[France]: [Late 18th–early 19th century]. Manuscript in French, written in brown ink with corrections and deletions, protected with a somewhat later added cover-page. 21 pages in-folio. Unpublished French account of the 1796 Russian campaign against Persia, written by a secretary of the Austrian embassy. A contemporary or near-contemporary draft..... 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
![Item #3526 [Signed Letter Refusing Financial Support to Ferdinand’s Anti-Ottoman Campaign]....](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3526.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752220504)
Paris: 21 December 1530. Manuscript on vellum, written in a formal chancery hand, singed by Francis I. Text in brown ink in a cursive chancery script, with wide margins and prominent display lines; addressed to cardinals, bishops, priests, and deacons of the Holy Roman Church. Bold signature by Francis I...... More
Jenae [Jena]: Sumtibus Johannis Jacobi Bauhoferi [Bauhöfer, Johann Jacob], Anno M. DC. LXXX [1680]. Illustrated with five large, almost full-page and full-page woodcuts and five smaller woodcut illustrations, and a large folding plate. Second edition (first published in 1667). Four works bound in one volume. Contemporary vellum binding with title..... More
Vienna, 6 May 1668. Certified copy dated, 4 April 1669. With a large, finely illuminated coat of arms in vivid colours and burnished gold, framed by green palm fronds and flanked by angels, incorporating distinctive Moor’s head motifs. Manuscript on vellum, folio (c. 240 × 300 mm). Sewn in contemporary limp..... More
![Item #3495 Tizón de España. [Tizón de la nobleza de España.]. Francisco Mendoza y. Bobadilla](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3495.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751039300)
[Spain]: late 18th century. Manuscript in Spanish, in brown ink, on good quality laid paper (“Albers” watermark). [3] [122] [1] [3 (blank)] ff. A rare 18th-century manuscript copy of this important 16th-century genealogical text, cataloging the Semitic heritage of the Spanish nobility. As early as the fifteenth century, the..... More
A Paris: De l’imprimerie de Hierosme de Marnef, et Guillaume Cavellat au mont S. Hilaire à l’enseigne du Pelican, 1575. First edition. In later binding, brown calf spine over marbled paper boards; marbled edges, spine with raised bands, compartments ruled in blind, and gilt spine label reading “Histoires orientales”, and..... More
Oxford: 1787; 1821; 1835. First editions. 2 volumes. Pars Prima (1787) bound in half leather with marbled boards. The combined 1821 and 1835 parts bound together in contemporary half calf with marbled boards; gilt-lettered spine “Bibliothecae Bodleianae Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium Catalogus II. 1.”. One of the earliest printed catalogues devoted..... More
