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1791001763Bath: Ex. Typographia S. Hazard 1791. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. William Hibbart. 8vo ix pp138 plus errata page complete with engraved frontispiece printed in sepia ink depicts passion flowers and the Scythian Lamb engraved by William Hibbart. Hardcover no dust jacket. Modern rebind of brown buckram with gilt titles to spine in near fine condition with small scrape to very bottom of front board. Inside a little mild foxing to last few pages a little marking to title page and discreet personal bookplate of J. A. Delhez to verso of frontis and except for a little expected aging all pages in very good clean condition. "First Bath printing of this romanticised Latin verse on the fertilisation of plants or the 'marriage of flowers by Demetrius de la Croix edited by Sir Richard Clayton and printed at Bath by Samuel Hazard. The poem was first published as the preface of Sebastian Vaillant's Botanicon Parisiense in 1727. Written by a Irish physician Demetrius MacEnroe who was living in Paris it was expanded and printed separately in 1728 under the name of Demetrius de la Croix a French translation of the author's Irish name. The poem attained a certain celebrity and came to the attention of both Pope and Swift". A nice copy of a scarce book. <br/> <br/> Ex. Typographia S. Hazard hardcover
1982mon0000014787Cornell University Press 1/31/1982 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 1.8504 in x 9.4488 in x 6.4567 in. 1st edition. Corrigenda sheet included. Hardcover with very good dust-jacket. Wear to edges of boards. Otherwise clean and solid. No tears stains or odors. NOT a book club edition. NOT ex-library. Hand-wrapped and packaged in cardboard. Cornell University Press hardcover
62308263Oxford University Press OUP pp. 408 . Hardback. New. Oxford University Press OUP hardcover
196366493Paris: Beaux livres grands amis 1963. Fine. Beaux livres grands amis Paris 1963 26.50 x 33 cm reliure de l'éditeur sous étui Edition illustrated with 20 original lithographs by François Chapuis and printed in 200 numbered copies on Auvergne paper. Fine copy complete with its slipcase split at head and foot. Publisher's Bradel binding in half black shagreen with bands unlettered smooth spine with small scratches Japanese paper boards binding by Jean Duval. Beaux livres grands amis hardcover
17591203270017Lugduni Typis Petri Bruyset Sumptibus fratrum de Tournes 1759. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 8 444 3 p. ; 18 cm. 3rd Edition. Bound in contemporary leather. Gilt lettering on spine. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Latin. Clean unmarked pages. <br><br> Francois Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix May 12 1706 - February 19 1767 was a French physician and botanist who was a native of Als. He was a good friend to famed Swedish naturalist Carl von Linn 1707-1778 to whom Sauvages de Lacroix sent botanical specimens from southern France for study and classification. Linn designated the genus Sauvagesia from the family of Ochnaceae in honor of his French colleague and in 1748 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences of which Linn had been a co-founder. The following year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. As a physician Sauvages de Lacroix is credited with establishing the first methodical nosology for diseases. His classification was based on the framework created by Thomas Sydenham 1624-1689 and was in accordance with the methodology used by botanists. His classification system listed 10 major classes of disease which were further broken down into 44 orders 315 genera and 2400 species individual diseases. This system is explained in his 1763 treatise Nosologia Methodica which was an inspiration to Philippe Pinel 1745-1826 and his early work with mental illnesses. Lugduni, Typis Petri Bruyset, Sumptibus fratrum de Tournes hardcover
162215400<p><b>1622 MARY Hortulus Marianus Catholic Church Douai Doway la Croix Miniature </b></p><p>'<i>Hortulus Moranius'</i>is a rare early 17th-century iconic Catholic liturgy filled with instructions on proper prayer and devotions. Written by Francois de la Croix this book provides practices for kneeling mendication and begging meditation achieving purity and effective contemplation.</p><p>Item number: #15400</p><p>Price: $499</p><p>LA CROIX Francois de</p><p><b><i>Hortvlvs Marianvs siue Praxes uariæ colendi Beatissimam V. Mariam</i></b></p><p>Dvaci : typ. B. Belleri 1622.</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o 34 344</p><p>· Language: Latin </p><p>· Binding: Vellum; tight & secure</p><p>· Size: ~4.25in X 2.25in 10.5cm x 5.5cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>15400</p> B. Belleri hardcover
2023x-036789890XRoutledge 2023. Hardcover. New. 720 pages. 9.69x6.88x1.97 inches. Routledge hardcover
172048020Köln: Noethen / Metternichiana 1720-1754. 10 vols. Full leather with 5 raised bands. Gilt title and decoration on spines. Red edges; 17x10 cm. Text in Latin. - ticket stamps bit browned few pages loose Although still very good rare complete and decorative set see picture. More pictures on request Year and number of pages per volume: Vol. 1. 1733 / 101 18 516 19 8 224 pp. Vol. 2. 1733 / 24 631 9 120 pp. Vol. 3. 1733 / 24 848 16 pp. Vol. 4. 1733 / 24 844 20 pp. Vol. 5. 1733. 8 298 6 16 449 12 pp. Vol. 6. 1724 / 24 880 pp. Vol. 7. 1724 / 16 881-1511 48 pp. Vol. 8. 1724 / 24 983 pp. Vol. 9. 1720 / 8 1014 1 pp. Vol. 10. 1754 / 20 859 pp. Noethen / Metternichiana hardcover
