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An illustrated pocket edition of the Latin New Testament with contemporary annotations

An illustrated pocket edition of the Latin New Testament with contemporary annotations

BIBLE-NEW TESTAMENT IN LATIN. Testamenti novi. Editio vulgata

Lyon, Sébastien Gryphius, 1544

$1,900

Palladio’s guide to sacred Rome

Palladio’s guide to sacred Rome

Palladio Andrea

Descritione de le chiese, stationi, indulgenze & reliquie de corpi sancti, che sonno in la citta de Roma, brevemente raccolta da M. Andrea Palladio et nuovamente posta in luce

In Roma, appresso Vincentio Lucrino (Rome, Vincenzo Luchino), 1554

$7,000

Peter Martyr's theological thought edited by Robert Masson in London

Peter Martyr's theological thought edited by Robert Masson in London

Vermigli Pietro Martire, known as Peter Martyr

Petri Martyris Vermilii, Florentini praestantissimi nostra aetate theologi, Loci communes. Ex varijs ipsius Aucthoris & libris in vnum volumen collecti, & quatuor classes distributi. Edited by Robert Masson

Londini [London], ex typographia Ioannis Kyngstoni [John Kingston], 1576

$4,000

First edition of the original Greek text of Plotinus’s Enneads, one of the central works of ancient philosophy and a formative text of Renaissance Platonism

First edition of the original Greek text of Plotinus’s Enneads, one of the central works of ancient philosophy and a formative text of Renaissance Platonism

Plotinus

Plotini Platonicorum facile coryphaei Operum philosophicorum omnium libri LIV in sex Enneades distributi. Ex antiquiss. codicum fide nunc primùm Graecè editi, cum Latina Marsilii Ficinii interpretatione & commentatione

Basle, Peter Perna, 1580 (Colophon: Basileae, ex officina Petri Pernae, 1580 Kalend. Iunii)

$6,500

Agostino Nifo and Aristotle’s ‘Ethics’-Annotated in a contemporary hand

Agostino Nifo and Aristotle’s ‘Ethics’-Annotated in a contemporary hand

Florimonte Galeazzo

Ragionamenti di mons. Galeazzo Florimonte, vescovo di Sessa, sopra l’Ethica d’Aristotile, al signor Alfonso Cambi Importuni, gentilhuomo fiorentino

Venice, Domenico Nicolini da Sabbio, 1567

$1,800

The verse collection of a Florentine lyre player, poet, and friend of Machiavelli-The first vernacular edition printed by Filippo Giunta

The verse collection of a Florentine lyre player, poet, and friend of Machiavelli-The first vernacular edition printed by Filippo Giunta

Cei Francesco

Sonecti, capituli, canzone, sextine, stanze, et strambocti composti per lo excellentissimo Francescho Cei cittadino fiorentino in laude di Clitia

Colophon: Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1503

$7,500

An extensive photographic survey of New York’s waterfront, architecture, transport and public life, bringing together harbour panoramas, shipping along South Street, the Statue of Liberty, and seven consecutive views of the Brooklyn Bridge

An extensive photographic survey of New York’s waterfront, architecture, transport and public life, bringing together harbour panoramas, shipping along South Street, the Statue of Liberty, and seven consecutive views of the Brooklyn Bridge

NEW YORK-PHOTOGRAPHY. Album of Photographs. New York, probably assembled c. 1890-1895, incorporating earlier negatives

S.D.

$4,500

First edition of Foës’s monumental Hippocratic lexicon. An exceptional presentation copy, inscribed at Padua in 1642 by the Nuremberg physician Heinrich Magnus Heigel (1613-1683) to Johann Georg Wirsung (1589-1643), the anatomist who discovered the main pancreatic duct in that very year

First edition of Foës’s monumental Hippocratic lexicon. An exceptional presentation copy, inscribed at Padua in 1642 by the Nuremberg physician Heinrich Magnus Heigel (1613-1683) to Johann Georg Wirsung (1589-1643), the anatomist who discovered the main pancreatic duct in that very year

Foës Anuce

Oeconomia Hippocratis, alphabeti serie distincta. In qua dictionum apud Hippocratem omnium, praeserim obscuriorum, usus explicatur, & velut ex amplissimo penu depromitur: ita ut Lexicon Hippocrateum merito dici possit. Anutio Foesio Mediomatrico Medico, Authore

