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Lot 458
* A continental majolica charger, 19th century, painted in colours with an interior scene of a lady giving birth, framed by a band of classical figures and a further broader band of numerous putti, with two inscriptions reading 'Ognor virtu val se ver pigne e arte da giove elseme de lucina e marte' and 'Quel' chipitura chiaro vi dimostra nasi divoi per fior deletta nostra', the underside painted with a wreath and scrolling patterns, 42.5cm diameter, (restored)
Lot 159
* Canaries. Isole Canarie possedutte da S. M. Cattolica ..., n.d., c. 1690, uncol. eng. map of Madeira and the Canary Islands, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, ornamental title cartouche, separate scale of distance, inset plan of the town of Funchal, closed tear to foot of centrefold (without loss), with printed text in Italisan to verso, approx. 460 x 620 mm (1)
Lot 269
L'Assiette au Beurre, forty-five orig. issues, 1901-1911, col. litho. and b & w illusts. to each throughout, after Steinlen, Hermann Paul, M. Radiguet, Villemot, Poulbot, Louis Morin, D'Ostoya, Leon Georges, Galanis, Delannoy, Florane, Leal da Camara, Gris, etc., together with twenty-two orig. issues of Le Rire, Journal Humoristique, 1900-1901, col. and b & w illusts. to each after Metivet, Faivre, Willette, Leandre, etc., some wear to spines (generally in good cond.), slim folio (67)
Lot 344
Da Vinci (Leonardo). A Treatise of Painting... to which is prefix'd, the Author's Life... , London, printed for J. Senex, 1721, port. frontis., two folding eng. plts. (numbered Tab.1 & 2) and thirty-three eng. plts. numbered 1-33, some folding, contemp. panelled calf, some wear to spine, upper cover almost detached, 8vo. (1)
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A 19TH CENTURY GRAND TOUR ALBUM OR SCRAP BOOK - the work contains ten main gouaches, themes including 'Grotto of Pozzuoli at Naples', Bay with wandering figures; Eruption of Vesuvius 1839; FIgures in a an underwater cave; 'Napoli dal Campo', Napoli dal Carmin'; 'Napoli da Mare'; 'Castello Mare'; 'Golfo di Baja'; and one further view of the bay, the gouaches mainly approx. 8" x 12" or 12" x 8" (Grotto of Pozzuoli). Also included are a quantity of hand-coloured engravings and lithographs including: panoramic view of Milan (7 1/2" x 19 3/4"); frescoes from Pompei; temples; forums; views of Herculaneum; costume designs; horse racing during the Carnival of Rome; Swiss Guards at the Vatican etc., together with further examples relating to Germany, Venice and Prague, varying sizes from approx. 5" x 4" to 8" x 12" (see illustration).
Lot 523
Bible. Italian. La Sacra Bibbia, tradotta in lingua Italiana, e commentata da Giovanni Diodati. Seconda Editione, migliorata, ed accresciuta. Con laggiunta deSacri Salmi, messi in rime per lo medesimo, Stampata in Geneva per Pietro Chou‘t, 1641, additional engraved title-page dated 1640, woodcut device on the printed title-page, integral blank Aaaab present, some light soiling and staining, but generally in good state, in an early 19th century English full calf binding, spine gilt, a little rubbed, joints cracked, a.e.g., folio. The second edition of Diodatis Bible, revised, and with the commentary enlarged. First published in 1607, Diodatis version, in its modern form, remains the official Bible of Italian Protestants. D. and M. 5600. (1)
Lot 652
