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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Selections from the early print-newspapers in colonial Calcutta, India (1780-1820). Trade and Commerce.: Volume 1 (Early Newspapers in colonial India) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Card Covers. Condition: Good. 30 pages. Original printed card covers. Minimal wear to the pages or the binding. Ex-University Library, with their bookplate, blind stamp, and shelf label. The shelf label has been removed, which has marked the upper cover. Size: 15 x 21 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Softcover Books; ISBN: 9022107493. ISBN/EAN: 9789022107492. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Protestant Reformation gave birth to several notable documents in the Kirk of Scotland. Among those documents, the First and Second Books of Discipline grew out of distinct stages in the development of the reformed Church of Scotland. Approximately 92 pages. Minimal wear to the pages or the binding. Original red cloth, with contrasting gilt lettering piece to the spine and upper board. Ex-University Library, with their bookplate, blind stamp, and shelf label. Size: 15 x 21 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Hardback Books; ISBN: 9022108937. ISBN/EAN: 9789022108932. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Grisons, the largest and easternmost canton in Switzerland, is one of the three significant southern Alpine cantons, alongside Valais and Ticino. This canton is distinguished by its remarkable diversity in both natural and cultural geography, as it spans both sides of the Alps and includes various natural and cultural regions. The extensive diversity found within the Grisons is frequently likened to that of Switzerland itself, earning it the moniker "Little Switzerland." It shares its borders with four other cantons, as well as Austria, Italy, and Liechtenstein. Unpaginated. Minimal wear to the pages or the binding. Original red cloth, with contrasting gilt lettering piece to the spine and upper board. Ex-University Library, with their bookplate, blind stamp, and shelf label. Size: 15 x 22 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Hardback Books; ISBN: 9022103838. ISBN/EAN: 9789022103838. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The primary modern reference for understanding the Family of Love, which was the first significant group of sixteenth-century sectarians to arise in England and serve as forerunners to the dissenters of the seventeenth century, highlights their antinomian beliefs that elicited considerable alarm among their contemporaries. A Puritan evaluation of the Family of Love categorizes them as Anabaptists, according to Wilkinson. Unpaginated. Minimal wear to the pages or the binding. Original red cloth, with contrasting gilt lettering piece to the spine and upper board. Ex-University Library, with their bookplate, blind stamp, and shelf label. The shelf label has been removed, which has marked the upper board. Size: 15 x 22 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Hardback Books; ISBN: 9022102793. ISBN/EAN: 9789022102794. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Wilbye is likely the most renowned among English madrigal composers. A collection of his madrigals was published in 1598, followed by a second collection in 1608, together comprising a total of sixty-four works. Unpaginated. Minimal wear to the pages or the binding. Original red cloth, with contrasting gilt lettering piece to the spine and upper board. Ex-University Library, with their bookplate, blind stamp, and shelf label. Size: Folio, 21 x 30 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; ISBN: 9022106330. ISBN/EAN: 9789022106334. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

No. 66 OF 980 COPIES. 197 x 140 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). 235 leaves. Without the commentary volume in German. Publisher's replica calf, covers richly decorated in gold in a Renaissance strapwork and foliate style, raised bands, spine panels gilt with central trefoil, all edges gilt. Housed in the original very attractive brown leather jewel case with a gilt and enamel crest on upper lid. LAVISHLY ILLUMINATED with more than 1,200 one- or two-line initials in colors and gold; with dozens of leaves featuring panel borders of swirling blue and gold acanthus leaves and multi-colored flowers and berries; with calendar leaves highlighted by full floral borders, the rectos with a small arch-topped miniature of the labor of the month, the versos with the zodiacal sign; and with 17 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES ACCOMPANIED BY FULL BORDERS of foliage and flowers inhabited by insects, snails, dogs, unicorns, and grotesques. âIn mint condition. This is a beautifully produced facsimile of one of the crown jewels in the collection of the Russian State Library, a 15th century Parisian Book of Hours with especially striking miniatures in the style of Van Eyck. Among these are featured the four Evangelists (Mark, unusually, painting an icon of the Virgin), the Virgin and Child with two angels, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Presentation, Coronation of the Virgin, King David, the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ before Pilate, Pentecost, Christ and the Apostles appearing to the patron of this manuscript, and a bloody beheading of St. Barbara. The action and detail in these scenes are remarkable. In the Annunciation to the Shepherds, for example, we see, not the usual half dozen sheep with a couple of dazed keepers, but a huge flock of white and black sheep guarded by five men and one woman, gazing in shock at the Heavenly Host appearing in a gold and orange sunburst above. (One of the herders seems so rattled by the experience that he is swigging from a skin of wine.) The patron who commissioned this manuscript is shown in his miniature clad in armor, kneeling at a prie-dieu, his helmet topped with a unicorn's head by his side. He was likely a member of the Burgundian court, whose support for the illuminators of Paris resulted in many of the most beautiful 15th century Books of Hours.

