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Bologna, Nicolò Tebaldino for Marco Antonio Bernia, 1642.

£17,500L1999

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ALVERNUS, Guillelmus. De fide De legibus.

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£13,500L1342

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Nuremberg, Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner, 15 April 1474.

£19,500L1835

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ARCHIMEDES. Opera non nulla à Federico Commandino Vrbinate nuper in Latinum conuersa, et commentariis illustrata.

Venice, apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi f., 1558.

£9,500L1532

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BALE, John. Illustrum maioris Britanniae scriptorum.

Wesel; Ipswich, Theodorus Platenus; John Overton, 1549; 1548.

£16,500L1893

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BARTHOLIN, Caspar. Institutiones anatomicae, nouis recentiorum opinionibus et obseuationibus.

Leiden, apud Franciscum Hackium, 1641.

£1,950L2290

11.

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£25,000L2002

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Geneva, de l'imprimerie de Matthieu Berjon, 1605.

£9,500L2196

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BIBLE. utriusque Testamenti.

[Geneva], Robert Estienne, 1556-1557.

£65,000K94

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BIBLE. Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum.

Northern France, (Paris), mid-thirteenth century.

£120,000K54

15.

BIBLE [with] PSALMS. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, newly translated out of the original Greek[with] The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected Into English meter by Tho. Sternhold, Jo. Hopkins, W. Whittingham.

Edinburgh, Robert Bryson, 1641; London, I. L. for the Company of Stationers, 1643.

£8,500L2264

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BIBLE, Cistercian. Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Epistles, Acts, Apocalypse and Gospels. Illuminated manuscripton vellum.

Lombardy, Italy, 1170-90.

£240,000K56

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BOCHIUS, Joannes. Descriptio Publicae Gratulationis Spectaculorum et Ludorum...

Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana, 1595.

£11,500L1502

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BODIN, Jean. Le Fleau des demons et sorciers...

Niort, Par David du Terrior, 1616.

£3,750L1413

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BONATTI, Guido. Decem tractatus astronomiae.

Augsburg, Ehrard Ratdolt, 1491.

£47,500K39

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BONHAM, Thomas. The chyrurgians closet: or, an antidotarie chyrurgicall.

London, Printed by George Miller, for Edvvard Brevvster, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible at the north dooreof Pauls, 1630.

£2,250L2319

21.

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The booke of common praier, and administration of the Sacramentes, and other rites andceremonies in the Churche of Englande [with] Fourme and maner of making and consecratyng, bisshops, priestes, and deacons.

London, In officina Richardi Iugge & Iohannis Cawode, 1559.

£19,500L1602

22.

BOOK OF HOURS. Miniature Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Northern France, (Paris), c. 1490-1510.

£85,000K51

23.

BOOK OF HOURS. The Hours of Catherine Semo, Use of Rouen, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Northern France, (Rouen), [c. 1430].

£97,500K52

24.

BOOK OF HOURS. Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Low Countries, (probably Bruges), [c.1460].

£65,000K57

25.

BOOK OF HOURS. The Hours of Gabrielle d’Estrées, Use of Paris, illuminated manuscript in Latin and French on vellum.

Northern France, (Paris), c. 1480.

£57,500K92

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BOOK OF HOURS. Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Northern France, (Rouen), c. 1500.

£125,000K97

27.

BOOK OF HOURS. Book of Hours, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Low Countries, (probably French-Flanders), c. 1500 with sixteenth century additions.

£38,500L2155

28.

BOOK OF HOURS. Book of Hours, Use of Paris, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum with additionalminiatures from another near-contemporary Book of Hours.

Northern France, (Paris), c. 1470 with additional cuttings from Low Countries, mid-fifteenth century.

£37,500L2158

29.

BOOK OF HOURS. Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin and Dutch, illuminated manuscript on vellum, in a signed binding byLudovicus Bloc.

Low Countries, (probably Bruges), c. 1460.

£49,500L2277

30.

BOOK OF HOURS – USE OF ROME. Illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum.

Siena, Italy, 1490.

£28,500L2003

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Flanders, 3rd quarter of the 15th-century, (c. 1465-1475).

£95,000K34

EXCEPTIONAL MINIATURE BOOK OF HOURS IN THE STYLE OF THE MILDMAY MASTER32.

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usum Romanum totaliter adlongum sine require Cum multis suffragiis & orationib' de nouo additis.

Paris, Germain Hardouin, 1528.

