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Espionage And Piracy On the Elizabethan High Seas


[[ELIZABETH I/MANUSCRIPT]] Privy Council Document, one leaf. Sept. 23, 1599.

Highly evocative manuscript document from the reign of Elizabeth I, signed by her entire Privy Council with the exception of Essex, who was directing the ill-fated Irish Campaign.
$12,500


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Illustrated Perspective Treatise by a Renowned Sicilian Architect


AMATO, Paolo. La Nuova Pratica di Prospettiva nella quale si spiegano alcune nuove opinioni, e la Regola universale di Disegnare... Palermo, Vincenzo Toscano & Onofrio Gramignani, 1736.

Very rare sole edition of one of the only illustrated architectural treatises by a working architect published in Sicily.
$13,500


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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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Anti-Semites Critique The Wine Monopoly


[ WINE BROADSIDE [S.V.]] Anonymous. Der Wein Jud. Etching with German and Latin text, including Biblical verses. Trier, 1628.

Rare first edition of this anti-Semitic broadsheet, a derisive attack on the perceived Jewish monopoly on the German wine industry during the Thirty Years War (1618-48).
$4,850


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Ten Centuries of Turkish History With 41 Woodcut Figures


[TURKEY/COSTUME] Anonymous. Neu er'etes Amphitheatrum Turcicum, worinnen der kern T'cher geschichten, von grundsetzung ihrer religion und reiches... biss auf die allerneueste und gegenwartige zeiten beschrieben... Erfurt, gedruckt und verlegt von Johann Michael Funcken, 1724.

Rare illustrated history of Turkey, featuring 41 charming woodcuts of costumed military, religious and artisanal figures. The wide-ranging history of the Ottoman Empire and its antecedents begins with the birth of the "devil prophet Muhamed" in the sixth century, and continues up until the date of the work's publication, 1724.
$4,800


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