177848570Yverdon Yverdon-les-Bains: Dans l'Imprimerie de M. de Felice 1778. Fine. Dans l'Imprimerie de M. de Felice Yverdon Yverdon-les-Bains 1778 9.50 x 16 cm 2 volumes reliés First edition of this religious pastiche composed by Jesuit missionaries in India. Printed on the presses of Fortuné-Barthélemy de Felice at Yverdon it was published by Baron de Sainte-Croix. Later binding circa 1840 in full blonde calf. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fillets as well as long-grain brown morocco title and volume labels. Triple gilt fillets framing the turn-ins. Quadruple fillets and gilt floral cornerpieces framing the marbled paper pastedowns. All edges gilt. Handsome copy in attractive binding by Niédrée whose name is inscribed in pen on the first endpaper of the first volume. Dans l'Imprimerie de M. de Felice hardcover
168427126<p><strong>1684 OTTOMAN Empire 1ed Viziers Sultans Kaymakam PERSIA Turkey FRENCH Arms</strong></p><p>Francois Petis de la Croix was a 17th-century French scholar who was famous for his studies in orientalism. He traveled extensively throughout the Middle east studying in Syria Persia and Turkey. His memoirs proved to be one of the best first-hand resources on the Ottoman Empire the Kaymakam and sultans Jews in the Middle East Grand Vizier Ahmed Koproli and so much more!</p><p>Item number: #27126</p><p>Price: $599</p><p>CROIX Francois Petis de</p><p><strong><em>MeÌmoires du sieur de la Croix. contenant diverses relations treÌ€s curieuses de l'Empire Othoman</em></strong></p><p>Paris: Claude Barbin 1684.</p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages;</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol 2: 4 398 18</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Coat of arms of the Jubert de Bouville family</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Possibly Michel André Jubert de Bouville 1645-1720 a French state councilor and intendant of Orléans. He was raised to the marquisate and built the family's estate Chateau de Bizy.</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: French</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~6.75in x 4in 17cm x 10cm</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Quite rare</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p><u>Photos available upon request. </u></p> Claude Barbin hardcover
178660493Chez G de Bure l'aîné librarie de la Bibliothéque du Roi quai des Augustins n°42 Paris 1786. a new edition. Hardback. Half calf over marbled boards VG. 2 volumes ivviii491pp iv4912pp folding table to vol II Ex Libris Lord Sandys with his armorial bookplate to each volume leather a little rubbed along the edges contents bright with the occasional smudge endpapers unevenly tanned a nice set. An enlarged and first Parisien edition of the author's assessment & history of English Naval power in the 18th century. The book contains a history of the Royal Navy from Roman times & continues to the 18th century with much on Drake's battles in the South Atlantic the battles between the English & French for control of the Canadian trade etc. Guillaume-Emmanuel-Joseph de Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève de Sainte-Croix 1746 - 1809 French author & historian. In 1791 his estate was attacked & his noted & extensive library was ransacked. Goldsmiths Kress 13290. Chez G de Bure l'aîné, librarie de la Bibliothéque du Roi, quai des Augustins, n°42, Paris hardcover
178976058Paris: Different editors 1789-1792. 20 brochures in 1 halfleather binding of mid-19th century. 8vo 21x135 cm. Lightbrown hcalf spine nicely gilt in compartments with ribbons; 2 red morocco title labels. Covers with marbled paper. Corners sl. bumped. Edges painted red marbled endpapers. Nice interior state except for nr 2 title waterstained nr 3 waterstained and nr 4 seriously waterstained. - Important collection concerning the destruction of nobility in France. - Rare documents. Different editors hardcover
173918396Montpellier: Jean Martel 1739. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary mottled calf edges sprinkled red; title page with a blank space for the date completed in manuscript plus a small repair otherwise in excellent condition with the ownership inscription of J.B. Raudot on title. First edition of this dissertation on human pathology. The author first describes the nature of diseases: simple compounded and ailments that produce fluid. The second section addresses the causes and symptoms of illnesses. The last part classifies diseases into eight types.<br /> <br /> Although Garnier did not make a lasting impression in the medical community the respondent François de la Croix de Sauvage 1706-1767 was a renowned French physician and botanist who is credited with establishing a methodical nosology for diseases.<br /> <br /> OCLC locates only 2 copies in America NLM Univ. of Vermont; Conlon 39:457. Jean Martel unknown
