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1658ST16442s.l.: s.n. Printed Anno Domini 1658. FIRST EDITION. 190 x 135 mm. 7 1/2 x 5 3/8". 3 p.l. 14 pp. complete. <br/> 20th century vellum-backed marbled boards flat spine with vertical titling. Front pastedown with bookplate of the Fox Pointe Collection. Wing P-2842B; ESTC R207754. ◆Text lightly washed and pressed but still crisp faint foxing to lower edge of title page otherwise a fine fresh copy in an unworn binding.<br/> <br/> Written by an opinionated English cleric this is an extraordinarily rare pamphlet proposing an unusual fund to support young 17th century scholars. According to DNB the scheme outlined in the present work was meant "to support the university studies of young men of promise seeking entry into the ministry." The plan "was approved by John Worthington and Anthony Tuckney and had the support also of John Arrowsmith DD Ralph Cudworth William Dillingham DD and Benjamin Whichcote. The fund raised about £900 and it appears that William Sherlock afterwards dean of St Paul's received assistance from this fund during his studies at Peterhouse Cambridge until 1660 when he graduated BA. Those entrusted with administering the fund sent Poole regular reports on students interviewed and the ratings they had received in philosophy logic and languages. The scheme was abandoned at the Restoration." Poole 1624 - 79 was the author of a number of controversialist pamphlets on subjects ranging from Unitarianism to preaching by lay persons before undertaking his major work: a synthesis of critical biblical commentaries "Synopsis criticorum aliorumque sacrae scripturae interpretum." This is one of his scarcest writings: ESTC lists seven copies two in North America while ABPC and RBH record just two copies at auction. s.n. Printed Anno Domini 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
169316636Altdorf: Literis Henrici Meyeri 1693. 1693. Good. - Small quarto 8-1/2 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide softcover printed self-wraps. 32 pages. The paper has becom somewhat limp. The title page is foxed with its edges chipped & there is foxing throughout. The page corners are creased and/or chipped. Good. <p>A dissertation in Latin by seventeenth-century philologist Daniel Wilhelm Moller 1672-1712 professor of history and metaphysics at the university in Altdorf Switzerland. The subject of this work is Gaius Julius Solinus a fourth-century or possibly third-century Latin grammarian and compiler and author of "De mirabilibus mundi" "The wonders of the world" also known as "Collectanea rerum memorabilium" and "Polyhistor". [Altdorf]: Literis Henrici Meyeri, [1693]. paperback
161999891<p>1916-1922. 1916-1922. Very good. - A fascinating archive consisting of autograph letters signed by Carolyn Perera Nana Genovese Gazzale and others typed letters signed autograph notes flyers and other ephemera including a letter about securing Arturo Toscanini to conduct a benefit concert which was to be Toscanini's Carnegie Hall debut.</p><p>Following is a detailed description of the material covering the period during and following the First World War:</p><p>1. A receipt for a donation given by Miss Genovese to the "Italian Bazaar for the Benefit of War Sufferers". The receipt is dated October 30 1916 and is signed by Arturo Di Pietro as secretary of the Italian Bazaar Committee. Di Pietro later was a contributor to "Il Nuovo Mondo" the anti-Fascist newspaper.</p><p>2. Undated circa 1916-17 Italian Red Cross flyer signed in print by its President Gian Giacomo Cavazzi Della Somaglia. Cavazzi 1869-1918 was a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy and from 1913 until the end of the war he was President of the Italian Red Cross. He actively collaborated with Tito Ricordi for the creation of the Hospital of the French Cities housed from January 1916 in a part of the Officine Ricordi. On the verso of the flyer are 2 handwritten columns of names and addresses of Italian Americans possibly members or potential donors.</p><p>3. Three items related to the Italian Red Cross: a A fund raising flyer in Italian translated: Those wounded in battle await proof of our sacred brotherhood. b A flyer in English from the American Red Cross - Italian Auxiliary requesting aid in "making surgical dressings hospital garments and knitted articles for our fighting men". c A receipt dated 1916 for a donation from Mme Genovese Gazzale signed with a stamp by Lionello Perera the Italian Delegate for the American Red Cross. Perera 1873-1942 was a prominent New York banker who had a prominent role in the creation of the Italian Welfare League.