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

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April 2017

Peter Canisius (another Copy)

Just recently, after I sold a copy of this wonderful book, I purchased another copy , this new copie has some nice features which make it a great copy , it has less browning that the previous copy  and it is certainly 17th century vellum. 650G Commentariorum de Verbi Dei Corruptelis tomi duo. Prior de Venerando Christi Domini […]

The glorious doctour S. Augustine. Newly translated into English.

454G    John Floyd (1572 – 15 September 1649) The meditations, soliloquia, and manuall of the glorious doctour S. Augustine. Newly translated into English. London: Matthew Turner ,1686             $1,500 Duodecimo 5 ½ X 3 inches... Continue Reading →

Martin DelRio Satan’s Lawyer!

403G Martino Delrio 1551-1608 Ex miscellaneorum scriptoribvs digestorvm sive pandectarvm Iuris Civilis Interpretatio […] His accesserunt Indices duo: Prior Authorum atque Scriptorum Miscellaneorum, ex quorum libris has notas excerpsimus: Posterior Titulorum Pandectarum in hoc libro explicatorum. [bound with] Ex miscellaneorum scriptoribvs Codicis, Novellarum, Feudorum, necnon etiam Institutionum Iuris Civilis Interpretatio. His accesserunt Indices duo: Prior […]

A short pre-view of books from fascicule VII

798G                Anon The Compleat Sheriff: wherein is set forth, his office and authority; with directions, how and in what manner to execute the same, according to the common and statute laws of this kingdom, which are now in force and... Continue Reading →

Roma vetus ac recens, by Alessandro Donati, S.J.

816G Alexander [Alessandro]: Donati, 1584-1640.   Roma vetus ac recens. utriusque aedificiis illustrata. In multis locis aucta, castigatior reddita, indice locupletißimo, & figuris aeneis illustrata.   Rome , Ex typographia Manelphi Manelphij:1639                          $2,100 Quarto 9 1/4 X 6 3/4 inches l 4 [pi] […]

Four works by Jesuits

841G Fabio Ambrosi Spinola , 1593-1671. Vita del P. Carlo Spinola della Compagnia di Giesù morto per la santa fede nel Giappone : del P. Fabio Ambrosio Spinola dell’istessa compagnia. In Roma : Appresso Francesco Corbelletti, 1628      ... Continue Reading →

Eleven early Books MCCCCLXXVI- to- Millesimo quingentesimosecu[n]do

  In chronological order 1) 723G  SaintBonaventura.  (i.e.”Conrad”of”Saxony)”” Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis. [Augsburg]: Anton Sorg, 29 Feb 1476                        $11,000 Folio,11 1/4 X 8 inches. First edition 50 leaves a-e10. Like in both BMC copies and in the Augsburg copy first blank leaf is wanting but text complete. Hain mentions also 50 leaves. GKW indicates 51 […]

Early Feminist writing…

Susanna Centlivre     1667?-1723 The Gamester: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the New Theatre In Lincolns-Inn Fields By Her Majesty’s Servants. The Prologue Spoke by Mr. Betterton. Written by N. Rowe, Esq; The Third Edition. London: Printed for J. Knapton, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, E. Curll at the Dial and the Bible, R. Gosling […]

First Edition of Descartes’ Letters 1682

“Thus, all Philosophy is like a tree, of which Metaphysics is the root, Physics the trunk, and all the other sciences the branches that grow out of this trunk, which are reduced to three principals, namely, Medicine, Mechanics, and Ethics. By the science of Morals, I understand the highest and most perfect which, presupposing an […]

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