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January 2024

Astronomical catechism for Students 1629

762J Thomas Blebel, 1539-1596.; Joannes Regiomontanus  De sphaera seu primi mobilis rudimentis libellus ad usum scholarum maxime accommodatus: accurata methodo & brevitate conscriptus a M. Thoma Blebelio BUDISSIINO. Et nune ab infinitis prope  mendis liberatus tabulisque instructni. Adjectus ad calcem est... Continue Reading →

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William of Auxerre’s Summa 1500

The first medieval theologian to develop a systematic treatise on free will, the virtues, and the natural law. 586J   Guillermus Altissodorensis, or William of Auxerre, c.1150-1231 Summa aurea in quattuor libros sententiarum :  a subtilissimo doctore Magistro Guillermo altissiodore[n]si edita. quam nuper... Continue Reading →

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3 Annotated Incunabula.

Usus libri, non lectio prudente ƒacit [The use, not the reading, of books makes us wise].                                                                                                                           Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes (1586) 1) A Heavily annotated copy by a German scholar of a 1497 Juvenal   2) Jacobus de Gruytrode, Lavacrum conciencie.... Continue Reading →

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A fun blog about on of my favorite books

https://fleurtyherald.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/isabella-corteses-book-of-secrets-and-the-biblioteca-marciana/?page_id=564

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Two Incunabula bound together. One located in only four copies worldwide!

https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search?query=+ig00654800&from=0 https://data.cerl.org/istc/it00553000 444J Guillermus Parisiensis;        (1297?-1312?)f.1 VITAM BONAM ET EXITUM  Beatum | Ego Frater Guilhermus sacre Theologie Profes | sor minimus parisius educat[um]. Sacroru[m]  euangelio|rum ac epistolariu[m] de te[m]pore dieb[us] dominicus et sa[n] | ctis. Etiam super cômune Apostolo[rum] Martirum. confossorum. | virginum.... Continue Reading →

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Three English books 1600-1673 Travel, Witchcraft/Exorcism and A philosophical treatise writ in America. 

(•) #1. Travel 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... Continue Reading →

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Two huge Books by Gaspar Schott

Physica Curiosa, Sive Mirabilia Naturæ Et Artis Libris XII. Comprehensa, Quibus pleraq;, quæ de Angelis, Dæmonibus, Hominibus, Spectris, Energumenis, Monstris, Portentis, Animalibus, Meteoris. and Technica curiosa, sive Mirabilia artis, libris XII “Gaspar Schott, German physicist, born 5 February, 1608, at... Continue Reading →

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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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George Sandys, the Ethnographer: A Man Before His Time

George Sandys was the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York for the Church of England. Sandys’ Relation was a seminal work at …George Sandys, the Ethnographer: A Man Before His Time

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