Dumay, Louis (and other authors)

RECUEIL HISTORIQUE Contenant Diverses Pieces Curieuses de ce Temps.

Cologne, Christopher Van Dyck (actually Brussels Foppens) 1666 Woodcut printer's mark (celestial sphere) + headpieces tailpieces and foliated initial capitals. . 128x68mm half gilt leather on 3 raised bands compartments gilt tan spine title-label sides of "tortoise shell" paper covered boards (tips bit worn but pretty binding). Title +[2]pp Contents +350pp. One marginal tear of 1 inch with no loss, towards the end some pages with pale clear tidemark not affecting legibility, all pages crisp and flexible. *Includes several mid 17th century voyages (Gigery, Le duc de Guise, Sieur de Bricard), wars in Hungary (by Louis Dumay), wars with the Turks, peace treaty between Mahomet & Leopold I etc. All current events from first-hand knowledgeable writers.

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Book number: V74698

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: travel war history Turkish invasions

Dunton, John & The Athenian Society

THE YOUNG-STUDENTS-LIBRARY, CONTAINING EXTRACTS AND ABRIDGMENTS OF THE MOST VALUABLE BOOKS PRINTED In England, and in the Forreign Journals, from the Year Sixty Five, to This Time. To which is Added, A New Essay upon all sorts of Learning; WHEREIN The Use of the SCIENCES Is Distinctly Treated on. By the Athenian Society. ALSO, A Large ALPHABETICAL TABLE, Comprehending The CONTENTS of this Volume. And of All The Athenian Mercuries and Supplements, &c. Printed in the YEAR

London, John Dunton, at the Raven in the Poultry. 1692 Frontis titled an Emblem of ye Athenian Society 1692, showing small views of Athens, Rome, Oxford & Cambridge +lines of men & women, horses & coaches by with rhymed explanation below. F.H. Van Hove. . Folio calf spined boards [some wear] Engraved frontis + titlepage +[4pp=Preface] +xviii [=an essaay on 1691.] + 240pp + titlepage to DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE ANTIQUITY ..of the points,vowels and Accents ..to the HEBREW BIBLE by a Member of the Athenian Society. [Same date & publisher] +241-479pp +[16pp =index] The title continues "from the year sixty five, to this time. To which is added, a new essay upon all sorts of learning; wherein the use of the sciences is distinctly treated on." Subjects include works of Usher and Grotius, Wheeler's travels {Greece, Levant] chardin's Persia,travels to East Indies etc., new scientific papers, extracts from journals etc. The newest book by Hook, Micrographia, discusses experiments shown at the Royal Academy of Sciences on freezing, Mr.Boyle's work on air and Edmond Halley's on water vapours are all new discoveries. Following the second titlepage a section deals with the Hebrew written language and further with the various editions of the Bible, criticisms, Locke & Des Cartes Philosophy and much else. Music of a French version of the CLth Psalm with treble and bass musical accompaniment take up a full page. The final part of the book has a series of "Curious Miscellanies" such as extraordinary Lives of Saints, speeches, a Treatise of Witches, A History of Animals, the Inquisition etc. Some pagination errors with for example page numbers 288 & 289 are used twice. The signatures are in 2's throughout but the alphabet used only goes from a to u up to 6u + the index 7a to 7d. The frontis has been mounted with some loss at the gutter edge, the titlepage and the following two leaves are remargined which however does not affect any print. There is a tidemark up to page 6 and also to certain later sections of the book. There are also areas of foxing and others with browning and a few small holes affecting one or two letters of the text and one leaf [p331/2] with a paper fault across 5 lines each missing no more than a few letters. Endpapers have a small ownership stamp "Pro Christo et Patria Dulce Particulum" surrounding a Unicorn's head and initials RHK below the unicorn. All pages are well attached and supple, quite readable. A fascinating early account of important books thought important for students at Oxford & Cambridge.

