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May 2024

Two Incunabula bound together. One Very Rare, printed at Vienne by Eberhard Frommolt.

Both rubricated at the same time and both signed by the Rubricator! https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search?query=+ig00654800&from=0 https://data.cerl.org/istc/it00553000 444J Guillermus Parisiensis;        (1297?-1312?)f.1 VITAM BONAM ET EXITUM  Beatum | Ego Frater Guilhermus sacre Theologie Profes | sor minimus parisius educat[um]. Sacroru[m]  euangelio|rum ac epistolariu[m] de te[m]pore dieb[us] dominicus... Continue Reading →

Two books on History, Myth & Science 1524 & 1678

Depictions of Geographical changes, Technical inventions, and  Historical milestones. 

John Bale at his salacious best! 1550

562JJohn Bale 1495-1563. The first two partes of the Actes or vnchaste examples of the Englyshe votaryes, gathered out of theyr owne legendes and chronycles by Ihon Bale.  [Imprinted at London : by Iohn Tysdale, dwellynge in Knyght Riderstrete nere... Continue Reading →

Three small books : Three centuries.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 796J Boethius , Anicius Manlius Severinus Anicii Manlii Torquai Serverini  BOETHII de consolatione philosophiæ Libri V Oxonii Typis Will Hall, Anno Dom. 1663                                    Price $1,100 Sextodecimo 9 x 7 cm. A6 B- O8, This tiny copy is very clean internally. There... Continue Reading →

Family medicine 1696

582J  William Walwyn, (1600-1681)  Physick for families. Or, The new, safe and powerful way of physick, upon constant proof established; enabling every one, at sea or land, by the medicines herein mentioned, to cure themselves, their friends and relations, in all... Continue Reading →

The conversion of a pagan idol, Jesuit emblems Transforming myth into action. Jan David’s Occasio Arrepta Neglecta.

576J Jan David . 1545-1613 Occasio Arrepta Neglecta. Huius Commoda: Illius Incommoda. Auctore R.P. Ioanne David Societatis Iesv Sacerdote. Antwerp: Ex officina Platiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum. 1605. Price $4,000 Quarto, 8 x 6 in. First (and only)edition. +-++4, A-Z4, a-t4... 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 →

23 May 1498 & Savonarola’s last work !

Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498Jncipit Exposicio v[e]l Meditacio f[rat]ris Hieronimi sauonarole de Ferraria ordi[ni]s p[rae]dicatorum in psalmu[m] Jn te d[omi]ne speraui. qua[m] i[n] vltimis dieb[us] du[m] vite sue fine[m] prestolaretur edidit. (Exposicio in psalmum  XXXI In te domine speravi). N.pl., n.d. (prob. the ed. Magdenburg, Moritz Brandis), after 1500,     Price:... Continue Reading →

A Spring Miscellany Catalogue LIV

Here is a link to the catalogue https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p4x3ve71t6ik4t0ej4cok/cat-54-complete.docx.pdf?rlkey=yvjgc65crod8gy6khob56ri83&st=ueok263i&dl=0 Here is the QR code a PDF link https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:us:c6650b5a-93de-4886-afc6-b03c6faa36b3 And some of, from the many, Images!

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