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Patin, Charles (1633-1693)5
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Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-17054
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Pauli Hentzneri, JC. Itinerarium Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae : Huic libro accessére novâ hâc editione : I. Monita peregrinatoria duorum doctissimorum virorum : itemq[ue], II. incerti auctoris Epitome praecognitorum historicorum, antehac non edita

Hentzner, Paul (1558-1623); Gruber, Daniel; Plotius, Hugo

1629

Title page in red and black. "Dn. Danielis Gruberi Discursus de peregrinatione studiosorum": p. [47]-[102] at end; "Tabula peregrinationis continens capita politica per D. Hugonem Plotium...": p. [1...

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Cl. viri Io. Papirii Massonis, Elogiorum

Masson, Jean-Papire (1544-1611); Balesdens, Jean (1675); Thou, Jacques Auguste de (1553-1617)

1656

Head and tail pieces, initials.

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Les estats empires, royaumes, et principautez du monde : representez par l'ordre, & veritable description des pays, mœurs des peuples... : illustré de l'institution de toutes les religions ... Avec la noble et celebre origine de tous les ordres militaires & de chevalerie de toute la Chrestienté

Montmartin, Pierre d'Avity sieur de (1573-1635)

1665

First published: Les estats, empires, et principautez du monde. Paris, 1613. Page 754 misnumbered 457. Title vignette: dragon amidst fire surrounded by a historiated border. Pages 200-234: L'est...

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Voyage d'Espagne : contenant entre plusieurs particularitez de ce royaume, trois discours politiques sur les affaires du Protecteur d'Angleterre, la reine de Suede, & du duc de Lorraine

Brunel, Antoine de (1622-1696); Bonnecase, Robert Alcide de; Aerssen, François van (1572-1641); Aerssen, François van (1630-1658)

1666

Published anonymously; usually attributed to Brunel, although it has been attributed also to Frans van Aerssen, heer van Sommelsdijk, (1572-1641), and to his grandson F. van Aerssen, Leer van Plaat (1...

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De officio principis Christiani libri tres

Bellarmino, saint Roberto Francesco Romolo (1542-1621); Sigismund King of Poland and Sweden (1566-1632); Bellarmino, saint Roberto Francesco Romolo (1542-1621)

1619

"Sereniss. principi VVladislao Sigismvndi III, Poloniae & Sueciae Regis filio."--P. [1] (1st group).

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before 1700

This sample has an asymmetrical pattern of stylized leaves and buttonhole shapes, reminiscent of the slashed fabrics of the period. A very worn fabric, which originally had a velvet pile on the leaf s...

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Remarques sur la reddition de Dunkerque entre les mains des Anglois 1658

Lionne, Hugues de (1611-1671)

[1658]

Signature: A⁴. Caption-title. Remarks on the cession of Dunkirk to the English according to the treaty signed by Mazarin and Cromwell in 1657. Anonymous, by Hugues de Lionne.

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Le historie del Biondo, da la declinatione de l'imperio di Roma, insino al tempo suo (che ui corsero circa mille anni)

Biondo Flavio (1392-1463); Pius, pope (1405-1464); Fauno, Lucio

1547

Title vignette (printer's mark). Colophon: In Venetia per Michele Tramezzino. Ne l' anno del nostro Signore. MD X LVII.

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Christophori Longolii Epistolarum libri IIII : Tullianae uidelicet eloquentiae ad nuguem expressa imago. Doctorvm item aliqvot epistolarum ad eundem Lohgolium, liber I. Qvibvs eiusdem uita, per quendam ipsius studiosissimum conscripta, est praemissa

Longolius, Christophorus (1488-1522); Pole, Reginald Cardinal (1500-1558); Bembo, Pietro (1470-1547); Sadoleto, Jacopo (1477-1547); Erasmus, Desiderius (1536); Budé, Guillaume (1468-1540); Episcopius, Nicolaus (1501-1564)

1558

Signatures: α-β⁸ a-y⁸ (β8 blank). Printer's device on title page; verso of final leaf. Printer from colophon: Basileae, apvd Nic. Episcopivm Ivn. M. D. LVIII. Italic type. Some woodcut ...

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A famouse cronicle of oure time, called Sleidanes Commentaries : concerning the state of religion and common wealth, during the raigne of the Emperour Charles the fift, with the argumentes set before euery booke, conteyninge the summe or effecte of the booke following

Sleidanus, Johannes (1506-1556); Daus, John; Day, John (1522-1584)

1560. The 26. daie of September

A translation of: De statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Caesare, commentarii. Imprint from colophon. Includes index.

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