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

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January 2020

Printed for the author: Without a License

Today I have catalogued A book by an Irish author, self published and represented in the us by one copy. as you can see above all of his works are uncommon. This book is quite amazing, he must have had... Continue Reading →

A work in Spanish by a Portuguese-born writer published in Milan Espeio de principes y ministros

Volume primero del espeio de principes y ministros ... e nel qual se comprenden varios documentos, advertimientos y sentençias neçessarias al buen govierno del prinçipe y ministros seglares y ecclesiasticos ...   357J Martin de Carvallo Villas Boas Milan :... Continue Reading →

Notes, Annotations more notes translations …

261J   Marcus Tullius Cicero   edited by Jacques-Louis Strébée( 1480-1550)  M. Tullii Ciceronis ad M. Brutum oratorJacobi Lodoici Strebaei commentariis ab authore ipso recognitis illustratus.   Parisiis : ex officina Michaëlis. Vascosani, 1540 Small Folio 8 X 6 1/2... Continue Reading →

EROTOMANIA or A treatise discoursing of the essence, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure of love, or Erotiqve melancholy. Written by Iames Ferrand Dr. of Physick

Jacques Ferrand (b. ca. 1575) EROTOMANIA, OR A TREATISE DISCOURSING OF THE ESSENCE, CAUSES, SYMPTOMES, PROGNOSTICKS, AND CURE OF LOVE, OR EROTIQUE MELANCHOLY. (Oxford: Printed by L. Lichfield, 1640).                      ... Continue Reading →

Two editions of De Laudib[us] sancte Crucis Hrabanus Maurus 1503 & 1605

Two editions of De Laudib[us] sancte Crucis Nam digiti scripto laetantur, lumina visu  Mens volvet sensu mystica verba Dei “The fingers rejoice in writing, the eyes in seeing, and the mind at examining the meaning of God’s mystical words.”    ... Continue Reading →

Martha HATFIELD To the Reader, Grace here, and Glory hereafter.

362J James FISHER and [Martha HATFIELD]. The wise virgin: or, A wonderfull narration of the various dispensations of God towards a childe of eleven years of age; wherein as his severity hath appeared in afflicting, so also his goodness both... Continue Reading →

The fist Published Irish Author: Richard FitzRalph. (circa 1300-1360)

First edition of the second published work by the author of the first book by an Irishman to be printed (1483 Defensorium Curatorum ) and consequently, for example, his theory of dominion was still being discussed in the sixteenth century.... Continue Reading →

NYC Bibliography Week Showcase This week Thursday!

 BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK  BOOKSELLERS’ SHOWCASE January 23, 2020, 10AM-4PM  FRENCH INSTITUTE: ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE 22 EAST 60TH STREET, NYC GALLERY & SKYROOM Please Visit me at the  

Athanasius Kircher: The Man who tried to Know Everything!

632G  Kircher, Athanasius (& Kestler) .          1602-1680   Physiologia Kircheriana Experimentalis, Qua Summa Argumentorum Multitudine & Varietate Naturalium rerum scientia per experimenta Physica, Mathematica, Medica, Chymica, Musica, Magnetica, Mechanica comprobatur atque stabilitur. Quam Ex Vastis Operibus Adm. Revdi. P. Athanasii Kircheri extraxit, & in hunc ordinem per classes redegit Romæ, Anno M. DC. LXXV. Joannes Stephanus […]

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