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[Prayer book].
Sammlung auserlesener Gebether, als Morgen- Abend- Meß- Beicht und Kommunionandachten [...]. Vienna, Ignaz Grund, 1789.
8vo. 410 (including the engraved frontispiece), (6) pp. With 15 engraved plates. Contemporary black calf. All edges gilt. Stored in pretty blindstamped calf slipcase. Rare prayer book including numerous prayers and litanies for everyday devotion as well as for times of illness and inclement weather. Also covers some common songs for mass. The engraved plates show saints and illustrate the prayers addressed to them. - Includes a rare printed receipt in which one P. Roland confirms having dispensed confession in the Viennese Franciscan Church on Easter 1817, as well as a dried and pressed leaf. A woman's handwritten ink ownership to flyleaf, identifiying the volume as the property of "herself and her mother" ("Gebeth-Buch von mir und Frau Mutter 1789"). - Light browning, heavier brownstains to pp. 72-75, 144-145 and 347-352, small flaw to lower flyleaf. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his ownership stamp to pastedown.
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Cochem, Martin von.
Das grosse Leben Christi, oder ausführliche, andächtige, bewegliche und ganz vollkommene Beschreibung des allerheiligsten Lebens und bitteren Leidens unsers Herrn Jesu Christi [...] Samt einem nutzlichen Zusatz oder ausführlichen Beschreibung der vier letzten Dingen des Menschens [...]. Steyr, Johann Ferdinand Holzmayr, 1753.
4to. (6), 560, 200 pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece, 31 engraved illustrations in the text, one folding engraved map and one folding engraved view. Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards. Parts one and three only of the German Capuchin theologian's important work in three parts, first published in 1689 in this version and reissued numerous times. It is considered "one of the best Catholic books of edification [...] far from the simplicity of the gospels" (cf. Scherer), giving lively descriptions of episodes from the New Testament. In addition to part one of the Life of Christ (with part two missing), it includes the "Nützlicher Zusatz zu dem Leben Christi" in four parts. The appealing illustrations, namely a map of the Holy Land, a view of Jerusalem, and numerous scenes from the New Testament, render this work all the more interesting. - Binding partly defective, especially at the spine and the lower wooden boards. Both clasps missing. Paper browned throughout, fingerstained, slightly waterstained, slight worming. Larger paper flaws in the map and the view with substantial loss, rebacked with thicker paper, some worming in the gutter. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his ownership stamp to front pastedown. VD 18, 11198265. ADB XX, 480f. Scherer 336f. Cf. LThK VI, 980f.
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[Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'].
Système social ou principes de la morale et de la politique. Avec un examen de l'influence du gouvernement sur les moeurs. Londres [= Amsterdam, M.-M. Rey?], 1774.
8vo. 3 vols. in one. (4), 210 pp. 176 pp. 167, (1) pp. Contemporary French calf with giltstamped red label to gilt spine. All edges sprinkled in blue. Marbled endpapers. Early edition of the atheist and materialist philosopher d'Holbach's treatise in which he develops his concept of "ethocracy", a just state whose main purpose is the general welfare. Holbach's theory of ethocracy "is presented in several works published during the 1770's, 'La politique naturelle' (Natural Politics, 1773), 'Système social' (The Social System, 1773), 'La morale universelle' (Universal Morality, 1776), and 'Ethocratie' (Ethocracy, 1776). Holbach's foundational view is that the most valuable thing a person seeking self-preservation can do is to unite with another person: 'Man is of all beings the most necessary to man' [...] Society, when it is just, unites for the common purpose of preservation and the securing of welfare, and society contracts with government for this purpose" (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy). First published the previous year. - Binding rubbed; extremeties bumped and chipped. Stamps of the library of Vienna's Institut Français. Cioranescu 34061. Vercruysse 1774.A6. Cf. Barbier IV, 621.
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Norden, John.
A Pensive Mans Practise. Very profitable for all persons: wherein are contained very devout and necessary prayers for sundry godly purposes, with requisite perswasions before every Prayer. Newly corrected and amended by the Author, above 42 Impressions. London, John Beale for Robert Bird, 1640.
12mo. (28), 3-258, (4) pp. Contemporary full brown calf. A popular devotional work printed in Roman type and (mainly) blackletter. John Norden (1548-1625?) was a cartographer, chorographer and antiquary. - A tear, minor soiling and slight damage to title-page. Corners bumped; front board of binding detached; severe spine defects, but block still held together by cords. The main text is complete and generally very good. ESTC S121226 (copies: BL [lacks TP]; Bodleian). STC 18626a.
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[Officium hebdomadae].
Officium hebdomadae sanctae secundum Missale & Breviarium Romanum [...]. Einsiedeln, Adam Rupert Schedler, 1724.
8vo. 301, (1) pp., including the engraved frontispiece and 5 full-page engravings in the text. Printed in red and black throughout. Contemporary giltstamped full calf with giltstamped spine title. All edges red. A popular liturgical book containing prayers, psalms, songs and gospel texts for service during the Holy Week. The engraved illustrations by Johann Caspar Gutwein depict scenes from the Passion of Christ, showing Gethsemane, the Flagallation of Christ, the Crown of Thorns, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. 19th century ownership label by Alois Fuchs, provost of the Graz parish church, to pastedown. - Binding rubbed. Paper slightly browned, first half somewhat waterstained. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his ownership stamp to flyleaf. VD 18, 14321025. Benziger 458 & 800. Cf. Thieme/Becker XV, 363. Kayser IV, 267 (1831 ed.).
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[Richter, Joseph.
Bildergalerie weltlicher Misbräuche, ein Gegenstück zur Bildergalerie katholischer und klösterlicher Misbräuche. Frankfurt & Leipzig (Vienna, Kurzböck), 1785].
8vo. 268 (instead of 270), (2) pp. With 20 engraved plates and two engraved vignettes. Modern half cloth over marbled boards. First edition; extremely rare: the third instalment of Joseph Richter's (1749-1813) panoply of abuses, "very interesting for its appealing engravings, often showing Viennese localities" (cf. Hayn/Gotendorf). Following his 1784 writings on the decline of Catholic and monastic standards, Richter here criticises wedding celebrations, card games, lotteries and dancing, as well as libraries, pharmacies, prisons, fashion and the excessive use of titles. The present volume is organized in 20 chapters, each treating a different aspect of human life and showing an allegorical illustration. - Wants the title-page and the engraved frontispiece. Paper somewhat browned, brownstained and fingerstained throughout; a large tear in the first page of the foreword rebacked with Japan paper; small flaws to the bottom right-hand corners of a few pages (no loss to text); top right-hand corner of the last page torn and rebacked with paper. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel with his ownership stamp to flyleaf. VD 18, 14693577. Hayn/Gotendorf V, 442. Pisk 19. Bodi 140. Rümann 826. Lanckoronska/Oehler III, 11. Kayser III, 142 ("Vienna"). Not in Wernigg.
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[Sintzel, Johann Michael (ed.)].
Der lebendige Rosenkranz. Ein vor Gott besonders wohlgefälliges und wirksames gemeinschaftliches Gebet [...] Neunzehnte, vermehrte Auflage. Stadtamhof bei Regensburg, Joseph Mayr, 1860.
12mo. 252 pp. With steel-engraved frontispiece and several engraved headpieces. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards with giltstamped title label to spine. A popular prayer book that saw numerous reissues since its first edition in 1837. The preliminaries of the present copy contain the forewords to the first, 9th and 10th editions by Michael Sintzel (1804-89), a catholic cleric and the editor of numerous 19th century devotionals. Loosely inserted is a small booklet: "Aufruf an die kleinen Seelen zur Nachfolge der Schwester Theresia vom Kinde Jesu", 1913. - Lower inner hinges broken. Paper somewhat browned and brownstained throughout. Cf. Kayser XVI, 266 (1859 ed.).
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Beck, Dominicus.
Institutiones metaphysicae praelectionibus publicis destinatae. Salzburg, heirs of Johann Joseph Mayr, 1785.
8vo. Four parts in one volume. (8), 406 pp. With engraved title vignette and several woodcut headpieces. Contemporary calf over wooden boards with giltstamped title label to spine. All edges red. Third, expanded edition of this important work by the German mathematician and physicist Beck on metaphysics, discussing ontology, cosmology, "psychology" and theology. It covers common terms of physics and the laws of nature, as well as the origin of the planet Earth, while also treating epistemological issues and the existence of God. - With contemporary bookplate from the Priesterhausbibliothek Salzburg, today part of the diocesan library, to the pastedown. Upper hinges a little worn. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, whose 1980 note of acquisition is loosely inserted. VD 18, 10718095. Kayser I, 174. For Beck cf. Wurzbach I, 210f.
