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London: Printed by B[onham] Norton and J[ohn] Bill, 1629. 3/4 leather. Very Good. 7 x 8 3/4 inches. 4to. A2 - A6 + B - H (8 leaf quires). Title page lacking. Printed in two column Roman type. Margins of first two signatures a little grubby with closed tears, and a few pages with marginal losses affecting a few letters of text. Otherwise, pages lightly soiled. G8 with closed tear and old repair with no loss of text. Griffiths 1629/4. ESTCS93878. Bound with: The Holy Bible, contayning the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall commandement [Authorised (KJV) version]. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1629. [6] (introductory material) + 32 numbered pages (genealogies lacking 1, 2, 5-8, 15-16, 21-22). Printed in two column Roman type. Loss to lower quarter of pages 31 and 32. A - Ffff (8 leaf quires). Light soiling and close cropped, but otherwise nice. P2 bound after P3. Lacks…
Read More LA EXPOSITIONE DEL PATER NOSTER, COMPOSTA PER FRATE GIROLAMO DA FERRARA. by SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.: - 1495
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LA EXPOSITIONE DEL PATER NOSTER, COMPOSTA PER FRATE GIROLAMO DA FERRARA.
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The booke of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England [with Geneva (Breeches) Bible and Psalms]
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The booke of common prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid, of that translation which is appointed to be vsed in churches [with Geneva (Breeches) Bible, Concordances and Psalms]
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London: Printed by Robert Barker and the Assignes of John Bill, 1630. 3/4 leather. Very Good. 7 x 9 inches. 4to. 84 (of 92) pages. A (8 leaves) + B (10 leaves) + C - E (8 leaves). Printed in two column black letter. Lacks title page (title page for The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English meetre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others. . . dated 1600 bound before BCP) and preliminaries. Griffiths 1630/7. ESTCS123192. Bound with: The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. [Geneva/Breeches version]. London: Robert Barker, 1602. [2] +434 + [4] + 441 - 554 leaves. Printed in two column black letter. Title page with old tissue repairs to margin and lower portion of text. Closed tears to 335 and 462, loss to top corner of 9-11, 32, 324, and 392. Loss to bottom of 131, 145, 198, 210, 235, 248, 454, 458, 459, 486, and 546, and to top half of 165. Lacks 50 (G2), 220, 252, 253, and 289. Several pages misnumbered.…
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Magistri Sententiarum libri quatuor / Petro Lombardo, Episcopo Parisiensi authore ; labore Ioannis Aleaume, Parisiensis theologiae professoris a` mendis non paucis ex vetustis. codicum collatione reporgatorum ;
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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).…
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VINGT SERMONS de Jean Daillé sur divers textes de l'écriture, prononcés à Charenton en des jours de Cene, & en quelques autres occasions Extraordinaires
by Jean Daillé [Dallaeus] (1594-1670)
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Geneve: Pierre Chouët, 1653. VIN(g)T SERMONS de Jean Daillé sur divers textes de l'écriture, prononcés à Charenton en des jours de Cene, & en quelques autres occasions Extraordinaires- by Jean Daillé [Dallaeus] (1594-1670)- Pierre Chouët- Geneve- 1653.-1st Edition- BOUND with: SERMON DE JEAN DAILLE Sur La Premiere aux Corintiens XI, vers. 32. Prononce a Charenton le dimanche 28. de Juillet 1652- Lovis Vendosme-Paris- 1653- 1st Edition and BOUND with: SERMON DE JEAN DAILLE sur les paroles de S. Pietre, dans sa premiere Epitre, ch.3v.18. Prononce a Charenton, le 30 jour de Novembre 1663- Samuel Perrier- Charenton- 1664- 1st Edition- In Good antiquarian condition-8vo- full 16th century vellum with yap edges- newer type endpapers and first blank and end blank-Ex-libris from BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA VATICANA with 2 oval deascensioned and 'duplicato', but verification with the Vatican on-line library shows that they no longer have a second copy available-Only 3 World Cat and Copac library holdings, and…
