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One of the most important sources of British law View picture(s) 1 FLETA, seu commentarius juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, sub Edwardo Rege primo, seu circa annos abhinc CCCXL ab anonymo conscriptus, arque è codice veteri, autore ipso ipso aliquantulum recentiori, nunc primum typis editus. Accedit tractatulus vetus de agendi excipiendique formulis Gallicanus, Fet assavoir dictus. Subjungitur etiam Joan. Seldeni ad Fletam dissertatio historica. Editio secunda, multis erroribus purgata. London, 'Typis S.R.' for H. Twyford, T. Bassest, J. Place, & S. Keble, 1685. two parts in one vol. 4to. Eighteenth-century calf, blind fillets on sides and ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red sprinkled edges. Title within a frame of double lines, a half-page engraved plate (127 x 103 mm) after a historiated initial from an medieval manuscript op p. 462. (8), 452, (2 blank), 453-553 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  History  Law  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare documental history of the Maltese Knights View picture(s) 2 (PAULI, Sebastiano). Codice diplomatico del Sacro Militare Ordine Gerosolimitano oggi di Malta, raccolto da varj documenti di quell' archivio, per servire alla storia delle stesso Ordine in soria e illustrato con una serie cronologica de' Gran Maestri, che lo governarono in quei tempi, con alcune notizie storiche, genealogiche, geografiche ed altre osservazioni. Lucca, S. and G. Marescandoli, 1733-1737. 2 volumes. Folio. Contemporary vellum with giltlettered title-label on spine, marbled edges. Title-pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 3 folding engraved maps depicting the Middle East, Rhodes and Malta, 13 full-page engraved plates with seals and signs, 4 engraved vignettes in text, folding table, 2 woodcut inscriptions in Armenian printed in red in text, some other small woodcuts in text. (34), 575, (1); (36), 1-645, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  History  Malta  Middle Ages  Militaria  Occult Sciences  Religious Orders  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two treatises on magic and the marvels of the Universe attributed to Albertus Magnus in a very rare Antwerp edition of 1502 View picture(s) 3 ALBERTUS MAGNUS (Pseudo-). [Liber aggregationibus] De virtutibus herbarum. De virtutibus lapidum. De virutibus animalium et mirabilibus mundi. Item parvum regimen sanitatis valde utile. Antwerp, Govaert Bac, 1502. 4to. Nineteenth-century polished calf with double gilt lines along the edges of both sides, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles. With a full-page woodcut (115 x 84 mm) of a monk offering a book to a prince, repeated on the verso of the title; and full-page woodcut of the printer's device of Govaert Bac on the verso of the last leaf (133 x 84 mm): 'g [masters mark] b' cut within a birdcage on a black fond, with the coat of arms of Antwerp underneath (see NAT II, 5-6); rubricated in red throughout. 36 lvs. (Collation: a8, b4, c8, d4, e8, f4). 36 ll. to a page. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Medicine  Middle Ages  Mineralogy  Occult Sciences  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On of the first Dutch humanists on the history of his country View picture(s) 4 BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Hollandiae Comitum historia et icones: Cum selectis  scholijs ad lectoris lucem. Eiusdem Barlandi Caroli  Burgundiae ducis vita. Item Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & res gestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.- IDEM, Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae. Frankfurt a/M, Joh. Wechel for Sigismund Feyerabend, 1585. 2 parts in 1 vol. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, title written on spine, rests of ties. With woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on  p. 25) on title, woodcut printer's device of Feyerabent ('Fama') on 2nd title, a variant of his printer's device on verso of last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits, except for the first three with their coats-of-arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath, woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces. (16), 1-224, 227-393 (error in pagin.); 109 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Middle Ages  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two orations commemorating the bicentennial of the 'Unie van Utrecht' (1579), together with an early edition of the Walthariuslied View picture(s) 5 BONDAM, Pieter. Oratio secularis de Foedere Trajectino, publice habita D. 29. Januarii anni MDCCLXXIX. in Auditorio majori Academiae Trajectinae, ipso loco, quo annis abhinc ducentios Foedus illud feliciter fuit initum. Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg, 1779. