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Ingelo, Nathaniel
Bentivolio and Urania
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London:: J[ohn] G[rismond] for Richard Marriot,, 1660-1664.. First Edition.. Old sheep, hinges cracked. Lacks t.p. for second volume; over seven pages of contemporary notes on the blanks of volume 1. Contemporary signature on t.p. of Thomas Cotton (see below), later signatures of Ros. Mills, and large calligraphic ownership on end blank of vol. 2, "Elizabeth Bagnall",dated 1750.. Folio. 2 vols.. T.p in red and black including a flower device. Ingelo, Nathaniel (1620/21!1683), author, was born at Bristol.#11;"Ingelo's major literary project was Bentivolio and Urania, published in two instalments (1660, 1664), a best-selling work of religious and moral instruction in the form of a fictional narrative. The work is dedicated to William Brereton, the eldest son of the civil war general. Bentivolio and Urania was conceived in terms of the Platonic doctrine of the heterogeneity of the soul set out in Henry More's long poem Psychozoia (1641). Rochester mocked the platitudes of Ingelo's satire, which urges a return to the traditional humanist marriage of learning and piety, but this is an indication of its popularity. There were four editions between 1660 and 1682." [ODNB]#11;Sir Thomas Cotton, the second baronet 1594-1662, Sir Robert's only surviving child, made great efforts for the restitution of his father's library.... Sir Thomas was the intimate friend and correspondent of Sir John Eliot, and was entrusted by his influence with the representation of St. Germans (Eliot's native place) in the third of Charles I's parliaments. He was M.P. for Huntingdon in the short parliament of 1640, but took no active part in politics. Like his father, Sir Thomas gave scholars free access to his library. Wing I175 & I179. ESTC r16505 & r223432. Halkett & Laing I,192.
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WINSTANLEY, William
ENGLAND'S WORTHIES. SELECT LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS
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1660. 2. WINSTANLEY, William. ENGLAND'S WORTHIES. SELECT LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS FROM CONSTANTINE THE GREAT, TO THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL LATE PROTECTOR. London, Printed for Nath. Brooke, at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhill, 1660. First edition. Engraved title-page frontispiece with each of the forty-seven worthies shown in a medallion portrait. Printer's device on title-page. Collation: A8,a8,B-2R8,2S4. 16.5 cm. [32],613, pp. + [19] publisher's advertisement. In an early full leather binding, which is rather parched and edgeworn. The first two signatures have a shallow inkstain at the top margin which decreases over 32 pp. It occasionally covers a few words in the top line of type; however, because the ink is transparent, it doesn't completely obscure the type. There are some leaves near the end which show some very faint dampstainging; but the text is clean for the most part. A few pages are misnumbered. Very good overall. (Wing W3058). Winstanley (1628?-1698), better known by his pseudonym of 'Poor Robin' as a writer of almanacs and chapbooks (D.N.B.), was a compiler with a dubious reputation who 'borrowed without stint, and without acknowledgment also, from his predecessors' (Wood, Athena Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 763). Despite his poor reputation, 'we are obliged to him for many notices of persons and things which are recorded only in his works' (Granger, Biogr. Hist. of Engl. 5th ed. v. 271). England's Worthies is noteworthy because, though Winstanley was a staunch royalist after the Restoration, it is free from partisan spirit (Brydges). Rare.
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Therese d'Avila (Sainte), Arnauld d'Andilly (M.) (traduit par)
Traite du chemin de la perfection et quelques petits traites de la mesme Sainte, scavoir, meditations sur le Pater Noster, meditations apres la communion, advis a ses religieuses
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Chez Pierre Le Petit, a Paris, 1660. 1 volume in-12 plein velin d'epoque, dos lisse muet, [8ff], 567 pp.La librairie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 9h30 a 12h30 puis de 13h30 a 19h00. Commandes par e-mail ou telephone. Envoi rapide, emballage soigne.
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RAIMONDI Eugenio.
IL NOVISSIMO PASSATEMPO POLITICO, ISTORICO, & ECONOMICO DI EUGENIO RAIMONDI BRESCIANO. Ordinato sotto a i suoi proprj Capi, quali contengono: Documenti saggi & utili; Ricordi & esempi memorabili; Avvertimenti e concetti politici; Considerationi meravigliose; Precetti e ammaestramenti christiani e sentenze scelte; Detti arguti & con Oracoli de' più rilevati ingegni. In Bologna, ad instanza d'Antonio Quaglia, 1683.
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"Unita si vede tutta la Morale Filosofia, che negl'Antichi, e Moderni Scrittori sparsa si leggeva"."Opera non men curiosa a Prencipi, che utile a Dotti, e dilettevole ad ogni stato di persone". Opera dedicata a Francesco Maria Bendini Monti. Cm.15,2x9,3. Pg.(4), 716. Legatura coeva in piena pergamena semirigida con titoli manoscritti al dorso. Tracce d'uso, ma esemplare ben consultabile. > Vinciana, 3515, citando l'edizione 1660, "Erudita opera divisa in 107 capitoli [nel nostro esemplare sono 108] di vario argomento (religione, politica, costumi, matrimonio, donne, astrologia, medici, musica, alchimia, giuochi, amore, meretrici, navigazione, metalli e gioie, verginità e vedovanza, curiosità e novelle, cosmografia - con osservazioni sull'America -, pittura e scultura, odori e bagni, duellanti e politici, maghi e malefici, oracoli e Sibille, profezie e sogni, etc.)". Graesse, Vi, 18, cita edizione veneziana del 1600.
