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1853 Life of Blessed Virgin Mary Orsini English Catholic Ireland IllustratedA beautiful, rare English edition of Orsini's 'Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary.' This fine work of Catholic literature was translated out of the original French into English and is "a labor of love for a Catholic to celebrate the praises and publish the renown of our most dear Mother." Called a 'Superb Work' by the Lambruschini 'Treatise on the Immaculate Conception', this work was written to honor the Virgin Mary and hold her in the highest regard. Translated by Mrs. J Sadlier, this work "follows the course of the universal devotion wherewith the Church has honored, and does still honor, this Queen of angels and of men. It shows how from age to age that devotion has grown and prospected coequal with Catholicity and records the shrines and churches erected in every land under her invocation. It embodies the Eastern traditions concerning her with the conclusive testimony of the Fathers; the little which is related of her in… Read More

1903 Sports of the World Golf Maori Sports Tiger HUNTING Military Cricket India

Frederick George Aflalo founded the British Sea Anglers' Society and travelled around the world becoming a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He also edited and authored works such as the 'Encyclopaedia of Sport,' 'Angler's Library,' and 'The Sports of the World,' among others.

'The Sports of the World' is a fully illustrated survey of both mainstream and obscure sports of the day including chapters on football, rugby, golf, cricket, Maori sports and military sports in India, tiger hunting and much more.
Item number: #5790
Price: $499
AFLALO, Frederick G
The sports of the world
London: Cassell, [1903]
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Collation: Complete with all pages
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Vol 1 - [vii], 216
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Vol 2 - [viii], 217-416
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Illustrated throughout
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Language: English
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Binding: Cloth; tight and secure
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Size: ~11.5in X 8.5in (28cm x 21.5cm)
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1830 Franz Josef Haydn String Quartets Viola Score Classical MUSIC Folio Sonatas

An impressive, folio printing of the music of Franz Joseph Haydn.

Haydn is, without question, one of the most important and recognized figures in the history of classical music. Haydn's only mistake was composing and performing at the same time as Mozart. However, Haydn's music is still highly playable and enjoyed around the world.

This tome is the viola part to Haydn's string quartets and sonatas. These books were published around 1830 in Paris.
Item number: #6862
Price: $499
HAYDN, Franz Joseph

[Works of Franz Joseph Haydn]
A Paris, Societe pour la Publication de Musique, [1830].

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [2], 265, [1]
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight & secure
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Size: ~14.25in X 10.75in (36.5cm x 27.5cm)
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1696 Historia Quakeriana EARLY AMERICA Dutch Croese Quakers William Penn Sewel

Gerard Croese was a 17th-century Dutch minister who is primarily remembered for his chronicle on the early history of the Quakers. First written in 1695, 'Historia Quakeriana' was inspired and written based on the letters of William Sewel and covers events leading to the foundation of the Society of Friends by George Fox. Other important contents include William Penn and his life in Pennsylvania.

Books published in the 17th-century that cover early America are exceedingly rare and worthy of note. This book by Croese is no exception.

Item number: #7565
Price: $550
CROESE, Gerard
Gerardi Croesi historia Quakeriana, sive De vulgo Quakeris, ab ortu illorum usque ad recens natum schisma, libri III. In quibus praesertim agitur de ipsorum praecipuis antecessoribus & dogmatis (ut & similibus placitis aliorum hoc tempore) factisque, ac casibus, memorabilibus.
Amstelodami, Anno M. DC IVC. [1696]

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1874 1ed Mivart Man & Apes DARWIN EVOLUTION Zoology Illustrated Gorilla Catholic

A first American edition account of George Mivart's reaction to Darwinian naturalism.