176680007à Paris: Par la Compagnie de libraires 1766. Fine. Par la Compagnie de libraires à Paris 1766 9.50 x 17 cm 5 volumes reliés New edition. Contemporary full marbled calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title-labels garnet morocco volume labels. Headcaps of volumes I II and V partly worn. Lacking at tail of volume I. 4 corners slightly bumped throughout the set. Speckled edges. One wormhole to lower joint at head of volume III. Despite minor defects a handsome copy. The work presents itself as the translation by orientalist Pétis de la Croix of a manuscript given to him in friendship by ""Dervis Moclès"" the Faithful Dervish p. 49 who had himself translated and adapted Persian tales from Indian stories moreover sufficiently prized to be also known in a Turkish version under the title of al-Farage bada al-schidda1 p. 49. Thus anchored in Islamic literary tradition to which Pétis de la Croix had actual access through his training this corpus was then compared to the Arabian Nights and deliberately followed in its wake. A particular literary creation of the 18th century these tales borrowed from real Oriental sources while being at the same time pure creations but following the model of imitation and adaptation the author even going so far as to reverse the narrative mode of the Arabian Nights: a prince prejudiced against women; and in the Thousand and One Days it is a princess prejudiced against men. Some critics think that these tales would have been originally conceived to provide a sequel for publisher Barbin to the Arabian Nights of which 2 tales are found at the end of volume VIII. Par la Compagnie de libraires unknown
1684009691Paris: Claude Barbin 1684 2 parts in 2 vols in-8 36 428 16 pp.; 4 398 18 pp. Contemporary plain calf spines with raised bands marbled endpapers sprinkled edges upper joint of vol. I cracked but holding; vol. II worn at head of spine and upper corner; manuscript ownership inscriptions "Guyon de Sardicre" on both title-pages; bookseller's catalogue clipping pasted to vol. I; small hole at S4 in vol. II just touching text; light toning and occasional spotting. First edition of these important memoirs drawn from ten years' personal observation at the Sublime Porte by Édouard de La Croix 1640-1704 secretary to the French embassy in Constantinople. Cast in epistolary form Part I recounts the mission of Ambassador de Nointel from Malta through the Archipelago to Constantinople audiences with the Grand Vizier and the Sultan and provides a detailed description of the city the Bosphorus and the Black Sea fortresses together with discussions of Ottoman government military and religious institutions and capitulatory negotiations concluding with a glossary of Turkish terms. Part II extends to voyages in the Archipelago descriptions of Chios and Smyrna an account of the Grand Vizier Köprülü Fazil Ahmed Pasha and principal officers of the Empire the circumcision festivities of the princes Mustafa II and Ahmed III relations of Moldavia and Wallachia under their Phanariot rulers Ottoman-Muscovite warfare including the siege of Czegrin and a detailed narrative of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi and Jewish life in the Levant. An essential early French source for Ottoman court life under Mehmed IV. Claude Barbin hardcover
178646905à Paris: Chez G. de Bure 1786. Fine. Chez G. de Bure à Paris 1786 10 x 18 cm 2 volumes reliés Second edition partly in first edition preferable to the first as it was expanded with two books and supporting documents and above all corrected and revised by the author who complains about the first edition in the preface and the first Parisian edition after the original published in Yverdon in 1783. Bound in full blonde glazed and speckled calf. Smooth spine decorated with 4 tools in compartments. Red morocco title label; round black morocco volume label. Double fillet frame on boards. Handsome copy. Reflections on England's extraordinary naval power at the end of the 18th century and during its golden eras. The author after an introduction on the history of maritime powers traces the detailed history of the navy in England since Julius Caesar's invasion. All periods are studied: Middle Ages 17th century. The supporting documents are precious. Many pages are naturally devoted to the New World Francis Drake's battles in South America the conflicts between English and French for dominance of Hudson Bay the Seven Years' War and the conquest of Canada. Chez G. de Bure hardcover
1791262494Paris: Chez Buisson 1791. hardcover. good. 3 volumes. 8vo 1/2 contemporary calf with gilt decorated spines edges of contemporary board corners worn and bumped on all volumes spines lightly rubbed scattered light foxing mostly to margins in all volumes upper right corner lacking on last blank page of volume III pages in volume I slightly wavy throughout some pages lightly creased in upper right corner margins of volume II. Paris: Chez Buisson 1791. Second Edition<br/> <br/> Study of constitutions and their development. Pages 321-406 in volume II are a study of the United States Constitution. Pages 341-426 in volume III are a study of the French constitution. This work also includes the study of the constitutions of Germany Poland Sweden Venice the Netherlands Great Britain Naples Spain and Switzerland.<br/> <br/> Chez Buisson unknown
51-147519th Century. Oil on canvas. 55 x 68 cm. 21-7/8 x 26-7/8 inches. Relined. Annotated Sicilian Strandscene No. 48 on stretcher bar. 19th Century unknown
