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Important history of the Rosicrucians commissioned by the Order of Hospitallers of Malta View picture(s) 1 VERTOT D'AUBOEUF, René Aubert de. Histoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem, appellez depuis Chevaliers de Rhodes, et aujourd'hui Chevaliers de Malthe. Amsterdam, [Gerard, Jacobus & Rudolph] Wetstein & [William] Smith, 1732. 5 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red painted edges. With title-pages printed in red and black to each volume with a vignette (those of vols. 1-2 engraved, the ones in vols. 3-5 woodcut), full-page frontispiece, full-page portrait of the author in his 71st year, three folding maps and a folding plan, all engraved. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  History  Malta  Rosicrucians  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The historiographer of Philip II on the Siege of Malta - with a rare woodcut map of Malta View picture(s) 2 VIPERANO, Giovanni Antonio. De Bello Melitensi Historia. Perusiae (=Perugia), Andrea Brixiani, 1567. 4to. Modern half vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title, and large folding woodcut map of Malta. [4, 1 blank], 38 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Cartography  History  Malta  Ottoman Empire  Turkey  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Magnificent illustrated Rococo book with Italian poetry, printed in Venice/Belluno View picture(s) 3 [ALPAGO, Cesare a.o.]. Per le nozze del sig.r. Marchese Guglielmo de' Fulcis, cavalier di Malta, maggiore attuale al servizio delle LL. MM. II. RR. con la sig'.ra. contessa Francesca de' Migazzi de Vaal e Sonnenthurn. (Venice, Belluno, Colophon: Nella Stamperia Albrizzi con privilegio dell'Ecc.mo Senato per tutti li rami che adornano le di lui stampe, 1776). Folio. (350 x 250 mm). Original gilt 'Bunt Papier': green wrappers with gilt Rococo ornamental borders and gilt centre piece with allegorical seated figure. Full-page engraved frontispiece within decorative Rococo-border, engraved title within Rococo border including the coat-of-arms of Guglielmo de' Fulcis, engraved full-page colophon on the last leaf, 50 pp. with printed texts: dedication by the editor Cesare Alpago to Christoforo Cardinale di S. Chiesa de' Conti Migazzi di Vaal, dated Belluno, 14 September 1776 (2 pp) and Italian poetry, all within magnificent and richly decorated ornamental and allegorical borders with festive scenes engraved by Felicita Sartori and Giuseppe Camerata (1718-1803) after drawings of Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), and Giovanni Piazzetta (1682-1754); 7 pp. with additional engraved allegorical vignettes, one of which signed on leaf C3 by ''Piazzetta inv.''. (= 28 lvs.). (A8, B-C10). Full description >> Related Subjects: Italy  Malta  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Franciscan discovering the Holy Land - from the library of king Louis-Philippe View picture(s) 4 [BEAUGRAND, Felix]. Relation fidele du voyage de la Terre Sainte dans laquelle se voit tout ce qu' il y a de remarquable, tant par mer que par terre, depuis le départ de Marseille jusqu' au retour de ce saint voyage. Par un religieux de S. François Observantain, qui a fait le voyage trois fois. Paris, Gabriel Valleyre, 1760. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, yellow morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With a small woodcut vignette on title, several woodcut head- and tailpieces. [4], 248, [10] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Cyprus  Greece  Holy Land  Malta  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Statutes, rules and ordinances in print and in manuscript of the order of the Knights (Hospitallers) of St John of Jerusalem of Malta View picture(s) 5 [MALTA - KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN]. Volume, che contiene li statuti della Sacra Religione Gerosolimatana; le ordinationi dell'ultimo Capitolo Generale, che sono le sole, ehe sussistono; il nuovo ceremoniale prescritto dalla Santità di N. Sig. Papa Urbano VIII. sopra l'elettione delli Gran Maestri; il modo, o sia instruttione ... Burgo Nuovo, Bartolomeo Cotta, 1675-76. 3 parts. Folio. With engraved allegorical title-pages and the full-page engraved portrait of Frater Nicolaus Cotoner to each of the three parts [20], 244, [64]; 180, [30], 10, 10; 100, [12] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Malta  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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