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Documento sin título PLEASE READ THIS ITEM is an edition facsimile in digital format on CD (or e-book) of the book announced in the title of this item, you have additional information of the book bel

 

A RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE BOSTONIANS- ONE OF ONLY 600 COPIES PRINTED ONE OF THE GREAT NOVELS OF THE AMERICAN FEMINIST MOVEMENT ONE OF THE FIRST NOVELS TO ALLUDE TO LESBIAN RELATIONSHIPS The Book: Ja

 

OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE is THE 1750 FIRST EDITION OF WILLIAM FORDYCE’S ‘MEMOIRS CONCERNING HERCULANEUM, THE SUBTERRANEAN CITY LATELY DISCOVERED AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VESUVIUS,’ printed in octavo

 

Three [3] rare original printed and manuscript completed court documents from Orange County, Vermont, all dated 1811. These are court warrants ordering the sheriff to arrest and produce debtors in cou

 

ILIAD of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. 1756 Edition (M.DCC.LVI) London. Up for auction is a rarely seen -- certainly for Ebay -- A complete 6 volume set, all pages completely clear and rea

 

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PAGE 1475 HISTORY OF ROME 9x6.5 INCHES Handlist 39, Livy, History of the Second Punic War, written in Rome by the scribe Giacomo Curlo, ca. 1460. These manuscript pages were bro

 

This engaging American History Book for Children covers the period from Christopher Columbus to the period just prior to the American Revolution. Black and white illustrations throughout the book add

 

A very old illuminated vellum (sheep or goat skin) section from an Ethiopian Coptic bible (20 pages on 10 leaves front and back) written in Ge'ez script,an ancient Semitic language related to the Saba

 

VERY OLD ISLAMIC FIKH MANUSCRIPT (ALMAKDISI) 1069 AH: This is a very beautiful Arabic leaf from a very old Sunni Fikh Islamic manuscript. The manuscript was seriously affected by humidity and foxing;