168820169<p><b>1688 AFRICA 1ed History EGYPT Mummies Pyramids Illustrated Tunisia MAPS LaCroix</b></p><p>Pherotee La Croix's "<i>Universal Relation of Africa</i>" is a famous 17th-century history of Africa. La Croix was a professor of geography in Lyon whose work on Africa became a lasting authority of African geography and history. However much of La Croix's "Afrique" was heavily inspired by Dutch author Olfert Dapper's "<i>Description of Africa</i>".</p><p>Even still La Croix's work is notable for the exquisite full-page and folding engravings as well as descriptions of some of the greatest mysteries of Africa including a section on <b><u>Egyptian pyramids the Sphinx and mummies</u></b>! Other topics include voyages to the Barbary coast Tunisia Algiers and Morocco.</p><p>Item number: #20169</p><p>Price: $1950</p><p>LA CROIX Pherotee de</p><p><b><i>Relation universelle de l'Afrique ancienne et modern</i></b></p><p>A Lyon chez Thomas Amaulry 1688. First edition.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages; </p><p>o Vol. I – 18 12 536 16</p><p>o Vol. II – 2 576 20</p><p>o <b>43 illustrations in two tomes</b></p><p>· Language: French</p><p>· Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p>· Size: ~6.5in X 3.75in 16.5cm x 10cm</p><p>· Exceedingly rare and desirable </p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>20169</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> Thomas Amaulry hardcover
17071673A Amsterdam: Aux depens d’Estienne Roger Marchand Libraire chez qui l’on trouve un assortiment general de toute sorte de Musique 1707. First Amsterdam edition. With Valentine de Laborde’s bookplate on inner front panel. Woodcut device on title page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. 19th century leather. Spine richly gilt with title vignettes. Marbled endpapers. Binding restored at hinges. Engraved frontispiece missing. Old entry of ownership on title page in faded ink. Some spots and stains occasionally throughout. L6 torn at lower corner with no effect to the text. Overall in very good condition. First Amsterdam edition. With Valentine de Laborde’s bookplate on inner front panel. Woodcut device on title page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. 19th century leather. Spine richly gilt with title vignettes. Marbled endpapers. 261 1 p. Frontispiece missing. <p><br /> First Amsterdam edition of this collection of oriental tales. <br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> Scarce edition of Histoire de la Sultane de Perse et des Visirs a collection of oriental tales partly corresponding with the stories of the book The Story of the Forty Viziers. Published first in the same year in Paris chez la veuve de C. Barbin translated by François Petit de la Croix however some sources attribute the translation to Antoine Galland the French translator of the Arabian Nights which was published three years earlier.<br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> Provenance: Valentine de Laborde 1806–1894 wife of Gabriel Delessert Prefect of Paris Police muse of Prosper Mérimée. <br /> <p>. Aux depens d’Estienne Roger Marchand Libraire chez qui l’on trouve un assortiment general de toute sorte de Musique unknown
17051410030042Parisiis: Sumptibus Claudii Rigaud via Citharaea 1705-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. 4 Volumes. Bound in contemporary full blind-stamped pigskin vellum. Black title on spine. Brass clasps to each volume. Original vellum tags on each title page for quick reference. Good bindings and covers with only minor Wear to extremities. Soiling to boards. Library markings on spine in contemporary gray black and red paint. Library bookplate of the Neander Library on inside boards. Owners inscriptions on inside boards detailing the set as a gift from Countess Marie-Margarite Waldstein upon her death in 1725. Presentation inscription on FEP to Dr. August Neander dated 1830 by Carl Hubner Carl Ferdinand Gustav Muller and Ludwig Wienfreiht Bath. Owners name of the Capuchin Monastery in Hradsite and date of 1725 on title page of each volume of Capuchin monastery in Hradiste. Lacking frontis of Pope Gregory I. Contemporary notation in ink and pencil on last blanks. Clean unmarked pages with minor tanning to extremities. Brunet II 1723/24. <br><br> Contents of each Volume are: Tomus primus. Libri moralium in Job XXXV. Libri duo in Ezechielem. Libri duo in Evangelia --Tomus secundus. Liber regulae pastoralis. Dialogorum libri IV. Registrum epistolarum. Epistolarum ordo restitutus. Index geographicus & varii alii indices --Tomus tertius. Liber sacramentorum S. Gregorii Papae ex editione D. Hugonis Menardi. Notae & observationes ejusdem D. Hugonis Menardi in Librum sacramentorum. Benedictiones quae in Libro sacramentorum desiderantur ex Lambecio. Benedictionum episcopalium aliud supplementum ex ms. Theodericensi. Liber antophonarius S. Gregorii Papae. Liber responsalis seu Antophonarius ex ms. Compendiensi. Variae expositiones in Librum I. Regum lib. VI. Expositio super Cantica canticorum. Expositio in septem psalmos poenitentiales. Concordia quorumdam testimoniorum sacrae scripturae --Tomos quartus. Vita S. Gregorii Papae auctore Paulo Diacono. Eadem auctore Johanne Diacono. Eadem ex ejusdem S. Gregorii Papae scriptis potissimum recens adornata. Sancti Paterii Liber de expositione Veteris & Novi Testamenti. Alulfi De expositione Novi Testamenti libe <br><br> Countess Mary Margaret Waldstein 1689-1725 was the wife of Prince Franz Josef of Waldstein 1680-1722 was an early