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[Prayer book].
Tägliche Andachts-Übungen zum Gebrauch Ihro Kais. Majestät der Königin zu Hungarn und Böheim. Vienna, Franz Wolfang Keßler, [ca. 1775].
12mo. 252 pp. With engraved frontispiece and two headpieces. Contemporary blindstamped calf. A rare edition of this popular 18th century devotional, including various prayers, hymns of praise, litanies and other liturgical texts. One of two variant editions issued by Kessler, all undated but probably around 1775. Neither Keßler edition features the engraved plates found in other editions. The frontispiece shows the crucifix of Emperor Ferdinand II and is signed by A. Dischler. Two confirmations of confessions from Easter 1852 are loosely enclosed. - Paper evenly browned, brownstained throughout, lower corner of pp. 59f. torn off, causing some loss of text. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership, dated 1979, to front pastedown. OCLC 320730632. Cf. Kayser I, 60 (Gerold ed.). Not in Holzmann/Bohatta.
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[Sailer, Johann Michael].
Vollständiges Gebethbuch für katholische Christen worin Morgen-, Abend-, Meß-, Beicht- und Kommuniongebethe; nebst Meß- und Kirchengesängen und der nachmittägige Gottesdienst enthalten ist. St. Pölten, Franz Xaver Lorenz, no date.
12mo. 142 [including the woodcut frontispiece], (2) pp. Contemporary red boards, giltstamping oxydized. A pocket-size edition of the popular devotional by the Catholic theologian and bishop of Regensburg, Sailer (1751-1832), first published as "Vollständiges Lese- und Gebetbuch" in 1783, "which made him world-famous" (cf. LThK). The frontispiece shows the crucified Christ. Includes prayers, chants and a litany, all listed in an index at the back. - Binding a little worn, especially at the spine. Paper variously browned and brownstained. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership to front pastedown. Cf. Kayser V, 8. LThK IX, 74f (1783 eds.).
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[Varillas, Antoine].
Histoire de l'Heresie de Viclef, Jean Hus, et Jerome de Prague. Avec celle des Guerres de Boheme qui en ont esté les suites. Lyon, Jean Certe, 1682.
12mo. Two parts in one volume. (14), 227, (1), (14), 228, (10) pp. Contemporary full calf with formerly giltstamped (oxydized) spine and spine title. First edition. - Including both parts in one volume, this edition is not to be confused with the two-volume edition of the same year, supposedly printed in the Netherlands. A popular work by the French historian Varillas (1624-96), whose historical method was severely criticized by his contemporaries, discussing several prominent figures of Protestant Reformation from a Catholic point of view. Also issued under the title "L'histoire du Wiclefianisme". - First third somewhat wormed (slight loss of a few letters). With 18th c. bookplate from the convent of Maria Jeutendorf in Lower Austria and their handwritten ownership to title. Latterly in the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed ownership, dated 1999, to the flyleaf. Graesse III, 289. Barbier II, 686. Cf. Weller, Falsche und fingierte Druckorte II, 34 (fictive edition). Cellist 11033. Vegl. Cioranescu 65497 (Titelvariante).
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[Missale romanum].
Canon Missae ad usum episcoporum, ac praelatorum solemniter vel private celebrantium [...]. Rome, A. P. Salvioni, 1784.
Royal folio (315 x 450 mm). (4), 176 pp. With engraved title-page, engraved title vignette, 18 engraved vignettes in the text, 3 engraved borders, 15 full-page text engravings, and numerous engraved initials. Contemporary auburn morocco with green label to richly gilt spine; covers elaborately gilt with bishop's giltstamped armorial supralibros. All edges gilt; leading edges gilt. Coloured endpapers. Splendid missal bound for the personal use of an unidentified bishop. His arms in the supralibros have been superimposed with a different crest by a later owner (removed from back cover). - Text and notes printedin red and black throughout; the engraved plates depict scenes from the life of Christ, mostly signed by Carlo Grandi (cf. Thieme/B. XIV, 506). - Appealing binding, slightly rubbed and chafed; some browning and fingerstaining to interior. Not in Weale/Bohatta.
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Hovius, Matthias (ed.).
Processionale, ritibus Romanae Ecclesiae accomodatum. Antiphonas & responsoria aliaque in supplicationibus decantari folita complectens [...]. Antwerp, Balthasar Moret, 1629.
4to. (8), 304, XCIX, (4), 1 blank, 5, (1) pp., 1 blank leaf. With engraved title vignette showing the coat of arms of the Barberini family, as well as Saints Peter and Paul. With woodcut initials. Printed in red and black throughout. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin, monogrammed "CVCD" and dated 1684, over wooden boards with handwritten spine title, four raised bands and two clasps. Early (4th) edition of this popular work of liturgical music by the Archbishop of Mechelen, Matthias Hovius (1542-1620), first published in 1602 and reissued as late as the 19th century. It provides music and corresponding lyrics for choral singing. The appearance of the coat of arms of the Barberini family is a reference to Urban VII (Maffeo Barberini), as this work was issued during his papacy. The blindstamped covers, dating from 1684, show the coat of arms of the Discalced Carmelite order with the banner bearing the prophet Elijah's words: "Zelo zelatus sum pro domino deo exercituum". - Paper slightly browned and wavy, small ruststains from the clasps on the endpapers and the lower pastedown. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership, dated 1984, to front pastedown. OCLC 643050989. For the Discalced Carmelites cf. LThK V, 842.
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Kingo, Th[omas].
Den forordnede Nye Kirke-Psalme-Bog [...]. Copenhagen, Sebastian Popp, 1798.
8vo. 454, (2) pp. Including the woodcut frontispiece. Contemporary giltstamped (oxydized) calf over wooden boards. A narrow edition of the Danish psalm book by the bishop Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634-1703), whose hymn-writing marks a climax in baroque spiritual poetry in Denmark. The first half of the volume includes psalms for the whole Christian year, while the second one features texts from the New Testament and has a separate title-page, the pagination remaining continous: "Collecter, Epistler og Evangelier paa det ganske Aars Son- og Helligedage, med Jesu Christi Lidelseshistorie [...]". - Contemporary ownership to recto of frontispiece ("Svend Andreas Helsingjer Böe"). Contemporary note in Danish to lower pastedown. Pages of Horace's breve used as pastedowns. - Binding worn, spine ends chipped. Wants the clasps and front flyleaf. First few pages somewhat brownstained and slightly wormed at the upper margins (no loss of text). Tiny holes due to corrosion caused by the clasps' remnants. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership to recto of the frontispiece. OCLC 247826071.
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Ehwald, Rudolf (ed.).
Biblia pauperum. Deutsche Ausgabe von 1471. Weimar, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1906.
Large 4to. 8 pp. (40) ff., many printed on one side only. Contemporary wrappers with stamped title and green cord. A facsimile edition of the 1471 xylographic German Pauper's Bible by Friedrich Walther von Dinkelsbühl and Hans Hurning. It includes an introduction as well as reproductions of the woodblock prints, showing texts from the Old and New Testament and corresponding illustrations. - Partly untrimmed copy, extremities slightly bumped. A small hole in the margin of p. 5f, not touching text. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his ownership stamp to inner wrappers.
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Kellerhaus, Heinrich.
Saamen des göttlichen Worts durch nutzliche und sinnreiche Predigen ausgeworffen [...]. Augsburg & Graz, Veith & Johannis, 1736.
Folio (ca. 210 x 333 mm). Two parts in one volume. (12), 342, (8) pp. (8), 305, (9) pp. Title-page of part I printed in red and black. Contemporary calf with giltstamped spine. Volumes one and two only of a second edition of the 3-volume collection of sermons by Kellerhaus (1670-1731), court chaplain to the dowager empress Wilhelmine Amalie, first published in 1733. It guides the reader through the liturgical year, providing sermons for each Sunday in part one, while part two offers texts for all Christian holidays celebrated on another day of the week. - Some signs of use: the imprint of a marginal note with ink to pp. 81-88 of part I; a pencil addition ("gegen") to p. 85 of part I, as well as a faded note in ink to p. 81 of part II. The pagination on p. 155 of part II corrected by hand. Binding heavily worn, traces of worming, the upper part of the spine missing. Paper evenly browned throughout, somewhat waterstained near the margins and in the gutter, slightly wormed in places. Some tears in the left margin of the title-page, where it was glued to the flyleaf; the following four leaves loosened. A small hole on p. 286 of part II rebacked with paper. A tear in the lower margin of p. 302 of part II, touching the text. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership, dated 1975, to the pastedown. De Backer/S. IV, 998, 3. Welzig 271.
