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A Monumental and Beautiful Abbasid Qur’an, Circa 1175-1200, Iraq. Substantial 27 Leaf Section of a 12th Century Arabic Illuminated Manuscript on Fine Paper, Likely Used for Leading Prayers
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Breviary, Circa 1350, Italy. Latin Manuscript on Parchment, With 15th Century Illumination, Including a Historiated Initial of Christ
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The First [And Seconde] Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testamente, 1548-1549. Married Set of the of the Rare First English Printing of Erasmus’s Paraphrases to the New Testament, With Annotations
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The First [& Second] Volume of the Ecclesiasticall History Contayning the Actes and Monumentes of Thinges Passed in Every Kinges Time, in this Realme, 1576. The Third Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs, Vividly Illustrated Author: John Foxe
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Opera [Bucolica and Georgica, with argumenta (comm. Servius and Landinus); Aeneis, with argumenta (comm. Servius, Donatus and Landinus)]. Maphaeus Vegius: Liber XIII Aeneidos. Additional texts, 1491. Scarce and Rubricated Works of Virgil
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Incipit Ordo Missalis Secundum Consuetudinem Romane Ecclesie, 1502. Extraordinarily Rare and Scarce Illustrated Missal with Several Large Historiated Woodcut Initials, Recorded as a Lost Edition on USTC, and one of Fradin’s Earliest Solo Printings
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Pericles, and The London Prodigal, Two Plays Extracted from the Fourth Folio of Shakespeare, 1685. Beautifully Bound in Half Tooled Morocco Leather and Cloth
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Histoire de la Magie: avec une exposition claire et précise de ses procédés, de ses rites et de ses mystères, 1860. First Edition of Levi’s Second Major Work on Magic
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Missale Secundum Morem sancta Romane Ecclesie, 1493. Beautifully Illuminated with Two Borders, and Two Large Initials. Bound In an Early Stamped Leather Binding, with Gilt Zwischgold Decoration
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The Chronicle of Fabian whiche he nameth the concordaunce of histories, newly perused, 1559. Two Volumes
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The Primer set forth by the Kinges Maieste and his Cleargy, and none other to be vsed through out his dominions, 1545. Rare English Primer with Annotations and Contemporary Censorship by Protestants
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Katholisches Andachtsbuch Für die Gebildeten unter dem weiblichen Geschlecht, 1826. In an Embroidered Mosaic Binding
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Mammotrectus super Bibliam, 1478. Nicely Rubricated, Early Biblical Dictionary, Second Venetian Edition
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Pontificale Secundum Ritum Sacrosancte Romane Ecclesie, 1542. Scarce Pontifical with Original Calf Panels, Beautifully Illustrated with Numerous Woodcuts
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De Trinitate, 1494. Beautifully Rubricated Edition of Augustine’s Discussions on the Trinity
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M. T. Ciceronis Orationum post Venetam editionem iterum recognitarum volumen primum [- tertium], 1521. From the Library of Count Demetrio Bouturlin, Privy Councillor and Chamberlain to the Emperor of Russia Alexander I
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A Male Saint. Historiated Initial of the Letter V, Circa 1320-1350, Likely Northern Italy. Illuminated Manuscript Cutting from a Large Antiphonary
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Geistliches u. sehr verdienstliches Gebet-Buch zum täglichen Gebrauche katholischer Christen. German Manuscript Book of Prayer, 1848. Beautifully Enhanced with 16 Watercolor Illustrations, and Additional Decorative Initials and Mor
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A Suite of Ten Folios with Large Miniatures from an Early Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, Likely Safavid Iran. Circa 1600-1650. Persian Illuminated Manuscripts on Paper
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