Le Blanc,Thomas

DIRECTION ET LA CONSOLATION DES PERSONNES MARIEES, ou Les moyens infaillibles de faire un Mariage heureux, d’un qui seroit malheureux. Avec l’abrege des vies de quelques saincts & de quelques sainctes, qui ont beaucoup souffert dans leurs mariages.

Paris, Claude Calleville 1664 . Duodecimo original vellum (repaired at edges) Titlepage with approbation on back +[10]pp to reader +[8]pp contents +652pp. Title page with two faint ownerships dated 1706 and 1761 fly leaf with E.Bertin (pretre) and also Gervais. About a dozen pages with marginal worm track disappearing into a single marginal hole, one marginal tear without loss and the last page with small cut corner no loss to printed area. *A practical marriage guide laid out in short pity advice and interspersed with short stories from examples including historical unhappy marriages of saints. The author seems to have been slightly unusual in Jesuit circles in having also written another practical book advising that buckling down to work with your hands is also a way to salvation.

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Book number: V70592

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Keywords: marriage advice compatability

Blanchard, Pierre (1772-1836) after M. le Comte de Buffon

LE BUFFON DE LA JEUNESSE, ou ABREGE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE, Ouvrage Elementaire, A l'usage des Jeunes Gens de l'un et de l'autre sexe .. Orne de plus de cent Figures

Paris, Le Prieur 1st edition 1801 AN IX. Engraved frontispiece by Binet/Bovinet + 31 other plates (9+ 6+ 11+ 5 each with several figures) in 4 volumes). . Four Volumes 12mo marbled roan with some gilt (worn to edges, hinges and spine leather cracked but held by cords) 410pp +360pp +373pp +383pp. Vol I. Cosmographie et quadrupedes; II. Quadrupedes et oiseaux; III. Oiseaux et poissons; IV. Poissons, reptiles, coquillages, crustacees, etc. Contents clean and tight. *Delightful engraved figures of animals, fishes etc by an unknown artist. Scarce in this 1st edition, no copy in Bibliotheque Nationale which has 2nd edition only, not in Gumuchian who lists several similar Buffon abridgements but all later.

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Book number: V73223

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Keywords: natural history illustrated

Bloss,Sebastian (1559-1627) with response by Joannes Melchior Weissenberger

DISPUTATIO PHYSICA, DE NATURA, ET RELIQUIS CORPORIS NATURALIS MOTIONUM CAUSSIS, Proposita in inclyta Heidelbergensi Academia a M. Sebastiano Blossio Minsingensi .. Quam respondendo pro Ingenii viribus tueri conabitur Ioannes Melchior Weissenberger ..

Heidelberg (Germany), Johannes Spies 1st first edition 1584 . Quarto vellum spined boards (probably newer using old material) Titlepage + Epigramma +33 unnumbered pages. Starting with a question, there are LXXXIIII propositions and Appendix. Some creases to titlepage and margin of one other leaf else exceptionally clean and crisp. *Sebastian Bloss was Professor of Medicine at Heidelberg in 1584, later at Ulm and finally in Tuebingen where he died.His most famous work was on the plague. Scarce - only 3 copies in German libraries none in the UK,but not in GM, Durling, Waller, Wheeler or Wellcome.

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Book number: V72191

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Keywords: medicine medical German physician

Bolswert, Boece de [Boetius Bolswert 1550-1633]

VOYAGE DE DEUX SOEURS COLOMBELLE ET VOLONTAIRETTE Vers leur Bien-Aime en la Cite de Jerusalem: Contenant plusieurs incidens arrivez pendant leur voyage.

Liege, J.F. Broncart 1734 Frontispiece + copperplate illustration to titlepage of the two sisters & Jerusalem in the background + 27 full-page copperplates. . Small octavo brown calf spine gilt with spine label (top of spine and one corner repaired). Frontis +titlepage +[4]pp dedication +262pp +[8]pp index). Lacks 1 leaf P8 & last blank excised, 5 leaves torn without loss and 3 corners torn away but not affecting text. Name Emma Ippersiel 1864 on fly leaf, titlepage mounted with loss at gutter edge but not affecting printed area. *Imaginary journey and adventures of two sisters with very different temperaments travelling to Jerusalem, one having many accidents, which the plates amusingly illustrate.