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DE BETOVERDE WEERELD ["The World Bewitched"] ... [in four books; bound with:] ARTICULEN TOT SATISFACTIE AAN DE EERW. CLASSIS VAN AMSTERDAM, VAN BALTHASAR BEKKER, OVERGELEVERD DEN 22 JANUARY 1692
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Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. Four books and one pamphlet in two volumes. Quarto. [4],[4],[16],138,[2];[8],262,[2];11; [8],32,188,[2];[6],277,[3] pp., including portrait frontipiece and facing description leaf in first volume and in-text illustration of the Oldenburg Horn on p. 141 of fourth book. Contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titles. Autograph signature of the author on half-title verso of first book, title-page verso of second book, and following the introductions of third and fourth books. Matching contemporary ownership inscriptions of C. V. D. Hell on title pages of first and third books; early ownership inscription of "[?]. [?]. v. d. Bosch" on front free endpaper of both volumes; 1961 gift inscription on front free title page of first volume; occasional contemporary underlining and marginalia throughout; booksellers' pencil notations in front and rear endpapers of both volumes. Boards bowed, parchment moderately soiled and, in first volume, turn-ins separating from…
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The booke of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England [with Geneva (Breeches) Bible and Psalms]
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London: Printed by B[onham] Norton and J[ohn] Bill, 1629. 3/4 leather. Very Good. 7 x 8 3/4 inches. 4to. A2 - A6 + B - H (8 leaf quires). Title page lacking. Printed in two column Roman type. Margins of first two signatures a little grubby with closed tears, and a few pages with marginal losses affecting a few letters of text. Otherwise, pages lightly soiled. G8 with closed tear and old repair with no loss of text. Griffiths 1629/4. ESTCS93878. Bound with: The Holy Bible, contayning the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall commandement [Authorised (KJV) version]. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1629. [6] (introductory material) + 32 numbered pages (genealogies lacking 1, 2, 5-8, 15-16, 21-22). Printed in two column Roman type. Loss to lower quarter of pages 31 and 32. A - Ffff (8 leaf quires). Light soiling and close cropped, but otherwise nice. P2 bound after P3. Lacks…
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The booke of common prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid, of that translation which is appointed to be vsed in churches [with Geneva (Breeches) Bible, Concordances and Psalms]
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London: Printed by Robert Barker and the Assignes of John Bill, 1630. 3/4 leather. Very Good. 7 x 9 inches. 4to. 84 (of 92) pages. A (8 leaves) + B (10 leaves) + C - E (8 leaves). Printed in two column black letter. Lacks title page (title page for The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English meetre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others. . . dated 1600 bound before BCP) and preliminaries. Griffiths 1630/7. ESTCS123192. Bound with: The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. [Geneva/Breeches version]. London: Robert Barker, 1602. [2] +434 + [4] + 441 - 554 leaves. Printed in two column black letter. Title page with old tissue repairs to margin and lower portion of text. Closed tears to 335 and 462, loss to top corner of 9-11, 32, 324, and 392. Loss to bottom of 131, 145, 198, 210, 235, 248, 454, 458, 459, 486, and 546, and to top half of 165. Lacks 50 (G2), 220, 252, 253, and 289. Several pages misnumbered.…
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Magistri Sententiarum libri quatuor / Petro Lombardo, Episcopo Parisiensi authore ; labore Ioannis Aleaume, Parisiensis theologiae professoris a` mendis non paucis ex vetustis. codicum collatione reporgatorum ;
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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).…
