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The England Of Elizabeth

The England Of Elizabeth

by A L Rowse

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Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics

Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics

by Rosemond, Tuve

Advertissement a tous bons et loyaux Subiectz du Roy, Ecclesiastiques, Nobles, & du Tiers estat, pour n'estre surprins, & circonvenuz par les propositions colorées, impostures, suggestio[n]s, & suppositions des conspirateurs, participans & adherans à la pernitieuse & damnée entreprise, faicte & machinée contre le Roy, nostre souverain Seigneur, & son estat

Advertissement a tous bons et loyaux Subiectz du Roy, Ecclesiastiques, Nobles, & du Tiers estat, pour n'estre surprins, & circonvenuz par les propositions colorées, impostures, suggestio[n]s, & suppositions des conspirateurs, participans & adherans à la pernitieuse & damnée entreprise, faicte & machinée contre le Roy, nostre souverain Seigneur, & son estat

by [Charles IX, King of France]

A Paris: Pour Jean Dallier libraire, demourant sur le pont Sainct Michel, à la Rose blanche, 1567. First(?) edition. Papered spine. A light brown stain on the last leaf, otherwise in fine condition.. First(?) edition. Papered spine. ff. [20]. Scarce document of the French Wars of Religion. An anonymously published Catholic, royalist pamphlet, warning to not support those who oppose the King. Besides the present Paris edition, the text appeared in several major cities throughout France in the same... Read more about this item
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NZ$2,672.77
In utriusq(ue) iuris libros introductorium. Tractatus & processus diversi untriusq(ue) iuris: studiosis plurimis accomodati. Modus legendi abbreviaturas in utroq(ue) iure. Tractatus iudiciorum Bartholi legum doctoris.Tractatus renunciatonum beneficioru(m) in publicis instrumentis. Processus Sathanae infernalis & genus humanu(m). Ars notariatus. Sum(m)a Joanis andreae sup(er) secu(n)do Decretaliu(m). Arbor Co(n)sa(n)uinitatis. Affinitatis. Joanis Andreae. (Arbor) Cognatio(n)is sp(irit)ualis. Conatio(n)is legalis

In utriusq(ue) iuris libros introductorium. Tractatus & processus diversi untriusq(ue) iuris: studiosis plurimis accomodati. Modus legendi abbreviaturas in utroq(ue) iure. Tractatus iudiciorum Bartholi legum doctoris.Tractatus renunciatonum beneficioru(m) in publicis instrumentis. Processus Sathanae infernalis & genus humanu(m). Ars notariatus. Sum(m)a Joanis andreae sup(er) secu(n)do Decretaliu(m). Arbor Co(n)sa(n)uinitatis. Affinitatis. Joanis Andreae. (Arbor) Cognatio(n)is sp(irit)ualis. Conatio(n)is legalis

by Saxoferratus, Bartolus de - Andreae, Johannes (d'Andrea, Giovanni)


Basle: Adam Petri, 1517. Third edition of this anthology after 1513 and 1514. With contemporary marginal notes. In later paper. Third edition of this anthology after 1513 and 1514. With contemporary marginal notes. In later paper. 122 leaves. Bartolus de Saxoferrato (1313-1357) was an Italian lawyer and professor of law at Perugia, one of the most prominent jurists of Medieval Roman Law. Chief among postglossators, or commentators, a group of norther nItalian jurists who wrote on the Roman civil law.... Read more about this item
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NZ$4,453.25
Il Soldato di M. Domenico Mora, Bolognese, Gentilhuomo Grisone, et nel Quale si Tratta di tutto quello, che ad un vero Soldato, et Nobile Cavaliere si conviene sapere, & essercitare nel mester dell'arme...

