Rare Book Buyer: We Buy Old and Rare Books

APPRAISING AN 18th CENTURY RARE  BOOK ON CLOCKS AND WATCHES We just received in the mail a very interesting work on watch and clockmaking from 1732:  Johann George Leutmann’s Vollständige Nachricht von den Uhren.  This is a complicated work and typographically intimidating.  It is  printed in black-letter script with only occasional Roman script, a style...

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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...

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