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Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig (ed.).
Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis Mariae aus der Druckerei der Hurus in Saragossa in Faksimile-Reproduktion [...]. Weimar, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1910.
Large 4to. (2), 9, (1) pp. (16) ff. printed single-sidedly. Contemporary wrappers with stamped title and grey cord. A facsimile edition of a theological incunable imitating the 1470 block book by the German painter Friedrich Wather von Dinkelsbühl. The incunable is kept at the Paris National Library and was considered a xylographic work until 1910, when Schreiber identified the Gothic type as the one used by the letterpress printers Paul and Hans Hurus, active in Zaragoza between 1485 and 1499. The "Defensorium" exists in manuscript, block book and letterpress version and aims to prove the possiblity of a virginal conception. - Extremities lightly bumped. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his ownership stamp to inner wrappers.
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[Sermon on the Mount].
Die Bergpredigt Deutsch Vuittemberg 1522. Berlin, Brandus, [1918].
8vo. 13, (3) pp. Text ruled in red; hand-coloured initial. Contemporary giltstamped calf with giltstamped title to cover and spine. Leading edges and top edge gilt. Number 220 of a limited edition of 255 copies, based on Martin Luther's 1522 translation of the Sermon on the Mount. The layout imitates the style of an incunable; the initials were drawn by Emil König in Berlin. Hand-bound for the Fikentscher publishing house in Leipzig. Very well preserved. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his stamped ownership to front pastedown. Rodenberg 444, 1.
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[Gesang- und Gebeth-Buch].
Geistliches Neu-vermehrtes Altenburgisches Gesang- und Gebeth-Buch, in sich haltend den Kern alter und neuer geistreichen Lieder und Gesänge D. Martin Luthers und anderer christlichen Lehrer und frommer Christen. Nebst einer Vorrede Herrn Carl Andreas Redels [...]. Altenburg, Paul Emanuel Richter, 1744.
8vo. (34), (1) pp., 178, 1388 cols., (208) pp., 128 cols. Title printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved portraits. All edges gilt; front pastedown with colourful floral design. Contemporary blindstamped calf over boards. A well-preserved devotional containing prayers, chants and psalms, also offering an index of authors and songs. Since the foreword by Carl Andreas Redel dates from 1714, it probably derives from the first edition. The portraits depict five men: Matthias Bel, a Lutheran theologian who translated the Bible into Bohemian; three members of the Serpilius family, two of whom were pastors in Sopron and Pozsony and one of whom, Johannes Serpilius, was town judge of Sopron, and finally Johann Christoph Burgstaller, senator in Hungary's Pozsony County. Apart from motives of Christian devotion, the frontispiece shows a small view of the city of Altenburg as well as the city arms and the coat of arms of the Wettin family, who ruled Altenburg in late medieval times. - The book was given as a gift by Joh. Christoph Ziegler to his sister Susanna in 1746, as stated on the upper flyleaf. With separate title-page after the index and the first portrait ("Das Geistliche Altenburg in seinem Bethen [...]. Altenburg, Paul Emanuel Richter, 1744"). 10 additional pp. of handwritten prayers as preliminaries and two pp. of handwritten dialogue between Christ and a redeemed soul on the lower flyleaf. - Variously browned, occasionally brownstained, spine slightly scuffed. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his ownership stamp to flyleaf. Cf. VD 18, 10432841 (1735 ed.).
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[Kurze Andacht].
Kurtze Andacht zu der Heiligen Jungfrau und ersten Christi Martyrin Thecla [...]. Vienna, Ignaz Heyinger, (1753).
12mo. (36) pp. With engraved frontispiece. - (Bound with) II: Officium, Oder Tag-Zeiten Zu der Heiligen Thecla [...]. Ibid., (1753). (32) pp. Modern painted boards. Rare devotional dedicated to Saint Thecla. Apart from numerous prayers to the saint the volume also contains an account of her life. - Contemporary private ownership to lower pastedown. Some pages torn, light edge flaws, no loss of text. Variously browned, slightly stained. From the library Werner Habel, with his ownership stamp to flyleaf.
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Noailles, Louis Antoine de / Ruschitzka, Anton (transl.).
Heilige Tagesordnung des katholischen Christen. Auf die Verordnung des Kardinals von Noailles, Erzbischofs zu Paris zum Drucke befördert, zum Gebrauch seines Kirchensprengels. Aus dem Französischen in Deutsche übersetzt. Vienna, Johann Thomas Edler von Trattner, 1786.
8vo. (18), 260, 30, (261)-640 pp. With engraved frontispiece and 8 engraved plates. All edges sprinkled red. 20th century half cloth over wooden boards. Third edition of this Christian devotional, first published in 1778, and the second German edition in general, following the 1712 issue, as stated in the foreword. Including prayers and litanies, as well as observations on Christian duties, trust, friendship, sins and the afterlife, this work offers guidance throughout the Christian year. The engraved plates mostly show scenes from the Old and New Testament, such as the offering of a lamb by Abel, the Annunciation, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion, while the frontispiece depicts the three Christian virtues. Dedicated to Maria Theresa. - Upper inner hinges broken. Some worming, especially in the first half of the volume, slight loss of text; somewhat fingerstained, slightly brownstained and waterstained. Small flaws to the corners of several pages, not touching the text. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his stamped ownership to flyleaf. Kayser IV, 243 (1782 ed.). For Noailles cf. LThK VII, col. 604f.
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[Wallfahrt].
Die Wallfahrt nach Maria Pernegg zur vierten Secular-Feier im Jahre 1861 [...]. Bruck, in Commission bei Ignaz Strobl, 1861.
Small 8vo. 122, (6) pp. Wants the plates. Contemporary black boards with ornaments stamped in relief. First edition. - A rare volume issued in commemoration of the 1861 pilgrimage to Maria Pernegg in Styria. Includes various prayers and litanies to the Virgin Mary and other saints as well as a brief of indulgence by Pope Pius IX. - Lacks both steel-engraved plates. Hinges damaged, binding loosened and scuffed. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership, dated 1997, to front pastedown. Schlossar 206.
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[Oberösterreich - diverse Schulen].
Jahresberichte diverser oberösterreichischer Schulen. 1852-1936. Linz, Ried, Steyr u. a., Selbstverlage der Institutionen, 1852-1936.
17 Bde.: 1852, 1864, 1872, 1876, 1886, 1890, 1894, 1897, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1925, 1935, 1936. Geheftet, teils auf Schirting. 4to-8vo. Beilage. 5 Jahresberichte des k. k. Gymnasiums Ried (1872, 1876, 1886, 1894, 1912), 4 Jahresberichte der Realschule Steyr (1864, 1897, 1911, 1916) sowie 3 Jahresberichte des Privatgymnasiums der Zisterzienser in Wilhering (1920, 1924, 1925), nahezu alle mit Schülerverzeichnissen. Je ein Jahresbericht der Lehrer- und Lehrerinnen Bildungsanstalt Linz (1890) und der k. k. vollständigen Unterrealschule Linz (1852), ersterer mit Schülerverzeichnis. Dritter Jahresbericht des kahtolischen Privat-Mädchenlyzeums in Ort bei Gmunden (1914) sowie 2 Jahresberichte des Privatgymnasiums der Zisterzienser in Schlierbach (1935, 1936), alle drei mit Schülerverzeichnissen. - Beiliegend: "Zur Feier der Decorirung des Hochwürdigsten Herrn Augustin, Abtes zu Kremsmünster mit dem Ritterkreuze des österreichischen kaiserlichen Leopold-Ordens" (Stift Kremsmünter, o. J.). Augustin Reslhuber (1808-1875) war ab 1860 Abt des Benediktinerstifts Kremsmünster.
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[Salzburg - K. K. Gymnasium].
Programm des kaiserl. königl. Gymnasiums in Salzburg [...]. 1853-1885. Salzburg, k. k. Gymnasium Salzburg, 1858-1885.
13 Bde.: 1853, 1855, 1858, 1860, 1861, 1863, 1871, 1873, 1875, 1877, 1878, 1884, 1885. Geheftet, teils auf Schirting. 4to-8vo. Schulnachrichten mit Schüler- bzw. Abiturientenverzeichnissen, sowie wissenschaftlichen Beitragen, etwa zu Metamorphosen im Tierreich, zu den Witterungsverhältnissen in Salzburg 1842-1863, zu Torfmooren und zur Geographie der Alpen.
