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Early modern books by women

2024 Boston Antiquarian Book Fair

NOVEMBER 8 - 10, 2024AT THE HYNES CONVENTION CENTER900 BOYLSTON ST, BOSTON, MA Friday, November 8, 2024 • 4pm to 8pm / Ticket $25Saturday, November 9, 2024 • noon to 7pm / Free AdmissionSunday, November 10, 2024 • 11am to 4pm / Free Admission Below is a... Continue Reading →

Four 17th century female book owners.

833J Chifflet, Philip (1597-1657) Owner: Hyacinthii Bussa Casalensis 835J Donne, John (1573-1631) Owner Cordelia Sandford. 477E Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) Owner  Eliza: Sippi ...heetory... 1658. 650J Tasso, Torquato, (1544–1595) Tr. Edward Fairfax (c. 1580–1635) Owner Susanna Knollys 833J Chifflet, Philip (1597-1657)... Continue Reading →

Annotated Sammelband incunabula

1495 Quentell & 1499 Wolff 552Ji   Mateusz,; z Krakowa, Cardinal,; approximately 1330-1410.* (Ars moriendi.) - Speculū artis bene moriēdi de temptatōnibus. penis infernalibus interrogatōibus agonisantium et varijs oratōnibus pro illorum salute faciendis  (Köln, Heinrich Quentell, aout  1495).   Price $9,000 Quarto  20 x 5 cm. Signatures:... Continue Reading →

A very Special copy of Mrs. Philips Poems

The first editions of Katherine Philips Poems from 1667 are becoming hard to find, it a book I enjoy finding and buying when I can, when I saw the copy listed today it posed a moral problem that I often... Continue Reading →

OH — THE MATCHLESS ORINDA !

I am fairly sure that the Poems of Katherine Philips was the first 17th century book by an English Woman , I bought back some 30 years ago, and since then I have always been taken by her as a Person, Author,... Continue Reading →

English Women in the 17th century: by, for and about. Four books 1600-1684.

FIRST : #749J.  Nathan Parkhurst 1643-1707. The faithful and diligent Christian described and exemplified. Or, A sermon (with some additions,) preached at the funeral of the Lady Elizabeth Brooke, the relict of Sir Robert Brooke Kt. of Cockfield-Hall in Yoxford, Suffolk.... Continue Reading →

619J Horæ Deipare Virginis Marie B.V.M. Printed on Vellum 47 full-paged cuts coloured.

Horæ Deipare Virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum :pleris[que] Biblie figuris at[que] chorea lethi circu[m]munite, nouis[que] effigiebus adornate, vt in septet[m] Psalmis penitentiali[bus], in vigiliis defunctoru[m], & in horis S[an]cte[m] Crucis, in horis quo[que] S[an]cti Sp[irit]us videre licebit. Exarate [qui]de[m] Parisiis : industria bibliographi Thielmanni Keruer, preclare Vniuersitatis Parisiane librarii iurati in vico Sancti Iacobi ad signum Vnicornis 1519 Price $26,000 The full-page... Continue Reading →

633J A gorgeous little Book of Hours!

 633J. Book of Hours, Use of Rome most likely produced in England mid fifteenth century. Duodecimo, 10.5 x 8.5 cm. . 196 parchment leaves of parchment, including tipped-in illuminations on the verso that are coordinated with facing richly foliated leaves on... Continue Reading →

633J A gorgeous little Book of Hours!

 633J. Book of Hours, Use of Rome most likely produced in England mid fifteenth century. Duodecimo, 10.5 x 8.5 cm. . 196 parchment leaves of parchment, including tipped-in illuminations on the verso that are coordinated with facing richly foliated leaves on... Continue Reading →

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