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

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July 2023

VERY RARE ::Heures Printed by Guillaume Godard, 1514 Ces presentes heures de Nostre Dame on vellum.

A very printed book of Hours by Guillaume Godard on vellum only one other copy located worldwide.

Two books on Demonic “obsession” or “speaking in unknown languages and hungering for raw meat” by Thyraeus 1598

To continue my blogs on Jesuits writings on the occult and arcane, today I have a sammelband of two books by Petrus Thyraeus SJ. 682J Petrus Thyraeus (1546–1601) Daemoniaci, hoc est: De obsessis a spiritibus daemoniorum hominibus, liber unus: in... Continue Reading →

TWO RARE (no copy in North America) commentaries on Aristotle, printed in Salamanca 1497 and Venice 1505

672J    Petrus, de Alvernia. ±1304 https://data.cerl.org/istc/ip00445300 Expositio Magistrate super quttuor libris Meteororum Aristotelis. Salamanca :  [Printer of Nebrissensis, 'Gramática'], 20 Nov. 1497.  price $49,000 Contemporary limp vellum. Folio. 30 x 21 cm. Signatures; A8 b6-e6 f4 g6h1 (lacking h2-3)h4-x6 y4.   Half title, The first and last... Continue Reading →

VERY RARE ::Heures Printed by Guillaume Godard, 1514 Ces presentes heures de Nostre Dame on vellum.

A very printed book of Hours by Guillaume Godard on vellum only one other copy located worldwide.

This morning I was interview by Dr. Justin Sledge on his You Tube Channel ESOTERICA

ESOTERICA@TheEsotericaChannel Esoterica is a wonderful and useful source of information on western occult and esoterica. Dr Sledge and his channel produces content relating to topics such as alchemy, magic, Kabbalah, mysticism, hermetic philosophy, theosophy, the occult and more using the... Continue Reading →

Two huge Books by Gaspar Schott

Physica Curiosa, Sive Mirabilia Naturæ Et Artis Libris XII. Comprehensa, Quibus pleraq;, quæ de Angelis, Dæmonibus, Hominibus, Spectris, Energumenis, Monstris, Portentis, Animalibus, Meteoris. and Technica curiosa, sive Mirabilia artis, libris XII “Gaspar Schott, German physicist, born 5 February, 1608, at... Continue Reading →

The first published catalogue of the Cottonian Library “described by de Ricci as “one of the most notable achievements of early English bibliographers”

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.. […]

The Family Dictionary : An alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery 1710

543J. William Salmon 1644-1713 The family-dictionary; or, Household companion: Containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, boots, &c. Seasoning, making sauces, bills of fare, art of carving, &c. II. Making all sorts of... Continue Reading →

Mediavilla, on Lombards Sentences and Demonology! 1477

957G Richard [Middleton], d. 1302/3 Commentum super quartem Sententarium.. Venice: Christophorus Arnoldus, [circa 1476-7]   $22,000 THE WEBSITE LINK Folio 12 1⁄4 9 1⁄4 inches. a-z10 [et]10 [cum]10 [per]10 A 10 B-D8 (D8v blank and aa1r blank) aa8 bb10 cc8... Continue Reading →

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