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gilt, ribbed spine with red morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled boards. Engraved allegorical title-vignette by I. de Wit Jansz. after W.H. van de Wal of a memorial with a medallion portrait of William the Silent flanked by Faith and Liberty, woodcut initial and tailpiece. (6), 189, (9) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Germany  History  Law  Leyden  Middle Ages  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Masterpieces of the Flemish Primitives View picture(s) 6 DEHAISNES, Chrétien César Auguste. De l'art Chrétien en Flandre. Peinture. Douai, widow of Adam, 1860. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine. Double-page lithographed frontispiece with extra wings of the altar of Anchin at the Church of Notre Dame , Douai, pasted in, 10 full-page lithographs (last 2 on recto and verso of one leaf), all in brown ink. 387, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Belgicana  Lithographs  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Still important for the history of the Normans and their conquests; many first editions of relevant medieval texts View picture(s) 7 DU CHESNE, Andreas. Historiae Normannorum scriptore antiqui, res ab illis per Galliam, Angliam, Apuliam, Capuae principatum, Siciliam, & orientem gestas explicantes, ab anno Christi DCCCXXXVIII, ad annum MCCXX. Insertae sunt monasteriorum fundationes variae, series episcoporum ac abbatum: genealogiae regum, ducum, comitum, & nobilium ... Paris, for Robert Foüet, Nicolaus Buon & Sebastien Cramoisy, 1619. Large folio. 19th century red morocco, richly gilt in the style of the 17th century, spine gilt in compartments, gilt borders on both sides with gilt crowned monogram (a 'V' between 'E' and 'B' ?) in centre, marbled endpapers, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, g.e. With engraved printer's device on title: a beehive surrounded by four emblematic medallions and the marks of the three publishers; many woodcut head- and tail pieces (12), 1104, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  France  History  Italy  Middle Ages  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An important impartial history of the Low Countries until 1565 View picture(s) 8 HEUTER, Pontus de. Rerum Belgicarum libri quindecim, quibus describuntur pace belloque gesta à principibus Austriacis in Belgio, nempe Maxaemiliano primo caesare, Philippo primo Castellae rege, Carolo quinto caesare, Philippo secundo Hispaniarum rege. Continentur hoc opere ea potissimum quae hactenus ab aliis sunt omissa, aut obiter tantum narrata. Praemissus est operi libellus singularis de vetustate & nobilitate familiae Habspurgicae ac Austriacae. Antwerp, Martinius Nutiius, 1598. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum, spine lettered in ink. With printer's device of Martinus Nutius in roundel with the inscription "Pietas homini tutissima virtus", 13 folding printed family trees (numbered A-H, 3 unnumb. I, one unnumb.), some small woodcuts, head- and tail pieces in the text. (24), 751, (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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18th century edition of a medieval classic View picture(s) 9 MAERLANT, Jacob. Spiegel historiael of rijmkronijk met aanteekeningen door Jacob Arnout Clignet en Jan Steenwinkel. Eerste deel. Tweede deel. Derde deel met aanteekeningen van Jan Steenwinkel. Vierde deel. Leyden; Amsterdam, Frans de Does; M.F. Pieper; G. van Tyen, 1784-1849. 4 parts in 4 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half black cloth, spines gilt. Engraved portrait of Van Maerlant, designed by M. van Noort and executed by L. Brasser in first vol. (2), LXXII, 466, 84 (1-84); (4), 14, 476, 62 (85-146), (2); (40, XLVIII, 352, 73, (1); (4), IV, 437, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Literature  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important sources of Dutch mediaeval history: first edition of the second text version View picture(s) 10 MELIS STOKE. Hollandse Jaar-boeken of Rijm-kronijk, behelsende de geschiedenissen des Lands, onder de Princen van het  eerste Huis, tot den Jare 1305. Met de afbeeldingen van alle de Hollandse graven, geschetst naar de aloude schilderyen der Karmeliten te Haarlem. Nevens verscheide egte bylagen, betreffende de ware toestand der geschillen, tussen Graaf Floris de V, en de Hollandse edelen. Mitsgaders de beeldenisse van Heer Gerard van Velsen; en andre oude frayigheden, noit te voren in 't ligt gebragt. Alles met noodige uitleggingen opgehelderd, door Cornelis van Alkemade. Leiden Johannes du Vivie & Isaak Severinus, 1699. Folio. Contemporary calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. With fine engraved series of 33 full-lenght portraits of the Counts of Holland, on full-page plates (verso blank), including one double-portrait on double-page plate, all