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168021834Germany c1680. 93 by 65mm. 3.75 by 2.5 inches. A luxury silk and brocade deck 36 playing cards coloured silk and brocade laid between paper. The Maker There is no information on the present deck of cards about its maker but the nature of the materials used demonstrate that he or she must have been working for some extremely wealthy clients. The Cards The present cards are uniquely luxurious each one being comprised of layers of coloured silk and brocade laid between two sheets of paper. The different layers of fabric give the images added depth which reinforces the sense of meticulous craftsmanship. The janiform eagle which had been a symbol of the German emperors since the fifteenth century points towards a German origin for these cards. Indeed Hargrave records another deck of silk trappola cards from the seventeenth century which appear to have been made in Germany. It has been tentatively suggested that hearts represent France with Louis XIV as King; spades Russia with Peter the Great as Tsar - the jack bears the double headed-eagle of the Russian Empire; clubs the Holy Roman Empire with Leopold I as Emperor - he holds a shield bearing the imperial eagle; and diamonds the Ottoman Empire with - possibly - Mehmed IV as Sultan; the jack holds a falcon: falconry was one of the most popular pastimes in the Ottoman court. unknown
16902196Spain c1690. 320 by 740mm. 12.5 by 29.25 inches. Wooden chest clad in vellum manuscript maps with wrought iron handles rivets lock and clasp. A very unusual piece of cartographic history. It was common for seafarers to have sturdy wooden chests for storage whilst on a voyage but the owner of this chest chose to have it covered it with manuscript maps drawn on vellum possibly by their own hand with the decorative ironwork fitted on top. The lid is covered with a map of North and Central America with the Darien Isthmus labelled to the south and decorated with an elaborate compass rose and title cartouche supported by figures of Native Americans. The map on the front is decorated with a title cartouche showing a sea god. The sides are covered with maps of the East and West Indies decorated with ships. It is remarkable that the maps have survived given the treatment they would have encountered at sea. hardcover
16934178London: Various 1693. First editions. Late 18th - early 19th century full polished calf with gilt to spine and front board. Marbled endpapers. A pleasing square copy with just a bit of rubbing to extremities. Gilt and embossed bookplate of bibliophile Edward Hailstone 1767-1851 to front pastedown. Containing four complete exceedingly scarce pamphlets from the 17th century querelle des femmes debates about women's humanity and place in society interleaved with blanks likely for manuscript glossing although all remain unmarked. Comprised of:<br/><br/>1. Petition of the Ladies of London and Westminster to the Honourable House for Husbands. London: Printed for Mary Want-man the fore-maid of the petitioners and sold by A. Roper in Fleetstreet 1693. First edition. Complete including all four pages called for by ESTC and listing its imprint in the colophon. ESTC records only 8 copies with only 3 listed in the modern auction record since 1940.<br/><br/>2. An Humble Remonstrance of the Batchelors in and about London.in Answer to the Late Paper Intituled A Petition of the Ladies for Husbands. London: Printed for and Sold by the Bookselling Batchelors in St. Paul's Churchyard 1693. First edition. Complete including all four pages called for by ESTC and listing its imprint in the colophon. In all a clean and neat copy of this scarce and important part of the debate on women. ESTC lists only 8 extant copies with only 2 listed in the modern auction record. ESTC R4393.<br/><br/>3. The Petition of the Widows in and about London and Westminster for a Redress of their Grievances. By the Same Solicitor that Drew up The Petition for Ladies. London: Printed for the Use of the Wide--ows 1693. First edition. Complete including all four pages called for by ESTC with the imprint appearing at the rear colphon. A scarce piece recorded at only 7 institutions by ESTC and recorded only twice at auction since 1927. ESTC R25582.<br/><br/>4. Lambeth Ale. London: Printed for Abel Roper 1693. First edition. Complete in four pages with the imprint recorded on the rear colophon. With no listing on ESTC and no appearances at auction a truly scarce piece.<br/><br/>A unique opportunity to trace a string of direct argument-and-response publications rapidly produced within one year of the 17th century querelle des femme pamphlet wars. Brought together in one binding by solicitor and bibliophile Edward Hailstone whose remarkable library at Walton Hall included rare books and antiquities. <br/><br/>The Querelle des Femmes the Woman Question was a debate on women's status that raged across Europe and England through the 16th to 18th century depicted at times in drama and literature but most often enacted through broadsides and pamphlets. While early iterations of the debate focused on whether women were humans or indeed possessed souls emphasis began shifting as an increasing number of women began printing responses of their own. In this collection's first pamphlet "Mary Want-man the fore-maid of the petitioners" the anonymous