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JONSTON, Johannes (1603-1675):
Polyhistor, seu Rerum ab exortu Universi ad nostra usque tempora, per Asiam, Africam, Europam & Americam, in sacris & profanis gestarum succinta & methodica series.
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Jenae (Jena), sumtibus Viti Jacobi Trescher, typis Johannis Nisii, 1660, in-8 , XVI (dont le titre grave) + 814 p., avec quelques ornements typographiques graves sur bois, papier quelque peu bruni, solide reliure en parchemin rigide, dos muet, bel exemplaire en bonne condition. (Overlapping vellum, small staines, in all a fine contemporary binding). Edition originale, rare, d'un ouvrage d'histoire universelle par Jonston, fameux medecin et erudit polonais d'origine ecossaise. L'ouvrage se divise en trois periodes: De la periode antediluvienne a la haute-antiquite (le deluge, les Egytiens, anciens Hebreux); les monarchies de l'Orient (Perses, Macedoniens, Ptolemees); les monarchies occidentales (Rome, Byzance), jusqu'a l'an 800. Hirsch III/453; Graesse -; Brunet -; Hoefer NBG XXVI/927.
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Johan de Brune
Bankket-Werk van Goede Gedagten
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Jacques Fierens, Middelburgh 1660 (met Privilegie voor 15 Jaaren) - 12mo, vellum, title page woodcuts, complete 2 vols. in one (496 and 495 p.), first edition. Vellum cover of spine edge (backside) loose over 3-4 cm, but binding tight and also otherwise in good condition. Rare and important collection of short notices on a wide range of subjects (morals, language, politics etc. etc.) K14
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Ovide (Publius Ovidius Naso), Du Ryer (Pierre) (traduction de), [Isaac (Gravures de)]
Les metamorphoses
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Les memorphoses d'Ovide divisees en XV livres avec de nouvelles explications historiques, morales & politiques sur toutes les fables, chacune selon son sujet. Traduction de Pierre du Ryer. Antoine de Sommaville, Paris, 1660. 1 volume in-folio plein veau brun d'epoque, dos a nerfs richement ornes, dentelles en tete et en queue, [1f.] blanc, page de titre, [5ff.], 730 pages et [1f.], 148 figures gravees dont 1 a pleine page. Coins, coiffe de queue et mors restaures de meme que la page de titre, plat legerement frottes, mouillure claire aux premiers feuillets, travail de vers marginal. Bel exemplaire malgre les defauts signales.La librairie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 9h30 a 12h30 puis de 13h30 a 19h00. Commandes par e-mail ou telephone. Envoi rapide, emballage soigne.
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Douze Clefs de Philosophie (Les).
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A Paris chez Pierre Moet 1660 3 parties en 1 vol. in-12 de 176-196-64 pp., basane brune granitee, dos orne a nerfs cloisonne et fleuronne, tranches mouchetees (reliure de l'epoque). Deuxieme edition de la traduction francaise, la plus recherchee en raison de la qualite de son illustration. Traite generalement attribue au moine allemand Basilius Valentinus qui aurait vecu au XVe siecle, et parfois a l'occultiste Johann Tholde qui en donna la premiere edition, en allemand, en 1599. La premiere traduction francaise parut en 1624, mais illustree de bois de pietre facture. Imprimes ici a la suite, comme il se doit, le traite alchimique Azoth ou le moyen de faire l'or cache des philosophes, attribue au meme Basilius Valentinus, et le Traicte de la nature de l'oeuf des philosophes attribue a Bernard le Trevisan. Belle illustration esoterique : le traite des Douze clefs est orne de 14 planches hors texte gravees sur cuivre dont 13 signees par Jean Gobille, et d'un bois grave dans le texte. L'Azoth est illustre de 15 bois dans le texte dont un au titre. Rare exemplaire complet de ses trois parties et de ses planches. Coiffes restaurees. Bibliotheca esoterica, 5029 ; Caillet, 798, 802 et 1043 ; Duveen, p. 48 ; Guaita, 2182.
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GUICHENON, Samuel, Seigneur de Paineffuit - Historien et genealogiste Macon, ou a Chatillon les Dombes, 1607, Bourg en Bresse, 1664 - fit ses etudes de droit et exerca la profession d'avocat a Bourg en Bresse ; mais, ayant epouse une riche veuve, il abandonna bientot le barreau pour s'adonner uniquement a des travaux historiques. Ses ouvrages, remplis de documents interessants, fonderent rapidement sa reputation et lui valurent les titres d'historiographe de France, de Savoie, de Dombes, des lettres de noblesse de Louis XIV et la dignite de comte palatin, que lui confera l'empereur Ferdinand III - Un des hommes les plus erudits de son temps, a ete longtemps invoque comme une autorite
histoire Genealogique de la Royale Maison de Savoie, justifiee par titres, fondations de manasteres, manuscrits, anciens monuments, histoires et autres preuves autenthiques , enrichie de plusieurs portraits sceaux, monnaies, sculptures et Armoiries - complet en 2 volumes
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LYON, chez Guillaume Barbier - 1660 - Complet en 2 Volumes in-folio -Couverture d'attente - EDITION ORIGINALE - T. I & II : Faux-titre (2), frontispice, Titre bicolore noire & rouge avec vignette armoriee - Frontispice - Epitre dedicatoire a Madame Royale Chrestienne de France, Duchesse de Savoie, Princesse de Piemont, Reine de Chypre (2) - Lettre du Roy, 6 juillet 1653 - Gravure - Preface (12), (6) & 1298 pages (Pagination continue), Table (25) + Addition (1) - Traces de vers au T. I, sans incidence sur le texte - TRES RARE
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"ARETIN, Piétro Aretino, dit l';"
Capricciosi e piacevoli Ragionamenti. Nuova editione. Concerte postille, che spianano e dichiarano evidentemente i luoghi e le parole più oscure e più difficili dell'opera.
