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

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September 2023

“One of the most influential documents in the history of medieval scientific attitudes toward women”

654J pseudo Albertus Magnus Albertus Magnus Secretis mulierum et Viroru(m). [Augsburg:] Johann Froschauer. GW dates [c.1500]. dated by BSB‑Ink, printed using Froschauer’s type 6, which was not used before 1503.Imprint: $ 7,800 Quarto 24 x 14.5 cm. Collation: a–d6.4 e4 f6 g4. Bound... Continue Reading →

Heavily annotated copy of a 1497 Juvenal by a German (Rhenish scholar ca 1512)

1497 Junenal densely annotated by a German humanists circa 1511

RAYMUND LULL , clasical memory to RENESSANCE memory a sammelband 1578

Today I have a Sammelband of three 1578 books by Raymond Lull ​to offer.    (617) 678-4517James Gray Booksellers          https://www.jamesgraybookseller.comhttps://jamesgray2.me 46 Hobbs RoadPrinceton, MA 01541E-mail: jamesgray2@me.com   ​ ​    I 713J Raymund  Lull Ars brevis illuminati doctoris magistri Raymundi Lull : Quae est ad omnes scientias pauco &... Continue Reading →

Two JESUIT 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 →

Barlow’s Edition of Aesop’s Fables Illustrated with English text by Aphra Behn.

Æsops fables with English by Aphra Behn.

Two breakthrough illustrated anatomical texts on eight subjects by Casserio sand Fabricius, 1610 and 1624

730J..i Casserio, Giulio 1545-1616 Pentaestheseion; hoc est, De quinque sensibus liber,organorum fabricam variis iconibus fideliter & ad vivum aere incisis illustratam, nec non actionem & usum, discursu anatomico & philosophico accurate explicata continens. Jam primum in Germania visus discursu anatomico... Continue Reading →

Two breakthrough illustrated anatomical texts on eight subjects by Casserio sand Fabricius, 1610 and 1624

730J..i Casserio, Giulio 1545-1616 Pentaestheseion; hoc est, De quinque sensibus liber,organorum fabricam variis iconibus fideliter & ad vivum aere incisis illustratam, nec non actionem & usum, discursu anatomico & philosophico accurate explicata continens. Jam primum in Germania visus discursu anatomico... Continue Reading →

Fascicule #50 will soon be in the mail! 

fifty early printed books (15th & 16th century) many Illustrated on many suprizing subjects !

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