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1730ref. 7551Prostant venales apud J. Brotherton ad Insigne Bibliorum Sacrorum in Vico Cornhill 1730. 8vo. First and Sole Edition thus on laid paper text in Latin with several fine woodcut head- and tail-pieces some slight age-staining mainly marginal more pronounced on a handful of leaves; contemporary marbled boards very neatly rebacked in calf to style back with four raised bands second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt a remarkably fresh crisp clean copy. First published in 1535 the 'Ecclesiastes' is Erasmus' last and longest work a detailed treatise on preaching and the offices and duties of priesthood. O'Malley deems it 'a major monument - perhaps the major monument - in the history of sacred rhetoric. Its only rival is the De Doctrina Christiana of Augustine' Erasmus and the History of Sacred Rhetoric: The Ecclesiastes of 1535.Bray's extended 25pp introduction begins in typically exuberant fashion - 'Jesu & Omnia!' dedicating the printing to Edmund Gibson Bishop of London 1669-1748 and Edward Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Erasmus' famous preface revealing his responses to the deaths of More Fisher Wareham and Mountjoy is given in full. Thomas Bray 1656-1730 Commissary of Maryland and founder of SPCK did much to spread abroad knowledge of significant religious works. 'It was a great service to the cause of Christian knowledge' undertaken for no reward and with 'unspeakable labour and fatigue'.Rare. Prostant venales apud J. Brotherton, ad Insigne Bibliorum Sacrorum in Vico Cornhill, hardcover
1535ref. 150907Antwerp: Michael Hillenius 1535. Rare 16th-century English blind stamped panels One of two pirated editions of Erasmus's Ecclesiastes published in Antwerp the same year as Froben's authorized original. The covers of this copy bear two handsome and rare blind stamped panels attributed to the Dutch binder Gerard or Garrett Pilgrim active in England at the beginning of the 16th century. Pilgrim was a native of Antwerp who worked as a bookseller and bookbinder in Oxford from at least 1524 until his death in 1536. The two panels of which only 13 examples are known to Oldham Oldham HM 17 and 18 p. 28 all dated 1523-35 are of characteristically English style and manufacturing. They feature an outer frame filled with blind stamped rolls of leaves garlands angels masks and dragons and a central design of heads in roundels accompanied by the binder's initials with a key and a pilgrim's staff crossed. On 12 July 1536 Erasmus died in Basel where he had returned to check on Froben's publication of the Ecclesiastes his last major composition. This work is an extensive manual in four books on the art of preaching containing a treatise on the role and importance of preachers in the church precise indications on how to structure and deliver sermons and a list of sermon topics. The Ecclesiastes was highly successful: in addition to the 2600 copies printed by Froben two pirated editions were produced in Antwerp in 1535 the present one and another by Martinus Caesar for an estimated total of 3500 copies sold - an uncommonly large publication for its time see Kleinhans p. 308. Octavo 160 x 103 mm. Woodcut printer's device to title page and verso of last leaf half-page portrait of Erasmus in a roundel historiated and floriated initials. Later calf preserving contemporary English blindstamped panels signed "GP" spine with raised bands decoration of parallel blind lines to first and last compartment intricate design of curls and tendrils to third and fourth gilt date at foot early 19th century endpapers one binder's blank with watermark "EB 1813". Partly erased contemporary ownership inscription of one "frater Henricus Thor." to title page occasional contemporary marginalia in Latin and maniculae early price indication of 2 shillings inked to verso of last leaf armorial bookplate to front pastedown of George Kenyon of Peel Esq 1666-1728 MP and a prominent figure in the Lancashire Tory political scene in the 1690s through to the 1710s. Raised bands and joints a little rubbed early repair to rear cover panel some marginal light stains and fingermarks to contents otherwise internally bright and exceptionally clean A2-3 missing as usual. An attractive well-margined copy. Adams E-626; USTC 400577; Erasmus Online 1678. J. B. Oldham Blind Panels of English Binders 2010. On the panels see also M. Foot The Henry Davis Gift Vol. II 1979 no. 27. R. G. Kleinhans "Erasmus Ecclesiastes and the Church of England" in Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 39/3 1970 pp. 307-14. hardcover