Il Soldato di M. Domenico Mora, Bolognese, Gentilhuomo Grisone, et nel Quale si Tratta di tutto quello, che ad un vero Soldato, et Nobile Cavaliere si conviene sapere, & essercitare nel mester dell'arme...

by MORA, Domenico

Venice: Ferrarii, 1570. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. Engraved title page (lightly foxed and soiled with a partially erradicated signature at top edge). One full page woodcut of a knight in armor and numerous illustrations and charts in the text. Small 4to, [16], 254pp., bound in later full plain vellum, with pencilled "Mora" at head of spine and a small early paper library label at foot. There are no other library markings. Very light foxing on a few pages but generally very clean.... Read more about this item
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NZ$5,136.00
Letter signed ("Caterine"), as Queen Mother to Seigneur de Fourquevaux ("Monsieur de Fourquevaux"), to Spain, 24 November 1566

Letter signed ("Caterine"), as Queen Mother to Seigneur de Fourquevaux ("Monsieur de Fourquevaux"), to Spain, 24 November 1566

by Catherine de' Medici

1566. 4 pages, folio, address panel on last page, docketing and seal remnants on the verso, countersigned by Catherine's secretary of state, [Jacques] Bourdin, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, 24 November 1566. Folded, small holes and light discoloration at the main folding. In fine condition.. 4 pages, folio, address panel on last page, docketing and seal remnants on the verso, countersigned by Catherine's secretary of state, [Jacques] Bourdin, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, 24 November 1566. Singed letter by... Read more about this item
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NZ$13,355.65
Xicotencatl

Xicotencatl

by IRIARTE, Hesiquio

Mexico City: Diaz de Leon y White, 1870. Primitivo Miranda. Tinted lithograph. Image measures 14 1/2" x 10 1/2". Scattered foxing at margins, minor offsetting from title page, and some loss to right margin, not affecting the image.<br/> <br/> This striking print depicts Xicohtencatl II, or Xicohtencatl the Younger, being hanged by Spanish forces. A Tlaxacallan prince and warleader, he led the Tlaxacaltecs against the Aztecs, allying with the Spaniards in hopes of conquering... Read more about this item
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NZ$470.80
Tractatus de Duabus Sarmatiis Asiana et Europiana et de contentis in eis

Tractatus de Duabus Sarmatiis Asiana et Europiana et de contentis in eis

by Miechowita, Maciej

Kraków: [Sigmund Grim, Marx Wirsung], 1518. Second edition. In later paper. Title in figural woodcut border. Woodcut initials throughout. Title page slightly over-trimmed with a little effect to the woodcut border. Some leaves are artistically restored at the gutter. A brown stain to the lower margin of A6, with no effect on the text. Water stain to the gutter of the final quire, and a small stain to the margins of the last two leaves with no effect on the text. Overall a firm copy in very good... Read more about this item
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NZ$89,026.05
Holy Family with Two Saints

Holy Family with Two Saints

by Trento, Antonio da (after Parmigianino)

1540. Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper with a partial anchor in a circle watermark, printed from two blocks in black and olive-green, 10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (272 x 221 mm), thread margins. We believe this to be an early, first state impression (of two), issued from Niccolò Vicentino's workshop. The second state edition printed by Andrea Andreani in the early 17th century includes a monogram added by Andreani, which is not present in our impression. Scattered expert repairs, most notably a 1-inch... Read more about this item
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NZ$15,408.00
De purgatorio contra Lutherum hostesque Ecclesiae libri quatuor, nominibus vere Christianis utilissimi, Joanne Eckio authore. II. Machab. XII. Sancta & salubris est cogitatio pro defunctis exorare, ut à peccatis soluantur

De purgatorio contra Lutherum hostesque Ecclesiae libri quatuor, nominibus vere Christianis utilissimi, Joanne Eckio authore. II. Machab. XII. Sancta & salubris est cogitatio pro defunctis exorare, ut à peccatis soluantur

by Eck, Johannes

Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Joannem Ruellium, sub intersignio Vulpis caudae, via ad D. Jacobum, 1548. First Paris edition. With woodcut initials. In lather leather. Gilt title on spine. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. Four blank pages bound before the title page, with handwritten bibliographical notes by two different hands in ink and pencil. With Victor Léonard Charner's (1797-1869; French Navy Admiral) bookplate on the inner front panel. Spine with small damages at the hinge. Slightly over trimmed, with... Read more about this item
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NZ$5,566.05
De re hortensi libellus (A small book on gardening); ...vulgaria herborum, florum ac fruticum qui in hortis conseri solent nomina latinis vocibus efferre docens ex probatis authoribus, in puerorum gratiam...

