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171025803Amsterdam 1710. Copper-engraved map period hand-colouring in outline. Tables upper left and along the right side. Attractive map of North America based upon De L'Isle's highly influential map of North America published in 1700.<br/> <br/> By combining a wealth of information and geographical observation with delicate engraving and an uncomplicated composition this elegant map is a superb example from the golden age of French mapmaking and was published in Chatelain's Atlas Historique an important encyclopaedic historical atlas. California is shown as a peninsula with a number of villages and mountains; the Mississippi River extends far north of its true source. The table along the right side details the various native tribes from each region with lettered references for locating on the map.<br/> <br/> Lowery 263; Phillips 579. unknown
1772LA - HAY383231772. Leipzig Johann Friedrich Gleditsch. reliés plein cuir de l'époque. Plats frottés avec épidermures et dos ridés ; page de titres avec inscriptions à l'encre d'époque et déchirure avec manque de 2 cm en bas de l'éditeur et de la date sinon bonne reliure et intérieur très frais. 2 très fort pt in-8. avec une gravure en frontispice ; dos à 5 nerfs avec motifs et titres en caractères dorés ; toutes tranches rouges. unknown
1772LA - HAY383221772. Leipzig Johann Friedrich Gleditsch. relié plein cuir de l'époque. Plats frottés avec épidermures et dos ridé ; page de titres avec inscriptions à l'encre d'époque et déchirure avec manque de 2 cm en bas de l'éditeur et de la date sinon bonne reliure et intérieur très frais. très fort pt in-8. avec une gravure en frontispice ; dos à 5 nerfs avec motifs et titres en caractères dorés ; toutes tranches rouges. unknown
1720LBW-1083Amsterdam circa 1720 463 x 619 mm.
1720LBW-1089Amsterdam circa 1720 380 x 477 mm.
1720LBW-1093Amsterdam, [circa 1720]. 331 x 654 mm.
1708LBW-3530[Amsterdam, 1708]. 354 x 462 mm.
1720LBW-8789[Amsterdam, circa 1720]. 469 x 593 mm.
177110865Leyden Johannes le Mair en Abraham Kallewier/ Leiden T. Koet 1771-1777. 74 3 8 62 8 14 1 7 1 8 15 7 30 p. Origineel goud-bestempeld Leer met ribben 8° Een bundel met zeldzame werken van en over de predikant en geliefd hoogleraar Nicolaas Hoogvliet 1729-1777. De laatste 30 pagina's bevatten diverse lijkdichten in een fraai oud handschrift overgenomen uit andere publicaties. Leyden, Johannes le Mair en Abraham Kallewier/ Leiden, T. Koet unknown
178151746Franckfurt am Mayn Johann Gottlieb Garbe 1781. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands richly gilt spine. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. 141706 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates with many figs. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>The offered item is bound together with another work: Jetze Franz Christoph. geographie für Militaristen und andere zum selbstunterricht. Mit 2 Kupfertafeln. Liegnitz und leipzig David Siegert 1791. XII147 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. </em> hardcover
172164835Nürnberg, Christoph Weigel, 1703 (recte um 1721). Fol. Mit 101 Kupfertafeln von Caspar Luyken. 2 nn. Bll., Späterer blindgepr. Lwd.-Bd. m. etw. Rückenverg. u. goldgepr. Deckeltitel.
1714A5FCO31WXHODNuremberg 1714. 8vo. Johan Friedrich Rüdiger Contemporary vellum author and title in gold on spine. With a double-page engraved frontispiece engraved by Johan Lorentz Hönnig a double-page letterpress title-page printed in red and black and 95 engraved plates each depicting several animals. 26 732 72 pp. Second edition of a pre-Linnean zoological work describing in 4 parts the names appearance characteristics qualities and habitats of quadrupeds birds fishes and invertebrates together with their medicinal qualities and uses by the German physician Georg Abraham Mercklein 1644-1702. He frequently cites classical authorities in the fields of medicine and natural history like Galenus and Aristotle. Also included are some mythological animals including several kinds of unicorn p. 28 and a dragon p. 611. Ten pages are devoted to the characteristics of the silkworm pp. 678-687. At the end an index of the animals illnesses and cures.With an early owner's inscription on first flyleaf. Slightly browned some marginal thumbing or minor stains but still in very good condition. Binding slightly soiled but in good condition.l Nissen ZBI 2790; VD18 12232300; cf. Krivatsy 1772. hardcover
178151746Franckfurt am Mayn, Johann Gottlieb Garbe, 1781. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. (14),170,(6) pp. and 4 folded engraved plates with many figs. Clean and fine.
