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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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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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Eye-Witness Account Of Missionary Work In The American South
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BADIN, Stephen Theodore (attributed). Origine et Progrde la Mission du Kentucky, (ats-Unis d'Amque); par un Temoin Oculaire. Paris, Le Cl, 1821.
Second edition, appearing the same year as the first, of this eye-witness account of missionary work in the American south.
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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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