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Book ID: 28750 His Observations in his Travailes Upon the State of the XVII...

OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS.

His Observations in his Travailes Upon the State of the XVII Provinces as they Stood Amno Com. 1609. The Treatie of Peace being then on Foote.

Printed MDC.XXVI, First edition. ESTC S113538; STC 18903. In 1609 courtier and poet Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) traveled through the Low Countries and France and wrote this essay about the equilibrium of power between France, Spain and England that would guarantee their mutual preservation. This would become known as the "balance.....

Price: $3,750.00

Book ID: 28771 Epsom-Wells. A Comedy, As it is Acted by Their Majesties...

SHADWELL, THOMAS.

Epsom-Wells. A Comedy, As it is Acted by Their Majesties Servants.

London: Printed for H. Herringman, and Sold by R. Bentley, J. Tonson, F. Saunders, and T. Bennet, 1693. Third edition, preceded by editions in 1673 and 1676. ESTC R1905; Wing S2845; NCBEL II, 744. One of Thomas Shadwell's most popular plays of the many he wrote, a comedy centered on.....

Price: $275.00

Book ID: 28718 Clélia, an Excellent Romance: The Whole Work in Five Parts....

SCUDERY, MADELEINE DE.

Clélia, an Excellent Romance: The Whole Work in Five Parts. Dedicated to Mademoiselle de Longueville.

London: Printed and Sold by H. Herringman, D. Newman, T. Cockerel, S. Heyrick, W. Cadman, S. Loundes, G. Marriot, W. Crook and C. Smith, 1678. First complete translation in English of the five parts, preceded by their separate publications beginning in 1655. ESTC R19972; Wing S2156. One of the famous.....

Price: $4,750.00

Book ID: 28698 Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of...

OLEARIUS, ADAM.

Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the Kings of Persia. Begun in the Year M.DC. XXXIII. and finish'd in M.D.CXXXIX. Containing a Compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia. And other adjacent Countries . . . Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo . . . from Persia, into the East-Indies. Containing a Particular Description of Indosthan, the Mogul's Empire, the Oriental ilands, Japan, China, &c. . . .

London: Printed for John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669. Second edition in English, preceded by the edition of 1662. ESTC R30756; Wing O270; Cox, Literature of Travel, I, page 249. In 1634 Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp (present day Denmark and Germany), sent an expedition, with Adam Olearus (1603-1671) as its.....

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Book ID: 28493 State Tracts: Being a Collection of Several Treatises Relating to...

[ANONYMOUS COMPILER].

State Tracts: Being a Collection of Several Treatises Relating to the Government. Privately Printed in the Reign of K. Charles II.

London: Printed in the Year, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of.....

Price: $950.00

Book ID: 27280 The Gentlemans Academie. Or, The Booke of S. Albans: Containing...

BERNERS, DAME JULIANA, ATTRIBUTED AUTHOR.

The Gentlemans Academie. Or, The Booke of S. Albans: Containing Three Most Exact and Excellent Bookes: The First of Hawking, The Second of All the Proper Termes of Hunting, and the Last of Armorie: All Compiled by Juliana Barnes . . . And now reduced to a better method by G.M.

London: Printed for Humfrey Lownes, 1595. The first edition as edited by Gervase Markham; revised from the first edition of 1486. STC 3314; ESTC S103621; NCBEL I, 689 (Berners) & 2011 (Markham). A famous 15th-century courtesy book and instructional manual on hunting, hawking and coats of arms, traditionally attributed to.....

Price: $15,000.00