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
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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
En Çaragoça [Zaragoza]: Por Diego Dormer en la Freneria Vieja, Año 1638. Title page with woodcut illustration of a warship. First edition. In later marbled paper. [4] p. A bibliographically unrecorded, contemporary Spanish report on the Siege of Fuenterrabía of 1638. In 1638 June, as part of the operations..... 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
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
A Paris: Chez André Pralard, ruë Saint Jacques, à l’Occasion, M. DC. XCVII [1697]. First French edition. Engraved frontispiece by Pierre Giffart, depicting Hernán Cortés collecting the treasures of the New World. Woodcut device on the title page. In later black half leather, with gilt title on spine. Marbled endpapers..... 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
Paris: Jacques Langlois et Emmanuel Langlois, 1654. First edition. Complete, with the three folding maps. With several woodcut head and tailpieces, and initials. In somewhat later leather. The gilt spine is with five raised bands and red title vignette. Front and rear panels ruled with gilt double-line at the edges..... More
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En Mexico: en la Emprenta de Henrico Martinez, Año 1607. Title page in typographical border. With two full-page woodcuts ([]2; ✠1): the coat of arms of the Great Count of Lemos (Pedro Fernández de Castro y Andrade; 1576–1622), the president of the Council of Indies and vicero. First edition. Later..... More
![Utrum Pentateuchus a Samaritano Sacerdote sit Conscriptus (Q. D. B. V., […] Adversus Auctorem...](/pictures/thumb/455.jpg?v=1432137311)
Vitembergae (Wittenberg): Literis Schrödterianis, Acad. Typ (Schrödter), 1695. First edition. Papered spine. (4º) A1–B4.; (16) p. Sebastian Edzardi (1673–1736) was a German philosopher, theologian and Lutheran missionary. Studied philosophy and theology at the Wittenberg University and became a professor of logic and metaphysics at the Academic Gymnasium of Hamburg. He..... More
A Paris: Chet Hervé Du Mesnil, ruë sainct Iacques, à la Samaritaine, M. D. C. XXIX [1629]. First edition. Illustrated with a woodcut figure and charts in the text and two large folding woodcut plates of star charts inserted at the end. Ornamented with numerous woodcut head-pieces and initials. In..... More
A Paris: Chez Daniel Hortemels, Saint Jacques, au Mecenas, M. DC. LXXXVII [1687]. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments gilt, titled. Tinted edges. (30), 370, (4) p. [Complete.]. First edition of Du Vignau’s important work dealing with the decline of the Ottoman Empire... More
A Paris: Chez Tuossainct du Bray, rue Sainct Jacques, aux Epics-meurs, M. DC. XXIIII [1624]. First edition. In 18th century leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt ornament and title. Edges tinted in red and brown. Woodcut initials and headpieces. (16), 1115, (3 [last 2 blank]) p. Collation..... More
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Madrid: Juan Delgado, 1624. First edition. Bifolio. (4) p. First edition of this scarce, Spanish, first-hand account about the first phase of the Siege of Breda, a significant battle of the Thirty (and Eighty) Years' War, whose end was immortalized by Velázquez’s famous painting The Surrender of Breda (Las lanzas)... More
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[S.l.]: [S.n.], [no date, but 1690?]. Unbound, protected with later marbled paper cover. [8] p. Scarce Spanish Golden Age poem on bullfighting. Published anonymously, but written by Manuel de León Marchante (1631–1680), poet and playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. This humorous poem about the bullfight of Meco Relación..... More
[S.l. (Madrid)]: [S.n.], [N.d. but 1641 or 1642]. First edition. Papered spine. 15 numbered leaves. Extremely scarce report on the first ‘entradas’ into the Amazon area, and the expedition of Pedro Teixeira, the first European to travel up the entire length of the river, and his return journey, accompanied by..... More
In Milano: Per l’her Pacifico Pontio, & Gio.Battista Piccaglia, Stampatori Archiepiscopali, M. DC. XVI. [1616]. Second edition (first in 1601). Title with woodcut printer’s device, text printed in red and black. With woodcut headpieces and initials throughout. In contemporary paper. (20), 476, (12) p. Rare Italian travelogue of Palestine through..... More
London: Printed for John Crook, and are to be Sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Ship in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1654. First English edition. With an engraved frontispiece portrait and an engraved folding map (Situs provinciarum imperii Sinici M.DC.LIV.). In later full mottled calf, gilt borders, gilt..... More
En Barcelona: en casa de Iaume Methevat [Jaime Matevad], 1642. First edition. With a woodcut device on title page and a large woodcut initial (both colored by a later hand), and typographic head and tailpieces. In later marbled paper. [4] p. Extremely rare document related to the early episodes of..... More
Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1682. First edition. Printer’s device on title page, head-pieces and initials throughout. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt, with five raised bands, with red title vignette. Marbled pastedown. (24), 174, [In this copy pp. 107–110 bound here second time], (6) p. First edition of the earliest book about..... More
A Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang, prés de la Bourse, 1681. First edition. In somewhat later leather. Gilt spine with red title vignette. With woodcut head and tailpieces and initials. 224 [8] p. A manifesto for the abolition of torture, a century before Beccaria. Si la torture is “the first..... More