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Opus de conscribendis epistolis recognitum ab autore & locupletatum
by Desiderius Erasmus
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- Used - Good
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- 1522
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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$5,403.45
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Coloniae: Heronem Alopeciu, 1522 An extremely scarce early edition published in September 1522 - a month after the authorised Basel edition - by Hero Alopecius in Cologne. We have only been able to find one reference to it (University of Toronto). Erasmus arranged publication of the Basel edition in August 1522, in response to the appearance of an unauthorised version… Read more about this item Item Price
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Astronomicon Libri Quinque lul. Caes. F Recensuit, ac pristino suo restituit. Eiusdem Ios. Scaligeri Commentarius in eosdem libros, & Castigationum explicationes. Lectiones variae e Ms Bibliothecae Palatinae, et aliis, cum Notis F. Ivni Biturigis
by M Manili, Josephus Scaliger, F Ivni Biturigis
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- Used - Fair
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- 2nd Edition
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- 1590
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- Hardcover
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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$762.84
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Heidelberg: In Officina Sanctandreana, 1590 A fair copy of the unauthorised 2nd edition of Manili's Astronomicon with Scaligeri's commentary. This edition was completed with an additional section of notes by Francisco Ivni Biturigis and was issued without Scaligeri's approval (he issued his own 2nd edition shortly afterwards). The work is in 3 parts: the original Astronomicon in 5 books; Scaligeri's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Acta Pacificationis quae coram sac. caesareae maiestatis commissariis, inter Seren, Regis Hispaniarum & Principis Matthiae Archduchis Austriae ...
by Aggaeus Van Albada [editor]
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- Used - Fair
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- 1st Edition
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- 1580
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- Soft cover
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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$1,017.12
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Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Ex officina Christophori Plantini Architypographi Regii, 1580 An extremely scarce original copy in soft cover vellum binding, printed and published by Christopher Plantin and with his printer's device on the title page. This work is a contemporary account of events in the Netherlands during the period of armed rebellion against the rule of Philip II of Spain and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Magna Charta cum statutis, tum antiquis, tum recentibus, maximopere, animo tenendis, nunc demum ad vnum, tipis aedita, per Richardum Tottill
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- 1587
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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$2,034.24
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Fleetestrete, within Temple Barre, at the Signe of the Hand and Starre, London: Richarde Totteli, 1587 A good to very good copy of Richard Tottel's 1587 publication of Magna Charta with associated statutes. Richard Tottel (spelt in a variety of forms including Tottill and Tottell) was an English publisher specialising in legal publications, for which he was granted a patent… Read more about this item Item Price
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Quaestiones novae in libellum de sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Busto
by Hartmanno Beyer
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1549
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- Full-Leather
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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$889.98
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Francoforti: Ex officina Petri Brubachii, 1549 An extremely rare work. Johannes Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de Sphaera, first written around 1230 and first printed around 1472, set the framework for European understanding of astronomy for 400 years. Based on the work of Ptolemy Alfraganus, and using more recent Arabic sources, he presented a vision of the heavens as a series… Read more about this item Item Price
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