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Pastoral
Care
Burnet,
Gilbert (Bishop of Sarum, 1643 – 1715).
A Discourse of the Pastoral Care.
London: Printed for Dan. Midwinter at the Three Crowns and Benj. Cowse at the
Rose and Crown both in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1713.
Third
Edition, 12mo, full blind-ruled calf boards, re-backed in calf with raised
bands and leather label on spine, 244 pp., uniformly browned throughout,
glue residue from removed bookplate on front pastedown, on reverse side of
title page a woodcut is glued down showing a ship sailing to land with an
evangelist at the front holding a bible; printed under the image are the
words "The Gift of the Society for Propagating the Gospell in Foreign
Parts." Nice condition.
No
Longer Available
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Work
Set by 18th Century Woman Printer
Bollstandiger
Bericht von der Heiligsprechung der zwenenheiligen Aloysii Gonzaga und
Stanislai Kostka.
Munich: Maria Magdalena Riedlin, 1727.
Apparent
First Edition, 24mo, full calf, spine is rubbed and chipped, remnants of old spine
labels; a few margin tears on a few pages;
text in German, includes list of canonized saints and dates in rear;
very scarce.
St
Aloysius was from a noble Spanish
family, and was destined for a military career. In the years 1577-1579 he
was a page at the court of Francesco de'Medici. Suffering from a kidney
disease, he had time to pray and read lives of saints. In 1581 he joined the
suite of Mary of Austria and followed her to
Spain
. In 1584 he returned to
Italy
, where he, to his father the Marquis of
Castiglione's great indignation, joined the Jesuit novitiate the following
year. He made his vows in 1587. At
the age of 23, in 1591, he died after contracting the plague while tending
to its victims. He recovered partially, but his health had been irreversibly
damaged and he died on 21 June 1591. He was interred in Sant'Ignazio in
Campo Marzio. He was canonized
in 1726 and in 1729, was declared patron of youth especially of young
priests, novices and seminarians. His feast day is June 21.
Stanislaus
Kostka was born in 1550 in Rostków
Poland
. He was born into an old Polish aristocracy
family with seat in the royal senate. At the age of 14 he was sent to
Vienna
in order to receive thorough academic
training. At
one point he became gravely ill, but was not allowed to call for a priest.
He prayed to his patron, Saint Barbara, who appeared to him in a vision with
two angels, and administered Communion. He was then cured from his disease
by Our Lady who told him to become a Jesuit against his family's wishes. He
attended the Jesuit college in Rome, was a friend of Saint Peter Canisius
and student of Saint Francis Borgia. He
died in 1568 and was canonized in 1726.
In
Christian art he is shown either as a boy with the Christ character IHS in
the heart or as Jesuit novice with lily or staff.
Maria
Magdalena Riedlin was a printer
in
Munich
in the early 18th century.
I have been able to identify a handful of books (about 19 titles) printed by her
that range in dates from 1712 to 1744.
$75
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Early
Medicine
Freind,
Joannis., M.D. (1675-1728).
Opera
Omnia Medica.
Paris
: Guillelmum Cavelier, 1735.
Second
Edition, 4to; pp. lvi, 232, 388, (4); bound in full mottled calf
(re-backed preserving the original spine), spine has six compartments with
five raised bands and red leather label; marbled end pages; old water
stain in lower fore corner in the margin (not affecting text), most
visible up to page 18 of the first work and the last hundred pages of the
last work. Text in Latin.
End pages contain several penned and penciled notations from
previous owners and booksellers including an inscription “W.A. Greenhill
/ Sept. 16, 1839 / from Rev. Edw. Marshall”.
This
is a reprint of the first collected Latin edition published in
London
in 1733.
Freind is best known for his History
of Physick from the Time of Galen to the Beginning of the Sixteenth
Century (Historiae Medicinae),
which comprises the last section of Opera Omnia Medica.
Also included in this collection are Freind’s Chemistry
Lectures at Oxford University in which he sought to apply Newtonian
physics to chemistry, Emmenologia
(on gynecological matters), writings on fevers, his translation of the
writings of Hippocrates into Latin, and his correspondence with Dr.
Richard Mead on various medical matters.
According
to Garrison and Morton, “Freind was
the first English historian of medicine.
His work The History of
Physick (originally published in 1725) is the best English work on the
period of which it treats. Freind
dabbled in politics and planned the above work (History
of Physick) while committed to the
Tower
of
London
on a charge of high treason, a charge of
which he was innocent. Legend
has it that Sir Robert Walpole, Prime minister at the time, suffered much
from renal calculi and called in Mead, a great friend of Freind.