178150964BB(s.l.), (Giessen). (s.n.), 1781. 12°. 8 n.n. Bl., 136 S. mit einer gestochener Titelbordüre. Etwas späterer Pappband mit blauem goldgeprägtem Rückenschild.
1737301340Amsterdam: By de Janssoons van Waesberge 1737. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Volume One only. 3357pp. 25 engravings including frontispiece complete. Woodcut vignettes. Half calf and speckled papercovered boards woth red morocco spine label gilt raised bands. Tear along the margin of the plate impression on Plate 10 joints a bit worn but still a tight very good copy. Treatise holding up a mirror to the vanities and eccentricities of women influenced by Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff Ship of Fools by a popular Decalced Augustinian monk and preacher son of a tavernkeeper known for his humor and eccentricity. A second volume was published in 1743. By de Janssoons van Waesberge hardcover
17275737The Hague 1727. Folio. Rutgert Christoffel Alberts vols. 1-3 and Isaac van der Kloot vols. 3-4; Amsterdam Hermannus Uytwerf; Rotterdam Jan Daniel Beman Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf with red and black morocco title and volume labels lettered in gold each volume with a central lozenge-shaped ornament on both boards surrounded by two decorative borders gold tooled board edges marbled edges. With an engraved frontispiece 8 title-pages 6 in red and black each with one of 3 different engraved vignettes plus 3 part-titles with a woodcut decoration 224 full-page engraved plates including 1 folding and 38 double-page plates an engraving on the dedication leaf in vol. 1 and a few engravings in the text. Further with several engraved headpieces woodcut tailpieces and a few woodcut decorated initials. 6 volumes vols. 3 4 & 6 in 2 parts each bound as 7. First Dutch edition of Picart's famous and richly illustrated work on religious customs ceremonies and costumes from all over the world. With its six volumes it is the most sumptuous publication ever on the religions of the world richly and beautifully illustrated with large and sometimes double-page or even folding engraved plates by the French engraver Bernard Picart 1673-1733 who lived in Amsterdam from 1708. The text was compiled from a wide range of sources including R. Simon J. Abbadie Dupin Thiers P. le Brun Boulainvilliers and Reland and edited by the Amsterdam publisher Jean Frederic Bernard for a French edition titled Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous le peuples du monde first published in 1723. It was translated into Dutch for the present edition by Abraham Moubach.The first two volumes discuss the religion of the Jews and Roman Catholics including a double-page engraving of the interior of the Portuguese synagoge in Amsterdam. The third and fourth volume deal with the religions of the "heathens" in the Americas including Mexico India Ceylon the Brahmans in India China Japan Africa and the Persians in Iran. The fifth volume concerns the Greek orthodox church and the several groups of Protestants. The last volume describes the Anglicans and smaller groups such as Quakers Mennonites Adamites Freemasons and finally Islam. Altogether the most important 18th-century survey work on the world's religions and their customs lavishly illustrated with very finely executed plates.From the library of Frederick H. Rindge 1859-1905. The boards are somewhat rubbed. The works are slightly browned and foxed throughout with the final leaves of volume 3 affected more than the others. Otherwise in good condition.l Alt-Japan-Katalog 1149; STCN 191420778; cf. Cordier Japonica col. 435; Lipperheide 1808; Sabin 62600 all French ed. hardcover
173741768London: Chez Jean Brindley Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles dans New Bond-street 1737. Folio. 20 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Second edition deluxe large paper issue with wide margins. 43 double-page engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeke including 42 numbered 1-42 and the unnumbered 1658 title with Anvers imprint. Engraved head-piece to first dedication. Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text and woodcut historiated and inhabited initials head- and tail-pieces and printer's ornaments. 12 1-236. 