supporter of the Capuchin Order and their monastery in Hradiste present-day Czechoslovakia. She is called the "mother of the Capuchins." <br> The House of Waldstein is a Czech noble family that received prominent state and civil positions beginning in the 17th century. It was one of the first among the Bohemian nobility to be promoted to Graf count in 1628 and two years later to the imperial court. Its most famous members include General Albrecht von Wallenstein and statesman Ferdinand Gabriel von Waldstein the patron of Ludwig van Beethoven. <br><br> The Order of the Capuchin Friars Minor is an Order of friars in the Catholic Church one of the chief offshoots of the Franciscan Order. The Order began in 1520 when Matteo da Bascio an Observant Franciscan friar said he had been inspired by God with the idea of that the manner of life led by the Franciscans at the time was not in keeping with their found St. Francis of Assisi had envisioned. He created the Capuchin Order to return to the primitive way of life solitude and penance as practiced by St. Francis. The name of their order comes from the Cappuccio a hood worn by the Camaldolese monks in gratitude for refuge given by the monks in the initial years of the order. <br><br> Dr. Johann August Wilhelm Neander 1789-1850 was a German theologian and church historian. Originally born into a Jewish family he changed his name to Neander when he became a Christian in 1806. A German Lutheran he studied with F D. Schleiermacher 1768-1834 in Berlin but soon switched his interest from speculative theology to church history. <br> His General History of the Christian Religion and Church Allgemeine Geschichte der christlichen Religion und Kirche remains the greatest monument of his genius. In this Neander's chief aim was everywhere to understand what was individual in history. In the principal figures of ecclesiastical history he tried to depict the representative tendencies of each age and also the types of the essential tendencies of human nature generally. His guiding principle in dealing both with the history and with the present condition of the church was "that Christianity has room for the various tendencies of human nature and aims at permeating and glorifying them all; that according to the divine plan these various tendencies are to occur successively and simultaneously and to counterbalance each other so that the freedom and variety of the development of the spiritual life ought not to be forced into a single dogmatic form" Otto Pfleiderer. <br> Neander had considerable influence not only in his own church and country but also further afield through the combination of scholarly excellence and personal interest that he achieved in his teaching and writing. Neander believed that church history is not just an academic pursuit but part of the mission and ministry of the church. <br><br>The Congregation of St. Maur often known as the Maurists were a congregation of French Benedictines established in 1621 and known for their high level of scholarship. The congregation and its members were called after Saint Maurus died 565 a disciple of Saint Benedict credited with introducing the Benedictine rule and life into Gaul. <br>The primary idea of the movement was not the undertaking of literary and historical work but the return to a strict monastic regime and the faithful carrying out of Benedictine life. <br>Their historical and critical school produced a number of works of scholarship which still are of permanent value. The foundations of this school were laid by Dom Tarisse the first superior-general who in 1632 issued instructions to the superiors of the monasteries to train the young monks in the habits of research and of organized work. The output was prodigious coming from a single society. The qualities that have made Maurist work proverbial for learning are its critical tact and its thoroughness. <br><br> Pope Gregory I Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 - 12 March 604 commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great was Pope from 3 September 590 to his death in 604. Gregory is well known for his writings which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope. He is also known as St. Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues. For this reason English translations of Orthodox texts will sometimes list him as Gregory Dialogus. <br> Throughout the Middle Ages he was known as the Father of Christian Worship because of his exceptional efforts in revising the Roman worship of his day. His contributions to the development of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts still in use in the Eastern Orthodox Church were so significant that he is generally recognized as its de facto author. <br> The Protestant reformer John Calvin admired Gregory and declared in his Institutes that Gregory was the last good pope. He is the patron saint of musicians singers students and teachers. The mainstream form of Western plainchant standardized in the late 9th century was attributed to Pope Gregory I and so took the name of Gregorian chant. <br> Gregory is commonly credited with founding the medieval papacy and so many attribute the beginning of medieval spirituality to him. Gregory is the only Pope between the fifth and the eleventh centuries whose correspondence and writings have survived enough to form a comprehensive corpus. GREGORIUS I MAGNUS 540-604. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Parisiis: Sumptibus Claudii Rigaud, via Citharaea hardcover