</p><p>4. A form letter addressed to "Mrs. Gazzale" asking her to become a member of the Italian Welfare League "And give it your support". "The Italian must be helped to understand America and America to understand the Italian so that he may become a self-respecting citizen and an integral part of the civic life of New York the second largest Italian city in the world." The letter is signed in ink "Luigina Littlefield / Chairman mem Com".</p><p>5. An autograph letter signed "Carolyn A. Perera" thanking Mme. Genovese for 2 tickets to a concert she was unable to use: "I should have loved to have heard you. May we make you a Director of the Italian League. I know your heart is with us." The wife of Lionello Perera Carolina Allen Perera 1883-1966 served from 1920 to 1942 as the League's first president.</p><p>6. Undated autograph letter signed "Carolyn A. Perera" thanking Mrs. Genovese for becoming "one of the Directors of the League for we need you and want you". She mentions a meeting Friday and asks her to "Bring in a list of possible members.". On the verso of the letter Genovese has written the names and addresses of 11 possible members.</p><p>7. An undated autograph letter on Italian Welfare League letterhead to Mme. Genovese signed "Carolyn A. Perera" soliciting money "to be sent thru the Italian Consulate to Italy for the earthquake sufferers." She mentions that Mrs. Wm. Guggenheim donated $500.00. The Garfagnana and Lunigiana regions were struck by a powerful earthquake on 7 September 1920.</p><p>8. A letter to Madame Genovese on Italian Welfare League letterhead dated September 22 1920. The letter signed by Margherita De Vecchi one of the founding members of the I.W.L. thanks Mme. Genovese for her contribution to the special fund for the earthquake victims.</p><p>9. A typed letter signed by Marie Di Giorgio a Vice-President of the Italian Welfare League. In the letter dated November 22 1920 she informs Mrs. Genovese that the I.W.L. "has secured Maestro Toscanini and the La Scala Orchestra for a Benefit Concert to be held at Carnegie Hall on the evening of January third." She asks for her "able assistance on the Committee of Arrangements". The January 3 1921 concert would be Toscanini's Carnegie Hall debut.</p><p>10. An undated receipt for $30.00 for three tickets from Nana Genovese. Signed probably with a stamp by Mrs. Stefano Paola Berizzi a founder and Treasurer of the I.W.L.</p><p>11. A pair of typed letters signed by the Italian baritone Ferruccio Corradetti are dated January 12 and February 4 1921. The letters in Italian concern business matters and are addressed to Signora Genovese. They are on "Lega Musicale Italiana Inc. New York" letterhead.</p><p>12. A third item signed in ink by Corradetti is a form letter inviting Nana Genovese to serve "as a member of the Honorary Dinner Committee" for Arturo Toscanini. The letter on "Lega Musicale Italiana" letterhead is subtitled "Banquet In Honor of Arturo Toscanini and La Scala Orchestra". The banquet is being planned for March 17 1921 the evening before Toscanini's second concert in Carnegie Hall.</p><p>13. A typed letter dated February 18th 1921 and signed "Vera L. Albore R.N." informs Mme. Genovese that "I have taken up the case of the Cuzzi family with Dr. and Mrs. Previtali and they do not know the exact physical condition of Mr. Cuzzi.Mrs. Previtali wishes me to thank you for the interest you have taken in this family.".</p><p>14. In a typed letter dated Oct-21 Albore asks Mme Genovese to speak to a Mr. Ely at the Rutherford Post Office on behalf of Mr. Cuzzi. She signs "Vera L. Albore R.N. / Headworker".</p><p>15. In an autograph letter signed "Vera L. Albore" she writes Mme. Genovese that Mr. Ely "will try to get Mr. Cuzzi work." She thanks Genovese for all she has done and implores "Please dont forget me and my dear people as I am anxious to help and with help from our ladies I can do more- I will do all I can for Mrs. Cuzzi". Although Albore signs with the terminal vowel "e" her name on the league's letterhead reads "Miss V. Albori R.N. Head Worker".</p><p>16. An autograph letter signed "Luigina Littlefield / Chairman mem Com" asks Mme Genovese to join the membership committee and "appeal to all the Italians you come across and to all lovers of our beautiful Italy to help us in this great work which is so much needed." On April 25 1921 Littlefield sends Genovese a thank you note "for the check and the new members".