Word: incunabula
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other incunabula have lately been bought with the gift of Mr. Alain C. White: namely, Vergil, with the commentary of Servius Honoratus, Venice, printed by Jacobus Rubeus, 1475, and Petrach, Gli Triompi, Venice, Bartholomeus di Zanis...
...history of the Ottoman Turks and their wars with Europe. There are about eighty Italian poems written just after the battle of Lepanto in 1570 in celebration of the Christian victory, many of which are probably unique and therefore of considerable value. In the set are one hundred incunabula or books printed before 1500. One of these was printed in 1170, only twenty years after the invention of the art of printing. These incunabula and the manuscripts are in a marvelous state of preservation and some of them are very handsomely bound. The next installment will arrive at Cambridge...