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Introduction to the ancient history of Mexico, printed in Mexico

BUSTAMANTE, Carlos Maria de. Mañanas de la alameda de México. Publícalas para facilitar a las señoritas el estudio de la historia de su país.
Mexico, Imprenta de la testamentaria de Valdés, 1835-36. 2 volumes. 4to. With a woodcut a vignette on both titles, 2 lithographed plates of Mexican calendars in the first volume, and a woodcut illustration of a house in the second volume. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco. [6], 325, [1 blank]; [4], XIX, 309, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Education & Pedagogy History / 19th Century Mexico
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A history of the English colonies in North America

[BUTEL DUMONT, George Marie]. Histoire et commerce des colonies Angloises, dans l'Amerique septentrionale. Ou l'on trouve l'état actuel de leur population, & des détails curieux sur la constitution de leur gouvernement, principalement sur celui de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de la Pensilvanie, de la Caroline, & de la Géorgie.
Londres, et se vend a Paris, chez Le Breton, Desaint, Pissot, Lambert, 1755. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a decorated woodcut initial, a woodcut headpiece and several woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XXIV, 336 pp. Full description
€ 950
Canada & Greenland Economic History & Trade North America
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Rare Italian translation of an originally Spanish chivalric novel

[CAMILLI, Camillo (translator)]. Historia del nobile, et valoroso Cavalier. Felice Magno, figliuolo del Re Falangrè della Gran Brettagna, & della Reina Clarinta, nella quale si raccontano i suoi grandi, & maravigliosi fatti tradotta con somma diligenza di Spagnuolo in lingua Italiana.
Verona, Sebastiano dalle Donne for Francesco de Franceschi Senese, 1587. 8vo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [12], 298 ll. Full description
€ 7,500
Early Printing - 16th century Italy Literature
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Contemporary accounts of two power struggles, in Italy and in the Low Countries

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis [in the running heads: "De bello Mediolanensi"] libro octo ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser), 1533.
With: (2) SERVILIUS, Johannes (Jan KNAAP). Geldrogallica conjuratio in totius Belgicae clarissimam civitatem Antverpiam, duce Martino Rosheymio, ...
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Contemporary vellum wrappers, with 2 fragments of the March and April calendar leaf (in red and black) of a manuscript Missale romanum (ca. 1475/1500?) used as end leaves. 96; [44] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Italy Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Netherlands
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First and only edition of a primary source for the early history
and church history of Southern Italy, in particular of Naples

CARACCIOLI, Antonio and Francesco BOLVITO (editor). De Sacris Ecclesiae Neapolitanae Monumentis Liber Singularis ... Opus posthumum Francisci Bolviti ... Studio, et industria in lucem editum. Qui cuncta digessit: stylum alicubi mutavit: omissas ab Auctore curas secundas adiecit: et innumeras penè hiantes lacunas implevit.
Naples, Ottavio Beltrani, 1645. Folio. With large engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Pope Innocent X on the title page, 2 half-page engravings of the martyrdom of S. Maximus Levita from Cumma (5th century; ca. 153 x 103 mm), many woodcut tailpieces and initials.19th-century half vellum. [20], 365, [14], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
History / 17th Century Italy Religion (17th Century)
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The making of the first complete French edition of Casanova’s Mémoires

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Paulin, 1833-1837. 10 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf. The set is housed in two blue marbled paper slipcases. [4], 427, [3]; [4], 422, [2]; [4], 432, [4], 480; [4], 455, [1 blank]; [4], 468; [4], 475, [1]; [4], 455, [1 blank], [4], 426; [4], 394 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
History / 18th Century Italy Travel & Voyages Europe
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The beautifully illustrated luxury issue, of which only a 100 copies were printed

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Garnier frères, [1880]. 8 volumes. 8vo. With 145 full-page engravings, the wrappers and titles of each volume are printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled half morocco by Lambert, marbled paper sides, the title, author, and volume number lettered in gold on the spine, surrounded by a gold-tooled frame with onlaid morocco ornaments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. [6], XVII, [1 blank], 507, [1 blank]; [6], 530, [4]; [6], 516; [6], 533, [3]; [6], 569, [3]; [6], 563, [1]; [6], 567, [1 blank]; [6], 551, [3] pp. Full description
€ 12,000
Bindings Erotica France French Literature History / 18th Century Italian Literature Italy Law & Politics Prints & Print Series
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Justice done by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy to the Governor of Zeeland,
who had killed a man and raped his wife

[CHARLES THE BOLD]. Justitie van Carel den Stouten, Hert[og]: van Bourg[ondië]: etc. Grave van Holl[and]: Zel[and]: etc. over seker gouv[erneur]: in Zelant.
[Amsterdam?], Joachim Bormeester, [ca. 1690]. Oblong 1mo (full sheet) broadside (41 x 50.5 cm). An engraved print with extensive engraved texts in Dutch, the central scene (33.5 x 31 cm) flanked by 6 smaller scenes, with the title above the central scene (in roman capitals with I and V for UJ and U), 5 lines of verse (a couplet in 1 line followed by a 4-line verse) below each smaller scene and the story in prose in the foot of the engraving. Hand-coloured and highlighted in gold. Full description
€ 850
Art & Art History History / 17th Century Law & Politics Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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