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Book number: V75604

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Abridgements of books for Oxford & Cambridge students

DuPuy, P

HISTOIRE DES PLUS ILLUSTRES FAVORIS ANCIENS ET MODERNES. Recueillie… avex un Journal de ce qui s'est passe a la mort du Mareschal D'Ancre

Leyde [actually at Lyon, France], Jean Elsevier 1660 . 141mm x 78mm green blindstamped leather gilt titled direct to spine gilt reverses et dentelles [corners worn to tips/rubbed to hinges/bumped to 2 corners/head of spine sl.chipped] ALL EDGES GILT [16pp =titlepage +dedication + table] +624pp Silk ribbon marker still in place and clean tight crisp pages. Starts with Philip of Macedonia, various Roman emperors, french notables, spanish, Hungarians, Turkish rulers, British & Irish favorites such as Gaverston & Hugh Despenser's friendships with King Edward, the duke of Irland's influence with Richard II and cardinal Wolsey and Henry 8th as well as Rizzio and Mary Queen of Scots. In most cases either the ruling monarch tired of his favourite or counter factions in the court managed to disgrace or kill the ruler's favorite.The power that these courtiers wielded over the sovereign was reason enough to make them hated at court and many came to an ignoble end.

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Book number: V75538

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Keywords: court favorites

Ecton,John

LIBER VALORUM & Decimarum. Being an account such Ecclesiastical Benefices in England and Wales, as now stand charged with or lately were Discharged from the Payment of First-Fruits and Tenths

London, Gosting, Mears. Innys & T.Woodward 1723 Some nice pictorial head and tailpieces incl. fox stealing a chicken with farmer's wife shaking her broom at him as he runs past a townscape . Octavo contemporary calf bindinging on 5 raised bands with nicely tooled panelled covers in three shades of brown (hinges worn held by cords/leather loss to edges/tip/lacks 3/4 of spine label) (16pp incl.TP) +444pp+(11p incl.errata) *An interesting and complete list of the rectories and Churches throughout Gt. Britain and the relative wealth of their parishes. Ecton was employed in gathering these monies but in some cases subsidizing the poorer clergy who could not afford the taxes.

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Book number: V67171

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Keywords: antiquarian finances clergy religion

Ecton,John

STATE OF THE PROCEEDING OF THE CORPORATION .. BOUNTY OF QUEEN ANNE for .. POOR CLERGY

London, The Woodward) 2nd edition 1721 . Octavo newer half calf marbled boards black spine label (tips rubbed) xviii+(3)+258pp +(24p)of tables. TP & last page professionally repaired with some loss - esp. to publisher's details & last leaf possibly lacking some officers' names but no loss to last page of text, which is advert for another book. Preceeding page has some paper loss affecting 4 names. The entire book has staining but is quite readable.

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Book number: V58477

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Keywords: finance religion clergy

Ecton,John

THESAURUS RERUM ECCLESIASTICARUM: Being an Account of the Valuations of All the Ecclesiastical Benefices in the Several Dioceses in England and Wales .. to Which are Added the Names of the Patrons to the several Benefices; And the Dedications of the Churches .. Synodals extracted from the records in the Reign of Henry VIII

London, Browne at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar, Millar..Gosling 1742 . Quarto contemporary speckled calf gilt ruled with 5 raised bands & gilt spine label (hinges worn & held by cords/tips worn incl. head and foot of spine chipped) xxxix+784pp+(8pp index) Small tear in one leaf else a neat tight copy. Thick heavy book.

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Book number: V66004

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Keywords: church revenues dedicatory saints

Elmes,James (Architect and civil engineer)

PRACTICAL TREATISE ON ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL DILAPIDATIONS, RE-INSTATEMENTS, WASTE &c. With an appendix containing cases decided, precedents of notices to repair, examples of valuations, surveys, estimates,&c.

London, Samuel Brooke 3rd edition considerably enlarged 1829 . Octavo contemporary cloth with paper spine label (label darkened and chipped/covers detached/spine split to hinges/lower edge has ink splatter affecting edge,not margins) xxiv +288 +CXXI=Appendix +(28p index & booklist) *The law concerning the repair of property which was to become eminently important in Victorian times when the London tenements housed the poor and Dickens among others tried to describe the poor overcrowded conditions. It also looks at the historical aspects with comparison of Roman and French law and church architecture. Elmes was an eminent architect and writer, his most famous work being Metropolitan Improvements.

