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August 2019

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Four Rare Grammar Books.

1) 330J Edward Wettenall.  1636-1713.   A short Introduction of Grammar being generally the common form, with such supplements out of the Common Latin institutions, as make the English part a sufficient Grammar for a good understanding of the Latin... Continue Reading →

A Sammelband Of Aristotle commentaries . 1499-1509

253J   Aristotle, and Peter Tartaretus  (14??-1495)                                 $18,000 Expositio magistri Petri Tatereti in Summulas Petri Hyspani cum textu, una cum additionibus in locis propriis summa... Continue Reading →

English Adventures 5•12•1676

320J  Roger Boyle  (A person of honour = Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Cf. BM; Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).The Earl of Orrery. (1676-1731) English adventures. By a person of honour. Licensed May 12th, 1676. Roger L’Estrange [London]: In the Savoy:... Continue Reading →

English Adventures 5•12•1676

320J  Roger Boyle  (A person of honour = Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Cf. BM; Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).The Earl of Orrery. (1676-1731) English adventures. By a person of honour. Licensed May 12th, 1676. Roger L’Estrange [London]: In the Savoy:... Continue Reading →

The earliest instance of a”romance” credited to an Irish writer “ (Sweeney, Ireland and the Printed Word)

334J Roger Boyle ,The Earl of Orrery. (1676-1731)   Parthenissa. That most fam’d romance· The six volumes compleat. Composed by the right honourable the Earl of Orrery.   London : printed by T[homas]. N[ewcomb]. for Henry Herringman, at the Blue... Continue Reading →

The earliest instance of a”romance” credited to an Irish writer “ (Sweeney, Ireland and the Printed Word)

334J Roger Boyle ,The Earl of Orrery. (1676-1731)   Parthenissa. That most fam’d romance· The six volumes compleat. Composed by the right honourable the Earl of Orrery.   London : printed by T[homas]. N[ewcomb]. for Henry Herringman, at the Blue... Continue Reading →

Where do some Ideas come from?

One the things that I know is that books begat books, it in a interconnected way reading is a constantly alerting current of remembering, discovering and creating. ". To reach, not the point where one no longer says I, but... Continue Reading →

Rare English books

331J Theolophilus Polweile Aὐθέντης, Authentēs. Or A treatise of self-deniall. Wherein the necessity and excellency of it is demonstrated; with several directions for the practice of it. By Theophilus Polwheile, M.A. sometimes of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now teacher of the... Continue Reading →

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