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1536ref. 953165Basel: Froben 1536. leather_bound. Gut. 940 Seiten 30 Blatt. Blindgeprägter Schweinsledereinband der Zeit mit zwei Schließen auf Holzdeckeln mit 3 Bünden. Klein-Oktav 173 cm. Gegenlager der unteren Schließe fehlt Einband leicht bestoßen und fleckig Schnitt fleckig handschriftliche Besitzvermerke innen meist dezenter Feuchtigkeitsrand im Ganzen aber gut erhalten. Ledereinband der Zeit auf 3 Bünden mit blindgeprägter Streicheisen- und Rollband-Ornamentik und handschriftlichem Rückentitel. Kleine metallene Griffe markieren den Beginn der Bücher 2 3 und 4. Die Paginierung ist teilweise irrig das Buch ist aber vollständig. Auf den Seiten 174 -181 finden sich dezente Unterstreichungen mit rotem Farbstift auf den Seiten 265 -268 Unterstreichungen mit brauner Tinte. Ganz vereinzelt kleine Ausrisse im weißen Rand. Ausgabebezeichnung: BASILEAE IN OFFICINA FRO / BENIA PER HIERONYMVM / FROBENIVM ET NICOLAVM / EPISCOPIVM MENSE / AVGVSTO ANNO / M D XXXVI "Desiderius Erasmus von Rotterdam geboren vermutlich am 28. Oktober 1466 / 1467 / 1469 wahrscheinlich in Rotterdam; gestorben 11./12. Juli 1536 in Basel war ein bedeutender niederländischer Gelehrter des Renaissance-Humanismus." Wikipedia. Die erste Ausgabe dieses Buches im Oktav-Format erschien 1535. - Eigentlich wollte Erasmus dieses Spätwerk John Fisher dem Bischof von Rochester widmen; kurz vor dem Druck erfuhr Erasmus jedoch von der Hinrichtung seiner Freunde Fisher und Thomas Morus. In seiner Vorrede geht er auf die Hinrichtungen ein was das Interesse der Öffentlichkeit erhöhte. Erasmus richtet seinen Blick auf die neuentdeckten Länder in Amerika. Er mißbilligt die Kriegführung der Conquistadoren appelliert an das Verantwortungsbewußtsein der christlichen Fürsten und lobt den Missionseifer. Ecclesiastes oder: Über die Art des Predigens "ist das Werk eines schließlich müde gewordenen Geistes der nicht mehr scharf auf die Nöte seiner Zeit reagiert. . Die Predigt hatte Erasmus immer als die würdigste Aufgabe des Theologen betrachtet. . Erasmus knüpft mit einer Reihe moraldogmatischer Abhandlungen wieder dort an wo er mit dem Enchiridion begonnen hatte: bei der Erörterung der einfachen allgemein christlichen Lebensführung einer ungezwungenen Ethik. Das ist seine erlösende Botschaft." Huizinga p.166 et pass. Mit 5 alten handschriftlichen Besitzvermerken von 1650 bis 1845 auf dem Titel. Auf dem letzten Blatt recto eine dreizeilige handschriftliche Notiz mit Erwähnung des Hl. Polykarp von Smyrna und dem Reformator Erhard Schnepf aber nicht aus der Hand von Schnepf vielleicht aber eines seiner Studenten. Vgl. Mentz: Handschriften der Reformationszeit 20 b. "Erhard Schnepf oder Schnepff geboren 1. November 1495 in Heilbronn; gestorben 1. November 1558 in Jena war ein lutherischer Theologe und bedeutender Reformator Generalsuperintendent des Herzogtums Württemberg Hochschullehrer an der Universität Jena Hochschullehrer der Philipps-Universität Marburg und Hochschullehrer an der Universität Tübingen 1544 - 1548." Wikipedia. "Wilhelmi Schimko 1845" "Emanuel Wilhelm Schimko 1791-1875 studierte in Ödenburg ung. Sopron und Jena Theologie. Ab 1835 bekleidete er das Doppelamt des Pfarrers und Seniors der Evangelischen Kirchengemeinde A. B. zu Preßburg sowie des Theologieprofessors am Preßburger Evangelischen Lyzeum." Wikipedia. VD16: E 2722; Adams I p.399 630; BMCGB p. 281; Bezzel p. 250 822; Vanderhaegen p. 78; Sebastiani verzeichnet Froben-Drucke nur bis zu dessen Tod 1527. - Weitere Bilder auf Anfrage oder auf unserer Homepage. Wegen Urlaub kann Ihre Bestellung / Anfrage erst nach dem 12.10.2026 bearbeitet werden. - Because of holidays your order / question can be handled only after 10/12/2026. Froben hardcover
1539ref. ABC_49727Antwerp: sub intersignio Rubri Castri = Guilielmus Montanus 1539. 18th-century half vellum with a brown paper title label on the spine lettered in black the manuscript year of publication at the foot of the spine decorated paper sides with a hand drawn floral design in red and blue ink red edges. Small 8vo. With an architectural woodcut border on the title page 7 decorated metalcut initials 5 woodcut headpieces 7 woodcut tailpieces and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Scarce early edition of an influential manual on preaching. It was one of the last major works which Erasmus produced and is considered one of his most significant treatises on theology. The work was incredibly popular in his own time as Erasmus had been pressured for many years to write it. The present edition which is the