The text of the earliest New Testament Greek manuscripts by Phillip Comfort and David Barrett - 2001

A biography of Abraham Lincoln early life and his politics.

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1927, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition 1927 as "newly translated from the Latin of the Elzevir edition of 1633" by Edward Seymour Forster. -- Includes 3 plates (one is title-page of the Elzevir edition) and one folding map (illustrating Busbecq's travels). -- Hardcover, ownership is pencil dated 1927. Condition: very good minus (cloth over thin boards is bumped at corners, some wear spine crown; spine slanted). -- Pages are bright and clean, overall a nice copy of this SCARCE and significant book.

1553 Sabinus Catalog of Roman & German Emperors ROME Charlemagne Augustus Caesar

Georg Sabinus was a 16th-century German poet and historian who published an important catalogue of the emperors of Rome. Curiously, Sabinus supplemented the lists of Roman rulers with lists of German leaders. Each entry features a short description of the figure including some of which are written in poetic verse. It includes all the known Roman and German rulers such as Charlemagne, Otto the Great, Charles V, Constantine, Julius Caesar, Nero, and Augustus Caesar.
This fascinating Latin edition was published in Wittemberg, Germany in 1553 by Kreutzer
Item number: #10777
Price: $599
SABINUS, Georg
Catalogus Romanorum Imperatorum. Additi sunt et Germanici Imperatores descripti versibus
Wittemberg : [Veit Kreutzer], 1553.
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Printed 20 December 1934. Les Cinq Dernières Journées is the second volume of the famed Brunelleschi illustrated version of the Decameron with their erotic content. Wonderful condition as seen in photos, perfect for a collector or bookseller looking to complete the set. Softcover in very good+ condition.

1537 1ed Orthodox Saint John Chrysostom On the Priesthood + Brixius Marburg

A rare 16th-century printing of works of John Chrysostom. Chrysostom was one of the most important Early Christian Church authors and preachers and is most remembered for his sermons and homilies. He preached on many different subjects, but his most frequented topic was helping the needy. Chrysostom calls for followers of Jesus to set aside their material desires to help the poor, often in a way that shamed the rich and guilted them in to giving.
"Do you pay such honor to your excrements as to receive them into a silver chamber-pot when another man made in the image of God is perishing in the cold?" (Chrysostom in Liebeschuetz)

One of his most important treatises was 'On the Priesthood' in which he describes his experiences becoming a priest and living as a priest. Interestingly, this work was popular during his lifetime as he made references to it in his other works.
This extremely rare 16th-century edition of 'On the… Read More

A biography of Abraham Lincoln early life and his politics.

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1927, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition 1927 as "newly translated from the Latin of the Elzevir edition of 1633" by Edward Seymour Forster. -- Includes 3 plates (one is title-page of the Elzevir edition) and one folding map (illustrating Busbecq's travels). -- Hardcover, ownership is pencil dated 1927. Condition: very good minus (cloth over thin boards is bumped at corners, some wear spine crown; spine slanted). -- Pages are bright and clean, overall a nice copy of this SCARCE and significant book.

The Works Of Shakspere. Edited by Charles Knight. Imperial Edition. With Illustration in Steel. London: Virtue & Co. No date. Circa 1875-80. New York, Patterson and Neilson. Two Volume Set. Folio. Illustrations from pictures by C. W. Cope, W. P. Frith, C. R. Leslie, D. Maclise, E. M. Ward, C. Clint, H. S. Marks, W. Q. Orchardson, C. W. Sharp, W.M. Lizars, C. Cousen and others. Contemporary half black leather with green cloth boards and gilt emblem front boards; raised ribs and title and pattern in gilt to spines. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Text pages printed with double columns. Plates are printed on fine heavy paper. Boards and edges have moderate rubbing (see pictures); gilt remains bright and binding is firm. Contents are in near fine condition with flaws noted as follows: Volume I, has light and small foxing marks to the preliminary pages and tissue guard is missing from one plate; Volume II has very small water droplet marks near tail edge and outside of illustration in a few plates.… Read More

Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company. Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket toned, tattered, waterstained and soiled, endpapers and boards foxed.. 1958. Facsimile. Hardcover. A facsimile reprint of the William Morris magnum opus, the Kelmscott Chaucer, with the 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Introduction by John T. Winterich. Glossary for the modern reader. Off-white embossed cloth. The Kelmscott Chaucer was originally published in 1896, in a limited edition. This facsimile reproduces all the original illustrations, text, borders, and decorations in a slightly smaller size. xx, 554pp. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

Printed 20 December 1934. Les Cinq Dernières Journées is the second volume of the famed Brunelleschi illustrated version of the Decameron with their erotic content. Wonderful condition as seen in photos, perfect for a collector or bookseller looking to complete the set. Softcover in very good+ condition.