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1638022099Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel 1638. . Your chance to own a complete Bible apart from one leaf printed only 27 years after the King James Version first came out - a huge one 15 inches tall similar to the pictures you may have seen of original 1611 editions. Hinges and extremities have wear and tear and clasps are missing. Early and late pages have furrows perhaps suggesting moisture issues long ago. A few small holes to pages appear to have been caused by rust and therefore presumably contamination of the paper by specks of ferrous metal. There are no extra materials apart from the translators' addresses to King James and to the reader at the front and the Apocrypha located between the Old and New Testaments. No endpapers - inside of front cover has old stamps of Thomas Garbutt Linen and Woollen Draper Barnard Castle likely from 100 or more years ago. The date of 1638 which is printed on the NT title page has also been added in an old but plain style in black pen at the bottom of the illustrated main title page which is a bit worn and grubby. Page 611-612 middle of Hosea is missing seeming at first glance not to have been present but in fact some tiny fragments do appear at the spine. The last page of text is dilapidated but the text of it seems near complete. Some old repairs have been made to borders of pages by pasting on paper which mostly seems of a similar nature to the original and in general when doing this care seems to have been taken not to obscure the text. The exterior is not elaborate but has a 3 inch long rhombus shaped area of gilt decoration to the middle of each of the two boards; there is no lettering or decoration to the spine. There are pictorial drop initials at the beginning of each book of the Bible and Apocrypha. This specific printing is said to have remained the standard text until the printing of Dr Paris' Cambridge edition of 1762. Leather. Average. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel Hardcover
1669032789London : Anne Seile 1669 A very good copy of the 5th edition 'enlarged and corrected by the Author'. In contemporary full calf binding which has been rebacked retaining the original spine and with the decorative title and 4 maps. The binding is in very good clean condition. The front board has the initials FT impressed on the leather and the corners have been rebuilt. The spine has a red title label and there is some fraying at the top edge. The back board has rebuilt corners and there is some scuffing to the leather surface. Internally there are no pastedown endpapers. At the front there is the bookplate of William Constable FRS and FAS. Constable was a noted collector and naturalist. Contents: Imprimatur; engraved title; rubricated letterpress title; to the Reader 7pp; To my brother 1p; introduction pp 1-24 with table of climates at p 20; title to First Book 1669'; map of Europe; text pp 27-272; title to Second Book 1668; text pp 1-226; title Third Book 1668; map of Asia; text 1-227; note on errata 228; table 229-230; title Fourth Book Part I Africa 1668; map; text 1-77; title Fourth Book Part II America 1668; map; text 83-154; title Appendix 1669 - including 'Terra Australis'; text 157-162; finis; blank; table 9pp; computation of coins 1p; alphabetical table 25pp; finis. Overall the contents are in very good condition with degrees of toning to the paper and the odd small spot or mark. The verso the imprimatur has old ink scribbles and some old repair; the engraved title has been relaid and has some loss to the corners; there is the occasional paper flaw or small edge tear to the top margin circa 4; and in the First Book p 185/6 has lost the top corner with loss of the page number but not text and the bottom corner of p233 without loss of text. The maps are very clean. The maps of Europe and Africa have old reinforcement to the side edge below the attachment and the map of Asia has some old small bottom edge repairs. There is a mispagination in the Fourth Book - 62-55-68-69 - but the text is continuous. Please enquire if you would like to see further images. Anne Seile hardcover
1654032978London: Printed by J G for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham at the signe of the Bear in St Paul's Church-yard 1654 A good copy in contemporary full pigskin with blind ruled lines to boards. The pages have been cropped so the margins and gutter are quite small and the book is slightly bowed as if it has been held or kept in a pocket for ease of reference. It is certainly an entertaining read. Thomas Hall circa 1610-1665 was a Presbyterian and at the time of publication was Pastor of Kingsnorton. His congregation dismissed him at the Restoration - and if his sermons resembled his writing it is easy to imagine why. A small sample: 'Lastly as no man may weare his owne haire excessively long so he may not weare the long haire of another be it of a man a woman or it may be of some harlot who is now in Hell lamenting there the abuse of that excrement'. The binding is sound with a area of leather loss at the bottom of the spine and light general wear. Contents with title blank verso; poems 5pp; errata 1p; text pp 1-95 blank verso; Appendix title blank verso; text 99-125 Finis; rear blank. Decorative head and tailpieces and initial capitals. Paper is clean with toning. The title page is very browned at the edges which are slightly ragged and there is a small pasted piece of paper over one word on last page of poems. There is some mispagination but the text is continuous: 58-56-60; 78-69-80; and 92-39-94. Printed by J G for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham at the signe of the Bear in St Paul's Church-yard hardcover