</p><p>17. In an autograph letter on her 38 West 83rd Street letterhead Carolyn Perera asks Mme. Genovese to help in the current membership campaign "by asking a few of your frinds to join. I note neither M. Scaramelli or the Antolinis are members."</p><p>18. In a response to Perera Genovese sends a draft of a letter she has written to Mrs. Antolini. "Mrs. L. Perera has kindly asked me to write you about our membership campaign.We cared for or investigated for relief over 250 Italian families last month as a part of our work". She signs "Nana Gazzale". On the verso of the letter is a draft of a note she has written to Mrs. Perera dated April 18 1921 letting her know she has written to Mrs. Antolini and to Mrs. Scaramelli. She signs the note "Nana Genovese".</p><p>19. The printed membership application for the Italian Welfare League. Annual membership dues were $5.00 and Life membership was $100.00.</p><p>20. A densely written autograph letter realized on both sides of Italian Welfare League letterhead and signed "Carolyn A. Perera". In her letter addressed to Mrs. Genovese Perera asks if she can help "a Miss Le Conte an Italian 21 years who is ambitious to become a singer." "Perhaps you could persuade someone to teach her or if you are sufficiently interested maybe you will give her some instruction.I forgot to say Miss Le Conte is one of 10 children & absolutely without means." Nana Genovese has scrawled a draft of her reply in the empty spaces on the verso of the letter. "I had promised Miss Labori ie Albori to secure her a place in the Metropolitan Opera Chorus."</p><p>21. A form letter dated April 8 1925 on Italian Welfare League letterhead. Signed in ink by Nan Ceribelli the letter is soliciting contributions to an "Emergency Fund" by having a "Renewal Membership Drive".</p><p>22. There are 3 lists of names and addresses one identified as "Life Members" with 14 names a second with 19 names identified on the verso as "For Benefit of Red Cross' and a third with 13 names and no further identification.</p><p>23 "The Christmas Work of the Italian Welfare League" an undated 4-page brochure describing the donations given "twenty families so poor that they would have had no Christmas except what we gave them" and the "Christmas party on Ellis Island" undertaken because of an appeal made by Concert Soprano Alma Simpson. The various donors and the categories of their gifts are listed.</p><p>24. An April 19 1920 receipt for a donation made by Mrs. Gazzale to the Sunshine Settlement. Sunshine Settlement was a society formed in 1900 to provide education health services and seaside visits for poor children and their mothers. The receipt is signed by the treasurer S.E. Furry with his note turning down the idea of a concert benefit proposed by the singer.</p><p>25. Three autograph letters circa February 1920 in Italian soliciting funds for discharged Italian solders. Two of the letters are on cards with black borders and the third is on "Italian Committee for Discharged Italian Soldiers" letterhead. The three letters are signed by Paola Berizzi a founding member if the Italian Welfare League. Also included is a receipt for a ten dollar donation signed by Berizzi.</p><p>26. Three letters related to a benefit concert given by Nana Genovese for the "Paterson NJ Committee Near East Relief Formerly American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief / Operating in Armenia the Caucasus Persia Syria and Greece". All three of the letters are signed "D. A. Kurk" ie Diran A. Kurkjian. A May 5 1922 autograph letter thanking Genovese for sending the program for her concert and identifying her accompanist as Alberto Bimboni. "If personal efforts mean anything this mass meeting should be a real big thing." The "Mass Meeting" with the concert took place on Mother's Day May 14 1922. A typed letter dated May 15 thanks Genovese for helping make the event a complete success. "Results secured in pledges and cash totaled nearly $1000. You had an important part in the success of this meeting and in the name of the starving children in the Near East." An autograph note on a following Tuesday sends clippings not here presentand states that the correspondent will telephone her about an upcoming meeting in Morristown.</p><p>Unique.</p> [1916-1922].
