Dieta salutis Sancti Bonauenture doctoris eminentissimi aureus libellus by Bonaventure Saint - 1518

Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt a.M.]: Sumptibus Joan. Melchiois Bencard, 1686. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. 2 ffep + 96 numbered pages (Libri Infirmorum) + 216 numbered pages (exorcisms and benedictions). With the often missing engraved frontispiece on reverse of half title depicting spiritual warfare at bedside of suffering patient. Title with Library stamp of Capuchin library in Carlstadt. Ffeps with old Capuchin ownership inscription and handwritten notes and prayers. All edges rouged and borders cropped a little close without loss of text. Some pages lightly soiled. Bound in later full brown calf with gilt "Libellus Infirmorum" and six gilt bands to spine. Both boards with gilt borders. Gilding lightly worn. An amazing copy of Italian (Capuchin) rites for exorcism and the combatting of evil spirits. Scarce.

New York: American Bible Society, 1867. 3/4 cloth. Very Good +. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Folio. [1] + [872] – 974 leaves. Printed in raised letters for the blind. Tears to upper margin of front endpapers and, edges lightly soiled. Bound in contemporary 3/4 black leather and black cloth which is worn at edges. A scarce early American edition of its kind. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, several decades before the widespread adoption of Braille, printers and educators in France and Britain began developing a variety of tactile reading systems for the visually impaired, making independent reading among the blind possible for the first time in history. The results of an important competition at the Royal Society of Arts in Edinburgh in 1832 inspired the American activist, Samuel Gridley Howe, to research and develop his own embossed reading system for the blind, which emerged in 1835 as "Boston Line Type." Drawing upon the methods of James Gall, an entrant in the Edinburgh… Read More

Leipzig and Norristown, PA: Breitkopf & Hartel / Schwenckfelder Church, 1907. 12 volumes of a 19 volume edition. Edited by Chester David Hartranft and Elmer Ellsworth Schultz Johnson. All first editions, except vol 15, which is a second printing. Bound in leather and marbled boards. Includes Volumes 1 to 10, 12, 15. Published Leipzig and Norristown, PA: Breitkopf & Hartel / Schwenckfelder Church, 1907-1960. Thick 4to's., 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" x 3", approx. 700 - 900pp. per volume, illustrated with facsimilies. Text in German with introductions and commentaries in English. Three quarter leather with gilt spine titles and marbled boards and edges, decorative endpapers. External wear to first eight volumes, with rubbing and scuffing to leather and covers, some inner hinges tender on older volumes, markings on spine of volume seven, no other markings, text clean and bright. Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

London: Printed for the proprietor; and sold by Wetton and Jarvis, 1818. First edition. Scarce. Hardback mottled boards with paper title label. Part of the title page is printed in gilt letters. Boards are quite rubbed, and the front board is a little loose but holding well. Inside the book has some age toning but is otherwise good. viii, 136 pp. With illustrated frontis. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches). Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796 - 1817) was the only child of George, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick. Charlotte was to ascend the British throne after the deaths of her grandfather, George III and her father, but died in childbirth - at the tender age of 21.

1548 Rodolphus Agricola De Inventione Dialectica Dutch Humanism Rhetoric & Logic

Rudolph Agricola was a 15th-century Dutch humanist primarily remembered for his best book 'De Inventione Dialectica". Agricola spent much of his career in education, teaching various subjects and fields; however, his lessons were rooted in rhetoric and language dialect. This propelled him to write his book "On Dialectical Invention" which argued for the use for rhetoric and logic in all facets of education. According to Hamilton,
"The significance of De inventione dialectica for the history of argumentation is that it assimilated the art of dialectic to that of rhetoric. Agricola focused on the topics rather than the analytics of Aristotle and on Cicero."

This 1548 edition is exceedingly rare, especially in the Americas. Only one copy is found in any institution in the Western Hemisphere, per the USTC.