engraved after the wall-paintings in the Carmelite Monastery at Haarlem, the series is preceded by a full-page engraved plate of a herald with a blank name-panel, and closed by a full-page engraved allegorical picture of Death, a full-page engraved portrait of Gerard van Velsen, and an engraved plate with the tomb of Floris V. (6), 23, (3), 263, (63) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Middle Ages  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mysterious edition of a mediaeval work on church law View picture(s) 11 PERALDUS GUIL. De fide et legibus. (Augsburg, Günther Zainer, 1475-1476). Small folio. Contemporary richly blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, with two brass clasps, blue painted edges. With all initials supplied in red, rubricated throughout. (139) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Church History  Incunabula  Law  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second and best edition of this comprehensive history of the Hussite wars, from a Protestant point of view View picture(s) 12 THEOBALD, Zacharias. Hussiten Krieg: Darinnen begriffen, das Leben, die Lehr, der Todt M. Johannis  Hussii, auch wie derselbe von den Böhmen, besonders Johann Zischka, ist gerochen, und seine Lehr hernacher inn dem Königreich erhalten worden ... Auff ein newes übersehen, corrigiret, mit zweyen Theilen vermehret, biss auff Sleidanum continuiret, mit einem notwendigen Register aller drey Theil versehen, und Teutscher Nation zu einem nötigen Bericht, neben angehängter  rechter Böhemischer Confession in Truck verfertigt. Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, 1621. 4 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title written on spine. With 4 separate titles printed in red and black with on the first three titles woodcut coats-of-arms of Bohemia, woodcut printer's device of Simon Halbmayer at the end of all 4 parts, full-page engraved portrait of the author, dated 1621, and folding genealogical table in the 4th part, the added "Confessio". (8), 322, (2); 228; 179, (9); 107, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Germany  History  Middle Ages  Reformation  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the Azevedo-Samodães collection View picture(s) 13 THOMAS A BECKET. Historea da vida e martyrio do glorioso sancto Thomas arcebispo, senhor de Cantuaria, primas de Inglaterra, legado perpetua da sancta see apostolica, trelada da novamente de Latim em lingoagé Portugues. Coimbra, Joâo Alvarez, 1554. 4to. 20th-century Portuguese tree calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title-label. Title and preliminaries supplied in neat manuscript facsimile, numerous charming woodcut initials in text. (8), ccci (=303), (1 blank, 20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Church History  England  Middle Ages  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch history till 1560 in rhyme View picture(s) 14 WACHTENDORP, Caspar. De oude Hollandsche geschiedenissen ofte Korte Hollandsche rym-Kronyck, verdeylt in 14. poëtische boecken, beginnende van de sunt-vloet, ende eyndigende met d'beginselen vanden tegenwoordigen oorlogh inde Nederlanden, ontrent 't jaer 1560. En werden nevens d'Hollandtsche historien oock daer in kortelijck verhandelt de eerste outheden van de naest om leggende landen, als niet alleen van Zeelandt en Vrieslant, die meest altijdt een Heer gehadt hebben met d',Hollanders, maer oock de beginselen van Uttrecht, Gelderlant, en Vlaenderen. Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten for Johannes Pauli, 1645 Contemporary overlapping vellum, spine with title written in ink. Engraved title, vignette on printed title, 13 half-page engraved plates and 31 portraits of the Counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, beginning with Dirk I till Philips II, all bit the last after the drawings by W. Thibaut, with coat-of-arms and within a laurel wreath (the portrait of Philips II: in oval with Latin legend and 6-line Latin poem underneathafter Car. Veenhuysen by Chr. van de Passe: from the De Passe series Viva et vera delineatio quatuor potentissimorem totius Europae monarcharum ...), woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Collation A-Z4, A-D, Ee-Nn4, A-F4, G2. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a reprint of the fourteenth-century ''Zeni'' map of the Arctic View picture(s) 15 ZURLA, Placido. Dissertazione intorno ai viaggi et scoperte settentrionali di Nicolo ed Antonio fratelli Zeni. Venice, Stampe Zerletti, 1808. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum with blue marbled boards. Engraved folding map with Greenland, Iceland and Norway (430x320 mm). XVI, 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Greenland  Iceland  Middle Ages  Norway  Travel  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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