248 pp. Letterpress title with London imprint and four dedications to Henriette Cavendishe-Holles the King of Grande-Bretagne Charles Vicomte de Mansfield and to Cavaliers. Avertissement avant-propos four livres plus an Abbrege de la Cavalerie conclusion additions table des chapitres. With incisive manuscript commentary pencilled in the margins in both French and English. Text in French. Bound to style in eighteenth-century half leather over eighteenth-century comb marbled paper-covered boards and marbled endpapers<br/> <br/> Deluxe large paper issue of Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism with 43 splendid double-page engravings: "The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace equestrian literature." Ramsay<br/> <br/> Though considered a country of horse lovers England only produced one early master of classical riding: William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle who was a Royalist living in exile until the restoration of King Charles II. During his exile Cavendish opened a riding school in Belgium and wrote the present work La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. This text was the first of Cavendish's two important books on breeding and training horses and was translated into French from his English manuscript and published in Antwerp in two issues: 1657 and 1658 though many of the 1657 title-pages have been altered by hand to read 1658. The first printing was largely incinerated by a fire in the bookseller's shop and is all but impossible to acquire. Brunet Offered here is the deluxe large paper issue of the second edition of Cavendish's first book a work long cherished by bibliophiles for its typographical excellence and the masterful quality of its illustrations. It is a work that has been esteemed by countless generations of horsemen and revered by such master riders as La Guérinière Comte d'Aure and Steinbrecht. It is a landmark of equestrianism. Steinkraus Cavendish's book has been called the only really outstanding work on the subject written by an Englishman. Toole-Stott In it Cavendish discusses a wide variety of equine subjects including the recognition of the age and disposition of a horse; the characteristics of various types of horses such as the Spanish the Barb the English horse and the Arabian; methods of maintenance; and instructions on proper riding: "You must in all Airs follow the strength spirit and disposition of the horse and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order and nothing else." Of the 43 wonderful double-page engraved plates after Abraham van Diepenbeke 24 depict the multiple stages Cavendish and his assistant Captain Mazin employed in training horses in complicated maneuvers. The quality of the impressions in the present 1737 edition surpasses even those of the original edition. Steinkraus This was the first edition of La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux to be published in England with engravings pulled from the original 1658 copperplates which were acquired by the publisher Jean Brindley.<br/> <br/> Brunet I 1700. Graesse II 93. Huth 23. Lowndes 1663. Mennessier de la Lance II p. 250. Nissen ZBI 848. Podeschi Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship pp. 26 49. Ramsay "Early Dressage Literature to 1800" IOBA 6.9.03. Steinkraus Introduction to A General System of Horsemanship 2000. Toole-Stott Circus and the Allied Arts: A World Bibliography 84. Wing N884-87. Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles, dans New Bond-street unknown
173740577London: Chez Jean Brindley Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles dans New Bond-street 1737. Folio. 17 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches. Complete second edition. 43 double-page engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeke including 42 numbered 1-42 and the unnumbered 1658 title with Anvers imprint. Engraved head-piece to first dedication. Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text and woodcut historiated and inhabited initials head- and tail-pieces and printer's ornaments. 12 1-236. 248 pp. Letterpress title with London imprint and four dedications to Henriette Cavendishe-Holles the King of Grande-Bretagne Charles Vicomte de Mansfield and to Cavaliers. Avertissement avant-propos four livres plus an Abbrege de la Cavalerie conclusion additions table des chapitres. Text in French. Contemporary brown full morocco paneled blind with gilt filets on board edges and gilt dentelles seven raised bands forming eight compartments on a richly gilt spine with gilt-lettered red morocco titling-pieces in second and third compartments and gilt foliate tooling in rest marbled endpapers on laid paper all edges gilt<br/> <br/> Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism with 43 splendid double-page engravings: "The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace equestrian literature." Ramsay<br/> <br/> Though considered a country of horse lovers England only produced one early master of classical riding: William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle who was a Royalist living in exile until the restoration of King Charles II. During his exile Cavendish opened a riding school in Belgium and wrote the present work La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. This text was the first of Cavendish's two important books on breeding and