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

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James Gray

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

Three English books we all know about … but maybe forgot about.

Undoubtedly the three books in this blogs are in some form are represented in most libraries. Of course EEBO or microform and certainly in later reprints or variorum editions. I need not here discuss the importance of original editions, yet... Continue Reading →

A cornerstone of Feminism 1697.

One of the Pillars of Early Modern English "Feminism" 775J Judith Drake, (fl. 1696-1723). An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a... Continue Reading →

The first published catalogue of the Cottonian Library with 6 other catalogues!

Maybe no other book I have in my current stock is more like the Internet than this one? I can spend hours upon hours reading (looking) through this book, An example is this entry: Price $2,500 This is entry "... Continue Reading →

Illustrations to aid in artificial memory.

660j. Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507) edited by Damiano Rosselli . Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae.concionatoribus, philosophis, medicis, iuristis, oratoribus, procuratoribus, caeterisq ; bonarum litterarum amatoribus, negociatoribus insuper alijsq ; similibus, tenacem ac firmam rerum memoriam cupientibus, perutilis : ac omnes sui amatores & possessores... Continue Reading →

Illustrations to aid in artificial memory.

660j. Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507) edited by Damiano Rosselli . Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae.concionatoribus, philosophis, medicis, iuristis, oratoribus, procuratoribus, caeterisq ; bonarum litterarum amatoribus, negociatoribus insuper alijsq ; similibus, tenacem ac firmam rerum memoriam cupientibus, perutilis : ac omnes sui amatores & possessores... Continue Reading →

Martin Luther On the “The Sermon on the Mount”

Luther, Martin Luther (1483-1546) Das fünffte, Sechste vnd Siebend Capitel S. Matthei. Wittenberg , Joseph Klug 1532.                 $4,500 Luther preached these sermons on Matthew 5-7 on Wednesdays in 1530-32 while Bugenhagen, the... Continue Reading →

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

° 502J  Petrus de Rosenheim. (1380-1432). Incipt; Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum [Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschla, ca. 1480.                                                                                                                                                                             Price: $18,500 Quarto: 22 x 14 ½ cm.  Signatures:  a-f8.  Pages (a1 blank and... Continue Reading →

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

684J Paradin Claude, Claude. (1510-1573) Les Devises héroïques, de M. Claude Paradi, chanoine de Beaujeu, du seigneur Gabriel Symeon et autres aucteurs. Anvers : De l'imprimerie de C. Plantini, 1567. $4,000 Duodecimo in 8’s, 12.5 x 8 cm. Third edition... Continue Reading →

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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