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

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May 2024

 A philosophical treatise … writ in America1687

"--Franck's book is now regarded as the first work of philosophy written in North America, though it is a confusing, unfocused text complicated by grossly ornamental language—" Approaching this book, like any other will certainly lead to confusion , as... Continue Reading →

The Secrets of women….

704J pseudo Albertus Magnus Albertus Magnus de secretis mulierum cum commento. [Venetiis]; [Per Jo. Alvisium de Varisio], 1501. Price $8,800 Quarto 24 x 14.5 cm. Collation: a-g⁸. 56 leaves. (The text is that of the undated edition of Perugia.) This... Continue Reading →

A small Plantin Æschylus 1580

   754J   Aeschylus (c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC), Willem Canter 1542-1575.  Αισχύλου τραγῳδίαι Ζ =.  Æschyli tragœdiæ VII. In quibus præter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio, hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri. VLTRAIECTINI. Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, architypographi regij, 1580.               Price $ 2,500 Duodecimo... Continue Reading →

A miniature Boethius

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 is... Continue Reading →

British Merlin only two copies recorded

635J Crdanus Ryder Riders (1684.) British Merlin: bedeckt with many delightful varieties and useful verities, fitting the longitude and latitude of all capacities within the islands of Great Britains monarchy. And chronological observations of principal notes to this year 1684. Being... Continue Reading →

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

502J Petrus de Rosenheim. (1380-1432). Nom probable : Petrus Wiechs [incipt Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum] / [Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschland (Oberrhein?).      ... Continue Reading →

Lossius, Dialecticæ et Rhetorica, Melanchthon & Erasmus

795J Lucas Lossius (1508-1582) Erotemata Dialeticae Et Rhetoricae Philippi Melanchthonis :breuia ac dilucida, & item praeceptionum D. Erasmi Roterodami, devtraeque Copia Verborum & rerum.   Frankfurt: Haeredes, Christiani Egenolphi, 1583                                              Price $ 2,500 Octavo 16 x 10cm. Signatures A-X8 (X8 is colophon and present)... Continue Reading →

Catalogue 54 Spring Miscellany

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

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 →

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