Lamy (Bernard). Elemens des Mathematiques, ou Traite de la Grandeur en General, qui Comprend lArithmetique, lAlgebre, lAnalyse, et les Principes de Toutes les Sciences qui ont la Grandeur pour objet, 8th ed, Paris, 1741, folding eng. table, contemp. sheep, gilt dec. spine, joints cracked and slight wear, 12mo, together with Martino (Pietro di), Nuove Istituzioni di Aritmetica Practica Composte da Pietro di Martino..., Naples, 1758, occ. scattered spotting, contemp. vellum, marked and slight wear, 8vo, with Brunacci (Vincenzo), Analisi Derivata Ossia LAnalisi Matematica Dedotta da un sol Principie di Considerare le Quantita..., Pavia, 1802, ink stamp to title, contemp. half sheep gilt, paper library label to spine, slight wear at head of spine, 4to (3)
Lot 82
Zuallart (Jean). Il Devotissimo Viaggio di Gerusalemme. Fatto, & Descritto in sei Libri dal Sigr. Giouanni Zuallardo... Aggiontoui i Dissegni di varii luoghi di Terra Santa: & altri paesi. Intagliati da Natale Bonifacio Dalmata..., Per F. Zanetti & Gia. Ruffinelli, Rome, 1587, [12],402,[10]pp., lacks title and all before b1, eng. port. and eng. illusts. and maps to text, some closed tear and fraying, few leaves detached, light dust soiling, minor marks and occ. worming, disbound 4to. Adams Z190. (1)
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Follower of Moretto da Brescia 1498-1554- Five standing Saints with Angels above; pen and brown ink and wash on laid, 26x16cm: together with two other Old Master drawings by different hands, one arched depicting an elderly man with a boy and the other a sketch for a battle scene, one bearing inscription, (3), (unframed)
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A rare and unpublished diary of Rear Admiral G.N. TOMLIN covering his time as Commander of the Allied Squadron in support of the White Army in 1918, and his earlier fine log - HMS ANSON 1890-91, HMS TAMAR and HMS RALEIGH 1891-93 by G.N. Tomlin Naval Cadet and Midshipman (later Rear Admiral), this log contains nautical and navigational details with remarks and observations and includes 27 pen and colour wash maps, 5 watercolours of ships, 1 of Gibraltar, 1 of St Helena, 1 of Tristan da Cunha and 10 schematic drawings of torpedo, steering etc, a further Journal - HMS RALEIGH 1893-1894 with illustrated title page, watercolour scenes of the following - Natal Bluff, Fort St. Sebastian Mozambique, Zanzibar, Grave Island, Landing Place at Mozambique, Simons Town, Tristan da Cunha, Ascension, The Settlement at Tristan da Cunha, 9 maps and three schematic drawings, steering, Nordenfeldt Gun and 6inch gun, notes on the Naval Blockade by Rear Admiral Tomlin 1914-18 and his personal diary for 1918 as Commander of the Allied Sqadron in support of the White Russians detailing many important . (4)
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Attributed to Tommaso Redi, Italian 1665-1726- Christ on the cross with the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene; lead point/graphite on paper, possibly after Raffaello da Urbino 1483-1520,36.5x23cm: with separate inscription in ink by a different hand "Di Mano Di Tommaso Redi Da Raffaello Da Urbino", attributed to the collector and art historian Francesco Gabbari 1676-1742. Note: Tommaso Redi was a late Baroque painter apprenticed to the Florentine painter Anton Domenico Gabbiani 1652-1725, who also studied in Rome at the studios of Carlo Maratti, 1625-1713 and Carlo Ferri 1634-1689, before returning to Florence to paint in the Palazzo Pitti.
