Em Lisboa [Lisbon]: Na Officina de Domingos Lopes Rosa. Acusta de Lourenço Liureiro do Estado de Bragança. Taxão este papel em 4 reis., Riberiro Menezes [Domingos Lopes Rosa], 23 de Junho de 1642. First edition. Papered spine. Woodcut illustration of dueling horsemen on the title page. Title page in a...... More
[S.l.]: [S.n.], 1667. First edition. In contemporary vellum. Short title and date in ink on front panel. (8º); (2), 90, (2) p. The book concerned with the War of Devolution (1667–1668) the conflict between France and Spain over the possession of the Spanish Netherlands. After the Thirty Years'..... More
En Madrid: en la Imprenta Real: A la Calle del Carmen: Por Mateo de Llanos / Hallaràse en la Puerta del Sol en casa de Juan Martin Merinero, Librero; y an Palacio, Año 1683. First edition. In modern half cloth. Woodcut device on the title page. Ornamented with a woodcut..... More
![Item #1541 [Granting of Citizenship of the City of Spoleto.] Illustrissimo, et R.mo DD. Comiti...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1541.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553786989)
Spoleto: 1663. Manuscript on vellum. In very finely tooled, gilt, painted, red leather armorial binding. Spine and all edges are gilt. Marbled pastedowns. Written in golden and dark ink. Dated: 6 August 1663. Twelve lines, with a golden double line around the mirror and golden ruling. Title page with with..... More
![Item #3416 [Treaty of Ryswick] Traité de paix entre la France et l’Angleterre;...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3416.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1740767014)
Paris: Frederic Leonard, 1697. First editions. Six brochures bound into one volume, with some pamphlet sections restructured. In contemporary or slightly later leather binding. Tinted edges. A sammelband of key treaties from the Nine Years' War, including the Treaty of Ryswick, which reshaped North American and Caribbean territories, transatlantic trade..... More
France (Paris?): between 1625–1630. llustrated manuscript on vellum in French. 20 lines, written in brown ink on vellum, in a neat French cursive bookhand. Pages are numbered in brown ink, ruled by a gold and blue double-frame. Decorated with numerous gilt initials, tail, and headpieces. Illustrated with several tables, diagrams..... More
Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1655. First edition. In later half cloth. [4] p. Scarce contemporary report on the Battle of the Dardanelles, 1655. The Battle of the Dardanelles, on 21 June 1655, was an act of the Cretan War, the fifth Ottoman–Venetian war, that took place at the..... More
Etching on vellum. Plate: 133 × 113 mm, image: 113 × 89 mm, sheet: ca. 213 × 133 mm. Signed and dated, in plate, lower left of image: Rembrandt f. 1634. More
![Item #3281 [Tractatus de officio fiscalis.] D. Francisci de Alfaro, Fiscalis Quondam Procuratoris...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3281.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722173205)
Matriti [Madrid]: ex officina Francisci Martinez [Francisco Martínez], Anno 1639. Second edition. Text in Latin, printed in two columns. In contemporary limp vellum with thongs. [12] 352 [56] p. Scarce Spanish legal work for the Audiencias in the New World. Francisco de Alfaro (1551–1644) was a significant Spanish jurist..... More
Huesca: por Pedro Cabarte, Año 1612. First Edition. In later half leather. Pag.: ff. [8] 202 158 [8]. Coll.: *8 A–Z8 2A–2Y8 ¶8. A fervent defense of the Moriscos’ expulsion from Spain, offering essential insights into their customs and the prejudices of the time. Pedro Aznar Cardona’s Expulsion justificada..... More
En Madrid: por Pablo de Val, 1666. First edition. In later half cloth. ff [8] 30., and two engraved plates. Scarce panegyric on the occasion of the acclamation of Charles II of Spain, with two fine allegoric engravings with the portraits of Charles and Mariana of Austria. With..... More
Tot Amsterdam: By Johan ten Hoorn, Boekverkooper tegen over het Oude Heeren Logement, inde Historischryver, 1695. First edition. In modern calf. Engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved plates. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. 4º: [𝜋]4 A–S4; engraved frontispiece and 3 preliminary leaves, [6] 139 [5] p., and [2] folded engraved plates..... More
Dated, 1621. Signed by Bertius, as "cosmographe ordinaire”.Written in French. One page, vellum. Scarce signed document by famous cartographer Petrus Bertius (1565–1629). Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at the University of Leiden and in 1618 became "cosmographe ordinaire” to the court of Louis XIII of..... More