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Stampati in Cosmopoli [Leyde, Jean Elzevier], 1660 In-12 de 541 pp., 1 f. bl., 38 pp., veau havane,dos à nerfs, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque). "Edition la plus belle et la plus recherchée dit Brunet (I, 412). C'est la première donnée par les Elzevier. Il existe une seconde édition, moins bien imprimée, qui se distingue notamment par la forme des ""z"" dans les notes marginales (voir la longue notice de Willems). Sous la forme d'un dialogue entre une femme d'expérience et une jeune fille, l'Arétin dresse un tableau cru, cynique, des escroqueries qui font de la prostitution un métier lucratif. Au final, le bilan est clair : seul l'amour vénal garantira un avenir à la jeune fille. ""Pierre l'Arétin"" disait Maupassant, ""fut tout simplement un journaliste, un journaliste italien du XVIe siècle, un grand homme, un admirable sceptique, un prodigieux contempteur de rois, le plus surprenant des aventuriers, qui sut jouer, en maître artiste, de toutes les faiblesses, de tous les vices, de tous les ridicules de l'humanité, un parvenu de génie doué de toutes les qualités natives qui permettent à un être de faire son chemin par tous les moyens, d'obtenir tous les succès, et d'être redouté, loué et respecté à l'égal d'un Dieu, malgré les audaces les plus éhontées. Ce compatriote de Machiavel et des Borgia semble être le type vivant de Panurge qui réunit en lui toutes les bassesses et toutes les ruses, mais qui possède à un tel point l'art d'utiliser ces défauts répugnants qu'il impose le respect et commande l'admiration."" Comme il se doit, l'exemplaire est bien complet de la Puttana errante, ici en seconde édition dont le style beaucoup plus cru que celui des Ragionamenti a fait beaucoup pour la réputation sulfureuse de l'un des premiers défricheurs modernes de la littérature érotique. De la bibliothèque Escande de Messières, avec ex-libris. Willems, Les Elzevier, 858. "
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Honor rediviuus. or An analysis of Hono (sic, honor) and armory.
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second edition; 16mo (15 cm. tall), [pictorial title], [4 leaves] (beginning with dedication a1), [259] (223-224 omitted, last five pages misnumbered) pp., 6 plates, armorial illustrations in text; minor library markings, general age toning but not fragile, margins short with some top borders lost and a few page numbers and headlines shaved but no real text touched, B1 clipped at top of fore edge with no loss, a few central leaves have minor worming in top margin, signatures of previous owners, blank verso of last leaf covered with old pen notes, later buckram; Moule (Bibliotheca Heraldica) CXCVII, Wing C659 ** The price of this item has been TEMPORARILY REDUCED by 10% until Sunday, August 2. Order now for BEST SAVINGS!! **
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Matthew. Carter
Honor rediviuus. or An analysis of Hono (sic, honor) and armory.
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second edition; 16mo (15 cm. tall), [pictorial title], [4 leaves] (beginning with dedication a1), [259] (223-224 omitted, last five pages misnumbered) pp., 6 plates, armorial illustrations in text; minor library markings, general age toning but not fragile, margins short with some top borders lost and a few page numbers and headlines shaved but no real text touched, B1 clipped at top of fore edge with no loss, a few central leaves have minor worming in top margin, signatures of previous owners, blank verso of last leaf covered with old pen notes, later buckram; Moule (Bibliotheca Heraldica) CXCVII, Wing C659 [Publisher: London: Printed for Henry Herringman,]
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VONDEL, Joost Van Den
5 ouvrages en un volume in-quarto : (1) Bespiegelingen van Godt en Gotsdienst...Den Tweeden Druck - Rotterdam, Barent Bos, 1700 - (XXIV), 219 pp. Un frontispice et un portrait de l'auteur - Seconde edition, la premiere date de 1662 - (2) De helden Godes des Ouwden Verbonds, met kunstige beeldenissen vertoont, en poeetelijck verklaert. Midsgaders: een Hymnus of lofzangh van de christelijcke ridder, en de Heerlijckheyd van Salomon - Amsterdam: By d'Erve de Wed :van Gysbert de Groot, 1727 - [6], 38 [16] ff., 93-130 pp., [1] illustre de 38 figures pleine-page gravees par Johan Saedeler (3) [Joannes de Boetgezant] - Begrepen in Zes Boecken. Uitgegeven door Abraham Bogaert. Amsterdam, By de Weduwe van Gysbert de Groot, 1696 - 124 pp. - Seconde edition, la premiere date de 1662 - (4) [Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste] - De Vaderen, ofte het tweede deel vande derde dagh der tweeder weke : vervattende Abrahams offerhande ; ghedicht by G. de Saluste, heere van Bartas, ende nu uut het Fransch in Nederlandts vert. door J. van Vondelen - Amsterdam,Johannes Sluyter, 1768 - Un frontispice, (VIII), 15 pp. - (6) Naerder onderrechtingh, vereyscht op het onderwijs der dry-eenigheydt - s.l., Gedrucktin't Jaer onses Heeren, 1660 - 13 pp.
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Reliure plein veau d'epoque, dos plat, piece de titre en maroquin rouge et vert. Joost van den Vondel est considere comme un des plus grands poetes des Pays-Bas et un des plus grands ecrivains religieux de la Contre-reforme.
