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16966462932Unnamed 1696. Volume 15. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Front board detached but present. Marbled front and back covers. Marbled inside covers. Gold illuminations on spine. Pages are agetoned with some foxing. Some pencil markings on pages. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item4550grams ISBN: Unnamed 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
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
1665045405Utrecht: Gisberti Zylii 1665. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary overlapping vellum front inner hinger cracked and text block coming loose. Light foxing old ownership marks to endpaper but generally very clean internally. Attractive engraved title. Unpaginated. A nice pocket edition of Nepos's major work. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045405. <br/><br/> Gisberti Zylii hardcover
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
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
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
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
1695045250Amsterdam: J. Louis de Lorme 1695. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf worn at the spine ends but sound. First signature loose and with a light dampstain to one corner scattered light foxing and occasional light dampstain in the right margin but mostly clean internally. The first French edition the same year as the English. With an engraved frontis and 24 plates of English kings at the rear. 8 310pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045250. J. Louis de Lorme hardcover
1616100903<p>Parma: May 30th 1616. 1616. Very good. - Over 170 words penned in Italian in a secretarial hand on 11-1/8 inch high by 7-3/4 creamy white laid paper with an integral attached address leaf. Ranuccio Farnese Duke of Parma expresses his condolences to Albert VI Duke of Bavaria following the death of his sister Maria Anna of Bavaria Archduchess consort of Inner Austria. Crudely translated Ranuccio writes "By no one more than me are felt the misfortunes of this Most Serene House and of Your Highness yourself. The displeasure therefore that I feel now of the loss of Madame Most Serene Archduchess of Gratz who lives in heaven Sister of Your Highness." Boldly signed by Ranuccio Farnese. Period annotations are penned on the verso of the address leaf with paper over the red wax seal. Folded both horizontally and vertically with the seal partially adhering to the verso of the letter and to the address leaf. There is a small hole above the Duke's signature and another to the left edge both a result of the seal. Very good.</p><p>The fourth Duke of Parma and Piacenza Ranuccio I Farnese 1569-1622 was the son of Alessandro Farnese Duke of Parma and Piacenza and Maria of Portugal. He was thus first heir to the throne of Portugal when at 11 years old his great uncle Henry I of Portugal died triggering a struggle for the throne. For political reasons his father an ally of the Spanish King did not contest Ranuccio's rights to the throne. As Duke he annexed the territories of Colorno Sala Baganza and Montechiarugolo and guided a cultural renewal in the City of Parma building the 4500 seat Farnese Theater.</p><p>The recipient Albert VI Duke of Bavaria 1584-1666 was the son of William V Duke of Bavaria and Renata of Lorraine.</p><p>The German Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria 1574-1616 was married to her first cousin Ferdinand Archduke of Inner Austria reaffirming the alliance between the House of Habsburg and House of Wittelsbach. Though she was Archduchess of Gratz she died before her husband's coronation as King of Bohemia and of Hungary and his assencion as Holy Roman Emperor.</p> Parma: May 30th, 1616.
