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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 3 parts in 1 volume: [2], XIII, [1] 308; [2] 187, [1]; [2], 39, [1], 309-15, [1], [4] pp., titles within elaborate fretwork borders, tail-piece at end of text in first vol., some typographical ornaments throughout. First vol. includes several tables showing the Indian Toltec calendar (pp. 193-211). The "Suplemento" has caption title and imprint only at colophon. The editor's dedication leaf introducing the supplement is printed on recto as follows: "para inmortalizar el valor heroico de los indios cascanes por causa de su libertad de la tirania española, dedica estamemoria al honorable congreso de Xalisco Carlos Maria de Bustamante. Año de 1827." Index for first vol. (pp. 309- 15) bound at end. Early C20th bookseller's label glued to upper pastedown (Luis Bardon, Madrid). Slightly later quarter gilt-tooled leather and marbled paper over boards, gilt title to spine. An excellent, wide-margined copy, very clean and crisp, of this scarce work, today virtually unobtainable on the…
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THE BIZARRE STORY OF THIS RARE BOOK’S PUBLICATION. Historia de las conquistas de Hernando Cortés, escrita en español por Francisco López de Gomára, traducida al mexicano y aprobada por verdadera por D. Juan Bautista de San Anton Muñon Chimalpain Quauhtlehuanitzin, indio mexicano. Publícala para istrucción de la joventud nacional, con varias notas y adiciones, Carlos María de Bustamente. Tomo I° [-II°] [BOUND WITH] Suplemento a la Historia de las conquistas de Hernan Cortés escrita por Chimalpain, ó sea: Memoria sobre la guerre del Mixtón en el estado de Xalisco, cuya capital es Guadalaxara.
by LÓPEZ DE GÓMARA, Francisco
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Bioi philosophon kai sophiston. De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum. Hadriano Iunio Hornano interprete.
by EUNAPIUS SARDIANUS
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IMPORTANT C16TH PROVENANCE?8vo, pp. [8], 223, [9]. Roman and Italic letters. Latin and Greek texts. Printer's device on t-p, woodcut head and tailpieces, decorated initials. Early annotations on t-p, apparently including the autograph of an important French collector of the 16th century at foot, as pointed out by a pencil note on the verso of the upper flyleaf (not identified though: "Chadric"?). Sporadic early ms. notes and underlining throughout. Occasional light water staining and binding extremities a little bit worn. A very good copy plus bound in limp contemporary vellum with remains of ties, original endpapers.
Second edition of the Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists with the addition of the author's "Legationes" taken from a codex found the library of Jesuit scholar André Schott of Antwerp. The editio princeps of the Greek text, with Latin translation by Hadrianus Junius of Hoorn, was printed by Plantin in 1564. The Greek historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in 347 CE, but went to… Read More
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