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A Key Gulf Coast Chart
Texas/ Gulf Coast from Florida to Yucatan. KEULEN, J. VAN/ VOOGHT, C. J. [Amsterdam, 1684] Pas Kaart Van de Golff van Mexico.... 20 1/4 x 23 inches. Fine hand color; fine condition. $5,500

Bartoli's Asia 3 Volumes Devoted To Asia And Japan
BARTOLI, Daniello. Dell Istoria della Compagnia di Giesu. L'Asia descritta dal P. Daniello Bartoli della medesima Compagnia. Parte Prima; Il Giappone. Seconda Parte dell'Asia; La Cina. Terza Parte dell'Asia Rome, Varese, 1660 1663 1667. The very rare third, enlarged, and best edition of Bartoli's L'Asia descritta. $18,500

An Important Biographical Source For Kepler's Life
KEPLER, Johannes. Ad Epistolam Clarissimi Viri Jacobi Bartschi Praefixam Ephemeridi in annum 1629, Responsio: De Computatione et Editione Ephemeridum [Gorlitz?], Sagan, 1629. Rare first edition of this public letter by Kepler to the young Jacob Bartsch, and an important biographical source for the astronomer’s life and final years. $11,000

Debut Of Thoracic Percussion

AUENBRUGGER, Leopold. Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo Abstrusos Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi Vienna, J.T. Trattner, 1761. Very rare first edition, first issue of "one of the greatest of medical classiscs" describing a new method of physical diagnosis--thoracic percussion, namely, tapping a patient's chest and determining from the resultant sound whether it was healthy or diseased. $14,500

EARLY EPIC NARRATIVE OF EL CID WITH FULL-PAGE HERALDIC WOODCUTS
CID, Ruy Diaz de Vivar. Chronica del Famoso Cavallero Cid Ruy Diaz Campeador. Burgos, Philippe de Junta, 1593. Rare, most likely 4th edition of this Spanish classic in the redaction of Fr. Juan Lopez de Velorado. $7,500

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