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SCANNELLI, Francesco
Il Microcosmo delle pittura, overa trattato diviso in due libri
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Scarce first edition of this 17th-century survey of Italian painting, and a valuable document for developing Baroque "gusto" by a cultivated amateur. Scannelli follows Mancini's tripartite division of Italian schools-Roman, Venetian and Lombard, and in an age in which microcosms were everywhere, he compared the whole of Italian painting to a body, likening Corregio to the brain, Titian to the heart, Raphael to the liver (!), and Veronese to the organs of reproduction. According to the Dictionary of Art, Il Microcosmo "stands alongside the works of Mario Boschini (La carta del navegar pittoresco, Venice, 1660) and of Luigi Pellegrino Scaramuccia (Le finezze dei penelli italiani, Padua, 1674), both of whom quoted him. Scannelli's treatise represents a reaction against the notion, formulated by Giorgio Vasari, that the art of Florence was pre-eminent throughout Italy. He reevaluated the Lombard-Emilian school, led by Correggio, seeing in it an ideal synthesis of the finest achievements of the Venetian (Titian) and of the Roman-Tuscan (Raphael) schools... In taste, he showed classicist inclinations, modified by a liking for vivacity and naturalism, qualities well represented in the art of his ideal painter, Correggio" (Franco Bernabei, DA XXVIII.33-34). Little is known about the author, save that he was a priest and a physician, that he served at the court of Mantua until Francesco I d'Este died, and that he traveled to Milan, Rome and Venice. * Besterman, Old Art Books, p. 93; Schlosser-Magnino p. 614 (rather harsh elsewhere); Cicognara 204; Hollis BAL 6360 (specifying frontispiece and 18 preliminaries); not in Berlin Katalog.
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Hottinger Joh(ann). Heinrich
Historia orientalis: Quae ex variis orientalium monumentis collecta, agit I. De Muhammedismo. II. De Saracenismo. III. De Chaldaismo. IV. De statu Christianorum & Judaeorum tempore orti & nati Muhammedismi. V. De variis senteniis, schismatis & haeresibus excitatis. VI. Accessit, ex occassione genealogiae Muhammedis, plenior illustratio Taarich Bene Adam. Zürich, J. Bodmer 1651. 4°. 8Bll. 373S. 11Bll. Ldr. d. Zt. mit Rsch.
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- Graesse III, 378 - NDB IX, 657 - vgl. Fürst I, 414 (2. Ausg. v. 1660).- Erste Ausgabe.- Seltenes Kompendium des Orientalisten und "größten Schweizer Gelehrten im 17. Jahrhundert" (Feller-B. 408) mit nahezu dem gesamten Wissen der damaligen Zeit über Mohammed und den Islam. "Seine Hauptbedeutung liegt in den Fortschritten, welche die orientalischen Wissenschaften ihm verdanken" (HBLS IV, 296). Mit zahlreichen, teils längeren Zitaten in den Originalsprachen.- Titel gestempelt u. mit hs. Besitzvermerk, zu Beginn leicht wasserrandig, durchgehend etw. stockfleckig, Ebd. berieben u. etw. fleckig. [Attributes: First Edition]
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACREMENTS: AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 4 VOLUMES BOUND IN 1
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London 1660 - The following four books are bound in one volume. [1st. Book] THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACREMENTS: AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. London, Printed in the year 1660, 300 non-paginated pages, Title page in red and black, some pages printed in red and black, very fine engraved head and tail pieces, also very fine intricate engraved initials, black letter throughout, a very fine copy, pages tight, clean, crisp, without blemish, collated complete. [2nd. Book] THE PSALTER,OR PSALMS OF DAVID, AFTER THE TRANSLATION OF THE GREAT BIBLE, POINTED AS IT SHALL BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES. London, Printed in the year 1660, 160 non-paginated pages plus 2 blanks, very fine engraved initials, black letter throughout, a very fine copy, pages tight, clean, crisp, without blemish, collated complete. [3rd. Book] THE FORM AND MANNEROF MAKING AND CONSECRATING BISHOPS, PRIESTS, AND DEACONS. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: and by the Assigns of John Bill, Anno 1639, title page with engraved logo's, 28 non-paginated pages, final leaf blank, fine engraved head pieces, fine engraved initials, black letter throughout, a very fine copy, pages tight, clean, crisp, without blemish, collated complete. [4th. Book] THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH MEETER BY THOMAS STERNHOLD, JOHN HOPKINS AND OTHERS: CONFERRED WITH THE HEBREW; WITH APT NOTES TO SING THEM WITHALL.London, Printed by E.G.[riffen] for the Company of Stationers 1640, fine engraved title page, Cum Privilegio at foot of title page, 178 non-paginated pages, fine engraved initials and music, a very fine copy, pages tight, clean, crisp, without blemish, collated complete. [ESTC System No. 00618694, ESTC Citation No. S115606]. Folio, full contemporary brown calf, Royal Crown Insignia in gilt both boards, 5 raised bands on spine, untitled, neat sympathetic repair to top compartment on spine, spine foot with slight loss, original headbands intact, boards rubbed. The book is in superb condition and complete, very scarce in this state. Images on request.
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Frances Harris
A Passion for Government: the Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
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Clarendon Press. New in new dust jacket. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was a woman with a `passion for government': a compulsion to wield power not only in her own family but in public affairs as well. She was the favourite of Queen Anne, the devoted wife and political associate of the Queen's most powerful subject, the passionate ally or bitter enemy of most of the leading public figures of her day, and in her widowhood the effective head of one of England's great families. Despite her stormy relationship with the architect Vanbrugh, she played a major role in the building of Blenheim Palace, one of England's most splendid houses. Born in 1660, she succeeded during the course of her long life in overcoming many of the contempo...
