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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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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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Allegory Of Commerce:
The Glory Of Antwerp
In Contemporary Color
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[Trade] AMMAN, Jost. Eigentliche Abbildung desz ganzen Bewerbs der löblichen Kaufmannschafft… und fürnehmsten Handelstädt. Augsburg, Wilhelm Peter Zimmerman, 1622.
Rare third issue of a spirited allegorical broadside devoted to the glories of commerce, finished in contemporary hand color.
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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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