17th Century
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The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617,
JOURDAIN, John.Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £0.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00| /John Jourdain (d.1619) was a captain in the service of the English East India Company (EIC), and the first president of the EIC Council of India. ...
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Epigrams of Martial, Englished.
MARTIAL; [KILLIGREW, Henry (translator)].Original price £800.00 - Original price £800.00Original price £0.00£800.00£800.00 - £800.00Current price £800.00| /The thoughts of a Roman poet. The most complete seventeenth-century translation of Martial's Epigrams into English, bound with the first edition of...
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Scotiae Regnum.
MERCATOR, Gerhard.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00| /Gerhard Mercator is one of the most famous cartographers of all time. Mercator was born in Flanders and educated at the Catholic University in Leu...
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum...
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £135,000.00 - Original price £135,000.00Original price £0.00£135,000.00£135,000.00 - £135,000.00Current price £135,000.00| /One of the largest & finest editions of Ortelius's Theatrum. One of the largest and finest editions of Ortelius's Theatrum, comprising 156 plat...
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Nicholas Machiavel's Prince.
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo; DACRES, Edward (translator).Original price £85,000.00 - Original price £85,000.00Original price £0.00£85,000.00£85,000.00 - £85,000.00Current price £85,000.00| /Unrestored contemporary sheepskin. The first edition in English of Machiavelli's extraordinary treatise on the art of government, widely acclaimed ...
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Moriae Encomium;
ERASMUS, Desiderius.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Early edition in English. The first edition of John Wilson's English translation of this important work of humanist rhetoric, which satirised the c...
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Observationes Medicae circa Morborum Acutorum Historiam et Curationem.
SYDENHAM, Thomas.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /A landmark in the science of disease. First edition of the founding text of epidemiology. 'Although technically the third edition of his Methodus c...
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A Journey into Greece...
WHELER, George.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00| /A large paper copy of Wheler's Journey to Greece, undertaken with Dr Spon. The travels took place in 1675-76. Wheler was specially interested in b...
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The Holy Bible
[BIBLE. KING JAMES VERSION].Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Original silver 'furniture'. The King James Version, splendidly preserved in the original black morocco gilt binding furnished in silver. A handsom...
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Hilkhot De'ot sive Canones Ethici
MAIMONIDES (Moses Ben Maimon); GENTIUS, Georgius (translator).Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /First edition of Gentius's Latin translation of 'Hilkhot De'ot', from the first book of Maimonides's 'Mishneh Torah', with a commentary. This is G...
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
[PHILOSOPHY]. NEWTON, Sir Isaac, WRIGHT, John (editor).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /The best of the 'jesuits' editions. The highly regarded first Glasgow edition of the 'Jesuits' text. This set handsomely bound with the gilt arms o...
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The First(-Third) Parts of the Principles of the Art Military... 1637(?), 1638 and 1640
HEXHAM, Henry.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Important contribution to the art of Early Modern warfare. A rare mixed edition issue of Henry Hexham's Principles of the Art Military, superbly il...
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Torah, Nevi'im Rishonim, Nevi'im Achronim, Ktuvim.
[HEBREW BIBLE].Original price £4,900.00 - Original price £4,900.00Original price £0.00£4,900.00£4,900.00 - £4,900.00Current price £4,900.00| /Scarce first edition of the Geneva Hebrew bible. Scarce first edition of the Geneva Hebrew bible, with the Megillot placed at the end of the Torah ...
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The Holy Bible.
[OGILBY BIBLE].Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /Restoration of King Charles II. An exceptional, well-margined copy of John Ogilby's imaginative reissue of the Field large folio bible, published f...
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The present state of the Morea
RANDOLPH, Bernard.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /'Randolph (bap. 1643 - d. after 1689?)... was living in Smyrna [by 1664] and he traded extensively through the Aegean region of the Ottoman empire...
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[Tulips]
BESLER, BasiliusOriginal price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00| /Magnificent plates from Hortus Eystettensis, one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record...
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