XVIIth Century

ROMA: A SPESE DI GIO. ANTONIO GHERARDINI LIBRARO IN PARI, 1674. In 8. Dim. 22,5x16,5 cm. Pp. (32)+433+(3)+55+(1)+8+(16). Rarissimo volume, un Officio della Gloriosa Vergine Maria del 1674. Il volume è una sorta di manuale ad uso del clero con indicazione in italiano delle azioni da compiere e parti in latino da recitare. Nella prima parte tabella delle feste mobili e lista delle feste mese per mese. Seguono indicazioni in lingua italiana: modo di fare la Sperges, ordine di dar l'habito ai novelli e di ricevere i novizi, preparazione all'inizio dell'Officio. Segue l'Officio della Beata Vergine Maria, l'Officio dei morti, i sette salmi penitenziali, litanie, orazioni, inni per tutto l'anno, orazioni delle domeniche, orazioni proprie dei Santi per tutto l'anno, antifoni ed orazioni aggiunte, Officio del mercoledì, giovedì e venerdì Santo, Officio del Santissimo Sacramento del corpo di Christo, Officio per la notte di Natale, salmi graduali.… Read More

Lisbon, Por João Rodriguez, Impressor, Na Officina de Lourenço de Anveres, 1647.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary limp vellum (some cockling; ties gone), manuscript vertical short-title on spine. Woodcut initials. Woodcut tailpiece on p. 324. Woodcut headpieces. Occasional very minor, faint dampstains. Small repair to outer edge of front free endleaf. Overall in very good to fine condition. Old ink inscription, scored, above imprint on title page, with somewhat later, but still rather old ink signature in lower margin. Old ink inscription near top of front free endleaf recto. Some old ink marginalia and annotations to text in the form of corrections and word changes. (8 ll.), 641 [i.e. 639] pp. Pagination skips from 624 to 627, but text follows, and collation by signatures is correct. Page 210 incorrectly numbered 216. *** FIRST (and only?) EDITION of a most interesting example of Portuguese political thought during the epoch of the Restauração. In addition to political and judicial… Read More

Spread Eagle Westminster hall : Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, 1693. First English edition. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece, nine engraved plates (of eleven - so LACKING two plates), a few small wooducts in the text, many charming engraved chapter headings, folio, title page printed in red and black, pp (42), 188, 208, 4, 80, the top, bottom and fore-edge red, a few blemishes internally but overall very clean, the hinge before the frontispiece cracked but sound, contemprary calf, rebacked probably in the ealy nineteenth century, a little bumped and worn, the spine with more wear and a little splitting and fraying at the head and tail. An early un-named owner, obviously a knowledgeable and proficient gardener, has contributed half a page of manuscript notes on the first front blank, in which he questions, inter alia, why the author has not included mustard-seed in the list of all things that a kitchen-garden should contain; there are also neat marginal notes throughout… Read More

The Bell in St Paul's Churchyard: John Martyn, 1673. Illustrated with three engraved folding plates, an engraved portrait, one engraving within the text, small thick octavo, pp xiii, (i), 499, (i), title to the Catalogus Stirpium, v, (i), 115, with the errata leaf, lacking the title page which is supplied in an old-style photo copy, the plates are a little browned and creased and one is splitting along the fold, some age-toning and signs of use throughout, signs of damp damage to the lower margins throughout, with some pages frayed and flaking, (very slight loss of text to about fifteen pages), bound in a recent very simple full calf, no title to the spine. A good working copy of a very scarce title. [John Ray FRS, 1627 - 1705, was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomous division by which species were… Read More

The Kings-head in the Old Bayley: John Wright, 1653. Third edition, small square octavo, pp (18), 274, (12), lacking the engraved frontispiece and with only one (of two] engraved folding plates, two full page woodcut illustrations and a small woodcut within the text, the remaining title page a little stained, the hinge at the title page cracked and open but still very sound, the hinge at the rear similar but weaker, the free endpaper ar the rear loose and frayed, a little age-toning throughout, but otherwise quite clean and sound, old half calf and boards, rubbed and worn, the joints beginning to split. The title page runs over two pages - the first part pictorial and engraved, the second part letterpress; it is the engraved part which is missing in this copy. With the armorial bookplate of John Norcliffe Preston. [Blith's books on husbandry show notable good sense, based on the author's and others' farming experience. He presents his judgements and opinions carefully, and made textual… Read More