female author draws attention to the negative impacts that misogynist bolster lectures have had on the general state of matrimony. By labeling women as natural harlots predestined to cuckold their husbands the Petition alleges polemicists endangered women and men alike: the former would lack economic and legal security without a spouse and the former would turn to drink and debauchery. "Mary Want-man" in this sense turns the tables on the terms of the debate. Men are morally weak without a helpmeet and need wives -- and women are placed at social disadvantage by the rules that define them as men's companions. To this end the Petition sets out the demand that men be required to marry much as women have been and that they meet five terms: "First that all men of Quality and Degree soever shall be obliged to marry as soon as they are one and twenty and that those persons who decline so doing shall for their Liberty as they call it pay yearly to the State.Secondly that no Excuse shall be admitted but that of natural Frigidity or Impotence.Thirdly since it is found by experience that the generality of young men are such Idolators of the Bottle.that no person whatsoever shall be privileged to enter a Tavern who is not married.That every Poet or pretender to be a poet or anyone who is hired to write .to the derogation of the Matrimonial State shall be obliged to marry before Lady day ensuing.Lastly.every person of Quality pretending to keep a Miss.must dispose of her in Marriage to his Footman or Groom." Biting and witty this feminist satire suggests that men must be corralled and that marriage is the means by which to do it thus also ensuring stability for women. <br/><br/>Soon after the "Bookselling Batchelors" engaged "Mary" with their own publication -- and in attempting to break down the Petition's satirical arguments An Humble Remonstrance relies on many of the misogynistic commonplaces that the Ladies decried. And in its conclusion Remonstrance teases the possibility that women were right about men's current debauched tendencies shifting The Petition's desire for social instability to one of bawdy fulfillment for men's benefit. "The Ladies are weary of lying alone and so are we: They would fain be advantageously married and so would your humble Servants. The Quarrel on their side is therefore unjustly begun.but because Jacob could serve two Apprenticeships for his Rachel they imagine that we must do the same; not considering that the Race of Methuselahs and Patriarchs is quite extinct."<br/><br/>Unwilling to be outdone the women clap back; and a pamphleteer claiming to represent the interests of the region's Widows joins the printed fray. "Last week a petition subscribed by the unmarried Ladies came before you.Tis true we wondered to find an Army of Maids from whom the world usually expects modesty and silence.Widowes indeed who lye under no such restrictions are allowed to speak for themselves." Thus the Widows point out a crucial and problematic differentiation among women based on marital status: the division of the femme covert unmarried or married women with legal identities subsumed by fathers or husbands under coverture versus femme sole orphaned or widowed women with more independent legal and social status. To this end the widows recognize the need of the Maids to raise concerns about the issues most affecting them; while the more empowered widows can build on this foundation and push for a further expansion of rights.<br/><br/>While the final pamphlet of the group is not a direct engagement with the others it does suggest the collector's own interest in the role alcohol plays in much of the behavior decried by women in these works. <br/><br/>An opportunity unlikely to arise again for acquiring three incredibly scarce directly related arguments released only weeks apart. Various unknown books
1649LCI-60291649-1651 Voici une opportunité rare de posséder non pas des livres, mais des pièces d'archives intactes. Ces dix Mazarinades d'exception sont les munitions médiatiques de la Fronde, l'écho papier de la seule guerre civile française du XVIIe siècle qui vit la presse pamphlétaire triompher du pouvoir absolu. Elles offrent une immersion physique dans l'effervescence de Paris assiégé (1649–1651).Le véritable trésor ici réside dans la qualité muséale de ces feuillets : Ces imprimés, fragiles par nature, sont parvenus jusqu'à nous dans un état "excellent". Le papier, souvent de mauvaise qualité à l'époque car imprimé à la hâte, est ici étonnamment frais et propre. C'est une rareté qui témoigne d'une conservation sans altération durant près de 375 ans.Feuillets Libres Authentiques : La présentation en pages volantes réunit dans une pochette simple n'est pas un défaut, mais une preuve d'authenticité. Elle rappelle la manière dont ces pamphlets étaient distribués à la criée dans les rues de Paris, échappant à la reliure pour une diffusion maximale.La sélection inclut des pièces maîtresses : le Testament solemnel (la satire la plus célèbre) et la Déclaration du Roy (l'acte officiel d'interdiction de Mazarin), assurant à ce lot une valeur documentaire et collectionneur de premier planCes imprimés sont l'ADN d'une révolution médiatique. Pour l'amateur d'histoire, d'imprimés anciens ou de journalisme politique, ce lot représente un investissement dans un pan unique de notre patrimoine écrit.
