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(Pepys, Samuel) Wilson, Edward M. and Don W. Cruickshank SAMUEL PEPYS'S SPANISH PLAYS
London The Bibliographical Society 1980 8vo. cloth. (viii), 196 pages.
First edition. A detailed study on the subject with much about printing and the book trade in Seville up to 1700. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 60378

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Pettas, William A. THE GIUNTI OF FLORENCE: A RENAISSANCE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FAMILY.
A History of the Florentine Firm and a Catalogue of the Editions New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 1096 pages
This ambitious project explores in detail the history and output of the Giunti Press in Florence, covering the firm from its beginnings in 1497 to its end in 1625, and providing descriptions of each Giunti book published with extensive indication of the libraries holding copies of each edition. In doing so, it addresses issues of censorship, the development of the Italian language from Florentine dialect, and the larger literature and history of Florence in the late Renaissance.

Printer and publisher Aldus Manutius, founder of Aldine Press, is well known among students of Renaissance Italian literature and history. Less has been published on the Guinti, however, a family whose members established operations over much larger territory than the Aldine press, collectively achieving much greater financial resources and surviving for a longer period of time. Their role in the history of Italian literature was significant and deserves an extensive review. The aim, then, of the present history is to tell the story of this late Renaissance Florentine printer-publisher.

Part I of the book covers all aspects of the Giunti family and the press, the nature of its output, its relationship to the governments of Florence and Tuscany, to social conditions, to the economy, to members of their own family, to their editors, and to the strictures of censorship. Names of Greek authors and editors in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been cited in a transliteration of the Greek rather than the usual Western form, and libraries holding Florentine Giunti editions have been listed by country. The catalogue in Part II provides a basic description of all known editions, as well as some unsigned editions that others have attributed to the Giunti, seeking to identify as many surviving exemplars as possible. In addition, the book provides Giunti images, genealogical tables, a chronological list of editions by language, and a list of works cited.

Dr. William Pettas is a native of Buffalo, NY, and has had a long career in public and academic library administration. His research has focused on the Giunti family of Florence, and he has published extensively on their firms in Florence, Rome, Venice, Lyon, Burgos, Salamanca, and Madrid. In researching this book, he has traveled extensively to libraries with rare book collections in the US, England, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, and Greece.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 105520

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(Philips, Dirk) Keyser, Marja DIRK PHILIPS 1504-1568. A CATALOGUE OF HIS PRINTED WORKS IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF AMSTERDAM. WITH A FOREWORD BY H. DE LA FONTAINE VERWEY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY S.L. VERHEUS.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1975 8vo cloth 168 pages.
Extensive descriptions of 61 works by "the most theological of the Dutch Mennonite leaders of the initial period" (Verheus). With 56 facsimiles.

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Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 103535

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Pineas, Rainer TUDOR AND EARLY STUART ANTI-CATHOLIC DRAMA.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1972 8vo cloth 48 pages.
The purpose of this study is to examine the evolution of religious polemical drama from the Middle Ages to the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.

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Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 103481

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(Pirckheimer, Caritas) Pfanner, Josef (editor) DIE " DENKWÜRDIGKEITEN" DER CARITAS PIRCKHEIMER (AUS DEN JAHREN 1524-1528). TEXTKRITISCH HERAUSGEGEEN VON JOSEF PFANNER.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1962 8vo stiff paper wrappers. xxvi, 163 pages.
Privately printed in a very limited number of copies. With facsimiles. Caritas Pirckheimer (1467-1532) was an Abbess who tried to keep her monastery open in opposition to the reformation forces of Luther. (Quellen-sammlung, 2. Heft.)

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Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 103764

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Pirie, James W. WILLIAM STAFFORD: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2013 6 x 9 inches hardcover with dust jacket 544 pages
William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many awards, Stafford served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award in 1963 for his poetry collection Traveling through the Dark. During his lifetime, Stafford wrote over sixty books of poetry that still resonate with a wide range of readers. Stafford's perspectives on peace, the environment, and education serve as some of the most articulate dialogues by a modern American writer.

James W. Pirie (1913-2002) was the author of Books for Junior College Libraries: A Selected List of Approximately 19,700 Titles (1969) and Typology of Institutions of Higher Education (1974). As the well-respected Director of Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, from 1966 to 1982, Pirie worked closely with his friend and colleague William Stafford to maintain an accurate bibliographic record of Staffords numerous publications. Following James Piries death in 2002, the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections staff expanded and updated Pirie's bibliography for this volume, the only comprehensive bibliography of William Stafford's writings.
Price: $ 79.95 other currencies Order nr. 110070

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Pleij, H. NEDERLANDSE LITERATUUR VAN DE LATE MIDDELEEUWEN.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1990 8vo stiff paper wrappers. 243 pages.
Illustrated.

