Lacrymae Cantabrigiensis in Obitum Serenissimae Reginae Mariae [containing English poems by Ambrose Phillips, C. Whitworth and W. Shippen]

Cambridge, Ex Officina Johan. Hayes, Celberrimae Academiae Typographi., 1694-1695. 4to. (218) pp., incl. title., hinges cracked, pastedowns with some traces of use. Contemporary spickled and brown blindstamped calf, spine worn along hinges, top spine damaged. Free endpaper lacking. Not in Vinograd. Lacrymae ('tears' i.c. poems) on the death of Mary Stuart II, wife of King William the Third, on 28th Dec. 1694, written by Thomas Browne and over hundred other Cambridge college members and alumni, most tears in Latin and English; but also several ones in Greek, French and Hebrew, the last by Tho. Bennett, and by Joshua Man of Christ College. Poetry - English. Bookplate of Thomas Brooke on first pastedown. Internally very good condition, binding with defects, but still attractive. Wing , C 342.

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Maccabees I. A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Bible S.)

New York, Bantam Doubleday Dell. 592 pp. Stain on fore-edge. Else very good. Hardcover with dustjacket. ISBN: 9780385085335

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Catalogue: Old Testament, Bible

[ASPLIN, WILLIAM]

Alkibla. A Disquisition Upon Worshipping towards the East. Wherein are Contain'd, The General Antiquity, Rise, and Reasonableness of this Religious Ceremony in the Gentile World: It's early Adoption into the Church of Christ: With a Free and Impartial Examination of the Reasons assigned for it by the Ancient Fathers. By a Master of Arts of the University of Oxford. The second editon. [Part I, Part II). (2 Parts in 1 Vol.]

London, Printed for J. Noon, at the White-Heart, near Mercers-Chapel in Cheapside., 1740, 1731. (2), XVI, 52; XXIV, 152 pp. TItle partly damaged without loss of text, with small stamp, pp. 2/3. neatly fastened, otherwise internally good.Contemporary leather boards, crudely rebacked, worn, bookblock loose. Second edition of Part I; first edition of Part II. The titlepage of the first edition of London, 1731, preceeds the titlepage of Part I, second edition, including a list of contents of the two parts of the book. Part II is a first edition, with another address: London, Printed and Sold by J. Roberts, near Oxford-Arms in Warwick Lane ; and A. Dodd, without Temple-Bar, 1731. Bookplate of Edw. Chatterton-Orpen on upper pastedown.

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DESCARTES

De Homine figuris et latimitate donatus a Florentinio Schuyl, [CONVOLUTE. Bound after:] Opera Philosophica (Daniel Elzevir, 1664, including engraved portrait)

Leiden, Ex officina Hackiana, 1664. 4to. [40], 121 (actually 123 pp.), [1] pp. And 10 plates. With many illustrations in the text. With the 3 overslips:. A few wormholes in the margin. A convolute with some minor flaws, on the whole a very good copy.. Modern blindstamped leather. More pictures will be sent on request 1] De Homine: Descartes' famous book on the human body. Written in the early 1630's, Descartes withheld publication as a result of the condemnation of Galileo in 1633. The work was translated from a copy of his French manuscript, to which was the excellent introduction by Schuyl was added. Second Latin edition. Guibert, p. 199. 2] Contents of the Opera Philosophica: 1) Principia Philosophiae. 2) Specimina Philosophiae seu Dissertatio de Methodo [...] investigandae: Dioptricae et Meteora [...]. 3) Passiones Animae. 4) Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (1663). [With]: {Appendix continens Objectiones quintas & septimas in Renati Descartes Meditationes de Prima Philosophia [...], altera ad celeberrimum virum D. Gisbertum Voetium (1663). 2 leaves, incl. engr. portrait. 16 lvs, 222 pp.; 8 lvs, 248 pp.; 12 lvs, 92 pp., 2 lvs. 8 lvs, 191,164,88 pp. First title: A little piece at left corner has been cut out and repaired. Owner's inscriptions in three different old hands, some waterstaining at the top See Guibert p. 230. Willems 1339 and 1304.

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Goldstein, Jonathan A.

II Maccabees. A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 41A)

New York, Doubleday & Co., 1984. 595 pp. Very good copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. ISBN: 9780385048644