1647046538Amsterdam: Elzevirium 1647. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in modern full calf old ownership marks and a long pen mark to title modest foxing and age toning to pages clean overall and a nice copy. 8 80 192 119 1 60pp; 8 62 8pp. <br/> Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046538. Elzevirium hardcover
1651046537Leiden: Joannis Maire 1651. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked. Scattered foxing and browning old catalog entry pasted to endpaper signature on title. A nice clean copy overall. 830pp index. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046537. Joannis Maire hardcover
163236400France 1632. 1632. Very good. - Over 130 words penned in a secretarial hand on an 11-3/4 inch high by 7-5/8 inch wide buff paper with an attached leaf. The document grants an individual permission to leave and return with his entourage. "Nous luy avons donne 'conge' de permission d'y aller a condition de retourner a sa ___ au premier Maudemt." and more specifically "permission de les laissee ____ passer et repasser avec son Equipage et ses Valets." Signed "Louis de Valois" with his seal stamped in blind at bottom left. The letter is annotated in a different hand along the top "Conge du 16-9-ve 1632". The document is docketed on the attached leaf. Folded vertically and horizontally. Very good. <p>The son of Charles d'Angouleme and grandson of the King of France Charles IX Louis-Emmanuel de Valois d'Angouleme 1596-1653 was Count of Auvergne and Governor of Provence holding the office of Colonel-General of the Cavalry from 1624 and on April 17 1635 Marechal de camp. He was appointed Governor of the Provence beginning January 1638. Refusing orders from Cardinal Mazarin during "la Fronde" a series of French civil wars occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish war Louis de Valois was recalled to court in 1650 and in 1653 was stripped of his governorship. France, 1632. unknown
1685046297Amsterdam: H. & Viduae Theodori Boom 1685. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum darkened significant tear to vellum on spine and rear cover but binding sound scattered minor foxing otherwise very clean internally. 32 470 16pp.<br/><br/>First edition of Perizonius's foundational work of historical criticism. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046297. H. & Viduae Theodori Boom hardcover
16200101326France: Imprimée sur le vrai original 1620. Leather Bound. pp. 338. 8vo. Full leather gilt lettering and tooling to spine 5 raised bands marbled page edges and endpapers engraved portrait pasted-down to front endpaper. Edgewear some scuffing minor foxing contents complete and unmarked binding sound. USTC 6012802. The history of Louis XI "Louis the Prudent Imprimée sur le vrai original unknown
169986501London: Richard Sare. Very Good; Pages Aging Includes 103 Page Supplement From 1615-1621. 1699. Leather. PROFESSIONALLY REBOUND IN FINE LEATHER WITH RAISED BANDS & GILT LETTERING WITH NEW MARBLED BOARDS AND END PAPERS!! LOVELY; 561 pages . Richard Sare 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
1665045767Paris: Charles de Sercy 1665. Later Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Contemporary full calf worn but sound hinges rubbed a few small wormholes to board surface; scattered soiling and light foxing scattered minor pencil marks otherwise clean internally. With the attractive frontis portrait. 14 910 index. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 045767. Charles de Sercy hardcover
16379037637Diocese of Lincoln 1637. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has no covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo covers missing leather backstrip with gilt bands not clear if entire book is present includes title page and pages 1-234 binding remains firm pages clear with some foxing red page edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item250grams ISBN: Diocese of Lincoln 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
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
1689045450London: N.P. 1689. Later Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Good Condition. Later leather backed boards worn front cover detached. Original pamphlet browned and worn at the edges first three and final two pages trimmed at the lower right just touching the gloss on the second to last page but no other text; otherwise intact. 4271pp<br /> <br /> Written by Edward Sexby under the pseudonym William Allen and often attributed to Colonel Titus. At one time a parliamentarian and involved in the capture of Charles in 1647 he later became disaffected with Cromwell and wrote the pamphlet Killing No Murder in 1657 arguing that the murder of a tyrant was no murder. He was captured in 1657 on a return visit to England to instigate a rebellion was interrogated by Cromwell and imprisoned in the tower of London where he died the next year 1658. Originally published in 1657 it was reincarnated during the Glorious Revolution. <br /> <br /> Provenance: Peter Laslett label dated 14 July 1956 Trinity Colege Cambridge on pastedown. Laslett was a prominent public intellectual and historian author of The World We Have Lost: England Before the Industrial Age. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Politics & Government. Inventory No: 045450. N.P. hardcover
1679045188Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano 1679. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf heavily worn at the corners recently neatly respined. Browning to page edges otherwise clean internally. A nice Greek/Latin edition of this Sixth century Byzantine history. viii 384pp. Lacking front and rear blanks. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045188. E Theatro Sheldoniano 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
1614097857Rouen: Manassez de Preaulx 1614. Leather Bound. pp. 16 604. Bound in brown calf showing old repairs. Five raised bands spine with gilt lettering and decorations in compartments. Page edges stained red. Small occasional woodcuts including title pages initial letters headpieces. Some cracking to joints and scuffs/loss to extremities minor worming binding sound. OCLC 19911123. USTC 6814837. Scarce in commerce. Continuous pagination. A history of the city and antiquities of Beauvais in French. Manassez de Preaulx unknown