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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Minor wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo. .Gathered at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin. Advanced Sexual Science Series. Authorized Translation. Publishers burgandy cloth, with Sexual Science Series blind stamped on front board. Title in gilt on red spine label. Top-edge in dark red. x, 349 p.p. With [3] plates of illustrations. A translation of the first three chapters of vol. 3 of Magnus Hirschfeld's [1868-1935] Sexualpathologie. Hirschfeld was a German physician and founder of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in 1897, the world's first organization for gay rights. Some scuffs and scratches to boards. Light wear to tips with slight bumping at corners. Spine-ends bumped. Pages lightly browned. Ownership signature to front pastedown. Heavy offsetting to endpapers. Inner hinges starting. Interior clean, crisp.

Hardcover. Zustand: vg. First English language edition. Large octavo. [4], 376, [2], 388pp. Modern half calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and ruling on spines. All edges green. Gibbs' scarce English version of Osorio's important history of Portuguese exploration, featuring Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Cabral, Albuquerque, and others. Osorio was well-regarded in his day as a stylist of Latin, earning the sobriquet 'the Portuguese Cicero.' Previous owner's stamp on inside of each title page. Binding and interior in overall very good condition.

their battles by sea and land, their sieges, and other memorable exploits: with a description of those countries, and a particular account of the religion, government, and customs of the natives; including also, their discovery of the Brazils, and their wars with the Moors. London : A. Millar, 1752. First English-language edition. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary full calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, spines in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting title label lettered in gilt; both volumes recased, pastedowns and endpapers replaced; pp. [4], 376; [2], 388; contents exceptionally clean and fresh throughout, a very attractive set. The first English translation, made by James Gibbs, of Osorio's chronicle of the reign of King Manuel I of Portugal (1495-1521), whichfirst appeared in a Latin edition in 1571. The elegantly written work is nothing less than a major history of the Golden Age of Portuguese exploration, containing accounts of the voyages, discoveries and exploits of Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Cabral, Almeida, and Albuquerque, among other navigators. Sabin, 57807; Borba de Moraes, 2:121.