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![Giovanni Scala, Deffinitioni bellisime di geometrica, in Italian, manuscript with illustrations and a volvelle, on paper [Italy (probably Lucca or Rome), probably c. 1585]](/media/4637/14297-tl-67.jpg?width=800&height=800&mode=padding&bgcolor=white)
Giovanni Scala, Deffinitioni bellisime di geometrica, in Italian, manuscript with illustrations and a volvelle, on paper [Italy (probably Lucca or Rome), probably c. 1585]
Sold for: £17,500
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![Vergil, Georgics III:259-458 and IV:393-564, in Latin didactic hexameter verse, leaves from a decorated manuscript on parchment in situ in an Oxford binding by Dominique Pinart [England, c. 1200]](/media/4634/14328-tl-41.jpg?width=800&height=800&mode=padding&bgcolor=white)
Vergil, Georgics III:259-458 and IV:393-564, in Latin didactic hexameter verse, leaves from a decorated manuscript on parchment in situ in an Oxford binding by Dominique Pinart [England, c. 1200]
Sold for: £21,250
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![Richard Francis Burton, The Guide-Book, A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, first and only edition, printed for the author [London, Clowes & Sons, 1865]](/media/1351/lot-8-oct-2018-14196.jpg?width=800&height=800&mode=padding&bgcolor=white)
Richard Francis Burton, The Guide-Book, A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, first and only edition, printed for the author [London, Clowes & Sons, 1865]
Sold for: £12,400
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![Aristotle, Poetics, in Greek, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Venice), late fifteenth or early sixteenth century]](/media/1414/32-large.jpg?width=800&height=800&mode=padding&bgcolor=white)
Aristotle, Poetics, in Greek, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Venice), late fifteenth or early sixteenth century]
Sold for: £5,250
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![A commentary on the Qur'an, copied by Abdullah bin al-Maliki, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Oman, dated the month of Shawwal 1120 AH (1708-09 AD)]](/media/1354/lot-38-april-2018-14087.jpg?width=800&height=800&mode=padding&bgcolor=white)
A commentary on the Qur'an, copied by Abdullah bin al-Maliki, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Oman, dated the month of Shawwal 1120 AH (1708-09 AD)]
Sold for: £47,120
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![Terence, Comoediae, in Latin, illuminated humanist manuscript on paper and parchment [Italy (probably Florence), dated 4 April 1446]](/media/1416/lot-53-large.jpg?width=800&height=800&mode=padding&bgcolor=white)
Terence, Comoediae, in Latin, illuminated humanist manuscript on paper and parchment [Italy (probably Florence), dated 4 April 1446]
Sold for: £31,250
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