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

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January 2016

The first published catalogue of the Cottonian Library

Maybe no other book I have in my current stock is more like the Internet than this one? I can spend hours upon hours reading (looking) through this book, An example is this entry: This is entry " NERO D... Continue Reading →

Aristotle’s master-piece…The secrets of generation display’d

904F Aristotle pseudo Possibly by Salmon, William. 1644-1713  Aristotle’s master-piece: or in all the parts thereof; Containing 1. The Signs of Barrenness. 2. The way of getting a Boy or Girl. 3. Of the likeness of Children to Parents. 4.... Continue Reading →

The Benefits of Cleaning House; or, A Chronicle from the Press of Wynkyn de Worde

More close work to discover what is on the shelf!

Four early and Important works by Martin Luther

    124H Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Appellatio D. Martini Lutheri ad Concilium a Leone Decimo, denuo repetita & innovata. Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger, 1520]     $3,800 Quarto: 19.5 x 14.5 cm. 12 p. Collation: A6 With a woodcut... Continue Reading →

O ̓Αστηρ του Χριστου Βασιλικος: The Star of the Eastern-Sages

Today I'll  Post this rare ( only a handful of copies in the US) and interesting book on reading comets. The anonymous author states : " I know it's easier to define what Comets are not, what they are positively to... Continue Reading →

Where We Find New Old Books, Chapter 5, part I: A beginners’ guide to uncovering rare book treasures: a 500-year-long tale between Parisian pages

I love old books, no matter how worn or humble, there is SO much to learn if we take the time.

Speculum peregrinarum & Dictionarius pauperum

379G  Sibylla, Bartholomaeus, active approximately 1434-1493 and Nicolaus de Byard (13th century) Speculum peregrinarum questionum eruditissimi viri Bartholomei Sibille Monopolitani ordinis predicatorum, sacre theologie professoris : tres decades complectens in quibus varie questiones de animabus rationalibus in coniuncto, [et] separatis, deq[ue]... Continue Reading →

Aristaenetus : Erotic epistles

760G Aristaenetus. fl. 5th or 6th Century A.D.   Aristainetou Epistola erotikai. Tina ton palaion Heroon epitaphia ... E bibliotheca Ioan. Sambuci Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1566                      ... Continue Reading →

62 portraits of Roman empresses

783G Conti, Natale,; 1520-1582. Duval, Jean-Baptiste,; -1632. Vico, Enea, 1523-1567. Augustarum imagines aereis formis expressae : vitae quoque earundem breuiter enarratae, signorum etiam quae in posteriori parte numismatum efficta sunt, ratio explicata . Lutetiae Parisiorum : Apud Macaeum Ruette 1619.... Continue Reading →

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