Search Results: Titles starting with S from Butler Rare Books

A cutting, c.160×160mm, of an illuminated initial 'N', doubtless the introit for the Mass on the feast-day of Sts Peter and Paul (29 June), probably 'Nunc scio vere quia misit dominus angelum suum …': the reverse preserving its continuation: "[… de omni exspectation]e plebis [judaeorum] V(ersus). Et [...]", with music in square notation on four-line red staves, the versicle with an enlarged red initial 'E' filled with, and surrounded by, ornament in blue; both saints shown half-length, Paul holding a sword (the instrument of his martyrdom) and Peter holding keys (to heaven) and a book in a red blind-tooled binding with two clasps. Condition: Some decoration is cropped at the extremities; a little gold has flaked from the field surrounding the initial and some rubbing of the initial letter to the right; silver (notably Paul's sword) has darkened due to oxidation; the main scene is generally in fine condition. In a giltwood frame, c.30×30cm.The palette, whose dominant colours are an emerald green,… Read More

London : printed for J.L. and Humphrey Moseley, at the signe of the Princes Arms in Pauls Church-yard, 1649., 1649. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small folio. 29cm x 20cm. Portrait facing title page. 26+208pp. Minor marks. A very good crisp copy with large margins. New half morocco. Wing S3716. A scarce work and mentioned by Spurgeon as a useful commentary on a fragment of Genesis - though an important one

London : printed by Abraham Miller for T[homas]. U[nderhill]. and are to be sold by Thomas Underhill, George Calvert, and Henry Fletcher in Pauls Church-yard, 1659., 1659. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Folio. 28 x 19cm. [22], 301, [7], 57, [15]pp Stains at the outer margins throughout. Text in good condition, some minor browning and marks. Library buckram, new endpapers.

London : printed for G. Robinson; J. Robson, and J. Walter, 1778., 1778. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4 volumes. Portrait of Pearce facing title page. 21cm x 14cm. Textually clean throughout, crisp paper, good margins. Full original leather, rubbed and worn at extremities. Hinges worn and rubbed but holding. Labels, chipped. Overall a very good set.

Four volumes complete. Original half-leather with full decorated spines over raised bands. Black labels with gilt lettering to spines. Marbled boards. Title page to each volume. Text pages clean, crisp minor marks. A very handsome set in original binding.

J. Hatchard, 1814. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. Octavo. 22cm x 14cm. Half leather with marbled boards. 368+410pp. Text is very good with wide margins. William Wilberforce was a subscriber taking 10 copies. Venn and Wilberforce were both members of the Clapham sect.

London: printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Upper Moorfields; and sold at the New Chapel, City-road, and at the Rev Mr Wesley's preaching houses in town and country, 1786. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 7"x4.5". 12mo. 227, [1]pp Pages are in very good condition. 2 sections protrude slightly on the rebind which has been undertaken sympathetically retaining the original tree calf boards and marbled endpapers. Label to spine

A complete eight volume set of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele 'The Spectator' printed in London, 1733. Containing No.s 1-635, Thursday March 1st 1710-1711, to Monday December 20th.

A very good set in gorgeous period full calf bindings. 12mo, 8 volumes, uniformly bound in attractive period blindtooled full calf, spines with five raised bands with contrasting brown morocco labels,
compartments ornately gilt decorated, all page edges speckled red. Period plain endpapers. The books measure 10.5cm x 17cm.

The contents of all volumes are complete, meeting collation: 313, [11]; 324, [12]; 312, [12]; 291, [9]; 243, [11]; 294, [18]; 324, [12]; 299, [12]pp, including indexes and dedications. Title pages printed within double ruled borders with an engraved portrait vignette. Decorative woodcut initials, head and tailpieces throughout. The bindings are firm, hinges strong with a few short thin cracks, some chipping to heads and lower compartment vol 6 with some loss to backstrip, general light wear but
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560mm x 400mm in total each leaf with remains of a double column, 41 lines in a fine rounded early Gothic hand; verso of first leaf much scuffed with remains of a large initial 'C' Italy, C12th. and when Christ departed bodily, not only the Holy Spirit, but also the Father and the Son, was present to them spiritually. for if Christ departed from them in such a way that instead of him, the Holy Spirit would not be with him in them, where is his promise saying: behold, I am with you until the end of the age; and: Shall I and the Father come to him, and make our abode with him, since healso promised to send the Holy Spirit so that he would be with them for eternity? and because of this, since they were of carnal or animal origin, they were to become spiritual, surely they would have been more capable of having father and son and the holy spirit. But in no one is it to be believed that the Father is without the Son and the Holy Spirit, or the Father and the Son without the Holy Spirit, or the Son without… Read More

