Search Results: Titles starting with S from Liber Antiquus

London: Johannes Crook, 1656. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf (discreet repairs to spine, boards a little bowed.) A very fine, fresh copy. Provenance: Robert Davies (early signature on title); Robert Pirie. Very rare. ESTC locates 6 copies in the U.S.: Harvard, Folger, Huntington, UCLA, Yale., B.C. First edition, edited by the Irish historian, scholar, and manuscript collector Sir James Ware (1594-1666) of the only two extant works by St. Patrick, : his autobiographical "Confessio" (our only authentic source for the greater part of St. Patrick's life and mission) and the "Epistola" to the soldiers of Coroticus, in which Patrick, using his authority as Bishop of Ireland, condemns the men who had attacked and enslaved members of Patrick's Irish Christian converts. Slavery was particularly abhorrent to Patrick, who himself had been enslaved at age 16 (He escaped six years later.) For an in-depth life of Patrick, see Clare Stancliffe, Patrick [St Patrick,… Read More

London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620. SECOND EDITION (1st 1610) of John Healy's translation of Augustine's "City of God". Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked with wear to hinges; boards scuffed, corners bumped. Internally a very good copy with intermittent light marginal damp-stains, a bit darker in a few signatures. Very fine woodcut initials and headpieces. Leaves of sig. O bound out of sequence, N3 with tiny rust hole, natural paper flaw in blank margin of 2 leaves (not affecting text), small marginal paper repair to leaf Zz4. This second edition was revised by William Crashaw (1572-1626) and includes the commentary of Juan Luis Vives (first published in Basle, 1522), which Vives wrote at the suggestion of Erasmus. "Fifteen years after Augustine wrote the Confessions, at a time when he was bringing to a close (and invoking government power to do so) his long struggle with the Donatists but before he had worked himself up to action against the Pelagians, the… Read More

Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552. Hardcover. Fine. First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: "LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM." (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, founders of the city, on the Campidoglio). Signed "ANT. LAFRERII FORMIS ROMAE MDLII". An icon of central importance to the mythology and history of the city of Rome, and an artwork that served as the nucleus of Europe's first public museum. This print, attributed to the French emigree engraver Nicolas Béatrizet, was issued by Lafréry in 1552, the year before he agreed to a partnership with his rival, Antonio Salamanca. After Lafréry's death the plate passed to his nephew Claudio Duchet. It was reprinted by Giovanni Orlandi in 1602 and afterwards (before 1622) by Hendrick van Schoel. The first definitive reference to this… Read More

Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg's apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards, endpapers renewed, binding a little soiled. Incipit and printer's device printed in red. Rubricated throughout, some of the initials with flourishes, red paragraph marks and capital strokes. Text in overall fine condition with minor worming to first and last two quires, mostly little holes and two very short (1 cm) trails entering the text. Occasional fingersoiling and stains. Provenance: erased inscription on first leaf - acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc, New York, 27 March 1956. 212 sermons on the Ten Commandments by the Dutch mystic Hendrik Herp,… Read More

N.pl: n.pr., 1701. FIRST EDITION THUS (See below). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled ivory vellum, re-cased, with blind-stamped floral ornaments at the corners and arabesque at center. The text and etchings are in very fine condition. Minor stain to inner margin of final leaf, tear in blank inner margin of title page,, small nick in outer margin of page "3". An attractive, fresh copy of a book usually found in poor condition. A newly-engraved edition of Crispijn van de Passe the Younger's "Mirror of the most beautiful Courtesans of this Age". The book consists of a letterpress title-page, letterpress dedication leaf, and 28 etched oval portraits, each with opposite letterpress text in French, Dutch and German. The portraits are re-engraved copies of de Passe's celebrated series, "Miroir des plus belles courtisanes de ce temps"(Amsterdam, 1630). This edition includes one new portrait ("Schoon Barbertjen"). Some others have been omitted. Above each portrait is the name of the… Read More

London: In the Savoy, Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1670. THIRD EDITION of "Steps to the Temple". Hardcover. Fine. Contemporary English calf, upper joint cracked. Complete with the engraved frontispiece. Provenance: Richard Heber, his sale 1834, to Britwell Court; Richard Jennings. This collection of Crashaw's poetry comprises the third edition (not the second, as the title states) of his "Steps to the Temple" (first 1646), the third edition of "The Delights of the Muses" (first edition 1648) and the second edition of the posthumous "Carmen Deo Nostro...Sacred Poems" (first edition 1652). "The Delights of the Muses" and the "Carmen Deo nostro" each has a divisional title page on leaves F8r and K5r respectively. Along with Donne, Herbert and Marvell, Crashaw was one of the most important of the Metaphysical poets. "Compared with one another, Crashaw represents more of Donne's ecstasy, and Herbert more of his reason" (George… Read More

The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1659. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. [Bound with:] De circuli magnitudine inventa. Accedunt eiusdem problematum quorundam illustrium constructiones. Leiden: Elzevir, 1654 Quarto: II. (8), 71, (1) p. Collation: *4, A-I4 FIRST EDITION of Huygens' landmark work on Saturn bound with the FIRST EDITION of Huygens' work on the quadrature of the circle, "De circuli magnitudine inventa."(1654). Very fine copies in contemporary vellum with a very pale damp-stain to leading edge of a few leaves. First work with 11 engravings in the text, several woodcut diagrams, and 1 folding engraved plate. Vellum scuffed and marked with minor soiling. The first edition of Huygens' announcement of the discovery of the rings of Saturn and the planet's enormous moon, Titan. The work was preceded by a one-sentence anagram by planted by Huygens in Petrus Borel's "De vero telescopii inventore" (1655/56) to secure priority of his discovery. The title of the book reads "The System of Saturn, or On… Read More