training horses and was translated into French from his English manuscript and published in Antwerp in two issues: 1657 and 1658 though many of the 1657 title-pages have been altered by hand to read 1658. The first printing was largely incinerated by a fire in the bookseller's shop and is all but impossible to acquire. Brunet Offered here is the second edition of Cavendish's first book a work long cherished by bibliophiles for its typographical excellence and the masterful quality of its illustrations. It is a work that has been esteemed by countless generations of horsemen and revered by such master riders as La Guérinière Comte d'Aure and Steinbrecht. It is a landmark of equestrianism. Steinkraus Cavendish's book has been called the only really outstanding work on the subject written by an Englishman. Toole-Stott In it Cavendish discusses a wide variety of equine subjects including the recognition of the age and disposition of a horse; the characteristics of various types of horses such as the Spanish the Barb the English horse and the Arabian; methods of maintenance; and instructions on proper riding: "You must in all Airs follow the strength spirit and disposition of the horse and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order and nothing else." Of the 43 wonderful double-page engraved plates after Abraham van Diepenbeke 24 depict the multiple stages Cavendish and his assistant Captain Mazin employed in training horses in complicated maneuvers. The quality of the impressions in the present 1737 edition surpasses even those of the original edition. Steinkraus This was the first edition of La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux to be published in England with engravings pulled from the original 1658 copperplates which were acquired by the publisher Jean Brindley.<br/> <br/> Brunet I 1700. Graesse II 93. Huth 23. Lowndes 1663. Mennessier de la Lance II p. 250. Nissen ZBI 848. Podeschi Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship pp. 26 49. Ramsay "Early Dressage Literature to 1800" IOBA 6.9.03. Steinkraus Introduction to A General System of Horsemanship 2000. Wing N884-87. Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles, dans New Bond-street unknown
1744640861744. Leiden J. & H. Verbeej 1744 4° XVI 324 pp. 1 leaf "Avis au Relieur" illustrated with 4 large vignettes by J.v.Schley after C.Pronck with 13 full page engraved plates by Piere Lyonnet half leather; somewhat stained; very good coppy. BIRTH OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY FIRST EDITION! Abraham Trembley 1710-1784 Scientist Philosopher and Pioneer of Experimental Zoology from Geneva discovered the regenerative powers of the polyp and photosensitivity in an animal without eyes and he was the first to witness cell-division anddiscovered Hydra. Trembley was the first person to show that certain animals can be artificially multiplied by Division the first to make permanent grafts on animal tissues the first to prove by rigorous experiment that asexual reproduction by budding occurs in animals and the first to witness cell-division: he also discovered the process by which Protozoa multiply. These are only a few of his contributions to biological knowledge. A large part of his research was concerned with the little fresh-water polyp hydra an animal of particular importance today because it is one of the standard "types" used all over the world in teaching elementary biology to students of science medicine and agriculture. At the time of publication the immediate philosophical repercussions were even more startling animal soul was clearly shown to be material. The heterogenetic origin of life seemed to be confirmed. Bonnet suggested that the polyp bridged the animal and vegetable kingdoms nullifying their supposedly complete separation. Later he declared the polyp to be the key to the interpretation of nature. Baker Abraham Trembley the only full length account pp. VIII ff.; Forerunners of Darwin 1959 pp. 116 ff.; Nissen 4163; Wolf History of Science II 466; Dobell Leeuwenhoek; Shirley A. Roe Development of A. v. Haller's Views on Embryology in: Journal of the Hist of Biology 8 pp.167 ff.; S.G. & H.M. Lenhoff Hydra and the birth of experimental biology 1986. Garrison & Morton No. 307 hardcover
1758479141758. Disp. morborum 4/143. - Hrsg. v. Albrecht v. Haller. - Lausanne Marc Michael Bousquet & Socior 1758 4° 2 pp.697-712 1 gefalt. Kupferstichtafel Rückenbroschur. Abraham Vater 1684-1751; Johann Gottlieb Vater 1716-1732 unknown