St. Paul in a historiated initial on a leaf from an illuminated choirbook, on vellum [northern Italy (perhaps Milan), c.1500]single leaf, 559mm. by 340mm., with a large historiated initial 'S' (probably opening "Scio cui credidi ..." the Psalm for the Night Office on the Feast of St. Peter, 29 June), 75mm. high, in pink with blue background heightened with scrolling white penwork, and green, blue and red acanthus-leaf sprays and bezant, all on burnished gold ground, 5 lines of text with music on a 4-line red stave, ink eating through individual letters in places, slight cockling, else good, nineteenth- or early twentieth-century frame. This is a detailed and well executed miniature. The skill in the portrayal of the saint's beard, his calm and benign facial features, and engaging gaze straight out of the picture towards his viewer, find close parallels in the work of Lombardic artists of the early sixteenth century, such as the so-called Master B.F (see D'Ancona, Wildenstein Collection, 1970,… Read More

Felix Kyngston, 1613. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The sacred doctrine of diuinitie, gathered out of the word of God, and comprehended in two volumes whereof this first volume, containeth a description of all that holy doctrine according to the rules of art: with a treatise concerning the olde Testament, or the promise. The second is to containe a larger explication of the former doctrines: with a discouerie of the most principall heresies and errours contrary thereunto. Imprinted at London : by Felix Kyngston, 1613. Quarto. Full leather with raised bands and period style leather label. [4], 20, 24, 29-44, 40-69, 100-101, 72-112 p. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Dudley Fenner, who the preface of the first edition (STC 10872.5), dated 1 Jan. 1589, mentions as having died three years previously. The second volume spoken of in the title is STC 7148. According to ESTC: ¿Most copies are anonymous; British Library copy retains [par.]2, conjugate with with [par.]3, with dedication by Finch to… Read More

London: printed by RW for Francis Tyton at the three daggers in Fleet-street and Nevil Simmons bookseller at Kederminster, 1662. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarto. 19cm x 14cm. [16], 23, [1], 328, 339-384pp collates complete despite the hiatus in pagination at 328. There is a part title, dated but register and pagination are continuous. Text pages are very good, crisp with wide margins, occasional marks. Original C17th leather boards rebacked in style over raised bands with hand-lettered label. A very good, near fine copy.

Leaf from Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, for Psalm 41:6-8, in Latin, from large manuscript on parchment[England, mid-twelfth century] Complete single leaf, with double column of 39 lines in a formal and angular proto-gothic bookhand, with pronounced wedges to ascenders and a residual ct-ligature, pale red rubrics, English pencil notes on text in lower margin of recto, recovered from a binding and so darkened on verso, and small scuffs, folds and holes, overall good and presentable condition with wide and clean margins, and on heavy parchment, 390 by 260mm.; in cloth-covered binding Provenance: 1. Alan G. Thomas (1911-1992), London bookseller.2. Leeds' Public Library; de-accessioned and sold by auction at Phillips, 28 February 1990, lot 54. 3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 659, acquired from Sam Fogg, London, in June 1990. Text and script: The Enarrationes in Psalmos is the longest of Augustine's major works; measuring twice the length of his more well-known De Civitate Dei. It… Read More

A very good clean and crisp copy. Title in ornamental border. Recently rebound in half-calf over raised bands, label, marbled boards. Collates complete.


William Fenner (1600-1640) was an English puritan preacher, enjoying popularity during the early part of the C17th during the English civil war.