Londini [London]: Typis R. E. pro B. Tooke Bibliopola, in Coemeterio Paulino [Robert Everingham; Benjamin Tooke], 1682. First Latin edition. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt: floral ornament and title. Edges tinted. [2] 69 [1] [12] 78 [6] 29 [1] [6] p. Scarce first Latin edition of Boyle’s milestone works in..... More
Em Ruam [Rouen]: Iuam Berthelin, Liureiro [Jean Berthelin for Laurens Maurry], M. DC. LXII [1662]. First edition. Later full mottled calf, spine gilt and dated “1662,” with red title label, marbled endpapers. [2] 3–7 [1] 117 [1] p. Scarce Bahia-composed Benedictine sermon defending the universal primacy of St. Benedict... More
Madrid: En la Imprenta Real del a Gazeta, M. DCC. LXVIII [1768]. First edition. Two volumes. In contemporary, uniform vellum. [4] L [2] 502 [2 (blank)]; [8] [1]-95 [1] 96-[97] [1] [1]-284, 64 p. An important historical source of 17th-century Paraguay. The documents related to the “persecution” of Bernardino..... More
![Item #2259 Los trabaios de Persiles y Sigismunda. Historia setentrional. […]. Miguel de...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2259.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1626606263)
En Pamplona: Por Nicolás de Assiayn [Asiaín], Impressor de libros, y a su costa, 1629. In later boards covered with marbled paper, manuscript title label in ink on spine. ff [1(title page)] [1]–296 [Complete, with several misnumberings to foliation and quire signatures]. Collation: 8º: ?1 A–Z8 2A–2O8. An extremely scarce..... More
Lugduni [Lyon]: sumptibus Jacobi Prost, M.DC.XX.V [1635]. First edition. In contemporary limp vellum. Title lettered in ink to spine. [24] 552 [22] [2 (blank)] p. The first book advocating a pictorial access system intended to assist readers in locating relevant literature in the library. Claude Clement’s Musei, sive Bibliothecae..... More
A Paris: Chez Christophe Ballard, seul Imprimeur du Roy pour la Musique, rüe Saint Jean de Beauvais, au Mont-Parnasse, M. DC. XCV. [1695]. First edition. Typeset music and text, woodcut head and tailpieces, and initials. In contemporary leather. Spine and edges gilt. Red title vignette on spine. Marbled endpapers. Green..... More
[Salamanca]: [S.n.], [1613]. First edition. Signed at foot by royal and municipal officers. The name of the city (“Villa de Grana dilla”) added in manuscript, with closure lines in ink after each paragraph. Unbound as issued. [4 ( last blank)] p. Unrecorded 1613 circular from Salamanca enforcing the Armada-era servicio..... More
![Item #3301 [Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar] Tratado de la Esfera, Arte de...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3301.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722959495)
[Spain]: [around 1630]. Illustrated with tables and charts. Manuscript on paper. Written in ink by a neat hand. In contemporary vellum, title inked on spine. ff. 88 [3]. A manuscript copy of Martín Cortés’ Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar (1551), with significant early Americana..... More
Blois: 1634. Manuscript notarial act. Single vellum leaf, written in brown ink in a notarial cursive hand, with the signature of Bourcier at the end. Notarial act headed by Florimond de Beaune (1601–1652) in his early role as conseiller du roi at Blaye, predating his later renown as a mathematician..... More
Amsterodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium [Elzevier], MDCXLIII [1643]. First edition. In later red maroquin. Gilt panels, spine, and inner edges. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Woodcut device on the title page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. [12] 282 p. The scarce first edition of this fundamental text for the history of philosophy..... More
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1649. With numerous illustrations of diagrams in the text. First separate and first Latin edition of “La Géometrie” (second printing overall). Title page in red and black, with printer’s device. In 18th century blind-stamped leather, spine with four raised bands. Spine lettered in..... More
Madrid: Alonso Victor Panoja, 1654. In contemporary limp vellum. ff. [1 (woodcut frontispiece, verso blank)] [1 (letterpress title page, verso blank) [1 (“Ex.mo Señor”)] [1 (Distrito de la Audiencia […])]–4 [1 (“Armas que se d. First edition of the exceedingly rare work displaying the governing structure of the Spanish Indies..... More