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Book number: V73153

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Bolton,Robert (1572-1631)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR A RIGHT COMFORTING AFFLICTED CONSCIENCES

London, T.H [for Thomas Weaver] [1635]/1631 . Octavo tan roan spined cloth on five raised bands [front cover nearly loose/head&foot of spine chipped/corners quite worn] titlepage +[24p=dedication] +595pp + [3p=blanks] +[4p=table of Contents] Cover very loose. Titleapge damaged lacking part of outer lower third but author title & "second edition" plus part of the imprint is present. Missing text has been completed by previous owner. The date for a second edition is 1635, the first 1631. The book is somewhat edge tanned,a bit dusty and has several finger pinters put into the margin by a previous owner. Inscription by John Halford dated 1688. Three margins have doodles but not touching text though one has slight offset of doodle to the side notes. Despite a few corner creases the paper is untorn and supple. *At Oxford Bolton was up at Lincoln and Brasenose and then became Rector at Broughton Northampton, his lecture in Kettering contributed this work. He seems to have been well thought of by his contemporaries so that Anthony A'Wood speaks of him as a most religious and worthy learned puritan. This work continued in regular print until 1753 and then was republished in the 19th century. Bolton focuses on how a good puritan would deal with melancholy, he conditioned his readers against "godly sorrow", arguing for control of emotions. This books was published the same decade Oliver Cromwell converted to puritanism. It was said of Bolton "for there never was a minister in that county who lived more beloved or died more lamented."

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Book number: V75199

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Keywords: puritan clergy 1630s

Bona,Joanne (Giovanni Bona)

MANUDUCTIO AD COELUM Medullam continens Sanctorum Patrum & Veterum Philosophorum

Koeln (Cologne), Demen 1673 . 18mo disbound 204pp

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Book number: V65600

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Bonaventure, Saint (ca. 1217-1274)

SANCTI BONAVENTURAE ex Ordine Minorum, S.R.E. Episcopi Card. Albanensis Eximii Ecclesiae Doctoris, OPUSCULORUM TOMUS PRIMUS Complectens Primam, et Secundam partem eorumdem. Nunc primum in Gallia, post correctiss. Romanam Vaticanam editionem, impressus.

Lyon, Antonius Pillehotte 1619 First title pages with large enraved printers mark + 2nd title with three woodcut figures + fine large engraving of the Arbor Vitae Christi [200 x 140mm] but miss numbered 243 instead of 423 . TWO volumes in one. Folio reversed calf on 5 raised bands with a red gilt spine label (spine with nap rubbed off/leather repair to head of spine/corners worn/some holes in the leather covers). All Fore-edges red sprinkled. Titlepage printed in red and black + 8pp of dedication & other preliminaries + 520pp + titlepage to volume two + contents + 859 [recte 843] followed by 39pp of indices. There are several jumps in the pagination of Vol.2 as well as repeated page numbers but the collation with its signatures shows that there is nothing missing and the catchwords also show that nothing is missing. The pages are in good clean condition except for a large brown ink stain on pages 143-146 but these pages are still quite readable. The first leaves of the book have a fore-edge damp stain of 2 inches by 1 inch in the margin never touching the text nor affecting the strength of the paper.There are some marginal worm tracks and are two corners are torn off and some other corners creased but again not affecting any text and the paper throughout is strong and well bound in to the covers. The text is in double columns with side notes and some large decorative head- and tail-pieces as well as some foliated initial lettering. [NB extra shipping cost for large heavy book].

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Book number: V64177

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Keywords: religion Saint Christian

Bonaventure, Saint and Cardinal (approx. 1217-1274)

Seraphici Doctoris S. Patris Ioannis Eustachii Bonaventurae Ordinis Minorum, Episcopi Albanensis, & S.R.E. olim Cardinalis Opusculorum Theologicorum TOMUS PRIMUS [Vol II secundus]. Accesserunt nunc eiusdem S. Patris aliqui mirae eruditionis, ac sanctitatis libelli, qui iam temporum iniuria pene interciderant .. Omnia iussu R.P.F. Francisci Zamorae, eiusdem ordinis Generalis Ministri, a mendis innumeris, quibus hucus que scatebant, summa diligentia, atque vigilantia repurgata, [et] in lucem edita. …

Venice, Apud Hieronymum Scotus. 1572 Vignettes . 2 vol, 30cm-15cm aprox, Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, vignette on dedication leaf, Bassano, 1767--HAROLD FRANCIS. Engraved frontispiece in volume one, spines defective on both vols, occasional light dampstaining. Pantasaph Monastery small circular stamp on titles, contemporary vellum, soiled and worn, folio. *Theoligcal essays on 13th century Italian cardinal St Bonaventure (1221-1274), called the Seraphic Doctor. The work contains the fourth volume of commentary on the four Books of Sentences by Peter Lombard (1100-1160). Part of the ouvre of publisher Girolamo Scotto, published in Venice in 1572, the year of his death.