No. 201 OF 980 COPIES. 216 x 152 mm. (8 1/2 x 6"). 136 leaves (in the facsimile). Three volumes (including two volumes of commentary, one in German and one in Italian). SUMPTUOUS RED MOROCCO, central panel of each cover with thin open-work black leather in an ornate vine pattern laid over blue and gold silk, creating a stained glass effect, the leatherwork incorporating floral circles painted in red and gold, three large medallions arranged down the center of the panel, those at head and tail of red morocco painted in a black, gold, and blue pattern and with a large, round semi-precious stone at the middle, the central medallion comprising a miniature on silk, that on the upper cover of the Archangel Gabriel, that on the lower cover of the Virgin Mary; raised bands, spine diapered in blind, with a single gilt dot at the center of each lozenge; floral silver cornerpieces and two clasps, red morocco doublures framed in silver, doublure panels with intricate decoration in gilt and black, large central medallion of open-work black leather over blue silk with a molded leather profile of Julius Caesar at center, ivory watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt and gauffered. In a padded, silk-lined cream-colored suede box with an enamel medallion on the upper cover. BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED THROUGHOUT: with many ornamental initials, elaborate floral extensions and partial borders, a tondo miniature at the foot of each calendar page, seven historiated initials with full borders, and five full-page miniatures, each by a different Italian master. âIn mint condition. This sophisticated Book of Hours was produced in 1503 at the behest of Bonaparte Ghislieri, a member of an important Bolognese family. In commissioning it, Ghislieri wanted to bring together several of the most famous artists of the period, each of whom was called upon to create a full-page miniature. The intention was to offer a sort of miniature anthology of the best that the Bologna school of illumination could produce at the time. Consequently, we see a succession of works by: Amico Aspertini (Adoration of the Shepherds), Lorenzo Costa (King David and his Lyre), Il Francia (Francesco Raibolini) (Saint Jerome), Matteo da Milano, (Annunciation), and Perugino, (St. Sebastian). This last is the only miniature ever painted by Raphael's teacher. Bologna was also the home of the scribe, Pierantonio Sallando, who taught grammar at the University of Bologna and was to become a famous professor of writing. The codex passed from the Ghislieris to the Albani family of Urbino, where it is documented in the 18th century; the following century it reached England, where it was purchased by Henry Yates Thompson in 1897. Since 1941 it has been kept in the British Library.

670 x 508 mm. (26 3/8 x 20"). 3 p.l., 10 pp., [63] leaves. Publisher's scarlet morocco by Buchbinderei Burkhardt AG, covers with gilt-rolled border, cornerpieces tooled in gilt, upper cover with gilt calligraphic Arabic centerpiece, lower cover with gilt central heraldic device, marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. With a portrait frontispiece of Emperor Selim III, 48 DOUBLE-PAGE PLATES, AND THREE DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS. âA virtually as-new copy. This is one of the deluxe copies of a modern facsimile of Melling's massive and magnificently illustrated work devoted to 18th century Constantinople, a book that provided the earliest interior views and plans of the harems and palaces of Sultan Selim III when it was published in 1819. The illustrations remain the best (and certainly most attractive) record we have of the city during this era in its history. Our edition was produced from a copy of the elephant folio first printing in the collection of the facsimile's publisher, Ahmet Ertug, with images faithfully reproduced in their original mammoth size (650 x 970 mm.). After his arrival in Constantinople in 1795, architect and painter Antoine Ignace Melling (1763-1831) was appointed imperial architect by Selim III. In the course of his duties, he designed and landscaped a seaside palace for Selim's sister, Princess Hatice, and produced these striking panoramic views of the city and its environs. After completing the palace and a number of other building projects for Selim, he returned to Paris and in 1804 issued a prospectus for this work. He established an engraving studio in 1809 to reproduce these drawings and began publishing the completed prints as a series of fascicles that were sent to subscribers. The last one appeared in 1819. The outstanding success of an exhibition of the paintings on which the "Voyage Pittoresque" was based earned Melling the rank of painter to the Empress Josephine. When "Voyage Pittoresque" was originally published, booksellers in England sold copies for £84, a huge sum for a book at the time. The original edition in pleasing condition now fetches between $75,000 and $100,000. Our handsomely bound, actual size facsimile offers an attractively priced alternative. No. 46 OF 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES (of a total edition of 350).