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FRAGMENT OF A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF VITRUVIUS.The lot comprises eight sheets of paper of varying sizes containing fragments of an illustrated Italian translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture. Both the drawings and the writings are in the same brown ink, and appear to be by a single hand, mid sixteenth-century in character. Part of a watermark on Fragment 2 appears to be an anchor in a circle with a six-pointed star, a very common type in Italy throughout the sixteenth century. There is no other watermark evidence. Shreds of paper and glue stains towards the corners and edges of several fragments (such as 1r and 8v) indicate that after cutting down they were laid down in an album. Frag. 1 appears to retain the full width of the original page (c. 275 mm), while the height can be estimated from frag. 6 and frag. 7 to be about 400 mm (see below).Vitruvius' Ten Books, written c. 30-20 B.C. is the only substantive classical text on architecture, and became of critical importance in the Italian Renaissance when architects strove to revive architecture all'antica. This was not an easy task since Vitruvius looked to Greece for many of his exemplars and used many Greek architectural terms, which were not always applicable when understanding Roman ruins, as became apparent with the publication of the first illustrated edition by Fra Giovanni Giocondo of Verona in 1511. Giocondo's humanist scholarship is impeccable and his interpretation of Vitruvius' temple types follows the text to the letter, and yet the result for the in antis temple is nothing like the reality we know from the physical evidence. Already by 1520, the manuscript translation, prepared by the humanist Fabio Calvo for Raphael, included a plan correctly interpreting the in antis temple, and others appear in the drawings by Giovanni Battista da Sangallo added to a 1486 first edition of Vitruvius around 1530. Had the great project outlined in the famous letter of 1542 by Agostino de'Landi for a Vitruvian Academy to prepare a multi-volume critical edition, translation and commentary of the Ten Books been realised, Giocondo's errors may have been exposed sooner. However, the fact that his interpretations were followed in the great Italian translation and commentary of Daniele Barbaro of 1556, with illustrations by Andrea Palladio, ensured that they became virtually canonical until the eighteenth century.The present fragments all belong to the first three books of Vitruvius, and the drawings of the in antis temple are similar to those in Giocondo and Barbaro, although it is not clear if our fragments pre- or post-date the latter. That the artist was translating from the Giocondo edition or one of its successors is confirmed by the tree labeled 'suera' on frag. 5r, since it is the cork oak or quercus suber, which does not occur in printed editions earlier than 1511.Of particular interest are the views of Alexandria and Athens on frags 2v and 4v, both clearly modelled on ancient Rome, with buildings like the Colosseum and the Pantheon figuring in each. What at first sight appears to be the Castel S. Angelo on frag. 2v is probably intended to represent the Pharos at the harbour of Alexandria. The many apparent obelisks in the surrounding countryside are really pyramids. The artist certainly seems to have had direct knowledge of Rome, judging from the views of the in antis and prostyle temples in frags 6r and 7r. Vitruvius gives as his exemplar of a prostyle temple one dedicated to Jupiter and Faunus on the Tiber Island. Our artist labels the in antis 'Fauno' and the prostyle 'Giove' and among the buildings in the background are recognizable the two bridges to the island, the Ponte Cestio and the Ponte Fabricio.Of the seven temple types described in Vitruvius Bk. 2, chap. 3, four are represented here. Because the text for the prostyle temple appears on frag. 6r and the drawings on frag. 7r, while the drawings and text of the peripteral temple extend across frags 6v and 7v, we can be confident that the fragments originally formed part of the same folio. Equally, the absence of drawings of the amphiprostyle and pseudodipteral temples (for which the texts are at the bottom of frags 7r and 7v respectively) allows us to infer that the lower part of the folio is missing, while the last temple type, the hypaethral, would probably have been below the present frag. 8r.One feature of the style of architectural representation to which attention should be drawn is the use of perspective in the plans on frag. 6r and frag. 8v. Baldassare Peruzzi (who is said to have begun a commentary on Vitruvius himself) had experimented with perspectival plans in his project drawings for New St Peter's and his pupil, Sebastiano Serlio, gives instructions for constructing them in his Second Book: On Perspective, published in 1545. Another associate of Peruzzi, Antonio Labacco, makes use of them in his Libro appartenente all'architettura of 1552, before orthogonal plans became normative. It is possible, therefore that the artist may belong to the circle of Peruzzi, although there is nothing to prove a direct connection.We are grateful to Ian Campbell, Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Edinburgh College of Art for the research and catalogue entry of the above lot.