1614038884London: John Sudbury & George Humble 1614. Book. Illus. by Christoph Schweitzer. Good. Hardcover. Folio. A scarce edition of this important work on British history. This is a reissue of the 1611 first edition with the date to the title page altered accordingly ESTC No. S122020. While the text starts on p. 151 this book is complete in its own right: conceived as a companion volume to Speed's grand atlas "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine" and the pagination continues from that work. Fully collated includes the errata leaf to the rear often lacking the scarce "Proeme" author's preface; it is only the front and rear blanks not present. There are several errors with the pagination e.g. pp. 804 & 805 are numbered 796 & 797; Leaf 802 is misnumbered as leaf 801. Collation: frontispiece portrait later - dated July 28 1629; dedication page to the most high and most potent monarch James of Great Britaine.; The Contents 3 pages; The Proeme To the Learned and Lovers of Great Britaines Glory. pp. 151-154; main text pp. 155-894 beginning at Chap. 1. The Site and Circuit of Great Britaines Monarchie and ending with Book 10 - James of that name the first.; A Summary Conclusion of the Whole 3 pages; imprint page Imprinted at London by William Hall and John Beale for John Sudbury & George Humble; The Second index - 46 pages and finally the "Faults escaped" leaf errata. Numerous engravings in the text by Christoph Schweitzer including coins seals people head and tail-pieces. Contemporary or later half-calf binding with red title label to the spine. Binding worn and rubbed with both boards detached. Contents generally very good first few leaves detached pages generally clean title page laid-down with several chips as shown in photographs this and the later frontispiece plate dust marked. Provenance: with the Baptist College Library Bristol bookplate and that of "A. Gifford of the Museum" Dr Andrew Gifford 1700 -1784. A Baptist minister and the first assistant librarian in the British Museum's Department of Manuscripts. He was also the museum's first numismatist in 1756 Early inconspicuous manuscript shelf marks to the first few pages. A good complete copy though ideally requiring rebinding. A particularly scarce edition. A large heavy book a small postal surcharge may apply. John Sudbury & George Humble Hardcover
1700E0566xxiii43313 table pages with two folding maps of the Marsianes and Guam. Duodecimo 6 1/2 x 3 1/4" bound in contemporary full sheep with red label in gilt spine and five raised spine bands speckled red end pages. Brunet 28230 Cioranescu 41783 First edition.<br /><br />Charles Le Gobien was a French Jesuit writer founder of the <i>Lettres édifiantes et curieuses</i> a collection of reports from Jesuit missionaries in China. It is a major source of information for the history of Catholic missions and life in China in those times. Le Gobien was born at Saint-Malo Brittany. He entered the Society of Jesus on 25 November 1671. As professor of philosophy and especially while procurator of the Franco-Chinese mission he sought in a series of papers to awaken interest in the work of Christianizing Eastern Asia. In 1697 appeared at Paris his Lettres sur les progréz de la religion à la Chine. Apropos of Chinese Rites controversy he published among other things <i>Histoire de l'édit de l'empereur de la Chine en faveur de la religion chrétienne avec un éclaircissement sur les honneurs que les Chinois rendent à Confucius et aux morts</i> Paris 1698; and in the year 1700: <i>Lettre à un Docteur de la Faculté de Paris sur les propositions déférées en Sorbonne par M. Prioux</i>. Under the same date there appeared in Paris the<i> Histoire des Isles Mariannes nouvellement converties à la religion chrétienne</i>. The second part translated into Spanish by J. Delgado is found in the latter's <i>Historia General de Filipinas</i> Manila 1892. In 1702 Père Le Gobien published <i>Lettres de quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus écrites de la Chine et des Indes Orientales</i>; this was the beginning of the collection soon to become celebrated under the title of <i>Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangéres par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus</i>. The first eight series were by Le Gobien the latter ones by Fathers Du Halde Patouillet Geoffroy and Maréchal. The collection was printed in thirty-six volumes duodecimo Paris 1703–76 and reissued in 1780-81 by Fathers Yves de Querbeux and Brotier in twenty-six volumes duodecimo omitting the prefaces. New editions appeared in 1819 1829–32 and 1838-43. One abridgment in four volumes octavo was entitled <i>Panthéon Littéraire</i> by L. Aimé Martin 1834–43. A partial English translation came out in London in 1714. The publication incited the Austrian Jesuit Stöcklein to undertake his <i>Neuer Welt Bott</i> about 1720 at first considered merely a translation but soon an independent and particularly valuable collection five volumes folio in forty parts substantially completing the <i>Lettres Edifiantes</i>.