first by Montanus and the third authorised edition is relatively scarce however with only two other copies recorded in sales records of the 21st century."The Ecclesiastes is really a collection of three works: a theological treatise on the importance of preaching and the role of the preacher in the church Book I a textbook on homiletics and hermeneutics which provides the preacher with the basic tools necessary for both the interpretation of scripture and the construction and delivery of sermons based on biblical terms Books II and III and a list of sermon topics with an explanation of how some of them should be developed. From this organization it is clear that Erasmus attempted to provide his contemporaries with both a theology of preaching and clear and precise advice on the art of preaching" Kleinhans.With 18th-century annotations on the front pastedown and in the margins of some of the leaves several portions of text are underlined. The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed the vellum is somewhat soiled and stained. The work is somewhat browned throughout with brown ink stains on a few leaves affecting a few words minor loss of material in the lower margin of a7 and a8 without affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition.l Adams E-631; De Reuck 179; Erasmus Online 1682; Nijhoff & Kronenberg 2923; STCV 12926615; USTC 440876; Vander Haeghen I 78; not in Bezzel; cf. Kleinhans R.G. "Erasmus Ecclesiastes and the Church of England" in Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 39 3 1970 pp. 307-14; Rouzet Dictionnaire des imprimeurs belges p. 153. sub intersignio Rubri Castri (= Guilielmus Montanus), hardcover
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1977361 pages. Index. References. "Grandfather of Charles, he developed the concept of biological evolution to a sophisticated level more than fifty years before publication of The Origin of Species. His far-sighted optimism and inventive flair animated that famous group of technological revolutionaries of the 1760s and 1770s which included Wedgewood, Watt, Boulton and Keir and in time became the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution." - from dust jacket. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Only moderate wear. Back hinge starting. A worthy reference copy. Book
1930ref. PW1198London:: J. M. Dent & Sons 1930. 1930. First edition. 8vo. xi 1 242 2 pp. 12 plates index; some foxing. Pale green cloth black-printed green dust-jacket; jacket rear torn. Ownership inscription of J. Edmonds Oxford. Scarce in jacket. Very good. "The first American publication of a thirty-odd year old portrait of Erasmus Darwin grandfather of the famous Charles and great three times grandfather of author Pearson the last probably accounting not only for the intimacies involved but also the reverence indulged in. Darwin was 18th century England's physician par excellence George III wanted him but didn't get him; Darwin was too democratic; he was also a philosopher a poet and head mandarin of the Lunar Society whose celebrated enclave held Watt of the steam engine Wedgwood of pots and Priestley of oxygen. Darwin was a stutterer who looked twice his age; nevertheless his sallies never missed nor was his sexual appetite ever starved. Twice married and many more times a father his home was a happy one; a failing though- grumpy disapproval of all things spiritual- cost him a son a wistful lad who ended it all at the bottom of the River Derwent. Pearson's style here- it has changed since then- is pretty much drawing-room English comfortably ensconced with wit and stage-bearded with wisdom. The hyperbole of course gets heavy-handed: was Darwin really the progenitor of eugenics aeroplanes submarines psychoanalysis That he was the "parent of Creative Evolution" one can doubt a doctrine made unfashionable ironically enough by his grandson. Put it all down as a bunched-together biography- incidents anecdotes character studies-which in its fustily fastidious way is fascinating. And if Darwin as a personality doesn't emerge as engaging as he was intellectually extraordinary well one can't have everything especially all in one family." Kirkus Reviews. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1930. hardcover books
19308vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 11 plates; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. This life of Erasmus Darwin is the first biography from the pen of Hesketh Pearson, who rose over the next thirty years to become the most popular and successful biographer of his time. Scarce in this condition.
