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Espionage And Piracy On the Elizabethan High Seas
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[[ELIZABETH I/MANUSCRIPT]] Privy Council Document, one leaf. Sept. 23, 1599.
Highly evocative manuscript document from the reign of Elizabeth I, signed by her entire Privy Council with the exception of Essex, who was directing the ill-fated Irish Campaign.
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Extensively Annotated In Latin & Greek
IN a Contemporary Hand
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AESCHINES/DEMOSTHENES. [ED REUCHLIN, Johannes]. ТΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΕΞΟΧΩΝ ΡΗΤΟΡΩΝ Άισχινου καί Δημοσθενους…Graeciae excellentissium Oratorum, Aeschinis & Demosthenis, orations adversariae. Paris, Christian Wechel, 1543.
Two extremely rare separately issued Paris student editions of Morceaux choisis of two of the Attic orators as edited by the great German humanist Reuchlin, along with an early, if not the earliest separate edition of Isocrates’ Helen, editorship apparently anonymous.
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Incunable Invective
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[INTERNATIONAL LAW / MAXIMILIAN I] Anonymous. Contra falsas Francorum litteras pro defensione honoris serenissimi Romanorum Regis. Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, [1492].
Very rare early printing of this piece of anti-French propaganda with which King Maximilian (Emperor 1493-1519) reacted to a double affront by Charles VIII of France who had stolen his wife and snubbed his daughter.
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[FETES / MALLORCA IMPRINTS] Anonymous. Breve noticia de las festivas domostraciones que con el plausible motivo de la real proclamacion del señor don Carlos IV. Hecha en la ciudad de Palma dia 11. de Julio de 1789. Palma de Mallorca, Imprenta Real, 1789.
Extremely rare first and sole edition of this Mallorcan festival book commemorating the festivities held in Palma on the occasion of Charles IV’s accession to the throne.
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[CALLIGRAPHY] ARRIGHI, Ludovico degli. Regola da imparate scrivere varii caratteri de littere con li suoi compassi et misure: et il modo di temperare le penne secondo la sorte de littere che vorrai scrivere. Venice, Nicolo d’Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1533.
Very rare early augmented edition (second) of Arrighi’s treatise on writing containing both the writing samples and the instructions on preparing pen and ink, which were previously issued separately.
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