<br /><br />This is a history of the Christian missions in the Marianas or Ladrones Islands in the north-western Pacific the principal island of which is Guam. Reprinted in the text are several letters from early missionaries Medina Clain Sanvitores &c. The Jesuit mission was established there by Diego Luis de Sanvitores. Father Le Gobien never visited the Mariana islands but based his account chiefly on the relations and letters of missionaries sent to him from Rome Spain the Netherlands etc. Includes a letter by P. Clain about the discovery of the Caroline Islands.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Rebacked with original spine laid down provenance: Jesuit College library with old stamps to front free endpaper half title and title page else about very good. Nicolas Pepie hardcover
165349198Leiden Joannis Maire 1653 - Amsterdam Ioannes Blaeu 1650. 4to. One contemp. full vellum. Contemp. handwritten titles weak to spine. First title in red/black with large engraved titlevignette. 81541 pp. Ars Historica 1653 - 169414 pp. Grammatistice etc. 1650 - 88315 pp. De Philologia 1650 - 1646733 pp. De Universae Mathesios. 1650. Fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>First edition of "De Qvattuor Artibus." which includes "De Universae Mathesios" with separate titlepage and second edition of "Ars Historica"The mathematical work: Poggendorff II 1235. "de Mathesios.": "According to prof. Cantor it is the first history of mathematics in its widest sense". Honeyman Coll. 3081. </em> hardcover
1642101095<p>London: Allen in Popes head Alley October 6 1642. 1642. Fair. - Octavo 8-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover printed self-wrappers removed from a larger collection of pamphlets in the distant past with stab holes along the left edge. Pages 1-25 24-31 34-35 34-35 and 38-60. The pamphlet is disbound and the pages are detached but present. There is underlining throughout. There is some occasional damp staining. Some of the corners and edges of the pages are chipped. The pamphlet is complete and collates with Wing P3893.</p><p>RARE. First edition. "The Aphorismes of the Kingdom" Thomason E.24026 and "The Commission of Array" Thomason E.24027.</p><p>The Thomason catalog is a collection of approximately 22000 books and pamphlets made by the London bookseller George Thomason between 1661 and 1662 documenting the political struggles between Parliament and the Crown during the Civil Wars Revolution and Restoration. An annotation on the Thomason copy reads "Printed 6 October 1642 at London by Allen in Popes head alley". The Allen referred to is undoubtedly the London bookseller & printer Benjamin Allen who was active from 1631 until his death in 1646. Located in Popes head Alley he published much of the political and theological literature of the period.</p><p>In the lead up to the first English Civil War Charles I and the parliament clashed over control of the armed forces. The King revived the medieval "Commission of Array" forcing local lords to raise troops for the Royal cause. This pamphlet is often attributed to Willam Prynne 1600-1669 who had been freed from prison in 1640. His persecution by the government of King Charles I and the Church of England escalated the antagonisms between the King and Parliament in the years preceding the English Civil Wars.</p><p>This anti-Royalist pamphlet is also anti-Church. The concluding pages 55-60 titled "Englands Tragedie" compare the antagonism between Parliament and the King to the "War in Heaven" as described in Revelation 12.</p> [London: Allen in Popes head Alley, October 6], [1642.] paperback
1672047903Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium 1672. First Edition. Hardcover rebound in leather. Very Good Condition. Rebound in calf in an antique style contents a bit browned Fine portrait of Honoratus Joannius who Kircher holds up as an ideal ruler. Engraved title 16 235 1. With extra engraved title two portraits a folding table and in text illustrations throughout including one full page of an obelisk on 235. Graesse K22 Brunet III 668<br /> <br /> A work containing Kircher's view on the virtues possessed by an ideal prince with Honoratus Joannius used as a model. The work concludes with an impressive display of Kircher's linguistic erudition with poems of praise in Latin Greek Hebrew Spanish Italian French German Arabic Syriac Aramaic Samaritan and Coptic. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Politics & Government. Inventory No: 047903. Joannem Janssonium hardcover
