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Highlights from Catalogue 1414 Continental Books and List 2011/17 German Literature:

DONI, Giovanni Battista. , De praestantia musicae veteris libri tres totidem dialogis comprehensi...

Florence, A. Massa, 1647.

First edition of an important treatise on musical theory, the last comprehensive work by the Italian music theorist Giovanni Battista Doni to be published during his lifetime.

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EXERCICIO QUOTIDIANO, , adicionado con diferentes oraciones.

Madrid, Ibarra, impressor de camara de S.M., 1825.

In very fresh condition: a charming Spanish romantic binding made for Queen Maria Christina of Bourbon (1806-1878), fourth wife of Ferdinand VII, and Regent of Spain during the minority of Queen Isabella.

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[MELANCHTHON, Philipp]. LAGUS, Konrad., Oratio de Platone.

Wittenberg, [J. Klug], 1538.

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£5000  

THOMAS AQUINAS, Saint., Summa theologica...

[Venice, Theodorus de Rogazonib[us], 31 March 1490 (colophon)].

An unsophisticated, fresh copy in a strictly contemporary binding of a rare edition of Aquinas’s greatly influential Prima Secundae section of the Summa theologica, the part of his philosophical magnum opus which addresses man, his ultimate end, and the motors, nature and implications of human actions.

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£40,000  

ZAMBELLI, Leone., Globo celeste, e politico della vita del prencipe in tempo di pace, e di guerra.

Venice, Marco Ginammi, 1642.

First edition of a very rare speculum principis of Machiavellian inspiration dedicated to Philip IV; in effect, as the liminary texts reveal, an eloquently political work aimed at promoting Spain’s world-wide imperialistic ambitions.

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£2250  

BERGK, Johann Adam., Die Kunst, Bücher zu lesen...

Jena, In der Hempelschen Buchhandlung, 1799.

First edition.



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£750  

[CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.] , Don Quixote Von Mancha, Abentheurliche Geschichte. Erster [-Anderer] Theil.

Basel & Frankfurt, ‘Johann Ludwig du Four, von Genff’, 1682.

First edition, first issue, of the first complete translation of Don Quixote into German.



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£15,000  

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, et al., Pflanzen und Gebirgsarten von Marienbad, gesammelt und beschrieben von Seiner königlichen Hoheit dem Prinzen Friedrich...

Prague, Kronberger & Weber, 1837.

Rare first edition, containing the first appearance in print of Goethe’s catalogue of minerals collected at Marienbad.



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£1350  

KUNZE, Reiner., Vögel über dem Tau. Liebesgedichte und Lieder.

Halle, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1959.

First edition of Kunze’s first independent publication, a collection of love poetry, with a long signed presentation inscription covering the half-title.



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£1200  

OTTWALT, Ernst. , Denn sie wissen was sie tun. Ein deutscher Justiz-Roman.

Berlin, Malik-Verlag, [1931].

First edition; complete with the rare original bookmark designed by Georg Grosz, depicting a man grappling with a section sign (§), a character which is also used on the spine of Heartfield’s dust-jacket.



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