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GEORGES, Pierre.
A clock face with a rotating magnetized needle Horologe magnetique elliptique ou ovale nouveau, de facile usage, et tres-commode, pour trouver les heures du jour & de la nuict, lors-mesme que le ciel est couvert, si seulement on peut appercevoir, ou cognoistre en quel endroict est le soleil, ou la lune, ou si on peut descouvrir quelque estoille cogneüe. Avec divers moyens de rendre cet horologe universel pour tous pays.
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Toul, S. Belgrand, G. Perin & I. Laurent, 1660.. Bound in a vellum manuscript leaf. With 7 engraved plates, and a woodcut folding table. (12), 296 (=298, 2 blank) pp.. First edition of an interesting work on horloge magnetique, defined by the author as a clock face with a rotating magnetized needle, pointing the 12 hours of the day. Good copy. Ed. Tardy, Bibl. mesure du temps, p. 108; Houzeau-Lancaster 11491; not in Bibl. horlogere de Monsieur R.P..
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Mascardi, Agostino.
Saggi accademici dati in Roma [...].
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- Venedig, Baba, 1660.Kl.-8. Mit einigen Holzschn.-Initialen u. -Vignetten. 2 Bll., 264 S., 12 Bll., Pgmt. d. Zt. m. dreiseitigem Rotschnitt u. 2 Schließen.Frühe Ausgabe dieses seltenen Werkes mit 14 (versch. Persönlichkeiten gewidmeten) Abhandlungen. - Agostino Mascardi (1591-1640) wurde von Papst Urban VIII. zu seinem Ehrenkämmerer ernannt und als Professor für Rhethorik an der Academia della Sapienza eingesetzt. - Kapitale min. bestoßen. Schwach stockfleckig, sonst schönes Exemplar. - Nicht bei Libreria Vinciana, Gamba, Brunet u. Graesse. - Hardcover
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Taylor, Jeremy
Ductor dubitantium, or the rule of conscience in all her generall measures; serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience
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London:: Pr. by James Flesher for Richard Royston,, 1660.. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper-covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title and volume labels and gilt-stamped decorations between raised bands. Ownership inscriptions as above. First few leaves of vol. I (including regular and added title-pages) with tiny spots of worming; slightly larger sections of same to inner margins of some subsequent leaves; a number of pages in both volumes with scattered spots of worming, touching letters but not affecting sense. Light waterstaining to outer margins of some leaves. One leaf in vol. II separated. = Significant and attractive.. Folio (32 cm, 12.6"). 2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., [6], xl, 559, [1] pp.; 1 plt. II: [2], 558, [2] pp. . First edition: Important philosophical treatise on conscience, casuistry, and Christian ethics, written by the Bishop of Down and Connor. The controversialist Taylor, crowned "the Shakespeare of divines" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, was the subject during his career of a number of accusations of crypto-popery, but the present work - the first of its kind - was designed as a "complete protestant answer to the many Roman Catholic manuals of casuistry" (according to the Oxford DNB online) and intended to provide an authoritative Anglican reference on the subject.#11; The portrait of the author was engraved by Pierre Lombard, while the added engraved title-page is unsigned. Each of the four books here (in two volumes) has a separate title-page; the main title-pages are printed in black and ruled in red. The text is in English, Greek, and Latin. A printed addenda slip is affixed to the final text page of vol. II, above the catalogue of books sold by Richard Royston. Leaf L6 in vol. II is a cancel (and separated).#11; Provenance: Vol. I added title-page recto with inked ownership inscription dated 1781 ("T. Moore"); vol. II front fly-leaf with inked ownership inscription dated 1696 ("Guilel. Rayner") and another (of "T. Moore's") dated 1781.
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Jeremy Taylor
Doctor Dubitantium
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- or the Rule of Conscience, Erstausgabe 4 Buecher in einem Band 559 und 558 Seiten Jeremy Taylor: Doctor Dubutantium Or the Rule of Conscience In all her general measures; Serving a great Instrument for the determination of Cases of Conscience 1st edition Four books London, Printed by James Flesher, for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivy-Lane, 1660 Leder auf Karton, 2 schwarze Etiketten am Buchruecken mit Goldpraegung neu eingebunden, Ecken/kanten bestossen, Buchdeckel etwas gewoelbt, Einband etwas abgerieben und leicht verkratzt, neue Vorsatzblaetter, vorderes Vorsatzblatt mit Bleistifnotizen und Kleberesten, Paginierung teilw. fehlerhaft, Seiten vergilbt, etwas fleckig, gewellt und ein paar Quetschfalten, Schnitt verfaerbt und fleckig, generell ein gut erhaltene saubere Kopie Leather on boards, cover and endpapers renewed, 2 black labels with gild edging in the spine, cover bent, rubbed, scratched, edge-worn, front endpaper with some notes and leftovers of ... [Publisher: London, James Flesher,]
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Taylor, Jeremy
Doctor Dubitantium - or the Rule of Conscience, Erstausgabe 4 Bücher in einem Band
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London, James Flesher, 1660. - 559 und 558 SeitenJeremy Taylor: Doctor Dubutantium Or the Rule of Conscience In all her general measures Serving a great Instrument for the determination of Cases of Conscience 1st editionFour books London, Printed by James Flesher, for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivy-Lane, 1660Leder auf Karton, 2 schwarze Etiketten am Buchrücken mit Goldprägung neu eingebunden, Ecken/kanten bestossen, Buchdeckel etwas gewölbt, Einband etwas abgerieben und leicht verkratzt, neue Vorsatzblätter, vorderes Vorsatzblatt mit Bleistifnotizen und Kleberesten, Paginierung teilw. fehlerhaft, Seiten vergilbt, etwas fleckig, gewellt und ein paar Quetschfalten, Schnitt verfärbt und fleckig, generell ein gut erhaltene saubere KopieLeather on boards, cover and endpapers renewed, 2 black labels with gild edging in the spine, cover bent, rubbed, scratched, edge-worn, front endpaper with some notes and leftovers of glue, pagination a little messy, pages yellowed and a little stained, wavy and some wrinkles, clean and good copyA1-A4, Titelblätter und Widmung/ Title pages and dedication A1-a6, b1-b5 Vorwort/ preface b6-d4 Inhalt/ content Book 1 and 2: 559 pages Book 3 and 4: 558 pagesTaylor, Jeremy, anglikan. Geistlicher, getauft. 