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Historia Scholastica by Peter Comestor
Manuscript: ca. 1450 Illustrated Manuscript on paper in Latin. Peter Comestor, also known as Peter the Devourer for his insatiable appetite for knowledge, was a twelfth-century French theologian and chancellor at the University of Paris. Completed around 1173, the...
Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribuntur by Nicolai Copernicus
Published: 1617 Third Edition in Latin with diagrams and tables. “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” (“On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”), entitled here, “Astronomia Instaurata, Liberis sex comprehensa, qui de Revolutionibus orbium cælestium inscribuntur.”...
The Alcoran of Mahomet (Quran)
Published: 1649 First English Edition. The Quran is the sacred religious text of Islam, entitled here, “The Alcoran of Mahomet.” It was published in 1649 and the translation is attributed to Scottish clergyman Alexander Ross; an additional text included in...
De Consolatio Philosophiae by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Manuscript: 1400-1425 Illuminated and Rubricated Manuscript on Paper in Latin. This manuscript contains “De Consolatio Philosophiae” with an anonymous commentary on Boethius. It was transcribed in an early humanist hand around 1400-1425 in Northern Italy....
I quindici libri degli elementi di euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana (Elements) by Euclid
Published: 1545 Second Edition in Italian. The famous mathematical treatise, “I quindici libri degli elementi di euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana,” also known as “Elements” is attributed to Euclid. This volume was published in 1545 and...
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Published: 1776 First Edition. “The Wealth of Nations” is known as one of the world's first and greatest classics on modern economics. Its foundation was constructed from Smith’s “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” and it was a culmination of seventeen years...
De homine Ioannis Pici Mirandulae, ubi sublimiora et sacrae et humanae philosophiae mysteria explicantur by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Title: De homine Ioannis Pici Mirandulae, ubi sublimiora et sacrae et humanae philosophiae mysteria explicantur. Eiusdem de Christo & hoc malo seculo. Item loci Christianam uitam complectentes. Praeterea annotationes in psalmum XV. (Oration on the Dignity...
Defensor Pacis by Marsilius of Padua
Published: 1522 In Latin, with illustrated title page and initials. This volume is Marsilius of Padua’s “Defensor Pacis,” printed in 1522, entitled, “Opus insigne cui titulum fecit autor defensorem pacis, quod questionem illam jam olim controversam, de...
Citie of God by Augustine of Hippo
Published: 1610 First Edition in English. This work is Augustine of Hippo’s classic book of Christian philosophy entitled “Citie of God,” translated by John Healey from the Latin version and edited by Ioannes Lodovicus Vives (Juan Luis Vives) with Vives...
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Published: 1836 Second Edition of Part I, in two volumes with original foldout map. Published in two parts, the first published in 1835 and the second volume published in 1840. “Democracy in America” was a result of Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont’s 1831-1832 tour...
