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160530767Venetia Venice: Presso Marco degli Alberti 1605. Very Good. Venetia Venice: Presso Marco degli Alberti Alla Libraria della Speranza 1605. New Corrected Edition. Small octavo; full contemporary parchment contemporary manuscript spine title all edges stained blue; 1699pp.; woodcut title page vignette initials head- and tail-pieces. Light scuffing and soil to parchment small gouge to upper cover fore-edge else a Very Good fresh and sound example.<br /> <br /> Updated edition of this guide to good pious living and happiness by the Florentine academic Giovanni Battista Gelli 1498-1563. Presso Marco degli Alberti unknown
170232775Venetia Venice: Appresso il Ciera 1702. Very Good. Venetia Venice: Appresso il Ciera 1702. Quarto; full contemporary pig skin gilt tan spine label all edges speckled blue; three parts bound in one volume collated complete; woodcut printer's devices to each title page. Boards a bit soiled faint contemporary manuscript shelf number to spine foot occasional light finger soil throughout else a Very Good fresh and sound example.<br /> <br /> The Italian Cardinal's history of the Eighty Years' War first translated into English by Henry Carey in 1654 as "The Complete History of the Wars of Flanders. Appresso il Ciera unknown
178727337New-Haven: Daniel Bowen 1787. Very Good. New-Haven: Daniel Bowen 1787. First Edition. Slim octavo; early 20th-century three-quarter morocco over marbled boards upper cover lettered in gilt marbled endpapers; 30pp. A4 B-D4 collated and complete including half title and final blank. Leather rather dried and scuffed at extremities small loss at spine crown top margin of half title trimmed affecting contemporary gift inscription of a Sam Russell textblock uniformly toned and a bit foxed else a Very Good untrimmed copy overall.<br /> <br /> "The foundation of Mr. Whittelsey's eminence in life was laid in superior natural endowments and an early thirst for knowledge. Suavity of temper and dignity of manners with an early and decided choice of religion commanded respect. From youth to old age he had a reputation which is better than gold" p. 21. <br /> <br /> ESTC W21686; EVANS 20316; TRUMBULL 545. Daniel Bowen unknown
199546366Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995. First Edition. Large quarto 28.5cm; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 2xxx672pp.; sixteen leaves of color photographic plates halftone text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to cloth and jacket margins corners bumped ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Very Good and sound overall. Cambridge University Press unknown
173531032Basileae: In Officina Episcopiana 1735. Very Good-. Basileae: In Officina Episcopiana 1735. "Edition Novissima." Thick octavo 18cm.; full contemporary blind-tooled roan unadorned spine in five compartments; 1697676pp. collated complete; engraved portrait frontispiece woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces. Leather significantly scuffed joints cracked paper remnants to both boards and spine crown occasional foxing and finger soil to textblock small losses to fore-edge of five leaves N3 S3 T1 2K6 and 2P2 with very brief loss of text contemporary 1756 ownership inscription to front free endpaper mid 20th-century typescript biography of Buxtorf in Slovak tipped to rear free endpaper.<br /> <br /> Oft-reprinted Hebrew Aramaic and Latin lexicon by the Hebraist professor Johann Buxtorf 1564-1629. In Officina Episcopiana unknown
178831050Litchfield: Thomas Collier 1788. Very Good. Litchfield Thomas Collier 1788. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 262pp. collated complete with half title page. Half title spotted and soiled textblock toned light wear to margins else Very Good and sound. <br /> <br /> Ordinance sermon full of advice to the rising minister reminding him that "A severe and overbearing manner of address in preaching as if the speaker's mind were agitated with personal resentment against his hearers is by no means suited to promote their salvation" p. 9. <br /> <br /> ESTC W020496; EVANS 21133; TRUMBULL 802. Thomas Collier unknown
179029342Providence RI: Bennett Wheeler 1790. Very Good. Providence: By Bennett Wheeler at His Office on the West Side the River 1790. First Edition. Small octavo; modern blue wrappers; 271pp. A-C4 D2 collated complete. Very occasional spotting to textblock stock a bit browned else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Concludes with the minister recalling a sermon delivered at the same meeting house in 1775 "how you hung on his lips and with what ardour many of you were engaged to follow him under Michael your prince in the war with the Dragon even tho the horrors of intestine war then were just bursting over your heads." This memory is accompanied by the footnote "This was but a very few days before the Lexington battle and commencement of hostilities at the opening of the late desolating and bloody war between Great-Britain and America" p. 27. <br /> <br /> EVANS 22558. Bennett Wheeler unknown