165826926London: W. Wilson. Good with no dust jacket. 1658. First Edition. Hardcover. Fairly old binding of black cloth. Owners Names and bookplate inside the front cover. One reference I find indicates at least one plate Adolphus on a horse which this copy does not have. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 42872 pages . W. Wilson hardcover
1604045016Paris: Ambrosium & Hieronymum Drouart 1604. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 5 volumes bound in 9 in contemporary calf. Worn at the edges and corners spines a little dry but intact and attractive overall. Volume 1 with a single title page some copies were apparently bound with a second title page noting Estienne the publisher of the Folio edition. Old bookplates inside covers ownership marks and stamps to titles and first pages occasionally trimmed a little close on the top edge just touching the running title scattered minor pencil marks light dampstain to the corners of a section of vol vii but otherwise clean and a very good set overall. <br /> <br /> This is the second edition of Thou's history published 1604-1608 and the first octavo edition. It was published just after the Folio edition a few months after for the first volumes and almost simultaneously thereafter. The first two octavo volumes corresponding to the first folio volume and printed in 1604 identified here as Pars I and Partis Primae Tomus II is bound in four volumes as is the second volume published in two octavo volumes in 1606 and corresponding to the Folio volume also published in 1606. They are identified as Tomus Secundi Pars Prima and Tomi Secundi Pars altera. The final volume identified as Libri VI is bound in one and published in 1608 the Folio edition was published in 1607-8. Because Thou was editing and changing his systems of identification as he published the books the naming system is a little odd - this final volume follows the third and fourth octavo volumes and not the first two in how it is numbered. 1005pp index; 1013 index; 958 index; 886 index; 501 privilege index. Kinser pages 10-20. Graesse VII 147.<br /> <br /> Thou's history is one of the great monuments of Renaissance history and in its scientific factual take on events was much more a work of the enlightenment than the counter-reformation. As a result and despite some minor changes from the first edition all of the later books dealing with the wars of religion and other topics ended up on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1609. A 1620 edition collected all of the history and added Thou's Mémoires. Size: Octavo 8vo. 9-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045016. Ambrosium & Hieronymum Drouart hardcover
1696032453London: Daniel Dring 1696 A good copy of an extremely scarce english translation of two early voyage accounts with 1 of 2 folding maps and 5 plates.' A New Voyage to the E Indies' by Pouchot de Chantassin was first published in Paris in 1692.'The Voyages of the Sieur Le Maire to the Canary-Islands Cape Verde Senegal and Gambia' by Joseph-Jacques Le Maire was first published in 1695. Le Maire's work is particularly interesting because of information it provides on W Africa in the 1600's including the extent of European interaction and the slave trade. This copy is in a fairly new full leather binding with raised bands and gilt titles to the spine. The binding is in near fine condition. New endpapers and initial and final blanks have been added. Contents: title page; author's preface 2pp; E Indies pp 1-187; Finis map of E Indies lacking; folding map of 'The Canarie or Fortunate Isles'; text pp 1-128 with 5 plates and sections on the rivers Zamenee St Domingo and Geva; Finis. Overall very clean with light toning to paper. There is a small ink mark to the side margin of the title page through to p4; a small repaired margin tear at p 37/8 of E Indies section; and a little light underling at the beginning of the Canary Islands section. A very scarce work. Daniel Dring hardcover
1603025415London: John Winder 1603. Second Edition Enlarged . Hardcover. Fair. 7 1/4" Tall. Vii 579 Pp. Small Fragments Of Original Spine With Circa 1800 Boards With Quarter Calf Quite Worn And Both Boards Detached Marbled Endpapers Armorial Bookplate Circa 1800 Of William Griffith Motto "Do Good And It Pursue" On Front Pastedown. Title Page Mounted On Very Old Paper And Rebound In Page Block Cut To 7" Height With Loss Of Top Of Page Headings On Some Pages No Loss Of Text. The Dedication Pages Of The Book Are Addressed To Thomas Lee Mayor Of London. This Book With Pencil Signature On Front Endpaper Of Charlotte L Lee Fitzroy Favored Daughter Of Charles Ii By A Mistress And No Known Relation To Thomas Lee Whose Daughter Married Leonard Benedict Calvert I And An Old Ink Note On P. 580 "Sarah ----- At Mr. ------ ----M". Engraving On Title Page Thou Shalt Labor For Peace / Plentie" Engraved Initials And Finals. This Book With Light Even Foxing Of Page Block Some Aging To Pages. This Edition The Last By Stow And Greatly Enlarged From The 1597 First Edition Is A Basic Reference For Tudor London. Scarce Worldcat Locating 11 Institutional Holdings Only. <br/> <br/> John Winder hardcover