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VINGT SERMONS de Jean Daillé sur divers textes de l'écriture, prononcés à Charenton en des jours de Cene, & en quelques autres occasions Extraordinaires
by Jean Daillé [Dallaeus] (1594-1670)
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Geneve: Pierre Chouët, 1653. VIN(g)T SERMONS de Jean Daillé sur divers textes de l'écriture, prononcés à Charenton en des jours de Cene, & en quelques autres occasions Extraordinaires- by Jean Daillé [Dallaeus] (1594-1670)- Pierre Chouët- Geneve- 1653.-1st Edition- BOUND with: SERMON DE JEAN DAILLE Sur La Premiere aux Corintiens XI, vers. 32. Prononce a Charenton le dimanche 28. de Juillet 1652- Lovis Vendosme-Paris- 1653- 1st Edition and BOUND with: SERMON DE JEAN DAILLE sur les paroles de S. Pietre, dans sa premiere Epitre, ch.3v.18. Prononce a Charenton, le 30 jour de Novembre 1663- Samuel Perrier- Charenton- 1664- 1st Edition- In Good antiquarian condition-8vo- full 16th century vellum with yap edges- newer type endpapers and first blank and end blank-Ex-libris from BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA VATICANA with 2 oval deascensioned and 'duplicato', but verification with the Vatican on-line library shows that they no longer have a second copy available-Only 3 World Cat and Copac library holdings, and…
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DE BETOVERDE WEERELD ["The World Bewitched"] ... [in four books; bound with:] ARTICULEN TOT SATISFACTIE AAN DE EERW. CLASSIS VAN AMSTERDAM, VAN BALTHASAR BEKKER, OVERGELEVERD DEN 22 JANUARY 1692
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Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. Four books and one pamphlet in two volumes. Quarto. [4],[4],[16],138,[2];[8],262,[2];11; [8],32,188,[2];[6],277,[3] pp., including portrait frontipiece and facing description leaf in first volume and in-text illustration of the Oldenburg Horn on p. 141 of fourth book. Contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titles. Autograph signature of the author on half-title verso of first book, title-page verso of second book, and following the introductions of third and fourth books. Matching contemporary ownership inscriptions of C. V. D. Hell on title pages of first and third books; early ownership inscription of "[?]. [?]. v. d. Bosch" on front free endpaper of both volumes; 1961 gift inscription on front free title page of first volume; occasional contemporary underlining and marginalia throughout; booksellers' pencil notations in front and rear endpapers of both volumes. Boards bowed, parchment moderately soiled and, in first volume, turn-ins separating from…
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LEBEN DER HEILIGEN: WINTERTEIL UND SOMMERTEIL. TEXT FROM THE LIVES OF ST. HENRY II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR, AND HIS WIFE, ST. CUNEGUNDA
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Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 1480. 255 x 180 mm. (10 x 7"). Single column, 31 lines in bâtarde type. Attractively matted. WITH A HAND-COLORED WOODCUT (68 x 80 mm.) SHOWING A SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF ST. HENRY II. Goff J-158; ISTC ij00158000; not in BMC. ◆A couple of small, faint brown spots, otherwise a fine leaf, clean and fresh with comfortable margins. .
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VITAE SANCTORUM PATRUM, SIVE VITAS PATRUM [in German]. LEBEN DER HEILIGEN ALTVÄTER
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[Strassburg: Printer of the "Antichristus" (Heinrich Eggestein?), not after 1482]. First or Second Edition in German. 285 x 200 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 7/8"). Single column, 34 line in gothic type. Attractively matted. WITH A HALF-PAGE WOODCUT (85 x 132 mm.) OF A SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF HILARION. Goff H-216; BMC I, 168; ISTC ih00216000. ◆Faint marginal smudge, but A FINE LEAF, clean, fresh, and bright, with ample margins, of a very rare early issue of the German translation of the "Lives of the Desert Fathers." .
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1400s Handwritten Prayer Manuscript on Vellum French Medieval Calligraphy RAREAn incredibly rare early 15th-century, handwritten manuscript!
