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Religion & Philosophy
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ARAMBURU de la Cruz, Dr. Don Manuel Vincente. Historia Chronológica de la Santa Angélica, y Apostólica Capilla de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de la Ciudad de Zaragoza, y de los Progressos de Sus Reedificaciones. Zaragoza, En la Imprenta del Rey Nuestro Señor, 1766.
Very rare and sole edition of this work documenting the history, architecture, and festivals of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pilar, the largest Baroque church in Spain.
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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus. De consolatione philosophiae. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 23 June 1486.
Rare Koberger edition (reprint of 1483) and fine copy of one of the most widely-read contemplative texts of the Middle Ages.
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The First Time In English:
“I Think, Therefore, I Am”
This Edition In John Locke's Library
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DESCARTES, René. / Tr. ANON.. A discourse of a method for the well-guiding of reason, and the discovery of truth in the sciences. London, Thomas Newcombe for John Holden, 1649.
Very rare first English edition and fine copy of one of the most important works of Western Philosophy ever written, Descartes’ Discourse, containing for the first time in English the phrase which is not only the conceptual cornerstone of Rationalism, generally considered the beginning of modern philosophy, but is synonymous in the cultural imagination with the very field of Philosophy: “I think, therefore, I am.”
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Battle of the Biographers
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[SWEDEN / CHARLES XII / VOLTAIRE] FABRICE, Friedrich Ernst von.. Anecdotes du sejour du roi de Suede a Bender, ou, Lettres de Mr. le baron de Fabrice pour servir d’eclaircissement a l’histoire de Charles XII. Hamburg, Christian Herold, 1760.
Rare first French edition (first German: 1759) of this account of Charles XII’s exile in Turkey, published on the request of Voltaire to supplement his biography of the monarch and validate it vis-à-vis the rival biography published by Nordberg.
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An Education Befitting a Gourmand
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FISCHART, Johannes. Affentheurlich Naupengeheurliche Geschichtklitterung von Thaten und Rhaten... Grandgoschier Gorgellantua... und Pantagruel... Etwan von M. Frantz Rabelais... emtworffen. Strassburg, Bernhard Jobin, 1590.
Rare illustrated edition of the Protestant satirist's imaginative adaptation of Rabelais' Gargantua, the last edition to appear in the author's lifetime, and the most important for fixing the text of future editions.
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