16881251publisher not identified London 1688. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Pamphlet A contemporary collection of documents chronicling King James II’s attempt to change Magdalen College of Oxford University into a Roman Catholic institution. When the presidency of the college became vacant the protestants elected John Hough to take the position but James ordered the fellows to elect a Catholic Anthony Farmer as their president. J. R. Bloxam expanded the collection in his Magdalen College and King James II 1686-1688 1886. In the introduction he describes James’ actions in the conflict as “an overt and undisguised step towards opening the chief seminaries of the Church of England to Roman influences and occupation†p. viii. Although there is no editor named the binder’s label on the front cover attributes it to Henry Fairfax who is often named as the likely editor. Fairfax’s biography in the Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1900 however reports the editorship “is usually claimed for Charles Aldworth vice-president of the college†p. 135. The royal order suspending Aldworth and Fairfax from Fellowships at the college is provided on p. 13. Other claimants include John Hough and Francis Bagshaw. Size: 7.5"-8" - Small Octavo Sm. 8vo. 40 pages. Item Type: Pamphlet. The text block is tight and unmarked. The paper is tanned but remains supple. Rebound in a blue paper wrapper with silver floral decorations and title on label pasted to the front cover. The pamphlet has been glued onto new end papers which are in turn glued into the wrapper. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; Magdalen College University of Oxford -- History -- 17th century; 1641-1700; Britain/UK; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Education. Main Picture: Henry Fairfax An Impartial Relation of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon 1688 - Front cover with paste-down label. Picture 2: Henry Fairfax An Impartial Relation of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon 1688 - Title page. Picture 3: Henry Fairfax An Impartial Relation of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon 1688 - First page of the table of contents. Picture 4: Henry Fairfax An Impartial Relation of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon 1688 - Second page of the table of contents and facing page with insertion. Picture 5: Henry Fairfax An Impartial Relation of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon 1688 - Errata and first page of text. Picture 6: Henry Fairfax An Impartial Relation of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon 1688 - Sample two-page spread. Picture 7: Henry Fairfax An Impartial Relation of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon 1688 - Sample two-page spread. Picture 8: Henry Fairfax An Impartial Relation of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon 1688 - Sample two-page spread. Picture 9: Henry Fairfax An Impartial Relation of the whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon 1688 - Last page of text. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1251. . [publisher not identified] paperback
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
1609046398Paris: Matreo il Maestro 1609. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in contemporary limp vellum remains of ties some discoloration to vellum occasional creasing to a few early leaves end papers rumpled and a little torn the third book is lacking the final two pages of the table ends at M generally fine otherwise. 6 books bound in 3. 6 283; 10 325; 8 362; 8 296; 8 338 6; 8 301 leaves.<br/><br/>One of the most singular figures in the Renaissance Aretino was a poet playwright schemer satirist and pornographer who made a career out of infiltrating the highest levels of society and then alternately satirizing them in his writings or blackmailing them. For a time his patron was Cardinal Giulio de' Medici and he mocked Popes and would be popes but in time he settled in Venice - the Anti-Rome. Ariosto called him "the scourge of Princes". He is remembered most for his satires and his letters which detail conversations with both the great names of the day as well as regular folk both women and men. His ability to manipulate the reader of his letters - which were carefully chosen and probably always meant for publication - by constructing a compelling narrative with himself as central protagonist - changed epistolary collections forever. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Erotica. Inventory No: 046398. Matreo il Maestro hardcover
1646045121Cologne 1646. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full overlapping vellum slight browning to page edges in a few spots otherwise a fine bright copy. In two parts Bentivoglio's letters from Flanders beginning as negotiations to end the 80 years war commenced and his letters from France in the second part. 233 3pp. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 045121. <br/><br/> hardcover
1654046147Amsterdam: Joannis Blaeu 1654. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Early mottled calf three volumes in one the last printed 1652. Modest wear and some surface marks and scars to calf very neatly rebacked some time ago a very attractive binding overall. Scattered mostly minor foxing mild age toning small dampstain in the gutter of title and first few pages generally quite clean internally with numerous genealogical tables many folding and two folding maps. i-lxxxi 13 Index 2 errata corrigenda i; x 2 errata 439 450 i.e. 440 cxxx 6 Index; viii 109 ii Relentlessly unsentimental about mythology and illegitimate historical material Blondel is most famous for discrediting the Sibylline Oracles the Pope Joan story and the origins of the fleurs de lis. This work meticulously refutes Jean-Jacques Chifflet's claims as to the supremacy of the genealogy of the Spanish kings over the French. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046147. <br/><br/> Joannis Blaeu hardcover