De re hortensi libellus (A small book on gardening); ...vulgaria herborum, florum ac fruticum qui in hortis conseri solent nomina latinis vocibus efferre docens ex probatis authoribus, in puerorum gratiam...

by Estienne, Charles

Paris: Robert Estienne, 1545. 16mo, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (160 x 107 mm); pp. 141 + errata + [6], title with woodcut printer's device, errata to penultimate verso, text in Latin on hand-made laid paper, supple and clean, with very minor toning; ink doodles and previous owner name inscribed on blank pages at end of book. Later brown calf binding with 5 raised bands and silver titles. [BNF30407841]. This title first appeared 1535, then 1543, and this edition, as stated on the title page, "was lately added... Read more about this item
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Aeschyli Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri ultralectini

Aeschyli Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri ultralectini

by Aeschylus. Edited by Willem Canter

Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (Dutch: Christoffel Plantijn), 1580. First Canter Edition. 32mo; 4 1/4 x 3 in. (152 x 80 mm); pp. 355 + vii; texts in Greek, introduction and notes in Latin. Title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, trimmed at head and foot, touching a few headlines or signatures, some staining, and one small paper loss (p. 97) not affecting the text. 19th century tan calf with gilt dentelle on covers, gilt green label and gilt decorations on... Read more about this item
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The Tunning of Elinor Rumming, a Poem

The Tunning of Elinor Rumming, a Poem

by Skelton, John

London: Printed for Isaac Dalton, and sold by W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-Noster-Row, 1718. Second Edition. Near fine. Octavo, 7 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (194 x 117 mm). pp. [8], 31, [1]. From the title page: by Skelton Laureat. Original unbound, rebound in modern pink paper over boards, leather spine label with gilt title. Some toning to last few leaves.boards All text is legible, some spot tanning throughout. In near fine condition. Rare. [ESTC N46064 ]. ESTC shows two U.S. copies only: Henry E.... Read more about this item
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NZ$6,848.00
La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Ieronimo Ruscelli; Con Espositioni del medesimo, particolari di luogo in luogo, &amp; uniuersali sopra tutta il libro, &amp; sopra tutta la Geografia, o modo di far la descrittione di tutto il mundo..

La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Ieronimo Ruscelli; Con Espositioni del medesimo, particolari di luogo in luogo, & uniuersali sopra tutta il libro, & sopra tutta la Geografia, o modo di far la descrittione di tutto il mundo..

by RUSCELLI, Girolamo; TOLOMEO, Claudio [PTOLEMY] [PTOLOMAEUS]

Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1564. hardcover. very good(+). 3 parts in 1. Each part has a separate title page with large printer's device. Part 2: Espositioni et Introduttioni Universali di Girolamo Ruscelli, sopra tutta la Geografia di Tolomeo. Part 3: Discorso Universale di M. Gioseppe Moleto mathematico. Illustrated with 63 (of 64) fine double-leaf copper engraved maps, including the rare "World in Hemispheres". Additional large in-text engravings and decorative initials throughout. [8],... Read more about this item
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NZ$18,832.00
Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum Sedis Nova Descriptio

Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum Sedis Nova Descriptio

by ORTELIUS, Abraham

Antwerp: Abraham Ortelius, 1592. unbound. Map. Uncolored engraving. Sheet measures 16" x 21".<br/><br/> This beautiful 1588 map by Abraham Ortelius depicts Holland or the Netherlands in exceptional detail. The map covers the regions near the Wadden Sea roughly covering modern day provinces of North Holland, South Holland and Utrecht. The map, centered on Amsterdam, is oriented with north to the left. Topographical and geographical features such as mountains and cities are... Read more about this item
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NZ$1,669.20
Auctarium selectarum aliquot epistolarum Erasmi Roterdami ad eruditos et horum ad illum

Auctarium selectarum aliquot epistolarum Erasmi Roterdami ad eruditos et horum ad illum

by Erasmus, Desiderius; [Rhenanus, Beatus]

[Argentorati (Strasbourg)]: [In Aedibus Matthiae Schurerij (Matthias Schürer)], 1519. First Strasbourg edition. In somewhat later paper. Illustrated title page. With marginal notes by contemporary hand. Some handwritten notes slightly trimmed. In fine condition.. First Strasbourg edition. In somewhat later paper. Illustrated title page. 167, (1) p. Collation: A6, B4, C8, D4, E8, F4, G8, H4, I8, K4, L8, M4, N8, O6. Scarce and early edition of the first major collection of Erasmus' correspondence.... Read more about this item
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NZ$10,017.25
Saint Paul, from the series of Standing Saints

