Seaman, William [Sa'd al-Din ibn Hasanjan]

THE REIGN OF SULTAN ORCHAN second King of the Turks. Translated out of Hojah Effendi and eminent Turkish Historian.

London, T.R and E.M. & sold by John Sherley 1652 . 12mo gilt ruled leather (lacks 2.5" of spine leather/ corners worn with lack of leather/ leather marked). Title surround by acorn design printer's ornament + [16]pp Dedication + Preface + [6]pp (imprimatur with printer's ornaments above and below + contents) +120pp LACKS pp35/6. There are side-notes including some in Turkish script. Some soiling and fingering and some leaves with damp mark along gutter and five leaves at the end with worming but text still quite readable. *Three copies in ABPC two of which recently each sold for GBP 1200 even though they also had faults.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Turkish Turkey history

Sectanus, Quintus [pseudonym of Lodovico Sergardi (1660-1726)]

SATYRAE numero auctae mendis purgatae et singulae locupletiores. Editio Novissima .. Concinnante P. Antoniano Liber Secundus.

Amsterdam [actually Rome], Apud Elsevirios [fictious imprint this is a false Elzevir] 1700 Woodcuts in text (36) inc. a few repeats, some nearly full page, inc. TP vignette of children dancing, also coins, costumes, artifacts etc. . Octavo plain tan leather [lacking spine leather but held by all 5 cords/edges worn with little impact on text] all edges sprinkled in red. Spine cover missing. Titlepage with large vignette +[8pp =to reader +[10pp =authors consulted & laudatory poems] +425pp. Cover page loose, binding also loose. All though the title suggests this is the complete set of satires there are only 8 of the original ones published by Sergardi. They satirise the well known author and lawyer Gravina who is here called Philodeme. Often seen as a satirical take on Roman/Vatican Society, although Sergardi was close to Pope Alexander VIII (Willems 2170). *These works were exposed as forgeries by Brunet but attributed by him to publishers in Naples, later correctly to Rome by Du Roure in his Analecta Biblio according to Willems. Handsomely printed on fine quality paper with wide margins and extensive notes on each of the satires in this volume. 2nd edition, 1st published in 1696.

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Sonstige Stichworte: classics satires forgery

Selden,John and James Ussher [Bishop of Armagh] (also spelt Usher)

DE ANNO CIVILI VETERUM JUDAEORUM [Selden on the Civil Year of the Ancient Jews] & DE MACEDONUM ET ASIANORUM ANNO SOLARI [Ussher on the Macedonian & Asiatic Solar Year]

Leiden (Lugd. Batavorum), Peter Van der Aa 1683 Engraved titlepage. . Two Works in One, small octavo later half vellum marbled boards with gilt titled red leather spine label (tips rubbed) all edges blue. Engraved titlepage +[18pp] +128pp +[6pp contents for second part] +98pp +[34pp Ephemeris]. Lacks last blank. Two bookplates on the pastedown else very neat, clean & crisp, a handsome copy. Some pages of calendar calculations printed in red & black, some with folded extensions. Texts of both works in Latin, with passages in Hebrew and Arabic. *Selden although notable for his legal books was also a formidable antiquary and this is his study of the Jewish calendar and festivals. Ussher's greatest work was on calculating the date of the beginning of the world. This is his study of the astronomy and calendar of the Macedonian Greeks and Asians.

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Sonstige Stichworte: calendar Jewish Hebrew Macedonia Arabic

Selden,John (1584-1654)

DE DIS SYRIS SYNTAGMATA II. Adversaria nempe de Numinibus commentitiis in Veteri Instrumento memoratis. Accedunt fere qvae sunt reliqua Syrorum, Prisca porrò Arabum, Aegyptiorum, Persarum, Afrorum, Europaeorum item theologia, subinde illustratur.

Leipzig, Johann. Brendel 3rd edition 1662 Copperplate engraved extra titlepage with 6 scenes of worship of Idols & miracles etc signed IBS. . Small octavo bound in suede sheepskin (front cover detached/spine damaged but lower cover soundly attached). Engraved titlepage + printed titlepage +[21p dedication & prefaces] +[22-36pp contents] +373pp +[51p index]. Ownership inscription dated 1856 on inside of front board. Minor worming to later part of index and normal expected edge browning and a few spots but the paper is supple and readable. Text in Latin with substantial portions in Greek and some Hebrew. *Although Selden was primarily a lawyer and known best for his legal titles he was also a serious antiquary. This work deals with study of Syrian mythology and comparison with a study of the antiquity of the Hebrew Old Testament and led to his reputation as an oriental scholar. His large collection of oriental books and manuscripts are at the Bodleian Library at Oxford. There seem to be two versions of this 3rd edition of 1662 by Brendel one of 28 preliminaries +331pp and ours [36] +373pp +[51p index] First written when Selden was in his early 20's it was not published until 1617 as is explained in the Preface to the first edition which is reprinted in this edition after a later Preface.