15. Aug. 1613 in Cambidge, gest. 13. Aug. 1667 in Lisburn, 1637 Kaplan König Krals I., nach der Revolution Privatmann, 1660 Bischof von Down und Connor, war einer der hervorragendsten Prediger und theologischen Schriftsteller seiner Zeit. Sein bedeutendstes Werk ist der "Ductor dubitantium or the Rule of Conscience in all her general measures" (London. 1660).Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), Anglican bishop, who wrote some of the greatest devotional works in the English language. Born in Cambridge, England, Taylor was baptized on August 15, 1613. Following studies at the University of Cambridge, he was ordained in 1633. Because of his eloquence, he was granted a fellowship at All Souls College, University of Oxford, in 1635. In that same year, he was made chaplain to King Charles I. While serving in that capacity Taylor came under suspicion because of his friendship with Christopher Davenport, a Franciscan chaplain to Queen Henrietta Maria. A sermon preached in his own defense reasserted his opposition to Roman Catholicism. Taylor joined the Royalist army as chaplain when civil war broke out in 1642, and after a Royalist defeat in Wales (1645) he was briefly imprisoned. Later the same year, he became private chaplain to Lord Carbery at his estate, Golden Grove. There Taylor produced his greatest works, including A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying (1646), a call for charity and tolerance The Golden Grove (1655), a collection of daily prayers and the Unum Necessarium (1655), a work on sin and repentance. His two famous books of devotion, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (1650) and The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (1651), are considered classics. Taylor intended them to act as guides for those not served by local clergy. In 1660 Taylor was appointed bishop of Down and Connor-and later Dromore-Ireland, and vice-chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin. In the same year he published his Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience, an extensive manual of moral theology. Although he faced strong opposition from local Presbyterians and Roman Catholics, Taylor refused to compromise his stand against non-Anglicans. He died in Lisburn, Ireland, on August 13, 1667 renaissancetruh -
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Medulla Theologiae Moralis,
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Facili ac Perspicua methodo resoluens Casus Conscientiae ex variis Probatisque Authoribus concinnata à R. P. Hermanno Busenbaum è Societate I esu, SS Theologiar Licentiato. Paenitentibus aequè ac Confessariis perquam utilis. Editio vigesima & ultima, ab Auctore recognita, & plurimùm aucta (IN LATEINISCHER SPRACHE) 649 Seiten 8x15, Ldr der Zeit mit goldgepraegtem Ruecken Frontispiz (dieses datiert mit 1659) ; ordentliches, festes Exemplar, der Einband leicht bruechig u. Ecken und Kanten etwas berieben [Publisher: Lugduni : Sumpt. Guil. Barbier, & Ioannis Girin]
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Rattray, Sylvester.
Aditus novus ad occultas sympathiae et antipathiae causas inveniendas: per principia philosophiae naturalis, ex fermentorum artificiosa anatomia hausta [...].
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(Polygamy and Marriage Sammelband)
KURTZE DOCH UNPARTHEYISCH- UND GEWISSENHAFFTE BETRACHTUNG DE! IN DEM NATUR- UND GOTTLICHEN RECHT GEGRUNDETEN HEILIGEN EHSTANDES... [N.p.: n.p.], 1679. [bound with] POLYGAMIA TRIUMPHATRIX, Id Est Discursus Politicus De Polygamia... Cum Notis Athanasi
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1660-1698.. Thick 4to, (12), 249, (1 errata)pp, title in red and black, early manuscript copies of missing pages 69-70, 75-6, and 205-10 bound-in; (10), 565, (1 blank), (14 addenda), (18 indices)pp; (1), (3 blank), (4 dedication), 163, (1 blank)pp, title in red and black, refererences to second part carefully excised from title fully re-backed with early paper; (4), 75, (1 blank)pp; (1), (1 blank), 216, (12 index)pp, title in red and black; (1), (1 blank), (2 dedication), 194pp, lacks final blank leaf. Contemp. vellum over boards, manuscript titles at spine, edges stained red, vellum soiled, copious early bibliographical notations at ffep, light, marginal dampstains throughout 2nd and 4th works, and final 10 leaves of the last, some light embrowning and foxing in 1st and 4th work, occasional early annotations, otherwise a generally clean, crisp collection.. ! Six 17th-century works dealing with polygamy, marriage, and related issues, including four scarce titles: ! First Edition of Kurtze Doch Unpartheyisch- und Gewissenhaffte Betrachtung by Lorenz Beger (1653-1705), writing under the pseudonym Daphnaeus Arcuarius, including reprints of documents relating to the Concubinage or Polygamy of Philip Landgrave of Hesse, along with the judgment relating to it delivered at his request by Luther, Melanchthon, and Martin Bucer. VD17 39:130795D (with catchword OseelenO at A2) BL, German, B620. ! Third, greatly expanded edition of Polygamia Triumphatrix (originally appearing as Discursus Politicus de Polygamia, Freiburg, 1674; 76pp, 12mo) by Johann Lyser (1631-1684/5), writing under the pseudonym Theophilus Aletheus. The Leipzig theologian and champion of polygamy boldly presents his arguments in the form of 90 theses (modeled after Luther!), carefully referencing biblical, midrashic, ancient and modern sources. Some attribute this edition to Amsterdam on the basis of an Elzevier fleuron; others to Lund, Sweden. ! First part only of the second edition of Uxor Una (first 1669), a theological disseration by Michael Siricius the Younger (1628-1685). VD17 14:635312Q. Very Scarce. ! Re-issue of the first edition (1671) of Kurtzes Bedencken... also Genannten Sinceri Wahrenbergs Kurtzes Gesprach von der Polygami by Balthasar Mentzer (1614-1679). The Darmstadt doctor of theology argues in favor of one wife, against the defender of polygamy Johann Lyser, whom he pseudonymously refers to as OSinceri Wahrenberg.O VD17 12:166957Q. Very Scarce. ! ONova EditioO of De Polygamia ut de Matrimonio (originally appearing as Tractatus de Polygamia in 1690) by Melchior Zeidler (1630-1686). This theological disputation also treats the issue of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. VD17 1:011126D. Very Scarce. ! Only Edition of Responsum Juris pro Matrimonio Principis by Heinrich Salmuth (b.1591/2). With respect to German territories, the author discusses various issues of marital law concerning royalty and nobility, including inheritance, succession, and marital impediments. Text in roughly equal parts Latin and German. VD17 547:689732H. Very Scarce.