1695017087s.l.: s.n. 1695. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. de Hooghe Romeyn; Dusart Cornelius. Small 4to 5.5" x 8". N.d. ca. 1695. S.l. likely printed in Amsterdam Dutch imprint reads "You will find them nowhere but they are sold everywhere in Holland by book and print sellers." Complete in two parts bound in one volume. Tweede Deel title page present lacking in many volumes. Parallel Dutch and French in Part 1 French quatrains and Dutch index in Part 2. Contemporary vellum over boards hand-lettered title to upper spine with spelling error. 4 19 1 104 pp. 25 numbered plates; 7 1 pp. 25 numbered plates. Features Romeyn de Hooghe's two-page frontispiece "L'Abrege du Clerge Romain" depicting Roman clergy torturing Jesus and collecting his blood which has turned to coins while his poor and infirm subjects look on. Contains a total of 50 mezzotint medallion caricature portraits attributed to Cornelius Dusart 1660-1704 by Landwehr. Binding tight but slightly tilted. A few stains to vellum. Light foxing else very clean and well-preserved. Comital bookplate with shelf number to front pastedown likely Belgian or German. Owner inscription of Hecht with their Latin inscription further pencil notations. Inscription of Cottet Oct 66. A rare desirable complete first edition of one of the most famous and remarkable examples of Dutch graphic caricature. The content is a scathing anti-Catholic and anti-monastic satire portraying monks and nuns as brutalized cruel malicious drunken lecherous avaricious and murderous. It was compiled and published by Huguenots during the diaspora and in reaction to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685. With the mocking false privilege of Pope Innocent XI d. 1689. Brunet IV 1235; Cohen-de-Ricci 866; Landwehr Romeyn de Hooghe 70; Hollstein. Scarce. s.n. hardcover
164117940London: n.p. 1641. FIRST EDITION. Type ornament device on title and woodcut headpiece. Polished calf signed “F. Bedford triple gilt fillet round sides spine gilt a.e.g. From the library of Lord Fairfax of Cameron with his armorial bookplate and the Huth bookplate lot 5630 Sotheby’s sale of July 17 1917. First edition of the very rare satire on the granting of monopolies. The anonymous author piles on the criticism of monopolies and patents granted on goods such as coal soap starch leather wine salt tobacco and butter. By the reign of James I patents had become so numerous and unfairly granted that they were considered oppressive and unjust to certain classes of people especially tradesmen and manufacturers. Except for “novel inventions†the King was finally forced to revoke all existing monopolies and declare that henceforth patents were only to be used for “projects of new invention.†This “Statute of monopolies†enacted in 1624 became the foundation for all later developments in patent law in England and elsewhere. It was a fundamental landmark in the transition of Britain’s economy from the feudal to the capitalist.<br /> <br /> Unfortunately James’s successor Charles I continued to abuse the patent system and it was only during the Restoration that the abuse was finally curtailed. The present work written during the reign of Charles I bitterly describes the injustices within certain trades and industries.<br /> <br /> Wing P156; ESTC locates 4 copies in North America Harvard Huntington NYPL McGill. n.p. unknown
16351616Amsterdam 1635. Small 8vo 14.5 x 9 cm. Jacob Aertsz. Colom Half calf ca. 1830s with the binder's stamp on an endleaf F. DUQUESNE À GAND chemical marbled sides 2 black spine labels marbled endpapers. With 2 decorative initial letters castings made from woodcuts and a decoration made from cast fleurons on the title-page. The main text is set in roman type with long passages in italic and textura. 136 1 1 blank; 30 pp. Second known copy of the third edition 1635 of a rare satirical Dutch adaptation first and second editions 1634 of a moralistic story in Latin by Filippo Beroaldo 1453-1505 possibly intended in this adaptation to satirize the Princes of Orange. The quotations from classical sources are given in Latin each followed by a Dutch verse translation that takes some liberties with the text. Pieter Nootmans active 1627-1635 contributed a verse about the book printed on the back of the title-page. Following the main text is a drinking song by H. Rulant active 1632-1634 with its own part-title which had been published separately in 1632. We have located only one other copy of the present edition in the library of Tresoar in Leeuwarden.The British Library database of bindings includes one binding by this Ghent binder. The title-page is worn and dirty with a small abrasion obliterating the letter S in "Stichtigh" and the upper outside corner of the last leaf has been restored with the loss of a few words of the text of the added drinking song. The binding is good with some cracks in the hinges and minor damage along the edges.l KVK & WorldCat 1 copy; cf. Kruyskamp Jan Mommaert en het "Stichtelyck Proces" in: Het Boek XXX pp. 306-312 1640 ed. unknown
