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[DANCE OF DEATH] Anonymous. ANONYMOUS DRAWING, attributed to Francesco di Giovanni in graphite on verso. c. 1750-1800.
Highly finished preparatory design for a fresco or tapestry connected to the Albani family, whose coat of arms appears under the left-hand arch crowned with a cardinal's hat.
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[[GHEZZI, Pier Leone / FREY, Jacob / WESTERHOUT, Arnold van et al.]] CLEMENT ALBANI XI / GUIDI, Alessandro. Sei omelie di nostro Signore papa Clemente Undecimo Esposte in versi da Alessandro Guidi.
. Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1712.
Extremely rare first edition of this luxuriously illustrated anthology of extracts from papal sermons delivered between 1703-09, in Latin prose and facing Italian verse: an unusual example of Baroque ecclesiastical culture from the pontificate of Clement XI.
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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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The Illustrated Greek Orthodox Church
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HEINECCIUS, J.M.. Eigentliche und wahrhafftige Abbildung der alten und neuen Griechischen Kirche, Nach ihrer Historie, Glaubens-Lehren und Kirchen-Gebräuchen. Leipzig, Joh. Friedrich Gleditsch und Sohn, 1711.
Scarce first and only edition of the first fully-fledged study of the Greek Orthodox Church, extensively illustrated, and an important addition to the nascent German tradition of studying the history of religious traditions without partisan intent.
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