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Oxford: London : Printed for James Good in Oxford, and sold by J. Nut [i.e. Nutt, London], 1701. Second edition of the English translation by John Norton. ¶ Duodecimo; A-E12, F11 (A1, half title, present) Bound in original full calf, missing some leather from spine but cords are very strong. ESTC Citation No. N1243 415J. Some wonderful quotes for this book: The Answer of R. W. to his Friend, importunately desiring to know what LOVE might be? I Acknowledge the wanton Ty∣ranny of imperious Love, that is always requiring the most diffi∣cult Trials of the Affections. Now though it be a kinde of an Hercu∣lean Labour it self to Love, considering those severe duties, those toyls, and hazards appendant to it; as if Cruelty were its sole delight: Nevertheless we believe it reasonable, what names so∣ever we have given to Love, that he should exercise his Soveraignty, which is certainly very great and puissant; and by the Severity of his Commands, that he should augment the glory of his high Rule,… Read More

Nürnberg: Koberger :Per Antonium Koberger impræsse, 1497. Folio. 20 x 15 cm. Signatures: π¹⁰,A-Z⁸ a-g⁸ h⁴(lacking blank leaf h4); leaf D2 signed C₂./ Final leaf blank and wanting. This copy is bound in XVII century, full vellum. With filled initial spaces, printed guide letters, foliation, without catchwords, The first initial letter is Illuminiated with colours on gilt background with tendrils and an arabesque on margin, red and blue initial letters. There is quite a bit of contemporary  marginalia and underlining. There is an ownership  note from the XVII century handwritten on title-front. Restoration on foot of spine, signs of humidity. Quite a few marginal manuscript annotations, many of which are 'indexing' some timed at the top margin, There is a very distinct abbreviation on the the title and two other ex Libris. Bound later early vellum, With an opening initial in red, green,blue on a gold leaf background. The other initials are supplied in red and blue.. Locations :… Read More

Ulrich Zel, Cologne's first printer, learned his craft from Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz. He began printing in Cologne probably in 1465: I[ Cologne, Ulrich Zel, not after 1473], 1473. One of the earliest editions most likely the Second, (editio princeps: Venice 1470). This copy is bound in new quarter calf over original wooden boards. Capitals supplied in Red and Blue. Goff E119; BMC I 194(U. S: Boston Public Library, Indiana Univ., The Lilly Library (- 2 ff.), YUL);Eusebius Goff E119; (Boston P.L., Indiana Univ (- 2 ff.) YUL) https://data.cerl.org/istc/ie00119000. This copy contains the fifteen books of the "Praeparatio evangelica," whose purpose is "to justify the Christian in rejecting the religion and philosphy of the Greeks in favor of that of the Hebrews, and then to justify him in not observing the Jewish manner of life [...] "The following summary of its contents is taken from Mr. Gifford's introduction to his translation of the "Praeparitio:The first three books discuss the threefold system of… Read More

Venice: Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, 4 September 1500, 1500. Second edition after that of 1481. This copy is bound in contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards with 3 (of 4) metal catches on front cover, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, conspicuous termite damage on front cover, rear cover replaced with modern board, endpapers renewed; contents washed with residual soiling on opening leaves, worming through much of volume generally not impairing legibility, crude restoration in blank margins at beginning and end .G Ethica Nicomachea, Books 1-10, in the Latin translation of Robertus Grosseteste( 1175-1253) , incipit "[O]Mnis ars et om[n]is doctrina similiter aut[em] [et] actus [et] electio bonum quodda[m] ap=pete[re] videt[ur]. J[de]o b[e]n[e] enunciaueru[n]t bonu[m] q[uo]d omnia appetu[n]t", b1r-y9v; colophon (Venetijs impresse arte Simonis de Leure: impensis v[ir]o domini Andree Torresani de Asula. Anno M.D. die v[er]o, IIIJ. Septebris.,), y10r; printer's… Read More

Leipzig: Gregorius Böttiger (aka Werman), 1495. Editio princeps. his copy is bound in modern parchment housed in a custom slipcase.. Goff B39; H 2345*; GfT GfT: Gesellschaft für Typenkunde des XV. Jahrhunderts. Veröffentlichungen. 33 parts. Leipzig [etc], 1907-39. 521, 522; Pell 1753; BSB-Ink B-25; GW 3216; ISTC ib00039000. Balthasar de Porta's Canon Missae, also contains the the proposal of the Exposition of the Eucharist before the celebration of mass . This commentary on the Mass, has verses taken from the Jesuida of Hieronymus de Vallibus, which are used in the appropriate context to illustrate or emphasize the author's meaning. We know very few facts about the life of Balthasar de Porta , a Cistercian monk who served as Provisor at the order's College (Saint Bernard) at Leipzig until about 1499. In the same years, he also published another work about Mass, the Expositio mysteriorum missae (Leipzig: Kacheloven, 1494) and a work on the heretical Bohemian Brethren, Conclusiones contra quorundam… Read More

London: A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel at the Peacock, in Fleetstreet, 1697. Third EDITION (a year after the first edition.). Bound in contemporary, speckled calf, ruled in blind. with spine is rebacked with "Female Sex" gilt spine. With an engraved frontispiece, "The Compleat Beau". 'An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex" (1696) was one of the most significant English contributions to the early modern debate concerning women. Attributed to Judith Drake (c. 1670- post 1723), who wrote it in the form of a letter to a female friend following 'a private conversation, between some gentlemen and ladies', the tract vigorously and wittily vindicated female intellectual abilities and character. Drake drew upon John Locke's 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' (1690) to construct a rationalist framework upon which to argue that it was custom and language which engendered the belief that women were intellectually inferior to men. Drake then proceeded to reject the cult of the… Read More

London: Printed by M. Clark, for Samuel Mearne, in Little Britain, John Martyn, in St. Pauls Church-yard, and Henry Herringman, in the New Exchange, 1680. Twelfth edition. Octavo;A6, B-Z8, Aa-Bb8, Cc3, [Cc4]; lacks the final blank leaf. This copy is bound in original boards, recently rebacked. [Bacon's] Essays, the fruits of his political and social observations, were first published in 1597, enlarged in 1612, and again in 1625. His long attempt to reform the intellectual habits of the European mind began with the publication of The Advancement of Learning in 1605, which attacked the unprofitable scholasticism that inhibited the growth of knowledge and the mental prejudices that helped to keep men in ignorance. Above all he deplored the poor and confused state of knowledge about the operations of the natural world. Novum Organum, begun about 1608, published 1620, called for a systematic study of the natural world and of the causes of things, and proposed the inductive method as the most reliable… Read More