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Platina (Bartolomeo de Sacchi). Le vite di Tutti i Pontefici da S. Piero in qua, Ridotte in Epitome da Tomaso Costo Napoletano, & Accademico Fiorentino, Secondo la Descrizzione del Platina Corretta dal Panvinio..., Appresso Bernardo Basa, & Barezzo Barezzi, Venice, 1692, pp.[40],320, woodcut device to title, numerous woodcut port. illusts., 19th c. panelled sheep, boards near detached, rubbed, 8vo, Breviary, Breviarium Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis a Mendis Exacte Repurgatum, pub. George Lombart, Paris, 1600, title with hand-col. woodcut armorial, woodcut illust. and full-page woodcut illust. to final leaf, text printed in red & black throughout, 8pp. early manuscript notes bound-in at front and 25pp. manuscript notes at rear, contemp. blind stamped calf, recased, 8vo (2)
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Spanish peninsula war Memorandum of peninsula war, war in Southern France, and home leave covering the period 13 October 1812 - July 1814, 4to, c.180 leaves including hand-coloured manuscript plan of Busacco (1810, copied from Elliot's Portugal) and of the ground at San Munos 17 Nov. 1812, a few leaves frayed or nibbled at edge with slight loss of text, occasional light spotting or dust-soiling, loose in a worn portfolio Note: Detailed memoranda of the campaign in northern Spain and southern France headed Meimento, battle of Busaco, Miranda da douro, Barrioplano, Mt Estevan, Echalar, St, Jean de Luz and Bordeaux.
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German theology--Brunner, Johannes Rudimenta hebraicae linguae. Freiburg, 1585, 4to, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, clasps; [Rosa da Sta. Maria] Kurtzer Begriff dess wunderbarlichen Lebens, vilwerthen Todts der seligen Schwester Rosae von S. Maria. Augsburg: S. Buschneider, 1670, 12mo, contemporary vellum, spine worn; Caulet, F. de Tractatus generalis de regalia, 1689, 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt, head of spine slightly rubbed; Segneri, Paolo Homo christianus in sua lege institutus. Augsburg & Dilingen, 1702, 3 volumes in one, 4to, contemporary blindstamped vellum over wooden boards, clasps, browning; Blochinger, F. Puteus aquarum viventium. Cologne: J. Widenfelds, 1696, 4to, engraved title, contemporary vellum, library stamps; Ibid. Geistliche Stein-Grub, Cologne: J. Weidenfeldt, 1690, 4to, engraved frontispiece (laid down), contemporary vellum, library stamps; Thauler, J. Sermones. Cologne: A. Quentel, 1695, 4to, contemporary vellum, browned; Leigh, E. Critica sacra. Frankfurt & Leipzig: A. Boetius, 1696, 2 volumes in one, 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporary vellum; Origen. Dialogus contra Marcionitas. Basle: J. Bertschius, 1673, 4to, contemporary vellum; Puente, L. Dux spiritualis. Cologne: J. Kinckius, 1613, 8vo, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards; Machiavelli, N. Princeps. Frankfurt: L. Zetzner, 1622; [Languet, H.] Vindicae contra tyrannos. Frankfurt: L. Zetzner, 1622, 2 works in one volume, contemporary vellum, first work wormed with loss, mainly to index, both slightly browned; and other seventeenth-century German theology; sold not subject to return (quantity) Provenance: Many with bookplate or stamp of the Bibliotheka Monasterii Einsidlensis
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Hermes Trismegistus Mercurii Trismegisti poemander, seu de potestate ac sapientia divina. Paris: Adr. Turnbebus, 1554, small 4to, 2 parts in one volume, Greek and Latin title and text, the Greek edited by P. Angelio da Barga, woodcut initials and ornaments, part 2 with final blank, seventeenth century calf, slightly spotted, some light dampstaining to lower margin at beginning, once rebacked and recornerned, rubbed, lower cover detached Note: The name Pimander is derived from the Egyptian P-eime nte-re, the knowledge [or understanding] of Re, rendered into Greek as the intelligence of the supreme power. It was the name given to the first fourteen treatises of the Corpus Hermeticum, after the name of the first treatise. This new corpus of Greek texts arrived in Florence in about 1463 where they were studied by Ficino and from which he found a link between Plato and the Old Testament. Ficino's Latin translation was first published in Treviso in 1471; Adams M346, cf. Caillet 5094.
