Search Results: Titles starting with L from Butler Rare Books

c.1320. 45cm x 30cm. Single large leaf, with the main text set in a small, square text block of 2 columns of 15 lines. Tall square Italian bookhand in the centre of the leaf (with parts of Lib.1 tit VI. 'De electione'). Wide margins with 67 lines of the standard commentary enclosing the main text. Capitals touched in yellow, paragraph marks in red and blue, running titles in red and blue with other contemporary roman numeral section numbers in contemporary pen. One text correction. Old water damage. Modern folio no. '23' on recto. Spotting to outer upper corner but overall in good condition. A very large and handsome leaf from a copy of the 'Sextus Liber Decretalium'.

Leaf from a commentary on Matthew 2:11-18, in Latin, from a large decorated manuscript on parchment[England, c. 1200] Single leaf, with double column of 45 lines in a handsome English gothic bookhand (textualis libraria), capitals touched in red and sometimes with leafy vine-stem terminals, one small red initial, marginalia including diagrams for the words "fuga" and "Moratus", recovered from a binding and with staining to margins on recto, some tears to edges of leaves and small holes, overall in fair and presentable condition, 345 by 245mm.; in cloth-covered binding and with report by Prof. Marvin Colker Provenance: 1. The presence of punctus flexus punctuation indicates an origin in a Cistercian community, somewhere in England at the end of the twelfth century and the opening of the thirteenth.2. Sotheby's, 12 November 1987, lot 12. 3. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017), San Francisco, California, I/266 (1987). 4. Quaritch cat. 1088, Bookhands of the Middle Ages III, 1988, no. 65. 5. Schøyen… Read More

Physical description and Materiality
Parchment, a substantially complete leaf, c.260×375mm, but the corners trimmed to allow mitering and one margin cropped to reduce the width to the required size, ruled in dry-point on the hair-side for two columns of 36 lines written above top line in a fine regular rounded late Caroline bookhand, with a rubric in red and an enlarged initial in red divided into two panels, foliated "cxlvj" in the middle of the upper margin.
The shape of the book that this leaf covered is clearly preserved; the very darkened spine still has one of two paper labels preserved, inscribed with a shelfmark "[…] 5. b | 29", and rows of holes show where the cover was sewn to the boards. Unlike the vast majority of medieval manuscript leaves re-used as book covers (including those in this catalogue), the outer face is almost entirely blank: this cannot be due to fading or ordinary wear-and-tear, and shows that the binder have deliberately and carefully erased the text, probably with a… Read More

Quarto. 20cm x 15cm. Collates complete but with a slightly strange hiatus in pagination [20],376,387-598,592-766,777-864,711-950pp with 4 leaves of very unusual Victorian typeset facsimile presented 861/64 within rules (we have never seen this previously). A corner repair to one leaf which touches a couple of words. A very crisp and clean copy with red edges. Rebound in tan half leather with marbled boards, raised bands and a red label.

Bickers and Son; London, 1874. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original Victorian blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and illustrated gilt block to front and rear boards. Folding frontis, folding map, and a folding plate showing the Square in 1874 plus 14 further illustrations. Rubbed and worn at extremities.

Octavo. A beautiful set in half-calf with gilt spines over raised bands and labels. New marbled endpapers. Textually in very good condition. Contemporary ownership inscription of 'R Holland'.Eighth edition

London. Printed for William Shrowsbery at the Bible in Dukes-Lane 1682, 1682. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo. (16.5cm x 11cm) [16],128pp. Portrait of Hale faces a typographic title page. This is a scarce variant edition printed in the year following the first edition. ESTC R203763. Only 2 locations outside of the UK. Full original leather boards neatly rebacked over raised bands. A very good copy.

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A Sermon preached at Broad oak, June 4, 1707 on occasion of the Death of Mrs Katharine Henry, relict of Mr Philip Henry….by Her Son The Rev. Matthew Henry.

