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# 38393
LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco
Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias
cõ todo el descubrimiento, y cosas notables que han acaescido donde que se ganaron hasta el año de 1551. Con la conquista de Mexico, y dela nueva España. Medina del Campo : Guillermo de Millis, 1553. Second edition.Two parts in one, folio (275 x 200 mm), contemporary vellum over boards, original ties partially intact, spine with early title …
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# 37107
MEDICI, Sisto de' (1502-1561)
[JUDAICA] De foenore Iudaeorum, libri tres.
Venice : [Gryphius], 1555. Three parts in one volume, quarto (175 x 140 mm), later (probably 18th-century) marbled papered limp boards (heavily rubbed, loss of paper along spine), pp [16], 63, [1], [1 colophon]; title and colophon engraved with printer’s device; historiated and decorated initials; occasional and very light marginal foxing, text block trimmed close …
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# 42454
[TENSHŌ EMBASSY] Acta consistorii publice exhibiti a S.D.N. Gregorio Papa XIII. regum Iaponiorum legatis Romae, die XXIII. Martii, M.D. LXXXV.
Dillingen : Johannes Mayer, 1585. Quarto, Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding of levant morocco ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands decorated and lettered in gilt; gilt dentelles; title with woodcut device, pp. 19; woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces; occasional spotting, a fine copy. The first German edition of the official account of Pope Gregory …
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# 38374
Gonzalez de Mendoza, Juan, 1545-1618; Loyola, Martin Ignacio de, d. 1606; Parke, Robert
The historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China, and the situation thereof : togither with the great riches, huge citties, politike gouernement, and rare inuentions in the same. Translated out of Spanish by R. Parke.
London : Printed by I. Wolfe for Edward White, 1588. First English edition. Quarto (185 x 140 mm), nineteenth-century vellum over boards ruled in gilt (small stain to lower board) with yapp edges; contrasting morocco title label with gilt lettering to spine; edges stained red; marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Arthur Dalrymple; pp [viii], 410; …
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# 43448
POMIS, David ben Isaac de (1524 - ca.1594)
De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica … …
Venice : Apud Ioannem Variscum [Giovanni Varisco], 1588. First (and only) edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), modern brown cloth over boards; original first blank with early ownership signature to verso (browned, clipped at upper corner), title-page with vignette woodcut printer’s device, and with coat of arms to verso; pp. [7] (Dedication to Francesco Maria II …
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# 42307
Valignano, Alessandro (1539-1606) et al.
Avvisi della Cina, et Giapone del fine dell’anno 1587.
Con l’arrivo de’ Signori Giapponesi nell’India. Cavati dalle lettere della Compagnia di Giesù. Ricevute il mese d’ Ottobre 1588. Con licentia de’ superiori. In Venetia, appresso i Gioliti. 1588. Small octavo (160 x 105 mm), modern quarter red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt ‘AVVISI DELLA CINA’; new …
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# 24196
SADELER, Johannes I (Brussels 1550 - 1600/1601 Venice) (printer)
Eximium exercitium seu comendatio ad Beatissima[m] semper Virginem Dei Genitricem Mariam quotidie mane videlicet, ac Vesperi, nec non Sabbatinis diebus …
[s.l.] : Ioannes Sadler [fe]cit et excudit, cum Privilegio S.C.M., [circa 1590]. Duodecimo (112 x 70 mm), copper engraved single sheet mounted on later marbled paper backing; in Latin; handling wear, a tiny amount of text loss at the extremities. The printer and engraver Jan (Johannes) Sadeler I (Brussels 1550 – 1600/1601 Venice) was a …
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# 38359
Garcilaso de la Vega, "El Inca", 1539-1616
[Primera Parte de los] Commentarios Reales, que tratan del Origen de los Yncas, reyes que fueron del Peru, de su idolatria, leyes, y gouierno en paz y en guerra
… Con licencia de la Sancta Inquisicion, Ordinario, y Paco. En Lisboa: En la officina de Pedro Crasbeeck, 1609 [but 1608]. Small folio (240 x 170 mm), later full vellum with ornate gilt-tooled decoration; [9] preliminary leaves, 264 ff (colophon to verso of leaf 264, with date of 1608), [1 errata] page with woodcut decorations; …
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# 42439
Matos (Mattos), Gabriel de (1572-1633)
Lettera annua del Giappone del M. DCXIV. Al molto Rever. Padre Generale della Compagnia di GIESU.
Scritta dal Padre Gabriel de Mattos della medesima Compagnia di Giesù. Rome : Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1617. Octavo, later papered boards with gilt-lettered leather title-piece to spine; title with woodcut Jesuit device, and with an early nineteenth-century ownership inscription to bottom margin; pp. 205; occasional browning, a fine copy. ‘The first Italian edition (the original was …
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# 42373
COLLADO, Diego (d. 1638 or 1641)
Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium …
Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [bound with] Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae linguae … Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [and bound with] Niffon no Cotōbani yô confesion, … [= modus confitendi et examinandi poenitentem Japonensem, formula suamet lingua Japonica … ] Romae typis & impensis Sacr. …
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# 38379
CRUS, Manoel da [CRUZ, Manuel da]
Fala que fes o P. Fr. Manoel da Crus,
Mestre em S. Teologia, Deputado do S. Officio, & das Ordens Militares na segunda instancia, Vigairo Geral da Ordem dos Pregadores da India. Lisbon : Lourenço de Anveres, 1642. Second edition. Small quarto (200 x 150 mm), vellum boards gilt, front pastedown with ex libris of H. P. Kraus and cutting from the 1929 Maggs Bros. …
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# 44638
[PROVENANCE: Pieter NUYTS, 1598-1655]
Homer opera omnia,
cum interpretat lat. ad verbum etc. ut latius in Epist.ad Lectorem: Ajecti sunt Homerici centones, proverbial. versuum Homeri libellus, et breves note marginales. Amsterdam : Joannes Ravesteinius, 1650. Thick small octavo, contemporary vellum with manuscript title in ink to spine; page facing the engraved pictorial title with the ownership signature of Pieter Nuyts (1598-1655), dated in …
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# 38366
[MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.
[London, 1674-75]. Folio (300 x 200 mm), old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up …
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# 42975
JESÚS, Diego de
[PHILIPPINE IMPRINT] Manipulus orationum quibus Christi Domini sacerdotes,
tum ad preparationem, tum ad gratitudinem ante et post sacrosanctum Misse Sacrificium exercitare se possint: … … Manila : Collegii S. Thome Aquinitatis, 1675. Octavo (160 x 105 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lightly worn) with remnants of the original ties; front pastedown with ex libris of Estelle Doheny; early ownership brand on lower edge; [12], …
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# 44504
A seventeenth-century Japanese illustrated Ikebana manuscript
Titled ‘Somoku yariyo’ (草木遣様). S.l. : s.n., dated Genroku 12 (1699) at rear. Stitch bound manuscript in cloth covers, 14.2 x 20.6 cms, 9 leaves, folded, with 32 hand painted illustrations of ikebana arrangements of the Ikenobo school. A little worming to the wrappers, internally fine, in a modern custom folding case. Ikenobō (池坊) is …
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# 38364
[THOMAS, Antoine, 1644-1709]
A short account of the declaration given by the Chinese Emperour Kam Hi, in the year 1700.
London : [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCIII [1703]. Octavo (155 mm), contemporary calf, expertly rebacked; pp [28], [4 blank], 71, [1]; a few leaves with pale staining; early manuscript ex libris of the Holy Cross Abbey Library; housed in a custom morocco clamshell box. English translation of Brevis relatio eorū quæ spectant ad declarationem …