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Extensively Annotated In Latin & Greek
IN a Contemporary Hand


AESCHINES/DEMOSTHENES. [ED REUCHLIN, Johannes]. ТΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΕΞΟΧΩΝ ΡΗΤΟΡΩΝ Άισχινου καί Δημοσθενους…Graeciae excellentissium Oratorum, Aeschinis & Demosthenis, orations adversariae. Paris, Christian Wechel, 1543.

Two extremely rare separately issued Paris student editions of Morceaux choisis of two of the Attic orators as edited by the great German humanist Reuchlin, along with an early, if not the earliest separate edition of Isocrates’ Helen, editorship apparently anonymous.
$5,500


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How to Illuminate Manuscripts


[BOOK OF SECRETS] Anonymous. A very proper treatise, wherein is breefely set foorth the art of Limming, which teacheth the order in drawing and tracing of leters, Vinets, Flowers, Armes, and Imagerye... London, Thomas Purfoot, the assigne of Richard Tottill, 1588.

Rare early English instruction manual for painting and illuminating books, manuscripts and other works.
$22,500


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The Sculptural Reliefs of the Santa Casa di Loreto


[LORETO] Anonymous. Spiegazione delli Quattro prospetti dei bassi rilievi in marmo che circondano le mura della S. Casa di Loreto: qui anessi in puntata, oltre l'altro prospetto del palazzo pontificio, facciata del tempio, campanile, e cupola. Loreto, Federico Sartori, c. 1800.

Very rare pilgrim's souvenir album showing some of the artistic treasures of the Santa Casa di Loreto, one of the principal shrines for Marian devotion from the late 13th century to the present day.
$3,500


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[CALLIGRAPHY] ARRIGHI, Ludovico degli. Regola da imparate scrivere varii caratteri de littere con li suoi compassi et misure: et il modo di temperare le penne secondo la sorte de littere che vorrai scrivere. Venice, Nicolo d’Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1533.

Very rare early augmented edition (second) of Arrighi’s treatise on writing containing both the writing samples and the instructions on preparing pen and ink, which were previously issued separately.
$18,500


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STENOGRAPHY FOR THE MASSES


[Calligraphy] ASTIER, F. J.. Graphodromie ou Ecriture Cursive Applicable à tous les idiomes, à la portée de tous les âges. Paris, 1816.

Rare first edition and a large-paper dedication copy in a superb Romantic binding of this treatise on a new and democratic form of shorthand, presented by the author to the Minister of the Interior.
$3,850


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