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TEN SCUDI FOR YOUR SOUL


Two sets of statutes (Modena 1708-9, 4to) governing Episcopal efforts to convert Jewish residents of Modena. The second work concerns specifically female catechumens.


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THE FIRST PRINTED DIURNAL FOR FREISING


A beautiful prayerbook (Augsburg 1507, 16mo) providing all the elements needed for private recitation of the daytime officces in the winter liturgical season.

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QUESTION OF THE CENTURY


A collection of five tracts (Paris 1699, 12mo) debating whether the eighteenth century begins on 1 January 1700 or 1701 .


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BIBLIOGRAPHY SUBVERTED


Leibniz's Catalogus librorum ([Germany] c. 1700, 4to), a manuscript catalog of fifty-two imaginary books, satirizing European political and military maneuvering in 1688-9.



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"THE DISCOVERY OF A TREASURE" — LEPELLEY


La Farce des Quiolards (Rouen ?1700, 12mo), the only prose work published in Rouennais before the nineteenth century.

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LATENT SCIENCE PIRACIES


Floutrières' Traitté d'Horologeographie (Paris 1619, 8vo), on sundials, after which are two works published without their authors' knowledge.


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BY A GENTLE MANIAC


Fortia d'Urban's Nouveau Sistême de Bibliographie (Paris 1822, 12mo), a classified universal bibliography with his own applied subject arrangement.


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