1768230014Mexico 1768. unbound. 2 pages in Spanish roughly translated 16.5 x 12 inches A Royal Proclamation: El Marquis de Croix March 9 1768 ordering the mine owners to make concessions and increase wages in small part: ".A decline in mining.the mines have the common enemy of water which has flooded them.the excessive construction cost of which the Kingdom has no wealth. Is the relief moderation the price you ask as the best mines are completely uninhabited and desolate Send my fatherly love to my vassals subjects.I'll strive by all means.that they are fruitful. I've visited the Council of the Indies. Faith issued.and the moderate price of quicksilver.which is distributed to the miners a part of the quarto has so far been given for relief to support the work.I command you with consequences that you publish and carefully observe that the above ceiling of a fourth part of the price at which would have been taken in quicksilver.be given to the miners.ending the embargo. Also by Royal Proclamation inserted within it is free of tax." Also signed by Manuel Rodriguez 1697 - 1772 -- military leader on the Coahuila-Texas frontier esteemed explorer and one of the greatest Indian fighters from Texas. After the departure of Jacinto de Barrios y Jaurequi in February of 1768 he became brief interim governor and military commandant of the Province. Rare signature as Commandant and Governor of the Province. According to the Texas State Historical Association "It was not until recently that archivists were aware that Rodriguez was a Governor.a fact scarcely noted by historians. Horizontal fold; two holes; smudges in the left margin. Very good- condition.<br/> <br/> De Croix 1699 - 1786 was the Viceroy of New Spain Mexico who served during the period of Great Turbulence. The sole purpose of his five-year administration 1766 - 1771 was absolute obedience to the king whom he always referred to as "Mi amo." In 1767 he expelled the Jesuits from the colony removing them from their Monasteries and Colleges allowing them to leave with scarcely the clothes on their backs. These measures provoked a rebellion in which the Viceroy dealt severely with the rebels proclaiming censorship of literary and scientific publications 1768 and hanging the leaders of the uprising. No sooner had opposition been eliminated de Croix turned his attention toward the war-seeking Apache and Comanche Indian tribes financing and authorizing an expedition led by Captain de Galvez into Nueva Vizcaya whereby the Indians were soundly defeated. In March 1768 following the slow-downs boycotts and disturbances in the mines of Guanajuato and Pachuca over the low wages paid to the miners de Croix stunned the Colony by siding with the miners and forcing the mine owners to agree to an increase in wages. His actions were deemed "one of the most significant social reforms in the New World" at that time.<br/> <br/> unknown
1688CAIla[SA43Paris: Robert Pepie 1688. 1688. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. 267 1privilege. woodcut title vignette headpiece & initial. contemporary mottled calf gilt back rubbed several holes in front joint lower outer corner damaged ink stains to pp. 62-63 few other stains to last leaf & margins of some others upper outer corner of last leaf & rear endpaper singed. First Edition Second Issue with cancel title. Only two copies of this issue are located in the Amicus database of Canadian libraries. The more common first issue has the title Estat Présent De L'Église Et De La Colonie Françoise Dans La Nouvelle France. with identical imprint. Saint-Vallier was Laval's successor as Bishop of Quebec 1688-1727. The present work written in the form of a letter to an anonymous friend describes his trip to New France between May 1685 and January 1687 to survey the bishopric prior to his consecration. On the voyage out he sailed on board the same vessel as the Marquis de Denonville the newly appointed Governor of New France. Saint-Vallier first visited Quebec then all of the parishes along the St. Lawrence finally arriving at Montreal. Travelling along the inland waterways he made his way with a small escort to Acadia returning to Quebec in the fall of 1686. His informal account provides descriptive details respecting the native tribes and their relations with the white settlers specific reports on missionary activities and sketchy information regarding troubles with the Iroquois. "This is one of the rarest accounts of the missions published irregularly after the discontinuance of the annual Jesuit Relations with the one for 1671-72.It appeared in one edition only but with different title-pages.". Bell Bell S58. Church 707. European Americana 688/208. Howes S41. JCB p. 198. Sabin 66979. cfDionne II 218 cfGagnon I 1284 cfHarrisse NF 159 cfLande 773 cfStreeter VI 3632 cfTPL 98 and cfVlach 665 other issue. DCB II pp. 328-334. Story p. 743. Winsor IV pp. 315-16. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Paris: Robert Pepie, 1688. Hardcover
