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March 2023

Sandys travels : containing an history of the original and present state of…Turkish Empire, Constantinople, Greece, Ægypt, Armenia, Grand Cairo… Italy, and the islands adjoining, as Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Sicilia, the Æolian Islands, of Rome, Venice, Naples, Syracusa, Mesena, Aetna, Scylla, and Charybdis, and other places of note

631J Sandys, George, 1578-1644.,  Sandys travels : containing an history of the original and present state of the Turkish Empire, their laws, government, policy, military force, courts of justice, and commerce, the Mahometan religion and ceremonies, a description of Constantinople,... Continue Reading →

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Aristotle For the University 1516 on the verge of the Reformation.

A public commission, in 1516 was appointed to find a way of ending the interminable strife between rival academic parties, they asked Eck to prepare new commentaries on Aristotle and Peter of Spain. And so in 1516 & 1517 he... Continue Reading →

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Suetonius ILLUSTRATED: This book, with the first Image of a Caesarian Section.

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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Eva, my daughter put a song on YouTube

Eva, just published this song on YouTube an I would like to share it! here is the link https://youtu.be/oewZiGhGt5I

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Politeuphuia, Wits Common-wealth. (another copy!)

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 →

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Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors 1686

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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Catalogue of 15th century books. Fascicule XXXIII

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Engraven on 46 copper-plates, and contriv’d in a small compass for the pocket : being of great use for the reading of history, and a ready help to discourse : 1707 Early Modern Book Making.

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 →

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Suetonius ILLUSTRATED: Ok I missed the IDES of March, This book, with the first Image of a Caesarian Section arrived yesterday, I had no time to catalogue or picture it.

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 →

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