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Sonstige Stichworte: mythology Babylonian Assyrian Gods Hebrew Ancient paganism

Selden, John (1584-1654)

OF THE DOMINION, Or, Ownership of the SEA Two Books ... Written at first in Latin, and Entituled, MARE CLAUSUM seu, De Dominio Maris. By John Selden Esquire. Translated into English; and set forth with som Additional Evidences and Discourses, by Marchamont Nedham. Published by special Command. Includes (with separate dated Title) ADDITIONAL EVIDENCES, Concerning the Right of Soveraigntie and Dominion of England in the Sea.

London, William Du-Gard, by the appointment of the Council of State: and are to be sold at the Sign of the Ship at the New-Exchange. 1652 Frontis copperplate of Britannia ruling the waves by S. Cline, Jnr. engraved at London by Lombart + fine copperplate . Large quarto contemporary sheepskin, spine on 6 cords (original covers bare at tips and foot of spine but underlaid with small matching leather repairs), [48]pp (inc. frontis & facing page of verses "Neptune to the Common-wealth of England", Titlepage in red & black, Dedication to "The Supreme Autoritie of The Nation, The Parliament of the Common-wealth of England" signed by Marchamont Nedham, November 19, 1652, Author's Preface dated 4 November 1635 and Contents) +176pp, 179-274, 279-472, [471-2 & 477-8 repeated in place of 473-6 omitted in binding], 477-500 + [2] blank + [10]pp (inc. Title in red & black to DOMINIUM MARIS .. Translated out of Italian with Commonwealth Arms dated 1652) + 37pp and [1]p blank. Collated complete except for binder's mistake of two repeat leaves in place of pp472-6 in section Ooo. Ownership inscription on page before frontis "John Ashe his booke given him at the doore Decemb. 1652" (probably John Ashe 1597–1658 MP for Westbury in Long Parliament from 1640). Two brown marks, on back of frontis and foot of Title, some worm-holes in margins not affecting text, top corners towards end lightly browned by former damp, pages else clean and crisp with no MS notes or other significant marks (referenced by Wing S2432, ESTC R15125). *Famous legal work establishing British naval power, original Latin 1635 version dedicated to Charles I. Samuel Pepys (Secretary to Navy) notes in his Diary 17 April 1663: "After dinner my father and I walked into the city a little, and parted and to Paul’s Church Yard, to cause the title of my English 'Mare Clausum' to be changed, and the new title, dedicated to the King, to be put to it, because I am ashamed to have the other seen dedicated to the Commonwealth".

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Sonstige Stichworte: law naval history Mare Clausum Pepys

Serarius,Nikolaus [1558-1609 ] Matthia Agricio Witlichio

SACRI PERIPATETICI Sive de Sacris Ecclesiae Catholoicae Processionibus + RABBINI ET HERODES Seu de tota Rabbinorum Gente + AURORAE ENCOMOIM Soluta Oratione + AURORAE ENCOMIUM Versibus Elegiacis

Coloniae Agrippinae {Koln] +Moguntiae [Mainz], Bernardi Gualtheri + Balthasar Lippii + Officina Birckmannica/Hermann Mylii 1607,1607,1606,1607 Each title page has a woodcut printer's mark first two with motto & bell-flower garland + last two with chocken . Small. Octavo blindstamped pig with 2 functioning clasps on 3 raised bands to spine. Oval on front cover containing 2 saints one being boiled? The other in cowl carrying a book & branch 2 coates of arm on shields above. Text reads "Carthusiensis 1591 Patroni Monaster in Prvell Prope Ratisbonam ordinis" Lover coveroval with pretty floral design booth covers with multiple rules ,corner ornaments and twisted interlaces. All edges red with 3 staggered markers to fore-edge to denote the beginning of each book. First title page with 2 inked names -one crossed out + Kloster Schewarzenberg stamp to blank margin. Pastedown with dated ownership, fly leaf loose but present, short titles of the 3 others texts listed on it to face first title. [viii incl.titlepage +235pp +[3pp=to reader & errata + blank with fore-edge marker 2nd title with indecipherable 4 letters in ink at foot of page. 291pp includes titlepage +[1p=errata] 3rd title page with ink name cropped 106pp including title + [2p=index] + [51pp including titlepage all without numbers but signatures continuous with previous item. Some 6 leaves are repaired in the blank lower corner with archival tissue where there were worm tracks. A few isolated worm holes. Usual tanning but paper still crisp and clean. A lovely binding and neat typography. *Serarius was Professor of Exegesis at Mainz university, and a strong supporter of the counter reformation. This is a collection of his religious writings, in contrast to his more famous history of Mainz. Book one defends the sacred processions of the Catholic Church.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Four works in Fine rolled pig binding

