Search Results: Authors starting with T from Edmund Brumfitt Rare Books Ltd

4to, pp. [iv], 47, [1] blank, [23], [1] blank; title printed in red and black, with engraved vignette, text entirely within decorative border, each poem with engraved initial, two headpieces and six tailpieces engraved by Bernard Picart; repaired paper flaw to head of K1, not affecting text and a few other small marginal restorations; otherwise clean and fresh; ownership signature of José Ignacio da St Ferra(ra?) Gaio in a contemporary hand on title-page; in nineteenth-century burgundy calf, boards bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt; some light wear and rubbing to extremities, but a sound copy with later book-plate of Ruben J. Dussaut on front paste-down.
The only Netherlands printing, a year after the Lisbon first and here embellished with engraved initials, head-, and tailpieces by Bernard Picart, of this collection of Latin verses by the Portuguese nobleman Emmanuel Telles da Silva (1682-1736).
The collection is dedicated to José, Prince of Portugal (later José… Read More

8vo, pp. [v], [i] blank, 16, 422, [5] table des chapitres, [4] approbation & privilege, [1] blank; dampstaining, largely marginal, to last few gatherings, and occasionally elsewhere, but otherwise largely clean; uncut in contemporary marbled wrappers, lacking spine; a couple of leaves loose, upper wrapper hanging on slightly precariously, loss to lower wrapper at foot; somewhat dog-eared.
Uncommon and comprehensive defence of Catholic doctrine by the Premonstratensian canon Thomas Tilly, prompted by a correspondence with a Maastricht-based Anglican minister, John Elms.
The work opens with a letter from Elms, who notes that the captivity of English troops in France had offered the Catholic church a great opportunity to collect converts: 'vous avez mis à profit une occasion si favorable, pour écercer votre zèle, en conduisant plusieurs de nos braves compatriotes dans le sein de l'Eglise Catholique', largely due to the susceptibility of soldiers to subtle arguments and seductive discourse. Claiming… Read More