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  • The song of Los

    The song of Los

    Rare Books

    Binding: Full red morocco by Riviere (for Halsey?), top edge gilt. Gilt frames on covers and stamped in gilt on spine. Interleaved.

    54043

  • Dit is die prologhe va[n] der spieghel onser behoudenisse

    Dit is die prologhe va[n] der spieghel onser behoudenisse

    Rare Books

    Speculum type; the Second Dutch edition. Woodcuts and xylographic text printed in brown ink; typographic text printed in black ink. Leaves printed on one side only. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.5 x 21.4 cm. Imperfect: leaves 32-33, 54-55 ([c]14, [d]1, [e]8, [e]9) lacking. Leaves [a]1-[a]3 trimmed at fore edge. Many leaves with blank sides partially pasted together. Binding: 19th century English gilt-tooled red morocco; in blue morocco solander case.

    104685

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    Album of drawings depicting a tobacco factory in Spain

    Manuscripts

    An album of 15 watercolored drawings featuring stages of processing the tobacco plant into powdered tobacco, or snuff, within an eighteenth-century industrial complex, most likely the Royal Tobacco Factory at Seville. The album is bound in green morocco leather and stamped in gilt with the arms of the King of Spain, Charles III. Each drawing is captioned.

    mssHM 84085

  • Sanctissimo ac cleme[n]tissimo in Christo patri domino: domino Paulo Secu[n]do sacrosancte Romane & uniuersalis ecclesie su[m]mo pastori & po[n]tifici maxi[m]o

    Sanctissimo ac cleme[n]tissimo in Christo patri domino: domino Paulo Secu[n]do sacrosancte Romane & uniuersalis ecclesie su[m]mo pastori & po[n]tifici maxi[m]o

    Rare Books

    Spaces left on leaves [a]1r and [i]1r for incipits to be added by hand; initial spaces. Signatures: [a-f¹⁰ g⁸ h¹² i-n¹⁰ o-p⁸ *⁴]. Illuminated decorations on leaf [a]1r with blue and maroon flowers with gilt scrolling in Ferrara style, blue capital "S" in gilt panel with red and green fill. Coat of arms [obliterated] in gilt circle in bottom margin. On leaf [i]1r blue and maroon flowers on inner margin with red capital 'M' in gilt panel. Other initials and rubrication in red or blue. Incipits on leaves [a]1r and [i]14 written in red. Binding: mid-18th century Spanish[?] gilt-tooled blue morocco[?].

    104182

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    Im Frühling: a song with words and music

    Manuscripts

    A musical piece dedicated to Adolf Böttger and written in Leipzig, Germany. The spine and front cover contain the English title "In the Spring;" the manuscript is bound in red morocco gilt and there is slight damage to the spine. Also included are various autograph notes and musical pieces originally laid into the volume.

    mssHM 1020