No. 1 OF 980 COPIES. 391 x 273 mm. (15 3/8 x 10 3/4"). 1,035 pp. (in the facsimile). Two volumes (including commentary volume in German). Stately replica blind-stamped pigskin, covers with multiple floral frames, small rampant lion stamped in black ink on each central panel, raised bands, brass and leather clasps. WITH NUMEROUS LARGE MINIATURES depicting battles, sieges, assaults, floods, fires, and the burning of two unfortunates at the stake. In mint condition. The Great Burgundian Chronicle, also called the "Zürcher Schilling" (after the author and after Zürich, where it is kept), is the most original and thorough book from the period on the Burgundian Wars between the Swiss Confederation and Charles the Bold. It was executed around 1480 in the tradition of the Bern chronicles begun by Konrad Justinger in 1420, and it is the most comprehensive of all chronicles ever carried out by Schilling. The Great Burgundian Chronicle gives a unique witness as the expression of a genuine patriot, and does so without the heavy censorship that characterizes later, "official," versions of the text. One of the most important features of the manuscript's illustrations is the landscape in which the events take place. It hardly ever corresponds to topographic reality, but is rather based on the artist's imagination. The viewer sees the depicted scenes from above, being treated to fanciful versions of little towns, villages, and castles, all carefully inserted into a lovely (but imaginative) landscape of rolling hills.

No. 195 OF 980 COPIES. 206 x 168 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 5/8"). Four volumes (each with separate volume of commentary in English and German). With commentary by Mark L. Evans. Publisher's red velvet, flat spine, two silver gilt clasps, each volume housed in a matching velvet box with the commentary volume (in paper wrapper), gilt coat of arms on upper cover of each box. With 138 borders and 48 miniatures by Birago, and two borders and 16 miniatures by Horenbout. âIn mint condition. This is a very fine facsimile of a Renaissance Book of Hours with an intriguing history and decoration by two different and distinguished illuminators, one Italian and the other Flemish. The Sforza Hours was originally commissioned from Italian miniaturist Giovan Pietro Birago (fl. 1471-1513) by Bona Sforza, wife of the Duke of Milan, around 1490. A surviving letter from Birago to an unknown nobleman complains that part of the manuscript was stolen by an unscrupulous "Fra Jacopo," and demands restitution in the enormous amount of 500 ducats. No one knows if Birago was ever reimbursed for his loss, but the duchess bequeathed the partial manuscript to her nephew's wife, Margaret of Austria. In 1506, Margaret, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, moved to the Netherlands, where she served as Regent for the future Charles V until his coronation in 1520. In 1517, she set about completing the Sforza Hours, hiring scribe Etienne de Lale to provide the missing text pages and illuminator Gerard Horenbout (ca. 1465-1541) to paint miniatures and two borders. Horenbout had produced the miniatures in the Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal and those in the Hours of James IV of Scotland. He also briefly worked as painter in the court of Henry VIII. Horenbout included a small portrait of Charles V in one of the borders here, leading art historians to believe that Margaret gave the book to the emperor to commemorate his coronation. The manuscript resurfaced in Madrid in 1871; it was purchased by an Englishman and was donated to the British Library by a later owner. As noted in the library's online exhibit of the work, "The manuscript is outstanding for its rich decorative scheme and an unusually high number of its text pages have minutely detailed borders, initials and vignettes in deep blues, greens and rich reds, to complement the many full-page miniatures.".