16502105Dutch mid-17th century drawing possibly by Rembrandt pupil Willem Drost. Depicted is Diogenes in robes with his lantern in his left hand and a staff in his right and a group of four figures. Diogenes the Cynic 4th cent. BC renounced material possessions and lived in poverty. He would go out with a lighted lantern in broad daylight to look for an honest man instead he would only find that everyone around him was morally corrupted. He would scare passersby with his lantern causing them to lose their mask and reveal their true intentions.In the present drawing the group of four is clearly scared by the lantern of Diogenes who seems to be towering over them. In fact the artist has placed Diogenes on a higher plane than the passersby an invention that effectively enhances the morality of the scene. This is not found in other contemporary depictions of the same story by artists like Rubens Sandrart Castiglione and Jordaens.The artistdisplays a masterful understanding and application of chiaroscuro. Not only does he use it for the composition he also applies it to benefit the narrative. Light is literally and figuratively at the center of the scene. The artist from the "Rembrandt school" who made most use of stark chiaroscuro in his drawings was Willem Drost 1633-1659. He became a student of Rembrandt around 1650 which corresponds with the dating of the watermark. The style of drawing is also close to drawings attributed to Drost. The facial type of Diogenes in particular the pointy nose corresponds with that found in each of Drost's drawings in the Rijksmuseum. Also the hatchingsmatch those in other works by Drost who made much use of individual lines instead of a continuous zig-zagging stroke and penstrokes of varying thickness to create depth in his compositions Bonny van Sighem 2000.<i>Condition: Number 3 in pencil at the bottom previous attribution to Ferdinand Bol written in pencil on the back. Several small brown spots and a couple minor defects including one on the face of the central figure in the group top edge slightly frayed and creaded. Old repair with tape on the back at the top.Literature: B. van Sighem 'attributed to Willem Drost David Prevents Abishai from Killing Saul Amsterdam c. 1650 - c. 1655' in J. Turner ed. Drawings by Rembrandt and his School in the Rijksmuseum online coll. cat. Amsterdam 2000 Bonny van Sighem 2000; for the watermark cf. Churchill fig. 305; Heawood 305 & 307.</i>
17000000629Paris: Author 1700. Full leather. Very Good. 8vo. Modern quarter red morocco binding with on marble boards. Collation: Premier Section- 2 52 14 – 7 engraved tables dated Paris 1716 pp. 2- Blank; Seconde Partie- 2 72 5 pp.; Troisieme Partie- 1 60 pp. numerous diagrams throughout and 17 page table in Premiere Partie. There is extensive treatment of sundial theory geometry application and construction and application of different cadrans sundials. It is copiously illustrated with accurate finely executed drawings. The last part of the manuscript discusses and illustrates the use of portable and curious types of dials that could by use when making observations sun off surfaces separate dials for use with moon or stars. The use of two hands as a dial for determining time is also covered in a separate section. <br />This is a rare and thorough treatise for dialing with little evidence of author. No reference to the title could be found checking numerous reference sources. The date of 1700 on the title pages for each section may be accurate. However the printed geographical tables for longitude and latitude inserted as part of the first section have a date of 1716. <br/><br/>This is a rare and thorough treatise for dialing with little evidence of author. No reference to the title could be found checking numerous reference sources. The date of 1700 on the title pages for each section may be accurate. However the printed geographical tables for longitude and latitude inserted as part of the first section have a date of 1716. Author hardcover books
165952785<p>A CHARACTER OF ENGLAND. As it was lately presented in a letter to a noble man of France. SECOND EDITION 1659. The Second edition is one of three printed in the same year. The editions are easily recognised the title page in the first edition has present-ed and a small "s" after London and a different collation the second edition has present-ted and a comma after London the third edition has it printed on title page. 12mo small thin book approximately 120 x 60 mm 5 x 2½ inches pages: 6 1-66 collation A-C12 6 leaves in section "B" have paper fault to lower margins with slight loss of paper no loss to text see attached image and all leaves in this section have pale age-browning ESTC R213652. A PERFECT DESCRIPTION of the PEOPLE and COUNTRY of SCOTLAND London printed for J.S. 1659. Anonymous James Howell or Sir Anthony Weldon see Library Hub Discover. Pages: 2 1-22 last page blank pale age-browning throughout including title page ESTC R204012. Bound together in polished calf covers with old amateur repair to spine marbled endpapers engraved bookplate James Brindley Esq M.A.F. S.A to first pastedown. Spine rubbed corners worn at tips first inner paper hinge cracked a good tight copy. The Noble Man of France finds London to be a city with narrow streets and without fountains or running water. He admires St. Paul's and the Banqueting-house at Whitehall but is disgusted at the meanness of their surroundings. he then returns to complaints about the inconveniences of London and of the 'cloud of sea-coal'. . He has much to say of the national practice of drinking in Ale-houses and of the vile manners of the ladies and being Gaudy. He dislikes English social manners at dances at dinners in Hyde-park and in the Spring Garden. He is very difficult to please." - see