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Hyginus Gromaticus and Polybius Megalopolitanus
De Castris Romanis, Quae exstant. Cum notis & animadversionibus, quibus accedunt dissertationes aliquot de re eadem militari populi Romani, R.H.S
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Amsterdam:: Joost Pluymer,, 1660.. Full old vellum, leather label (worn) on spine with title in gilt lettering. Blue speckled edges. Very light browning, mostly around edges, and foxing. Frontispiece has clean tear and small hole only effecting border. Paper flaw in I1 creates a notch in bottom margin, but no effect on text. Small hole in Hh3 with slight loss, but text remains quite legible. Page 238 labelled as 138. #11;Text in Latin. This is the Spaulding copy with note inserted.. 4to.. Engraved frontispiece, printer's device on t.p. Four fold-out engraving, engraved initials, head and tail pieces. Polybius (ca.200-post 118 B.C.), the great historian of Rome's rise to world power - especially through the Punic Wars - was a Greek of Megalopolis who with 1,000 other emminent Achaeans was deported to Rome for political investigations. While at Rome, he became friend and mentor to Scipio Aemilianus, probably accompanying the latter to Spain and Africa, and crossing the Alps into Italy while on the trail of Hannibal. As his concept of history prized the historian's acquaintance with the scene of historical events and personal political experience, there is good reason to believe that the excerpts presented in the present volume are for the most part first hand accounts. #11;The first work offered here has been falsely attributed to a Hyginus Gromaticus, a surveyer flourishing under the reign of Trajan, but the author appears to be a third century man in reality. The work itself, a handbook on castramentation, tends to be more theoretical than practical. STCN 166004. Schweiger I, 466.Spaulding and Karpinski 199 (with incorrect date of 1690).
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Smith, John
Select Discourses
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W. Morden, Cambridge 1660 - "Select discourses. As also a Sermon preached by Simon Patrick (then Fellow of the same College) at the Author's Funeral: with a brief Account of his Life and Death". Rebacked in full leather.526pp. With advertisements. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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De Olde Reynike Voss fyn zyrliken up Nyge gedrücket, mit Sydlykem vorstande, und schönen Figuren, erlüchtet und vorbetert.
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"DU PUY, Pierre;"
L'Histoire d'aucuns favoris.
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Amsterdam, Antoine Michiels, 1660 In-12 de 336 pp., maroquin citron, filets dorés en encadrement, dos à nerfs très finement orné de caissons de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin vert, filet doré sur les coupes, petite dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées sur marbrure (Lebrun). Ravissant volume tiré de l'Histoire des plus illustres favoris de Pierre Dupuy qui était parue à Leyde l'année précédente chez Jean Elzevier. Il renferme les vies de Dom Alvaro de Luna, Roderic Calderon, Ælius Sejanus, Philippe la Catenoise et Hugues de Beauvais. Très bel exemplaire finement établi. Il provient des bibliothèques Piéters (cat. nº 936) et Jacques Renard (cat. 1881, nº 1580) avec ex-libris. Willems, Les Elzevier, nº 1895.
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Meibom , Heinrich ;