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Italian works--Terentius Afer, Publius Il Terentio latino, comentato in lingua Toscana. Venice: V. Valgrisi, 1558, 8vo, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, eighteenth century vellum, bookplates of J.F. Betts and Robert Weiss, [Adams T351], small dampstain on title; Anselmo, Giorgio Epigrammaton libri septem. [no place or date, ? Venice, c.1545]; and Palaphaetus. Palefato opra bellissima, quale narra le historie. Venice: Bartolomeo detto l'Imperatore & Francesco Venetiano, 1545, 12mo, woodcut device on title, 12mo, 2 works in one volume, modern vellum, title laid down, blank corner of a1 torn away; Dion Cassius Delle guerre romane libri XXII. Venice: G. de Farri & fratelli, 1542, small 8vo, woodcut on title, later vellum, [Adams D512], very slight worming to last few leaves; [St Catherine of Sienna] Dialogo della serafica vergine, et sposa di Christo, S. Catherina da Sienna. Venice: D. Farris, 1579, 8vo, woodcut on title, later calf-backed boards, [not in Adams], dampstained at beginning and end; Saachi, Bartholomaeus, de Platina Le vite de pontifici. Venice: A. Bortoli, 1703, 4to, original boards, pp.467-482 never bound in, worn; Cassiano, Johannes Opera. Venice, 1563, 4to, woodcut device on title, original vellum, [not in Adams], early marginalia, name deleted from title creating hole, repaired on verso, some worming to last few gatherings, dampstaining mainly marginal; Kempis, T.a De imitatione Christi. Venice: F. ex N. Pezzana, 1773, 12mo, contemporary calf, rubbed; Bembo, Pietro Lettere di M. Pietro Bembo a sommi pontefici et a cardinali. Venice, 1542, 8vo, drop-head title, later parchment, occasional damp-staining; Piccolomini, Alessandro L'instrumento de la filosofia. Rome: V. Valgrisi, 1552, 12mo, woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf, [not in Adams], nineteenth-century morocco-backed cloth; Chifletius, P. Sacro sancti et oecumenici concili Tridentini. Lucca: F. Banelli, 1702, 12mo, woodcut title, laid down, contemporary vellum, a few headlines cropped; [Librorum prohibitorum] Index librorum prohibitorum... Pii Sexti. Rome: Camerae Apostolicae, 1786, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, woodcut on title, vellum, worn, lacking spine; Bernard, of Clairvaux Querela sive dialogus anime et corporis damnati. Rome: J. Russinelli, 1587, 12mo, woodcuts, contemporary blindstamped vellum, [not in Adams], a few early annotations; and 10 other Italian books, mostly seventeenth century, one defective; sold not subject to return (23)
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Portuguese astronomy Diaologo epistolar sobre el cometa apparecido em Lamego a 7 de abril observado ate o dia 9 de 1766. St. Helena, illustration of a comet on title, small folio, manuscript, 8 leaves original marbled wrappers, worn Note: Manuscript report by two brothers Joao and Joze de Souza y Araujo de Borges da Veiga, recording their observations of a comet over St. Helena from 7-9 April 1766, addressed to the Rev. Padre Maestro Mel da Mae de Deus. The authors quote not only the classics but also the modern astronomers David Gregory, Dominic Cassini, Wilhelm Homberg, Kepler, Hevelius, Gassendi and Newton.