full article in Keynes page 61. See Geoffrey Keynes John Evelyn A Study in Bibliophily with a Bibliography of his Writings page 60-67 No. 15 " A True first edition of A Character of England containing 42 leaves and 71 numbered pages is an exceedingly rare book. It was soon reset and reprinted on 36 leaves with 66 numbered pages as our copy listed and this is also very uncommon"; Christies The Evelyn Library Part iv page 87 No.1682 listing a third edition; Sotheby's The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volume I page 217 No. 354 listing the second edition; Bloomsbury Auctions The Cetus Library page 40 lot No.118 this is the same copy as the Pirie copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, printed for Jo. Crooke, and are to be sold at the Ship in St. Paul's-yard, 1659. hardcover
1695EBS100342Nuremberg: Johann Zieger 1695. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 17TH CENTURY TREATISE ON METALLURGY AND CHEMISTRY. Anonymous. "Treatise on the assaying of metallic ores. It gives an account of the reagents apparatus furnaces precautions lists of technical terms and methods for analyzing ores in the dry way." Ferguson I 487. - "The manner in which this sampling was carried out and the progress it had already made in the 17th century is best shown by a contemporary assay book which appeared without any indication of the author under the title. The anonymously published work is dedicated to Franz Carl Przehorschowsky Baron of Ovasegowiz in Zbraslawiz and thus suggests a Bohemian practitioner as the author. Independent assay book which the author has compiled "from his own long-term and proven experience". In addition to a general introduction to the art of assaying the necessary equipment individual metals as well as glass and the saltpeter boiling process are presented. The appendix explains the most important chemical terms and sayings. The pretty frontispiece shows a well-stocked chemical laboratory in which chemists and assistants are at work. DETAILS AND CONDITION: Engraved frontis showing assayers laboratory. 12mo 40 523 pp cont. rev. leather very worn and rubbed front cover nearly detached a10 torn repaired w/slight loss of text. Overall in good condition. RARITY: Extremely Rare. USTC lists ten library copies all in Germany. RBH records four copies sold at auction in the last century. PROVENANCE: From the Arthur C. Greenberg History of Chemistry Collection. REFERENCES: Ferchl p. 425. VD17 3:606584F. Darmstädter Probierbüchlein 102. Nuremberg: Johann Zieger hardcover
163289048Paris: Mathieu Colombel 1632. Fine. ""The more you stir the mire the worse it stinks"" Mathieu Colombel Paris 1632 11.4 x 16.7 cm Relié First edition only one other copy recorded BnF. Full dark purple morocco binding spine with five raised bands with gilt floral motifs gilt date at foot spine slightly faded covers numerously framed in gilt gilt-tooled corners each adorned with a blue onlaid morocco medallion stamped with a central gilt fleuron marbled endpapers and pastedowns pastedown bookplate of Ernest Stroehlin inner gilt dentelle spine-ends ruled in gilt very light rubbing to corners all edges gilt. A tiny restored lack of paper to the upper part of the title page not affecting the text. Very rare anti-Protestant satire in the form of a dialogue between the renowned Protestant minister Mestrezat and the warden of the Charenton temple where Mestrezat officiated. Undoubtedly one of the most theatrical expressions of the Catholic-Protestant controversy which had then traded weapons of steel for those of paper Pierre de Beloy: ""The time of the Edict of Nantes was marked by interconfessional controversy both oral and written with the aim of defeating the opponent silencing him or ideally converting him leading him from error to truth."" Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard. Techener described this work as a ""witty and spiritual critique"" adding that it is a ""very rare piece unknown to the authors of La France protestante"" Librairie Techener 1888 no. 3903. The Charenton temple where Mestrezat officiated was the place of worship for Parisian Protestants in the 17th century at a time when the practice of the Reformed faith was banned in major cities under the provisions of the Edict of Nantes. The warden of the Charenton temple mockingly referred to in this pamphlet as a mere lamplighter has even been identified as the celebrated Pierre du Moulin the first pastor of the temple who had gained the affectation in 1599 of the land to the Reformed Church of Charenton where a temple was erected Tombeau de la mélancolie p. 737. The anonymous author ridicules both protagonistsJean Mestrezat is portrayed complaining to the warden about having been attacked by ""the wicked little Abbé de Clausone""the fiery polemicist Gabriel Martin Abbé de Clausone had indeed written scathing pamphlets against him. Could this work be by Clausone himself rejoicing in his own writings Regardless retorts abound regarding the heresy of the Reformed faith a ""church order in which a lamplighter the warden holds one of the highest ranks""the same lamplighter who exclaims in these lines: ""I am more learned than all the Councils for I am able to censure them."" Outstanding copy with prestigious provenance beautifully bound in full morocco of this work of which only one other copy is recorded in in institutions. Provenance: Ernest Stroehlin 18441907 Doctor of Theology and Professor of Religious History at the University of Genevawith his engraved bookplate by Champel bearing the motto ""Mente Libera"" and his monogram ""GES"" Gaspard-Ernest Stroehlin on front pastedown. Repertoire of Controversial Works between Catholics and Protestants in France 15981685 no. 2957. Mathieu Colombel hardcover
