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Preclarissim[us] liber co[m]plet[us] in iudicijs astro[rum]: que[m] edidit albohazen Haly filius abenragel q[ua]mfelicissime incipit

ʻAlī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl

...This is the first printing of Haly Abenragel's De iudiciis astrorum (On the Judgements of the Stars), a comprehensive astrological summa. The Arab astrologer Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Abi al-Rijāl, active in Cordoba and Tunis, composed al-Bāri‘...

[Canon medicinae]

Avicenna

...Bound together with De viribus cordis. “From the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century Avicenna held a high place in Western European medical studies, ranking together with Hippocrates and Galen as an acknowledged authority. His...

Tabule astronomice divi Alfonsi regis Romanorū et Castelle: Nuper [quam] diligentissime cum additionibus emendate.

Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon

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Toledo School of Translators

...Third edition of the 'canonical' Alfonsine Tables, astronomical tables compiled in Toledo by a team of scholars commissioned by Alfonso X, 'el Sabio', to update the eleventh-century Toledan Tables. The Latin version was made from a Spanish...

Charles I, King of England, letter signed, addressed to The high and excellent Lord the Visier Basha to the Grand Signor [Ekrem Khalil Pasha, the Grand Vizier to Sultan Murad IV].

Charles I, King of England

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Edward Norgate

...Illuminated border in upper and side margins, fourteen lines written in an elegant scribal hand in brown ink with initial letters in liquid gold; large initial letter 'C' and baluster-shaped capitals in first line, and border of symmetrical...

I Pregi della Toscana nell'imprese più segnalate de' cavalieri di Santo Stefano : opera data in luce da Fulvio Fontana della compagnia di Gesù dedicata all'altezza reale di Cosimo III, gran duca di Toscana e gran maestro dell'ordine.

Fulvio Fontana

...This work celebrates the deeds of the Knights of Saint Stephen in defending Tuscany against the Turks. The fine plates show various naval battles and sieges but included in this copy is the frontispiece portrait of Cosimo III, Grand Duke...

Christophori Varsevicii Turcic[a]e quatuordecim : his accesserunt opuscula duo, L. Friderici Ceriole, de concilio & consiliariis principis, ex Hispanico in Latinum versum unum, & de Legato Legationeq́ue eiusdem Varsevicii alterum, omnia his rebus & temporibus accommodata.

Krzysztof Warszewicki

...An account that focuses on Ottoman-Polish relations by the Polish diplomat and historian Krzysztof Warszewicki (1543-1603). Also contains a Latin translation of Fadrique Furió Ceriol's 'El Consejo y Consejeros del Príncipe', as well...

Breuis ac perutilis cōpilatio Alfragani astronomo[rum] peritissimi : totῡ id continens quod ad rudimenta astronomica est opportunum.

Farghānī

...This is a very rare first edition of Farghānī’s best known and most influential work, on Ptolemaic astronomy, dated 3 September 1493. The text is descriptive and non-mathematical, which, along with its clear and well-organised presentation,...