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 →
16 mostly English Books on Stem subjects: everything from Astronomy to Zoology -1- https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/16/the-history-of-the-royal-society-of-london-1667/ -2- https://jamesgray2.me/2026/05/13/the-natural-history-of-animals-1702/ -3- https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/12/pharmacopoeia-bateana-or-bates-dispensatory-1694/ -4- https://jamesgray2.me/2026/06/12/the-natural-history-of-northampton-shire/ -5- https://jamesgray2.me/2026/05/22/two-of-the-most-important-books-in-early-observational-astronomy-galileos-starry-messenger-and-keplers-dioptrice/ -6- https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/18/strimesiuss-somatologia-1697/ -7- https://jamesgray2.me/2024/05/01/the-gentlemans-jockey-and-approved-farrier-1681/ -8- https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/19/experiments-on-diverse-natural-things-francesco-redi-1685/ -9- https://jamesgray2.me/2026/05/05/the-natural-history-of-oxford-shire/ -10- https://jamesgray2.me/2026/08/21/theoricae-novae-planetarvm-with-two-working-volvelles-1580/ -11- https://jamesgray2.me/2026/08/05/a-philosophical-language-by-john-wilkins/ -12- https://jamesgray2.me/2026/06/15/bernardus-connor-and-the-science-behind-gospel-miracles-2/ -13- https://jamesgray2.me/2025/03/21/sylva-sylvarum-francis-bacon-3/ -14- https://jamesgray2.me/2026/03/24/john-brownes-myographia-nova-anatomy-insights/... Continue Reading →
Part one A-G 1) A small Plantin Æschylus 1580 754J Aeschylus (c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC), Willem Canter 1542-1575. Αισχύλου τραγῳδίαι Ζ =. Æschyli tragœdiæ VII. In quibus præter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio, hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri. VLTRAIECTINI. Antuerpiæ :... Continue Reading →
1) 887J: Agnes de Langeac (1602–1634) . ? Hyacinth Cunibert (ƒl1670’s) Das geistreiches Leben der Wohl-Ehrwürdigen Mutter Agnetis a Iesu, deß H. Prediger-Ordens. Welche Anfangs die Dritte Regel deß H. Vatters Dominici angenommen;... in unsere Teutsche Sprach ubersetzet worden durch Hyacinthum Cunibert. Köln, P. Steinbüchel... Continue Reading →
pre-reformation 1516 Luther Homilies Froben small project
Saints, Wives, Nuns, Poets, and Prophets: 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 way.... Continue Reading →
https://jamesgray2.me/2026/05/06/976j-johannes-melber/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/06/09/basilius-magnus-de-legendis-antiquorum-libris-ulm-1478-latin-translation-bruni/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/01/06/annotated-sammelband-of-scholastic-works/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/04/29/friedrich-riederers-spiegel-der-waren-rhetoric-german-humanist-rhetoric-legal-forms-and-practical-eloquence-strasbourg-1517/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/08/05/a-philosophical-language-by-john-wilkins/ JAMES GRAY BOOKSELLER Catalogue CC3 Printed books 1470-1501 New Century Catalogue Nº 2\ 1501-1599 New 17th Century books MMXXVI New Annotated 15th &16th C Books New Twenty Books by, for, or about Women New For university and special collections purchases,... Continue Reading →
Today's five books are books which were on hold for other institutions which are now offered again for sale! https://jamesgray2.me/2026/08/21/theoricae-novae-planetarvm-with-two-working-volvelles-1580/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/08/20/amphitheatrum-zootomicum/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/07/16/940j-bacon-1640/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/07/16/979j-an-annotated-boethius-1513-a-supreme-example-of-evidence-of-usage/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/05/13/the-natural-history-of-animals-1702/ JAMES GRAY BOOKSELLER Catalogue CC3 Printed books 1470-1501 New Century Catalogue Nº 2\ 1501-1599 New 17th Century books... Continue Reading →
Gaurico, Luca (1476-1558). Annotated by Paul Haintzel (1527–1581 Tractatus astrologiae judiciariae de nativitatibus virorum & mulierum, compositus per D. Lucam Gauricum Neapolitanum, ex Ptolemaeo & alijs autoribus dignissimis, cum multis aphorismis expertis & comprobatis ab eodem. Addito in fine libello Antonii... Continue Reading →
Georg Peuerbach’s Theoricæ novæ planetarum, Wittenberg, 1580, expanded by Erasmus Reinhold and edited by Kaspar Peucer. An important Renaissance astronomy textbook with two reconstructed working volvelles for demonstrating lunar illumination and planetary motion. Contemporary limp parchment, from the libraries of Hopetoun House and astronomer and historian Owen Gingerich.
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