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LETTERS FROM THE 15TH CENTURY: ON THE ORIGINS OF THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER TYPEFACE. A STUDY, WITH SPECIMEN LEAVES, OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE EARLY GERMAN PRINTERS ON WILLIAM MORRIS' MASTERPIECE
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McMinnville, Oregon: Phillip J. Pirages, 2019. ONE OF 84 COPIES in floral-patterned cloth from a total edition of 165 COPIES. Text: 244 x 154 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 1/8"); Case: 502 x 372 mm. (19 3/4 x 14 5/8"). ii, 75 pp. Bound in floral-patterned cloth after a Morris design by Amy Borezo, who also constructed the case holding the volume and leaves. The book printed letterpress on Zerkall Book Laid Vellum paper by Arthur Larson at Horton Tank Graphics. Book layout by Jill Mann. EACH COPY WITH FIVE LEAVES: ONE FROM THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER with one or more 10-line initials, multiple six- and/or three-line initials, AND ONE EACH FROM THE PRESSES OF FOUR GERMAN PRINTERS FROM THE 1470s--PETER SCHOEFFER, JOHANN MENTELIN, GÜNTHER ZAINER, AND ANTON KOBERGER. ◆The incunabular leaves consistently excellent, with only minor defects, and the Kelmscott leaves (which were never part of a bound volume) in entirely fine condition. This is a unique leaf book in the way that it combines three elements: a significant…
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PRECORDIALISSIMI ac imp[re] ciabiles de adve[n]tu d[omi]ni Sermones co[m]pleti a Revere[n]do patre D. Joan[n]e Cleree ordinis p[re] dicatoru[m] g[e]neral. magistro artiu[m] ac sacre pagle doctore Parrhissie aureo quide[m] ordle editi atque declamati ad dei honorem animarumque salute[m] nu[n]c primum in lucem emissi felicite incipiunt: Venundantur Parrhisiis, in vico Jacobeo, sub signo Pellicani ab Engleberto Marnefio bibliopola ad edem divi Yvonis commorante [1522],[ Daté d'après l'épître de l'éditeur du 4 des calendes d'octobre 1522 [i.e. 28 sept. 1522].
by Clérée, Jean Clérée (1450-1507) Du Chastel, Jean. ; (Editor)
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Paris: Jacobeo, sub signo Pellicani ab Engleberto Marnefio, 1522. Second edition. Signatures: a-g8, h6(h5-6 both blank, half of h5 missing and lacking h6) LXII f. Bound in original vellum limp binding with hand lettering on spine "Cleree sermones/aVerdu DNI/1522": name on first page "Thomas Stevenson/Edinburgh/183. very good copy of a rare sermon. John Clérée dominican friar, preacher of the Late Middle Ages, is a little and unjustly forgotten nowadays. He was however very well known in the time of the kings Charles VIII and Louis XII, whose he has been the confessor. This study is based on the Quadragesimale said of Valenciennes. Clérée, using always of the rules of the scolastic Ars Praedicamdi, is nevertheless able to innovate by introducing in his sermons some dramatic dialogues. He is an accurate witness of the difficulties and problems of the french society about 1500 : the increasing inegalities between rich and poor ; the heaviness of the royal fiscality and of all kinds of taxes ; the…
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Theologia naturalis; sive, Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura ejus in quantum homo: et de his que sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendum seipsum et Deum, et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligatur tam Deo quam proximo.
by De Sabunde, Raymundus (Raimundus Sabundus, Raymond of Sebonde or Ramon Sibiuda, Catalan scholar, c.1385-1436)
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Strasbourg: Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris, 1501. Half leather. Fine. Folio, printed in Strassburg by Martin Flach, 7 February 1501; 161 unnumbered leaves. BINDING: new Gothic hand-sewn oak binding by Arthur Green of Malvern; tawed quarter leather over quarter-sawn oak boards, quires hand-sewn on four double-cords creating four raised spine bands, board leather blind-tooled with period style rosettes and fleurs-de-lys within panel of diagonal blind triple fillets, hand-sewn Gothic double headbands of alternate hand-dyed indigo and undyed linen thread, hand-made brass hasps and clasps ornamented in period style; an exceptionally attractive recreation of a Gothic hand-sewn binding employing medieval techniques contemporaneous with the date the book was printed. COLLATION: [pi]6, a2-8, b-y6, z8, zeta6, antisigma8; leaf a1 excised and subsequent first few lines of a2[recto] redacted in black ink in the sixteenth century by the inquisitor for its heretical content (see below). TEXT: Double…
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Orationi, Militari. Raccolte Per M. Remigio Fiorentino, da Tutti gli Historici. Greci e Latini, Antichi e Moderni con gli Argomenti chi Dichiarono l'Occasioni per le Quali Elle Furono Fatte..
by Nannini, Remigio [1521-1581]
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Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Vellum. Title in gilt on green calf label on spine. [32] 740 p.p. Slightly bumped spine and edges. Some soiling to boards and extremities. Light foxing, some yellow staining to pages. Ex Libris Neathman Mill Library stamp on rear fly leaf. Tight boards, pages otherwise clean and crisp with decorated black and white initials. A near fine copy. A Dominican friar and writer, Remigio Nannini produced religious as well as secular works, and poetry. Nannini published "two collections of orations drawn by historians (the first, Military Orations collected by all the ancient and modern historians, Venice, 1557)" [Cantimori, Delio. Italian Encyclopedia, 1934]. Nannini also went on to publish the works of St. Thomas Aquinas (1570) at the request of Pope Pius the V.