164919048Paris: Claude Morlot 1649. FIRST EDITION. Crude woodcut on the title of two hands one holding a globe the other a compass. Recently sewn into old wrappers. Old marginal notations. Fresh. First edition a curiously accurate pamphlet of astronomical predictions. By tracking the movements of 48 constellations reconciled with the ages of the earth’s quadrants the anonymous author predicted the French Revolution the expansion of the Turkish empire the Gold Rush and the rise of the “Two Americas†as a global power. He also warns of a comet “with the head of an elephant and the tail of a dragon†destroying Jerusalem as punishment for wars and idolatry.<br /> <br /> This title has been overlooked by the standard bibliographies of the Americas.<br /> <br /> OCLC locates 4 copies in the U.S. BYU Kansas Harvard Newberry.<br /> <br /> Moreau I: 136 no. 430; Dorbon 157. Claude Morlot unknown
168619573Liege but Antwerp: Louis Montfort 1686. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Eighteenth-century marbled boards later reinforced spine; old library shelf labels on the spine and pastedown. In good condition. Only edition an ethics guide for angry people. The text begins by describing anger and listing its causes then expounds on its effects for the angry person and society in general. For example one who is angry distances himself from God is prone to foolish and irrational behavior and is unable to love others. The anonymous author then offers advice for ridding oneself of anger: recognize your anger as a burden read the Bible curse the Devil etc. The book concludes with a list of prayers to God and the Saints for controlling and eliminating anger. <br /> <br /> OCLC records no copies outside Europe; STC Netherlands 402258312; not in Barbier. Louis Montfort unknown
16621381629London: s.n. 1662. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto 2 pp. 5 - 134 2. In Good condition. Later three-quarter calf and marbled paper boards with significant wear to leather on spine lacking spine label. Boards are detached. Moderate wear to leather on boards light wear to edges and significant wear and chipping to leather along spine. Text block has moderate plus age toning to speckled edges significant age toning to front and back free end pages along edges moderate age toning to pages throughout interiorly and occasional ink marginalia in a seventeenth century hand. The bottom inch of page 131/132 has been torn away impacting the last four lines of text on both pages. An eight-line ink inscription appearing to be in an 18th century hand appear on the errata page "From the Printer to the Reader." listing errors found in the text. Text complete despite pagination. <br> <br> Shelved in Room G. EH Consignment.<br> <br> References: ESTC R21850; Sabin 98500. Henry Vane 1613-1662 emigrated from England to New England in 1635. A member of the most radical wing of the Puritans he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1636 but returned to join the Long Parliament in 1637. Vane's stay in Massachusetts was tempestuous and he returned to England in 1637 to become a member of the Long Parliament though his interest in New England continued. After the Restoration he was imprisoned for two years convicted of treason and executed. The present text authored by a partisan in favor of Vane includes the speech Vane intended to give from the scaffold but was barred by the court. The speech argues for parliamentary sovereignty and other radical political ideas that proved influential among American colonists. 1381629. Special Collections. [s.n.] hardcover
163289048De l'Imprimerie Mathieu Colombel | Paris 1632 | 11.4 x 16.7 cm | Relié
1700BTETM0002552Germany: Augusta J. Kopmayer 1700. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Imperial octavo 8vo 8 14 × 11 12 in 210 × 292 mm . Various. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Half parchment binding old editorial cardboard boards hand-colored signs of wear. Title on the frontispiece engraved in black. Woodcut initials. Numerous plates outside the text. Text written in two columns in Gothic character. Good state of preservation of the work which is not complete. Pp. 118 Published anonymously - Very rare treatise on the events of the time. Beautiful tables with views of cities and buildings. Collation: pp. 118 Please see Photos as part of condition report. 