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ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO, Pedro and Maria OSORIO Y PIMENTEL. [Three letters to Ferrante Gonzaga, Viceroy of Sicily, two from Pedro Alvarez de Toledo and one from his wife Maria Osorio y Pimentel].
Andria (in the Kingdom of Naples), 13 August to 10 September 1539.
Comprising:
(1) Letter in Italian, signed, from Pedro Alvarez de Toledo in Andria to Ferrante Gonzaga, 13 August 1539, with a 2.3 cm seal bearing Alvarez de Toledos coat of arms (with a chain of flags) stamped on a slip of paper attached with red wax.
(2) Letter in Spanish, signed, from Pedro Alvarez de Toledo in Andria to Ferrante Gonzaga, 3 September 1539, with the 4.5 cm imperial armorial seal stamped on a slip of paper attached with red wax.
(3) Letter in Italian, signed, from Maria Osorio y Pimentel [in Andria] to Ferrante Gonzaga, 10 September 1539, with the remains of what appears to be her husbands 2.3 cm red wax seal.
Folio (21.5 x 30 cm). Each letter, in brown ink, occupies one page, with the last page containing the address and the senders seal. The two inside pages of the second and third letter are blank. Each formerly folded for posting, so that the address would have appeared on one side and the seal on the other. [4]; [4]; [2] pp. including blanks. Full description

'ALWACHI ('Abd al-Hamid). Al-Shaykh Dari qatil al-Kulunl Lichman fi Khan al-Nuqtah. [English title:] Sheik Dhari, assassin of Lieut-Col. G.E. Leachman at Khan el-Nuqta.
Baghdad, Maktab al-Alwaji wa-alHajjiyah, 1968. 8vo. With the English title on the back wrapper and the recto of the final leaf, main text set in Arabic type throughout. With 16 black and white photographic illustrations (on 5 leaves). Original lime green printed wrappers. 158, [2] pp. Full description

AMPHIAREO DA FERRARA, Vespasiano. Opera, nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere, et massime una lettera bastarda da lui novamente con sua industria ritrovata, laqual serve al cancellaresco et mercantesco. Poi insegna a far linchiostro negrissimo con tanta facilita, che ciascuno per semplice che sia, lo sapra far da se. Anchora a macinar loro & scrivere con esso come si fara con linchiostro, parimente a scrivere con lazurro, & col cinaprio, opera utilissima e molto necessaria alluso humano.
Venice, 1555. Oblong 4to. With a woodcut of two hands, one holding a compass and the other holding a pen, 6 charming woodcut initials in text and 85 engraved models of calligraphic text and initials, all set within black-lined borders. 18th-century gold-tooled vellum. [48] ll. Full description

AMY, Joseph. Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives.
Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1752. 6 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 6 folding woodcut plates, and 8 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text of ad 1; a series of 3 large folding engraved plates on the "Empire of Copper" (1x signed "Le Brun inv. et f."), 6 handcoloured woodcut plates of which 4 (large) folding in ad 2; a hand coloured woodcut dedication, and 2 folding woodcut plates in ad 3. With: (2) IDEM. Suite du livre intitulé Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes (...) avec trois dissertations ...
Ibid., idem, 1754.
Bound before ad 1 and 2: (3) IDEM and [François THIÉRY]. Nouvelles fontaines domestiques approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Première édition./ Question de medecine.
Ibid., J.B. Coignard and A. Boudet, 1750.
(4) [BROADSIDE]. Filtroirs militaires, marins et domestiques.
[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside/ advertorial leaflet, ca. 240 x 140 mm.
(5) [BROADSIDE]. Instruction générale et sommaire, pour la conduite des nouvelles fontaines.
[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside, ca. 250 x 140 mm.
Bound after ad 2: (6) BERTHIER, Joseph. Projet d'une pompe publique pour la ville de Paris.
(Colophon:) Paris, Chardon, 1769.
Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, red edges. VIII, 72, 46; LXXXII, 332, [4]; 48, 61, [9], 72, 24; 2; [1], [1 blank]; 3-15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ANDRADA, Francisco d'. Chronica do muyto alto e muyto poderoso Rey destes reynos de Portugal Dom João o III deste nome, ...
Coimbra, Real officina da universidade, 1796. 4 volumes. 4to. With a woodcut royal Portuguese coat of arms on title-page of each volume. Contemporary plain paper wrappers. VIII, I-XV, [1 blank], 385, [1 blank]; [4], XIX, [1 blank], 565 [=465], [1 blank]; [4], XX, 452; Full description

ANDRADE, Jacinto Freire de. Vida de D. João de Castro, quarto viso-rei da India; ... Nova edição.
Lisbon, Typ. Rollandiana, 1861. 8vo. Modern orange paper wrappers. [8], 341, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

ANGELO, Henry and Rev. Charles SWYNNERTON. Angelo's pic nic with twenty-four illustrations from contemporary drawings and prints in the collection of Joseph Grego with a prefatory note on the Angelo family.
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co Ltd., 1905. 2 vols. Large-8vo. With a frontispiece in vol. 1 and 110 illustrations mounted on separate leaves. Red cloth. XXXVII, [1], 122; [2], 123-267 (=145), [1] pp. Full description

ARATOR. Acta Apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1535 (title 1534). 8vo. Old boards. (48) ll. Full description

[ARCHITECTURE - DRAWINGS]. Dissegno per la fabrica della Libreria Canonicale.
[Verona, ca. 1720/25]. Folio (38.5 x 25.5 cm). With 4 architectural drawings, 3 double-page (ca. 37 x 50 cm at a scale of about 1:60) and 1 loosely inserted full-page (24 x 35 cm at a scale of about 1:107), skillfully drawn in brown ink and several shades of grey watercolour. Two of the double-page drawings are elevations (1 partly in cross-section), the other 2 drawings are floor plans, each plan with a folding flap tipped on showing the plan of a higher level. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. Full description

ARCOS Y MORENO, Joseph de. Real ordenanza de cavalleria del Reyno, con las ilustraciones correspondientes a sus articulos, para le mejor instruccion de los tribunales, y professores ...
Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1757. 8vo. With the full-page woodcut arms of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, before the half-title, a woodcut headpiece and several tailpieces, decorations built up from typographic ornaments, a decorated woodcut initial (plus 1 repeat) and a crowned A, M and E to represent the three autonomous southern crown lands. Contemporary vellum. [26], 406 pp. Full description