1703B7089Paris: Chez Simon Langlois c 1703. near fine with text clean and crisp. . Edition: First Edition. Binding: Contemporary full paper boards expertly rebacked; raised spine with five 5 bands black ink title on vellum label on two; central black fleur de lis design on four. Notes: Provenance: Upper pasted endpaper with owner’s armorial bookplate: “Watkin Williams Esq of Penbedw // in the County of Denbighâ€. Concerning this name Archaeologia Cambrensis states: “1789. Watkin Williams Esq. of Penbedw in the county of Denbigh but owner of property in the parishes of Mallwyd and Llan-y-mowddwy in the county of Merioneth M.P. first for Montgomeryshire and afterwards during nearly thirty years for the Flint contributary boroughs was appointed lieutenant and custos rotulorum for Merionethshire.†Final free endpaper watermarked. <br>This edition of this Canadiana publication is unique in that we are not able to locate another copy of the same anywhere. The second last paragraph of the introduction to the priests clergy and missionaries in this edition states that this publication encloses at the end of the first part or 'Rituel' a second part entitled 'les Statuts Ordonnances & Mandemens.' instructions prepared at various times by the Church for the conduct of all including those entrusted to the clergy that these instructions may not be ignored. The recipient are advised that they are restatements of instructions previously given to be read often just as such given in the Ritual itself; they are to be followed with precisions including all the rules contained not to be lost sight of observed faithfully in all works and ones conduct. The inclusion of this paragraph is unlike the introduction of another edition published at the same time and same location but not including this paragraph or the 'Statuts.'. <br>The present work describing festivals sacraments statutes and ordinances for the use by priests in Quebec is extremely rare and was immediately followed by a second edition published the same year: Gagnon reports that in a copy of the second edition of 1703 now at the Laval University library and previously owned by Abbé Plante a note says that the first edition “would have been almost completely destroyed by the sinking of the ship …carrying it to Canada and for this reason a second edition was immediately made.†<br>On the “privilege†included as the final leaf in our first edition example it is stated that the work was registered on March 30 1703 and completed for print for the first time on March 31 1703; <br><br>Saint-Valier was a supporter of the Counter Reformation. His initial intent in the New World was to engage in the conversion of the indigenous residents. He introduced Jesuits and Recollects in an attempt to evangelize New France. Many of these missions Illinois Louisiana and Mississippi resulted in conflicts between Bishop Saint-Vallier the Jesuits and the seminary of Quebec.<br><br>His various construction projects reflect a desire to restore and renew the authority in the Catholic Church as the main institution of administrative organization. In 1697 Saint-Valier built a palace in Quebec for his clergy and as a place of hospitality. During the same year he also established a nuns monastery in Trois-Rivières Saint-Vallier’s zeal for religious activities and establishments stretched from Quebec Montreal Acadia and Louisiana. His way of life embodied that of the ideals of the Council of Trent.<br><br>The Diocese of Quebec was vast and its population diverse and widespread. It included the whole of French North America or what was called New France divided in seven colonies: Newfoundland Acadia ÃŽle Royale Louisiana Illinois Upper Country and Canada inhabited by Indigenous people and the European settlers. During the tenure of Saint-Vallier immigration from France was mostly over; the European colonists were farmers fishermen sailors merchants and ‘coureurs des bois’ overseen by a small elite of aristocratic leaders but a great demographic explosion occurred between 1685 and 1730 the white population in New France jumping from c. 12000 inhabitants to c. 41500.<br><br>During the same time the number of Amerindian fell from c. 163500 to c. 61500. That loss mainly in the tribes of Louisiana was attributed to warfare and diseases brought to the valley of the Mississippi. The number of Aboriginals compared to white settlers is one reason for the presence of so many religious orders in New France. The missions and conversions to Christianity were deemed very important.<br><br>Priests of the Missions Étrangères of Paris the Jesuits the Recollets and the Sulpicians often worked in collaboration with the nuns from different orders like the Congrégation de Notre-Dame or the Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus at l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. The arrival of Saint-Vallier and his strong views on what should be the duties of the priests created a shock wave in the orders especially for the Seminary of Quebec newly founded by his predecessor Bishop Laval. … Saint-Vallier's tenure as bishop was defined by interminable quarrels with governmental and religious institutions in French North America. … his active leadership style brought him into conflict with various groups who perceived him as at times domineering and micromanaging.<br>While subject to much criticism Saint-Vallier was also admired in his diocese for his dedication and self-sacrifice. Rather than staying in Quebec or Montreal he tirelessly traveled the back-country. The founding of the Hôpital Général and installation of Jesuits and Recollets at Montreal were also to his credit.