1645F93FG6YNZ8OAMiddelburg 1645. 4to. 19th-century sprinkled paper wrappers. With a large woodcut illustration on the title-page showing the Middelburg coat of arms supported by a merman and a mermaid with ships in the background signed "I.C.I.". Set in textura. 36 pp. Two dialogues discussing Dutch warships capturing Dunkirk privateers and merchant ships. Dunkirkers serving the Spanish Navy were a major threat to Dutch trade and shipping taking hundreds of ships during the Dutch revolt. The present pamphlet discusses several commanders of warships including the Zeeland captains Jacob Pense Gerrit Verhagen Jan Evertsen de Jonge and Jacob Verhelle who captured no fewer than 30 Dunkirk ships in just one year. Jan Evertsen de Jonge was the son of the famous admiral Jan Evertsen who had captured the infamous Duinkerk privateer Jacques Colaert in 1636 and later fought several battles in the first and second Anglo-Dutch war. The pamphlet concludes with a list of captured ships mentioned in the text. It seems to have been written to advocate the fitting out of more warships to protect Dutch or more particularly Zeeland trade.Spine damaged otherwise in very good condition.l Den Zeusen Beesem 1062; Knuttel 5221; Thysius 4812; Tiele Pamfletten 3000. unknown
1700K4QGELE8L2SHNetherlands 1700. Small 4to 18 x 13 cm. Contemporary marbled boards. Album with 22 drawings on 21 leaves mostly in watercolour and pencil. 21 ll. of drawings 17 blanks Album with 22 charming natural history drawings on 21 leaves including an opening drawing of a putto in front of a column apparently intended as a sort of title-page followed by drawings of birds 5 flowering plants 14 and fruits or fruit-bearing plants 2.The boards are covered with marbled paper in a Dutch pattern similar to Wolfe 35 dating from the late 17th to early/mid-18th century. The paper is watermarked: freestanding rampant lion without crown but we find no similar mark in the literature.Some spots and thumbing throughout binding soiled and slightly worn along the extremities; a good copy. hardcover
160937081Printed on Bread-street Hill at the Sign of the Starre 1609. Sm. folio in sixes with wood-engraved title-vignette and several fine wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout; seventeenth century calf expertly rebacked in calf to style back with five raised bands second compartment with original red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt boards moderately age-marked corners strengthened a very good bright crisp copy. With nineteenth century inscription on front paste-down and corresponding signature on title. The work comprises: 1 A Historie in twenty books wherein the Antiquity of the Jews is discovered; 2 Seven Books of the Wars of the Jews; 3 Two Books against Appion the Grammarian in Justification of the Antiquity of the Jews; 4 A Book as touching the memorable Martyrdom of the Machabees; 5 Josephus Life. Written by himself. Note that the composition of the work differs; the printed order is 1-5-2-3-4. APPARENTLY AN UNRECORDED VARIANT. The style of the title is similar to Allison 7 see plate 8: this copy carries the same text but with considerable variations in typography and the title-vignette McKerrow 335 is unframed. IMPERFECTIONS: THIS COPY WANTS THE GENERAL TITLE DEDICATION TO LORD HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM AND PP.3-10 4 leaves; it retains Lodge's dedication to Anthony Palmer and his address 'To the Courteous Reader'. This copy also retains the misprinted pages 715-716 for 719-720; 522 for 555 of Allison 7. In the absence of the general title it is difficult to be certain but it appears to be a variant dated 1609 but conforming more closely to the first edition of 1602. VERY SCARCE. Printed on Bread-street Hill, at the Sign of the Starre, hardcover
1681H0011a2-a6b-b7c-c7d-2315 pages. Small square octavo 7 ¾" x 6 ¼" bound in full leather. Second edition. Thomas Barlow 1607-1691 was an English academic and clergyman who became Provost of The Queen's College Oxford and Bishop of Lincoln. He was considered in his own times and by Edmund Venables writing in the Dictionary of National Biography to have been a trimmer a reputation mixed in with his academic and other writings on casuistry. His views were in fact Calvinist and strongly anti-Catholic and he was one of the last English bishops to identify the Pope as the Antichrist He worked in the 1660s for the 'comprehension' of nonconformists but supported the crackdown of the mid-1680s; and declared loyalty to James II of England on his accession having strongly supported the Exclusion Bill which would have denied the Catholic James the succession. Pope Pius V's response to Queen Elizabeth I of England assuming governance of the Church of England included support of the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots and her supporters in their attempts to take over England "ex turpissima muliebris libidinis servitute". A brief English Catholic uprising the Rising of the North had just failed. Pius then issued a bull Regnans in Excelsis dated April 27 1570 that declared Elizabeth I a heretic and released her subjects from their allegiance to her. In response Elizabeth who had thus far tolerated Catholic worship in private now actively started persecuting them. Condition: Original bards with new period spine and red label with gilt lettering to spine corners rubbed and bumped else a good to very good copy. Printed by S Roycroft for Robert Clavel at the Peacock hardcover
