Judgement Worthy of God, or an Assertion of the Existence and Duration of Hell Torments, in Two Occasional Letters, Written Several Years Since.To which is Added an Accordance of St. Paul, with St. James, in the Great Point of Faith and Works by Hammond, Henry. 1605-1660 - 1665

Frankfurt am Main]: Heirs of Andreas Wechel: Claude Marne & Joannes Aubri, 1600. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodcut printer's mark and a few woodcut head- and tail-pieces. . Folio fine English blindstamped Calf Binding attrib. to John Westall of Oxford c1606-1617 with 24 medallion heads between stylized foliage signed I.W. Restored by Trevor Hickman, bookbinding lecturer at Leicestershire College of Art, with his bookplate & binding details in pencil on new endpapers. All Edges Rouged Titlepage with Wechel printer's device but no place of imprint +[6]pp Prefaces + 986pp with page numbers 869-70 left out but 871-2 used twice in succession. Pages 1-95 un-numbered p96 has last two and a bit columns of AZE- to AZY and then start of BAA but all un-numbered previous pages are present signatures starting from A1. Printed in 4 columns per page. Faint marginal damp mark to upper margin soon fading out, some worming to margins usually just a few pin prick sized holes but in the V's some tracks again all marginal,… Read More

Copenhagen, Pedro Morsingio, 1655.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary limp vellum (recased, later endleaves), vertical manuscript title on spine, remains of ties, fore-edge cover extensions. Extra engraved architectural title page. Full page engraved portrait of the dedicatee. Woodcut vignette on title page. Small woodcut initials. Typographical headpieces and vignettes. Woodcut tailpiece. Waterstains in lower outer corners of first few leaves. Occasional browning, mostly very light. Overall in good to very good condition. (4 ll.), 176 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of this poetical genealogy of the Royal House of Denmark, dedicated to Queen Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. It is also a veiled attack on Protestantism. Two sonnets in Italian appear in the preliminary leaves.Don Bernardino de Rebolledo, Conde de Rebolledo, Señor de Trian, etc., was born in León (1597; died Madrid, 1676). He had a long and distinguished military career, serving in Italy, the Mediterranean, Flanders and Germany, becoming… Read More

Sacrarum Religionum Maximae Ex Regula S. P. N. Augustini Ecclesiae Doctoris Maximi Filippo Picinelli, Augustinus Erath (The divine sanctity of religion from the dogmas compiled by S.P.N. Augustini, Doctor of the Church) – In Latin language.
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1st edition Königsberg, Augustae Vindelicorum, 1696.
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Pp: /20/ + 324 + /16/ with copper plate Size: 19 x 16 cm.
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Binding: Original leather binding. Damaged spine extremes, bumped edges. Panels slightly damaged signs of wear and aging (visible on scans), clamps missing, cracked spine joints. Condition: Signature by previous owner on the flyleaf. Foxing. Paper browning, signs of use.

8vo. London: Excudebat Robertus Barkerus. 1609. Second Printing. This copy exhibits the reading 'agi-' at the end of line 11 on B2r indicative of the form with some of the errata corrected, and 3E2 blank, rather than bearing errata. Lancelot Andrewes was an English clergyman and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. He was in turn Bishop of Chichester, Ely and Winchester, and oversaw the translation of the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible. His Tortura Torti - a learned work which grew out of the Gunpowder Plot controversy - was written in answer to Roberto Bellarmino's Matthaeus Tortus which had criticized James I's oath of allegiance. Tortura Torti is one of the Bishop's most substantial controversial works, in which he "refuted papal supremacy and the pope's power to dispense Catholics from moral and civil laws, and defended the king's supremacy over the Church of England. One of the views intruded into the… Read More

London: Printed for R. Davis; J. Newbery; L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1765. full leather, five raised bands, red leather spine label, top edge stained black, fore-edge and bottom edge sprinkled red, gilt ornamentation on fore-edge of leather boards. large 12mo. full leather, five raised bands, red leather spine label, top edge stained black, fore-edge and bottom edge sprinkled red, gilt ornamentation on fore-edge of leather boards. Frontispiece, (ii), ii, 307 pages. Containing an Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a Proselyte, and a Member of the Church of England. Second edition. Wear to hinges and tail of spine. Corners bumped. Minor moisture stain affecting only the top edge of the textblock on a handful of pages not affecting the text. An autobiographical account, whereby the place of birth and the… Read More