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[Tschechien - diverse Schulen].
Jahresberichte diverser Schulen im heutigen Tschechien. 1858-1912. Brünn, Prag, Leitmeritz, Budweis u. a., Selbstverlage der Lehranstalten, 1858-1912.
27 Bde.: 1858, 2 x 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1867, 2 x 1868, 2 x 1869, 1870, 1871, 3 x 1872, 1873, 1874, 1880, 1888, 1891, 1894, 1895, 1906, 1910, 2 x 1912. Bedruckte Originalbroschuren, teils geheftet auf Schirting, einige mit Schutzumschlägen. 1 weißer Pappband der Zeit mit Goldschnitt. 4to-8vo. Zwei Programme der Kommunalen-Unter-Realschule (1861, 1864). Jeweils ein Jahresbericht der k. k. Staatsrealschule (1910) und des k. k. Oberreal-Gymnasiums (1873) in Reichenberg mit Schülerverzeichnissen. Der 5. und 6. Jahresbericht der Communal-Oberrealschule in Leitmeritz (1870, 1871) mit Schülerverzeichnissen. Jeweils ein Jahresbericht des k. k. Real-Gymnasiums (1868), der königl. städt. Unter-Realschule (1863) und des Real-Obergymnasiums (1869) in Ungarisch Hradisch mit Schülerverzeichnissen. 4 Jahresberichte des k. k. Gymnasiums in Komotau (1858, 1868, 1869, 1912), ab 1868 mit Schülerverzeichnissen, 2 Jahresberichte des k. k. Ober-Gymnasiums in Brüx (1861, 1867) sowie jeweils ein Jahresbericht der k. k. Ober-Realschule Troppau (1862) in schönem Pappband, der Communal-Unterrealschule Jägerndorf (1872), der Ober-Realschule Budweis (1872), des Landes-Realgymnasiums Mährisch-Neustadt (1872), des Gymnasiums Oseku (1874), des Staats-Untergymnasiums Mährisch-Freiberg (1880), des Communal-Obergymnasiums Kaaden (1888), des k. k. Staats-Obergymnasiums Weidenau (1891), des k. k. Staats-Obergymnasiums Landskron (1894), der Landes-Oberrealschule Neutitschein (1895), des Stiftungs-Obergymnasiums Duppau (1906) und der k. k. deutschen Staats-Oberrealschule Trautenau (1912), durchgehend mit Schülerverzeichnissen.
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[König, Johann Philipp].
Viro amplissimo summeque reverendo Joanni Philippo Koenig ministerii seniori ph. d. [...] XXX. Decembris A. MDCCCLXVI die semiseculari a suscepto munere clerici gratulantur Gymnasii Moenofrancofurtani rector et professores. Frankfurt, Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, 1866.
26 SS. Originalbroschur. 4to.
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[Missale romanum].
Missale Romanum: ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum, et Clementis VIII. primum, nunc denuo Urbani Papae Octavi auctoritate recognitum, in quo missae propriae de Sanctis ad longum positae sunt ad maiorem celebrantium commoditatem. Munich, Thomas Jäcklin, 1678.
Folio. (64), 628, CXXIIII, (4), (8) pp. Printed in red and black throughout. With engr. title vignette and 3 full-page engravings in the text. Numerous woodcut initials and printed musical notes. Contemp. calf on four raised bands, spine and covers richly gilt. All edges goffered and gilt. Rare, finely illustrated Munich Baroque missal, including the "Missae Propriae Sanctorum" (Munich, 1668). The much-used canons (pp. 284-297) were remargined with vellum in the 18th century; interior otherwise largely clean and almost without any fingerstaining. Splendid binding in "à la fanfare" style. VD 17, 12:703896H. Not in Weale/Bohatta.
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Monelia, Tommaso Vincenzo.
De annis Jesu Christi servatoris, et de religione utriusque Philippi Aug. dissertationes duae. Rom, ex novo typographio Paleariniano, 1741.
2 Teile in 1 Band. XXXVI, 103, (1), XII, 63, (1) SS. Mit gest. Titelvignette, gest. Wappenkopfstück, 2 gest. figuralen Initialen, 6 Kupfern (auf 5 Tafeln; dav. 1 gefaltet) sowie 1 gedr. Tafel. Zeitgenöss. Pergamentband mit goldgepr. rotem Rückenschildchen, etwas Rückenvergoldung sowie goldgepr. Deckelfileten und Eckfleurons. Dreiseitiger gesprenkelter Rot- und Farbschnitt. Gr.-4to. Einzige Ausgabe. - "Es sind zwey zusammengedruckte Tractate, im ersten wird die Geburt und der Todestag Jesu festgesetzet, im andern vom Christenthum des Kaysers Philipp Arabis und seines Sohnes gehandelt" (Jöcher/A.). Mit zahlr. Münzkupfern. Der Dominikaner Vincenz Mone(g)lia war Professor der Theologie am Collegio S. Marco zu Rom. - Vorderer Innendeckel mit Spuren eines entfernten Exlibris; vorderer Vorsatz mit getilgtem hs. Besitzvermerk. Die Deckel etwas aufgeworfen, sonst gutes, sauberes Exemplar in einem schönen italienischen Einband der Zeit. Jöcher/Adelung IV, 1983.
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Steger, Adrian, Jurist, Bürgermeister von Leipzig (1623-1700).
Eigenh. Widmung auf gedr. Titelblatt: "Dissertatio de purpura sacrae dignitatis insigni". Leipzig, Langenheim, 9. II. 1741.
1 S. 8vo. Nur das Titelblatt aus Stegers Abhandlung über die liturgische Bedeutung des Purpur, darauf die eigenh. Widmung an den Juristen Georg Heinrich Ayrer (1702-74): "Se studiaque sua commendat auctor". - Mit Spuren alter Montage.
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Galle, Cornelius / Puget de la Serre, Jean.
Les Merveilles de l'Amour Divin... Enrichie des Figures. Brussels, Francois Vivien, 1633.
4to. (6) ff, 323 [i.e. 327] pp, (1), including additional engraved title signed C. Galle after N. van der Horst, vignette on title-page, frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee (Mademoiselle D'Arschot) and 6 full-page plates by Galle after A. Sallaert. Contemporary velum. Old ex-libris markings of various religious libraries on pastedown and title-page only; tiny areas of loss to uppermost margin of added engr. title; very occasional light dampstaining; with engravings in excellent, dark impression. Rare sole edition of this Flemish devotional work on the Passion, curiously dedicated to a princess’ lady-in-waiting. It is illustrated with seven full-page engravings by Cornelius Galle, son of Philip, after the painter and draughtsman Antoine Sallaert. Although they cannot be considered proper emblems with mottoes, Praz mentions de la Serre and his devotional books passim in Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery (Vol II, p. 133). - The present work bears a curious dedication to the lady-in-waiting of the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Philip IV. 'Demoiselle' d'Arschot, as she is called, is pictured in the engraved frontispiece as an adolescent girl, already exemplifying the virtues of a pious noblewoman. She clutches in one hand a string of prayer beads, while in front of her is her own personal altarpiece with a candle and crucifix, and a cloth-covered lectern for reading her devotions while kneeling. - The text itself is divided into six chapters, each of which is headed by an engraving incorporating its relevant themes. The text is intended to impress upon the reader the manifestations of God's love, as observed in the story of the Passion. As Van der Vennet notes, the Brussels painter Antoine Sallaert's rich designs are especially suited to Puget de la Serre's Merveilles: “the subjects of [Sallaert's] compositions display on the one hand an attachment to the tradition but at the same time an openness to the new developments which were taking place during the 17th century. While his saints conserve their legendary attributes, certain forms of symbolism, popular during the Middle Ages, disappear... However, neither the Counter-Reformation, nor the doctrines of the Council [of Trent] managed to wipe out the taste for the marvelous; which was fed during the 17th century by religious ecstasies and visions. The great devotional images which Sallaert composed for the graver are full of such raptures...” (“Le Peintre bruxellois”, p. 85-7). - Van der Vennet also speaks highly of the present work in particular: “In Les Merveilles de l'Amour Divin, which appeared in 1633, the master illustrates six episodes of the Passion. The elegance and precision of the designs tends towards a beautiful reservedness in evoking these dramatic subjects. As to the composition of these pages, the images appear so large than one almost forgets their small format. The admirable 'Christ of the Pieta' (fig II) and the persons surrounding him, would have their place on a great altarpiece...” (p. 93). - The engraver Cornelius Galle (1576-1650) represented the second generation of the great Galle dynasty. From 1596-1610 Cornelius lived and worked in Rome, before returning to Antwerp where he collaborated with his father as well as preparing his own plates. - OCLC shows a single US copy, at Harvard. Old Hollstein Vol 7, #418; cf also Le Livre, l'estampe, l'édition en Brabant du XVe au XIXe siècle (1935), p. 99; and M. Van der Vennet, “Le Peintre bruxellois Antoine Sallaert, Un choix de gravures,” in Bulletin Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volumes 30-33, 1981-1984, 1-3, pp. 81-122.