at the Spread Eagle, in Westminster-Hall: M. Gillyflower, 1699. Second edition, corrected. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine engraved plates (of which eight are folding), [Apparently lacking one plate], small octavo, pp [iv], xxxv, (i), 43,[iii], (4), 35-309, (vii), much of the text rather browned and age-toned, a fair few signs of use, though all very tight, the first fifty pages or so have a fair anount of pencil notes and underlinings (see illustration), with a little more on pages 179-199, contemporary calf, rubbed and cracked but sound,rebacked with a fairly recent calf spine, raised bands, new endpapers, (apparently by Bayntuns). The folding plates are rather worn and creased, occasionally frayed at the margins; two have old sellotape repairs, and one is rather badly torn across but without loss. The pagination is erratic, and appears incorrect, but it actuall ties in exactly with the contents pages at the rear. In this copy "An advertisement of J. Evelyn, Esq.", as mentioned… Read More

La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1893. Facsimile of editions of 1554 and 1650. 48 + 60 plates, loose as issued, in clothbacked board portfolios. very good. La Haye, Martinus Nijhoff, 1892. Good. 1892-1893, 2 vols., (8); (4),8p., 48; 60 facs. plates, loose as issued, orig. unif. clothbacked board portfolio w. ties, folio. Text in French. Volume I: Adam van Vianen. Modelles artificiels de divers vaisseaux d'argent, et autres ouvres capricieuzes, mis en lumière par Christien de Viane à Uytrecht et gravez en cuivre par Théodore de Quessel (1650); Volume II: Balthasar Sylvius. Quatre suites d' Ornaments. Varium protactionem quas vulgo Maurusias vocant omnium antehac Libellus etc. 1554. (. . .) Plate B11 'missing', but also missed in the Original copy which was used for this reproduction. Portfolio is complete. Ships from Hawaii.

1682 1ed Customs of BRABANT Dutch Netherlands Belgium JB Christyn Antwerp FOLIO
Jean-Baptiste Christyn was a 17th-century Dutch diplomat of the Spanish Netherlands. Prior to serving as the Brabant government, he wrote an extensive and thorough history of the Brabant (European low countries) in which he outlined laws, customs, and people from all over the Netherlands and Belgium.
This enormous 17th-century folio covers Dutch and Belgian cities including Antwerp, Louvain, Bergen op Zoom, Geel, Steenokkerzeel, and many more.
Item number: #18125
Price: $750
CHRISTYN, Jean-Baptiste
Brabandts recht dat is Generale costumen vanden lande ende hertoghdomme van Brabandt midtsgaders van het hertoghdom van Limborgh stede ende lande van Mechelen
T'Antwerpen : By Michiel Knobbaert, 1682. First edition.

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[10], 766 (i.e. 862)
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· Language: Dutch
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~15in X 10in (38cm… Read More

1673 JanuaLinguarum CZECH Comenius Linguistics Dictionary ENGLISH & Latin RARE
"Every educational reformer owes much, in the way of inspiration and suggestion, to his predecessors, and of none is this truer than of John Amos Comenius."
– Will S. Monroe, Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform"
Shortly after 'JanuaLinguarumReserata' was first published in1629, it was translated into nearly every European language. In fact, by the 1630s, it was the second most read book in Europe, second only to the Bible. This textbook by Johann Amos Comenius was simply a text of Language, as the English title suggests, "The Door of Languages Unlocked."
'Janua' comprehends the elements of all the sciences and arts – from the origin of words to the mind and its faculties." (Monroe, 126).


It was written with 1,000 short sentences comprising of roughly 8,000 words. In all, there have been over 100 editions of this book printed! Comenius is now remembered as an innovator, who first introduced… Read More

1683 John Jewel Apology Church England Elizabeth Catholic v Protestant Anglican
John Jewel was a 16th-century English bishop known for his support of Elizabeth I and the Church of England. Shortly after the Protestant Reformation in mainland Europe, Jewel wrote an 'Apology of the Church of England' – a work of political significance which describes doctrine and faith practices of the Church of England under Elizabeth I. This book served as a necessary defense against Catholic Romanists' claims of heresy and provided a clear justification of Anglican and Protestant faiths.
Item number: #18701
Price: $599
JEWEL, John

Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Autore Joanne Juello ... Priorum editionum collatione castigator ...
Cantabrigiae : Excudebat Joannes Hayes ; impensis Joannis Creed, 1683.