1679032848<p>A Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1679 A fair copy of the 1st edition of the Description de la Grotte de Versailles bound with a very good copy of the 2nd edition of Labyrinte de Versailles in contemporary elephant folio full leather binding. La Grotte has had 5 of the 20 plates cut out but Labyrinte is complete. The binding is sound with raised bands and title label to spine. It is very worn with a lot of wear to corners with leather loss and to spine joints spine ends and edges. The surface of the boards is a little rough. All page edges red. There is an old bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper - Earl Vane from the Library of the Rev. John Vane. Contents: 3 blanks; title 1679; blank verso; Description pp 1-11; Imprimerie to verso p 11; plates 13 single and 2 double; title to Labyrinte 1697; blank verso; Description pp 3-34; blank recto with Explication du Plan du Labyrinte to verso; plate 1; fables quatrains by Isaac Benserade and plates Sebastien Leclerc on opposing pages - 78 pp 39 plates; table 3 pp with L'Imprimerie to verso final leaf; 4 x final blanks. The binding is 50 cm x 35 cms; the page size in Labyrinte matches that of the Grotte but the actual text and plate size is 15.8 x 10.2 cm. Contents are in very good clean condition. Please enquire if you would like to see further images.</p> De L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
1648032258At the Sun over against St Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet: Printed by William Wilson for Abel Roper 1648 A fair copy of an extremely scarce work. Thomas Overbury 1581-1613 is best known for the scandal surrounding his death by poisoning in the Tower and the trial that followed it some 2 years later. He studied Law in 1598 was knighted in 1608 and was known as a writer and poet. His account of the arraignment and trial of Raleigh is assumed to be written as an eye-witness. Raleigh was tried in 1603 and convicted of treason. His sentence of death was commuted to imprisonment and he was later briefly released before being imprisoned and retried in 1618. This trial reinstated his death sentence albeit by less gruesome means. The book contains Overbury's account of the first trial; an account of the second trial no author named; and Raleigh's letters to the King and to his wife before his death. The binding is more recent full panelled calf with title label to spine matching a contemporary design. There is a bookplate of Col William Allen Potter to the front pastedown. Col Potter was a High Sherriff of Nottinghamshire and President of the Thoroton Society. Newer endpapers and 2 initial and final blanks have been added. Contents: title page; blank text with decorative headpiece and initial capital pp 1-25; proceedings against Sir Walter R 1618 pp 26-34; Letter to the King pp 35/6; Letter to his Wife 37/8; Finis. The binding is in fine condition. The contents are fragile: the paper is very browned at points and the side margins have been reinforced probably when the book was rebound. It has also been trimmed at both top and bottom. P 7 has a couple of small holes next to the side margin and P 9 is particularly browned. Small parts of text are affected but the text can be read. Please ask for more images if you want to further assess condition. Size 13.5cm wide; 17.9cm high. Printed by William Wilson, for Abel Roper hardcover
163112London. Fine; Very Early Edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs in Large Folio 3 Volume . Set. 1631-41. Leather. gorgeous matching 3 vol. set professionally rebound in fine leather spine with raised bands and gilt lettering with new marbled boards and end papers. Volume 1 is from 1641 and is 1033 pages long Vol. 2 is from 1631 and is 788 pages long volume 3 is from 1641 and is 1030 pages long. VERY SCARCE AND HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE! A few pages professionally repaired. Each volume is 13 inches tall and 9 1/2 inches wide. Have pictures if so desired.; large size . hardcover
