PRINTED 1646: 2 VOLS in 1: “The history of many memorable things lost” The Book: [SCIENTIFIC INVENTION] [THE NEW WORLD] [EARLY ENCYCLOPEDIA] Pancirolli, Guido ; Salmuth, Heinrich]; Guidonis Pancirolli rerum memorabilium sive deperditarum pars prior[-liber secundus] : commentarijs illustrata, et locis prope innumeris postremum aucta, Publisher: Francofurti : sumptibus Godefridi Schonwetteri, 1646. The...
The Alcoran of the Franciscans- a Heap of Blasphemous Doctrines – a Sink of Lyes VERY INFLUENTIAL ON THE SPANISH MISSION IN THE NEW WORLD DEMONSTRATES THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF ST. FRANCIS IN RENAISSANCE ART AND LITERATURE The Book: [Liber conformitatum vite Beati Francisci ad vitam Jesu Christi, ed. J. Mapellus.] [Bartholomeus, de Pisis]. Opus...
THE MYSTERIOUS PLOT TO ASSASSINATE QUEEN ELIZABETH EXTREMELY RARE WITH THE ADDITIONAL 7 PAGE “PRAYER FOR ALL KINGS” WONDERFUL PROVENANCE: THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE “BROXBOURNE COPY” The Book: A true and plaine declaration of the horrible treasons, practised by William Parry the traitor, against the Queenes Maiestie. The maner ofhis arraignment, conuiction and execution,...
The Book: [A.D.B.] The court of the most illustrious and most magnificent James, the first; king of Great-Britaine, France, and Ireland: & c. London, Printed by E. Griffin, 1619.”The epistle dedicatory” signed: A.D.B Presents “certaine rules and precepts of a courtly and politicall life.” cf. “The epistle to the reader.” Small 4to., [14], 168 p....
1589: EXCEEDING RARE FIRST EDITION of the earliest known treatise on fortification and military engineering in English. A spy under the famous Elizabethan spymaster Francis Walsingham A key scientific source for Marlowe’s Famous Tamburlaine- a milestone of Elizabethan drama No complete copies with the 2 rare fold out plates present in 50+ years of...
PRINTED 1657: THE RARE Grand Cabinet-Counsels Unlocked The Book: [Marguerite, Queen consort of Henry IV King of France] The grand cabinet-counsels unlocked. Or The most faithful transaction of the court-affairs, and growth and continuation of the civil wars in France, betwixt the Huguenots and the papists, during the raign of Charls the Last, Henry the...
EXTREMELY RARE: ‘the single most valuable contribution to Wunderkammer studies’ PRINTED 1716: WITH 30 PLATES EAST INDIAN BOTANY, UNICORNS & SERPENTS, FOSSILS & COINS The Book: Michael Bernhard VALENTINI; Joannes Conradus Becker. Historia simplicium reformata, sub Musei Muscorum . Francofurti ad Moenum : Ex Officina Zunneriana, apud Johannem Adamum Jungium, 1716. COMPLETE. [26], 664,...
PRINTED 1650. The Strachey – Senhouse Copy of the Work that hinted that King James was a Homosexual The copy bequeathed by Lytton Strachey to his last lover Roger Senhouse The Book: WELDON, Sir Anthony. The Court and Character of King James. Written and taken by Sir A: W: Being and Ear and Eare Witness....
STOW’S CHRONICLE WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ELIZABETHAN SOURCE BOOKS BURNING OF WITCHES, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION OF VIRGINIA The Book: John Stow; (edited and continued by) Edmund Howes . The abridgement of the English chronicle : first collected by M. John Stow, and after him augmented with very many memorable antiquities, and...
ANTIPHONARY / CHOIR BOOK MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [s.l., s.d c. 16th century Spain]. Antiphonary and Choir book for the Common of Saints (Commune Sanctorum) supplemented by a certain number of votive Masses. LARGE FOLIO., approx. 51 cm x 35. (iPhone in photo for size comparison) Reversed calf over wood boards, faint impressions of metal...