£24,500L1985

33.

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Ces presentes heures sont a lusaige de Romme toutes au long sansrequerir..

Paris, [Germain Hardouyn], 1534.

£22,500L2026

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BORDONE, Benedetto. Isolario.

Venice, [Paolo Manuzio for?] Federico Torresani, 1547.

£20,000L2033

35.

BOURCHIER, Thomas [with] LEYDANUS, Florentius. De martyrio fratrum ordinis minorum divi Francisci... quipartim in Anglia sub Henrico iix. Rege, partim in belgio sub principe auriaco, partim et in hybernia tempore Elizabethae regnantisreginae, passi sunt [with] Historia pasionis novorum in Germaniae inferioris provincia Constantissimorum martyrum.

Ingolstadt, Wolfgang Eder, 1583, 1582.

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BRESSANI, Francesco Giuseppe. Breue relatione d'alcune missioni de' PP. della Compagnia di Giesù nella Nuoua Francia delP. Francesco Gioseppe Bressani.

Macerata, Per gli heredi d'Agostino Grisei, 1653.

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BROME, Richard. The Antipodes: a Comedie. Acted in the Yeare 1638, by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Courtin Fleet-street.

London, I. Okes, for Francis Constable, 1640.

£75,000K30

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BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus. Liber der arte distulandi simplicia et composita : das nüv bůch d[er] rechte[n] Kunst zů distilliere[n], ouch vo[n] Marsilio Ficino vn[nd] andere[n] hochberömpte[n] Ertzte natürliche vn[nd] gůte Kunst, zů behalte[n] den gesundenLeib vn[nd] zů vertreibe[n] die Krankheiter[n] mit Erlengeru[n]g des Lebe[n]s.

Strasbourg, [Johan Grüniger], 1509.

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BURTON, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy.

Oxford, for Henry Cripps, 1632.

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CAMDEN, William. Britain, A chorographical description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, andthe ilands adioyning...

London, Printed at Eliot's Court Press impensis Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, 1610.

£16,750L834

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CAMERARIUS, Joachim II. Hortus medicus et philosophicus... Sylva Hercynia (et Icones... Delineatae).

Frankfurt, Johann Feyerabend, 1588.

£7,500L1944

FIRST PRINTED INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN GARDENS42.

CAMPEGGI, Tommaso. De auctoritate, & potestate Romani Pontificis, & alia opuscula [with] De coelibatu sacerdotum nonabrogando.

Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1555 [and] Ad signum spei, 1554.

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CAPOBIANCO, Alessandro. Corona e Palma Militare di Arteglieria.

Venice, Giovanni Antonio Rampazetto, 1598.

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CAROSO, Fabritio. Il Ballarino.

Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1581.

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CARTWRIGHT, John. The Preachers travels: ...through the great countreyes of Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Media, Hircaniaand Parthia. With the authors returne by the way of Persia, Susiana, Assiria, Chaldæa, and Arabia.

London, by William Stansby for Thomas Thorppe, 1611.

£14,500L1122

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CAVENDISH, William. Earl of Devonshire. HOBBES, Thomas (?). Horae Subseciuae: Observations and Discourses.

London, [Eliot’s Court Press] for Edward Blount, 1620.

£12,500L1714

PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENTARY ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, THE CO-AUTHORS COPY47.

CHALMERS, David. De Scotorum fortitudine, Doctrina & Pietate, ac de ortu & progressu haeresis in Regnis Scotiae & Angliae…nunc primum in lucam editi.

Paris, Petri Baillet, 1631.

£1,850L1843

OF SCOTTISH CATHOLICS48.

CHASTELLAIN, Georges. Le Temple de Bocace, in French, finely illuminated de luxe manuscript on vellum.

Central France, (probably Tours), c. 1500.

£195,000K53

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CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Workes of our Ancient and learned English Poet.

London, George Bishop, 1598.

£9,750L1078

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CHOLIERES, Dagoneau de, Jean. La guerre des masles contre les femelles.

Paris, chez Gilles Robinot, 1614.

£4,950L2172

51.

CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Philippicae [with] APHTHONIUS, Sophista. Praeexercitamenta Fabula.

London, R. Pynson, 1520-1.

£32,500L1014

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CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae familiares.

Paris, ex officina Simonis Colinaei, 1545.

£3,950L1852

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DAVIES, Sir John. A Discovery of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely Subdued.

London, John Jaggard, 1612.

