Pre-1600

  • Warhafftiger Bericht von den Landen,

    # 13440

    ALVARES, Francisco, 1465-c.1541; CORSALI, Andrea, 1487-?

    Warhafftiger Bericht von den Landen,

    auch geistlichem vnd weltlichem Regiment, des Mechtigen Könige in Ethiopien : den wir Priester Johan nennen, wie solches durch die Kron Portugal mit besondern vleis erfündiget worden. beschrieben durch Herrn Franciscum Aluares, so derhalben sechs Jahr lang an gedachts Priester Johans Hoffe verharren müssen ; aus der Portugallischen vnd Italianischen Sprache in das Deutsche gebracht, …

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  • [BINDING] M. Tullii Ciceronis Familiarum Epistolarum Libri XVI.

    # 40102

    CICERO, M. Tullius (106-43 BCE)

    [BINDING] M. Tullii Ciceronis Familiarum Epistolarum Libri XVI.

    Cum Hubertini Crescentinatis, Martini Philetici, Iod. Badii Ascensii, Ioan. Baptistae Egnatii, & Pauli Manutii ab ipso proxime recognitis, emendatis, atq; auctis comentariis, & aliorum doctissimorum virorum, quorum nomina subscripsimus, annotationibus sparsim appositis, quibus difficillima quaeque Ciceronis loca explicantur, & mendosa corriguntur … Adiectis praeterea argumentis, & lemmatibus Giberti Longolii … … Venetiis : apud Johannem Mariam Bonellum, …

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  • Lettere dell' India Orientale,

    # 48836

    CABRAL, Francisco, et al.

    Lettere dell’ India Orientale,

    scritte a’reverendi Padri della Compagnia di Giesù. Nelle quali si scopre la grande arte usata da gli istessi, per liberar l’anime de gli infideli Indiani dalla potesta del nimico infernale, & ridurle alla nostra sant fede. Novamente stampate, & ampliate in molti luoghi, & ricorrette con diligenza. Venice : Antonio Ferrari, 1580. Duodecimo, contemporary limp vellum; …

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  • Alcune lettere delle cose del Giappone. Dell'anno 1579. insino al 1581.

    # 48707

    Francesco Carrion; Lorenze Mexia; Luís Fróis; Francesco Cabral; Gregorio de Cespedes

    Alcune lettere delle cose del Giappone. Dell’anno 1579. insino al 1581.

    Rome : Francesco Zannetti, 1584. Octavo, recent morocco in period style; edges stained red; pp. 159, [1 errata]; title with woodcut Jesuit device, and with an early ownership inscription; marginal damp stain to top outer corners (not affecting text), a few short passages with early underlining, otherwise clean throughout, a good copy. The first printing …

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  • Marci Pauli Veneti Itinerarium, seu de rebus Orientalibus, Libri tres.

    # 46941

    POLO, Marco (1254-1324); Hayton of Corycus; Vincent of Beauvais; Reineccius, Reinerus

    Marci Pauli Veneti Itinerarium, seu de rebus Orientalibus, Libri tres.

    [CONTAINED IN]: Historia Orientalis Haythoni Armenii: et hic subiectum Marci Pauli Veneti Itinerarium, item Fragmentum è Speculo historiali Vincentij Beluacensis eiusdem argumenti. Helmaestadii [i.e. Helmstedt] : [Iacobus Lucius], 1585. Quarto (205 x 160 mm), contemporary speckled calf, spine with raised bands (expertly restored); [8], 211, [3], [69], [11] leaves (lacking the final colophon leaf), with …

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  • Lettere del Giapone, et della Cina de gl'anni M. D. LXXXIX & M. D. XC.

    # 48543

    Sande, Duarte de; d'Almeyda, Antonio; Coelho, Gaspar; Fróis, Luís, et al.

    Lettere del Giapone, et della Cina de gl’anni M. D. LXXXIX & M. D. XC.

    Scritte al R. P. Generale della Compagnia di GIESV. Milan : Pacifico Pontio, 1592. Duodecimo, vellum boards with gilt-lettered morocco title label to spine; front pastedown with ex libris of H. P. Kraus; pp. 214; title with woodcut Jesuit device and early ownership inscriptions (one crossed out), another early ownership inscription to verso of rear …

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  • Compendium manualis Navarri,

    # 46460

    ALAGONA, Pietro; AZPILCUETA, Martín de

    Compendium manualis Navarri,

    ad commodiorem usum, tum confessariorum, tum poenitentium, compilatum … … Venice : ex officina Damiani Zenarii, 1593. 24mo (105 x 55 mm), contemporary vellum (heavily rubbed and darkened from handling); all edges stained red; title printed in red and black with woodcut printer’s device, pp. [1]-400, 401- 444 (the second work, with drop title), [44] (index); binding …

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  • Lettera del Giapone degli anni 1591. et 1592.

    # 48714

    Fróis, Luís

    Lettera del Giapone degli anni 1591. et 1592.