Saint Paul, from the series of Standing Saints

by Leyden, Lucas Van (after)

1510. Engraving on cream laid paper laid down to wove paper, 4 1/4 x 2 5/8 inches (109 x 68), trimmed inside the platemark. Scattered discoloration and uniform age tone, all consistent with age. Adhesive residue at the corners with some minor associated discoloration in the top right corner. A reverse-image impression of Van Leyden's circa 1510 engraving, perhaps done by Jan Muller in the early to mid 17th century. [New Hollstein 88].
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NZ$428.00
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio

Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio

by ORTELIUS, Abraham

Antwerp: Ortelius, Abraham, 1608. framed. Map. Engraving with beautiful hand coloring. Image measures 14" x 17.5". Gold frame with empire matting 22 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches.<br/> <br/> Exquisite circa 1608 map of western Russia from the Baltic States, shows the Gulf of Finland, to just beyond the Ob' River in Western Siberia. Includes the Caspian Sea. Richly decorated with folkloric vignettes with descriptions of obscure religious rites to match. Compilation map based on travel... Read more about this item
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NZ$4,793.60
Study of an architectural element of a Doric column with a bearded satyr

Study of an architectural element of a Doric column with a bearded satyr

by Tabacchi, L

1550. Drawing in black ink on cream laid paper, 7 5/8 x 2 1/16 inches (192 x 50 mm) (matrix), with uneven margins. Signed in ink, lower-center margin. Scattered significant foxing, unevenly trimmed margins, all consistent with age.
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NZ$599.20
Quattuor hic compressa opuscula. Discordantie sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi, Augustini. Sibyllarum de Christo vaticinia: cu[m] appropriatis singularum figuris. Varia Judeorum & gentilium de Christo testimonia. Centones Probe Falconie de vtriusq[ue] testamenti hystoriis ex carninibus uirgilii selecti: cum annotatione locorum ex quibus desumpti sunt: a diuo Hieronymo Comprobate. [Bound together with:] Probe Centone Vatis Clarissime a Diuo Hieronymo comprobate. Centonam De fidei nostre Mysterijs e Maronis Carminibus excerptum opusculum

Quattuor hic compressa opuscula. Discordantie sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi, Augustini. Sibyllarum de Christo vaticinia: cu[m] appropriatis singularum figuris. Varia Judeorum & gentilium de Christo testimonia. Centones Probe Falconie de vtriusq[ue] testamenti hystoriis ex carninibus uirgilii selecti: cum annotatione locorum ex quibus desumpti sunt: a diuo Hieronymo Comprobate. [Bound together with:] Probe Centone Vatis Clarissime a Diuo Hieronymo comprobate. Centonam De fidei nostre Mysterijs e Maronis Carminibus excerptum opusculum

by [Barbieri (Barberiis), Filippo (Philippus de)]; [Proba, Falconia]

[Venetiis (Venezia):]: per Bernandinum Benalium (Bernardino Benali), 1510. First edition in this format. The first book is illustrated with twelve large woodcuts of the sibyls and ornamented with several historiated and white-on-black knotwork woodcut initials. Roman and rotunda types, 42 lines. In later vellum. Title in brown ink on spine. Wide-margined, very well preserved copy. In fine condition.. First edition in this format. The first book is illustrated with twelve large woodcuts of the sibyls... Read more about this item
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NZ$33,386.05
Silver (Pleasures and Treasures)

Silver (Pleasures and Treasures)

by Came, Richard

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1970. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 128 pages. Pleasures and treasures - an account of the greatest periods of the silversmith's art, the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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NZ$16.58
Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. orbem, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium

Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. orbem, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium

by GALLE, Philipe

Antwerp: Abraham Ortelius, 1580. unbound. Map. Engraving with beautiful hand applied color. Image measures 12 1/2" x 8 3/8", page measures 15 1/2" x 11". Antwerp: 1580.<br/> <br/> This finely-colored portrait of the illustrious cartographer Abraham Ortelius appeared as a frontispiece in the 1580 edition of his famous atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum." The elegant profile view of the mapmaker is surrounded in an ornate oval frame, backed by elaborate strapwork and... Read more about this item
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NZ$1,112.80
L. FLORI DECADUM XIIII. TITI LIVII PATAVINI. EPITOME