£3,750L1215

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DE BILLON, François. Le Fort inexpugnable de l'honneur du sexe femenin.

Paris, chez Ian d'Allyer, 1555.

£9,500L646

A PASSIONATE PANEGYRIC ON THE MERITS OF WOMEN55.

DE BRY, Theodor. Americae Nona & postrema Pars.

Frankfurt, Apud Matth. Beckerum, 1602.

£13,750L1410

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DE BRY, Theodore. Americae Tertia pars memorabilem provinciae Brasiliae Historiam Continens.

Frankfurt, Mathew Becker for Theodore de Bry, 1592/1605.

£19,750L1644

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DE L'ORME, Philibert. Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir.

Paris, De l'imprimerie de Hierosme de Marnef, & Guillaume Cauellat, au mont S. Hilaire à l'enseigne du Pelican, 1576.

£6,500L1511

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED AND ILLUSTRATED58.

[DEVEREUX, Robert] . Lawes and orders of warre, established for the good conduct of the seruice in Ireland.

[London], [Printed by the deputies of Christopher Barker?], [1599?].

£3,950L2065

IRISH MILITARY CONDUCT, A GUIDE59.

DODOENS, Rembert. A new herball, or historie of plants: ...their names, natures, operations, & vertues: and that not onely ofthose which are heere growing in this our countrie of England but of al others also of forraine realms commonly vsed in physicke.

London, Edm. Bollifant, 1595.

£3,950L1631

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DONATO D'EREMITA, FRA. Dell'elixir Vitae.

Naples, per Secondino Roncagliolo, 1624.

£24,500L1545

BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS OF ALCHEMICAL EQUIPMENT AND EXPERIMENTS61.

DONNE, John. Poems by J.D. with Elegies on the Authors death.

London, M.F. for John Marriot, 1639.

£12,500L1517

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DONNE, John. Pseudo-martyr. Wherein ...this conclusion is euicted. That those which are of the Romane religion in thiskingdome, may and ought to take the Oath of allegeance.

London , W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610.

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DORSTEN, Theodor. Botanicon.

Frankfurt, Christian Egenolff, 1540.

£39,500K19

BENEDETTO VARCHI’S COPY64.

DREXEL, Jeremias. De Aeternitate considerationes.

Munich, Cornelius Leysser, 1627.

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A RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF ETERNITY, BECKFORD'S COPY65.

DREXEL, Jeremias. Infernus damnatorum carcer et rogus aeternitatis pars II.

Antwerp, Jan Cnobbaert, 1631.

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DREXEL, Jeremias. Nicetas seu triumphata incontinentia.

Cologne, Cornelius van Egmondt, 1631.

£3,250L1881

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ELISABETH I. Discours de la prinse de deux grandes navires envoyees de la part de la royne d’Angleterre au roy de Navarre.

Paris, veuve François Plumion, 1589.

£1,650L2166

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ENGLAND. The Cronycle of Englonde with the fruyte of tymes [with] The Descrypcyon of Englonde.

London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1515.

£27,500L1389

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ERASMUS, Desiderius. Opus de conscribendis epistolis.

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1539.

£9,500L2168

70.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Epistola nuncupatoria ad Carolum Caesarem. Exhortatio ad studium Evangelicae lectionis. Paraphrasisin Evangelium Matthaei.

Basel, Johann Froben, c. 1523.

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ESTIENNE, Charles & LIEBAULT, Jean. Maison Rustique, or, The Countrey Farme.

London, Printed by Arnold Hatfield for Iohn Norton and John Bill, 1606.

£3,250L1865

A ROYAL BINDING72.

ESTIENNE, Henri. Francofordiense emporium.

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1574.

£5,750L2204

ON WINE AND BOOKFAIRS73.

EUCLID. Stoicheion Bibl. XV Ek ton Theonos Synousion. Proklou bibl. IV.

Basle, J. Herwagen, 1533.

£37,500L1541

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FABLES. [Dialogus Creaturarum Moralizatus].

[Strasbourg], [Jan van Doesborch], [c.1528].

£25,000L858

75.

FEYERABEND, Sigmund (ed.). Theatrum Diabolorum.

Frankfurt, Peter Schmidt, 1575.

£7,350L1921

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FITZHERBERT, Thomas [with] MICHAEL, Jean [and] ABERCROMBY, Robert. An sit vtilitas in scelere vel deinfelicitate principis Macchiauelliani, contra Macchiauellum [with] Anatome corporis politici, siue Liber de institutione ecclesiastici [and]Exetasis Epistolae nomine regis Magnae Britanniae.

