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  • First Juz' from a monumental Safavid Qur'an,

    [QUR'AN].
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    From the court of Shah Tahmasp. An exceptional qur'anic juz with calligraphy attributed to the court calligrapher to Shah Tahmasp, Ahmad Al-Khalili...

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  • Tractato dele più maravigliose cose e più notabile che si trovino in le parte del mondo

    MANDEVILLE, Sir John.
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    The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...

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  • The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image in the Shebet Yehudah.

    YERUSHALMI, Yosef Hayim.
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    A landmark study by Yerushalmi in which he presents the Lisbon Massacre and uncovers the history of alliances between the Jews and their Portugues...

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  • I dieci libri dell'architettura.

    VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus; BARBARO, Daniele (translator); PALLADIO, Andrea (illustrator).
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    'the most significant Italian edition of the treatise'. First edition of Daniele Barbaro's (1514-1570) translation and commentary. This important p...

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  • The navigations, peregrinations and voyages made into Turkie

    NICOLAY, Nicolas de.
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    The rare first English edition of Nicolay's Navigations, a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic wo...

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  • [Odes, in Greek] Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia.

    PINDAR.
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    The first Greek book printed in Rome. First separate edition, first edition with the scholia, and the first Greek book printed in Rome.The editio p...

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  • Institutio Christianae Religionis.

    CALVIN, Jean; BUNNY, Edmund (editor).
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    Calvinism and the Reformation in England. The first edition printed in England of Calvin's seminal work of systematic theology, arguably the most i...

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  • L'Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir

    ALBERTI, Leon Battista.
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    First edition in French. The first edition in French of Leon Battista Alberti's (1404-1472) monumental treatise on the art of building, De re aedif...

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  • Section from a Qur'an in Maghribi script,

    [QUR'AN].
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    On western laid paper. The watermarks present in this volume are consistent with an example presented by both Briquet (13200) and Heawood (2171), d...

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  • Mihr o Mushtari [The Sun and Jupiter].

    TABRIZI, Muhammad 'Assar.
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    With two illuminated miniatures. Sheikh Shams al-Din Muhammad 'Assar Tabrizi was a poet, scholar and mystic of fourteenth-century Persia, and this ...

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  • Le navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Turchia,

    NICOLAY, Nicolas de.
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    The Loverdos copy of the expanded Italian edition. The best, expanded edition in Italian of Nicolas de Nicolay's (1517-1583) Quatre premiers livres...

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  • Dua Alawi Misri,

    [PRAYERBOOK].
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    A very attractive Shi'a prayerbook from Safavid Persia, possibly from Shiraz, containing du'a Alawi Misri in praise of the twelfth Imam Muhammad M...

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  • Summa de arithmetica.

    PACIOLI, Luca.
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    The most influential work in the history of capitalism. Second edition of 'the first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithm...

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  • Libro Primo[-Qvinto]. D'Architettvra, Di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese,

    SERLIO, Sebastiano.
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    Heinrich Wölfflin's copy with large margins. The first quarto edition of Sebastiano Serlio's (1475-1554) Five Books of Architecture, one of the fir...

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  • The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght,

    MORE, Sir Thomas.
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    The patron saint of statesman and politicians. The first collected edition of Sir Thomas More's (1478-1535) English works, from his youthful sallie...

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  • Divan of ghazals,

    [COLLECTED SUFI POETRY].
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    In a fine safavid binding with doubleurs decorated in silk. A fine and attractive volume containing excerpts of poetry from revered Sufi poets incl...

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  • Moriae Encomium.

    ERASMUS, Desiderius.
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    First dated edition & earliest procurable edition of Erasmus' In Praise of Folly. The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' Moriae Encomium, a...

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  • De gli Automati, ouero Machine se Moventi, Libri due,

    HERON OF ALEXANDRIA; BALDI, Bernardino (translator).
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    A rare and beautiful work on classical automata. The rare first printed edition of the 'only extant treatise on the design and construction of anci...

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