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...
A UNIQUE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY WITH 28 MAPS AND CITY VIEWS The Book: Brandis, Franz Adam.. Dess tirolischen Adlers immergrünendes Ehren-Kräntzel, oder, Zusammen gezogene Erzehlung jeniger schrifft-würdigsten Geschichten, so sich in den zehen nacheinander gefolgten Herrschungen der fürstlichen Graffschafft Tirol von Noë an, biss auff jetzige Zeit zugetragen. Gedruckt zu Botzen [Bolzano] : Bey Paul Nicolaus...
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...
A FOLIO EDITION OF JOHN STOW’S CHRONICLE The Book: John Stow; (edited and continued by) Edmund Howes . Annales, or, A generall chronicle of England. Begun by John Stow: continued and augmented with matters forraigne and domestique, ancient and moderne, unto the end of this present yeere, 1631. Londini, Impensis Richardi Meighen, 1631. FOLIO. COMPLETE....
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....