    Scritta al R. P. Generale della Compagnia di Giesu. Et dalla Spagnuola nella Italiana lingua tradotta dal P. Ubaldino Bartolini della Compagnia medesima. In Venetia : Gio. Battista Ciotti, 1595. Duodecimo, later vellum, gilt-lettered morocco title label to spine; pp. 165; title with woodcut Jesuit device (printing flaw in the form of two diagonal creases, …

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  • [VIRGINIA] Historien und Bericht von dem newlicher Zeit erfundenen Königreich China,

    # 48547

    González de Mendoza, Juan (1545-1618); Hariot (Harriot), Thomas (c.1560-1621); Dresser, Matthaeus (1537-1607) (compiler)

    [VIRGINIA] Historien und Bericht von dem newlicher Zeit erfundenen Königreich China,

    wie es nach umbstenden, so zu einer rechtmessigen Beschreibung gehören, darumb beschaffen : item, von dem auch new erfundenen Lande Virginia : jetzund auffs newe ubersehen, unnd mit einem Zusatz vermehret, nemlich, wie es umb die Religion in Perser unnd Mohrenland, unter Priester Johan bewand sey. Jn Druck verfertiget / durch MATTHAEVM DRESSERVM D. der …

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  • The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by Sea or ouer-land,

    # 48826

    HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)

    The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by Sea or ouer-land,

    to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall Volumes, according to the positions of the Regions, whereunto they were directed. The first Volume containeth the worthy Discoueries, &c. of the English toward the North and Northeast by Sea … …

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  • Copia d'una [lettera] del P. Nicolo Pimenta visitatore della provincia d'India Orientale.

    # 48538

    Pimenta, Nicolau (1546-1614)

    Copia d’una [lettera] del P. Nicolo Pimenta visitatore della provincia d’India Orientale.

    Al molto rerendo P. Claudio Acquaviva… del primo Decembre 1600. Venice : Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1602. Duodecimo, modern panelled red calf, spine in compartments with gilt decoration; edges speckled red; pp. 86; title with woodcut Jesuit device, decorated initial; scattered light foxing, a very good example. First Italian translation (from the Portuguese) of the annual …

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  • Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

    # 49454

    LODEWIJCKSZ, Willem

    Premier livre de l’histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

    et des choses a eux advenues: ensemble les conditions, les meurs, & manieres de vivres des Nations, par eux abordees. Plus les Monnoyes, Espices, Drogues, & Marchandises, & le pris d’icelles … … Amstelredam [Amsterdam] : Cornille Nicolas [Cornelius Nicolaius], 1598. Folio, later full polished calf (sunned and lightly marked), spine with raised bands and …

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  • Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text that can be accurately dated (with the Jishin'in darani)

    # 48879

    EMPRESS SHOTOKU-TENNO (718 - 770 CE)

    Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text that can be accurately dated (with the Jishin’in darani)

    Japan : Nara period [764-770 CE]. Three-tier turned wooden pagoda made of hinoki (Japanese cypress), well preserved with remnants of the original white gesso wash made from seashells in the eighth century, very slight chips to the rims of the three tiers, separate turned katsura wood finial (edge chips to the rings), overall height 218 …

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  • Lettere del Giappone dell'anno M. D. LXXVII. Scritte dalli Reverendi Padri della Compagnia di Giesù.

    # 42443

    Fróis, Luís (1532-1597) et al.

    Lettere del Giappone dell’anno M. D. LXXVII. Scritte dalli Reverendi Padri della Compagnia di Giesù.

    Rome : Francesco Za[n]netti, 1579. Octavo, later panelled red calf, boards with gilt central device and borders, spine with raised bands decorated and entered in gilt; gilt dentelles; pp. 72; title with woodcut device; old stamp removes and first few leaves with small expert restoration at lower fore-edge, otherwise very good. Very rare collection of …

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  • Tractatus zelus Christi contra Iudaeos, Sarracenos, & infideles,

    # 45100

    Pedro de la Cavallería; Martin Alfonso Vivaldo; Samuel Marochitanus

    Tractatus zelus Christi contra Iudaeos, Sarracenos, & infideles,

    ab illust. doct. Petro de la Cavalleria, Hispano ex civitate Caesaraugusta, anno 1450 … … Venice : apud Baretium de Baretijs, 1592. Two works in one volume, quarto (225 x 160 mm), contemporary panelled vellum stamped with the initials L V M; [68], 156; [8], 19 leaves; second work has separate title page: Aureus Rabbi Samuelis tractatus …

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  • Venetian printing : Nicolas Jenson and the rise of the Roman letterform

    # 19791

    LOWRY, Martin

    Venetian printing : Nicolas Jenson and the rise of the Roman letterform

    Herning : Poul Kristensen, 1989. Folio, publisher’s stiff wrappers with gilt lettering, gilt to spine (slight wear), 104, [8] pp., with 8 coloured plates; three light water marks to front free endpaper, otherwise internally very clean, a good copy. One of 850 copies. Text in English and Danish. The two essays, from slightly differing viewpoints, both …

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