Today, the last Friday of August 2021, I've been looking at the books which are new to my stock and in the English books there aren't any new books I would describe as a Must Have or Supremely Important, yet... Continue Reading →
469J Rabanus Maurus. 784-856? Magnencij Rabani Mauri De Laudib[us] sancte Crucis opus. erudcione versu prosaq[ue] mirificum. edited by Jacobus Wimpheling. Phorçheim. [Pforzheim : In ædibus Thom[ae] Anshelmi., 1503. $24,000 Folio 31 x 21cm. signatures: Aa6 Bb4 a-k6; A, B6... Continue Reading →
499J "PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL BOOK PRINTED BEFORE 1500" (Hunt). 499J. (Attributed authors. {see below, (or you can search Authors on the magnifier image)) Ortus Sanitatis.De herbis et plantisDe animalibus & reptilibusDe auibus et volatilibusDe piscibus & natatilibus. (tibusDe lapidibus & in terra venis nascẽtibusDe vrinis... Continue Reading →
Ok maybe a big armful, or a large table full, or let's just say six of my favorite books all with lots of images and long long descriptions. 499J Ortus Sanitatis. Straßburg 1497353J Alberto da Castello Rosario della gloriosa Vergine Maria 1585469J Rabanus Maurus. De Laudib[us]... Continue Reading →
1) At Banbury he saw the Puritan who has become proverbial, "Hanging of his Cat on Monday For killing of a Mouse on Sunday." 488J. Anonymous. By Richard Brathwait. 1588?-1673. Drunken Barnaby’s four journeys to the north of England. In Latin... Continue Reading →
Maybe no other book I have in my current stock is more like the Internet than this one? I can spend hours upon hours reading (looking) through this book, An example is this entry: This is entry ” NERO D IV. In modern form Cotton MS Nero D IV (still the same 300 years later.. […]
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 →
ISTC has 1429 hits for Leipzig. III. 466J Balthasar de Porta (fl. 1487- 1499) Expositio Canonis Missae. (Canon sacratissime misse: unacum expositione eiusdem: ubi in primis premittit pulchra contemplatio ante missam habenda de christi pulcritudine. Et quo mo[d]o ipsa in sua passione: ab eo... Continue Reading →
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