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Poel, M.G.M. van der DE DECLAMATIO BIJ DE HUMANISTEN. BIJDRAGE TOT DE STUDIE VAN DE FUNCTIES VAN DE RHETORICA IN DE RENAISSANCE.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1987 8vo cloth (x), 395 pages.
With a summary in English. Considerable attention is paid to the Declamation within the tradition of school-education. Consequently the present study is also of great interest for the history of Renaissance education. (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XXXIX).

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(Pope, Alexander) Vander Meulen, David L. POPE'S DUNCIAD OF 1728, A HISTORY AND FACSIMILE.
Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and The New York Public Library 1991 8vo. cloth, paper cover and spine labels. xvii, 174 pages.
A comprehensive account of the composition and production of the first edition of Pope's Dunciad, accompanied by a photofacsimile of a copy recording Pope's original manuscript readings. The appendixes identify hundreds of textual changes Pope introduced in the later 1728 printings and record the names with which pirate printers filled Pope's blanks. Award-winning design by Warren Chappell.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 53823

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(Postel, Guillaume) Secret, François (editor) GUILLAUME POSTEL: APOLOGIES ET RÉTRACTATIONS.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1972 8vo cloth 271 pages.
Manuscrits inédits publiés avec une introduction et des notes. This study, based on unpublished documents, concentrates on the notorious Venetian trial of 1555. Postel (1510-1581) was a author, translator, publisher, and collector. "Édition savante d'ouvrages d'un humaniste illuminé et cabaliste, qui est l'un des grands esprits du XVIe siècle." (Henri Dubief in Bulletin des bibliothèques de France 17, 11, 1972). With facsimiles.

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(Postel, Guillaume) Secret, François (editor) POSTELLIANA.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1981 8vo cloth 366 pages.
Published on the occasion of the quartercentenary of the death of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581). Contains the following hitherto unpublished texts: Traduction du Sefer-ha-Bahir - Apologie à G. Lindan - De la restitution de la vérité démonstrative des temps courants - Aphorismes pour servir d'appendice au De Orbis terrae concordia - De magia orientali - Catastrophes veritatis et victoriae aethernae de praesentis mundi immutatione - Qu'est ce que de l'image de Dieu à laquelle l'homme est crée, formé et faict? - They are preceded by an introduction and followed by an index. ". une contribution de premier plan à la connaissance de Postel (Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 11, 1982). Professor Secret has rendered yet another service to Postel scholarship by this book of transcriptions, since the manuscripts are not easily accessible to many" (Marion Leathers Kuntz in Renaissance Quarterly XXXV,3, 1982). (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XXXIII).

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Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103356

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(Powell, Anthony) Lilley, George ANTHONY POWELL, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
With a foreword by Anthony Powell. New Castle, Delaware and Winchester Oak Knoll Books and St Paul's Bibliographies 1993 8vo. cloth. xviii, 253 pages.
First edition. The fourth volume in the Winchester Bibliographies of Twentieth Century Writers series. Anthony Powell (born 1905) is one of the most distinguished novelists of the 20th century. He is best-known for his twelve-novel sequence, A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (1951-1975), which won critical acclaim from the outset and, as it developed, brought considerable popular success. From 1948 to 1960 his five pre-war novels appeared in new editions, since when his entire fictional oeuvre has remained continuously in print. Powell's position, among the most distinguished members of what has been called "The Brideshead Generation," lends a particular interest to his discussions and reminiscences of contemporaries such as Evelyn Waugh, Orwell and Connolly. Also of interest are his writings on Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald and E.E. Cummings; European masters such as Stendhal, Dostoevsky and Proust; and on English writers of an earlier generation such as Beardsley, Conrad and Kipling. This comprehensive, authorized bibliography aims to cover his entire printed output, beginning with drawings and reviews contributed to school and university magazines. Books written or edited, or with contributions by Powell are fully described and detailed information is given about their publishing history. Powell's many contributions to periodicals, magazines and newspapers are also recorded; as are published interviews, broadcasts, anthology appearances and translations of his books. When Anthony Powell was shown this bibliography he stated "George Lilley has gone about his job impeccably. I am both gratified and impressed." Illustrated.
Price: $ 78.00 other currencies Order nr. 37911

