981J Michael Drayton (1563-1631) Poems by Michael Drayton esquyer. Newly corrected and augmented. London: W. Stansby for J. Smethwick, 1637 Price $2,500 Octavo 13.5 x 8 cm. Signatures A2-X12. (A1,The first leaf is blank except for signature mark "A". is... Continue Reading →
Saints, Wives, Nuns, Poets, and Prophets: Twenty Early Books on Women I intended to select a dozen books and somehow arrived at twenty. Once gathered together, however, they seemed to belong in one conversation, and I have left them that... Continue Reading →
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945J: Connor, Bernardus . Connor, Bernardus, 1666 ?-1698. Evangelium Medici: Seu Medicina Mystica, De Suspensis Naturae Legibus, Sive de Miraculis, Reliquisque ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις Memoratis, quae Medicae indagini subjici possunt : Ubi perpensis prius Corporis Natura, sano & morboso Corporis Humani Statu,... Continue Reading →
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533J Franz Balthasar , von Geyer,(de Porta) (Fl 1480-1505) Canon sacratissime misse : vna cum Expositione eiusde[m]. vbi in primis premittit[ur] pulchra contemplatio ante missam habe[n]da De cristi pulcritudine. Et quo[modo] ipsa in sua passione ab eo omnino fuerat ablata.... Continue Reading →
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971J Morton, John, 1671?-1726. The natural history of Northampton-Shire; with some account of the antiquities. To which is annex'd a transcript of Doomsday-Book, so far as it relates to that county. By John Morton M. A. Rector of Oxendon in... Continue Reading →
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959J Neuchâtel (Suisse) Jugemens souverains rendus en l'année 1672 par les trois Estats de la Souveraineté de Neuf-Chatel et de Vallengin en Suisse : au profit de Madame la duchesse de Longueville curatrice de Monsieur le duc de Longueville son... Continue Reading →
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First edition of John Keymors' Observation Made upon the Dutch Fishing (1664), a landmark work of early English political economy. Written around 1601 and published during the Anglo-Dutch commercial rivalry, the tract argues that Dutch prosperity rested upon the fisheries of the British seas and that herring generated more wealth than Spain's American silver. An important Kress 1725 item linking maritime commerce, national wealth, and the origins of mercantilist thought
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478J Ramsey, William (under the pseudonym "William Seymar") Conjugium Conjurgium: or, Some Serious Considerations on Marriage. Wherein (by way of caution and advice to a friend) its nature, ends, events, concomitant accidents, &c. are examined. London: Printed for John Amery... Continue Reading →
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744G John Langston 1641-1704 Lusus poeticus Latino-Anglicanus in usum scholarum. Or The more eminent sayings of the Latin poets collected; and for the service of youth in that ancient exercise, commonly called capping of verses, alphabetically digested; and for the greater... Continue Reading →
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