1700 THEATRUM MUNDI. ODER DER WELT SCHAU-PLATZ Vorstellend Verschiedene sonderbahre Begebenheiten Heiliger berühmter Leute wie auch vornehmer Gebürgen Meeren Flüssen Insulen Städten usw. By Anonymous Illustrated By: Various Illustrator Bio: Synopsis: Theatrum Mundi or the Great Theatre of the World is a metaphorical concept developed throughout Western literature and thought evident in theories of the world such as Plato's Allegory of the Cave and a popular idea in the Baroque period among some writers. This metaphysical explanation of the world portrays the world as a theatre evident in Shakespeare's dictum that "all the world's a stage" in which people are characters and their actions form a drama with God as the author specifically for some Christian thinkers. Format: Hardcover Imperial octavo 8vo 8 14 × 11 12 in 210 × 292 mm Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Language: German Published By: Augusta J. Kopmayer Germany Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Good - Half parchment binding old editorial cardboard boards hand-colored signs of wear. Title on the frontispiece engraved in black. Woodcut initials. Numerous plates outside the text. Text written in two columns in Gothic character. Good state of preservation of the work which is not complete. Pp. 118 Published anonymously - Very rare treatise on the events of the time. Beautiful tables with views of cities and buildings. Collation: pp. 118 Please see Photos as part of condition report. SKU: BTETM0002552 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5 L: 30 W: 25 Units: cm W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request Augusta, J. Kopmayer hardcover
169048360à Paris: Chez Daniel Horthemels 1690. Fine. Chez Daniel Horthemels à Paris 1690 10 x 17 cm relié First edition. A ruled copy. French translation of Latin text on same page. This copy bears unidentified initials. Contemporary lined red morocco spine in compartments with two tools crowned initials BD and a third letter most likely a T' and two hands shaking hands inside a heart the arms of the town of Sées in Normandy; these tools repeated on the corners of the covers with a triple fillet frame. The morocco lining also has these tools in the corners with a personalized central tool consisting of a crowned medallion with an angel facing a kneeling figure preparing to receive the Holy Spirit. Gilt edges. Slightly rubbed along joints. A fine copy in the rarest of conditions. Chez Daniel Horthemels unknown
1611645491 vol. in-folio reliure de l'époque pleine basane marron, dos à 6 nerfs orné, Par Jean Moussat, A Maillé, 1620, 549 pp. et 7 ff. n. ch. [ Suivi de : ] Chez la Vesve M. Guillemot & S. Thiboust, Paris, 1611, 2 ff., 144 pp. [ Histoire de Henri IV ], 14 ff. [ Trophées de la Vertu ], 128 pp. et 1 f. n. ch. [ Panégyrique et Discours funèbre ]
168712426Italy c1687-1730. Image: 395 by 510mm 15.5 by 20 inches. Sheet: 430 by 555mm 17 by 21.75 inches. Copper engraving. A Latin version of Pierre Aveline's view of London. Although the title cartouche has been changed the engraver has not changed the tower of St Paul's Cathedral to its post-Fire state. Although it is intended to represent contemporary eighteenth century London it still shows the Elizabethan theatres in Bankside. Scouloudi records this as a variant of the view published by Antoine Aveline 1691-1743 in the early eighteenth century but she does not record the copy published by his father Pierre Aveline. The present example could therefore be a variant on either the father's or the son's. Scouloudi pp.59-60. unknown
170069536London: Printed by A.M. for E. Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1700. RIVIÈRE & SON. . Valentine and Orson. The Two Sons of the Emperour of Greece. Newly Corrected and Amended; With New Pictures Lively Expressing the History. London: Printed by A.M. for E. Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1700.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> ANONYMOUS. RIVIÈRE & SON binder. Valentine and Orson. The Two Sons of the Emperour of Greece. Newly Corrected and Amended; With New Pictures Lively Expressing the History. London: Printed by A.M. for E. Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge n.d.c.a. 1700.<br> <br> Early English translation of the French prose romance "Valentin et Orson" the original of which was written between 1475-1489. Small quarto 7 1/8 x 5 9/16 inches; 181 x 141 mm. 1-181 3 table pp. Date is from ESTC. With an initial advertisement leaf and three final contents pages. With an advertisement at foot of Z4. In this edition the text is set in roman letter another edition has the text set in black letter. With a half-page woodcut on title-page a half-page woodcut on advertisement leaf/frontispiece and fourteen additional woodcuts in the text.<br> <br> Bound by Rivière & Son in full red morocco. Spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Board edges doubled ruled in gilt. All edges gilt. Front outer hinge repaired. Endpapers browned around the edges. Neat paper repair to preliminary advertisement leaf with a few letters supplied. Neat paper repair to lower corner of G4 affecting a few letters supplied in facsimile. Two tiny neat repairs in the text on I3 just touching a few letters. paper repair in the lower margin of Y4 touching a few letters. Half-inch closed tear to lower margin of H4 just touching the catchword on the verso. Three previous owner's bookplates to front pastedown including Justin G. Schiller's custom bookplate designed by Maurice Sendak on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy in a handsome binding<br> <br> "'Valentine and Orson' is a medieval French romance that became a popular English chapbook tale. Middle Dutch Low German German and Old Swedish versions suggest that the original verse version is an early-14th-century French text called 'Valentine and Nameless.' It first appeared in French prose with the author listed as Jac. Maillet in 1489 and was translated into English around 1502 by Henry Watson who added many plot details including a helpful dwarf magician and a dragon. Versions vary considerably in content as well as length: from Purfoot on it was stripped of sexual misdemeanors and Catholicism. The tale also appeared in verse and play forms which helped extend its popularity into the 19th century" Elaine Ostry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature.<br> <br> ESTC R34690<br> <br> HBS 69536.<br> <br> $2000. Printed by A.M. for E. Tracy at the Three Bibles, on London-Bridge unknown