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Book number: V75277

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Keywords: Religious Essays - Christian Mysticism - Peter Lombard.

Boswell,James (1740-1795)

JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON...

London, Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 2nd edition same year as first 1785 Containing Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published; A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men . Octavo contemporary marbled calf spine elaborately gilt with red lettered spine label (top hinge loose/spine split midspine) bound with half title and final blank. Shelf number to foot of TP and Coat of arms bookplate of John Tolhurst F.S.A. & Bookplate of Monastery of St.Mary the Virgin at Worth. Laid in cutting from 1909 about Boswell. * Contains an authentic account of the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie from Scotland in 1746 following the Battle of Culloden. Boswell`s biography of Dr Johnson has been descibed as the best biography ever writen in the English language.

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Book number: V64590

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Boyle, Charles (1676-1731) [later Earl of Orrery]

DR BENTLEY'S DISSERTATIONS ON THE EPISTLES OF PHALARIS AND THE FABLES OF AESOP EXAMIN'D By The Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq.

London, Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon 1698 . Octavo contemporary tan roan spine and lower cover (lacks front cover, leather worn). Titlepage +[6]pp preface +290pp with errata below the "Finis". Side notes in Latin & Greek often long enough to require incursion into the text, also some footnotes. Small blind stamped coat of arms on flyleaf with initials RB K.C. Cambridge and faint name F. Creswell. Titlepage & preface bit dusty & fingered, text on better, whiter paper is clean & crisp throughout (WING O469). *A manuscript of the Letters supposedly by Phalaris (of Sicily 570-554 B.C.) was in the care of Dr. Bentley as King's librarian. Boyle complained in his 1695 Oxford edition that Bentley was unhelpful in not giving enough time for the collation he needed. Two years later Bentley replied to this criticism in an essay which said that the Letters were a clumsy forgery by a Greek rhetorician. This book is the patrician Boyle's elaborate reply, produced with the aid of several Oxford scholars. Bentley then won the argument in a splendid scholarly work, but the controversy was justly famous and celebrated in Swift's "Battle of the Books" published in 1704 (see DNB articles on Bentley and Boyle).

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Book number: V73748

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Keywords: fables epistles Greek controversy

Boyle, The Honourable Charles

Dr. BENTLEY'S DISSERTATIONS ON THE EPISTLES OF PHILARIS AND THE FABLES OF AESOP EXAMIN'D

London, hos. Bennet 1699 titlepage in red and black and all edges sprinkled red with top edge darkened. . 8vo Newer brown leather with 5 raised bands to spine and gilt title, date and rules to spine. Covers with blindstamped floral panells and with darker prinkled middle compartment to both covers.[Edges quite worn & chipped especially to corners/ inner hinges reinforced] Titlepage in double ruled border + [6p =Preface] + 266pp + 4p index. Page 265/6 and first leaf of index have some soiling and some paper loss to the outer margin not anywhere near the text. There are three fonts used in the book. Greek letter, italic and Roman and they are also used in the side notes of the outer margin. At the foot of the pages in the front about a dozen pages have a tide mark not impinging on the print and in gathering O & P there is another feint tidemark which just touches the bottom two lines of text. Page 279/280 are cut a bit short but there is still plenty of margin. The last section of the text deals with the Fables of Aesop and how Bentley has traduced them. This copy is the 3rd edition of Boyle's book and has some additional new material added.

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Book number: V76045

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Keywords: Academic dispute

Boyle,Robert (1627-1691) with notes etc. By Peter Shaw M.D (1694-1763)

PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medecine / the whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since his time by Peter Shaw.

London, W.& J.Innys & J.Osborn & T.Longman 1st edition thus. 1725 folding plates/pullouts[1 +19 +1] . 3 VOLUMES quarto blind tooled panelled calf on 5 raised bands [not quite matching/lacking 2 title labels of vol II and III, Volume I has been rebacked with a new spine label & corners underlaid.] Vol. I title page +[2p=dedication and inscritpion] +xxxi [=Preface & preliminaries] +[1p=blank] +xxxiii -xliii [=content] + 730pp vol.II xx[=title +dedication +content] +726pp Vol.III titlepage + xv [=content] +[1p=blank] +756pp [includes index] There are several misnumbering but catchword and signatures are correct however there are 5 leaves in Facimile. The endpapers of vol.I have pencil notes and computation,and ink name, Thomas (possibly contemporary), the pastedown of Vol. II & III have a coat of arm bookplate of Revd. John Rocke. Dedication in Vol 1 from Shaw to Lord Burlington (1694-1753), who helped construct numerous grand houses across the UK including Northwick Park. Volume II dedication to the Earl of Orrery (1674-1731) a patron of the sciences. The margin of one leaf has a burn mark to the corner affecting only one letter of the catchword. There are a few marginal worm tracks to the margins of the text in vol.1 but in all the volumes are clean, crisp and unmarked. Text is unmarked across all volumes. *Boyle regarded today as the founder of modern chemistry, alonside Newton as a pioneer of the experimental scientific method. As member of the Royal Society he was elected president but declined the honor,and is remembered for the law named after him of volume vs.pressure of gases. Investigation and experiments were to be his way of studying science and he was not one to build hypotheses until proof was obtained. This collection of the many papers and experiments he wrote up are here brought up to date with later findings to produce the best and most complete compilation of his work. Dr Peter Shaw was a London based physician who was appointed physician extraordinary to King George II in 1753. All Vol`s printed in London.