1) Rome, Gulielmum Facciottum, 1610; 2) Paris, Nicolaum Chesneau, 1564; 3) Mons/Mainz, Adamo Gallo [JohannesAlbinus?], 1610.

£1,950L1952

77.

FITZRALPH, Richard. Ricardi Archiepiscopi Armachani Hyberniae Primatis Defensorum Curatorum aduersus eos quiprivilegiatos se dicunt.

Paris, Apud Petrum Billaine, 1633.

£3,250L2066

THE FIRST IRISH PRINTED TEXT78.

FITZSIMON, Henry. A Catholike confutation of M. Iohn Riders clayme of antiquitie; and a caulming comfort against his caueat.…a replye to M. Riders Rescript; with a discouerie of puritan partialitie in his behalfe.

Roan [i.e. Douai], [Pt. 1 by P. Auroi, pt. 2 by C. Boscard], 1608.

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FIVE HISTORIATED INITIALS. Illuminated manuscript on vellum.

, from a Gradual, Early 16th century.

£7,750L832

INITIALS FROM A LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED GRADUAL80.

FLITTNER, Johann. Nebulo nebulonum hoc est, jocoseria modernae nequitiae censura.

Frankfurt, Jacob de Zetter, 1620.

£3,250L2143

HUMAN FLAWS SATYRISED IN VERSE AND EMBLEMS81.

FLORIMI, Matteo. Gioello della corona per le nobili, e virtuose donne.

Siena, Matteo Florimi, 1604.

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82.

FOTHERBY, Martin. Atheomastix: clearing foure Truthes against Atheists and Infidels.

London, printed by Nicholas Okes, dwelling in Foster-Lane, 1622.

£3,750L1285

A LOVELY, UNSOPHISTICATED EARLY CALIFORNIANA83.

FUCHS, Leonhard. New Kreüterbuch.

Basel, Michael Isingrin, 1543.

£49,500K23

84.

GAILKIRCHER, Wilhelm. Quadriga aeternitatis universi generis humani meta.

Munich, Raphael Sadeler, 1619.

£3,750L1884

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GALILEI, Galileo. Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti... Si aggiungono nel fine le Lettere, eDisquisizioni del finto Apelle.

Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.

£39,500K24

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GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo . Theatrum mundi, et temporis...

Venice, Giovanni Battista Somasco, 1588.

£9,500L1975

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GAMUCCI, Bernardo. Le antichita della citta di Roma. …In questa seconda editione da infiniti errori emendate & corrette daThomaso Porcacchi.

Venezia, Appresso Giovanni Varisco, & i compagni, 1569.

£3,950L928

ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ROMAN GUIDE BOOKS88.

GOLTZIUS, Hubertus. Lebendige Bilder gar nach aller Keysern von C. Iulio Caesare bisz auff Carolum V und Ferdinandumseinem Bruder verhaftet.

Antwerp, Gillis Coppens van Diest, 1557.

£15,000L1584

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GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan. Historia de las cosas mas notables... del gran Reyno de la China... Con un itinerario delNuevo Mundo.

Medina del Campo, por Santiago del Canto, por los herederos de Benito Boyer, 1595.

£3,950L1581

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GRADUAL - DOMINICAN USE. Decorated manuscript in Latin with Musical Notation on vellum with ten illuminatedinitials.

Flanders, or north-eastern France, c.13th century.

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GUIDI, Guido. De anatome corporis humani [et de chirurgia].

Venice, Giunta, 1611.

£8,500L1989

92.

HAKLUYT, Richard. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by Sea or over Land...

London, George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, 1589.

£69,500L1112

WITH THE RARE WORLD MAP93.

HARRIS, Paul. Fratres sobrii estote. I. Pet. 5. 8. Or, An admonition to the fryars of this Kingdome of Ireland, to abandon suchhereticall doctrines as they daylie publish to the corruption of our holy faith, the ruine of soules.

[Dublin], [by the Society of Stationers], 1634.

£3,500L2068

A PLEA AGAINST THE CORRUPTION OF RELIGIOUS FAITH IN IRELAND94.

HENTZNER, Paul. Itinerarium Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae.

Nuremburg, A Wagenmann for the author, 1612.

£2,500L1934

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HERBAL. The Greate Herball.