Frankfurt a.M., Heirs of Andreas Wechel, Claude Marne, & Johann Aubry, 1588

$4,500

Microscopy, optical projection and the London instrument trade

Microscopy, optical projection and the London instrument trade

Nairne Edward

The Description of a Single Microscope; And of an Apparatus Applicable to the same, in order to make it a Solar Microscope, Which will equally serve for a Camera Obscura, And also for viewing Prints in Perspective, Greatly Improved for those Uses. By Edward Nairne, At the Golden Spectacles, Reflecting Telescope and Hadley’s Quadrant, in Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange, London. [French version:] Description d’un Simple Microscope; & des Machines necessaires a en faire un Microscope Solaire, qui peuvent servir egalement a faire une Chambre Obscure, & a l’Inspection des Estampes en Perspective

[London, Edward Nairne], n.d. [second half of the eighteenth century]

$2,000

First edition of Stendhal's Promenades dans Rome

First edition of Stendhal's Promenades dans Rome

Stendhal

Promenades dans Rome, par M. de Stendhal. Tome premier [-second]

Paris, Delaunay, libraire de S.A.R. M.me la Duchesse d’Orléans, Palais Royal (Imprimerie et fonderie de Fain, rue Racine, n.° 4, Place de l’Odéon), 1829

$2,000

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Auldjo John

Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, on the 8th and 9th August, 1827

London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828

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First edition of one of the foundational works of European Tibetan studies, and an important landmark in the history of printing with Tibetan movable type. Also the first appearance of the movable Devanagari characters and the first appearance of a head-piece created and signed by Giovanni Battista Bodoni

First edition of one of the foundational works of European Tibetan studies, and an important landmark in the history of printing with Tibetan movable type. Also the first appearance of the movable Devanagari characters and the first appearance of a head-piece created and signed by Giovanni Battista Bodoni

Giorgi Agostino Antonio

Alphabetum tibetanum missionum apostolicarum commodo editum

Rome, Typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1759

$9,000

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Einstein Albert

Mein Weltbild

Amsterdam, Querido Verlag, 1934

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First edition of one of the earliest substantial works printed entirely in Burmese characters, a pioneering monument of European Burmese typography and a fundamental witness to the beginnings of Christian vernacular literature in Burma

First edition of one of the earliest substantial works printed entirely in Burmese characters, a pioneering monument of European Burmese typography and a fundamental witness to the beginnings of Christian vernacular literature in Burma

Percoto Giovanni Maria

Compendium doctrinae Christianae idiomate Barmano sive Bomano

Rome, [Typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide], 1776

$1,680

First edition of a remarkable Burmese-language catechism, one of the earliest substantial works of Christian religious instruction printed in Burmese characters, produced in Rome by the celebrated polyglot press of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide. A highly attractive, uncut and largely unopened copy in contemporary temporary wrappers

First edition of a remarkable Burmese-language catechism, one of the earliest substantial works of Christian religious instruction printed in Burmese characters, produced in Rome by the celebrated polyglot press of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide. A highly attractive, uncut and largely unopened copy in contemporary temporary wrappers

Catechismus pro Barmanis eorum lingua primisque nunc litterarum typis excuses. Addita etiam latina interpretatione opera clericorum regularium S. Paulii in regno avae missionariorum adprobante Sac. congreg. de propagande fide

Rome, Typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1785-1786

$1,500

First edition of a rare Italian treatise on papermaking and the Hollander beater, published under the authority of the Bourbon government of Parma. An important early example of the transmission of French industrial technology to Italy, adapting the investigations of the Académie Royale des Sciences to the practical requirements of local manufacture.

First edition of a rare Italian treatise on papermaking and the Hollander beater, published under the authority of the Bourbon government of Parma. An important early example of the transmission of French industrial technology to Italy, adapting the investigations of the Académie Royale des Sciences to the practical requirements of local manufacture.

Osservazioni intorno all’arte di fabbricare la carta, dedotte da varj autori dell’Accademia Reale delle Scienze per la maggior perfezione delle cartiere negli stati di S.A.R. il Sig. Infante D. Filippo Duca di Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla ec. ec. ec. Con la dimostrazione del Mulino all’Olandese fatto a cilindro. Date dalla Segreteria della R. Azienda

Parma, Fratelli Borsi stampatori, e libraj, 1762

$1,100

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