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MANUEL Y VASCONCELOS, Augustin. Vida de Don Duarte de Meneses, tercero Conde de Viana. Y sucessos notables de Portugal en su tiempo.
Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1627. 4to. With 3 woodcut tailpieces and 11 woodcut initials (at least 6 series). Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties. [5], 167, [3] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - SPANISH - Vincent MORALES]. Compendio de la exemplar vida, y santa muerte, [d]el p[adre] Juan de S[an]tiago...
[Córdoba?], ca. 1770. 8vo. With a large engraving of Juan de Santiago on the second leaf and a pen drawing on page 102. Contemporary limp parchment. [4], "159" [= 162] pp. Full description

MARCHAND, Prosper. Dictionaire historique, ou Memoires critiques et litteraires, concernant la vie et les ouvrages de divers personnages distingués, particulierement dans la republique des lettres.
The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1758-1759. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, richly gold-tooled spine with floral ornaments. [10], 330, [6]; [2], 328, [28], [10] pp. Full description

MARGERIE, Emmanuel de. Catalogue des bibliographies géologiques. Rédigé, avec le concours des membres de la commission bibliographique du congrès.
Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1896. 4to. Later cloth over wooden boards, gilt-lettered title on spine, with the original grey publisher's wrappers bound at the end of the book. XX, 733, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MARITIME HISTORY - PIRACY - CLAES COMPAEN]. 't Begin, midden en eynde der zee-rooveryen, van den alder-fameusten zee-roover, Claes G. Compaen, van Oostzanen in Kennemerlandt. vervattende sijn wonderlijcke, vreemde landts schadelijcke drijf-tochten. waer in vertoont wordt hoe hy met weynigh schepen de zee onveyligh ghemaeckt, een ongelooflijcken buyt, en groot getal van schepen, van alle landen gerooft, en af geloopen heeft.
Amsterdam, Michiel de Groot, 1675. 4to (19.1 x 14.5 cm). With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text (including a repeat of the woodcut on the title page), and a large decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary multicolour brocade paper wrapper, covered with protective clear plastic. [6], 42 pp. Full description

MIGNET, François Auguste Marie. Het leven van Benjamin Franklin. ... Een volksboek, ter voorbeeld hoe men door eigen vlijt en deugd tot rijkdom en aanzien kan geraken.
Deventer, A. ter Gunne, [ca. 1858]. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Contemporary gold- and blind-stamped cloth. XII, 175, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

MÜLLER, Christian Gottlieb. Verzeichnis von Nürnbergischen topographisch-historischen Kupferstichen und Holzschnitten.
Nuremberg, printed for the author, 1791. 4to. Later boards. 208, [2] pp., interleaved. Full description

OLSCHKI, Leo S. Choix de livres anciens, rares et curieux en vente... Première [-Douzième] partie.
Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 1907-1940. 12 volumes. 8vo. Cloth. Full description

PALAU Y DULCET, Antonio. Manual del librero Hispano-Americano. Bibliografía Española e Hispano-Americana desde la invención de la imprenta hasta nuestros tiempos con el valor comercial de los ompresos descritos, ... Segunda edición, corregida y aumentada por el autor.
Barcelona and Oxford, Librería anticuaria de A. Palau and Dolphin Book Company, 1948-1977.
With: (2) PALAU CLAVERAS, Augustin. Indice alfabetico de titulos-materias, correcciones, conexiones y adiciones del Manual del librero Hispano Americano.
Empúries, Palacete Palau Dulcet; Oxford, Dolphin Book Company, 1981-1987. Ad 1: 28 volumes; ad 2: 7 volumes. 4to (27.5 x 19 cm). Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Full description

[PARAGUAY - KING NICOLAS I]. Histoire de Nicolas I. Roy du Paraguai, et Empereur des Mamelus.
Saint Paul [= São Paulo, but the work was likely printed somewhere in Western Europe], 1756. 8vo. With a typographical ornament on the title-page. Contemporary brown paste paper wrappers. 88 pp. Full description