Search Results: Titles starting with D from Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.

Munich: Adam Berg, 1603. Bound with: OSUNA, Francisco de and ALBERTINUS. Spiegel der Reichen. Munich: Nicolaus Heinrich, 1603. Bound with: DALNER, Andreas. Ein Tractat: Von Auffruhr od[er] Empörungen auß Geistl- und Weltlichen Historien... Ingolstadt: Andreas Angermaier, 1601. I: [12], 207, [4], [1 blank] ff. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut headpiece with hunters, other type-ornament head and tail-pieces. II: [4], "91" [recte 88] ff. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. III: [8], 48 pp. Three volumes, 4to, bound in one (183 x 144 mm.) Mostly light dampstain to about 50 ff. in mid-volume, marginal wormhole in last few leaves. Contemporary parchment over pasteboards, edges blue-stained (worn and soiled, backstrip defective). Provenance: Capuchins of Sion, 18th-century inscription on title; Redemptorist Congregation of Trier, inkstamp, shelfmark label dated 1928 with deaccession stamp.*** Two treatises of spiritual edification adapted from the Spanish and substantially added to by… Read More

Frankfurt am Main: [s.n.], 1595. 8vo (155 x 93 mm). [30] pp., [1 blank leaf], 560 pp. Woodcut title ornament, woodcut initials. Fresh, clean copy (single wormhole in text). Contemporary vellum tooled in silver-gilt, edges gauffered and gilt'; lacking fore-edge ties, slightly rubbed, small tear to front pastedown at gutter. Provenance: ownership inscription on title (Hermannij H L) of Hermann IV, Landgraf von Hesse (1607-1658, son of the dedicatee); Nordkirchen Castle bookplate. First Edition of Henri Estienne's "strangest work" (Schreiber), in which he exhorted to war against the Turks, in an archaizing Latin style lampooning the Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips, 1547-1606).  Although later recognized as the "founder of seventeenth-century neo-Stoicism" and one of the most influential Latin prose stylists of his age, during his lifetime and succeeding decades Lipsius, an ally of the Jesuits of Louvain, was harshly criticized, often no doubt for religious motives. Critics mocked not… Read More

[Geneva]: Jacob Stoer, 1591. 8vo (173 x 110 mm). [24], 761, [15] pp. Roman and italic types, shoulder notes, woodcut printer's device on title (Silvestre 1002), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary blind roll-tooled alum-tawed skin, edges stained green (some minor rubbing). Provenance: Jesuits of Amberg (Bavaria), 18th-century inscription on title, later paper shelfmark label at foot of spine;  a few 18th-century marginal notes and occasional underlinings in red ink in the last treatise.   First Latin edition of four works of erudite spirituality by a personal friend of Calvin, an Augustinian monk from Anjou who abandoned the cowl to become a Huguenot, becoming the most prominent advocate of French Calvinism in the period preceding the Edict of Nantes. L'Espine's writings belong to a group of major literary sources for the modern understanding of the "interior life" of French Calvinists, supplanting the paucity of historical sources such as records of sermons or synodal and… Read More

[Cologne: Printer of Augustinus, `De fide', 1473. Chancery half-sheet 4to (209 x 147 mm). Collation: [1-28] (1/1r-2/5v Disputatio inter clericum et militem, 2/6r-2/8v Compendium de vita Anticristi). 16 leaves. 26 lines. Type: 100(107). Two 4-line initial spaces. Initials and paragraph marks alternating in red and blue, the first with infill and flourishing in blue. First leaf rehinged, repairs in gutter margin of last leaf, marginal paper flaw to 1/7, some marginal soiling. Old vellum (recased); folding cloth case. Provenance: contemporary inscription on a1r: occam he[re]tic[us]; Charles Lemuel Nichols (1851-1929), bookplate; Mrs. Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby's New York, 24 September 1986, lot 144).First Edition of this tract on the proper boundary between papal and lay power, couched as a dialogue between a cleric and a knight, probably composed shortly before 1302 in the context of the struggle between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair of France. The direct target of the anonymous… Read More