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Immaculate Instruction: A Brescian Book of Indulgences
Item #6003 Libro dell’indulgenze, gratie, e stationi che sono in Roma, concesse alla...
Brescia, Appresso Iacomo, e Policreto Turlini, 1580.

Libro dell’indulgenze, gratie, e stationi che sono in Roma, concesse alla Confraternita della Immaculata Concettione, Posta nella Chiesa di San Francesco di Brescia. Per esser unita con l’Archico[n]fraternità di san Lorenzo in Damaso di Roma.

An exceedingly rare (with no copies recorded in OCLC) pocket-sized booklet, published in 1580 for the Franciscan-observant Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception of the Church of San Francesco in Brescia. It details the indulgences and privileges, granted under unification with the Archconfraternity of the Immaculate Conception of San Lorenzo in..... More

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News of Drake’s Circumnavigation: “The First Published Account of the Voyage”
Sammelband of Rare First Editions by the Renowned Botanist Charles de l’Ecluse
Item #5786 Aliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam
[DRAKE, Francis] / CLUSIUS, Carolus [L’ECLUSE, Charles de].
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1582.

Aliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam.

Rare first edition of the naturalist Charles de l’Ecluse’s (Carolus Clusius; 1526-1609) botany of Sir Francis Drake’s 1577-80 circumnavigation (the first by an Englishman), the first printed book in botanical literature to be substantially based on a specific trans-Atlantic voyage of any kind, and indeed the first substantial record of..... More

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The Most Influential Botanical Text Of the 16th Century
“Of outstanding Historical Importance” (DSB)
The Annotated Copy of Joachim Camerarius the Younger
Item #4203 De Plantis. Andrea CESALPINO
Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1583.

De Plantis.

First edition, and an important annotated copy, of the foundational text of scientific botany and the first articulation of the modern concept of species. Andrea Cesalpino’s (1519-1603) comparative plant taxonomy – “the first rational system of plant classification” (PMM) – far surpassed any rival system of his day. De plantis..... More

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“The Most Comprehensive & Popular Book on Ming China to Appear in Europe” – Lach
“One of the Outstanding Best-Sellers of the 16th Century” – Boxer
Item #5593 Dell’ historia della China. Juan GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA
Venice, Andrea Muschio, 1586.

Dell’ historia della China.

Rare first Venetian edition (appearing in the same year that the first Italian-language edition was published in Rome) of the Spanish Augustinian Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza’s (1545-1618) groundbreaking treatise on China, a work considered “the most comprehensive and popular book on Ming China to appear in Europe” (Lach, I.ii, p...... More

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