<br><br>There was a very strong suspicion in the colonies and in France that the Bishop of Quebec was in fact a follower of Jansenism. . In the beginning of the 18th century the Bishop wrote 3 books; the Ritual the Catechism and the ‘Statuts et ordonnances’ – two of which are bound in the present volume. <br>…the Superior of the jesuite order decided to attack Saint-Vallier’s authority by writing a long critic of those three books seeing them as a "lapse into Arianism Pelagianism Jansenism Lutheranism and Calvinism". Father Bouvart based his accusations on different passages of the works of the Bishop … who eventually appealed to the Sorbonne to have his works rehabilitated. The doctors of the Faculty of Theology declared the Ritual and the Catechism perfectly orthodox and censured the critic of Bouvart. Nevertheless Saint-Vallier decided to re-edit in 1713 the Ritual so as to cast away all doubts about his pretended Jansenist ideas. This book remained in use in the parishes until the middle of the 19th century. The present work is the unedited original and first edition of his ritual and statuts. <br><br>The disputes with the religious orders of New France the government and the merchants gave way to a more peaceful period that lasted until his death. Austere throughout his life he became more and more humble in his way of living and turned toward contemplation and simple duties. .He also took very seriously his duties of Bishop and developed parishes in the farthest corners of the diocese.<br><br> Size: Octavo 213 x133mm. Illustration: Text in French; with some text in Latin<br>Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois ce 31 mars 1703. Relié avec le Rituel du même. <br><br>Illustrated with two printer's devices representing the arms of the archdiocese of Quebec; various head and tail pieces incl. vignettes; in-text music notes on Qiiii-Si; Ggii-iiii. References: Philéas Gagnon: Essai de bibliographie canadienne: Inventaire d'une bibliothèque . Volume 1: 3138 & 3139 p.437; Archaeologia Cambrensis Volume 1 p.142. Pages: Ff. 2 bl. ill. title bl. author to priests on the use of the book 4 Fetes Observe’es 4 604 table 2 errata 3 bl.; ill. title bl. letter 3 8-146 table 2 privilege 2 bl.2; In leaf collation: bl. v A-Z8 Aa-Nn8 Oo-Rr4 iiiff. table; a1 a3-a8 e8 i8 o8 u8 aa8 ee8 ii2 oo8 uu8 aaa1 ii bl. Category: Book Canada; Book Religious Christianity; Chez Simon Langlois, hardcover
16871559A Paris: Chez Daniel Hortemels Saint Jacques au Mecenas 1687. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine with five raised bands compartments gilt titled. Tinted edges. Bookplate and shelfmark on inner front panel. A different possessor’s inscription on flyleaf. Ownership stamp on title page. Spine with worm traces. Corners slightly bumped. Inside clean with occasional stains throughout. Overall in very good condition. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine with five raised bands compartments gilt titled. Tinted edges. 30 370 4 p. Complete. <p><br /> First edition of Du Vignau’s important work dealing with the decline of the Ottoman Empire.<br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> L'état présent de la puissance Ottomane was written after the unsuccessful siege of Vienna by the Ottomans in 1683 and the following withdrawal. It deals with the possible reasons led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire and provides an overview of the period Ottoman power. The book gained interest throughout Europe and in the subsequent year a second edition was printed in the Hague and an English translation was also published.<br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> A year after the present work Du Vignau published another book Le Sécretaire turc. “In both works he described himself as a former secretary at the French embassy in Istanbul the ‘secrétaire-interprète’ to the King’s fleet in the Mediterranean and even a godson to Louis XVI. None of these claims appear to be true.†Ghobrial 2013 Sieur des Joanots Du Vignau was a pseudonym invented by Édouard de La Croix who was indeed a secretary in the French embassy in Istanbul between 1670 and 1680 and again between 1685–1686. La Croix published his Mémoires in 1684 and four other books between 1686 and his death in 1704 among them Le Sécretaire turc and the present book. “The reason for his having used a pseudonym remains unclear. Interestingly the two titles published under the name Du Vignau … are the only books written by La Croix that were not dedicated to Louis XVI but instead to the Grand Duke of Tuscany an indication perhaps of his attempts to cultivate a new patron in the person of Cosimo III de’ Medici.†Ghobrial 2013<br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> Scarce we could trace only 3 copies in institutional holdings BL; BnF; Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon.<br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> Provenance: Bookplate: "De la bibliothèque du Comte Nicolas d’Eszterhazyâ€; ownership inscription in ink: “Clementsâ€.<br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> Bibl.: Ghobrial J-P.: The Whispers of Cities: Information Flows in Istanbul London and Paris in the Age of William Trumball. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013. pp. 1–7.<br /> <p>. Chez Daniel Hortemels, Saint Jacques, au Mecenas unknown