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Attributed to Marco Pino, called Marco da Siena (Italian, circa1525-1588) The Angels of the Last Judgement sending the Righteous to Paradise and the Damned to Hell, bears old attribution in black ink lower left to Veronese, pen and brown ink and wash, over traces of black chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper, made up upper right, 34 x 52ccm. Provenance: Parsons and Sons (L.2881) William Esdaile Esq (according to an old inscription on the mount) Although this scene does not connect with any known by Marco Pino, the figures and tumbling angels are very close to those found in his altarpieces in the church of Santi Severino e Sossio, Naples (see E Borea, Grazia e Furia in Marco Pino in Paragone, No.151, July 1962, pp.24-52, figs.26-29)
Lot 1
INDIAN COINS, Ancient Coinage, Avanti Janapada, western Madhya Pradesh (c.300 BC), Silver ½-Karshapana (13), different types with taurine, Brahmi da and geometrical symbols, two coins stuck together and one with a copper core (Rajgor series 23-25); Saurashtra Janapada (c.300-450 BC), Silver ¼-Karshapana (6), different types with seated Laxmi, bull, tree, mountain elephant and Srivatsa (Rajgor series 18). Very fine and scarce. (19)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1690, Venice Reconquers Napoli di Malvasia from the Turks, Silver Medal, by Philipp Heinrich Müller, Hercules stands over the slain dragon and reaches for the golden apple, rev Venetian galleys sail into the port, one firing cannon, NEAPOLIS MALVASIÆ, and in exergue, VLTRA SESQVI SECVLVM …, lettered edge (by Friedrich Kleinert), with chronogrammatic legend, VT IVSTIS …, 44mm (Volt 1085; Ser 134, this piece, MH 93). Good very fine and extremely rare. Napoli di Malvasia (Monemvasia) is a fortress at the Southernmost tip of the Peloponnese. Francesco Morosini had first tried to recapture the fortress in 1687, but it finally fell in 1690, under the command of Girolamo Corner, Provveditore Generale da Mar. ex Serenissima Collection, Part II, 8 November 2002, lot 134
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Coin-related BOOKS, Histories, European colonisation: Bucknill, J, The Coins of the Dutch East Indies; Cottineau de Kloguen, DL, An Historical Sketch of Goa, New Delhi 1988; Desai, T, The East India Company, a Brief Survey from 1599-1857, New Delhi 1984; Gerson da Cunha, Contributions to the Study of Indo-Portuguese Numismatics; Jensen, UB, Danish East India, Trade Coins and the Coins of Tranquebar 1620-1845, Brovst 1997; Major, RH, India in the 15th Century; Prakash, O, The Dutch factories in India 1617-1623, New Delhi 1984; Ray, I, The French East India Company and Trade in the Indian Ocean, New Delhi 1999; Shastri, BS, Studies in Indo-Portuguese History, Bangalore 1981; Whiteway, RS, The Rise of Portuguese Power in India 1497-1550, Patna 1979. (10)
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A Meissen figure of a seamstress circa 1746 modelled by J.F. Eberlein, seated on a green cushion with gilt tassels and wearing a purple bonnet and yellow skirt, sewing on a purple cushion traces of crossed swords mark in blue, 11cm., 4.375in. The figure of a seamstress, tradtionally said to represent the court lacemaker, Barbara Uttmann, is mentioned in Eberlein's records in 1746 as "Hollandisch Bauer-Magdgen, so da sitzet und nehet..." [a Dutch peasant girl who sits and sews]. A similar figure is illustrated by M. Kunze-Kšllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, no.82.
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[Rego, Sebastiao do]. Vida do Veneravel Padre Joseph Vaz, da Congregac, ao do Oratorio de S. Filippe Neri da Cidade de Goa, na India Oriental; Fundador da Laboriosa Missao, que os Congregados desta Casa tem a sua conta na Ilha de Cylao, Lisbon, 1745, half-title, early ms. name to title-page deleted, endpapers dusty, contemp. sheep, sl. rubbed and scuffed, gilt dec. spine, with early ms. shelf label in first compartment and leather label in second, sm. 4to. (1)
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Theresa of Avila (Saint). Les Oeuvres de Sainte Therese, Divisees en Deux Parties, de la Traduction Monsieur Arnauld dAndilly, 2 parts in 1, Paris, 1696, eng. vignette title and full-page eng. portrait of St. Theresa, head-pieces, etc., near-contemp. full calf, rubbed and some wear, joints cracked, 4to, together with Lettere della Santa Madre Teresa di Giesu ... tradotte dalla Lingua Spagnuola nellItaliana da D. Oratio Quaranta, Venice, 2 vols. bound in one, 1729, half-title, title with printer's woodcut device, some minor spotting, contemp. vellum, rubbed and some soiling, 4to. (2)
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