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LEO I (ca 360-461, Pope from 400). Sermones et epistolae. Translated from Latin into Italian by Filippo Corsini. Florence: [Antonio di Bartolommeo...

LEVER, Charles (1806-1872). Works. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1894-1895.40 volumes, 8vo (213 x 137 mm). Frontispieces, a profusion of plate...

LOCKE, John (1632-1704). An Essay concerning Humane Understanding. London: for Albasham, John Churchill, and Samuel Manship, 1694.  Folio. Engrave...

LOCKE, John (1632-1704). Two Treatises of Government. London: for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1698.  8vo (190 x 117 mm). Title printed within doub...

LOCKE, John (1632-1704). Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke, and Several of his Friends.   London: for A. and J. Churchill, 1708.  8vo (188 x...

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1892). The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.  8vo. Publisher's advertisements dated November 1...

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1892). 4 works, comprising:  The Golden Legend. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 4 pp. advertisements da...

LUDOLF, Hiob (1624-1704).  Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum: ex omnibus libris impressis, et multis MSStis contextum... Editio secunda. Frankfurt: John ...

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527). Discorsi...sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio. Venice: Giovanni Antonio and Nicolini da Sabio, Melchior Sessa, 15...

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). Machiavels Discourses upon the First Decade of T. Livius. Translated by Edward Dacres. London: Thomas Paine fo...

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). Nicholas Machiavel's Prince. Also, The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca. And the meanes Duke Valentine u...

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527).   The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, ...

[MAGNA CARTA] Magna Charta, cum statutis quae antiqua vocantur, iam recens excusa, & summa fide emendata, iuxta vetusta exemplaria ad Parliamenti ...

MANDEVILLE, Bernard de (1670?-1733). An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour and The Usefulness of Christianity in War. London: for John Brotherton, ...

METHODIUS, Saint, Archbishop of Tyre (827-869).   [Revelationes]. Revelationes divinae a sanctis angelis factae de principio mundi.  Edited by Seb...

MILTON, John (1608-1674). Paradise Regain'd...to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: for John Starkey, 1680.  8vo (174 x 106 mm). With leaf A...

MILTON, John (1608-1674).   The Works. London: n.p., 1697.  Folio (315 x 200 mm). Title-page printed within double rule border and with woodcut de...

MILTON, John (1608-1674).   A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works. Amsterdam [but London]: n.p., 1698.  3 vo...

[MINIATURE BOOK]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (ca 1265-1321). La Divina Commedia di Dante. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1878.128mo (51 x 29 mm). Half-titles, engrav...

[MINIATURE BOOK]. -- [BIBLE, in English]. The Bible in Miniuture [sic], or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. London: [Elizabeth] Ne...

[MINIATURE BOOK]. CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B. C. E.). - [BLAEU, Willem Jansz (1608-1639)]. M. Tullii Ciceronis De Officiis Libri III. Amster...

[MINIATURE BOOKS]. EPICTETUS. -- CEBES.    Epicteti Enchiridion, Et Cebetis Tabula. Lugduni Batavorum: Ioan. Maire, 1646.48mo (87 x 42 mm). Engrav...

[MINIATURE BOOK]. The Psalms of David in Metre. As they are used in the Kirk of Scotland. Edinburgh: P. Williamson, 1779.  64mo (40 x 71 mm). Engr...

[MINIATURE BOOK]. -- [ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), his copy]. EPICTETUS (ca 50-135). -- SNECANUS, Johannes Daniel (ca 1580-1655). Epicteti ...

[MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 4 miniature books, comprising:  ROHLFS, Matthias. Hamburgischer nutzlicher Schreib Calender aufs 1781 Jahr. Hamburg:...

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS]. BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin. [Southern Netherlands (Ghent or Bruges), c.1460].  92 x 64mm, 241 leaves, on vell...

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS]. Leaf from a Book of Hours with historiated initial "S" on recto depicting the Pentecost. [France, c.1450].  One leaf, ...

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS]. Antiphonal leaf with large historiated initial "D" on verso depicting the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, St. John t...

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS]. BIBLE, in Latin. 3 leaves. [France (Paris?), 13th century].  3 leaves, each 290 x 203mm. On vellum. Double column. Text...

[MANUSCRIPTS -- ILLUMINATED]. Cover title:  A Collection of Thoughts. Illuminated manuscript, vellum. N.p., n.d. [20th century].Small folio. Title...