Item number: #23187
Price: $1500

AGRICOLA, Rodolphus

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Basel: Johann Froben, 1521. Hardcover. See Description. Folio. ff. [444] plus 6 extra leaves in this copy as signature G is repeated. Colophon: Basileae per Ioannem Frobeniu, Mense Maio. Anno M.D.XXI. Title page contains decorative woodcut border with 10 figures including images symbolizing the four evangelists, Peter, Paul and four early Bishops. Printer’s device also on title page and on verso of final leaf. The introductions to both part I and part II contain woodcut initials. The title to the second part reads: "Concordantiae partium sive dictionum indeclinabilium totius Bibliae." The main text is in 3 columns per page. Bound in period blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards - attractively age-toned. Metal corner pieces are present; clasps are lacking. Title page contains three tiny and unobtrusive worm holes. There is also an area of abrasion next to the printed title proper which affects a tiny area on the inner edge of the woodcut border. Small holes present in upper inner… Read More

Geneva:: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1732-41., 1732. 5 volumes. 4to. 246x202 mm. xxiv, 526; viii, 396, [2]; vii, [1], 581, [1]; viii, 374, [2]; [8], 501 pp., including errata leaf at end of Volumes 2 and 4. WITH THE FINE COPPER-ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF WOLFF BY DAUDET AS FRONTISPIECE, AND WITH 164 FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES; occasional browning, scattered soiling and stains, some early marginalia. Contemporary vellum boards, marbled edges; somewhat soiled, spines darkened. Preserved in the Robert Honeyman-commissioned quarter red morocco slipcases. Stamps of the Cologne Gymnasium on titles; signatures of E. F. August dated 1822-23; bookplates of Robert Honeyman IV. [The August – Honeyman – Gutzwiller copy]. Later edition, published in Geneva, of the 1713 Latin version of Wolff's 1710 Anfangsgrunde aller mathematischen Wissenschaften, a textbook used as the basis for teaching mathematics through the end of the 18th century. This massive work encompasses all the aspects of mathematics, arithmetic, geometry,… Read More

London: Printed for the proprietor; and sold by Wetton and Jarvis, 1818. First edition. Scarce. Hardback mottled boards with paper title label. Part of the title page is printed in gilt letters. Boards are quite rubbed, and the front board is a little loose but holding well. Inside the book has some age toning but is otherwise good. viii, 136 pp. With illustrated frontis. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches). Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796 - 1817) was the only child of George, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick. Charlotte was to ascend the British throne after the deaths of her grandfather, George III and her father, but died in childbirth - at the tender age of 21.

1807 SECRET Fore-Edge Painting ART Captain John Smith America New England MAP

An incredible, stunning, and highly desirable early 19th-century Book of Common Prayer! While many examples of this Book of Common Prayer are available from this era, few, if any, are as coveted as this example. This 1807 printing features a hidden fore-edge painting only revealed when the pages are fanned. The secret painting depicts a portrait of Captain John Smith and a map of the New World – a beautifully colored, detailed painting.

Item number: #21630
Price: $1500

Church of England

The Book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church

London: Published for John Reeves, Nicol, 1807.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o Unpaginated
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
o Fine black Moroccan leather
• Size: ~9.25in X 5.75in (23.5cm x 14.5cm)

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1548 Rodolphus Agricola De Inventione Dialectica Dutch Humanism Rhetoric & Logic

Rudolph Agricola was a 15th-century Dutch humanist primarily remembered for his best book 'De Inventione Dialectica". Agricola spent much of his career in education, teaching various subjects and fields; however, his lessons were rooted in rhetoric and language dialect. This propelled him to write his book "On Dialectical Invention" which argued for the use for rhetoric and logic in all facets of education. According to Hamilton,
"The significance of De inventione dialectica for the history of argumentation is that it assimilated the art of dialectic to that of rhetoric. Agricola focused on the topics rather than the analytics of Aristotle and on Cicero."

This 1548 edition is exceedingly rare, especially in the Americas. Only one copy is found in any institution in the Western Hemisphere, per the USTC.

Item number: #23187
Price: $1500

AGRICOLA, Rodolphus

Rodolphi Agricolae Phrisii De Inventione Dialectica Libri… Read More