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Hauck, Ferdinand.
Eponimia hodierno parochorum usui serviens, quam selectis SS. canonum, decretorum, Concilii Tridentini, bullari Pontificii, decisionum SS. Congregationum Romanorum, nec non optimorum quorumcunq[ue] authorum disseminatam flosculis, curiose obeundam, ac utiliter delibandam [...]. Vienna, Matthäus Cosmerovius, 1653.
4to. (18), 232, (18) pp., final blank. With 2 (repeated) engraved title borders and 1 engraved plate. Contemporary boards. First edition of this manual of canon law for the use of the Vienna Barnabites. That same year Cosmerovius also produced a duodecimo edition. On the title page the author identifies himself as a native of the town of Amorbach in the Odenwald. - Binding rather badly rubbed; spine largely missing; block loosened. Some browning. VD 17, 12:204329B. Cf. Mayer I, 1345 (12om edition only).
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Ignatius de Loyola / Lyrere, Adrien van, SJ.
Apophtegmata sacra S. Ignatii de Loyola Societatis Jesu fundatoris, excerpta ex libro P. Hadriano Lyraei Societatis Jesu. A Bibliotheca Mariana eiusdem societatis. Wien, Johann Peter van Ghelen, 1744.
350 SS, Mit gest. Frontispiz (J. C. Winckler sc.). Lederband der Zeit. Dreiseitiger gesprenkelter Rotschnitt. Gr.-12mo. Spätere Taschenausgabe; ein Auszug aus dem erstmals 1662 (in Folio) vom niederländischen Jesuiten Adriaan van Lyere (1588-1661) herausgegebenen Werks. - Kapitale lädiert, Gelenke angeplatzt, Hinterdeckel mit unschöner Schabstelle. Die fliegenden Vorsätze auf die Spiegel geleimt. De Backer/Sommervogel V, 218, 5.
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Martin von Cochem, OFMCap.
[Libellus infirmorum, benedictionum & exorcismorum]. Infirmitatis humanae praesidium, sive libellus infirmorum germanico superadditus. Frankfurt a. M., Johann Melchior Bencard, [1686].
96 SS. Mit ganzs. Textkupfer am Vortitel verso als Frontispiz. (Dabei:) Ders. Libellus benedictionum & exorcismorum, libello infirmorum superadditus. Ebd., 1686. 214, (2) SS. Lederband der Zeit über Holzdeckeln mit 1 Schließe (von 2). Dreiseitiger Rotschnitt. 12mo. Seltene erste Ausgabe des noch öfter gedruckten Exorzismushandbüchleins. Zum Kapuziner und religiösen Volksschriftsteller Martinus von Cochem (1634-1712) vgl. NDB XVI, 278. - Das Kupfer zeigt eine Exorzismus-Szene in reicher barocker Staffage. Papierbedingt durchgehend braunfleckig; etwas knapp beschnitten (Verlust des Druckjahrs im ersten Werk). Einband berieben; kleine Anplatzstellen im Bezug an Gelenken und Kapitalen. Exemplar aus der Bibliothek des Benediktinerstifts Kremsmünster (OÖ) mit entspr. Signaturvermerk am vorderen Innendeckel. VD 17, 12:103049S und 12:103060M. BM-STC M 355. OCLC 179801241 (Ex. der UB Mainz).
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Stehr, Gottfried (praes.) / Roll, Tobias Hieronymus (resp.).
Quaestiones theologicae de sponsalibus et matrimonio [...]. Neu-Prag, Adalbert (Vojtech Jirí) Konias, 1685.
(2), 268, (2) SS. Mit mehrf. gefalt. gest. Frontispiz (Eheleute mit Verlobungsring), 1 Wappenkupfer und 1 mehrf. gefalt. gest. Tafel. Marmorierter Pappband der Zeit über Holzdeckeln. 8vo. Seltene Prager theologische Dissertation über Verlobung und Ehe. - Einband stark berieben; Rücken fehlt. Papierbedingt etwas gebräunt (Titel und Widmungskupfer stärker) und gegen Ende etwas wasserrandig. Titel mit hs. Besitzvermerk der Piaristenschule in Schlackenwerth in Böhmen (1666 errichtet und später in ein Mädchenpensionat überführt), in die auch die Bücher der Prinzessin Piccolomini Eingang fanden. Nicht im VD 17.
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Tulk, John Augustus / Swedenborg, Emmanuel.
Index to the Passages of Sacred Scripture contained in the Arcana Coelestia… [Bound with:] Index to the Arcana Coelestia; or Heavenly Mysteries contained in the Sacred Scriptures. London, Philanthropic Society and sold for the Editor by the Society for Printing and Publishing the Writings of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg, 1810-1811.
8vo. [1] ff, 120 pp; [3] ff including 1 leaf of errata, [230] ff. contemporary tree calf with gilt trim, rebacked with modern gilt and red title label, original marbled endpapers preserved. Pages clean and fresh, an excellent copy internally. Contemporary (?) portrait of Swedenborg and caption mounted on front endpaper. Two very rare Swedenborgian imprints, prepared and published at the expense of the industrialist John Augustus Tulk (cf Hyde), and some of the earliest books to issue from the press of the newly-formed ‘London Society for Printing and Publishing the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg’. Published at the height of Swedenborg's popularity in England (when the sect counted luminaries such as William Blake among its members), the present indices were designed to aid in the reading of Swedenborg’s monumental multi-volume Arcana Coelestia, finally translated in its entirety into English in 1806. COPAC shows the Index to the Passages of Sacred Scripture at Manchester only; the Index to the Arcana Coelestia is held at Edinburgh, NLS, Glasgow, Chetham’s Library, and Manchester. - Originally published during Swedenborg’s residence in London between 1749 and 1756, the Arcana Coelestia (‘Heavenly Mysteries’) was the mystic’s most comprehensive attempt at a biblical exegesis, covering the whole of Genesis and Exodus. That work also contained numerous personal observations of the Swedenborgian spiritual world, including his experiences of heaven and hell, not to mention the inhabitants of other planets which Swedenborg purported to have met. As a necessary guide to this voluminous work, Swedenborg also prepared an Index to the Heavenly Mysteries (1st ed, Latin 1756) which remained untranslated until the present work. - Tulk’s translations were likely meant to accompany John Clowes’ English translation of the entire Arcana (comprising some 12 volumes), which was finally completed in 1806. J. A. Tulk himself (1756-1845) was one of the founding members of the Swedenborg Society, and its first Chairman. A wealthy industrialist, his son Charles (MP for Sudbury) would introduce Swedenborg’s philosophy to the likes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake. - The Swedenborg Society, or ‘London Society for Printing and Publishing the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg’, as it was originally called, was founded on the 26th of February 1810 by figures including Tulk and the famous sculptor John Flaxman. The present works thus represent some of the earliest efforts of this society to translate and propagate the writings of their controversial but increasingly popular religion. J. Hyde, A Bibliography of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg (Nos. 942 & 943).
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Klepperbein, Vertraugott (praes.) / Klepperbein, Joachim (resp.).
Ritum vigiliarum sacrum & profanum, disputabunt frates Germani praeses M. Vertraugott Klepperbein / & respondens Joachimus Klepperbein / Glogov. Silesii, D. 26. Sept. 1685 in auditorio veteri. Wittenberg, Christian Schrödter, 1685.
(16) SS. Geheftet. 4to. Wittenberger theologische Disputation über die Vigil. Zum Rückersdorfer Pastor J. Klepperbein (1663-1715) vgl. Jöcher/Adelung IV, XXVIIIf. - SS. (4/5) etwas angeschmutzt, sonst gutes, sauberes Exemplar. VD 17, 14:062123B.
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[Schramb, Anselm?].