L. FLORI DECADUM XIIII. TITI LIVII PATAVINI. EPITOME

by FLORUS, Lucius. LIVIUS, Titus [LIVY]

Lugduni [Lyons]: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1554. Early Edition. Hardcover. Lacks original endpapers and final two blanks; slight aging of text, faint water stains to margins of some pages at end. Near Fine. Small octavo (2-7/8" x 5") in 19th century vellum-backed and cornered marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, all edges gilt; woodcut on title page and two woodcut initials, all pages ruled in red; 112 pages; a-g8 h5. Adams, F 654. Part of Florus's work on Livy’s history of... Read more about this item
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NZ$535.00
Historia de Sevilla, en la qual se contienen sus antiguedades, grandezas, y cosas memorables en ella acontecidas, desde su fundación hasta nuestros tiempos. Con mas el discurso de su estado en todo este progresso de tiempo, assi en lo Ecclesiástico, como en lo Secular. Compuesta y ordenada por Alonso Morgado, indigno sacerdote, natural de la villa de Alcantara, en Estremadura. Dirigida a la C. R. M. del Rei Don Philippe Segundo nuestro Señor

Historia de Sevilla, en la qual se contienen sus antiguedades, grandezas, y cosas memorables en ella acontecidas, desde su fundación hasta nuestros tiempos. Con mas el discurso de su estado en todo este progresso de tiempo, assi en lo Ecclesiástico, como en lo Secular. Compuesta y ordenada por Alonso Morgado, indigno sacerdote, natural de la villa de Alcantara, en Estremadura. Dirigida a la C. R. M. del Rei Don Philippe Segundo nuestro Señor

by Morgado, Alonso

En Sevilla: En la Imprenta de Andrea Pescioni y Juan de Leon, 1587. First edition. Printed in two columns. In later vellum with leather clasps. Title on spine, lettered in ink. One of the clasps is torn. Marqués de Pidal's bookplates on the inner front panel. Old ownership inscriptions (Maria de Byllegas/Villegas) and doodles in ink on last page and on the additional blank leaf. Some corners and margins are uneven (incl. title page), due to the quality of the paper. Inkblots, water, and other brown... Read more about this item
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SYMBOLORUM & EMBLEMATUM EX RE HERBARIA DESUMTORUM CENTURIA UNA COLLECTA bound with three others

SYMBOLORUM & EMBLEMATUM EX RE HERBARIA DESUMTORUM CENTURIA UNA COLLECTA bound with three others

by [EMBLEM BOOK] CAMERARIUS, Joachim

Nuremberg: [Typis Voegelinianis], 1590 [1605]. Hardcover. Minor dampstaining at the upper gutter extending toward the center of the page in some instances but usually quite light and never touching any emblem. Near Fine example of this lovely book. Small quarto (5-1/4" x 7-3/4") bound in full recent antique calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering. Bound with Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex animalibus.... Nuremberg, 1595. And: Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex volitatibus et... Read more about this item
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NZ$13,910.00
Europae Tabula VI

Europae Tabula VI

by RUSCELLI, Girolamo

Venice. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 8.5" 11 3/8".<br/> <br/> Beautiful early map of Italy, circa 1562. Includes Corsica and parts of Sardinia and Sicily. From Ruscelli's Italian translation of Ptolemy's "Geographia", "La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo". Minor stains in bottom corners and along centerfold. Girolamo Ruscelli (c. 1504-1566) was a Venetian editor, cartographer and physician known best for his... Read more about this item
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Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum ab Augerio Gislenio Busbequij, &c. D. ad Solimannum Turcarum Imperatorem C. M. oratore confecta. Eiusdem Busbequij de acie contra Turcam instruenda consilium

Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum ab Augerio Gislenio Busbequij, &c. D. ad Solimannum Turcarum Imperatorem C. M. oratore confecta. Eiusdem Busbequij de acie contra Turcam instruenda consilium

by [Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin de] Busbequius, Augerius Gislenius

Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi Regij [Plantin], 1581. First edition. In later vellum, panels with painted subtle Turkish floral patterns ruled with embossed geometric pattern and a gilt line. Raised bands on spine embossed and gilt, title lettered in black and red ink. Woodcut printer's device on titlepage. Modest marginal notes and underlines throughout in ink by a contemporary hand. Light water stain to upper edge throughout. Overall in fine condition.. First... Read more about this item
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NZ$17,806.85
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