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I have been selling books printed before 1700 since1991. Please feel free to contact with any early book questions, I'll try and answer them. Jamesgray2@me.com

909J Book of Hours, Use of Rome. 12 Large hand painted images.

A beautiful hand painted Printed Book of Hours with Twelve full page colored Images.

An interesting Blog by My friend Joseph Black!

https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/flavius-josephus-famous-and-memorable-works-1640/#like-5211?page_id=5211

Medieval and Renaissance Forum at Keene State College April 10 & 11

46th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum The Body in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 958J Albertus Magnus. https://jamesgray2.me/2026/03/03/an-annotated-1508-de-secretis-mulierum-medieval-version-of-our-bodies-ourselves/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/03/03/an-annotated-1508-de-secretis-mulierum-medieval-version-of-our-bodies-ourselves/ 284J Aristotle/ Burley. https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/30/aristotle-and-burley-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/30/aristotle-and-burley-2/ 601J Augustine. https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/24/601j-augustinus-pseudo/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/24/601j-augustinus-pseudo/ 658J Eusebius (Jerome). https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/eusebius-la-vita-el-transito-1487/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/eusebius-la-vita-el-transito-1487/ 525J Ficino (see also 935J). https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/17/annotated-letters-of-marsilio-ficino-1497/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/17/annotated-letters-of-marsilio-ficino-1497/... Continue Reading →

Magnencij Rabani Mauri De Laudib[us] sancte Crucis opus 1503.

Nam digiti scripto laetantur, lumina visu  Mens volvet sensu mystica verba Dei   The fingers rejoice in writing, the eyes in seeing, and the mind at examining the meaning of God’s mystical words.”       351J* . Hrabanus Maurus.   784-856? Magnencij Rabani Mauri De... Continue Reading →

Matthäus Merian’s great “Bilderbibel, with 251 plates.

Merian’s great “Bilderbibel,” reissued in Amsterdam with English text for export—complete, finely bound, and preserving the full narrative richness of the seventeenth century’s most influential engraved Bible cycle. 962J.  Merian, Matthäus  1593-1650 Icones Biblicæ, praecipuas sacræ scripturæ historias eleganter et graphicè representantes.=... Continue Reading →

7 Incunabula not in the LOC and a fully Annotated copy of Livi printed 1491.

Eight incunabula all rare in North America

Some of my favorite pre 1530 Woodcuts

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Dr. Radcliff’s prescriptions, 1716.

493J John Radcliffe (1650-1714) Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana: or, Dr. Radcliff’s prescriptions, faithfully gather’d from his original recipe’s. To which are annex’d, useful observations upon each prescription. [By Edward Strother.] London : printed for Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, against... Continue Reading →

John Browne’s Myographia Nova: Anatomy Insights

Myographia Nova 963J John Browne 1642-1700? Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in the humane body, as they arise in dissection: distributed into six lectures. At the Entrance into which, Are Demonstrated the proper Muscles belonging... Continue Reading →

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