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London : printed for R. Bentley, in Russel-Street, in Covent-Garden, and J. Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-Lane, 1693. First and only edition. Bound in speckled calf, IMG_3940recently rebacked, with the signature of Jane Modgford on the title and page 1. Very nice condition.. Wright, James 1643-1713, antiquary and miscellaneous writer, "A versatile writer with a lucid style and a genuine touch of humour, especially as an essayist..." [DNB]. The attribution first appears, in Brice Harris's facsimile of this edition printed in 1961. The work itself is written as a dialogue between Jovial and Pensive who have visited London and wish to return to the country. Jovial's cousin, Sociable, enjoys the London social whirl. They argue about the various pleasures of the city versus the country. Dryden is discussed at one point: "the company of the author of Absalom and Achitophel is more valuable, tho' not so talkative, than that of the modern men of banter; for what he says, is like what he writes;… Read More

Vienne (France) & Basil: Eberhard Frommolt & Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1480. More than one hundred editions of the Postilla super epistolas et evangelia by Guillermus Parisiensis were printed during the fifteenth century. Folio. 26.8 x 18 cm. Signatures: [a-x⁸ y-z⁶]. 178 of 180 (wanting blanks leaves 40 lines. This copy is bound in an Antiphonal leaf. Goff, "The Postilla of Guillermus Parisiensis," Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1959, p. 73). The Postilla provide commentary on the Gospels to be read each Sunday and festival. The text is surviving in numerous early manuscripts,yet its authorship remains uncertain, but current consensus recognises much of the base as Johann Herolt's work, edited and augmented by Guillermus, a Dominican friar of Paris. "More than one hundred editions of the Postilla super epistolas et evangelia by Guillermus Parisiensis were printed during the fifteenth century. Surely this esteemed compilation must be regarded as one of the earliest 'best sellers', for how else can one explain… Read More

Lyptzck [Leipzig]: Gregor Böttiger, 1495. Bound in half leather of the 19th century, with quite a bit contemporary marginalia.(see below). ISTC il00099000 Goff L99; IBP 3382; Madsen 2157; Voull(B) 1383; Günt(L) 1205; Hubay(Würzburg) 1187; Pad-Ink 375; Wilhelmi 387; BSB-Ink L-71.050; GW 13880. Not in Hain, BMC, STC et c. https://data.cerl.org/istc/il00099000 Copies; United States of America : 1) Library of Congress 2) Univ. of California, Law Library. This "Soap of the Conscience" is filled with morally instructive stories intended to keep priests faithful to their vows and safe from worldly temptations, lest they suffer the "harshest punishments" of hell. In this work he tries in numerous moral and instructive stories to prove the nullity of worldly joys. Born in Gruitrode ca. 1400-10, Jacobus van Eertwach was a Carthusian monk who served as an abbot of the prior of the Liege from 1440 until his death in 1475, during which time he produced numerous works of spiritual guidance for both clergy and… Read More

Dresden: [Emserpresse?], 1524. First edition. A-E4, F2./ Errata on p. [44]. At first Emser was on the side of the reformers, but like his patron he desired a practical reformation of the clergy without any doctrinal breach with the past or the church; and his liberal sympathies were mainly humanistic, like those of Erasmus and others who parted company with Luther after 1519. As late as that year Luther referred to him as "Emser noster," but the Leipzig Debate in that year completed the breach between them. Emser warned his Bohemian friends against Luther, and Luther retorted with an attack on Emser which outdid in scurrility all his polemical writings. Emser, who was further embittered by an attack of the Leipzig students, imitated Luther's violence, and asserted that Luther's whole crusade originated in nothing more than enmity to the Dominicans, Luther's reply was to burn Emser's books along with Leo X's bull of excommunication. Emser next, in 1521, published an attack on Luther's Appeal to the… Read More

Padua: Petrumpaulum Tozzium : ex typographeio Laurentij Pasquati, 1616. First illustrated edition. Quarto 22 x 16 cm :signatures [manicule]⁴ a-d⁴ c² A-4P⁴ 4Q² [$2; b2 signed "a2", 4N signed "Nnn"]. This copy is bound in modern Parchment, a very nice copy great impressions. Title page in red and black, (5), (5) Catalogus, (28) Index, 614, (1), 60pp. 2 full page engraved plates, large folding astrological plate, numerous further engravings.