168531054A Paris: Chez la Veuve d'Edme Martin & Jean Boudot rue Saint Jacques au Soleil d'or & au Sacrifice d'abel 1685. Very Good. A Paris: Chez la Veuve d'Edme Martin & Jean Boudot. rue Saint Jacques au Soleil d'or & au Sacrifice d'Abel 1685. Latest edition revised and corrected. Quarto. 16; 604; 20pp. collated and complete. Contemporary calf; five raised bands and gilt tooling to spine; edges sprayed red. Boards rather worn with exposure to edges and cracks to spine ends. Nevertheless secure in binding. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame Verdun with their rubber stamp to title page and a few ink annotations to preliminaries. Mild creasing and spotting to a few leaves else unmarked; a Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> Marie Cramoisy widow of Edme Martin took over the printing house after his death in 1670. In 1677 however she entrusted the printing to her son Gabriel Martin while she continued to run the bookstore. Books under the imprint of Chez la Veuve d'Edme Martin were published throughout the 1680s though so clearly her influence endured and she continued to work with her son and son-in-law Jean Boudot.<br /> <br /> Bibale 60538. Chez la Veuve d'Edme Martin, & Jean Boudot, rue Saint Jacques, au Soleil d'or, & au Sacrifice d'abel unknown
172446617Rouen: Robert Machuel 1724. Very Good. Rouen: Chez Robert Machuel derriere la Choeur de S. Martin-sur-Renelle 1724. First Edition. Quarto; full contemporary speckled calf elaborately gilt spine in six compartments all edges speckled red; 10564pp. collated presumed complete; engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates one folding woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces. Leather a bit worn with exposure at corners shallow surface scuffing joints very slightly tender else a Very Good and sound example. Handsome contemporary engraved armorial ex libris to front pastedown. <br /> <br /> Account of the life and exploits of Georges d'Ambroise 1460-1510 who was elevated to cardinal and prime minister under the reign of Louis XII leading the French army into Milan 1499 during the Italian Wars and wreaking such havoc Leonardo Da Vinci's magnificent horse sculpture was destroyed after the French used it for target practice that a revolt broke out in 1500 in favor of Ludovico Sforza. D'Ambroise returned to France where he commissioned a butter tower for the Rouen Cathedral and negotiated the Treaty of Blois and the League of Cambrai. Robert Machuel unknown
17975237Philadephia: Thomas Dobson 1797. Third Edition. Very Good. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1797. Third Edition. Duodecimo. 318 pages plus 2 pages of advertisements. Full contemporary sheep with red spine label. Translated from Dutch. The translator's "Advertisement" claims that this work is an extension of Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa" though the title and names have been altered because "it has been objected. that it does not coincide with the Work to which the title seems to connect it."<br /> <br /> Boards are rubbed and worn and some staining to spine. Corners are bumped and cracked and slight roll to spine. Binding is sound. Numerous ink drawings and other annotations/scrawlings to endpapers and first five leaves including title page. Prize bookplate from the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College to front pastedown. <br /> <br /> From the estate of author columnist and Presidential speechwriter William Safire. Thomas Dobson unknown
179527223Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1795. Very Good -. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1795. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; full contemporary sheep brown gilt spine label; ix10-5191pp. collated complete. Leather scuffed and worn small rectangular loss of leather mid-upper cover top third of front free endpaper clipped attractive contemporary library ex libris of the Ellsworth Library to front pastedown else a Good or better internally clean and sound copy.<br /> <br /> Concludes with lengthy list of nearly nine hundred subscribers including such post-Revolution luminaries as Barnabas Bidwell Timothy Dwight Ezra Stiles Noah Webster but just fifteen women.<br /> <br /> The detailed ex libris provides an excellent but also truly complex window into the early post-Revolutionary circulating library: "THIS BOOK may be drawn or returned on the third THURSDAY of every Month; two hours preceding sunset.Quarterly Library days are the third Thursday of January April July and October; when this Book must be returned by three o'clock afternoon.Penalty for lending this Book ONE DOLLAR: --for tearing a Leaf not less than SIX CENTS: --for breaking or bruising the Cover; turning down a Leaf; soiling or defacing not less than THREE CENTS; and more if the Librarian shall adjudge." And so forth. <br /> <br /> ESTC W31452; EVANS 29298; TRUMBULL 1237. Hudson & Goodwin unknown