London, John Kynge, 1561.

£37,500L1033

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HERBAL. Le Grand Herbier… contenantes les qualitez vertus et proprietez des herbes, arbres, gommes, semences, huyles et pierresprecieuses...

Paris, Alain Lotrian, n.d., c.1530.

£17,500L1035

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HERBAL. Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.

Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 1499.

£59,500L1585

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HERBAL. Herbolario volgare.

Venice, Giovanni Andrea Valvassori and brothers, 1534.

£27,500L2000

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HERO OF ALEXANDRIA. De gli Automati, overo Machine se Moventi, libri due, tradotti dal Greco da Bernardino Baldi...

Venice, Girolamo Porro, 1589.

£5,750L449

100.

HEROARD, Jean. Hippostologie, c'est a dire, discours des os du cheval. Par Iehan Heroard.

Paris, par Mamert Patisson Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, 1599.

£12,500L1707

101.

HOOD, Thomas. The Use of the Celestial Globe in Plano.

London, [By John VVindet] for Tobie Cooke, 1590.

£7,950L1174

THE ONLY EARLY EDITION102.

IRELAND [Laws]. At the Parliament begun and holden at Dublin... untill the 18. day of Aprill. 1635.

Dublin [i.e. London], Imprinted by the Society of Stationers, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiesty [i.e. FelixKingston? and R. Young], 1636.

£2,750L2069

103.

JESUIT LETTERS. RAGUENEAU, Paul. Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable és missions des Peres de laCompagnie de Iesus, en la Nouuelle France, es annees 1650 & 1651.

Paris, Chez Sebastien Cramoisy, et Gabriel Cramoisy. ruë S. Iacques, aux Cicognes, 1652.

£15,950K21

104.

KEPLER, Johannes. Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae... [with] Epitomes Astronomiae Copernicanae... Liber Quartus [and]Epitomes Astronomiae Copernicanae... Libri V. VI. VII.

1) Linz, Planck, 1618; 2) Linz, impensis Godefridi Tampachii excudebat Planck, 1622; 3) Frankfurt, sumptibusGodefridi Tampachii, 1621.

£32,500L1233

THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE105.

KEPLER, Johannes. De stella nova... De stella tertii honoris... De Jesu Christi vero anno natalitio.

Prague and Frankfurt, Pavel Sessius (impensis authoris) and Wolfgang Richter, 1606.

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106.

KETHAM, Johannes de. Fasciculus medici[n]e.

Venice, Cesare Arrivabene, 1522.

£29,500K32

FIRST MEDICAL BOOK WITH REALISTIC FIGURES107.

KIRCHER, Athanasius. Musurgia universalis.

Rome, Francisci Corbelletri ex typographia haeredum Francisci Corbelletri, 1650.

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FIRST EDITION OF KIRCHER'S ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPAEDIAOF MUSIC108.

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PASSE, Crispijn van de. Hortus floridus. A garden of flovvers, vvherein very liuely is contained a true and perfect discription of althe flovvers contained in these foure followinge bookes.

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PERRAULT, Francois. Demonologie ou Traitte des demons et sorciers: de leur puissance & impuissance, L'antidemon de Mascon,ou Histoire particvliere & tresveritable de ce qu'vn demon a fait & dit à Mascon.

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PLINY, Caecilius Secundus, Gaius. Epist. Lib IX… Isaaci Casauboni notae.

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PORCACCHI, Thomaso. L'Isole piu famose del Mondo.

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PRYNNE, William. The perpetuitie of a regenerate mans estate.

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PRYNNE, William. Histrio-Mastix, The Players Scourge, or, Actors Tragaedie...

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PSALTER. Psalterium in quatuor linguis Hebraea, Graeca, Chaldaea, Latina.

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AN UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK176.

THYRAEUS, Gulielmus. Discursus panegyrici de nominibus, tribulationibus, et miraculis S. Patricii Ibernorum apostoli, cumexhortatione ad perfectiones pro fide patienter ferendas, & apostophe ad Iberniam.

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TRIO OF MUSICIANS. Initial C, from an Illuminated Choirbook on vellum.

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TRITHEMIUS, Johannes [with] BASIL THE GREAT. Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum [with] De Spiritu Sancto…Erasmo Roterdamo interprete.

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WIRSUNG, Christoph.. The General Practice of Physicke. Conteyning all Inward and Outward Parts of the Body... NowTranslated into English... by Jacob Mosan.

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