1666046908Paris: Robert de Ninville 1666. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum old stamp and name to title scattered very minor foxing - a nice clean copy of the first and only edition of the French translation of Boate's natural history of Ireland. 8334 4pp<br/><br/>Published in 1652 it is cited as the first work in English on regional natural history. It was written primarily as an attempt to restore man's Protestant man's dominion over the earth and encourage settlement in Ireland - it praises the land and reproves the Catholic population for their indolence. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046908. Robert de Ninville hardcover
1673045461Helmstedt: Henningum Mullerum 1673. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum a bit soiled but sound and attractive. Light browning internally but a clean crisp copy; lacking the front blanks. 2 volumes in 1. 16 824 104 43pp.<br /> <br /> First edition of Clasen's work on the Sibylline oracles which also adds Sébastien Castellion and Onofrio Panvino's important 16th century works on the same topic. Clasen had a Lutheran but nebulous view of the oracles - he desired to retain the religiosity of the oracles in order to retain the force of spirituality in general without acting as if they were true. He maintained that after Christ the oracles gradually disappeared. Size: Quarto 4to. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 045461. Henningum Mullerum hardcover
1606044957Hanau: Typis Wechelianis Apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Ioan. Aubrii 1606. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum with gilt decoration soiled and worn hinges split but binding sound. With two library and one earlier bookplate internally and a spine label but no other library markings; wear to endpapers. One contemporary inscription in Greek to an endpaper scattered foxing age toning to page edges a few minor paper flaws scattered pages more heavily browned mostly quite clean; printed in two columns Greek and Latin. viii 1054pp 38 1. With the printer's mark at the rear. Graesse v2 393.<br /> <br /> Cassius Dio's Roman history covered 1000 years in 80 books. The original Estienne edition 1548 collects a fragment from a 15th century manuscript that covers books 36-60. This covers 36-80 with brief remarks at the rear on the other books.<br /> <br /> Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044957. Typis Wechelianis, Apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Ioan. Aubrii 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
1614045460Frankfurt: Avbriana 1614. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in contemporary vellum titles penned to spines. Modest soiling and wear one hinge just starting to crack but quite sound overall. Moderate mostly even browning to pages. The title of the second volume is Chronici Chronicorum Politici. 14 1432 10pp; 14 1336 21pp.<br /> <br /> A sprawling history of Europe's kings and leaders. It collects information from vaious sources e.g. George Lily's Brittaniae Imperium Size: Octavo 8vo. 2-volume set complete. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 045460. Avbriana hardcover
167686498London: Thomad Basset. Very Good; Title Page Soiled. 1676. Second Edition. Leather. PROFESSIONALLY REBOUND IN GORGEOUS LEATHER WITH RAISED BANDS AND GILT LETTERING WITH NEW MARBLED BOARDS AND NEW END PAPERS; 604 pages . Thomad Basset hardcover
164986503London: Thomas Whitaker. Very Good; Pagination Has Gaps in It But All of the Text is Present. 1649. Leather. PROFESSIONALLY REBOUND IN FINE LEATHER WITH RAISED BANDS AND GILT LETTERING WITH NEW MARBLED BOARDS AND ENDPAPERS! GORGEOUS!!; 575 pages . Thomas Whitaker hardcover
1618044725Geneva: Pauli Stephani Paul Estienne 1618. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf worn foxing and browning to text heavy in spots light dampstains occasionally including to the plates Babel map adhered to the final preface page in the gutter. With the four plates depicting Babel the tower and Semiramidis the latter plate later appeared in Kircher's Turris Babel. The text is Valla's edited by Henri Estienne - two columns in Greek and Latin. xii 708 30pp. Graesse T3 255<br /> <br /> First published in 1592 it includes a great deal of material related to Persia including the plates in addition to the Histories. It was with Herodotus that Estienne first made his name with his 1566 Latin edition and accompanying apology in French. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044725. Pauli Stephani (Paul Estienne) hardcover
1662043191Amsterdam: Johannes van Ravesteyn 1662. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum a bit discolored. 10486 18 118 14pp. Portraits of Henrik and Cosimo de Medici. 2 works bound in one by the eminent Dutch historian and playwright. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History. Inventory No: 043191. Johannes van Ravesteyn hardcover
