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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
Featured Work First Edition of the Second Impression in Italian. A rare and important issue of Galileo Galilei’s “Dialogo di Galileo Galilei linceo matematico supremo dello studio di padova…” better known as “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.” This...
Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel
Featured Work Rare, Third Edition in German. This “Nuremberg Chronicle” by Hartmann Schedel was published by Hans Schönsperger in Augsburg in 1500. The “Chronicle” was first published in Latin in 1493 by Anton Koberger, and was translated into German by Georg Alt and...
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Featured Work Second Edition of Part I, in two volumes with original foldout map. Published in two parts, the first published in 1835 and the second volume published in 1840. “Democracy in America” was a result of Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont’s 1831-1832 tour...
Citie of God by Augustine of Hippo
Featured Work First Edition in English. This work is Augustine of Hippo’s classic book of Christian philosophy entitled “Citie of God,” translated by John Healey from the Latin version and edited by Ioannes Lodovicus Vives (Juan Luis Vives) with Vives learned...
Defensor Pacis by Marsilius of Padua
Featured Work In Latin, with illustrated title page and initials. This volume is Marsilius of Padua’s “Defensor Pacis,” printed in 1522, first appeared in 1324 and triggered a gale of controversy. It was a foundational work of the modern doctrines of sovereignty....
Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Featured Work First Separate Edition, in Latin. This is Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s most famous work, “Oration on the Dignity of Man,” with two supplementary works by Pico: “Epistola Ioan, Pici ad Ioannem Franciscum nepote epistola, qua eum ad euangelium &...
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Featured Work First Edition. “The Wealth of Nations” is known as one of the world's first and greatest classics on modern economics. Its foundation was constructed from Smith’s “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” and it was a culmination of seventeen years of notes and...
I quindici libri degli elementi di euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana (Elements) by Euclid
Featured Work Second Edition in Italian. The famous mathematical treatise, “I quindici libri degli elementi di euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana,” also known as “Elements” is attributed to Euclid. This volume was published in 1545 and translated by the...
De Consolatio Philosophiae by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Featured Work Illuminated and Rubricated Manuscript on Paper in Latin. This manuscript contains “De Consolatio Philosophiae” with an anonymous commentary on Boethius. It was transcribed in an early humanist hand around 1400-1425 in Northern Italy. The Consolation of...
The Alcoran of Mahomet (Quran)
Featured Work First English Edition. The Quran is the sacred religious text of Islam, entitled here, “The Alcoran of Mahomet.” It was published in 1649 and the translation is attributed to Scottish clergyman Alexander Ross; an additional text included in the volume...
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolai Copernicus
Featured Work Third Edition in Latin with diagrams and tables. This edition was prepared by Nicolaus Mulerius and is the first to contain explanatory notes and source notes to the Greek phrases used by Copernicus as well as the first to contain the biography of...
Historia Scholastica by Peter Comestor
Featured Work Illustrated Manuscript on paper in Latin. Peter Comestor, also known as Peter the Devourer for his insatiable appetite for knowledge, was a twelfth-century French theologian and chancellor at the University of Paris. Completed around 1173, the "Historia...