1674002378London: Printed by J. C. for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleet Street near Cliffords Inne 1674. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4; pp. 8 1-250; 3/4 polished calf and marbled boards; rebacked; spine in 5 panels with raised bands and gilt decorations; engraved printer's device to title page verso; engraved vignette at beginning of first chapter; thin rubbed line along hinge of title page obscuring the first letter of the title; period brown-ink smudge and a small puncture to upper corner of title page; edges of first few leaves a bit brittle with several small nicks; two bookplates to endpapers - the first that of Colonel Robert Coleman Hall Brock 1861 - 1906 - prominent lawyer financier and scientist; the second that of Thomas Mitchell - possibly Scottish Lieutenant Colonel Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell 1792 - 1855 - surveyor and explorer of Southeastern Australia; a third period signature to bottom of last page; overall in very good condition. Called one of the earliest British scholarly histories of Russia written the book's authorship had been attributed to several figures including John Merrick Chief Agent of the English Muskovy Company. In fact the work was written by Sir Roger Manley 1626 - 1688 - soldier translator and author. Despite writing about the Time of Troubles without allegedly ever travelling to Russia Manley still produced a secondary source of great historiographical interest. Loewenson Leo. Sir Roger Manley's History of Muscovy: The Russian Impostor 1674. The Slavonic and East European Review vol. 31 no. 76 1952 pp. 232240. ESTC R22560 Wing M75 Printed by J. C. for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet Street, near Cliffords Inne hardcover
1674002378London: Printed by J. C. for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleet Street near Cliffords Inne 1674. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4; pp. 8 1-250; 3/4 polished calf and marbled boards; rebacked; spine in 5 panels with raised bands and gilt decorations; engraved printer's device to title page verso; engraved vignette at beginning of first chapter; thin rubbed line along hinge of title page obscuring the first letter of the title; period brown-ink smudge and a small puncture to upper corner of title page; edges of first few leaves a bit brittle with several small nicks; two bookplates to endpapers - the first that of Colonel Robert Coleman Hall Brock 1861 - 1906 - prominent lawyer financier and scientist; the second that of Thomas Mitchell - possibly Lieutenant Colonel Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell 1792 - 1855 - surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia; a third period signature to bottom of last page; overall in very good condition. Called one of the earliest British scholarly histories of Russia written the book's authorship had been attributed to several figures including John Merrick Chief Agent of the English Muskovy Company. In fact the work was written by Sir Roger Manley 1626 - 1688 - soldier translator and author. Despite writing about the Time of Troubles without allegedly ever travelling to Russia Manley still produced a secondary source of great historiographical interest. Loewenson Leo. Sir Roger Manley's History of Muscovy: The Russian Impostor 1674. The Slavonic and East European Review vol. 31 no. 76 1952 pp. 232240. ESTC R22560 Wing M75 Printed by J. C. for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet Street, near Cliffords Inne hardcover books
168852795<p>London printed and are to be sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers Hall 1688. 1688 Pamphlet: I. Of the longitude. II. The tricks of astrological quacks. III. Of the depth of the sea. IV. Of tobacco. V. Of Europes being too full of people. VI. The various opinions concerning the time of keeping the Sabbath. Small 4to approximately 190 x 135 mm 7½ x 5¼ inches pages: LACKING initial imprimatur leaf 6 1-24 bound in marbled wrappers bookplate of Fox Pointe Collection on first pastedown. Tips of lower corners chipped 1 lower margin slightly chipped not affecting text small old ink spots to 1 page all text legible a few tiny red spots to margin of last page a few margins lightly dusty otherwise a very good copy. In the fifth essay the author urges emigration to America "What Brave Spacious and Fertile Countries has His Majesty in America Not one beggar to be found in all Virginia Maryland New-York New-England nor any of the Neighbouring Plantations". See: A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Medical Library Volume 2 page 420 which only has 3 leaves at front instead of 4 probably missing the imprimatur leaf as this copy; Wing Short-Title Catalogue Volume 1 page 412 No. 7678; ESTC R24903. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, printed and are to be sold by Randal Taylor, near Stationers Hall, 1688.
169048360Chez Daniel Horthemels | à Paris 1690 | 10 x 17 cm | relié
