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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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Four new books, (1517-1688)

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/2026/04/29/the-life-of-jeanne-francoise-fremiot/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/04/16/aphra-behns-translation-of-the-history-of-oracles-and-the-cheats-of-the-pagan-priests/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/23/jeanne-francoise-fremyot-de-chantal-saint/ Jamesgray2@me.com If you require time or committee in order to decide if you want any of my books, please let me know and I will reserve them.

The life of Jeanne Françoise Frémiot

966J Maupas du Tour, Henri Couchon de ( 1600-1680). Frémyot, Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Saint. La Vie de la vénérable mère Jeanne Françoise Frémiot, fondatrice, première mère et religieuse de l'ordre de la Visitation de Saincte Marie, par Messire Henry de Maupas... Continue Reading →

Friedrich Riederer’s Spiegel der waren Rhetoric — German Humanist Rhetoric, Legal Forms, and Practical Eloquence, Strasbourg 1517

Printed at Strasbourg in 1517, Friedrich Riederer’s Spiegel der waren Rhetoric stands at the meeting point of German humanism, practical rhetoric, legal writing, and the emerging culture of vernacular instruction. First printed at Freiburg in 1493 and reissued only rarely, the work translates and adapts Cicero and other authorities for readers who needed eloquence not as ornament, but as a working skill: for speeches, letters, contracts, petitions, and documentary forms grounded in divine, imperial, and legal authority.

Part II • Books I will not be displaying in The ABAA New York Show.

Because of other commitments I will not be showing In New York this year. Here are some of the books I would otherwise have brought . Here are Links to these Wonderfull books, in no order, please click on the... Continue Reading →

The natural history of Northampton-Shire with 15 plates

968j Morton, John, 1671?-1726. The natural history of Northampton-Shire; with some account of the antiquities. To which is annex'd a transcript of Doomsday-Book, so far as it relates to that county. By John Morton M. A. Rector of Oxendon in... Continue Reading →

Aphra Behn’s translation of ‘The history of oracles, and the cheats of the pagan priests’.

969J, Fontenelle, Le Bovuer DeBeranard (1657-1757); Aphra Behn (1640-1689), tr. Antonius van Dale (1638-1708) The History of Oracles, and the CHEATS of the pagan priests. In two parts. Made English.  London : printed in the year, 1688. and sold by... Continue Reading →

Resuscitatio, or, bringing into publick light several pieces of the works….

965J J Bacon, Francis 1561-1626 Resuscitatio, or, bringing into publick light several pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the right honourable Francis Bacon, baron of Verulam, viscount Saint Alban. According to the best corrected... Continue Reading →

Books I will not be displaying in The ABAA New York Show.

Because of other commitments I will not be showing In New York this year. Here are some of the books I would otherwise have brought . Here are Links to these Wonderfull books, in no order, please click on the... Continue Reading →

909J Book of Hours, Use of Rome. 12 Large hand painted images.

A beautiful hand painted Printed Book of Hours with Twelve full page colored Images.

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