESS LACTANTIUS. Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

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.

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KARL POPPER'S 'CONJECTURING AND REFUTING':
THE PHILOSOPHER'S CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS, AND REWORK POPPER, Karl. 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.

A collection of offprints and papers from the library of Nándor Balázs.

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ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER AND HIS MILIEU
THE COLLECTION OF SCHRÖDINGER'S ASSISTANT SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al. A collection of offprints and papers from the library of Nándor Balázs.

1902–1961.

Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium congregationis S. Salvatoris, Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Denuo reformatae, auctae, summis illustratae, indiceq. locupletissimo exornatae.

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PRINTED ON VELLUM [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.] Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium congregationis S. Salvatoris, Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Denuo reformatae, auctae, summis illustratae, indiceq. locupletissimo exornatae.

Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592.

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MASTERPIECES OF HIGH RENAISSANCE LOMBARD ILLUMINATION MASTER B.F. Three very large historiated initials cut from a set of choirbooks.

Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.

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.

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THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT EUROPEAN STUDY OF CHINA
TRANSLATED AT HAKLUYT'S REQUEST GONZÁLES DE MENDOZA, Juan, and Robert PARKE, translator. 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 [GRADUAL.] Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from a Gradual.

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

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 …

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MISSIONARY MARTYRS IN JAPAN SICARDO, José. 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.

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‘THE TOWN MAY DA- DA- DA-M ME AS A POET,
BUT THEY SING MY SONGS FOR ALL THAT’ D’URFEY, Thomas.

Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy; being a Collection of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old and new. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice, or Instrument: most of the Songs being new set. Vol. I. [– the Sixth and Last]. London, W.

The first complete edition, second issue of volumes I–V, and first issue of vol. VI, of the most famous songbook of its day, the first edition with titles altered to the familiar Wit and Mirth from Songs Compleat, 1719 (a change at the time of the publication in 1720 of volume VI, which is always entitled Wit and Mirth).