1963ref. 34031Paris Les belles Lettres 1963 In-8 204 pp
1518ref. ABC_49875Cologne: Johann Gymnic 1518. Modern faux-leather-patterned paper with a grey paper label on the spine with the authors name lettered in silver Erasmus v. Rotterdam. 4to. With the title set with in a frame built up from 4 or possibly 6 woodcut illustrations including printer's initials and the date 1518 and 10 woodcut decorated initials. Selection of three letters by the Church Father Jerome of Stridon Saint Jerome ca. 342/47-420 CE edited and annotated by Erasmus. Erasmus felt a profound connection to Jerome. He saw in the ancient Church Father not only a kindred spirit but also a mirror for his own intellectual and spiritual journey. Included in this volume are three letters: first the epistle to Heliodorus on the praise of the solitary life de vita solitaria a stirring defence of ascetic withdrawal from the world; second the epistle to Heliodorus on the misery of human life de miseria vitae humanae a sombre reflection on the fleeting nature of earthly existence; and third the epistle to the monk Rusticus on avoiding familiarity with women de mulieribus evitandis a warning shaped by both monastic ideals and Jeromes personal convictions. Additionally a short fourth letter addressed to Onasus is included at the end of the volume though it does not appear on the title page. In this letter he satirically addresses the priest Onasus who had a deformed nose and his feeling of being unjustly attacked and being made a fool of in other letters and writings by Jerome.With early manuscript annotations corrections etc. of the printed text in the margins and occasional underlining of the text mainly concerning the third letter written in three different hands in both brown and black ink. With a 0.5 cm worm hole in the gutter margin not affecting the text. Occasional foxing and browning and some water staining in the fore-edge margin of several leaves. Overall a good copy.l BM STC German p. 440; USTC 640603 3 copies; Vander Haeghen II 29; VD 16 ZV 7938; not in Adams; De Reuck. Johann Gymnic, hardcover
1529ref. 3896Coloniae Köln: apud Ioannem Gymnicum Johann Gymnich I 1529. First Gymnich edition. Later paste-paper wrappers. Tinted edges. Title page with ink blot obscuring an early blind ownership stamp. Later manuscript annotation to the second leaf. Very good condition. First Gymnich edition. Later paste-paper wrappers. Tinted edges. ff. 39. A rare Cologne edition from Johann Gymnich's ambitious Augustinian publishing programme issued in the wake of Erasmus's Froben edition of Augustine. Issued in September 1529 the present edition belongs to Johann Gymnich's remarkable programme of Augustinian publications in Cologne. Between 1528 and 1533 he published sixteen editions representing fourteen different Augustinian works eight of them in 1529 alone. This publishing programme coincided with the appearance of Erasmus's monumental ten-volume edition of Augustine's Opera printed by Johann Froben at Basel between 1528 and 1529. While the Froben edition offered Augustine's complete works in an ambitious scholarly edition Gymnich issued individual treatises in inexpensive convenient format making them available independently of the costly collected Opera. By 1528 the first volumes of the Erasmian edition were already on the market and the enterprise was completed only in June 1529 a few months before Gymnich published the present work. Comparison with the contemporary Froben edition shows that Gymnich's De moribus was not conceived as an independent editorial undertaking. Adapted for publication as a separate treatise it prefixes the relevant extract from Augustine's Retractationes and employs a different system of chapter arguments while the text itself closely follows that of the contemporary Basel edition. Whether Gymnich worked directly from the Froben printing or from another witness of the same recension remains uncertain but the close chronological relationship between the two publishing programmes strongly suggests that Gymnich's Augustinian series was conceived in the context of the renewed demand generated by Erasmus's edition. Written shortly after Augustine's conversion De moribus ecclesiae catholicae is one of his earliest anti-Manichaean treatises. Addressed principally against the Manichaeans it defends the moral teaching and ascetic ideals of the Catholic Church while setting them against those of its rival. . apud Ioannem Gymnicum [Johann Gymnich (I)] unknown
1766ref. LV2028Lund Sweden:: Typis Reg. Aul. Camer. & Direct. Reg. Acad. Carolinae Typog. Caroli Gustavi Berling 1766. 1766. Small 4to. 18 pp. Engraved headpiece and initial; small hole on title. Dis-bound. "Withdrawn from Pitts Theology Library" rubber stamp at p. 18. RARE. Very good. Lagerbring 1707-1787 was a Swedish professor and historian becoming a professor of history at Lund University in 1742. He was quite prolific writing on topics ranging from law to theology to philosophy and more. Some of his most important works include De usu et utilitate historiarum 1745 and De fide historica monumentorum islandicorum 1763 and Dissertatio exhibens cautelas de prudenter instituenda historia 1763 in which he discussed historiography and historical method Wikip. WorldCat: 2 copies National Library of Sweden and Pitts Theology Library. This is the copy from the Pitts Theology Library. Typis Reg. Aul. Camer. & Direct. Reg. Acad. Carolinae, Typog. Caroli Gustavi Berling, 1766. unknown books
1720ref. 3000550Helmstad: Herman Daniel Hamm 1720. Book. Good. Full-Leather. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. pp 15 256 13 Rebound not recently with original spine strip laid down. Internally very good binding firm moderate wear to cover. Scarce. Herman Daniel Hamm Hardcover