George Mivart was a 19th-century English biologist known for his attempts to merge the beliefs of Darwinian evolution and the Catholic Church – curiously, he was condemned by everyone! Mivart held views that were contrary to other scientists, including his view on the language of animals – he states:
"Since we are unable to converse with brutes, we can but divine and infer from their gestures, motions, and the sounds they emit, what may be the nature of their highest psychical powers."
Mivart discounted many of Darwin's own studies including his "hasty attribution of human qualities to brutes, on account of certain superficial resemblances." (Radick, p.69).
According to Cooper and Hull,
"Mivart describes primates, including humans, as being 'unguiculate, claviculate, placental mammals, with orbits encircled by bone; three kinds of… Read More

1910 Digressions of Elihu Vedder Illustrated Rome Biography Versailles Florence

American symbolist artist Elihu Vedder (1836-1923) is best known for his illustrations of the Rubáiyát. Vedder had a home in Rome after the financial success of his 1884 Rubaiyat work on the Isle of Capri. Vedder describes this book as
"containing the quaint legends of his infancy, an account of his stay in Florence, the garden of lost opportunities, return home on the track of Columbus, his struggle in New York in war-time coinciding with that of the nation, his prolonged stay in Rome, and likewise his prattlings upon art, tamperings with literature, struggles with verse, and many other things, being a portrait of himself from youth to age. With many illustrations by the author."

This 1910 edition includes Illustrated with 108 B&W etchings, engravings, gravures, drawings, and photographs by Elihu Vedder!

Item number: #7548
Price: $350
VEDDER, Elihu
The digressions of V. : written for his own fun and that of his… Read More

1663 1ed Annals of Britain Anglo Saxons Church of England Alford Griffith Fides

Michael Alford Griffith was an early 17th-century English Jesuit historian who is best remembered for his book 'Fides Regio' or 'Ecclesiastical and Civil Annals of Britain'. This series of books covered a variety of topics including:
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extensive and thorough history of the Church of England
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the influence of the Romans on English culture
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ancient coins and medals
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the establishment of English law throughout Great Britain

These Annals were first published in 1663 in Liege, Belgium.
Item number: #9877
Price: $599
ALFORD, Michael (i.e. Griffith)
Fides Regio Britannica sive Annales ecclesiae Britannicae Ubi pottisimum Britannorum Catholica Romana et orthodoxa fides per quinque prima saecula e regum, et Augustorum factis, et aliorum sanctorum rebus e virtute gestis, asseritus
Leodii [Liege] : Jo. Mathias Hovii, 1663. First edition.

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1796 Paradise Lost BOSTON John Milton Poetry + Regained RARE American ed Newton

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

'Paradise Lost' follows the biblical story of the Fall of Man and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Milton himself states that purpose for this book was to "Justify the ways of God to Men". It covers the characters Adam, Eve, and Satan and the roles each played in the development of religious culture and idolatry.
It was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.
"[Paradise Lost shows] Milton's peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.
Christian writer C.S. Lewis also… Read More

1682 1ed CLEOPATRA Jean de la Chapelle French Tragedy Play Egypt Octavian Rome

Jean de la Chapelle was a 17th-century French writer known for his tragic plays and novels. One of his first plays was 'Cleopatra', based on the life and military events of the famed Egyptian ruler. The play was first performed in 1681 and this book-version of the play was released a year later. The play does not follow the history of Cleopatra directly by mysteriously having Octavian disappear and having Octavia and Cleopatra have a face-to-face confrontation.
Item number: #14096
Price: $550
CHAPELLE, Jean de la

Cleopatre: tragedie
A Paris : Chez Jean Ribou, 1682.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [16], 65, [3]
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Language: French
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Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
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Size: ~6in X 3.75in (15cm x 9cm)
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1874 Missouri & Mississippi Legends INDIANS Negro Murder Native American Tales

Hopewell's book "Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi" is written in a dime novel style as a work of twisted fact and fiction. Hopewell writes on river legends, stories of Indians, Peter Griffin the hunter, Pere Marquette, Hernando De Soto, Negro murders, Blackbird, Pontiac the chief of the Ottawas, Bernard Guillet the first settler of St. Charles Missouri, Jack Pierce, and much more!

This undated edition of "Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi" features 4 full-page plates!
Item number: #12649
Price: $499
HOPEWELL, Menra
Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi.
London, Ward, Lock and Tyler [1874].