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(Powys, Llewelyn) Foss, Peter J. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LLEWELYN POWYS.
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2007 6.25 x 9.25 inches cloth, dust jacket 308 pages
First edition. The brothers John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys were members of a prolific and influential circle of writers and poets of the early twentieth century. In this, the first comprehensive bibliography of the writings of Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939), Peter Foss not only provides a complete description of every first edition of Llewelyn Powys's books (34 in all), but also describes all other editions and translations. He also gives a full account of the biographical and critical context surrounding the composition of each book, together with lists of reviews and quotations from contemporary sources. As well as the books of Llewelyn Powys, the bibliography also provides a detailed listing of over 600 of his newspaper and periodical contributions, and collates and cross-references this material with other printings in collections and anthologies. Included are illustrations of selected covers, title-pages and dust-jackets. The book provides much new information and will be of invaluable use to scholars, collectors and historians of twentieth-century English literature.
Peter Foss was formerly editor of The Powys Journal and Honorary Secretary of the Powys Society. He is the author of A Study of Llewelyn Powys.
Published in the UK by The British Library.
Price: $ 80.00 other currencies Order nr. 93072

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Puttiger, H.P.M. GEORGIUS MACROPEDIUS' ASOTUS. EEN NEOLATIJNS DRAMA OVER DE VERLOREN ZOON DOOR JORIS VAN LANCKVELT. TEKST MET INLEIDING, VERTALING EN COMMENTAAR.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1988 8vo cloth 280 pages.
With a summary in English. The first of Macropedius' writings is the Asotus (1537), a biblical drama of the Prodigal Son. Numerous passages, derived from Erasmus' adaptation of the Vulgata (1516) prove that the author has revised a first concept (1507-1510) of this drama. (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XLII). With 5 illustrations.

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Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103495

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Quere, Ralph Walter MELANCHTHON'S CHRISTUM COGNOSCERE. CHRIST'S EFFICACIOUS PRESENCE IN THE EUCHARISTIC THEOLOGY OF MELANCHTHON.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1977 8vo cloth (iv), vii, 423 pages.
This study deals with the genesis of Melanchthon's Doctrine of Christ's Efficacious Presence in the Lord`s Supper. (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XXII).

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Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 103562

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(Rhegius, Urbanus) Uhlhorn, Gerhard URBANUS RHEGIUS. LEBEN UND AUSGEWÄHLTE SCHRIFTEN.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1969 8vo cloth. x, 370 pages.
Reprint of the 1861 edition published in Elberfeld. Rhegius (1489-1541) was a promoter of Luther and his movement.

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Price: $ 120.00 other currencies Order nr. 103570

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Rhenanus, Beatus BRIEFWECHSEL. GESAMMELT UND HERAUSGEGEBEN VON ADALBERT HORAWITZ UND KARL HARTFELDER.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1966 8vo cloth xxiv, 700 pages.
Reprint of the 1886 edition published in Leipzig. Contains the texts of 448 letters written- or received by the great Alsatian humanist ( 1485 - 1547). Pp. 592 - 618: Index bibliographicus des Beatus Rhenanus (68 entries). Furthermore texts of 22 inscriptions, 6 poems and 19 epigrams. With portrait.

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Price: $ 245.00 other currencies Order nr. 103422

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ROMAN VAN DEN RIDDERE METTER MOUWEN. OPNIEUW NAAR BEWAARDE BRONNEN UITGEGEVEN. MET EEN LETTERKUNDIGE INLEIDING DOOR M.J.M. DE HAAN EN L. JONGEN EN EMENDATIES DOOR B.C. DAMSTEEGT EN M.J. VAN DER WAL.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1983 22.5x15 cm stiff paper wrappers. 227 pages.
Study in Dutch literature.

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Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 103641

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(Sabatini, Rafael) Knight, Jesse F. and Stephen Darley THE LAST OF THE GREAT SWASHBUCKLERS: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RAFAEL SABATINI.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2010 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 200 pages
A biography and comprehensive bibliography of novelist Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) is being presented here for the first time anywhere. Sabatini is one of the most prolific and widely read novelists of the twentieth century, specializing in making history come alive through his fictional characterizations and his unique ability to use history as a background for fiction. Sabatini, half Italian but living and writing in England, was the master of romantic historical novels and has rightly been called by Jesse Knight "The Last of the Great Swashbucklers." He was so immersed in his writing of historical fiction that he often referred to himself as a "man out of his own time." Not only did he write interesting and well-told stories of romance and adventure, but he inspired movies that were just as popular has his books. Sabatini's three most popular swashbuckling stories, still being read today, are Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, and Scaramouche, and each has been made into at least two movies. No author has better captured the imagination of so many with fiction filled with intrigues, escapes, romantic loves, devilish plots, and sword play.