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Book number: V68470

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Keywords: property legal historical construction

Emanuel,Walter illustrations by John Hassall

THE ZOO a Scamper by Walter Emanuel author of "A Dog Day"

London, Alston Rivers 1904 Full page (12 in black, brown and white) and text illustrations to every opening by John Hassall. . Quarto red cloth spined pictorial boards printed in red and black (small paper loss at hinge/tips rubbed) Dedication & listing of other titles + Titlepage +50 pages. Tiny adhesion damage to flyleaf where it was stuck to pastedown & sl.rust showing between p48 & 49 from staple binding. Otherwise no inscriptions, no signs of use, tight and crisp copy.

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Book number: V70958

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: humor animals zoo natural history

Albertus Magnus [Saint 1193?-1280.] translated into english by N.N.

THE PARADISE OF THE SOUL A little treatise of vertues / Made by Albert the Great, Bishop of Ratisbon, who died in the year 1280. Translated out of Latin into English, by N.N..

London, William Brooks 1682 [ This is A translation of: De adhaerendo Deo] . 12mo tan leather with paper labels in ink to spine {edges rubbed/corners worn/hinges cracking but well attached/5mm leather loss to head of spine] [10] +240pp Lacks most of the blank which preceeds the titlepage [cf Oxford University "first leaf is blank" Title is repaired by mounting the page on newer paper without loss of print or papere .There is quite some foxing/browning to the pages and a few corner creases but the paper is entirely strong and supple. L5-8 are cropped to the bottom margin but affecting only part of the catch-words. An early book on Virtues laid out in short chapters on Patience, Chastity Justice Compassion Hope Liberty Simplicity etc.to include extracts from the Bible for examples of each to bring the reader to God. A scarce item in the trade.Monastic bookplate of Monestarii St. Augustini apud Ramsgate. Only 6 printed copies listed in COPAC with The British Library only having a microform of this. WING A 875H

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Book number: V75726

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[Ambrosius,Saint] Sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensis Episcopi

OPERA ex editione Romana

Paris, cum privilegio Regis [Compagnie de la Grand-Navire] 1632 Frontispiece portrait of Saint Ambrose +headpieces & historiated initials + 4 fine large ship printer's marks showing a Warship in full-battle dress/banners flying,sailors climbing rigging/ g. TWO lg.folio Books containing 5 volumes. Calf spined boards with sm.leather tips to corners and 5 blindtooled raised bands to spine with gilt titles and volume numbers to spine [18th century binding?/edges rubbed] All Edges Red. The first and Second volume are under one titlepage only as the second volume begins mid-page on columns 623/4 thus only 4 Ship titlepages are called for. First book begins: Half title with frontispiece on verso + titlepage Printed in Red and Black with large Ship copperplate on verso "Sixtus Papa V" with figural initial capital letter. + [2p=4 oval church fathers interspersed by 3 floral vases] +2p=Ad lectorem +1150 numbered columns [2 per page thus = 575pp] +[1p=blank] + titlepage with repeat of large ship engraving + 656 numbered columns BOOK II Ship titlepage in red & black + to verso ="S.[St.] Augustinus contra Julianum Pelagianum" + [2p="Liborum Tractatuum"] +552 columns + ship titlepage + [1p= "nicolaus Papa" + 4 historiated ovals + floral decorations above "..Xysto V. Pont. MAX. + [5pp =Elenchus eorum"] + 678 columns + [40pp=Loci Sacrarum] + 208 paginated pages of Index. The first and last pages of each book are slightly dusty and the portrait is somewhat offset onto the facing titlepage.The last 7 leaves of book have a lower corner tide-mark but paper is crisp and strong.The first and last few leaves have a marginal tidemark not touching text to the front and rear of the second book. Thoughout the books the paper is crisp, clean and well attached to the binding. There is a small 19th century printed label to the front pastedown of each book reading Bibl.D.P.Trunc. And "Z15" inked in below the printed area. These Opera contain commentaries on the books of the bible, sermons, Glosses on Gospels etc "His brilliant religious writings molded classic learning [and his] name associated with type of plainsong called Ambrosian chant"(Chambers Encyclopedia).The fine ship titlepages are known as the "Compagnie de la Grand-navire" and this Royal Publisher was a state-monopoly imbued with all the prestiege & vainglory of the French Crown.