16621268Typis John Grismond & prostant apud Richard Royston London 1662. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good Condition. Pamphlet This is the text of an address Mayne delivered at Oxford University at the end of the term on May 27 1662 speaking on the subject of the conduct of life. His own experience must have provided a context for his advice. According to the entry on Mayne in the 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica he was a graduate of Christ Church Oxford and had two college livings in Oxfordshire but was disposed during the Commonwealth. At the time of this address two years after the Restoration he had himself been restored to church offices. According to the entry “At the Restoration he was made canon of Christ Church archdeacon of Chichester and chaplain in ordinary to the king.†ESTC shows eleven copies in the British Isles held by British Library Cambridge University 2 Carlisle Cathedral Durham University King’s Lynn Library Longleat House Oxford University 3 & Westminster Abbey and four in North America. The four in the U.S. also show up in a WorldCat search under two OCLC numbers: Columbia University/Union Theological Seminary Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas & UCLA 16137896 classified as a book and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 62578570 classified as an article. The second OCLC number also shows an additional U.K. holding at University of St. Andrews. Size: Around 7" or slightly taller - Duodecimo 12mo. 42 pages. Item Type: Pamphlet. The paper is bright and unmarked. Probably as a result of being bound with other works the top margin has been closely cropped though not affecting any text. Disbound from a sammelband. The pamphlet is bound by strings. Some remnants of the leather from the binding remain stuck on the spine. No foxing in this copy. The page edges are speckled with a red stain. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Education; Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800; Britain/UK; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Antiquarian & Rare. Main Picture: Jasper Mayne. Concio ad Academiam Oxoniensem Pro more habita inchoante Termino - Title page and facing publication licensing. Picture 2: Jasper Mayne. Concio ad Academiam Oxoniensem Pro more habita inchoante Termino - First page of text. Picture 3: Jasper Mayne. Concio ad Academiam Oxoniensem Pro more habita inchoante Termino - Sample two-page spread. Picture 4: Jasper Mayne. Concio ad Academiam Oxoniensem Pro more habita inchoante Termino - Sample two-page spread. Picture 5: Jasper Mayne. Concio ad Academiam Oxoniensem Pro more habita inchoante Termino - Sample two-page spread. Picture 6: Jasper Mayne. Concio ad Academiam Oxoniensem Pro more habita inchoante Termino - Finale page of text with Errata pasted on. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1268. . Typis J[ohn] Grismond, & prostant apud R[ichard] Royston unknown
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
1611044067Venice: Alessandro Vecchi 1611. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum lacking the front endpaper and inner joint cracked a few mild creases and tears light to moderate foxing scattered light damp staining to bottom margin four pages in early or contemporary manuscript apparently a printing error pages 114 115 126 and 127. 27 366 2 296pp 175 leaves. With 26 full page woodcuts with a few repeated and numerous in text woodcuts. The first book is festooned with cuts with a few in the second and smaller vignette illustrations in the third book. A very attractively illustrated work - it went through a number of editions with similar illustrations from 1604 to the late 17th century. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044067. Alessandro Vecchi hardcover
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
16930101935London: Printed for Tim Goodwin 1693. Leather Bound. pp. xii 175 84 67 17. 12mo. Full leather. Spine slant leather split at front hinge pastedowns no longer pasted down and rear pastedown laid-in loose. Contents complete and unmarked. USTC No. 3123300. Emeric Thököly de Késmárk French: Emeric Tekeli; 25 September 1657 - 13 September 1705 was a Hungarian nobleman leader of anti-Habsburg uprisings like his father Count István Thököly before him. Emeric was Prince of Upper Hungary an Ottoman vassal state from 1682 to 1685 and briefly Prince of Transylvania during the year 1690. Having formed an alliance with the Turks Thököly assisted the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna in 1683 and led the Turkish cavalry at the battle of Zenta. Refusing to surrender to Habsburg Emperor Leopold I Thököly lost his principality of Upper Hungary and finally retired to Galata near Constantinople with large estates granted him by Mustafa II." -DBpedia. Printed for Tim Goodwin unknown
1696BOOKS109235IAmsterdam: George Gallet. Very good copy. 1696. 1st. leather. 12mo 236 pp. The leather binding is dry & shows considerable wear; contents fine. Important and rare Enlightenment treatise on lotteries with special attention given to popular misconceptions concerning fortune and luck. Title-page printed in red and black; edges speckled red. A striking frontispiece of the Goddess of Fortune spreading her favours over an excited crowd. . George Gallet hardcover
1629045230Dilingen: Caspari Sutoris Kaspar Sutor 1629. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary vellum soiled but sound with the remains of leather ties. Old signature to title mild persistent foxing some wormholes in the right margins just touching a few letters mostly clean. A nice little Jesuit edition of Livy. 2646pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045230. Caspari Sutoris (Kaspar Sutor) hardcover