MAUGHAN, William Charles (1836-1914). The Alps of Arabia. Travels in Egypt, Sinai, Arabia and the Holy Land. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1873.  8...

[MIDDLE EASTERN ART]. POPE, Arthur U. (1881-1969) and ACKERMANN, Phyllis (1893-1977), editors. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to t...

[MIDDLE EASTERN ART]. SAKISIAN, Armenag Bey (1875-1949). La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe Siècle. Paris and Brussels: Les Editions G. Van Oe...

[MIDDLE EASTERN ART]. SARRE, Friedreich (1865-1945).  Islamische Bucheinbande. Berlin: Scarabaeus Verlag, preface dated 1923.4to. 36 full-color mo...

MILNE, Alan Alexander (1882-1956). Winnie-The-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926.  8vo. Half-title; numerous illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard...

[MONASTERY HILL BINDING]. ARNOLD, Matthew. Essays. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906.  8vo. Title printed in red and black. Brown crushed levant g...

[MONASTERY HILL BINDING]. RUSKIN, John. Sesames and Lilies. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. Small 4to. Blue morocco gilt by the Monastery Hill ...

MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat (1689-1755).   De l'Esprit des Loix. Geneva: Barillot, [but Paris: Prault, c.1748].  2 volumes, 4to (242 x 179 mm...

MORE, Thomas, Sir. (1478-1535). The Workes ... wrytten by him in the Englysh tongue. Edited by William Rastell (1508?-1565). London: John Cawood, ...

MORGAN, Sylvanus, (1620-1693). The Sphere of Gentry. London: William Leybourn, 1661.  4 parts in 1 volume, folio (305 x 194 mm). Engraved title-pa...

PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374). [Opera Latina.]Librorum Francisci Petrarche impressorum annotatio. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 15 July 1503.  Folio ...

PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374). Il Petrarca. Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, July 1521.  8vo (157 x 96 mm). Woodcut Aldine device on ...

PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374), Canzonieri. Il Petrarcha colla spositione di Misser Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo.  Venice: Giovanni Antonio and Nicol...

PONTANUS, Johannes Jovianus (1426-1503).   Opera. Venice: Aldus, 1513. 12mo. Later calf gilt, edges stained red.  8vo (160 x 95 mm). 6-line initia...

QUR'AN, Illuminated Arabic manuscript on paper. [Copied in Turkey by Hafez Khalil?, ca A.H. 12th century / ca 17th-18th century A. D.]12mo (147 x ...

[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator. Some British Ballads. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919].  4to. 16 color-printed ...

[RESPUBLICA]. Respublica, sive Status Regni Poloniae, Lituaniae, Prussiae, Livoniae... Leiden: Elzevir, 1627.  24mo (107 x 54 mm). Engraved title-...

SANNAZARO, Jacopo (1458-1530). Arcadia. Venice: Niccolo Zoppino, 10 September 1524.  8vo. Title-page printed within woodcut architectural border, ...

SARPI, Paolo (1552-1623). Historia del Concilio Tridentino.   London: John Bill, 1619.  Folio (287 x 187 mm). Woodcut device of royal arms on titl...

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Un...

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Much adoe about Nothing. -- Loves Labour's Lost. [Extracted from the Second Folio]. [London: printed by Thomas C...

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Dramatic Works ... revised by George Steevens. London: W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing-Office, for J...

SOPHOCLES (ca 496-406 B.C.). Tragoediae Septem. Una cum omnibus Graecis scholiis, in Greek. Commentary by Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574). [Geneva]...

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Cannery Row. New York: Viking Press, 1945.  8vo. Original publisher 's blue-lettered buff cloth, top edge stained blu...

STERNE, Laurence (1713-1768). A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1768.  2 volumes, 16mo (144 x 9...

SUCKLING, John, Sir (1609-1642). Fragmenta aurea. A Collection of All the Incomparable Peeces... London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1646.  8vo (180 x 1...

TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. The Annales...The Description of Germanie. --  The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Foure Bookes of the Histories o...

TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). Penrod. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914.8vo. Original publisher 's pictorial blue cloth; ori...

TASSO, Torquato (1544-1595).   La Gerusalemme liberata. Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1617.  3 parts in one volume, small 4to (284 x 197 mm). 2 engraved...

TASSO, Torquato (1544-95). Opere di Torquato Tasso. Florence: Tartini e Franchi, 1724.6 volumes, 4to (297 x 205 mm). Engraved folding portrait fro...

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