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PICA ROMAN TYPE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND.
Ferguson, W. Craig
First edition. An important study of the differences among letter forms used by Elizabethan printers. Covers the period from 1550, when punch-cutters first arrived in England, to 1610, when new Dutch faces started to flood the market. Well-illustrated, with 171 plates of original text pages.
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THE EARLIEST DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS ON AMERICA, THE PAPAL B...
by Gottschalk, Paul
172 copies printed of which 150 are for sale. This volume is an examination and translation of the Bulls of Pope Alexander VI issued in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They are the earliest documents relating to the diplomatic history of America. With a preface, an historical introduction, an examination of the papal bulls, and a discussion of international and maritime law and colonization. Latin text with English translations. 130 black-and-white plates of documents and registers and maps dispersed throughout. With a bibliographical list and a selected list of maps. Soiling to vellum. Cloth curled away from vellum slightly on front cover, corners bumped with minor wear to extremities.

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