Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Trond by PIOT, CH. (publ.)

640 S. Enthaltend: Eine neue Bearbeitung der Geschichte Israels zur Beleuchtung der Haft orah, nebst unterhaltenden Legenden, Lehren und Betrachtungen aus dem Midrasch und Talmud.
Als Anhang: ein Kalender für alle Neumonds-, Fest- Fast- und Sterbetage Jahrzeit auf ein Viertel Jahrhundert vorhinein berechnet von J. H. Kohn.

640 S. Enthaltend: Eine neue Bearbeitung der Geschichte Israels zur Beleuchtung der Haft orah, nebst unterhaltenden Legenden, Lehren und Betrachtungen aus dem Midrasch und Talmud.
Als Anhang: ein Kalender für alle Neumonds-, Fest- Fast- und Sterbetage Jahrzeit auf ein Viertel Jahrhundert vorhinein berechnet von J. H. Kohn. In German.
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Lucca: Leonardi Venturini 1756-1757, 1756. Hardcover. See Description. Revised and extended edition. Tall folios. 4 volumes. Volume I., pp. [12], xciv, [2], 546. Volume II., pp. [2], 559, [1]. Volume III., pp. [2], 557, [1]. Volume IV., pp. [2], 520. Double column text in Latin. With 21 full page illustrations (mostly in volume II) depicting maps, floor plans, architecture, clothing and religious objects described in the Hebrew Scriptures. Several illustrations are also included with the text. The title page to volume I is printed in red and black, and displays a vignette. …Bound in full period vellum showing rubbing and wear. Spine caps and areas along the board edges are carefully restored. Interior pages show general wear and stress. A few minor marginal tears are neatly sealed. A very faint diagonal stress line (not a full crease) appears in the upper quarter of the leaves; as if, at some period, the text blocks had been bent. Age-toning/browning, scattered foxing and periodic uniform… Read More

Herbornae Nassaviorum (Herborn)/Lipsiae (Leipzig): Iohannis Nicolai Andreae / Joh. Ludovicum Gleditschium. Full Vellum Leather. Good+/No Jacket. Two works bound in a single vellum bound volume, published in 1712 and 1704 respectively. 919 pages, plus 17 page index; And 664 pages, plus 62 pages of index. The second title with a portrait frontispiece. Hand inked titles and institutional number on spine, as well as remnants of older library sticker. College library book plate on top paste down, and a few inked numbers on end leaves. Inked name on first title page. There are a few neatly ruled dark red underlines in text, as well as a few very early marginalia. Otherwise, both works remain clean and intact.

London: Geo. Strahan, and J. Bowyer, 1727. Hardcover. Good. The Third Edition. [24], 356 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: A8 a4 B-Z8 2A2 (8vo). 18th-century Cambridge-style binding with blind-tooled and blind-rolled decoration. Publishers' catalogs on 2 pages preceding first page of text. Wood cut head- and tail-pieces. ESTC, t064635. Bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper for Saml. Hart, Sr., Sign of the Bible, Charleston, S.C. Small white embossed armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper with motto "Nec temere nec timide." Former owner's name "R.J. Nelson" and Chicago address written on a small piece of paper attached to the front fixed endpaper, probably covering up a previous owner's name. Written at head of title page: "Stephen Elliott 1841." A few marginal notations. In Good Condition: lacking much leather over spine and some from both boards, which are still attached; faint dampstain and light soiling on title page and first pages thereafter; otherwise, clean and tight.

London: James Phillips, 1791. Hardcover. Good. The Fifth Edition. vii, [1], 601, [3] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: a4 A-2P8 (-2P7, 2P8) 8vo. Original? plain calf boards with later plain calf spine. Modern box with gilt-tooled spine title: Chalkley's Works. The Works of Thomas Chalkley has a separate title page but continous pagination and signing. Publisher's catalog on final 2 unpaginated pages. ESTC, T061338. Lengthy inscription on front free endpaper by Joseph Brinton (1754-1809), of Lancaster County, Pa., who purchased the book in 1791. He was the son of Moses and Eleanor Brinton and married Susanna Rigbee in 1784. With: two small pieces of pressed seaweed left in the book. Inscriptions on back fixed endpaper indicate that over the following century the book descended through the Brinton and Cooper families. Lacking one leaf, containing pages 369-70, which has been unobtrusively supplied. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed, with some loss; pp. 369-70 supplied, as described; pp.… Read More

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green 1864. (Hardcover) 398pp. Very good. Volume 1 only of the two volume set, in a fine 3 / 4 leather binding signed by Henderson & Bisset. Top edge gilt, 138 illustrations and 9 etchings. There is a previous owner's label. Book about. (Religion, Art, Religious Art).

Oxford: Clarendon Press [0-19-826919-6] 1981. (Hardcover) 646pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Notes, tables, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is very lightly edgeworn. Publisher series: Oxford History of the Christian Church. (Religion, History--Europe, Popes, Reformation, Revolutions--Europe, Roman Catholic Church).

Lucca: Leonardi Venturini 1756-1757, 1756. Hardcover. See Description. Revised and extended edition. Tall folios. 4 volumes. Volume I., pp. [12], xciv, [2], 546. Volume II., pp. [2], 559, [1]. Volume III., pp. [2], 557, [1]. Volume IV., pp. [2], 520. Double column text in Latin. With 21 full page illustrations (mostly in volume II) depicting maps, floor plans, architecture, clothing and religious objects described in the Hebrew Scriptures. Several illustrations are also included with the text. The title page to volume I is printed in red and black, and displays a vignette. …Bound in full period vellum showing rubbing and wear. Spine caps and areas along the board edges are carefully restored. Interior pages show general wear and stress. A few minor marginal tears are neatly sealed. A very faint diagonal stress line (not a full crease) appears in the upper quarter of the leaves; as if, at some period, the text blocks had been bent. Age-toning/browning, scattered foxing and periodic uniform… Read More

Herbornae Nassaviorum (Herborn)/Lipsiae (Leipzig): Iohannis Nicolai Andreae / Joh. Ludovicum Gleditschium. Full Vellum Leather. Good+/No Jacket. Two works bound in a single vellum bound volume, published in 1712 and 1704 respectively. 919 pages, plus 17 page index; And 664 pages, plus 62 pages of index. The second title with a portrait frontispiece. Hand inked titles and institutional number on spine, as well as remnants of older library sticker. College library book plate on top paste down, and a few inked numbers on end leaves. Inked name on first title page. There are a few neatly ruled dark red underlines in text, as well as a few very early marginalia. Otherwise, both works remain clean and intact.

Venice: Ex typographia Balleoniana, 1720. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "Necnon Instructione Sacrae Poenitentiariae, Propositionibus damnatis, Examine Ordinandorum, & Arte Praedicandi: Opus non tantum confessariis, ac poenitentibus, verùm etiam praedicatoribus, ordinandis, missionariis, cunctisque ecclesiasticis, summoperè utile, ac necessarium." [8], 708 p.; 24 cm. 18th-century full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Paper label at head of spine with handwritten title. All page edges red. Title page in red and black. Woodcut title vignette (printer's emblem?); woodcut headpiece, tailpiece, and initial. Includes indices. Text in double columns. At head of title: R.P.F. Felicis Potestatis Panormitani Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci de Observantia. Inscriptions on front endpapers, one dated 1775. Faint circular stamp on title page; stamped on title page verso: "Bibliotheca Mt. St. Alphonsus, Esopus, N.Y." Very scarce. In… Read More