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Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei.
by Antonius de Vercelli
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Antonius de Vercelli. Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei. Illustrated with 2 multi-colored initials. The beginning of the text nicely printed in red, text in gothic type, in two columns, 51 lines to a page. 8vo. Contemporary hard vellum binding, remounted. Venetiis, Johannes et Gregorius de Gregorii de Forlivio, February 16, 1492. First Incunabula Edition. Antonius de Vercelli was, for approximately thirty years, one of the leading and most influential political counsellors of the pre-eminent families in Italy's early Renaissance: the Medici family in Florence and the Sforza family in Milan. This collection of his Sermones (Discourses) has significant importance and the added weight of someone deeply involved in the political turmoil of the late 15th century. The context and political value of these discourses helped Machiavelli define "The Art of the State." Vercelli is also a significant religious figure, having had much influence in Italian theologies. 18th century…
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A COLLECTION OF 36 PRINTED LEAVES FROM BOOKS PRINTED IN AUGSBURG, 33 FROM INCUNABULA
by (INCUNABULAR LEAVES - AUGSBURG). ZAINER, GÜNTHER, JOHANNES BÄMLER, ANTON SORG, and others, Printers
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Augsburg, 1470-1523. All leaves in archival mats, housed in a (slightly scuffed) linen clamshell box measuring 520 x 365 mm. (20 3/8 x 14 1/2"). 13 LEAVES WITH WOODCUTS, THE MAJORITY OF THESE COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND. ◆A couple of leaves a little browned, two others trimmed a bit close, one with loss of headline, trivial marginal stains or smudges, but the leaves generally fine and fresh. The collection includes: DURANTI, GUILLELMUS. RATIONALE DIVINORUM OFFICIORUM. (Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 22 January 1470) 395 x 290 mm. (15 1/2 x 11 1/2"). Rubricated in red, two two-line initials in red. Goff D-404; BMC II, 315; ISTC id00404000. JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. LEGENDA AUREA: LEBEN DER HEILIGEN. (Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1471-72) 325 x 240 mm. (12 7/8 x 9 1/2"). First Edition in German. Goff J-156; BMC II, 317; ISTC ij00156000. NIDER, JOHANNES. DIE VIERUNDZWANZIG GOLDENEN HARFEN. (Augsburg: Johannes Bämler, 18 December 1472) 265 x 185 mm. (10 1/2 x 7 14"). Goff N-223; BMC II, 331; ISTC…
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ANTEROTICA, SIVE DE AMORIS GENERIBUS
by (INCUNABULA). HAEDUS, PETRUS
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Treviso: Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, 13 Oct. 1492. FIRST EDITION. 215 x 150 mm. (7 7/8 x 5 7/8"). Textually Complete. 6 p.l., 97 leaves (without final blank). Single column, 25 lines, roman type. New unlettered limp vellum in the style of the period. Front pastedown with bookplate of José Lorenzo Cossío. With numerous marginal annotations in two different early hands. Goff H-2; BMC VI, 885; ISTC ih00002000; V. Schulderer, "A Fleming in Venice," in "Fifty Essays", pp. 113-126. ◆Intermittent dampstains to edges, intruding into tail margin of first quire (but well away from text), occasional minor foxing, thumbing, or small stains to margins, but an excellent copy internally, generally clean, fresh, and rather bright with generous margins, and in a perfectly suitable retrospective binding. Written as advice for the author's nephew, a college student, this philosophical treatise on the types of love is particularly concerned with the dangers of erotic passion. It takes the form of a lively…
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