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June 2025

Some Highlights of 2025 RBMS

Here are some Links and Images to some of the books I will be displaying at this years RBMS Booksellers Showcase https://jamesgray2.me/2025/06/02/eight-books-1481-1701/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/04/10/9-incunabula-not-in-nyc-part-two/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/03/20/a-precursor-to-the-augsburg-confession-in-low-german-1529/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/18/8-books-printed-1501-2-1520/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/07/1673-1701female-wits-aphra-behn-judith-drake-mary-pix-anne-wharton/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/12/17/albertus-of-padua-spiegel-des-sunders-2 https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/02/on-almost-every-page-annotations-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/08/06/three-sammelbands-1480-to-1513/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/05/09/a-philosophical-treatise-writ-in-america1687/

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Three densely annotated incunabula: Duns Scotus 1477 and Livius 1491 and Juvenal 1497

These three incunabula all have notes deep in the gutters suggesting that most likely they were annotated while still in quires and feasibly disbound. 753J Dunns Scotus, (c.1265-1308) Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Ed: Thomas Penketh and Bartholomaeus Bellatus.... Continue Reading →

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Paradin’s Les Devises héroïques with 217 emblems in a contemporary binding. 1567

Paradin's Les Devises héroïques with 217 emblems in a contemporary binding.

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First edition of the Kerver Horapollo.

To signify an impossibility, they represent A MAN'S FEET WALKING ON THE WATER; or when they would signify the same thing differently, they delineate A HEADLESS MAN WALKING. And since these are both impossibilities, they have with good reason selected them for this purpose.

864J. Horapollo (ca 5th century).; Jean Martin (trans., asscr.ƒl. approximately 1553.) Orvs Apollo de Ægypte De la signification des notes hieroglyphiques des Aegyptiens, c'est à dire des figures par les quelles ilz escripvoient leurs mystères secretz, et les choses sainctes et... Continue Reading →

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A great example of female ownership!

https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/robert-hill-the-path-way-to-pietie-1629/#like-4777?page_id=4777

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Six Female authors printed before 1701

Martha Simmonds, Judith Zins-Pennick, Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea, Anne Wharton, Aphra Behn, Mary Astell or Judith Drake, ___________________________ 861J Martha Simmonds [Simmons; née Calvert] (1625-1665) A lamentation for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. With an invitation... Continue Reading →

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Seven books 1481-1701

Included in this list , Four works by Early Modern Women, A leveler, Doctors, Quakers, New World Natural History, Poetesses, A master of ancient satire, Cosmology . 1) Edward Brown 1677, 2) Anne Finch 1701, 3) Q. Horatius Flaccus 1481,... Continue Reading →

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