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Book number: V75708

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Keywords: Early church saint sought after for Fine Titlepages

Erasmus, Desiderius (b.1466-d. 1536)

COLLOQUIA, cum notis selectis variorum, addito indice novo, accurante Corn. Schrevelio.

Leiden and Rotterdam, Hackius 1664 Copperplate illustrated titlepage engraved by P.P. . Octavo contemporary full vellum (washed), more recent neat MS spine label, All Edges Rouge. Engraved illustrated TP +[12]pp prelims (dedication by Erasmus to Froben dated Basel 1524, undated autobiographic "Vita Erasmi", and epitaph dated 1536) +784pp +[20]pp Index. Text in Latin. Titlepage lightly browned at edges, small ink spot and number 49 written at foot, neat underlining in faded brown ink on most pages up to p454, else crisp and clean throughout. *One of 2 editions by Hackius in same year, this notable for last page of "Vita Erasmi" with 27 lines. Referenced by Graesse II.495, Van der Haeghen I, 40. Bibl. Erasmiana, Colloquia, 416. *Collection of dialogues (colloquia) written by Erasmus, edited by Dutchman Cornelis Schrevel (1608-1661) who added footnotes by various authors and the index.

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Book number: V48001

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Keywords: Latin Erasmus dialogues editor Schrevel

Erasmus, Desiderius (d. 1536) [2 Works] with 3rd by Desiderius Latomus (d. 1570)

D. ERASMI ROTERODAMI Opus de conscribendis epistolis ex postrema autoris recognitione + EPITOME D. ERASMI ROTERODAMI luculenta iuxta ac breuis in elegantiarum libros Laurentij Vallae + EPITOME COMMENTARIORUM Dialecticae inuentionis, Rodolphi Agricolae.

Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus (Gymnich) 1532, 1533, 1532 Woodcut pictorial titlepages with borders of female deities etc to each of 3 works + fine illustrated colophon to 2nd work. . Sammelband of 3 Works in one Volume. Small octavo pigskin on wooden boards, front cover with floral marginal rolls, central holy figures [SS Peter & John?] and ownership stamp SVM IACOBI BVECSEN MDXXXIII. Back cover with border of dancing figures, one dated 1528. Spine on 3 raised bands, brass clasps missing but catches present. Some damage to head & foot of spine, edges worn but stamped pigskin covers in excellent condition. Front & back endpapers present but pastedowns removed, showing at gutters vellum strips (with black & red MS lettering) used to attach wooden boards to spine. Work I [16]pp (woodcut emblematic bordered titlepage + Erasmus dedication to Beraldo dated Basel 8 June 1522 + Index) +385pp +[1]p blank, collated complete except Lacks one leaf of text at Fii (pp83-4). Titlepage has early ink ownership name Zielenski (repeated at Aii verso of Work II) in centre and partly erased MS library notes at foot. Some neat red ink underlining & marginal notes throughout, light brown marks of former damp at top margins from start affecting up to 5 lines by end but all clearly readable. Small tears (neatly repaired) at top of last 2 sections without loss of text except on last leaf. Work II 2nd woodcut titlepage with Adam & Eve on either side (nudity partly inked out), [80] leaves unpaginated but collated complete with signatures A-K8, last page has full-page colophon of seahorse, Gymnich's printer's mark, Latin motto and Greek text round all 4 sides. Work III has 3rd woodcut titlepage with same Adam & Eve surround but no ink nudity defacement +127pp +[1]p blank, collated complete but with tears at top margin some with minor paper loss neatly repaired. At end 12 marginally damaged blank leaves are bound in. *Nice woodcut titlepages and very interesting early binding. Rare Kölner Gymnich imprint Sammelband of 3 Works (referenced I. Adams E558, VD 16, E 2514, Bezzel 609; II. VD 16 & van der Haeghen, not in Adams; III. VD 16, not in Adams).

