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Gertrude the Great, Saint. (1256-1302) Pratiqve Des Exercices Spiritvels, Tirée Des Oevvres de Sainte Gertrvde. Vtile & profitable à l'Ame devote, qui desire s'avancer à la perfection. Avec plusieurs Meditations & salutaires enseignmens, tant pour les personnes seculieres, que pour la Profession Religieuse, & la renovation des VÅ“ux. Nouvelle Edition, reveuë, corrigée, & mise en la pureté de nostre langue. Et enrichie de plusieurs figures en taille douce. Paris: Chez Iean Covterot, ruë S. Iacques, au petit Iesus, prés les Mathurins, 1668. An extremely rare book. No copies found in any of the libraries. Copies of Jean Couterot's works only hold small numbers in libraries across the world. His publications were very small runs and a limited number have survived. Saint Gertrude the Great:8vo, 5.94 x 3.25 in. a8, e2, A-Z8/4, Aa-Zz4/8; lacking the engraved frontispiece (of Saint Gertrude), but with twenty one full-paged engravings, and four full-paged engraved tables. The engraving on page 272… Read More

Witsius, Hermann (1636-1708): Hermanni Witsii, Meletemata Leidensia. Quibus continentur Praelectiones de Vita et Rebus Gestis Pauli Apostoli. Ne non Dissertationum Exegeticarum Duodecas. Denique Commentarius in Epsitolam Judae Apostoli. Lugd. Batavorum, Apud. Jordanum Luchtmans, 1703. Collation: [blank], *4, **2, A4-I4, K4-T4, V4-Z4, Aa4-Ii4, Nest Section: Dissertationes Selectae, Maximam Partem Exegeticae. Kk4-Tt4, Vv4-Zz4, Aaa4-Iii4, Kkk4-Ttt4, Vvv4-Yyy4, Zzz2, [blank]. Rebound in paper boards with recreation of period swirl colors often used. Blanks are new. 4to. Very nice and tight binding that will last for many hundreds of years. Interior is bright and clean with chapter colophons and printing is sharp. A very nice book about the life of the Apostle Paul with frequent Greek text references and translated to Latin.
H. Witsius, born in Holland, (1636-1708). He studied under Gisbertus Voetius, Johannes Hoornbeeck, Andreas Essenius, and Samuel Maresius. Pastored churches in Westwoud, Wormeren,… Read More

A rare publication: OCLC shows no copies and only 11 publications by Charles Pierce of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A Rare Publication. A Sermon, Delivered at York, October 10, 1798, at the Ordination of the Rev. Rosewell Messinger, to the Pastoral Charge of the First Church as Colleague Pastor with the Rev. Isaac Lyman by Ezra Ripley, A. M. Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Concord, (Massa.) "Be therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves." Portsmouth, New-Hampshire: Printed by Charles Peirce, at the Oracle-Press, No. 5. Daniel-Street. -1798. 8vo 24 pages.

Ezra Ripley was the minister of the First Parish in Concord, Massachusetts; chief citizen of the town; step-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson; cofounder in Concord of America's first lyceum. Ordained a Trinitarian Calvinist, he became a Unitarian. He was also witness to the events of the day and wrote a recount of the 'shot heard round the world'. He ministered to his flock throughout the revolutionary war and could be said to be an… Read More