Mead refused to treat
Walpole
until Freind was released, and this was
speedily arranged!”
$600
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His
Majesty's Customs Laws
(Clarkesse,
Charles).
The Act on Tonnage and
Poundage, and Rates of Merchandize, with the further subsidy; the 1/3 and
2/3 subsidies; the old impost; the additional impost; and all other duties
relating to His Majesty's Customs, payable upon any sort of merchandize
imported or exported. Digested into an easie method, whereby in one view
may be found the several duties upon each particular commodity specified
in the Old Book of Rates, or any other Act of Parliament, and the nett
duties payable thereon at importation, or to be repaid on exportation. As
also the rules annext to the Book of Rates; and the table of Officers
fees.…London: John Baskett, 1726; bound with A
Supplement to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage Commonly called the Book of
Rates,
London: John Baskett, 1737.
Folio,
pp. (36), cxxxvi, 944, (54), 156, (12); full brown calf (re-backed in
brown leather with six compartments and leather label reading Clarkesse’s
Rates; edges chipped, some scuffing, front blank end page lacking,
front hinge reinforced with paper repair; some old water staining along
fore-margins.
Contains
references to trade with
America
including the tobacco trade and shipping regulations.
The Supplement contains several more references to trade with
America
and brings the summary of regulations up to 1736.
$1,500
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David
Garrick's Copy
Sallusti
( Sallust ), C. Crispi. (86 – 34 B.C.)
C. Cripsi Sallusti Quae
Exstant... with historical notes by Sigeberti Havercampi.
Amstelaedami: F. Changuion, J. Catuffe, et al, 1742.
Two volumes, 4to, 400 & 523 pp.
plus lengthy Index, bound in full calf and re-backed with original spine
laid over, newer end pages. Volume I contains
bookplate of British actor David Garrick (1716-1779) with bust of
Shakespeare and theatrical masks.
Caius
C. Sallusti (86 B.C. - 34 B.C.) was a celebrated Roman historian.
He obtained the office of Praetor and accompanied Julius Caesar in
his African campaign, and was appointed governor for
Numidia
by Caesar.
After he left public service, he dedicated his life to writing.
This collection of his writings includes his two major works - Bellum Catilinarium and Bellum
Jugurthinum in the first volume and his biography, Historical
Fragments, and various other writings in the second volume.
$2,250
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Natural
History Classic
Lignac,
Abbe J. A. Le Large. Lettres
à un Amériquain, sur l'Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particuliére
de Monsieur de Buffon. Hambourg,
1751.
Apparent
First Edition, 12mo, five volumes, bound in full leather
(joints broken, edge wear, spines somewhat dry).
Faint water staining throughout Volume 3 & 4. This
work is divided into a series of 35 letters in 9 parts, bound in 5
volumes, as follows:
Volume 1
- Lettres
à un Amériquain, sur l'Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particuliére
de Monsieur de Buffon - Part 1
(Letters 1 -3) & Part 2 (Letters 4 - 6)
Volume 2
- Lettres
à un Amériquain, sur l'Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particuliére
de Monsieur de Buffon - Part 3
(Letters 7 - 9) & Part 4 (Letters 10 -11)
Volume 3
- Lettres
à un Amériquain, sur l'Histoire Naturelle de Mr. de Buffon;
et sur les observations microscopiques de Mr. Needham - Part 5
(Letter 12) & Part 6 entitled Suite des Lettres
à un Amériquain, sur les IV & V de
l'Histoire Naturelle de M. de Buffon;
et sur Le Traite des Animaux de M. l'Abbe de Condillac (Hambourg,
1856) - (Letters 13 - 17)
Volume 4
- Part 7 entitled Suite des Lettres
à un Amériquain, sur les IV & V de l'Histoire Naturelle
de M. de Buffon; et sur
Le Traite des Animaux de M. l'Abbe de Condillac (Hambourg, 1856) -
(Letters 18 - 22) & Part 8 (Letters 23
- 29)
Volume 5
- Part
9 entitled Suite des Lettres
à un Amériquain, sur les IV & V de l'Histoire Naturelle
de M. de Buffon; et sur
Le Traite des Animaux de M. l'Abbe de Condillac (Hambourg, 1856) -
(Letters 30 - 35) and two essays with separate title pages and publishers – Lettres
’un Philosophe a un Docteur de Sorbonne sur les Explications de
M. de Buffon. (Strasbourg: Guillaume Schmouck, n.d.) and Reflexions
sur le Systeme de la Generation de M. De Buffon (Geneve:Barrillot et
Fils, 1751).