Series abbatum Mellicensium honori reverendissimi ac amplissimi sui praesulis Bertholdi pro eiusdem consecrationis die a priori et conventu Mellicensi devotissimo affectu adornata ac dedicata. Wien, Johann Georg Schlegel, [1701].
(116) SS. Mit gest., ill. Titel von Caspar Luyken und 53 gest. Portraits im Text. Pappband des frühen 19. Jhs. mit floralem Bronzefirnisbezug in rot und grün (Rücken fachmännisch ergänzt). 4to. Einzige Ausgabe dieser Festschrift für den 1701 neugewählten Melker Abt Berthold Dietmayr. Präsentiert die Reihe der Melker Äbte in fein gestochenen Portraits und Beschreibungen, von Abt Sigibold (1089) bis zu Abt Bertholdus, dem das anonyme, teils dem Melker Bibliothekar Anselm Schramb (1658-1720) zugeschriebene Werk auch gewidmet ist. - Teils gering braunfleckig; Stempelungen der Melker Stiftsbibliothek. Hübsches Exemplar aus dem Besitz des österreichischen Historikers Ignaz Franz Keiblinger (1797-1869), des langjährigen Melker Stiftsbibliothekars und -archivars, mit seinem eigenh. Besitzvermerk am Vorsatz. Selten; in den vergangenen 30 Jahren ein einziges Exemplar im Handel nachweisbar. Nicht bei Coreth.
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[Miniature Bible].
The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old & New Testaments. London, printed for W. Harris, 1775.
32mo (30 x 48 mm). 2 parts in one volume. (2), 148, (2), 149-256 pp. With 2 engraved title-pages and 14 engraved plates. Contemporary giltstamped red morocco with central black morocco oval onlay to covers bearing the sacred initials "IHS". All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Third edition of this exceedingly rare abridged children's Bible in its original binding, previously published in 1771 and 1774. Hariss's "Bible in Miniature" is the second of its kind in England, preceded only by the 1727 "Biblia" printed for R. Wilkin (the date being altered by hand to 1728 in many copies). - This is a charming specimen of what is commonly called a thumb Bible due to its small size, a genre that flourished particularly during the 18th century, although the fashion continued well into the 19th century. While copies of the almost identical "Bible in Miniature", published in 1780 by Elizabeth Newbery, are much more frequently found, the plates of the Harris edition are "superior to the frequently worn-out illustrations used by Newbery" (Spielmann). They feature key scenes and figures of the Old and New Testaments, including Adam and Eve, King David, Joseph of Arimathea, the Nativity, Resurrection, and Judgment Day. - In excellent condition, with contemporary handwritten ownership of "Miss Cooper" to flyleaf. Rarely seen at auction: only a handful of copies in libraries worldwide, merely on microfilm in the UK; 3 copies in the United States. Bondy, Miniature Books 33. Cf. Spielmann, Catalogue of the library of miniature books 16 (1771 edition). Welsh, Bibliography of miniature books 1009. Roscoe, Thumb Bibles J2616.
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[Mengzi].
Mencius (Chinese). [Paris, Societatis Asiaticae] & C. de Lasteyrie, [1829-1830].
4to. 2 parts in one volume. (2), 122, 161, (1) pp. Lithographically printed Chinese text, one leaf apparently bound out of sequence, some pages incorrectly numbered or not numbered. In total, the title-page, 283 pp. and 2 blanks (the last page and the verso of the title page). Bound in a sturdy green half calf, ca. 1900. The doctrines of the Chinese philosopher Mengzi (fl. 300 BC), the principal successor to Confucius. This is one of the earliest Chinese texts to be printed in Europe and a landmark in lithographic printing. The Chinese text here is complete in two parts. Lasteyrie had produced a Latin translation by Stanislas Julien (1797-1893) in 1824-26 ("Meng tseu, vel, Mencium inter Sinenses philosophos ingenio, doctrina, nominisque claritate Confucio proximum"), and while the Latin text is not particularly rare, the lithographed set (which was to serve as a supplement) is very much so. The plates were lithographed by the Comte de Lasteyrie, Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant (1759-1849), an innovator in lithographic printing in France. He carried out the work at his own cost. - Title-page browned and laid down, pp. 150ff. have a stain affecting several leaves, p. 162 patched. Much of the text is remarkably fresh and the binding is entirely solid. Incorrectly stamped 'Confucius' on the spine. Provenance: bookplate of George May Elwood (1844-1906) on rear pastedown (designed by Harold M. Ellis, dated 1898), his label on the front pastedown. Not in OCLC.
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Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022).
Sursum Corda. Gesang- und Gebetbuch für das Erzbistum Paderborn. Signiert. Paderborn, Junkermannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, [nach 1950].
(8), 835, (1), 32 SS. Flexibler Lederband der Zeit mit zwei Lesebändchen und goldgepr. Rückentitel. Kl.-8vo. Am fliegenden Vorsatz eh. signiert "Joseph Card Ratzinger". - Kapitale und Ecken stellenweise minimal beschabt, sonst ausgezeichnet erhalten.
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Acquaviva, Andrea Matteo.
Illustrium, et exquisitissimarum disputationum libri quatuor: quibus omnis divinae atque humanae sapientiae, praesertim animi moderatricis musicae, atque astrologiae, arcana, In Plutarchi Chaeronei De virtute morali praeceptionibus recondita [...]. Frankfurt, Johann Theobald Schönwetter, 1609.
4to. (16), 48 (recte: 44), 171, (16) pp., final blank page. Title-page with engraved border. With several woodcut illustrations in the text, and 2 folding plates. 17th century full vellum. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Rare edition of the extensive commentary on Plutarch's essay "De virtute morali" by the humanist and Duke of Atri, A. M. Acquaviva (1458-1529), first published in 1526. The present edition, published nearly 80 years later, is a reprint of the first, and was edited by the humanist Giulio Belli (1570-1650). Apart from the four-book commentary, which makes up the largest part of the volume, it includes Plutarch's text in Greek type and Latin translation. The majority of the woodcut illustrations accompany the commentary on Plutarch's writings on astronomy (pp. 78-96), displaying the orbits of the sun, moon, Earth, and other planets, as well as the section on Pseudo-Plutarch's "De musica" (pp. 26-77), showing bells and musical scales. Attributed to Plutarch, "De musica" was included in several editions of the "Moralia", a text corpus of 78 essays and speeches ascribed to the first-century Greek scholar. - Handwritten ownership of the Venice senator and collector Giacomo Soranzo (1686-1761), dated 1736, to second flyleaf. His library, comprising 4,000 manuscripts and 20,000 printed books, was dispersed in 1780. The first flyleaf bears a handwritten note of acquisition, dated December 1803, as well as another note in a different handwriting referencing reviews of other works by the editor Belli. - Lower portion of spine somewhat rubbed; covers slightly soiled. Title-page duststained, margins worn, rebacked with paper; upper margins of flyleaves and of 3 first leaves of text flawed, the latter rebacked with paper strips; paper occasionally browned and brownstained; gutter slighlty waterstained in places. A single copy in auction records. Only 12 copies in libraries internationally, none outside of Europe. VD 17, 12:188378T. RISM BVI 64. OCLC 844058263. STC (C17 German) P778. Houzeau/Lancaster 5038. Not in Gregory/Bartlett or Hirsch.
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Chirinos de Salazar, Fernando, SJ.
Expositio in Proverbia Salomonis. Paris, (François Jacquin,) [Compagnie du grand navire], 1619 (1618)-1621.
2 Bde. (10) Bll., 1396 Spp., (31) Bll. (12) Bll., 1316 Spp., 1 w. Bl., (52) Bll. Beide Titel in rot und schwarz gedruckt und mit gest. halbseitiger Druckermarke. Lederbände der Zeit auf 5 Bünden mit Papier-Rückenbezug und hs. Rückentitel. Folio (240 x 362 mm). Zweite Ausgabe dieses Kommentars zum Hohelied Salomons (erstmals 1618 in Alcala de Henares erschienen). Jedem der ausführlichen Kommentarkapitel ist der entsprechende Text der Vulgata vorangestellt. - Ferdinandus Quirinus de Salazar (1576-1646), "ein Jesuite von Cuenza, aus Spanien bürtig, lehrte die Theologie zu Murcia und Alcala, ward des spanischen Ministers, Guzmann d'Olivarez, Beicht-Vater und König Philippi IV Hof-Prediger, auch Mitglied der Inquisition" (Jöcher). Der erste Band trägt im Kolophon den Namen des Druckers sowie die Jahrzahl "1618". - Die Einbände berieben und beschabt; innen unterschiedlich gebräunt bzw. braunfleckig und vereinzelt gering wasserrandig. Selten; über OCLC nur ein Exemplar nachgewiesen (Oxford; nur erster Band). De Backer/Sommervogel II, 1149, 1. Jöcher IV, 46. OCLC 43088413. Vgl. Palau VI, 201. Nicht bei Darlow/Moule oder in der Württ. Bibelslg. Nicht bei Goldsmith.
