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

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October 2018

Hugh Latimer The First& …. Sermon preached before King Edward, March 8, 1549

"Of all the English Reformers, Bishop Hugh Latimer was the most popular in his time and probably has the greatest place in the affections of posterity.   Although a passionate preacher and a zealot for reform, in a day when religious... Continue Reading →

Myographia nova:description of all the muscles in the humane body

992G John Browne 1642-1700? Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in the humane body, as they arise in dissection: distributed into six lectures. At the entrance into which, are demonstrated the proper muscles belonging to each... Continue Reading →

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) 99 wood-cuts !

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Opere del Divino Poeta Danthe con svoi Comenti : Recorrecti et con ogne diligentia novamente in littera cvrsiva impresse. In bibliotheca S. Bernardini. [With the commentary of Cristoforo Landino. [Venetia] In bibliotheca. S. Bernardini, [1512] {[Impressa in... Continue Reading →

Bernonis Abbatis Libellvs, de officio missae.

242G Abbot  Berno Augiensis (of Reichenau). (987-1048) Libellus de officio Missæ, quem edidit Rhomæ [Argentorati] : [In aedibus Schurerianis], 1511       $ 7,500 Quarto  8 X 5 ½  inches A-B8,C6 . This copy is bound in modern vellum... Continue Reading →

“Wherein he is accused of seducing her, by the abominable doctrines of quietism, into the most criminal excesses of lewdness, and under an appearance of the highest mystical devotion”

WOW! I’ve been having a lot fun reading this one, as did many also in the 1730's. I have seen a few copies of 1732 editions in French and one in German   But in English While it went through... Continue Reading →

The Florist’s vade-mecum 1692

One copy Worldwide: UCLA Only! 242J Samuel Gilbert d.1692? The Florist's vade-mecum : Being a choice compendium of what-ever worthy notice, hath been extant for the propagating, raising, planting, encreasing, and preserving the rarest flowers and plants that our climate and... Continue Reading →

A CURIOUS FORGERY (“SORTE TANDEM”)

So: I bought a forgery, certainly the Dealer I bought it from didn't know, and I was just a little to curious to miss it. "SORTE TANDEM" 963G Thomaso Porcacchi approximately 1530-1585?, A CURIOUS FORGERY Historia dell'origine et successione dell'Illustrissima famiglia... Continue Reading →

Issued in 1609, in preparation of the beatification that year of Pope Paul V. “The most elaborate such life produced up to that time.”

223J.  Peter Pázmány; 1570-1637. Peter Paul Rubens;1577-1640.                                                       .          Jean... Continue Reading →

A handful of VERY VERY rare early English books Books!

904G Theophilus Metcalfe active 1649.  A Manuscript copy of : Short-writing, the most easie, exact, lineal, and speedy method that hath ever been obtained, or taught. Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The last edition.... Continue Reading →

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