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… Read More

[Ulm: Johann Zainer, not after 1479] (A copy now in Munich BSB has an ownership inscription dated 1479). [Peregrinus de Oppeln]. [daran: Quadragesimale] / [Jacobus de Voragine]. [und: Concordantia in passionem dominicam] / [Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuel]. Rubicated throughout. Bound in Calf over wooden boards, with catches and clasp restored.rebacked back restored using old material, cover covers rubbed and with small missing parts).I have located only two U.S.copies both defective. 238JPeregrinus: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Add: Jacobus de Voragine: Quadragesimale. Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuel: Concordantia in passionem dominicam Est autem huius operis ordo talis. Primo ponuntur sermones d[omi]nicales de tempore per anni circulu[m]. Secundo de sanctis, Tercio q[ua]dragesimale Jacobi de Foragine, Q[ua]rto concordantia quatuor euangelista[rum] in passiiones d[omi]nicam a magistro Nicolao Dinckelspubell collectam."/ At end of leaf m8: "Sermones Peregrini de tempore finiunt. ¶ Folio. "Pars I (188): a-d8,… Read More

Pavia: Girolamo Bartoli, 1574. Folio 12.3/4 " x 9": *6, A-Qq4, Rr8, including engraved title within an architectural border, full-page engraved device on L4 recto (including map depicting America), engraved device of the Accademia degli Affidati on M2 verso, and 114 engraved devices of the members of the Accademia. Bound in coeval limp vellum with an early handwritten title on the spine. Bartoli's hydra device on the colophon {There are two printings of leaf 155, as leaf Qq4 and Rrl; Qq4 has text, colophon, & errata that are repeated in signature Rr. This copy has both Qq4 and Rr1. This copy has cancel leaves 68-69, 95, 98, 100, 123, 139. }. Biographical Dictionary on line, file a signed by Claudio Mutini. 1574 Landwehr J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books: 233 ; Praz p. 66; Mortimer Harvard Italian, 136. ; Edit 16 online,; CNCE 13187/With the ownership signature of George Benson Weston/ Cambridge 6 May 1921, from Rome.. Frontispiece engraved within architectural border Arms of… Read More

Venice: Presso la compagnia de gli Vniti, 1585. A later edition of the first rosary Book" in Italian.. This book has a wonderful contemporary binding, recently expertly rebacked. It is of red Morocco with gilt center images and borders gilt, with angels. Over 150 woodcuts (including repeats) comprising almost full-page cuts (1 on t.p.) within borders. All had previously appeared in earlier editions. Ornamental and pictorial border pieces on almost every leaf. ( The wood cut on leaf 173v is upside. Certainly, these books were very popular, that said, very few copies have survived. This edition is represented on OCLC by only two copies worldwide. 1 US copy Saint Benedict/Saint John's University. (SJU Alcuin Arca Artium Rare BookBX2163 .C37 1585). [The authorship of the work and the woodcuts are attributable to the Dominican Friar Alberto da Castello, identified as author or editor at the authorizations of the Venecian Inquisition, given 5 April 1521. (Francesco Pisano) Sander 6572-6573. See: Essling… Read More

Paris: Claude Chevallon, 1525. Second Edition. (First published in 1512, this edition is not listed in Farge * This is a beautiful little book, in a small size textura type with many abbreviations and ligatures; text printed in double columns. Octavo 16 x 10 cm. Signatures:. [-]4, a-z8, A-T8. Colophon: Apud inclyta[m] Parisio[rum] Lu|tetia[m], in edib[us] Claudij Cheual|loni, sub i[n]signi Solis aurei, in| via ad diuu[m] Jacobu[m]: anno d[omi]ni| M.cccccxxv. me[n]se Septe[m]bri. Bound in later green morocco.. Colophon: Apud inclyta[m] Parisio[rum] Lu|tetia[m], in edib[us] Claudij Cheual|loni, sub i[n]signi Solis aurei, in| via ad diuu[m] Jacobu[m]: anno d[omi]ni| M.cccccxxv. me[n]se Septe[m]bri. Bound in later green morocco.. Perhaps the fullest of all pictures of the relations between ecclesiastic and peasant , is to be found in that course of sermons On the Destruction of Nineveh which the Dominican Guillaume Pépin , Doctor of Theology , preached in the convent of his Order at Evreux in 1524 ,… Read More

London: Printed by W. Godbid, for R.S. and are to be Sold by John Williams Junior, in Cross-Key Court in Little-Britain, 1674, 1674. Palmer IV, 12. This copy is a very nice and tidy copy bound in 19th century vellum over boards. A very nice copy. Citation/references :Wing (2nd ed.), H1521, &, Wing H-1049; Palmer IV, 12. Printed: 1667 Duodecimo, Nineth edition of the first book, the second Fifth edition π⁶ [*⁶](-[*1]) ,A- I¹² K⁶; ²A-C¹², A-B¹²,C⁶ {tricky but complete] The text of the Temple includes the pattern poems, "The Altar," and "Easter Wings" Herbert's reputation rests on this remarkable collection of poems which mark perfectly the metaphysical tone of his spiritual unrest, which is resolved in final peace, "the Herbert we know through 'Aaron,' 'Discipline,' 'The Collar,' 'The Pulley,' and many other poems in which he strives to subdue the willful or kindle the apathetic self His principal themes are those 'two vast, spacious things Sinne and Love' There is nothing soft in the… Read More