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

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March 2024

The first published catalogue of the Cottonian Library with 6 other catalogues!

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: Price $2,500 This is entry "... Continue Reading →

Illustrations to aid in artificial memory.

660j. Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507) edited by Damiano Rosselli . Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae.concionatoribus, philosophis, medicis, iuristis, oratoribus, procuratoribus, caeterisq ; bonarum litterarum amatoribus, negociatoribus insuper alijsq ; similibus, tenacem ac firmam rerum memoriam cupientibus, perutilis : ac omnes sui amatores & possessores... Continue Reading →

Illustrations to aid in artificial memory.

660j. Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507) edited by Damiano Rosselli . Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae.concionatoribus, philosophis, medicis, iuristis, oratoribus, procuratoribus, caeterisq ; bonarum litterarum amatoribus, negociatoribus insuper alijsq ; similibus, tenacem ac firmam rerum memoriam cupientibus, perutilis : ac omnes sui amatores & possessores... Continue Reading →

Martin Luther On the “The Sermon on the Mount”

Luther, Martin Luther (1483-1546) Das fünffte, Sechste vnd Siebend Capitel S. Matthei. Wittenberg , Joseph Klug 1532.                 $4,500 Luther preached these sermons on Matthew 5-7 on Wednesdays in 1530-32 while Bugenhagen, the... Continue Reading →

One of the earliest printed books on the ars memorativa or mnemotechnics

° 502J  Petrus de Rosenheim. (1380-1432). Incipt; Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum [Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschla, ca. 1480.                                                                                                                                                                             Price: $18,500 Quarto: 22 x 14 ½ cm.  Signatures:  a-f8.  Pages (a1 blank and... 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 →

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 →

A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence.

736J.   Verstegan, Richard. (1550-1640) A Restitvtion Of Decayed Intelligence: In antiquities. 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... Continue Reading →

Petrus de Rosenheim

299J Petrus de ROSENHEIM(1380-1433)..  (& Sebastian Brant (1458-1521);  Georg Simler aka Relmisius)   [ARS MEMORANDI.] Rationarium Euangelistarum : omnia in se euangelia: prosa. uersu. imaginibusq[ue] q[ue] mirifice co[m]plecte[n]sThomas Anshelm, Pforzheim, 1507.      $SOLD 000 Quarto  8 x 5 3/4  inches:   a-c6... Continue Reading →

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