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[Montaigne, Michel de.
Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Roy, & Gentil-homme ordinaire de sa Chambre. Livre premier. Bordeaux, Simon Millanges, 1580].
8vo (104 x 152 mm). 3-480 (instead of 496) pp., lacking title and remaining 3 leaves of preliminaries, first leaf of text, and 8 leaves between p. "276" and "294". 17th century full calf with gilt spine and labels "Essais de Montaig" - "Tom I", leading edges gilt. Edges sprinkled blue. First edition of one of the most important works written and published in French in the 16th century. Incomplete copy of the first part only, lacking the first five leaves as well as the eight leaves comprising the 29 sonnets. - Montaigne's groundbreaking essays on an eclectic array of subjects - from cannibals to solitude, from sleep to sadness - constituted an entirely unique and unprecedented literary genre, and a philosophy of knowledge that was based on his own personal experience and observations, epitomizing 16th century enlightened scepticism. "The most elaborate essay, the 'Apologie de Raimond Sebonde', is second to no other modern writing in attacking fanaticism and pleading for tolerance" (PMM). - The publishing history of this work is complex, both for the rather careless printing of the first edition, and in large part because the changes to the text between editions were considerable: Montaigne's text was by no means static but constantly evolved under the eye of the author who "considered each new edition as the last". This first edition, printed by Millanges in the spring of 1580, is unsophisticated and rather hastily composed, as betrayed by the innumerable misprints, font and type inconsistencies, errors in page numbering and textual variants. This copy has G2 and Aa5 missigned as 2G and A5, while Aa2 is correctly signed thus (not as Aa; see Sayce & Maskell, p. 2), and the corrected states of C8 and O8 (ibid., p. 5, note 7), as well as the letters 'gsit' accidentally printed at the foot of Gg3 (ibid., p. 6, no. 9). The irregular spacing of lines on the page - occasionally very cramped - indicates composition by forme. - Copies of early editions of Montaigne's work are extremely rare. Fewer than 100 examples are estimated to exist in private and institutional collections worldwide, suggested by some to point to a small original print run of only 300 to 400 copies (Bibliotheca Desaniana, no. 8, 2011; Balsamo, p. 160). - Corners bumped, spine-ends chipped, hinges starting. Paper somewhat browned. PMM 95. Sayce & Maskell 1. Tchemerzine IV, 870. Brunet III, 1835.
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Froriep, Justus Friedrich.
Corani caput primum et secundi versus priores. Arabice et latine cum animadversionibus historicis et philologicis [...]. Leipzig, (Loeper for) Hilscher, 1768.
8vo. XVI, 64 pp. Later plain paper wrappers with handwritten cover-title. First edition. - Early Western edition of a part of the Quran, comprising the first and 79 verses of the second surah (Al-Fatihah and Al-Baqarah) in Latin and Arabic, edited and translated by the German theologian and orientalist Froriep (1745-1800). A planned sequel to this work, promised by Froriep "provided this specimen is met with approval" (cf. Ernesti), was never realized. - The Arabic text is taken from the well-received Maracci edition. The text is followed by historical and philological observations on the same, drawing on Ludovico Maracci, George Sale, Adriaan Reland and others, as well as explanations of several passages of the Old Testament. - Light edge wear to wrappers; interior somewhat browned and brownstained. Contemporary ownership stamp to verso of title-page, another stamp reading "Card Catalogued" to title-page. A good copy of this rare work never seen at auction. Schnurrer 383. Ernesti, Neue theologische Bibliothek IX, 471ff. Binark/Eren. World bib., 1047. BM Arabic I, col. 902. OCLC 165614847.
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[Homiliary].
Homilies by Augustine, Bede and others. (With:) (Pseudo-)Petrus de Pilichdorf (= Petrus Zwicker). Liber contra Waldenses, cap. 1-21. (Probably Lower Austria), before 1447.
Small folio (228 x 304 mm). Latin manuscript on paper. 228 ff. (including 7 blanks). Foliated by a single hand in red ink (1-216), followed by 12 ff. with later pencil foliation (217-228). Text by the first hand fols. 1-150; fols. 157-216 and 217-227 by two additional hands. Rubrication, red Lombardic initials and red captions throughout in first part and more sparingly in the second. Contemporary red-dyed full calf with all 14 brass bosses, 1 of 2 brass clasps, and handwritten cover label ("Omelie Sanctorum"). In custom-made half morocco solander case. Fine late mediaeval sermon manuscript owned by the Viennese theologian Johann Hofmüllner of Weitra (d. 1475), with an anti-Waldensian treatise at the end. The first part contains mainly homilies for various feast days and Bible passages drawn from St Augustine and the Venerable Bede: - 1r: In vigilia ascensionis. S. Johan. In illo tempore sublevatis Ihesus oculis in celum ... Oml. bti. Aug. epi. Clarificatum a patre formam secundum sui filium ... - 150v: Ach her got hilf. Finis adest libro sit laus et gloria. Explicit iste labor ... Deo gratias Amen. - 151-156: vacant. - Followed by additional homilies by Bede, Augustine, Origin, Isidorus Hispalensis, Severinus etc: - 157r: Incipiunt omelie per circulum anni [...]. Igitur quoniam post tempus spiritualibus epulis nos reficere debemus [...]. - 216v: ... matres tulerunt quidquid et angoris extitit et doloris et ideo non [breaks off]. - The final part contains the first 21 chapters of Petrus Zwicker's "Liber contra Waldenses": 217r: Ortus et origo Waldensium haereticorum talis est ...; 227v: ... vel non commisit illud per sufficientiam poenitentiam diluit immediate [breaks off]. Transmitted in some 50 manuscripts, this treatise (erroneously attributed to Peter of Pilichdorf by its first editor, Jakob Gretser) constitutes "the single most important text on the Waldensians from the later Middle Ages" (Biller, The Waldenses, p. 237). - Provenance: several autograph ownerships by Johannes Hofmüllner: "Iste liber est Johannis Hofmulnar de weyttra" (1r), "Hic liber est Johan[n]is Hofmuln[er] de weyttra. 1447" (150r); later in the library of the Servite Order in Vienna's Rossau suburb with their 18th century engraved bookplate on the front pastedown and a smaller version thereof on the first page; handwritten shelfmark "MS 71" (olim: 21), stricken out and re-marked "CV/19" in red pencil. - The majority of the known surviving codices from Hofmüllner's private collection was acquired by the library of Seitenstetten Abbey in Lower Austria at some time during the last decades of the 15th century: a total of 17 or possibly 18 volumes. One other volume is in the Austrian National Library (Cod. 4059), while another, previously also in Seitenstetten, is now kept in The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (Ms. W.30). How and when exactly the volumes in Seitenstetten were acquired - during Hofmüllner's lifetime, or as a bequest, or a purchase - is not known, nor how many books Hofmüllner's library originally comprised (cf. Cerny, p. 8). "We first find Hofmüllner as a scribe of manuscripts in 1437, serving as 'cooperator divinorum' in Waidhofen an der Thaya. The following year he is in Vienna, soon in the office of an octonarius at St. Stephen's Cathedral (attested in 1445) [...] He is confirmed as serving in the office of magister chori in 1448. From his books, it would seem quite obvious that Hofmüllner consciously endeavoured to keep up to date on contemporary theological literature and to expand his library continually by writing and by buying new manuscripts [...] Indeed, Johann Hofmüllner was a generous man in many ways who gave away large sums of money for pious causes" (cf. ibid., p. 27f.). - Condition: binding rubbed and slightly chafed in a few places. Two leaves (167-168) have a large, straight tear in the upper edge reaching into the text. Insignificant worming to the upper corner from fol. 157 onwards, not concerning the text. Occasional marginalia and manicules, apparently some by Hofmüllner. Altogether a very appealing codex bound in a massive, dyed binding, complete with all the original brass bosses and fittings save for the lower clasp. For Hofmüllner cf. Heimo Cerny, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Wissenschaftspflege in den Stiften Seitenstetten und Ardagger (PhD thesis, Vienna 1966). For Zwicker's treatise cf. Peter Biller, "The Anti-Waldensian Treatise Cum Dormirent Homines of 1395 and Its Author", in: The Waldenses 1170-1530 (Aldershot 2001), pp. 264-269.