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Book number: V75195

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Keywords: Science

Boyle,Robert (1627-1694) with notes etc. By Peter Shaw M.D (1694-1763).

PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS [Volume II + III Only] physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medecine / the whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since his time by Peter Shaw.

London, W.& J.Innys & J.Osborn & T.Longman 1725 folding plates [19 in Vol.II & in Vol. III] . Quarto blind tooled panelled calf on 5 raised bands with gilt spine label [rebacked with old spine relaid and original cover laid on front board] Vol.III titlepage + xv [=content] +[1p=blank] +756pp [includes index]. Title on spine loose and rubbed. The half title to "Medicine" is in facsimile.TOPICS covered in these volumes are pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, air, Minerology & Gems, and medecine with the whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since Boyle`s death in 1694 by Dr Peter Shaw. Early and last pages have a damp mark mainly marginal and neither paper or text compromised. The endpapers have a modern Thomas Bewick bookplate. Possible contemporary signature on titlepage, ink. The volumes are clean, crisp and largley unmarked. Vol II contains a dedication to the Earl of Orrery, a patron of the sciences. *Boyle is largely regarded today as the founder of modern chemistry, and a pioneer of the experimental scientific method. A member of the Royal Society he was elected president but declined the honor,and is remembered for the law named after him of volume vs pressure of gases. Investigation and experiments were to be the way of science and he was not fond of hypothesis until proof was found. This collection of the many papers and experiments he wrote up are here brought up to date with later findings to produce the best compilation of his work and this is the first edition thus. Dr Peter Shaw was a London based physician who was appointed physician extraordinary to King George II in 1753. All Vol`s printed in London.

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Book number: V75196

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Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)

TENTAMINA QUAEDAM PHYSIOLOGICA diversis temporibus & occasionibus conscripta a Roberto Boyle, cum ejusdem Historia fluiditatis et firmitatis, ex Anglico in Latinum sermonem translata.

Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir 1667 Elzevir Printer's mark to Titlepage. . Duodecimo (132x67mm) 18th century roan spined marbled boards (upper hinge repaired/head of spine chipped/tips worn) All edges rouged. Titlepage +[6] +424pp. Coat of arms bookplate & location on front end-paper otherwise completely unmarked crisp copy. *The only Elzevir edition. These essays are the first edition of Boyle's work in Latin to be printed on the continent. Physiologica in this sense included discourses on physics, chemistry, meteorology, medicine & related subjects as well as observations that we would still classify as physiology (eg. dog's digestive system). There are accounts of purely chemical research. According to Fulton "the importance of this work lies in the fact that in a very real sense it was a prologue to the Sceptical Chymist since it continued the attack on the alchemists began in New experiments, and actually it was as much of a landmark in the history of chemistry" [as those other works]. It gives the first clear outline of his corpuscular theory of the nature of matter (References: Fulton 29, Wellcome I 221, Garrison & Morton).

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Book number: V69672

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Keywords: chemistry science experiements

Bramston, James (1694?-1743)] [but not here named]

THE ART OF POLITICKS, IN IMITATION OF HORACE'S ART OF POETRY

London, Lawton Gilliver, at Homer's Head, 1st edition. 1729 Frontis of chimera: fish-bodied, winged, bosomed horse with man's head. . Small quarto in recent grey card covers, frontis + title + 45pp. Upper margin of titlepage repaired where part of name cut away, frontis and last leaf mounted, 3 leaves cut short at fore-edge without loss of text. *The first of two political satires published anonymously by Bramston, a Sussex clergyman, which "hold an honourable place in 18th-century verse, [and] abound with contemporary references, and frequently happy lines" (DNB article James Bramston - see too D.F. Foxon, English Verse 1701-1750, B386).

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Book number: V66492

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Keywords: poetry satire classical political