1710precDisbound quarto; 15 x 23 cm; xii 56 pages; worn and soiled; blindstamp of Chicago Theological Seminary on title page.<br /><i>Seder Mitzvot Nashim</i> The Order of Women's Precepts by Benjamin Aaron ben Abraham Slonik of Grodno c. 1550–c. 1619 translated into Italian by Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn in 1614; this copy printed in Venice 1710. <br /><br />A practical and fairly sympathetic guide to women's ritual obligation first published in Yiddish in Cracow 1577 in Italian in Padua 1616. This was probably the most popular of the rabbinical guides to a woman's three ritual obligations: 1 the taking of a piece of dough before baking bread 2 the lighting of lights on the eve of the Sabbath and festivals and 3 observing the various rules of ritual purity during and after menstruation. It went through numerous editions in Yiddish and Italian through 1750. OCLC locates ten copies of this edition.<br /> Gioanni de'Paoli. Nella Stamparia Bragadina books
173927896Jessnitz Saxony-Anhalt: Bi-defus Yisrael bar Avraham 1739. Hardcover. Good. Four volumes folio published between 1739 and 1742. Woodcut printer's device at titles; woodcut endpieces in first volume. Hebrew text opens from right to left; leaf numbers in Hebrew characters. Hebrew chronograms yield Jewish dates of publication 5499-5502. Brown library buckram scuffed at extremities spines lettered in gilt. Endleaves renewed. A good set. See foliation and condition notes for each volume below.<br /> <br /> Scarce eighteenth-century edition of this seminal compendium of Jewish law halakhah. Compiled between 1170 and 1180 while Maimonides was living in Egypt the Mishneh Torah is regarded as the author's magnum opus. It is the only Medieval-era work that surveys the full panoply of Jewish observance including those laws that are only applicable when the Jerusalem Temple is in existence. The present edition is the first to contain Judah Rosanes' commentary Mishneh le-melekh. "Mishneh Torah" The Repetition of the Law is an appellation originally applied to the biblical book of Deuteronomy; the subtitle "ha-Yad ha-Hazakah" The Book of the Strong Hand plays on its subdivision into fourteen books: the numerical value fourteen is represented in Hebrew letters as Yud 10 Dalet 4 which forms the word "yad" hand. Maimonides sought to provide a complete statement of the Oral Law so that a person who mastered first the Written Torah and then the Mishneh Torah would be in no need of any other book. Contemporary reaction was mixed with strong and immediate opposition focusing on the absence of sources and the belief that the work appeared to be intended to supersede study of the Talmud itself. Maimonides responded to these criticisms and the Mishneh Torah endures as an influential work in Jewish religious thought. According to several authorities a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides even where he apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted. Likewise: One must follow Maimonides even when the latter opposed his teachers since he surely knew their views and if he decided against them he must have disapproved their interpretation.<br /> <br /> Vol. 1: 1 title 8 234 102 3 ff. Repairs at title page with very slight loss of text at verso following leaf and the final leaf. Text embrowned often heavily in first half with some light marginal dampstains throughout. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least three hands.<br /> <br /> Vol. 2: 1 title 148 112 2 ff. Marginal repairs to first and last two leaves no loss of text. Moderately dampstained throughout with some mild embrowning. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least two hands; three old stamps at title including at least one censor's approbation.<br /> <br /> Vol. 3: 1 title 221 169 ff. Repairs at bottom margin to title with loss of some text below imprint and at final lines of rabbinic approbations at verso and at bottom margin following leaf with some text loss and obscuration by translucent paper tape. Small marginal repair at final leaf. Light dampstaining in first half; remaining text with mild embrowning. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least two hands; two old stamps at title including at least one censor's approbation.<br /> <br /> Vol. 4: 1 title 135 138-154 157 1 ff. Marginal repairs to title and final leaf no loss of text. Sporadic light embrowning and marginal stains. Old manuscript entry in Hebrew at title.