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LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MURDER, AND FOOTBALL
[JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.]
The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge with all the Processe of the Cessions, Warrantes Supercedias & all that longeth to ony Justyce to make Endytementes of haute Treason petyt Treason Felonyes Appeles Trespas upon Statutes, Trespas contra Regis Pacem Nocumentis with dyvers Thynges more as it appereth in the Kalender of the same Boke.
[Colophon: London, Richard Pynson], [1505–6?].
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MASTERPIECES OF HIGH RENAISSANCE LOMBARD ILLUMINATION MASTER B.F. Three very large historiated initials cut from a set of choirbooks.
Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.
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SAFAVID QUR’AN HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY A QAJAR SCHOLAR QUR’AN. Qur’an.
Persia (probably Shiraz), sixteenth century, c. AD 1600 and c. AD 1850.
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BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS [LOO, Pieter van, attributed.] 156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
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KARL POPPER'S 'CONJECTURING AND REFUTING':
THE PHILOSOPHER'S CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS, AND REWORK
POPPER, Karl.
A substantial archive of books and associated working papers from one of the most important philosophers of modernity; from the archive of his assistant, Dr Ivan Slade.
London et al., 1960s–1970s.
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THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT EUROPEAN STUDY OF CHINA
TRANSLATED AT HAKLUYT'S REQUEST
GONZÁLES DE MENDOZA, Juan, and Robert PARKE, translator.
The Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome of China, and the Situation thereof: togither with the great Riches, huge Citties, politike Governement, and rare Inventions in the same. Translated out of Spanish by R. Parke.
London, Printed by J. Wolfe for Edward White, 1588 [or 1589].
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THE LAST JUDGEMENT [GRADUAL.] Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from a Gradual.
Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.
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HOMILETIC WORK
ANNOTATED BY MACHIAVELLI'S LAST CONFESSOR
ANTONIUS de Vercellis.
Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei excellentiis [with additions by Ludovicus Brognolo].
Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, [for Alexander Calcedonius], 16 February 1492/93.
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‘A POLITICAL THINKER OF THE HIGHEST CALIBRE’ AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona]. Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.
Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.
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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
[HAMILTON, Alexander, James MADISON, and John JAY].
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays written in Favor of the new Constitution, as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 …
New York: Printed and sold by John and Andrew M’Lean … 1788.