Early books & manuscripts
Subtitle: Cervantes as journalist. The spice race to Java. Erigena's philosophy. Catalan banker at work. First Irish printing press. Aesop in German verse. Soncino and Italian drama. Calvan at the Council of Trent. Football in print. Reform of the calendar. Hindustani grammar. Biography of Ivan the Terrible. The complete Hobbes. News report of the Gunpowder plot. Presentation bindings for James I and Charles Princle of Wales. Unrecorded Dutch incunable. English 17th-century museum catalogs. Juan Latino and black literature. Luther and the Koran. Plotinus bound for Eton. Liturgies for Barcelona, Mecklenburg and Abbotsbury in Dorset. Celestina, the first complete version. Bee-keeping in Romania. 17th-century pharmacisty's pricelist. Volcano in the Azores.
Publisher: B. Quaritch
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Early printed books -- Catalogs; Rare books -- Catalogs
Notes: Summer 2004.