167632685Mirandola: s.i. 1676. Very Good. Mirandola: s.i. 1676. 12mo; original drab card wrappers retaining original leather ties; 24226pp. collated complete. Wrappers a bit rubbed at margins and rather heavily soiled especially rear cover occasional internal soil else a Very Good still quite sturdy example leaves untrimmed in the original temporary binding. <br /> <br /> Posthumous edition of this minor work by the Catholic friar humanist and Galileo collaborator Paolo Sarpi 1552-1623. Here Sarpi delineates the history of ecclesiastical almsgiving a seemingly harmless topic from someone who frequently found himself scrapping with the Catholic Church. s.i. unknown
173930871Venezia Venice: Presso Andrea Poletti 1739. Very Good. Venezia Venice: Presso Andrea Poletti 1739. Later Edition. Two parts in one volume continuous pagination; quarto 24.5cm.; modern paper-covered boards new endpapers; 16170pp. lacking final blank otherwise collated complete; woodcut vignettes initials head- and tail-pieces throughout music on final leaves of text. Ex-Bibliothek Hennef with their rather dark interior rubber-stamps to title page recto and verso contemporary ownership signatures to title page boards a bit sunned else a Very Good fresh and sound copy deckled leaves pleasingly untrimmed.<br /> <br /> Later edition of this guide to the works and philosophy of the Italian Jesuit preacher and ascetic Paolo Segneri 1624-1694. Presso Andrea Poletti unknown
17870005177Madrid: Imprenta de Benito Cano 1787. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto x 139pp. full contemporary sprinkled calf extra gilt spine inked initials on title-page which is clipped across the top with loss of an inch marbled endpapers. <br/><br/>This is a new version of one of two of Jesuit Fr. Rapin's major works on ascetical theology The Perfection of Christianity 1673: he was a major opponent of the Jansenists. WorldCat cites only 1 copy of this in Mexico; Sommervogel vol. 6 Rapin no. 24b . Imprenta de Benito Cano hardcover
195333553Orgonon Rangeley Maine: Orgone Institute Press 1953 First Edition First Printing a Limited Edition of an undisclosed number black-stamped heavy orange-brown mottled cloth no markings NOT ex-lib binding tight pages bright limitation 'Copy No.' space left blank per usual fragmentary dust jacket included in 4 pieces & including only a tiny portion of the spine the full cloth boards excellent & unfaded with only a little softening to spine ends very slight discoloration to rear panel cloth else a clean tight exemplary copy dj portions now in mylar protector; tall 8vo; xvi 228pp illus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Orgone Institute Press hardcover
177430023New-Haven CT: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green 1774. Very Good. New-Haven CT: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green 1774. First Edition. Octavo. 29 pp. Printed wraps removed. Light staining and spotting; a couple ink marks to front and rear; binding sound and interior unmarked; a Very Good copy. Scarce in retail. <br /> <br /> Sabin 22387. Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green unknown
179426884Sagg-Harbour: D. Frothingham 1794. Good. Sagg-Harbor: D. Frothingham 1794. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 42pp. A3 B-E4 F1 collated and lacking half title and final leaf of text errata; title page printed within thick black rule. Faint dampstaining along spine edge of rear leaf textblock a bit toned contemporary ownership signature of a Susanna Miller at bottom of p. 9 else a Good albeit slightly incomplete copy of an uncommon Sag Harbor imprint. <br /> <br /> Tragic sermon delivered "in a season of unusual mortality" upon the occasion of the death of a three-year old child. <br /> <br /> ESTC W19336; EVANS 26709. D. Frothingham unknown
177425835Boston: William M'Alpine for the Rev. Mr. Williams of Windham 1774. Very Good. Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine for the Rev. Mr. Williams of Windham 1774. Presumed First American Edition. 16mo; full contemporary calf unadorned spine in six compartments; xvii1xviiivii.e. vii8-3391pp. B8 2B8 C-P8 Q4 R-2A8 collated complete. Leather a bit scuffed at extremities a few surface scratches to boards lacking endpapers contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown else a Very Good copy overall.<br /> <br /> Treatise first published in 1710 under the title "Schema Sacra" to accompany the author's text "Ratio Sacra." This the first appearance in the American colonies though another state provides the imprint "Printed and sold by William M'Alpine at his printing-office in Marlborough-Street" no priority. This copy includes the list of subscribers as well as the publisher's advertisement on p. 340. The list of subscribers includes by our count thirty-five women and a guy named "Mr. Life Night." The N.B. at the end of the publisher's advertisement assures the reader "As the above Books are mostly printed and bound by said M'Alpine he is determined to sell at the lowest Prices and will warrant all such to be neatly bound &c."<br /> <br /> EVANS 13155; ESTC W23140. William M'Alpine, for the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Windham unknown