Sere,Ferdinand

MOYEN AGE ET RENAISSANCE (Select Examples of the Ornaments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Period)

Paris, By the Author 1st edition 1851 Chromolith plates including much gold & silver, illuminations etc.(16) + 12 engraved plates by Lemercier/Kellerhoven et al. . Quarto half green morocco (tips worn/rubbed/combed marble sides very rubbed but still handsome) (4pp) of descriptive plate list in French and English parallel text. Book block loose in case. Very neat and clean. Shows examples from tapestries, Gold and Silversmith work, Stainglass, Ivory, frescoes, book of Hours, sculptures and clothing details. There was apparently a social History volume published 3 years earlier to which this was a later addition but published on its own. The plates are of very fine quality and color.

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Sonstige Stichworte: chromolith history middle ages Renaissance

De la Serre, Jean-Puget

LES DELICES DE LA MORT

Rouen France, Jean Berthelin 1631 Copperplates [Frontis + 4 further full page plates one for each chapter. plates after C.Galle . 8vo contemporary speckled leather on 4 raised bands with gilt decorated panels with fleur de lys center pieces, gilt titled direct to spine, Gilt dentelles. [tips bit bumped/edges rubbed] All fore-edges sprinkled red and blue Frontis + titlepage with large decorated snake-hair head + floral baroque decoration. + [4p =Dedication with headpiece + historiated elephant initial letter] [1p=to Reader} +[1p=Approbation] + 283pp +[1p=imprint] The frontis and the first plate are not included in the pagination and show stubs at the end of the gathering, all other plates are counted within the pagination. Name to front free endppaper and an crossing out by this owner of an earlier name.There are other copies printed in Belgium and elsewhere most with the date 1631 but since this is printed in the home country of the author it is probably an early printing. A lovely clean,unfoxed, unmarked book with exceedingly well printed plates which include one emblematic scene.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Meditation on death & future life

Sulpitius Severus (also spellt Sulpicius Severus)

OPERA OMNIA QUAE EXTANT

Amsterdam, Ex officina Elzeviriana 1656 Copperplate engraved Titlepage of St. Martin mounted on his horse stopping to give his cloak to a cripple. . 130x75mm (in 12's) bit later half leather gilt on 4 raised bands marbled paper sides, contrasting gilt spine title label, blue and yellow sewn head bands (tips sl.worn) 333pp + [3]pp Chronology. Book I with much underlining, book II with only 4 leaves affected. Book III is the life of St. Martin, Book IV & V are his letters then his Dialogues etc. Printed with extensive sidenotes and good clean margins, paper crisp and supple. Early ownership "Johannis J. Munckeri" at bottom margin of title.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Latin history religion biography

Shenstone,William

POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM SHENSTONE with the life of the author and a description of the Leasowes.

London, Jones & Company, Diamond Poets series 1833 Engraved frontis & engraved vignette additional Titlepage by J. Rogers. . 9.5x5.5cm (3.75x2.25") in rose feathered-embossed silk covered boards with gilt black leather spine label (lacks lower third of spine /edges somewhat worn) All Edges Gilt 8p of Adverts, including for "Jones's Diamond Poets (smallest ever printed) uniting correctness, beautiful typography, portability, the greatest economy &c" listing this and all the other examples we have in our catalogue. Frontis +engraved Titlepage + Printed TP -xvi +256pp contents clean and tight in a very clear tiny font that is well readable (we also have matching this in same edition Beattie's THE MINSTREL & other Poems, Robert Bloomfield's THE FARMER's BOY & Oliver Goldsmith POETICAL WORKS).

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Sonstige Stichworte: near-miniature silk bound poetry diamond poets

Shoberl, Frederick] editor (but not given on titlepage)

DESCRIPCION ABREVIADA DEL MUNDO INGLATERRA, ESCOCIA & IRLANDA

London, R. Ackermann, Strand 1828 Hand-coloured plates including costumes, professions & trades, with children, animals, coaching scene, ships/boats, boxing etc. . 2 VOLUMES gilt tan roan (edges worn/spine of vol.2 lacks top compartment and much of the raised bands of vol.2 are missing their leather covering) All edges marbled. Frontispiece + xc (which incl.titlepage) +72pp Vol.2 frontispiece + v (which includes title) +140pp + [4]pp of publisher's Spanish works. Book plate to pastedown with coat of arms of Earl of Portsmouth. Text in Spanish but plates all captioned only in English and the colouring is original and well done. Both text and plates are in clean condition, no writing no tears and with the tissue guards in place and very minimal foxing to a very few pages. The publisher, Ackermann, lists these books as being sold through his own establishments in Maxico, Columbia, Buenos Aires, Chile, Peru, & Guatemala these volumes were obviously written for the South American trade.

