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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

Engraven on 46 copper-plates, and contriv’d in a small compass for the pocket : being of great use for the reading of history, and a ready help to discourse : 1707 Early Modern Book Making.

I have a fairly rare but very interesting book to offer it is oblong, completed engraved (no type setting here) and quite amusing, it has a table  of the modes of demise sand other activities of royalty with symbols  for... Continue Reading →

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Engraven on 46 copper-plates, and contriv’d in a small compass for the pocket : being of great use for the reading of history, and a ready help to discourse : 1707 Early Modern Book Making.

I have a fairly rare but very interesting book to offer it is oblong, completed engraved (no type setting here) and quite amusing, it has a table  of the modes of demise sand other activities of royalty with symbols  for... Continue Reading →

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Suetonius ILLUSTRATED: Ok I missed the IDES of March, This book, with the first Image of a Caesarian Section arrived yesterday, I had no time to catalogue or picture it.

OK AGAIN, Currently there is no reliable evidence that Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section.  At the time of Julius's birth, there was an prohibition to burring a dead pregnant woman with the fetus... Continue Reading →

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“One of the most influential documents in the history of medieval scientific attitudes toward women”

654J pseudo Albertus Magnus Albert(us) Magnus Secretis mulieru(m) Leipzig : Melchior Lotter, 1500 $12,000 GW dates [c.1500]. Quarto 24 x 14.5 cm. Collation: A–F6, F6 is a blank, colophon on F5, verso.( f6 blank and present.) there are two variants... Continue Reading →

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“One of the most influential documents in the history of medieval scientific attitudes toward women”

654J pseudo Albertus Magnus Albert(us) Magnus Secretis mulieru(m) Leipzig : Melchior Lotter, 1500 $12,000 GW dates [c.1500]. Quarto 24 x 14.5 cm. Collation: A–F6, F6 is a blank, colophon on F5, verso.( f6 blank and present.) there are two variants... Continue Reading →

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Two early Boston imprints 1720 & 1732 By two New England Religious mavericks John Rogers and Andrew Le Mercier.

628J John Rogers (1648-1721). The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which were to come to pass; and Jesus Christ sent and signifyed it by his angel to... Continue Reading →

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Book of the Month ‡ March § Physica Curiosa (Physica curiosa, sive Mirabilia naturae et artis libris XII. comprehensa; Mirabilia naturae et artis libris XII. comprehensa) 1667 Gaspar Schott

563G Gaspar Schott 1608-1666 P. Gasparis Schotti Regis Curiani E Societate Jesu, Olim in Panormitano Siciliæ, nunc in Herbipolitano Franconiæ Gymnasio ejusdem Societatis Jesu Matheseos Professoris, Physica Curiosa, Sive Mirabilia Naturæ Et Artis Libris XII. Comprehensa, Quibus pleraq;, quæ de... Continue Reading →

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537Ji-v A Sammelband of five printed books. Four from the early sixteenth century and one printed in the late fifteenth. On reformist liturgy 1499-1515.

 537Ji-v This volume is Sammelband of five printed books. Four from the early sixteenth century and one printed in the late fifteenth. Basel, Mainz, Oppenheim, Speyer, Straßburg, 1499-1515. Price $ 16,000 Five Chancery Quarto volumes, 20 x 15.5 cm These copies... Continue Reading →

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Walter Burley

284J Aristotle , Gualtherus Burlaeus. (Walter Burley (c. 1275–1344/5 )) Expositio Gualteri Burlei super decem Libros Ethicorum Aristotelis (Contains the text of Robert Grosseteste's translation of the Nicomachean Ethics) Venice: Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, 4 September 1500  ... Continue Reading →

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