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A discussion of interesting books from my current stock at www.jamesgraybookseller.com

An annotated 1508 De Secretis Mulierum medieval version of Our bodies, Ourselves.

One of the most influential documents in the history of medieval scientific attitudes toward women

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Was Suso a protofeminist? Or was Elsbeth Stagel .

911J Henricus Suso, (1295-1366). ed. Elsbeth Stagel (1300-1360) Horologiu[m] eternae sapientiae.  Köln Cornelius von Zierickzee 1503               .                                     Price $7,500 Octavo 14 × 10.5 cm. 128 leaves. Signatures: A-Q8  Date in the colophon: M.ccccc.iij. mensis Septembris ipso die Marcelli. With title‐woodcut with four‐part border and... Continue Reading →

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The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. 1627

 477E Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) Owner  Eliza: Sippi …heetory… 1658. The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now the sixt time published, with some new additions. Also a  supplement of a defect in the third part of... Continue Reading →

George Herbert The Temple.

689G George Herbert (1593-1633) with Christopher Harvey (1597-1633) The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert, Late Oratour of the University of Cambridge. Together with his Life. with several Additions. Psal. 29. In his Temple doth every... Continue Reading →

English Poems, Plays, Prose 1615-1702

https://jamesgray2.me/2026/06/17/poems-by-michael-drayton/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/04/du-bartas-his-deuine-weekes/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/08/recreations-vvith-the-mvses-by-william-earle-of-sterline-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/08/certaine-learned-and-elegant-vvorkes-of-the-right-honorable-fvlke-lord-brooke/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/08/07/a-most-interesting-lawyer-poet/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/06/17/the-works-of-william-drummond-1711-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/06/17/politeuphuia-wits-common-wealth-3/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/08/crashaw-richard-1612-1649-steps-to-the-temple/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/06/17/george-herbert-the-temple/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/08/29/the-works-of-sir-william-davenant-1673/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/06/19/the-countesse-of-pembrokes-arcadia-written-by-sir-philip-sidney-knight-1627-2/ Jamesgray2@me.com For university and special collections purchases, I am accustomed to working within committee timelines and budget cycles. Titles may be placed on hold during review, and flexible invoicing... Continue Reading →

Politeuphuia, Wits Common-wealth.

779G Nicholas, ed Ling fl. ca. 1599 Politeuphuia, Wits Common-wealth. Newly corrected and amended.   London : printed by M. Flesher, and are to be sold by Edward Badger at the Crane in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1647. Price $3,900  Duodecimo 5... Continue Reading →

The Works of William Drummond 1711

873J  William Drummond 1585-1649 The works of William Drummond, of Hawthornden. Consisting of those which were formerly printed, and those which were design’d for the press. Now published from the author’s original copies. Edinburgh : printed by James Watson, in... Continue Reading →

Poems By Michael Drayton

981J Michael Drayton (1563-1631) Poems by Michael Drayton esquyer. Newly corrected and augmented. London: W. Stansby for J. Smethwick, 1637 Price $2,500 Octavo 13.5 x 8 cm. Signatures A2-X12. (A1,The first leaf is blank except for signature mark "A". is... Continue Reading →

From De Secretis Mulierum to Anne Finch: Twenty Books on Women Across three Centuries

Saints, Wives, Nuns, Poets, and Prophets: Twenty Early Books on Women I intended to select a dozen books and somehow arrived at twenty. Once gathered together, however, they seemed to belong in one conversation, and I have left them that... Continue Reading →

Bernardus Connor and the Science Behind Gospel Miracles

945J: Connor, Bernardus . Connor, Bernardus, 1666 ?-1698. Evangelium Medici: Seu Medicina Mystica, De Suspensis Naturae Legibus, Sive de Miraculis, Reliquisque ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις Memoratis, quae Medicae indagini subjici possunt : Ubi perpensis prius Corporis Natura, sano & morboso Corporis Humani Statu,... Continue Reading →

Wolf Traut ? excellent impression showing a beardless St. Jerome in the wilderness 1503

533J Franz Balthasar , von Geyer,(de Porta) (Fl 1480-1505) Canon sacratissime misse : vna cum Expositione eiusde[m]. vbi in primis premittit[ur] pulchra contemplatio ante missam habe[n]da De cristi pulcritudine. Et quo[modo] ipsa in sua passione ab eo omnino fuerat ablata.... Continue Reading →

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