V. Cl. Henrici Meibomii Poetae&Historici Opuscula Historica Varia Res Germanicas concernentia.
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- Partim antehac, nunc autem multo auctiora: partim numquam, & e manuscripto primum edita / ab Henrico Meibomio Nepote. Helmestadi [Helmstadt].Mullerus [Müller] , 1660. 14 Bll., 574 SS., 1 Bl., mit einigen, teils ganzseit. Holzschnitten, Vignetten und Leisten 8°, schlichter Pappband der Zeit [beinhaltet: Irminsula Saxonica; De Saxoniae Pagis; Historia Bardevici; Bardevicum destructum; Aurea Bulla Andronici; Historia de Henrico Leone; Chronicon Stederburgensi; Oratio de Henrico Leone; Vindiciae Billingane; Apologia pro Ottone; De ducibus Saxoniae ante Herm. Billingium; Dissertatio de Iure quodam impp.; De Iure investiturae episcopalis; Notae in Dipl. Thassil.; Erectio ducatus brunsvic; De Adademiae Iuliae primordiis et incrementis; Oratio de origine Helmestadii; Oratio de origine et officio cancell. academ.; Continuatio historiae slavicae] Mehrmalige Fehlpaginierung, Buchblock leicht angebrochen, einige Seiten leicht eselsohrig, Schnitt berieben, Einband stark bestoßen, berieben, gebräunt und angeplatzt, insgesamt aber sauberes und sehr gutes Exemplar. In Antiqua. *** urlaubsbedingt kann es derzeit zu Verzögerungen kommen- wir bitten um Verständnis! *** An unsere Kunden in Deutschland: Versand nach Deutschland ein- bis zweimal in der Woche ab Freilassing mit der Deutschen Post, im Regelfall in offener Rechnung. Bestellungen, die bis Montag, bzw. Donnerstag 7.00 Uhr vorliegen, gehen noch dieselbe Woche raus. Nur so sind unsere günstigen Versandkosten möglich. Unsere Rechnungen an deutsche Kunden enthalten deutsche Umsatzsteuer!***Bankkonten in Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz*** [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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HUGHES, WILLIAM
The Grand Abridgment of the Law Continued, Or, a Collection of the...
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Hughes, William. The Grand Abridgment of the Law Continued. Or, A Collection of the Principal Cases and Points of the Common-Law of England, Contained in All the Reports Extant, From the First of Elizabeth, to this present Time, By Way of Common-Place. A Work Very Usefull for All Students and Practitioners in the Law. With Two Tables, The One Containing the Names of the Cases, The Other, Of the Matter of Every of the Said Cases. Published in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. London: Printed by J.S. for Henry Twyford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, 1660-1662. 3 Volumes; with Appendix, in 3 books. Main text in double columns. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, rebacked in period style with raised bands, lettering pieces and gilt ornaments. Some rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and lightly worn. Light toning, offsetting to margins of preliminaries and endleaves. Annotations to endleaves, interior otherwise clean. An appealing set. $4,500. * Sole edition. Hughes, a barrister of Gray's Inn, conceived this abridgement as a continuation of Edmund Wingate's Exact Abridgment of All the Statutes in Force And Use (first edition 1642, second edition, 1655). "These volumes embrace but a short period, and the work is a mere supplement to the earlier Abridgments, but it is a good authority.": Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 402. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:19 (15).
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MALLETTO CAROLO.
De hieraarchia et iure ecclesiae militantis. Libri octo, in quibus de ecclesiae maiestate, fide, iurisdictione, dignitate personarum tam ecclesiasticarum, quam saecularium, beneficijs, gradibus, officijs, &c. Ecclesiasticis e secularibus, de iuidicijs, summa brevitate e plenissime agitur.
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Augustae Taurinorum. Ex Zapata. 1660. - In 4°, m. pelle, cc.nn. 16 + pp. 477 ( primi 4 libri) + 216 (ultimi 4 libri) + cc.nn. 52. Nervi. Lettere in o. al d. Front. fig. Tracce di gore che interessano marginalmente il t. ma non lo ledono. Tracce di tarli all'interno dei piatti e su diverse pp. che ledono alcune lettere. Fioriture. Lievi mende a d. e piatti.
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Deusing, Anton
Erercitationes [sic] physico-anatomicae, de nutrimenti in corpore elaboratione
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Ubi de chylificatione, et chyli motu; sanguificatione; depuratione alimenti; itemque spiritibus. Quibus adjecta appendix, in qua examini ac judicio aliorum subjiciuntur varia de chyli motu, et nutrimenti in corpore elaboratione. Nec non de admiranda anatome ... D. Ludovici de Bils. Groningen: Typis Francisci Bronchorsti, 1660. 12mo (13cm); [10], 368 pages (lacks two blank leaves at end). Woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials and tail piece. Bound in recent full calf blind tooled in 17th-century style. Wellcome Institute Library copy #2 with deaccession stamp on verso of title page. Early modern research on digestion by Anton Deusing (1612-1666), professor of medicine at Groningen. The glaring typographical error in the first word of the title must have been hard to digest. The text includes an essay on "the wonders of anatomy" by Lodewijk de Bils (1623-1669).
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More, Henry
An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness
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J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden, London:: J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden,, 1660.. First Edition.. 19th c. 1/2 morocco, byH.Maine with label, spine worn and brittle, chipped at top, joints cracked; scattered minor foxing; owner's signatures on t.p. including "Edmund Beeston", inner margin damp stain on a few opening leaves.. Folio.. More belonged to that little band of Christian Platonists which was formed at Cambridge in the middle of the seventeenth century, and the distinctive traits of their school of thought are perhaps best brought out in his writings. The Ooccult science,O of which such men as Van Helmont and Greatrakes were in More's time the apostles, had a singular fascination for him; but he was saved from its extravagances by the firmly implanted conviction which tinges all his life and all his writings that holiness was the way to knowledge, Obeing well advised,O he says, Oboth by the dictates of my own conscience and the clear information of those holy oracles which we all deservedly reverence, that God reserves his choicest secrets for the purest minds.O#11;"this work caused John Butler to publish his book "Agiastrologia' which is written in favour of the Art, and More replied to it.." Gardner#11;"In his philosophical writings, More's energies were largely devoted to demonstrating the existence and providential nature of God, by proving the existence of incorporeal substance, that is spirit." Dict. of 17th c. British Philosophers. Wing M2658. ESTC r17162. Gardner, Astrologica, 818.Cantamessa 2997.
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