Null Cavalca, Domenico - Pungi language

Florence, [Bartolomeo di Libri], June 1…

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Cavalca, Domenico - Pungi language Florence, [Bartolomeo di Libri], June 10, 1494. 4°. Specimen lacking the first two fascicles marked a-b for a total of 16 manuscript supplicated papers in the 18th century, fresh and marginal specimen, 18th-century binding in red morocco with gilt frames to the plates and spine, spine marred especially at the caps. Ex libris pasted to the counterplate by Angelo Domenico Castellani, on the guard sheet another ex libris of the Cornaggia Medici library and several bibliographical notes in pencil and ink.

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Cavalca, Domenico - Pungi language Florence, [Bartolomeo di Libri], June 10, 1494. 4°. Specimen lacking the first two fascicles marked a-b for a total of 16 manuscript supplicated papers in the 18th century, fresh and marginal specimen, 18th-century binding in red morocco with gilt frames to the plates and spine, spine marred especially at the caps. Ex libris pasted to the counterplate by Angelo Domenico Castellani, on the guard sheet another ex libris of the Cornaggia Medici library and several bibliographical notes in pencil and ink.

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KIRCHER (Athanasius): Athanasii Kircheri fuldensis Buchonii E soc. Iesu Prodromus coptus sive ægyptiacus. Rome, Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, 1636. One volume. 16 by 24 cm. 340 pages. Contemporary full vellum with the arms of Cardinal Lorenzo Magalotti (Fasced Or and Sable on a chief Gules charged with the motto "LIBERTAS" in letters Or.), with double framing and spandrels, ornate spine. Small nibble at bottom of upper board (minor defect), missing laces. Two small traces of light marginal dampening. Very rare foxing. Several leaves browned. Otherwise a very fine copy, in a well-preserved quality binding. First edition of this work on the Coptic language by the German Jesuit Athanasius KIRCHER (1602-1680), with a vignette on the title page bearing the coat of arms of Cardinal Barberini (Bishop of Ferrara), to whom the book is dedicated. KIRCHER was a physicist, mathematician, orientalist, cabalist and philologist. The book is the first published grammar of the Coptic language. It is to Kircher, Champollion would say, that "learned Europe owes in some way the knowledge of the Coptic language." The volume includes numerous passages printed in Coptic, Hebrew, Syriac and Chinese characters. It is illustrated with woodcut figures in the text. Cardinal Lorenzo Magalotti, whose coat of arms adorns the binding, was related to Pope Urban VIII, maffeo Barberini, as his brother Carlo Barberini had married Lorenzo's very devout sister, Costanza. Magalotti was therefore a member of the Barberini family, to whom the book is dedicated. The word LIBERTAS on the chief is very rare in ecclesiastical heraldry, as mottoes are usually placed lower down, on a scroll and below the coat of arms. This exception stems from the Magalotti family's participation in Florence's resistance against Pope Gregory XI, in 1535-1536. As a result of this involvement, the Magalotti coat of arms was enriched with the motto LIBERTAS, which this glorious past later protected, despite what it says about their opposition to the papacy. The blazon on the binding is thus linked to KIRCHER's patron family, the Barberini... Thanks to scholar P. S. for his help with this heraldic research.

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Two Pustaha Sumatra, probably 19th century, ink on tree bast, leporello oracle books written in the ritual language of the Batak, composed by the magic priests known as Datu/Guru, solid wood bindings, strong traces of age, dimensions 17 x 10 and 16 x 16 cm.

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Winston Churchill Signed Book - A History of the English Speaking Peoples: Volume I, The Birth of Britain Signed book: A History of the English Speaking Peoples: Volume I, The Birth of Britain. Second edition. London: Cassell and Company, 1956. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.75, 416 pages. Signed on the half-title page in fountain pen, "Winston S. Churchill." The first free end page bears an affixed TLS from Anthony Montague Browne, Churchill’s private secretary, dated April 2, 1963, asking Madame de Miramon for a “copy of one of Sir Winston’s books that I can ask him if he will sign it.” Includes a second TLS from Browne sent to Marquis de Miramon in 1965. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: G+/None, with a cracked front hinge, edgewear, and rubbing the head of the spine. Churchill began publishing his massive four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1956, which he began writing in 1937.

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