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JOHANNES NIDER
Consolatorium timorate conscientie
A charming example of this VERY RARE post-incunable edition, preserved in lovely monastic binding of blind-tooled calf with a clasp, formerly in possession of the famous Buxheim Carthusian monastery.
Cologne (Köln): Cornelius von Zierickzee, 20 March 1506.
[Early Medieval Manuscripts] [Paleography - Carolingian minuscule] [Roman Catholic Church -Theology] [Early Christianity] [Christian Mysticism] [Philosophy - Neoplatonism] [Demonology]
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
(St. Augustine)
DE CIVITATE DEI
[Lib. VIII, Cap. xv-xvi]
(Partial leaf from a manuscript on vellum.)
France, likely Tours, 2nd half of 9th century (i.e. 850-900 AD).
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[Exploration & Travel - South America- Brazil] [Early Illustrated Books]
Jean de Léry
Historia navigationis in Brasiliam,
qae et America Dicitur
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[ [Newtoniana] [Ancient History - Egypt; Babylon; Greece] [Chronicles] [Astronomy] [Chronology]
ISAAC NEWTON
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.
To Which is Prefix'd, a Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe,
to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.
London, for J. Tonson, J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1728.
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