auctore Petro Bizaro sentinate. First edition. "The first 11 books recount the history up to 1578; book 12, with a historico-cultural focus,... Show moreauctore Petro Bizaro sentinate. First edition. "The first 11 books recount the history up to 1578; book 12, with a historico-cultural focus, contains excerpts from classical authors on ancient Persia" (cf. Fueter). Bound with the first edition of Pontus de Heuter's history of Burgundy in the late Middle Ages. - Some brownstaining throughout. Bound around 1618 by the Stuttgart master M.S. for Duke Ludwig Friedrich von Württemberg (1586-1631) with his arms and those of his wife Elisabeth Magdalena von Hessen-Darmstadt (Haebler I, 423 I & 424 III). Later in the library of the Princes' School in Grimma; then transferred and ultimately deaccessioned from the library of the Dept. of Cultural and Universal History at Leipzig University. Title page printer's device. Initials. Side-notes. Dedicated to Augustus I, Duke of Saxony, with his arms, t.p. verso and on covers. Errata included (last leaf recto). Includes index. Signatures: [dagger]⁶A-Za-p⁶q⁴r⁶. Main Heritage Shelves General DS272 .B59 1583 Book Item-ID: i16598763 BIB-ID: 1494597 Rerum Burgundicarum libri sex / auctore Ponto Hevtero Delfio. Antverpiæ : Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, MDLXXXIIII [1584] Show less
Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS109 .C66 1619
auctore Ioanne Cotovico. Includes two title pages, the first one with a engraved view of Jerusalem and the second with a lion and the catchphrase ... Show moreauctore Ioanne Cotovico. Includes two title pages, the first one with a engraved view of Jerusalem and the second with a lion and the catchphrase "Uis consili expers mole ruit sua" Numerous engraved illustrations maps and lans throughout. Includes Index. The "Synopsis Reipublicæ Venetȩ" is in tabular form on 5 folded plates intented to be inserted after p. [520] (cf. catchword, p. [519]. Based on Gaspare Contarini's De magistratibus & Republica Venetorum; cf. BL, C237. Main Heritage Shelves General DS109 .C66 1619 Book Item-ID: i21470601 BIB-ID: 1887566 Ex-Libris stamp on pastedown "Dampierre", belonging to the Bibliothèque des ducs de Luynes, Chateau Dâmpierre. Handwritten note on the first title page: "Johannes Eduardns" Show less
De nonnullis orientalium urbibus / A Gabr. Sionita (p. 3-112) -- Itinerario Hierosolymitano et syriaco / ex Iohannis Cotovici (p. 113-257) --... Show moreDe nonnullis orientalium urbibus / A Gabr. Sionita (p. 3-112) -- Itinerario Hierosolymitano et syriaco / ex Iohannis Cotovici (p. 113-257) -- Historia Arabum / Wolfang Drechsleri (p.259-297) First edition of the collection. Contains: 1. Sionita & Hesronita. De nonnullis orientalibus urbium. "This important work contains early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca, and Aleppo" (Blackmer). 2. "De moribus atque institutis Turcarum" by the French diplomat C. Richier. 3. W. Drechsler's "Historia Arabum". - From the library of the Vorarlberg lawyer Dr. Karl J. Steger. Waterstaining throughout. Engraved t.p. Title on added t.p.: De nonnullis orientalium urbibus, necnon indigenarum religione ac moribus, tractatus brevis. A Gabr. Sionita ... ac Joanne Hesronita ... Running title: Vrbes et mores Orientalium. Numbers 270-279 omitted in pagination. Written by Gabriel Sionita, Joannes Hesronita, C. Richerius, J. Cotovicus, and others. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .A73 1633 Book Item-ID: i10058102 BIB-ID: 1510974 Show less
Islam, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS206 .A73 1635, 459 Ar11
De nonnvllis orientalivm vrbibvs, necnon indigenarum religione ac moribus, tractatus brevis. A Gabr. Sionita ... ac Joanne Hesronita.--De moribus... Show moreDe nonnvllis orientalivm vrbibvs, necnon indigenarum religione ac moribus, tractatus brevis. A Gabr. Sionita ... ac Joanne Hesronita.--De moribus atque institutis Tvrcarvm Arabvm, aliarumque, quæ Mahumedem sequuntur, gentium. Operâ & studio Christophori Richerii.--Ex Joannis Cotovici Vltraiectini Itinerario hierosolymitano et syriaco, de sacris, ritibus, moribus & institutis Mahometæorum, excerpta.--Excerpta ex Lvdovici Godofredi Archontologia cosmica.--Arabiæ topographia & alia, ex Adriani Romani Theatro vrbium excerpta.--Wolfangi Drechsleri Historia Arabvm.--Appendix sive Excerpta ex Muhammedis Alfergani Astronomicis ... Accedunt præaterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur. Engraved t.p. Running title: Vrbes et mores orientalivm. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .A73 1635 Book Item-ID: i15534881 BIB-ID: 1007445 Show less
auctore Petro Bizaro. Second edition (first printed in 1583). Important collection of previously published works about Persia, including the travels... Show moreauctore Petro Bizaro. Second edition (first printed in 1583). Important collection of previously published works about Persia, including the travels of the Venetians Giuseppe Barbaro (1436) and Ambrogio Contarini (1473), "together with several other tracts relating to the Turks, including works by Callimachus, Minadoi, [etc.]" (Sotheby's, Atabey sale, no. 117). - Somewhat browned due to paper, otherwise very clean. Binding rather rubbed; edges and corners bumped. Old bibliographic note on endpaper; bookplate of Eivind Hassler (1939-2009) on front pastedown. Includes Index Main Heritage Shelves General DS272 .B59 1601 Book Item-ID: i16598775 BIB-ID: 1494598 Show less