This new book includes a thirty-page illustrated biography of the life of Sabatini written by the late Jesse F. Knight, who was the foremost expert on his life and works. It also contains a bibliography of the first US and UK editions, as well as other significant editions, of all forty-seven of his books, prepared by Stephen Darley. The bibliography also identifies all of the short story collections that have been published either in the US, the UK, or both. It describes all of the dust jackets, with color photos of many, which are important to collectors and sellers.

Book collectors and all who love Sabatini's fiction will find this book an invaluable guide for determining the accuracy of first edition offerings, for understanding what dust jackets are available, or for developing a library of Sabatini's novels.

Jesse F. Knight was a freelance writer for most of his life and crafted hundreds of short stories and articles. He was the foremost expert on the life and works of Rafael Sabatini, writing countless articles on the author, editing several collections of Sabatini short stories, and serving as president of the Rafael Sabatini Society. After a lifetime spent promoting romanticism, individualism, and all things heroic, he died in 2008 at the age of 62 in Vancouver, Washington.

Stephen Darley has a law degree from George Washington University and owned a real estate development and construction firm from 1972 until his recent retirement. Mr. Darley published a joint article with Jesse Knight on Rafael Sabatini in Firsts Magazine (March 2001), an article on Leslie Turner White in November 2004, and an article on Dale L. Morgan in June 2008. He has written articles on the Revolutionary War for three different historical publications and is currently completing a book on the 1775 expedition to Quebec led by Benedict Arnold. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Peggy.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 102816

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(Schedel, Hartmann) Stauber, Richard DIE SCHEDELSCHE BIBLIOTHEK. EIN BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DER AUSBREITUNG DER ITALIENISCHEN RENAISSANCE, DES DEUTSCHEN HUMANISMUS UND DER MEDIZINISCHEN LITERATUR. HERAUSGEGEBEN VON OTTO HARTIG.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1969 8vo cloth. xvi, 277 pages.
Reprint of the 1908 edition published in Freiburg. Exhaustive bibliographical study about the famous library of the great Nuremberg humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514).

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Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103289

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(Secundus, Janus) Dekker, Alfred M.M. JANUS SECUNDUS (1511-1536). DE TEKSTOVERLEVERING VAN HET TIJDENS ZIJN LEVEN GEPUBLICEERDE WERK. JOANNES SECUNDUS. TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION OF THE WORKS PUBLISHED DURING HIS LIFETIME.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1986 8vo cloth 324 pages.
With a summary in English. This study deals with the works published during Secundus' lifetime, and with the poems on the death of Thomas More that appeared in 1536 shortly after he died. The incentive to carry out the research was the discovery of an unknown manuscript of Secundus' collected poems in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS. Rawl, G.154), used as the printer's copy for the editio princeps of Secundus' poems, posthumously published at Utrecht in 1541. (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XXXVIII). With 15 plates.

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Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103424

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Secundus, Joannes OPERA. NUNC PRIMUM IN LUCEM EDITA.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1968 small 8vo cloth, with gilt vignet and lettering. 164 unnumbered.
Facsimile of the 1541 edition published in Utrecht. Reprint of the first edition of the Collected Works of Joannes (Janus) Secundus (Jan Everaerts, 1511-1536), the great Dutch Latin poet (`Basia`). (Monumenta Humanistica Belgica IV).

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Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103426

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(Shakespeare, William) Evans, G. Blakemore (editor) SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Vol. VI. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK ALLEY OTHELLO and Part ii TEXT OF THE SMOCK ALLEY OTHELLO.
2 volumes bound in 1. Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1980 4to. quarter cloth, paper cover and spine labels. (iv),36; (1) page followed by a 23 page facsimile.
From the Smock Alley Theatre of Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, and collations.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 53840

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(Shakespeare, William) Evans, G. Blakemore (editor) SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, Vol. V. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK ALLEY MACBETH and Part ii TEXT OF THE SMOCK ALLEY MACBETH.
2 volumes. Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1970 4to. stiff paper wrappers enclosed in a slipcase. (vi),36; (2) pages followed by a 21 page facsimile.
From the Smock Alley Theatre of Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, and collations.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 53839

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(Smallegange, Mattheus) Verkruijsse, P.J. .Â MATTHEUS SMALLEGANGE (1624-1710). ZEEUWS HISTORICUS, GENEALOOG EN VERTALER. DESCRIPTIEVE PERSOONSBIBLIOGRAFIE
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1983 8vo cloth. 666 pages.
With a summary in English. This author's bibliography includes 1.075 descriptions of 70 editions, issues and impressions after collation of 560 copies in 161 libraries, archives and private collections. This is followed by the description of manuscripts and archivalia and by a very complete survey of literature. With 109 facsimile plates and illustrations.

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Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103378

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