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Pietro Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice: Aldus, March 1505.
Two issues of the first edition of Cardinal Bembo's dialogue on the nature of love, both in Aldus' "pocket edition" format bound in contemporary Venetian black morocco over wooden boards. The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the…
Pietro Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice: Aldus, March 1505.
Two issues of the first edition of Cardinal Bembo's dialogue on the nature of love, both in Aldus' "pocket edition" format bound in contemporary Venetian black morocco over wooden boards. The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the…
Portolan chart of the Mediterranean
"Made by Nicholas Comberford dwelling at the Signe of the Platt neare the west End of the Schoole House in Ratcliffe."
Portrait miniature of Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756) in her The English-Saxon Homily on the Nativity of St. Gregory, London: W. Bowyer, 1709.
This copy (one of two in the Spencer Library—the other belonged to Thomas Hearne) bears the bookplate of one of the original subscribers, James Bertie, Esq., of Stanwell. The library acquired it from John Bryson, librarian of Balliol College, Oxford,…
