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

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February 2024

The use of a book made to be used!

https://biblonia.com/2024/02/14/benedictine-leadership-shadows/#like-14041?page_id=14041

Some Illustrated English books 1600 to 1673 History ,Travel, Church History,Exorcism/witch trials, American philosophy.

(•) #1. History , A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence. 736J.   Verstegan, Richard. (1550-1640) Concerning the most noble, and renowned English Nation. By the study, and travell of R.V. Dedicated unto the Kings most excellent Majestie. London: by Iohn Bill, Printer to the Kings most... Continue Reading →

Suetonius ILLUSTRATED: with the first Image of a Caesarian Section

OK AGAIN, Currently there is no reliable evidence that Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section.  At the time of Julius's birth, there was an prohibition to burring a dead pregnant woman with the fetus... Continue Reading →

….twenty-two full-paged engravings of fossils, caves, physical anomalies, artifacts monstrous births, aberrant weather and other difficult to explain occurrences; a double-paged map with contemporary coloring; two pages of the arms of the subscribers; and a portrait of the author after Faithorne. 

 The natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the peak, in Derbyshire: with an account of the British, Phœnician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. antiquities in those parts. By Charles Leigh, Doctor of Physick. 558J. Leigh, Charles. (1662-1701?)  The natural history of Lancashire,... Continue Reading →

A very Special copy of Mrs. Philips Poems

The first editions of Katherine Philips Poems from 1667 are becoming hard to find, it a book I enjoy finding and buying when I can, when I saw the copy listed today it posed a moral problem that I often... Continue Reading →

Physics Curiosa. 1667

Gaspar Schott's Physics Curiosa is a densely illustrated  encyclopedia of  animals some of which exist and others which are reported to exist or had once existed. Of the twelve books half are comprised of miraculous beings, many illustrated and explained... Continue Reading →

A corner stone of Elizabethan education

Cooper's Thesaurus Lingvae Romanae & Britannicae Was lauded by Queen Elizabeth, used by most of the poets and playwrights of the time. What single book could afford us a better view of how sixteenth century sounds and thought than this... Continue Reading →

Elizabethan Exorcisms

752J  Darrell, John 1562- 1602 A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discours, of Samuel Harshnet. entituled: A discouerie of the fravvdulent practises of Iohn Darrell wherein is manifestly and apparantly shewed in the eyes of the world. not only the... Continue Reading →

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