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Witschel, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm.
Morgen- und Abendopfer in Gesängen. Sulzbach, J. E. Seidel, 1824.
XVI, 286, (2) SS. Halblederband der Zeit. 8vo. Achte Ausgabe. "Dieses Buch ist neben Zschokke's Stunden der Andacht ohne Frage das verbreiteste Andachtsbuch in der Zeit des Rationalismus gewesen; seit dem Jahre 1803 bis auf den heutigen Tag" (ADB). - Einband stärker berieben, Ecken und Kanten bestoßen. Durchgehend etwas braunfleckig. Aus der Bibliothek des seit 1938 an der Universität Princeton lehrenden deutsch-amerikanischen Ökonomen Oskar Morgenstern (1902-77), der gemeinsam mit John von Neumann die Spieltheorie begründete. Am Vorsatz zeitgenössische handschriftliche Widmung der Henriette Teichler, einer Vorfahrin Morgensterns mütterlicherseits, an deren Bruder. Erworben von den Erben. Goedeke V, 444. ADB XLIII, 569.
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Cramer, Johann Friedrich Heinrich.
Beicht- und Communion-Buch. 15. Auflage. Zittau & Leipzig, J. D. Schöps, 1828.
(12), 171, (1) SS. Mit gest. Frontispiz und gest. Titelvignette. Lederband der Zeit mit goldgepr. Deckelfileten sowie Supralibros und Datierung "B. Rudolph / 1831" am Vorderdeckel. Dreiseitiger Goldschnitt. Roséfarbene Buntpapiervorsätze. 8vo. 15. Auflage des beliebten Kommunionsbuchs. Einband berieben, Rücken am Kopf angeplatzt. Vorderer fliegender Buntpapiervorsatz fehlt, hs. Besitzvermerk "Frieda Elling" am 2. Vorsatzblatt. Aus Familienbesitz des seit 1938 an der Universität Princeton lehrenden deutsch-amerikanischen Ökonomen Oskar Morgenstern (1902-77), der gemeinsam mit John von Neumann die Spieltheorie begründete.
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Fuligatti, Giacopo, SJ.
Vita Roberti Bellarmini Politani. Antwerpen, Plantin (Balthasar Moret), 1631.
(22), 576, (46) SS. Mit einem Portraitkupfer und Holzschnittdruckermarke am Schluss. Lederband der Zeit mit teils intakten Schließen und hs. Rückentitel (verblasst). 8vo. Antwerpener Nachdruck der Lebensgeschichte des Kardinals Bellarmin, verfasst von dem italienischen Jesuiten Fuligatti (1577-1653) und erstmals 1624 erschienen. - Vorderer Innendeckel mit Exlibris des Servitenkonvents Maria Jeutendorf (Conventus Jeidendorfensis) in Niederösterreich. Stellenweise gering fleckig; Buchblock vorne gelockert, der Einband stärker berieben. Vgl. de Backer/Sommervogel III, 1064, 1.
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Kautilya [also called Canakya or Visnugupta Galanos Demetrios].
Synopsis gnomon ethikon [...]. Sommario di sentenze morali del filosofo indiano Sanakea dal dialetto sanscrite ossia bracmanico indiano nella lingua greca e italiana tradotto dal viaggiatore Greco Cap.n Niccola Chiefala di Zante, [etc.] Rome, Philip & Nikola de Romanis, 1825.
4to (185 x 250 mm) 49, (3) pp. Modern marbled paper. First edition of this extremely rare pamphlet in modern Greek, itself translated from the Sanskrit - not, as the title says, by Nikolaos Kephalas, but in fact by the savant Demetrios Galanos. Kautilya was an Indian political theorist and minister of Candragupta, who flourished about 300 BCE, but was better known under the name Canakya (or Chanakya). Various works are attributed to him. This work introduced him to Europe, and a French translation, made from the Italian by Leon Bezout, was published in 1826. It is divided into eight chapters and contains some 148 "Sayings" with two preliminary paragraphs, the Greek and Italian versions being printed in parallel columns. There are also a number of notes printed beneath these columns, also in both languages. The "Sayings" are concerned with many facets of life: "if you are a learned man, make sure you are recognized as such; if you are not, confess your ignorance" (I, 15); "The clemency of a king towards his subjects should be the same as that of a father to his own sons" (IV, 6); "Heroes, learned men, and beautiful women, in whatever country they find themselves, immediately find an hourable reception" (VIII, 1). - Galanos (1760-1833), a Greek from Athens, was destined for priesthood and studied at Missolonghi under Panagiotes Palamas, and then at Patmos. After a brief sojourn in Constantinople, he went to Bengal as tutor to the children of a Greek merchant. He himself clearly became a successful merchant, as he amassed enough money to abandon commerce in 1793 and devote himself solely to scholarship and the study of Sanskrit at Varanasi, which he continued to do until his death. He was well known in India and was referred to (without being named) by Bishop Heber of Calcutta. Like that of the the Jews and the Armenians, the Greek commercial community in Calcutta flourished. - In addition to his massive lexicographical work, which was never published and survives only in manuscript in Athens (his mss. have been stored in the National Library since 1837), Galanos made a number of translations from the Sanskrit. Some of these were posthumously published by George Kozakis Typaldos, from 1842 director of the National Library of Greece, including an abridgment of the Mahabharata (a volume of 900 pages) and the "Bhagavadgita", but most remain in manuscript. - Nikolaos Kefalas or Niccolo Chiefala was born ca. 1765 on Zante (Zakynthos) and was therefore a British subject, but he was forever in trouble with the British authorities. Before 1812 he fought in the French army in Europe; in that year he returned to Constantinople, which he was immediately required to leave by the British consul, though it was the Turks who ensured his departure. This adventurer was the author of numerous works published from 1817 to 1845 in Vienna and elsewhere (the last in Athens), including works on sailing and marine matters, two maps (one a sea chart) published in Paris in 1818, and a description of Benares, published in Livorno. Kefalas was referred to by Pouqueville (Histoire VI, 12 [1824] as "cet intriguant", and his appropriation or theft of Galanos's work is referred to by others. He has in fact added a few things himself. - In an article in the Festschrift for Maurice Bloomfield (Studies in Honor of Maurice Bloomfield, New Haven: Yale UP, 1920) the Homeric philologist Bolling published "The Recension of Canakya used by Galanos". This prints and discusses the (transliterated) Sanskrit original of Galanos's Greek version of nominally 330 (actually 319) verses under the title "Politika, oikonomika kai ethika ex diaforon poieton" by Canakya, which was published in 1845 in his "Indikon metafraseon prodromos". Legrand Bibl. Ionienne (Paris 1910), no. 1068. Papadopoulos, Ionike Vivliografia (Athens 1998), no. 1801 (simply taken from the entry in Legrand). There are copies at the BL, at Princeton, in Leiden and at the Niedersächsische Bibliothek. For Galanos see the article by Siegfried A. Schulz, "Demetrios Galanos (1760-1833): A Greek Indologist", in JAOS 89.2 (April-June 1969), pp. 339-356.
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[Ibn Sina - Pagano, Giovanni Gomezio].
Quaesitum pulcherrimum et elucubratissimum, de medio demonstrationis potissimae: iuxta Aristotelis et Aver[rois] doctrinam adversus, Arabes, Graecos, & Latinos. Naples, (Tomasso Riccione), 1555.
Folio (210 x 305 mm). XII ff. With several woodcut initials. Later red half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped spine-title. First and only edition of this exceedingly rare commentary on Aristotle and Averroes, prepared by the Neapolitan philosopher Giovanni Gomezio Pagano (ca. 1500-69), a leading Franciscan theologian active in the San Lorenzo convent in Naples. His work constitutes a remarkable philosophical treatise defending Aristotelianism against the Neoplatonist tendencies of early Greek and Muslim thinkers including Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Themistius, as well as Christian philosophers such as Alexander of Aphrodisias. - Covers somewhat warped; very slightly rubbed. Title-page lightly brownstained. A fine copy of this notable work rarely offered in the trade. OCLC lists a single record (in the Italian National Library). Edit 16, CNCE 38268. OCLC 954806038. Manzi, La tipografia napoletana nel '500. Not in BM-STC Italian or Adams. For Pagano cf. Istoria degli scrittori nati nel Regno di Napoli V, 50-51.
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