1697032556Havniae: Literis Justini Hog Universit 1697 A very good copy of the 1st edition in recent full calf binding. Thormodus Torfaeus 1636-1719 was educated at the University in Copenhagen and became Royal Antiquary of Iceland and Royal Historian of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway. This was his second work published in 1697 and concerns the activity of the Vikings in Orkney - particularly the material of the Orkneyinga Saga. The binding is in near fine condition and has raised bands and gilt titles to spine. The endpapers are recent and marbled with an old bookplate of J A Maconochie to the front pastedown and a newer bookplate of John Davie Manson Robertson a noted Orcadian to the fep. 2 new blanks have been added front and rear. Contents: original blank with latin note to top; rubricated title page with printer's device small paper repair to verso; note of authority; dedication 5pp; Praefatio ad Lectorum 7pp; verses 2pp; Libri I pp 1-155 some ink notes - generally dates in margins some ink marks p 55 and ink blot bottom margin p 117; blank; Libri II pp 157-190; Exemple Contract Matrimon pp 191-205; Libri III pp 207-228; index 10pp; old blank. Text with decorative headpieces tailpieces and initial capitals for each section. Contents with light toning and occasional mottling but in good condition. Literis Justini Hog, Universit hardcover
1659048785London: The Newcomb for George Thomason; JD for John Wright; Richard Chitwell and Thomas Cockerill 1659. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Three parts in five volumes in original uniform full calf. First volume with inner joints cracked and endpaper detached and title partially detached paper lifts from the removal of a bookplate on the front pastedown binding still sound and held by cords. Other bindings in fine condition with some surface wear all with neat later rebackings with the original spines laid back down. Rare together and with the folding map in volume 1. The subsequent parts published in 1680 and 1691. Rushworth died in 1690.<br /> <br /> Rushworth was Oliver Cromwell's personal secretary from the execution of Charles in 1649 to his elevation to Lord Protector when Rushworth became Registar of the Court of Admirality and them a member of parliament. His historical collections were enormously influential in shaping the narrative around Charles I and Cromwell and a favorite of Thomas Jeffersons some years later.<br /> <br /> volume I: 691 57pp with frontis portrait folding map later state portrait of Charles I. <br /> <br /> Second Part: 884pp last page with small tear to corner and 884-1388pp 315pp appendix.<br /> <br /> Third Part: Portrait of the author. 788pp index. 988pp index. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 048785. The Newcomb for George Thomason; JD for John Wright; Richard Chitwell and Thomas Cockerill hardcover
1624ST20829Paris: Sebastiani Cramoisy 1624. FIRST EDITION. 282 x 195 mm. 11 x 7 1/2". 22 p.l. 441 1 pp. lacking blank Ll3 and MMm4. <br/> 19th century brown pebble-grain morocco by Clarke & Bedford stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper covers framed by gilt and blind fillets oblique gilt lancets at corners raised bands spine panels with lancet centerpiece gilt lettering gilt-ruled turn-ins all edges gilt hinges recently reinforced with matching paper. Numerous decorative woodcut initials botanical woodcut tailpieces engraved title-page vignette of Saints Columba Patrick and Brigid and a small engraving of each saint in the text by Léonard Gaultier. Front pastedown with morocco bookplates of Henry Huth and of Charles Kalbfleisch. Shaaber M-180; Brunet III 1673; USTC 6002559. Joints and extremities a bit rubbed but the wear nicely hidden with dye text apparently washed and pressed in keeping with bibliophilic fashion at the time of binding isolated trivial foxing but still an excellent copy clean and crisp internally and in a sturdy binding.<br/> <br/> This is the Huth - Kalbfleisch copy of an uncommonly seen account of the lives of Irish saints. Our author Thomas Messingham ca. 1577 - ca. 1638 was a secular priest who served as rector of the Irish College in Paris and later as dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin. "Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum" his major work is primarily made up of the hagiographies of Saints Columba Patrick and Brigid with the lives of the lesser Irish saints and sermons composing the last few chapters. Although Messingham was more a compiler than a writer of original history the present work is of special value because it preserves sources that are now otherwise lost to us. Our copy has resided in two distinguished libraries. Former owner Henry Huth 1815-78 collected a wide range of materials always insisting that a book be in outstanding condition. The Huth sales conducted for a decade beginning in 1911 constituted one of the major stories in the history of the English auction rooms this copy was lot number 4948 selling on July 6 1916 for the substantial amount of £8. Afterwards the volume was in the collection of the eminent American collector Charles C. Kalbfleisch 1868-1943 who was particularly interested in fine bindings and early printing and whose books are known for their consistently fine state of preservation. In a sale entitled "The Arts of the Book . . . the Splendid Library Formed by the Late Charles C. Kalbfleisch New York" Parke-Bernet sold much of his collection in January of 1944 the present item was lot 630 selling for a wartime-depressed $25. Sebastiani Cramoisy unknown
