Abrégé de l'Histoire d'Espagne by Duverdier, Gilbert Saulnier, 1598-1686 - M.DC. LIX [1659]

Chez la vevfe Edm Pepingué , 1659. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris, Chez la vevfe Edm Pepingue MDCLIX [1659]. First Edition. Hardcover. Text in French. Two Volumes: [20], 662; [22], 623 p.; 15 cm. The French Royal Historiographer wrote several works, beginning with Abrege. This history of Spain traces the origins of the country in Volume 1. In Volume 2 Ferdinand marries Isabella, the Jews are expelled from the country, Columbus discovers America (p. 97), Pizarro discovers Peru (p.171) and France and Spain battle in Italy, the Low Countries, wherever they could. The second half, the last 300 pages or so, deal with conflicts of the years between 1648 and 1658, This is a rare book. I did not find it in OCLC World Catalog, the BN; one copy in COPAC; not in Brunet (but Cioranescu 17th Century, 28251); via Libri recorded only a 1682 Edition. Bound in contemporary full leather, re-backed. Very Good, gilt ornate design on spines, gilt lettering on black spine label, marbled text… Read More

Voyageurs, Robes Noires, et Coureurs de Bois. By C.U. Clark. 1934 1st Edition Columbia University Institute of French Studies, Inc. FRENCH LANGUAGE. Stories from the French Exploration of North America, selected and edited by the venerable and renowned Charles Upson Clark, Ph.D: English title is: Travellers, Black Robes, and Wood-runners. Scarce. HARDCOVER. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy blue cloth boards with large gilt titling. No titling remains on spine. 5 ¾ X 8. 374 pages, indexed. Time period covered is 17th and 18th Centuries. JESUITS. ANTHROPOLOGY. SOCIAL SCIENCES. HISTORY OF FRANCE. HISTORY OF CANADA. CANADIANA. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Dr. Clark was the first archaeologist in the world to translate The Badianus Manuscript, aka The Codex Barberini, an Aztec compendium on traditional herbal medicine dating from the Fourteenth Century. Will ship from Oregon.

London: Thomas Thorpe (Oakland: Octavo), 1609; 2003. 1st edition. No Binding. New/No Jacket (as issued). Digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc; not a printed book) of one of only thirteen surviving copies of the 1609 first edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, from the Grenville Library at the British Library. This milestone of digital publishing and preservation, part of the acclaimed Octavo Digital Editions series, presents the entire work, including binding, in unprecedented resolution and fidelity (may be magnified at up to 300% of original size), with full searchable transcription (which allows searching of text in the book images), and introductory commentary by Shakespeare scholar Arthur Freeman, bibliographical information, and a detailed account of the copy's provenance. Unsold original stock, minor storage wear.

London: F. C. & I. Rivington, 1820. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First Thus. Very good, with rubbing and wear to extremities, , some fading to top of vol. 1, and prev owner inscription dated 1826, on ffep. Internally tight and clean. Marbled endpapers and fore edges. Full calf, with raised bands onn gilt stamped spine. Gilt decorated borders and dentelles. Engraved frontis and title pages. A little worn, but sound..

London: Printed for R. Chilwell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Churchyard, and R. Bentley in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden, 1689. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sm 4to (20cm). Rebound in later black faux leather, with new endpapers, five raised bands to spine, gilt title, 'Infallible Guide', to cover, and date, 1689. pp. [i], title, [iv], imprimatur, [v-vi], contents, 132. A scarce copy of Hooper's second work, an apologetic in defence of the Anglican Church. Hooper had a more than accomplished academic record, being elected a scholar at St Paul's School, and subsequently granted a King's Scholarship at Westminster School. At Oxford he excelled in mathematics, while also learning good Hebrew and Syriac alongside Greek and Latin. In 1680 he was appointed chaplain to King Charles II. Subsequently made Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1704 to 1727. All of Hooper's works were published anonymously. The text of this states there are three discourses, but the book contains only two discourses; the… Read More

London: Elliot Stock, 1876. First edition, thus. Full Leather. Very good. Being a facsimile reprint of the first edition / with an introduction by Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. 12mo., (18cm). Panelled black morocco, with floral blind stamped border. Five raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, inside gilt dentelles. Matching gilt blocked decorations of acorns and oak leaves to spine compartments and covers. Facsimile of the 1633 University of Cambridge first edition. xvi, 192, [3], index. Some tanning to pages at margins - seems to be a recurring issue with some Stock editions - joints rubbed, slight crack to front inner hinge. No ownership marks or annotations. No limitation, but a scarce Elliot Stock facsimile edition with no other copies listed online as of May, '23.

A German ed. good hardcover (leather-bound spine), signs of wear on covs. & spines as in image, text/block tight clean with staining on top right corner of 1st, vol. 836p. 12×9,5cm. 300gr.

Paris: Jean Jost, 1649. Hardcover. Good +. [4], 586, [30] p.; 24 cm. Signatures: [pi]2 A-3H4 (4to). 19th-century? half calf with five spine compartments between raised bands; marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration at head and tail and on raised bands; blind-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Title page in red and black. Printer's emblem on title page. Woodcut head piece above Ad Lectorem; several woodcut initials. Inscription on front fixed endpaper: "F.G. Rappe de Thisnes 1844." Faint stamp on title page: "Bibliotheca C. SS. R. Ilchester, MD." Stamp on title page verso: "Bibliotheca Mt. St. Alphonsus, Esopus, N.Y." Inscriptions at the foot of the Ad Lectorem page indicate that the book had belonged to Jacobi Garmar before F.G. Rappe. Very scarce; this edition not in WorldCat. In Good+ Condition: rubbed; lacking some leather from one raised band; leather separated along front joint; back joint starting; pages are slightly… Read More

A compilation of Quarles' works. The overall title page with details of the publisher is missing, but there is a dedication to King Charles I which was clearly specially written for the work, which makes it likely that it was published in the 1630's (it makes no reference to Civil War). Each work has a separate title page or a large heading, and retains the dedications etc written when they were first published. The first text is 'A Feast for Worms' totalling 64 pages, which has a note for the Reader and has pages 13-36 misbound out of sequence. The second is Pentelogia, a short text covering pp 65-70. The third is Hadassa with a separate title page, preface to the Reader, introduction, dedication, and the History of Esther, running to p 147. The fourth is Job Militant with half title page, proposition, dedication and text running to p 231. The fifth is the History of Sampson with no title page but starting with 'To the Reader' and text to p 232. The sixth is Sion's Sonnets… Read More

"Una de las mejores biografías de la excelsa poetisa mexicana Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." (Palau, Manual del Librero) Primera edición, de autor, impresa en Madrid por los hijos de M.G. Hernández, 1910. Muy bella encuadernación holandesa de escuela española con tapas marmoleadas, lomo en piel vacuna con 4 falsos nervios, títulos y ornamentos dorados. Magnífico ejemplar, únicamente el canto superior de las tapas está un poco raspado. Interiores impecables. Muy raro, especialmente en esta encuadernación y estado de conservación.

Venedig: Nicolo Pezzani, 1672. 360 S.; mit Titelvignette; Ricorretta, & ornatadi alcune Annotationi da Tomaso Porcacchi; Arcadia S. 1 - 274, angebunden Rime di M. Giacomo Sannazaro. Ss. 275 - 360; fliegender Vorsatz locker u. mit Reparatur, Papier gering fleckig, letztes Bl. mit Eckabriss, vorletztes Blatt mit kl. Eckfehlstelle u. minimalem Textverlust, Einband fleckig u. mit kleineren Läsuren. Pergament. Etwas beschädigt. 11,2 cm. Miniaturbuch.