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[BRAUS, Giovanni Antonio.]
De lectione pravorum librorum. Oratio habita Regii Lepidi in studiorum instauratione ineunte anno MDCCCXXI...
Reggio Emilia, ex typis Davolii, 1821.
Rare first edition of this Latin lecture on depraved books, with a facing Italian translation, delivered by the Jesuit Giovanni Antonio Braus (1772–1823), professor of rhetoric and Greek at Reggio Emilia, at the opening of the academic year 1821.
£350
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CASSIODORUS.
Expositio Psalmorum, on Psalm LXXIII, verses 17–20.
Northern France or Low Countries, c. 1200.
A leaf with part of Cassiodorus’ commentary on Psalm 73 from an attractive manuscript of his Expositio Psalmorum.
£950
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DU TILLET, Jean.
La chronique des roys de France, puis Pharamond iusques au roy Henry, second du nom, selon la computation des...
Paris, René Avril for Galliot du Pré, 1550.
Handsome vernacular edition of Jean du Tillet’s famous chronicle of the kings of France, with additional catalogues of the Popes and Roman/Holy Roman Emperors, illustrated with five attractive woodcuts.
£1200
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FLORIO, Blasco.
Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica, e l’ideologia presentano alle osservazioni ideologiche sugli ostacoli...
Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.
Very rare first edition of this work on the intellectual faculties of the blind, written by the Neapolitan nobleman Blasco Florio in reply to the Osservazioni ideologiche sugli ostacoli che la cecità presenta allo sviluppo delle facoltà intellettuali dell’uomo (Catania, 1824) of the Sicilian scholar...
£475
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FORNI, Francesco.
D. O. M. Francisci Furnii Parmensis de ente naturali, et divino pronuntiata philosophica. Ad perillustrem, et...
(Colophon:) Padua, Lorenzo Pasquato, 1588.
Very rare philosophical disputation on being by Francesco Forni of Parma, delivered at the Jesuit College in Padua, and dedicated to the city’s future bishop, Marco Cornaro.
£750
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[GULIELMUS de Lavicea.]
Dieta salutis. Sancti Bonaventure doctoris eminentissimi: aureus libellus: qui dieta salutis communiter...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Cesare Arrivabene, 24 December 1518.]
A compilation of Franciscan devotional works attributed to St Bonaventure in a contemporary Florentine(?) blind-stamped binding, with a manuscript recipe in Italian written at the end of the volume.
£1250
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LIPSIUS, Justus.
Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae libri sex. Qui ad Principatum maxime spectant. Additae notae auctiores, tum...
Antwerp, Jan Moretus, ex officina Plantiniana, 1604.
A volume containing controversial works on politics and philology by the renowned scholar Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), including the first edition of his treatise on libraries, all produced by the Plantin Press.
£1250
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[LOBO, Jerónimo; Lorenzo MAGALOTTI, translator.]
Relazioni varie cavate da una traduzione inglese dell’originale portoghese.
Florence, Piero Matini, 1693.
First edition in Italian of one of the earliest and most important works on Ethiopia and the river Nile, particularly noteworthy for the inclusion of an engraved map of the sources of the Nile published here for the first time. A fine copy with a distinguished chain of provenance.
£1750
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[LOVE.]
Voyage sentimental et philosophique autour du corps d’une femme. Par D.K. de L .... Premier [– Second] volume.
Paris, à l’imprimerie du Journal de l’instruction publique, an XIII (1805).
First and only edition of a remarkable and rare work, at once a love story and a dissertation on spiritual and physical love, sex, physiognomy, and beauty.
£1500
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LOYSIUS, Georgius.
Georgii Loysii C. V. Pervigilium Mercurii, in quo agitur de praestantissimis peregrinantis virtutibus ... iterum...
Speyer, ‘impensis viduae Bernard Albini’, 1600.
Uncommon edition of this pocket book for travellers by the German jurist Georgius Loysius (1575–1602) ‘in which the most excellent virtues of a traveller are treated, and by what means each one can, without great difficulty, travel through foreign provinces, visit exotic regions, and converse well...
£450
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PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.
Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus in Priapum, cum selectis variorum commentariis. Accedunt Pervigilium...
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck van Ackersdijck, 1654.
A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd lyrics with fourth-century Virgilian verses.
£350
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SCALVO, Bartolomeo.
Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem Mariam Virginem meditationibus auctae ad vitae Christi eiusdemq[ue]...
Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.
First edition of this Marian book of prayers for the use of Rosary societies, lavishly illustrated reusing late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century woodcuts.
£3500
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TITELMANS, François.
Mysterii Missae expositio, aliaque quaedam opuscula, quorum tibi titulos sequens indicabit pagina: omnibus...
Lyon, Thibaud Payen, 1558.
A pocket-sized volume containing two anti-Lutheran works on the Eucharistic controversy which animated western Europe in the 1520s. The late 1520s saw regular debates and confrontations between Catholics and Reformers, both Lutheran and Zwinglian, about the validity of the sacrifice of the Mass and the...
£450
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XENOPHON.
[Opera. Basel, Michael Isingrin, 1545.]
[Basel, Michael Isingrin, 1545.]
A volume of Xenophon in Latin from the renowned library of Marcus Fugger (1529–1597).
£1850
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ZECEÑA, Basilio.
Oracion pronunciada en la santa iglesia catedral en el XXX aniversario de la Independencia … Se imprime de...
[Guatemala], imprenta de La Paz, 1851.
A pair of contemporary works commemorating the creation of modern Guatemala and El Salvador, one of which is unrecorded.
£450