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o vi, 506
o 4 illustrations
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References: Howes H 628; Graff 1948;
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Language: English
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Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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Quite scarce
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1689 1st ed Republicae Batavia Holland Dutch Netherlands LAW Politics Houtuyn
Adriaan Houtuyn was a 17th-century Dutch lawyer known for his political treatises. One such work was his commentary on the Batavian Republic covering the kings and royal throne, jurisdiction of rulers, laws, and even the development of the democracy from ancient, Classical governments.
While the title of this work, 'Reipublicae Batavae liber primus' indicates that this is the first volume, no other volumes were published.

Item number: #15260
Price: $550
HOUTUYN, Adriaan
Reipublicae Batavae, liber primus, periodum ab gentis initio ad comitum tempora complectens
Hagae Comitis : Apud P. Hagen, 1689. First edition.

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[34], 180, [22]
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
· Size: ~4.75in X 3in (12cm x 7.5cm)
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1694 Spanish Inquisition History of Cardinal Ximenes Catholic Church Flechier 2v
Esprit Fléchier was a 17th-century French author who composed two important historical works – the histories of Cardinal Ximenes and Emperor Theodosius I – which are known to be highly accurate and insightful. While known primarily for his written sermons, spiritual memoires, and religious writings, these historical works have been Flechier's most desirable works.
This book, 'Histoire de Cardinal Ximenes', is considered one of the best works on the life of the 15th-century Spanish cardinal. This work is also notable for describing the reforms during the Spanish Inquisition.
Item number: #17390
Price: $750
FLECHIER, Esprit
Histoire du cardinal Ximenès
Paris: chez Jean Anisson, 1694.

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o Vol. I – xxiv, 518 (i.e., 520)
Engraved frontispiece
o Vol. II – xii, 382, [46]
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1873 1ed History of Booksellers Longman Cadell Colburn Moxon Milton Paradise

'A History of Booksellers' is a rare, late 19th-century book of biographical sketches of the most iconic and important booksellers and publishers including:
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The Longmans
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Cadell
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John Murray
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Henry Colburn
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Edward Moxon
However, the first chapter of this book is perhaps the most important. This chapter covers some of the earliest books, handwritten manuscripts in monasteries and institutions, and details on the earliest editions of the most famous pieces of literature such as Milton's 'Paradise Lost'.
Item number: #16537
Price: $499
CURWEN, Henry
A History of Booksellers, the old and the new ... With portraits and illustrations.
London : Chatto & Windus, [1873].

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o viii, 483, [1]
o Visible repair at back inner hinge
o Heavily illustrated throughout
· Provenance: Bookplate – Joseph M. Gleason
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1908 FINE BINDING 1ed Wood & Shore HUNTING Fishing Big Game Ducks Moose Shooting
Richard Ware's "In the Woods and On the Shore" is a rare, early 20th-century account of hunting and trapping. The charming illustrations throughout depict hunting excursions, trail maps, and big game animals including one particular view of an enormous rack of moose antlers!
Item number: #17299
Price: $499
WARE, Richard Darwin
In the Woods and On the Shore
Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1908. First edition.

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xvii, [1], 279, [1]
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31 engravings, 3 maps
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~8in X 6in (20.5cm x 15cm)
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1699 1ed Idylls of Theocritus Ancient Greek Poetry Latin & Greek Scaliger Oxford

Theocritus was a 3rd-century BC Greek poet best known for writing pastoral poems. In fact, his Idylls are considered to be the first pastoral poems. They are still widely read today, much in part to fine 17th-century examples such as this 1699 Oxford printing. This particular edition is considerably noteworthy – it features both Latin and original Greek texts with translations and annotated notes by Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, and Daniel Heinsius.
Item number: #20259
Price: $599
THEOCRITUS
Theokritou ta evriskomena. Theocriti quæ extant cum graecis scholiis notis et indicibus
Oxoniae : E Theatro Sheldoniano, impensis Sam. Smith, & Benj. Walford, 1699. First Oxford edition.

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[16], 294, [4], 5, [2], 10-142 (i.e. 134), [38]
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Includes engraved portrait frontispiece of Theocritus + Oxford Sheldonian Theatre engraving on title page
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