1661372198Cologne: Kinchium 1661. Mallinckrot: Engraved additional title dated 1639. 20 125 11pp. Kortholt: 8 56pp. Fritsch: 6 74 2pp. 4to. Early drab paper boards alla rustica binding on three cords manuscript title on spine text uncut. Foxing and heavily toned. Provenance: Princes of Liechtenstein armorial bookplate. Mallinckrot: Engraved additional title dated 1639. 20 125 11pp. Kortholt: 8 56pp. Fritsch: 6 74 2pp. 4to. Mallinckrot's monograph published on the occasion of the celebration of the second centenary of Gutenberg's invention is the first thorough investigation of the early testimonies to the discovery of printing with the author in favor of Mainz against Haarlem. The work contains the first use of the word "incunabula" in connection with printing. The additional title engraved by Loeffler includes portraits of Gutenberg Faust and Shakespeare and a scene in a printing shop. <br /> <br /> The second work here bound following Mallinckrot is Protestant theologian Kortholt's study on the origins of mathematics and astronomy asserting the Greeks were taught by Chaldeans and Egyptians. Bigmore & Wyman 2:16 Kinchium unknown
1697ABC_47615Amsterdam 1697. 8vo. widow of Gijsbert de Groot Later greyish-brown wrappers. With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page three woodcut illustrations in the text including 1 repeat of the title page illustration and one large decorated woodcut initial. 1 1 blank 4 42 pp. Very rare 17th-century edition in the original Dutch of the history of the famous Dutch privateer Claes Compaen 1587-1660. He was born at Oostzaan in the Netherlands and started his career as a merchant but soon became undoubtedly the most daring and notorious Dutch pirate of his day especially active around 1620. For three years he hijacked ships in the English Channel the Mediterranean the Caribbean and off the coasts of Africa America and the West-Indies. The present story was first printed in 1659 and ran through more than a dozen editions to 1803 all with the main text set in a textura gothic type in the later editions a sign that it was a popular book for a lower-class audience. All editions are quite rare but especially the 17th-century ones thus a very rare edition of one of the most famous pirates.With the bookplate of Buijnsters-Smets on the inside of the front wrapper. The spine is somewhat damaged internally somewhat browned foxed and water stained the paper of some leaves is quite thin leaving some holes not affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition.l STCN 104026774 2 copies; WorldCat 1230938838 1 copy 966965894 1 copy; cf. Buisman 114; Muller America 2131; Scheepers II 1026; Waller 218 all ed. 1662; Muller 839/840 other eds. unknown
1612ST13801London: printed by Thomas. Snodham. for Iohn Stepneth and are to be sold at his shop at the west-end of Paules Church 1612. FIRST EDITION. 205 x 155 mm. 8 x 6". 18 p.l. 611 1 pp. 601-08 misnumbered 561-68 8 leaves. <br/> New unlettered limp vellum by Courtland Benson in imitation of the original binding. STC 1896; ESTC S124314. ◆Half a dozen gatherings a little browned occasional mild foxing or small rust spots additional trivial imperfections otherwise an excellent copy clean and very fresh in a pleasing new binding.<br/> <br/> This conversation manual by an Italian teacher based in London offers an intriguing glimpse into the lives and concerns of the wealthier classes in 17th century Europe. An early effort to teach language through dialogue the book is part cultural history part guide to better health and it is clear evidence of the importance of the study of Italian in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The seven dialogues cover subjects from health to travel to servants with Italian and English text on facing pages. Many of the dialogues begin with phrases that will be familiar to all beginning language students: greeting others selecting items of clothing asking prices or directions ordering food. As the conversations progress they explore various topics that one might expect to encounter in polite society. An early morning exchange between master and servant evolves into a discussion of the importance of sleep the optimal amount of sleep for good health and the significance of dreams. A dialogue that begins with ordering meals leads to an involved colloquy about the benefits and disadvantages of fasting and abstinence; the virtues and defects of bread butter meat dairy and eggs; diet recommendations for the healthy and the sick; the best diet for each season; and the importance of a walk after dinner. Other dialogues include advice for travellers observations on the political situation and life at court and finally a discussion of that most eternally fascinating topic: love. This work is of continuing interest and value to linguists as it documents the Benevento Italian dialect which is in need of preservation. It's an extraordinarily rare book probably because it was the sort of volume subjected to hard use: in addition to ours we could trace only two copies in ABPC and RBH since 1948. printed by T[homas]. S[nodham]. for Iohn Stepneth, and are to be sold at his shop at the west-end of Paules Church unknown