Lvgduni : Lvgduni : Apvd haeredes Iaboci Ivntae, 1564. Magistri Sententiarum libri quatuor / Petro Lombardo, Episcopo Parisiensi authore ; labore Ioannis Aleaume, Parisiensis theologiae professoris a` mendis non paucis ex vetustis. codicum collatione reporgatorum; adiunximus singulis libris titulos, quibus capita distinguntur ex authoris Sententia ; ad calce[m] operis subiiciu[n]tur articuli erronei, Parisiis iam olim damnatim atque ab eorum assertoribus recantati ; adiectis nonnullis ipsius magistri in quibus communiter non approbatur.- by Petro Lombardo (Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160) b. 1100; d. about 1160-64- Lvgduni : Apvd haeredes Iaboci Ivntae- 1564- 1st Edition Lyon- Other Name: Aleaume, Jean, 15th/16th cent. Giunta, Jacques, 1487-1546. Notes: Signatures: *8 a-z8 A-2L8 2M².-Title vignette; initials; printed marginal notes.- includes index:complete. [7-1 bl.]-456-[2] ff. (some light dampstains not affecting text in 1st 18 leaves, somewhat browning, sm. wormtrack in endpaper).… Read More

Frankfurt am Main]: Heirs of Andreas Wechel: Claude Marne & Joannes Aubri, 1600. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodcut printer's mark and a few woodcut head- and tail-pieces. . Folio fine English blindstamped Calf Binding attrib. to John Westall of Oxford c1606-1617 with 24 medallion heads between stylized foliage signed I.W. Restored by Trevor Hickman, bookbinding lecturer at Leicestershire College of Art, with his bookplate & binding details in pencil on new endpapers. All Edges Rouged Titlepage with Wechel printer's device but no place of imprint +[6]pp Prefaces + 986pp with page numbers 869-70 left out but 871-2 used twice in succession. Pages 1-95 un-numbered p96 has last two and a bit columns of AZE- to AZY and then start of BAA but all un-numbered previous pages are present signatures starting from A1. Printed in 4 columns per page. Faint marginal damp mark to upper margin soon fading out, some worming to margins usually just a few pin prick sized holes but in the V's some tracks again all marginal,… Read More

Copenhagen, Pedro Morsingio, 1655.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary limp vellum (recased, later endleaves), vertical manuscript title on spine, remains of ties, fore-edge cover extensions. Extra engraved architectural title page. Full page engraved portrait of the dedicatee. Woodcut vignette on title page. Small woodcut initials. Typographical headpieces and vignettes. Woodcut tailpiece. Waterstains in lower outer corners of first few leaves. Occasional browning, mostly very light. Overall in good to very good condition. (4 ll.), 176 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of this poetical genealogy of the Royal House of Denmark, dedicated to Queen Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. It is also a veiled attack on Protestantism. Two sonnets in Italian appear in the preliminary leaves.Don Bernardino de Rebolledo, Conde de Rebolledo, Señor de Trian, etc., was born in León (1597; died Madrid, 1676). He had a long and distinguished military career, serving in Italy, the Mediterranean, Flanders and Germany, becoming… Read More

Sacrarum Religionum Maximae Ex Regula S. P. N. Augustini Ecclesiae Doctoris Maximi Filippo Picinelli, Augustinus Erath (The divine sanctity of religion from the dogmas compiled by S.P.N. Augustini, Doctor of the Church) – In Latin language.
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1st edition Königsberg, Augustae Vindelicorum, 1696.
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Pp: /20/ + 324 + /16/ with copper plate Size: 19 x 16 cm.
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Binding: Original leather binding. Damaged spine extremes, bumped edges. Panels slightly damaged signs of wear and aging (visible on scans), clamps missing, cracked spine joints. Condition: Signature by previous owner on the flyleaf. Foxing. Paper browning, signs of use.

London: Printed for R. Davis; J. Newbery; L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1765. full leather, five raised bands, red leather spine label, top edge stained black, fore-edge and bottom edge sprinkled red, gilt ornamentation on fore-edge of leather boards. large 12mo. full leather, five raised bands, red leather spine label, top edge stained black, fore-edge and bottom edge sprinkled red, gilt ornamentation on fore-edge of leather boards. Frontispiece, (ii), ii, 307 pages. Containing an Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a Proselyte, and a Member of the Church of England. Second edition. Wear to hinges and tail of spine. Corners bumped. Minor moisture stain affecting only the top edge of the textblock on a handful of pages not affecting the text. An autobiographical account, whereby the place of birth and the… Read More