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Venice: Hannibal Foxius, 1487. Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label "Transito di. ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*; GW 9466]. - United States: Walters Library & Huntington Library.. This collection of pseudonymous works are now considered to have been composed anonymously in the thirteenth or fourteenth century by Dominicans in Rome. These Epistles here attributed to threefamous Bishops who were contemporaries of St Jerome Eusebius of Cremona 347-420, Augustine ofHippo 354- 430 and Cyril of Jerusalem 313-386.,

This collection of pseudonymous works are now considered to have been composed anonymously in the thirteenth or fourteenth century by Dominicans in Rome. These Epistles here attributed to threefamous Bishops who were contemporaries of St Jerome Eusebius of Cremona 347-420, Augustine ofHippo 354- 430 and Cyril of Jerusalem 313-386.,
ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*;
GW 9466]. - United States: Walters Library & Huntington Library.

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

Anvers: De l'imprimerie de C. Plantini, (PLANTIN), 1567. Third edition expanded to 217 Emblems. Bound coeval limp laced case parchment. a clean copy in original condition. 217 woodcuts Each woodcut is accompanied by a motto, followed by an explanation. Landwehr Romantic Nº 569; VOET, The Plantin Press, N° 1953." Réimpression de l'édition donnée par Plantin en 1561, & illustrée des mêmes 216 bois gravés. Adams/Rawles/Saunders French emblem books F-461 Mortimer, Harvard cat. 410. Praz, M. Studies in 17th-century imagery,; p. 444-445; Volkmann; page 53 ; Kraus cat Nº66 n.479;. Duodecimo in 8's, 12.5 x 8 cm. Third edition A-V8 This edition has 217 woodcuts Each woodcut is accompanied by a motto, followed by an explanation. Bound coeval limp laced case parchment. a clean copy in original condition. The Devises Heroïques published in French in Lyons in 1551 by Jean de Tournes. Under the title Dévises héroïques. Les dévises ov emblèmes héroïques et morales, by Simeoni, originally published… Read More

Venice : Johannes Emericus, de Spira, 22 Feb. 1495/96, 1455. Signature of Thomas Stewart, Knight of St. John of Jerusalem, dated Rome 1837 on title.bound in an incunable leaf over boards. Light dampstaining in lower margins throughout, title and last page soiled. Italy, the centre of humanism, produced the best logicians of the Renaissance. Paulus Pergulensis (d. 1451) was a pupil of Paul of Venice, author of the Logica magna and parva.. Introducing the theory of reference, sometimes called supposition, is an explanation of the ways in which words refer to objects in function of certain linguisitc signs. Paul of Venice maintains a threefold division: Material Reference, Simple Reference, and Personal Reference, all of which are identified The present is a more succinct and highly systematized logic, composed entirely in the form of theses. From 1420 to 1454 Pergulensis taught logic and natural philosophy, and then also mathematics, astronomy and theology, to the Venetian school of Rialto (founded in… Read More

Rome: [Andreas Freitag],15 October 1492, 1492. Later black roan & gray boards, spine letters gilt.Binding slightly worn, first leaf lightly soiled. Ex-libris Walter Goldwater. Oration such as this are usually rare and short this one is both it is a tribute from the City of Lucca to the election of Pope Alexander VI. This is one of three almost simultaneously published prints of this on October 25, 1492 before the newly elected Borgia Pope Alexander VI. held this speech. - "This was the typical 'Oratio' - in the style of the times, both florid and unctous - which extolled the virtues of the Pope, traits which subsequent events failed to confirm!" (Bühler) According to Bühler's study, The Freitag printing was preceded by the editions of Stephan Planck (in Roman type) , whose corrections Freitag employed in his edition." CF Bühler, The Earliest Editions of the "Oratio" (1492) by Nicolaus Tygrinus (in: Gutenberg JB 1975, pp. 97-99)" Goff T563; HC 15751*; Pell Ms 10972; CIBN T-51; Nice 209; IGI… Read More

London: printed for R. Lownes, and T. Davies, and are to be sold at their shops in St. Pauls Church yard, at the sign of the White Lion, and at the Bible over against the little north door of St. Pauls Church, 1658. Duodecimo: 12.5 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: A-G¹² H⁶. Adverstisement: "Books printed for, and to be sold by, Thomas Davis", p. [1] at end. The Second edition [same year as the first] corrected and augmented, with the addition of an index. With two leaves of eighteenth century English manuscript text at the end. This copy has been expertly rebound in seventeenth century style. With two leaves of eighteenth century English manuscript text at the end.. ¶This remarkable book is one of the most imaginative attempts to add a mechanistic development to the pharmacopeia. The Powder of Sympathy, is the substantive manifestation of Sympathetic magic which is based on the metaphysical belief that like affects like. But with ¶ Digby's 'discovery' of The Powder of Sympathy which facilitates an… Read More