633J. Book of Hours, Use of Rome most likely produced in England mid fifteenth century. Duodecimo, 10.5 x 8.5 cm. . 196 parchment leaves of parchment, including tipped-in illuminations on the verso that are coordinated with facing richly foliated leaves on... Continue Reading →
Horæ Deipare Virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum :pleris[que] Biblie figuris at[que] chorea lethi circu[m]munite, nouis[que] effigiebus adornate, vt in septet[m] Psalmis penitentiali[bus], in vigiliis defunctoru[m], & in horis S[an]cte[m] Crucis, in horis quo[que] S[an]cti Sp[irit]us videre licebit. Exarate [qui]de[m] Parisiis : industria bibliographi Thielmanni Keruer, preclare Vniuersitatis Parisiane librarii iurati in vico Sancti Iacobi ad signum Vnicornis 1519 Price $26,000 Exarate [qui]de[m]... Continue Reading →
Currently there is no reliable evidence that Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section. At the time of Julius's birth, there was an prohibition to burring a dead pregnant woman with the fetus intact, this... Continue Reading →
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345G Over the last twenty years I have been lucky enough to have had and sold all of the "Wit's series" : Wits commonwealth, Published first in 1597, as the first in a series of which Mere’s "Palladis tamia"( I had... Continue Reading →
883G Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 The Works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt. Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich.containing I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. II Religio Medici: With Annotations and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial:... Continue Reading →
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I have a fairly rare but very interesting book to offer it is oblong, completed engraved (no type setting here) and quite amusing, it has a table of the modes of demise sand other activities of royalty with symbols for... Continue Reading →
I have a fairly rare but very interesting book to offer it is oblong, completed engraved (no type setting here) and quite amusing, it has a table of the modes of demise sand other activities of royalty with symbols for... Continue Reading →
OK AGAIN, Currently there is no reliable evidence that Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section. At the time of Julius's birth, there was an prohibition to burring a dead pregnant woman with the fetus... Continue Reading →
“One of the most influential documents in the history of medieval scientific attitudes toward women”
654J pseudo Albertus Magnus Albert(us) Magnus Secretis mulieru(m) Leipzig : Melchior Lotter, 1500 $12,000 GW dates [c.1500]. Quarto 24 x 14.5 cm. Collation: A–F6, F6 is a blank, colophon on F5, verso.( f6 blank and present.) there are two variants... Continue Reading →
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