$975
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Coimbra
Carmelite
Coutinho,
Fr. Ignatio Emmanuele.
De Cultu Sacro Debitae
Servitutis, et Honorariae Subjectionis sive De Adoratione Religiosa
Tractatus Theologico-Dogmaticus cum Appendice pro invocatione Sanctorum
Adversus Gentiles, Judaeos, Mahumetanos, atque Haereticos, praesertim
Witclessistas, Lutheranos, & Calvinianos. Conimbricae
(Coimbra,
Portugal): Architypographia Academico-Regia, 1765.
First
Edition, 8vo, full brown leather (old coat of shellac or varnish covers
the binding apparently as an attempt to preserve and brighten it), spine
somewhat chipped; pp. (22), 390, (42).
Front joint broken and front cover is separating from the spine,
rear joint split. This was a
library copy with a library stamp on the title page and the remnant of a
pocket on the rear pastedown; old inscription on title page.
Father
Manuel Ignacio Coutinho was a Carmelite and theology professor at Coimbra
and the author of several religious and philosophical works including Compendium
philosophico-theologicum pro diverso, et eodem ad tyrones Bacconistas
utilissimum juxta scripta doctoris resoluti Joannis Bacconii philosophorum,
et theologorum sui temporis principis (1734), Ars syllogistica sive
commentaria in libros Aristotelis de interpretatione (1739), Integer
philosophiae cursus juxta inconcussam, singularemque doctrinam Joannis
Bacconii (1750), Systema quaquaversum Aristotelicum de formis
materialibus tam substanttialibus, quam accidentalibus (1751), and
Do peccato originali, et immunitate deiparae à debito illud contrahendi
(1767).
$175
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Gentlemen
Farmers
A
Society of Gentlemen.
The Complete Farmer, or a
General Dictionary of Husbandry in all its Branches … To which is now
first added, The Gardener’s Kalendar…
London
: Printed for R. Baldwin, et al, 1769.
The
Second Edition, Corrected and Improved; primary work is unpaginated, thick
4to, full calf with red spine label and 5 raised bands; front hinge is
split but holding firmly, bottom of spine is chipped. Leather on corners
is broken. The Gardener’s
Kalendar, contains 111 pp. plus 4pp. Index. Contains
engraved frontispiece plus 27 copper engravings (all folded) of
agricultural equipment.
Bookplate on front pastedown of Robert H. Elliot.
There are a few small worm holes on front end pages and title page,
in the gutter margins of several dozen interior pages, and about at the
top margin of 80 pages (affecting about ¼” x 1” of about 20 of those
pages) at the top edge of the gutter margin.
$1,350
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William
Tell & Peasant Archery
A
Kentish Bowman. Helvetic
Liberty
or, The Lass of the Lakes.
An Opera in Three Acts Dedicated to all the Archers of
Great Britain.
London: L. Wayland, 1792.
First
Edition, 8vo, bound in ¾ brown leather with tan cloth, pp. (4), 64, (4);
front joint cracked, about 6 internal leaves have old faint waterstains, an early owner has written the words “William
Tell” on the title page.
rear end page has label from John Howell / Importer / San Francisco.
This
play about William Tell, was written to show the advantage of encouraging
peasant archery. Reference: New Cambridge
Bibliography of
English Literature #1563.
$600
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Regarding
the Rights of Irish Catholics
Letter to His Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam on the Rumour of His Excellency's Intention of Quitting the Government of This Kingdom.
Dublin: P. Byrne, 1795. Apparent First Edition,
printed wraps, appears to have been removed from a book and is complete, contains 29 pp., front cover (half-title) is 2/3 detached, rear four pages detached, small holes in gutter margin where binding was sewn, moderate foxing throughout, a few small edge tears.
$75.00
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Bristol
Hotwell Springs
Carrick,
A. (Andrew), M.D. (1767-1837) Dissertation
on the Chemical and Medical Properties of the Bristol Hotwell Water to
which are added Practical Observations on the Prevention & Treatment
of Pulmonary Consumption.
Bristol: N. Biggs, 1797.
First
Edition, 8vo, bound in speckled boards with paper label on spine, 167 pp.,
title page slightly darkened and foxed and has 1” closed tear at inner
margin, text pages are bright. A
nice copy.
$250
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