![Relation de la cour de Savoye [bound with] Portraict de Mademoiselle D. L. V.|. ANON and,...](/pictures/thumb/202.jpg?v=1643632889)
Fribourg and Paris: Pierre Metsker, 1667-1670.
I. [ANON] [Christine de France] RELATION | DE | La Cour de Savoye | OU | LES AMOURS | DE | MADAME ROYALE. | [Woodcut ornament of a squirrel] A PARIS. 1667.
Bound with:
II. [ANON] [DE LA VALLIÈRE, Louise] LE PORTRAICT.....
London: John Gain, 1687.
Only edition. Richard Franck, a captain in Cromwell's army during the Battle of Dunbar and other Scots campaigns, lived for a few years in America in the 1680s, during which time he composed his Philosophical Treatise, a strange, euphuistic meditation on God, Mosaic Creation, and the.....
![Edict]. Henry IV of France](/pictures/thumb/236.jpg?v=1652576549)
? ? 1607.
Only known copy of an unrecorded edict, printed on vellum, abolishing the office of the Vice Chancellor and Keeper of the Privy Seal of Navarre, as ordered by Henry IV in April 1607, and approbated by Jean Pancheure, sieur of Lamberdière and secretary to the King. The.....
Caen: Jean Briard, 1678.
The only known copy of a compelling illustrated Caen almanac, published by the little-known printer Jean Briard. No other almanacs are known from this series, though Briard printed an unrelated almanac the year prior. Authorship of our almanac is vague: Hermitte solitaire could be the sobriquet.....
London: J. Legat and J. Okes, 1639.
A fine pairing of first editions of the English scientist and husbandman Gabriel Plattes's first two books: A Discovery of Infinite Treasure, a pioneering work on idealized solutions to agriculture problems, and A Discovery of Subterraneall Treasure, one of the first major works.....
Wittenberg: Joannes Berger, 1661.
First edition of the pioneering German zoologist and rector at University of Wittenberg Joannes Sperling's posthumous treatise on the characteristics and properties of fruits and tree nuts, as well as their medical and gastronomic uses. Sperling discusses lemons and limes, apples, citrons, hazelnuts and chestnuts, figs.....
London: Thomas James, 1695-1700.
A fine exemplar of the last seventeenth-century (or first eighteenth-century) edition of the best-known and most enduring of all thumb bibles, The Water-Poet John Taylor's Verbum Sempiternum (or The Everlasting Word), a Protestant-leaning verse epitome of selections from the Old and New Testaments, with brief morning.....