Early books & manuscripts : Wycliff on logic; a new manuscript. A complete Acta Sanctorum. The Aldine Boccaccio. Castiglione's first book. The first Japanese embassy to Europe. The introduction of Hindu (or 'Arabic') numerals and the transformation of mathematics. A vellum leaf from the Mainz Catholicon. Calvin's reaction to the Council of Trent. Luther's reaction to Islam. Hroswitha; the first modern dramatist. Learning to read; a unique school-book destined for the New World. Prison welfare in 16 century Spain. The second known copy of the first English Protestant primer. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's only original letter from Turkey. The first printed digest of English law with a Middle English MS poem. Valla rewrites Aristotle.
Publisher: B. Quaritch
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Early printed books -- Catalogs.; Rare books -- Catalogs.
Notes: Spring 2005