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Sonstige Stichworte: costume trades hand coloring

Shoberl, Frederic (editor)

THE WORLD IN MINIATURE ... SWITZERLAND; containing a description of the character, manners, customs, diversions, dress, &c. of the people of that country in general, and of the inhabitants of the twenty-two cantons in particular. Illustrated by eighteen coloured engravings.

London, R. Ackermann 1827 acc. to British Library Hand-coloured plates (18) inc. several Zurich, 3 Friburg, & Berne frontis with 5 ladies. . 1st edition, 12mo half leather blind-tooled and on 4 gilt raised bands with red spine label, marbled paper sides {tips rubbed] vi +[2p=contents & plate list] + 287pp. Some isolated foxing and some offsetting but very minor. Clean and beautifully coloured plates some with several figures and either with background etc. *One of 43 volumes published by Shoberl, each documenting a different part of the early 19th century world.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Switzerland topography customs hand coloured costume plates trades etc.

Sidney,S.

THE BOOK OF THE HORSE (Thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred) Saddle and Harness, British and Foreign ..

London, Cassell,Petter,Galpin & Co. 3rd edition 1884-6 according to the British Library Chromolith plates (28 with tissue guards and correct as in plate list) + 138 text illustrations including some full page. . Quarto 280x220mm Rebound in green & red embossed cloth (sl.rubbed) ALL EDGES GILT. x pp + 680pp *A Clean tight copy of a Classic work on Horse Breeds, Harness, Driving & Carriages, Hounds. This is the first edition to have an expanded Veterinary section by George Fleming Pinicipal Veterinary Surgeon to the British Army which includes 4 newly added chapters by Fleming with plates and illustrations.

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Sonstige Stichworte: horse sports illustrated

D.T.,le Sieur [Lenain de Tillemont, Louis-Sebastien 1637-1698]

MEMOIRES POUR SERVIR A L'HISTOIRE ECCLESIASTIQUE des ssix premiers siecles Tome Second (second volume complete in 3 Parts)

Brussels, Eugene Henry Fricx 1695 Copperplate illustration to page 1 in Part I + some head and tailpieces to each Part. . 3 Volumes (Parts) later half calf (lacks one cover and two others detached with surviving covers held by cords only/spine leather mostly lacking) all book blocks tight and sound. Part I xcvi +527pp Part II xxiv +621pp Part III xii +516pp inc. index to all 3 Parts. These volumes begin with St. Etienne, the first Martyr who died in the year 33 AD and continue to about the year 260. They deal with the Saints, the Martyrs, missionary travels to Asia etc and the various heresies and persecutions that occurred during these times. Including not only the lives but also letters and important witnesses. The chronology at the end of the last Part of this Volume covers Pre-Christian times of Emperor Tiberius & Herod to the year 176 and deals with worldwide events summaries including the East, Europe and especially Roman and Greek events as well as Christian.

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Sonstige Stichworte: hagiography history heresies religion wars saints

Sigaud de la Fond, M. [Joseph] (1730-1810)

LECONS DE PHYSIQUE EXPERIMENTALE par M. Sigaud De Lafond, Demonstrateur de Physique Experimentale, & Maitre de Mathematiques

Paris, Des Ventes De La Doué 1767 Folding copperplates (18) illustrating scientic experiments. . Two Volumes duodecimo contemporary marbled calf, 5 raised bands, spine compartments and titles gilt (tips and spine-edges rubbed & 4cm patch of leather missing from font cover of Vol I) marbled end-papers & armorial bookplates with eagle & sailing-ships, top corner of 1st EP torn off All Edges Marbled. Sporadic light spotting and traces of light marginal waterstain to first 30 pages, otherwise very clean & crisp throughout, [1]Half-title & Avis au Relieur +[2]1st titlepage & blank +xv (inc 2nd titlepage) +[1] +424 +[2]pp errata +12 folding copperplates, [4](inc Vol II titlepage) +501 +[3]pp +6 folding copperplates. *Sigaud de Lafond was a pupil of the Abbé Nollet who produced an earlier work with the same title. Splendid folding copper-plates in pristine condition all illustrating scientific experiments.

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Sonstige Stichworte: physics science French Nollet Sigaud