<br /> <br /> A complete set with only minimal text loss in a few places -- a very usable scholar's copy. References: Vinograd Jessnitz 46; Fürst 2: p. 295; Zenker p. 583<br /> <br /> Title in Hebrew: ×ž×©× ×” תורה ×”×•× ×”×™×“ החזקה ×œ×”× ×©×¨ הגדול ×”×’×ון ×¨×‘×™× ×• משה בר מימון זצ׳׳ל ×¢× ×”×©×’×ª הר×ב׳׳ד זצ׳׳ל ופירוש הרב מגיד ×ž×©× ×” וכסף ×ž×©× ×” להג×ון המשביר ×¨×‘×™× ×• יוסף ק×רו זצ׳׳ל ומגדל עוז והגהות ×ž×™×ž×•× ×™×™×•×ª ופירוש ×¨×‘×™× ×• עובדי והרב המוסמך מדר׳׳ל ן׳ חביב על הלכות קידוש החדש ×¢× ×›×œ הצורות השייכות להלכות ×לו ולהלכות שבת וסוכה ×•×¢× ×ž×•×¨×” ×ž×§×•× ×¢×œ דברי הרב המגיד וכסף ×ž×©× ×” ×’× ×©×ª×™ מפתחות גדולות ורחבות ×חת על סדר ×”×¤×¨×§×™× ×•×חת על דרך ××œ×¤× ×‘×™×ª×” ×œ× ×—×¡×¨ דבר מכל כפי ×שר × ×“×¤×¡ ב×משטרד×<br /> <br /> Rabbi Moses Maimonides the Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death he is generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah his only work not in Arabic still carries canonical authority particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community as the codification of Talmudic law. His other works include "Kitab al-Siraj" a commentary on the Mishnah "Kitab al-Fara'I" a book on precepts and the celebrated philosophical work "Dalalat al-Ha'irin" known in Hebrew as the "Moreh Nevukhim" The Guide to the Perplexed. In this latter work Maimonides attempted a philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages. Bi-defus Yisrael bar Avraham hardcover
1730153282London: J. Tonson and J. Watts 1730. Binomial expansion First edition containing Moivre's first published attempt at approximating the terms of a binomial expansion. "Moivre's discovery greatly clarified the concept of probability in his own time and became the most fruitful single instrument of discovery used in probability theory and statistics for the next two centuries" Norman. Quarto 243 x 191 mm. Contemporary calf red morocco label red speckled edges. 18th-century armorial bookplate of Thomas Turton to front pastedown. Neat restoration to joints and extremities some scratches to covers light running staining in gutter and at head contents otherwise unmarked. A very good copy. ESTC T96683; Norman 1531. unknown
173435709Nu¨rnberg: Riegel. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1734. Hardcover. Woodcuts; 4 491 37 pages; 22 woodcuts emblems. Engraved frontis. Title: Mercurialis oder Winter-grun Das ist: Anmuthige und Kurzweil-volle Geschichte und Gedichte. Worinnen unterschiedliche sittliche Lehr-Puncten und sehr reicher Vorrath biblischer Concepten zu finden: Allen betrubten und freudenreichen Gemuthern Pfarrherren Predigern wie auch Geistlichen Ordens-Personen ingleichen allen Privat-Lesern zur erspriesslichen Zeit-Vertreibung namentlich freudig zu leben und freudig zu sterben zusammen getragen durch P. Abraham a S. Clara Weyland Augustiner Baarfusser und Kayserl. Prediger: Und mit saubern Kupfern geziert/Mit Erlaubnis der ObernAuthor: Abraham a Sancta Clara - Abraham a Sancta Clara Austrian divine was born at Kreenheinstetten near Messkirch. His lay name was Johann Ulrich Megerle Not to be confused with his uncle Abraham Megerle de composer 1607-1680 . He has been described as "a very eccentric but popular Augustinian monk." In 1662 he joined the Catholic religious order of Discalced Augustinians and assumed the religious name by which he is known. In this order he rose step by step until he became prior provincialis and definitor of his province. Having early gained a great reputation for pulpit eloquence he was appointed imperial court preacher at Vienna in 1669. The people flocked to hear him attracted by the force and homeliness of his language the grotesqueness of his humour and the impartial severity with which he lashed the follies of all classes of society and of the court in particular. In general he spoke as a man of the people the predominating quality of his style being an overflowing and often coarse wit. There are however many passages in his sermons in which he rises to loftier thought and uses more dignified language. He died at Vienna on 1 December 1709. In his published writings he displayed many of the same qualities as in the pulpit. Perhaps the most favorable specimen of his style is his didactic novel entitled "Judas der Erzschelm" 4 vols. Salzburg 1686-1695. His works have been several times reproduced in whole or in part though with many spurious interpolations. The best edition is that published in 21 vols. At Passau and Lindau 1835-1854. See Th. G von Karajan "Abraham a Sancta Clara" Vienna 1867 ; Blanckenburg "Studien uber die Sprache Abrahams a S. C." Halle 1897 ; "Sexto Abraham a S. C." Sigmaringen 1896 ; Schnell Pater A. A S. C. Munich 1895 ; "H Mareta Uber Judas d. Erzschelm"Width: 7" Height: 8.5"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This antique volume is bound in full leather with raised bands and stamped lettering and ornamentation to the spine. The book shows external wear with rubbing to covers and loss at the top/bottom of the spine and at the outside corners of the boards. The binding is sound. The antique bookplate of book dealers "Benziger Bros." of New York and Cincinnati appears in the upper left corner of the front pastedown. The title page is printed in red and black. Rector and verso of the title page have library markings. The age-toned pages display light foxing. This work is illustrated with a frontispiece engraving textual woodcuts head- and tailpieces. Scarce- Worldcat locates but 5 copies worldwide. . Riegel hardcover
