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

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June 2021

Books for Housewives 1653 & 1680

474J T.K. Doctor in physick The Kitchin-physician: or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health. Wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and... Continue Reading →

Rebecca P. Fowler’s Common Place Friendship Album 1825 Danvers Ma. SOLD

small octavo 20 x 13 cm Pages 1-109 Today's book is quite a treat, It is an unique (as far as I call tell at this point) Illustrated Common Place Friendship Album 1825 Danvers Ma. made for Rebecca P. Fowler.... Continue Reading →

Handwritten Text Recognition at the National Library of Norway

Wow.. what next?

The first horticultural work written specifically for women and it would be a hundred years wait for another!

William Lawson fl. 1618. The Countrie Housewifes Garden, was the first horticultural work written specifically for women (there would not be another in English for a century). The 'sound, clear, natural wit' manifested in it was praised by John Beale... Continue Reading →

AN Early Book Class in one book!

Here is a bullet point list of the points of rare interests in this book.visible water marks on pastedownEarly manuscript waste materia;Ultra violet light reveals a lot on the pastedown of the front boardold german bookseller notes and othersThree early... Continue Reading →

Fascicule XXIV ENGLISH BOOKS

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qszddam85nm2268/1xP%E2%88%9EFascicule%20No%2027.pdf?dl=0 TO SEE FASCICULE XXIVCLICK HERE TO SEE FASCICULE XXIVCLICK HERE XXIVCLICK HERE https://www.dropbox.com/s/qszddam85nm2268/1xP%E2%88%9EFascicule%20No%2027.pdf?dl=0 THANK YOU FOR LOOKING

English Books of Conduct, Behavior,Gender

Seymar, William. (William Seymar is a pseudonymous anagram for William Ramsey.) Cf. Halkett and Laing Conjugium conjurgium: or, some serious considerations on marriage. Wherein (by way of caution and advice to a friend) its nature, ends, events, concomitant accidents, &c. are... Continue Reading →

ANNOTATED INCUNABULA

Usus libri,non lectio prudente ƒacit 448J Jacobus de Gruytrode Lavacrum conciencie [sic] omnibus sacerdotibus perutile Lyptzck [Leipzig] : Gregor B.ttiger, 1495. $18,000  ISTC il00099000 Goff L99; IBP 3382; Madsen 2157; Voull(B) 1383; Günt(L) 1205; Hubay(Würzburg) 1187; Pad-Ink 375; Wilhelmi 387;... Continue Reading →

Four Incunabula with Contemporary bindings, Rubricated, Interesting provenance & maybe most importantly interesting. And not by any means least QUITE rare.

238J Peregrinus of Opole (1305-12, 1322-27) Jacobus de Voragine (1229-1298) & Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuel (1360-1433) Peregrinus: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Add: Jacobus de Voragine: Quadragesimale. Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuel: Concordantia in passionem dominicam.Est autem huius operis ordo talis. Primo... Continue Reading →

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