179427215New-York: v.p. 1794. Very Good-. Two volumes in one; octavo 20.5cm.; quarter contemporary calf over recent boards typescript label mounted to upper cover. Boards a bit discolored textblock quite toned and brittle with rather extensive old tape repair throughout 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown occasional contemporary corrections to text of both titles else a Good or better quite serviceable copy.<br /> <br /> Two publications from 1794 by Timothy Dwight 1752-1817 dating from his tenure as headmaster of the Greenfield Academy. Dwight grandson of Jonathan Edwards founded the school shortly after his arrival in Greenfield Hill Fairfield Connecticut defying educational norms by admitting both boys and girls teaching them the same curriculum and doing away with corporal punishment. A year after the publication of these works Dwight left the Academy to assume the role of President of Yale University. Contents as follows:<br /> <br /> 1. Greenfield Hill: A poem in seven parts. New-York: Childs and Swaine 1794. First Edition. 1831pp. A4 B4 C-2L4. BAL 5048; ESTC W20423; EVANS 29625; SABIN 21554. <br /> <br /> 2. A Discourse on the Genuineness and Authenticity of the New-Testament: Delivered at New-Haven September 10th 1793 at the annual lecture appointed by the General Association of Connecticut: on the Tuesday before the public commencement. New-York: George Bunce & Co. 1794. First Edition. 78pp. A2 K4 L2. BAL 5047; ESTC W20199; EVANS 26924. v.p. unknown
179829339Norwich CT: Thomas Hubbard 1798. Very Good. Norwich: Thomas Hubbard 1798. First Edition. Stitched self-wrappers; 302pp. A-D4 collated complete. Light soil to title page textblock uniformly a bit toned else a Very Good and sound example. Inscription at head of title page: "Eunice Stone from the author."<br /> <br /> Concludes with a delightful appendix describing and promoting the town of Sag-Harbor where this sermon was delivered: "Has an excellent harbor wharves &c.--and is finely situated for trade and navigation--Before the late war the town was thinly inhabited. Those who tarried through that unnatural contest suffered greatly in every interest and feeling from the ravages of the enemy--But since the establishment of peace they have increased rapidly and business of every kind flourishes" p. 31.<br /> <br /> EVANS 33960; TRUMBULL 936. Thomas Hubbard unknown
1981064215William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 1981. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 10 volume set. A little shelf wear to black cloth hardcovers. Owner embossed stamp on front end paper of each volume. Volume 2 has 150 pages which are edge soiled please see photo. The other 9 volumes are in very good condition and all volumes are otherwise unmarked. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Hardcover
2012SONG1978703724Fortress Academic 2020-12-04. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.31x0.81x9.66. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Fortress Academic hardcover
2663491Reformed Free Publishing. NEW. 2015. 10-volume SET. Blue hardcovers with gilt lettering over red labels. This ten-volume set was originally published by Wm. B. Eerdmans beginning in 1943. It is the most extensive commentary on the fifty-two Lord's Days of the Heidelberg Catechism in English. Man's misery deliverance and thankfulness are clearly set forth revealing the distinctive truths of the Reformed faith. Reformed Free Publishing hardcover
1687496987London: Thomas Chapman 1687. . 32 716 pages a few small insect holes to margins of a few early and late pages. Presumed original binding has wear to spine and cracking to hinges. Leather. Good. Thomas Chapman Hardcover
2000S8346<p>Thessalonike: Byzantion 2000. Brand new. Complete Works in five volumes. Cloth 21 cm 2520 pp. Contains the original text in mediaeval greek; translation and comments in modern greek. Separate volumes also available; ask for details at: demmath@hotmail.com.</p><p>==============================================================</p><p><strong><i><b>IMPORTANT:</b></i></strong></p><ul><li>The shipping cost estimated by the system covers books weighing up to 750 gr.; a surcharge depending on the actual weight and destination applies for heavier books. You can also choose an international transporter and pay the shipping cost at delivery in your country.</li><li>Insurance of the shipment may also be necessary for some destinations.</li></ul> Byzantion hardcover
