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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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Illustrated Perspective Treatise
by a Renowned Sicilian Architect
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AMATO, Paolo. La Nuova Pratica di Prospettiva nella quale si spiegano alcune nuove opinioni, e la Regola universale di Disegnare... Palermo, Vincenzo Toscano & Onofrio Gramignani, 1736.
Very rare sole edition of one of the only illustrated architectural treatises by a working architect published in Sicily.
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AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum Gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt Libri XVIII. Ed. Jacob Gronovius. Leiden, Pieter Van der Aa, 1693.
First Gronovius edition, with extensive commentary and extensive illustrations; it remained the definitive edition for well over a century.
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Original Dutch Tobacco-Label Woodblock
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[TOBACCO] Annonymous. Wood-block with medallion-shaped design of a Red Indian smoking a pipe against a background of the sea and 2 sailing ships with the legend De Jonge Amerikaan. . The Netherlands, c.1820.
Original woodblock with the trademark of an early nineteenth-century Dutch tobacco manufacturing firm used for stamping bale labels or wrappers for snuff tobacco (“Rappee”) consignments.
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Anti-Semites Critique The Wine Monopoly
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[ WINE BROADSIDE [S.V.]] Anonymous. Der Wein Jud. Etching with German and Latin text, including Biblical verses. Trier, 1628.
Rare first edition of this anti-Semitic broadsheet, a derisive attack on the perceived Jewish monopoly on the German wine industry during the Thirty Years War (1618-48).
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