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Book number: V75865

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Keywords: Binding Erasmus letters

Erasmus,Desiderius (d. 1536) White Kennett (1690-1728) translator

MORIAE ENCOMIUN [greek] or THE PRAISE OF FOLLY written in Latin… translated into English.. With a Preface by his Lordship. Adorn'd with a Great number of Copper Plates neatly engraven to which is added the effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More from the designs of the celebrated Hans Holbeine {sic}

London, Stephen Austen 4th edition 1726 Engraved Frontispiece + Folding portrait + Six engraved folding plates + full page engraved plates {26} + over a dozen text illustrations after Holbein. . Duodecimo speckled leather with 2 gilt rules edges blind-tooled [Lacks spine leather but covers well attached by cords/corners worn/ upper edge worn] Frontis + titlepage in red and black + [ 114pp =To Reader] + xiv=commendatory verses +[2p=book list of John Wilford +folding plate of Sir Thomas More + v [=Epistle Erasums to More] +168pp + [4p=index] The gutter margin with a damp tide mark to the last four leaevs also a small edge stain to six leaves never touching anywhere near printed area and three tears without loss else a clean tight copy with only minor signs of use such as a few corners creased, signed Lord Ranelagh's book 1729 to free end paper and A.F.D to pastedowns. *A staunch Whig and member of the low-church clergy, White Kennet became Bishop of Peterborough in 1718.

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Book number: V75546

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: later edition of the famous satire on church and state

Erhardt, C.

EVANGELIA ET EPISTOLAE Pro Dominicis & Festis Diebus cum Textu Latino & Germanico juxta Formam Missalis Romani dispositae Sonn-Und Fenr-Tagliche EVANGELIA UND EPISTELN fur das gantze Jahr mit dem lateinischen und teutschen text…auch mit 92 schoenen Kupffern fur alle Sonn- und Feyr-Taeg ausgeziehret.

Augspurg [Germany], J. Eisenbarth 1719 Copperplate frontispiece + 96 copperplates by J.S. Kraus {also sometiimes Krauss] with TWO scenes each, an upper square illustration often buccolic, historical or religious scene and a lower scene in a round frame w. 151 x 96mm leather spined boards with tiny leather corners [some damage to lower part of hinge but covers secure and well attached/bosards rubvbed and edges worn] All edge red. Frontisplate + titlepage with woodcut coat of arms & imprimatur to verso + 3-307pp +[4p=prayer and index] Te last 4 leaves seem to have been reinserted with glue at some time and there is some mainly marginal soiling or marks and some pages are rather closely cropped although never actually into the text or plates. The charming plates are not included in the page count and there are 96 not 92 as called for on the titlepage.The plates ascribed to Johanna Sybilla Kraus who married Johann Ulrich Kraus and worked with him as an engraver at Augsburg. The text is in parallel Latin and German using three fonts with the German in black letter and in several sizes of lettering.

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Book number: V75518

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Fine Illustrations woman engraver

Estienne, Charles & Jean Liebault

L'AGRICULTURE ET MAISON RUSTIQUE ..avec un Traite des Chasses du Cerf, du Sanglier,du Lievre, du Reynard,du Blercau.du Lapin, du Loup, des Oyscaux, de la Fauconnerie. Derniere Edition.

Lyon, Carteron & Charles Amy 1689 One full page woodcut and 36 further woodcuts + La chasse du loup with 14 woodcuts + 8 diagrams to the usage de la jauge ou diapason. . Quarto handsome vellum covers with 4 raised bands and neat titles in black lettering and compartments decorated and ruled with date to foot of spine [vellum skin with some darkening/2 small stabs to cover] All edges sprinkled red. Titlepage + [6]pp "to the reader" & "instructions"] + 362pp [recte 658]. The pages are uniformly lightly tanned with some pale foxing. There is a needle sized hole in the lower middle part of the pages up to page 36 but this does not prevent reading the text. Also a neat "repair" to two margins on the verso of the titlepage however this seems unecessay as there are no tears to any edge of this page! There are 5 other marginal repairs none of which touch any text. Presumably these were all done by Rudolf Jager from Bremen who added endpapers with his date of binding given as 1930. Bookplate of Heinz Lahusen to front pastedown as well as a small label "Jagd-B Nr.154" to the lower corner.

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Book number: V76069

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: farming hunting