Xlviii, 488pp pagination continuous.

225mm x 145mm Recent brown half-calf, raised bands, gilt lines and label. Label of Period Bookbinders, Salisbury.

Engraved frontispiece of Philip Henry faces first title and another engraved frontispiece of Katherine Henry facing the second work.

Fold-out plate, facsimile of the Baptismal Covenant of the Henry family.

A very good copy of an unusual title, not to be confused with the common 'An Account of the Life of..'

Philip Henry (24 August 1631 – 24 June 1696) was an English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist. and the father of the famous commentator, Matthew Henry.

Second edition, 18cm x 11.5cm Half-leather. 283, [5]pp. Text is in very good condition, some marks. Life of renowned missionary, David Brainerd and Journal of Jonathan Edwards

London: printed by R.W.for Nevill Simmons, at the three Crowns over against Holborn Conduit., 1670. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Quarto. 19cm x 15cm. [18],607, [5]pp. Typographic title present but lacks the engraved frontis and engraved title pages, otherwise complete. Mainly good to very good, with some marks. Mmm3 with small textual loss cutting into lower 5 lines. Final 20 or so pages are browned. Full original C17th lether boards recently rebacked over raised bands and attractive period style label.

Life on the Congo by Rev. W. Holman BentleyThis book is in very good condition. Published in 1887, First Edition with an Introduction by George Grenfell. Size is 19cm x 13cm.
There are chapters on Cannibalism, and references to Freemasonry. Original Victorian rust coloured pictorial cloth with gilt lettering, black illustrations on spine and front cover. Very slight lean, but otherwise a near fine copy.£50

The Lord's Prayer in Chinese with literal translation and the pronunciation of each character, Printed in Metallic Moveable Types. London, William Mavor Watts Oriental Type Founder and Printer, Crown Court, Temple Bar. C. 1850.
William Mavor Watts (1797/98 - 1874) was an English printer, based in London, who specialised in non-Roman fonts and Bible printing. Watts took over the printing business that his father Richard Watts had established in Crown Court, Temple Bar, London and developed it further. Watts made his name well known as a printer who could undertake to set up copy in almost every language and turn out his works in thoroughly artistic style. The founts of type he possessed, available for the printing of works in almost every known language, would have done honour to the wealthiest and most learned academies.

Original green cloth with gold lettering and design to front cover and spine. Some old and inert marks to front cover. 50 photogravure photographs with tissue guards. 340pp. Text block is solid, text pages are clean and internally better than very good

Parchment, a cutting, c.160×130mm, ruled in plummet and written in two columns of which 19 lines of one column are preserved, chapter and verse initials alternately red or blue, the start of the book with an 8-line inhabited initial in gold and colours, formerly pasted-down and consequently with traces of paper glued to the reverse.
It is not known when the parent volume was cut up, and apart from the next item no other cuttings have yet been recognised. The text would have been outdated by the mid-13th century, by which time the 'Paris' edition of the Bible was standard, so it may have been dismembered in the Middle Ages to re-use the parchment, but it does not have any of the telltale signs of having been used as binders' waste, so it is more likely that the volume simply lay unused on a shelf or in a cupboard until the 19th century, and was then deliberately cut up to preserve the illuminated initials such as this. The person who wielded the knife was careful to preserve the entire capitula list,… Read More

2 volumes. Folio. Second edition. 1661. Collates complete: ([26], 892 [i.e. 884]; [2], 893-1133, 1142-1519, 1518-1666pp. Some early pages and later pages are slightly dog-eared at the lower corners NAT. Later full leather bindings with blue labels, raised bands. Text is in good, clean condition. A solid and very good copy notwithstanding the faults mentioned above. Although Spurgeon was not a fan of this commentary, JC Ryle counted it amongst his favourite commentaries. There is an extract from Ryle's work loosely inserted. A very rare and hard-to-come-by set of this Puritan comment.