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[6], 182, [4]
· References: Wing K 733
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; secure
· Size: ~5.25in X 3in (13cm x 7.5cm)
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1686 Iconoclast History Byzantine Orthodox Iconoclasm Catholic Schism Maimbourg
Louis Maimbourg was an important 17th-century French historian known for his studies in Calvinism, Catholicism and Jesuitism, as well as histories of famous popes. Though, perhaps one of his most important works was history of the Iconoclast controversy from its earliest occurrences in 8th-century Byzantine disputes. Maimbourg's 'History of the Hersey of Iconoclasts' is often considered the best work on Iconoclasm from the 17th-century.
Item number: #18698
Price: $599
MAIMBOURG, Louis
Histoire de l'heresie des iconoclastes et de la translation de l'empire aux francais
Paris : S. Mabre-Cramoisy, 1686.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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[32], 492, [2]
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~10.25in X 7.75in (26.5cm x 19.5cm)
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Author: Unknown.Title: Réglement de la Confrerie de l'Adoration Perpétuelle du S. Sacrement et de la Bonne Mort. Erigée dans l'Eglise Paroissiale de Ville-Marie, en l'Isle de Montréal, en Canada. Nouvelle Edition...Language: Text in French.Publisher: Montréal, F. Mesplet & C. Berger, 1776. Casey, Catalogue of Pamphlets 1536; Dionne 18; Lande, Rare Canadiana 153 ("considered the first Canadian imprint in Montreal"); Tremaine 231. An earlier edition of this work is believed to have been prepared by Mesplet in Philadelphia. He had emigrated to America on the advice of Franklin, and had moved from Philadelphia to Montreal in 1776 when commissioned by the Continental Congress to accompany Franklin, Chase and Carroll for the purpose of establishing a French press.Size: 5.5 "X 4 ".Pages: 40 pages.Binding: Attractive and good original boards, covered in figured wallpaper (spine worn but hinges still tight, overall worn and scuffed - as shown) in a quarter morocco leather cover with a nice ex-libris of… Read More

London, printed for Peter Parker at the Leg and Star over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1679.. TITLE CONTINUED: also, how to plant, make and keep vvoods, vvalks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. With several figures in copper-plates, proper for the same. Also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, with rules how to divide woods or land, and how to measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry, shewing the use of that most excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples; with many other rules, useful for most men. By Moses Cook, gardiner to that great encourager of planting, the Right Honourable, the Earl of Essex. Whereunto is now added, that ingenious treatise of Mr. Gabriel Plattes, viz. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure. SECOND EDITION IN TWO PARTS,1679. A reissue of the 1676 edition with a cancel title page and the addition of A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure: with its owne title page (viz). Of all… Read More

Amsterdam: P. et I. Blaeu, 1690. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. A late 17th Century New Testament printed in French and published in Amsterdam by P. & I. Bleau. Internally very good, a.e.g. bound with the Psalms of David, set to music and also in French. Bound in what appears to be a contemporary leather binding rebacked with a later gilt title. The binding has been enhanced with ornately decorated white metal cartouches to front and rear together with a heraldic design of three birds (owls?) to central cartouches. Two white metal clasps to binding with "RLM" engraved upon them. Unobtrusive modern library number (0.5cm) adhering to ffep. An attractive little item. An early decorated binding with white metal cartouches and a heraldic identity.

London: London: printed for A. Seile, over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1662. Full leather. Very Good. Second edition, octavo; [6], 64, 67-71, [7], 38pp. In full contemporary panelled calf (lightly worn with minor loss of leather to spine), lacks front free endpaper, portrait frontispiece, map of Worcester and plan of Boscobel, engraved coat of arms and dated title page to Second Part both present, occasional unobtrusive light browning and soiling, early ink ownership inscription and marginalia (including 'Willliam Knight His Book 1711' to blank page after heraldic engraving), overall a textually complete and attractive copy of the second edition of this celebrated account. ESTC R32749 citing 5xUK and 7xUS institutional holdings only.