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1682réf. 046918Dublin: Joseph Ray 1682. Second Edition. Hardcover rebound in leather. Very Good Condition. Rebound in contemporary leather extensive contemporary notes to front endpapers one endpaper with the upper right corner torn. Quite clean internally - in two parts a third was published in 1689. 14 70 8 154pp The first and second parts of Ware's extensive and pernicious forgeries of church history intended to stir up anti-Catholic anti-Irish and anti-Jesuit sentiment. They played a large role in the absurd stories surrounding the Popish Plot and many of Ware's creations continued to pollute reformation history into the 19th 20th and even 21st centuries. Ware was the son of a prominent historian and used his father John's name to legitimize the documents that he "found" - one of the most long lived forgeries was a Cranmer letter at the beginning of part two which entered into Cranmer's works and was preserved for centuries through misattributions by historians such as John Strype and wishful thinking. Rare in commerce. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; History. Inventory No: 046918. Joseph Ray hardcover books
1695réf. 008074Paris: Jean Guignard 1695. Bookplates of the Baron Northwick John Rushout 1738-1800 The first Baron Northwick British politician and Member of Parliament. With engraved frontispiece of Julius Caesar Vol. I and Augustus Vol. II. Two volumes bound in contemporary mottled calf with later reback two leather labels with gilt lettering and decorations bright Very Good small chip to frontis and title page Vol. II light rubbing to edges of boards. 10 282 6 2 305 7 pp. . First Edition. Mottled Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Jean Guignard Hardcover books
1651réf. 046537Leiden: Joannis Maire 1651. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked. Scattered foxing and browning old catalog entry pasted to endpaper signature on title. A nice clean copy overall. 830pp index. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046537. Joannis Maire hardcover books
1695réf. E0561xxiv21612 pages with frontispiece folding map and eight engraved costume plates. Duodecimo 6 ¼" x 3 ½" early full calf later spine label. First Edition in English. First published in French the prior year which was published without the plates. François Pidou de Saint Olon was a French diplomat under Louis XIV. In 1682 he was nominated as the first French resident envoy to the Republic of Genoa following the Bombardment of Genoa. He was then sent as an envoy to Madrid. In 1689 François Pidou was appointed ambassador to the court of Sultan Moulay Ismail for the signing of a commercial treaty and to release prisoners now slaves of Barbary corsairs of Salé for 233 including 29 bedridden Moroccan prisoners held by the French. His mission was not successful however he continued to stay more than three weeks more in Morocco. The book gains particular interest through its author's position as ambassador giving him access not always voluntary to areas of Moroccan society previously unrecorded by travelers. There are detailed descriptions of Moroccan dress and the book is beautifully illustrated with eight engraved plates of Moroccan men and women in traditional costume. Condition: With the fine copper engraved frontispiece of the overall state of Morocco which is quite rare and is often found missing in most copies. Joints cracking spine chipped at edges; foxing else very good. R. Bently hardcover books
1700réf. 215202London: Printed for Ben. Griffin in the Old Baily &c 1700. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Illustrated with many copper-plate engravings of the great houses and manors as well as maps; an old note states that this copy "wants plate 27 page 262 North View of the Town of Nortford." Contemporary paneled calf rebacked leather spine with six raised bands. Very Good binding. Printed for Ben. Griffin in the Old Baily &c unknown books
1677réf. 36147Sur la Copie a Paris: Chez Frederic Leonard 1677. Second French edition. Engraved title two parts continuous pagination. 24 550 38 pp. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Vellum. Title in pen on spine upper joint torn some soiling of binding light browning of text mostly marginal else a very good copy. Second French edition. Engraved title two parts continuous pagination. 24 550 38 pp. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Amelot de la Houssaye was secretary to the French embassy at Venice and his account of the Republic for the first time revealed the policy of the Venetian governement. When the book appeared the Venetian state complained to the French court and Amelot was sent to the Bastille for six weeks. Chez Frederic Leonard unknown books
1685réf. 041459's Gravenhage: Johan Veely Tongerloo Jasper Doll 1685. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary leather worn at edges heavily at corners hinges rubbed spine cracked but binding firm and intact. Bright internally wear to endpapers. Attractively engraved added title page. Printed in two columns 1520 numbered leaves. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 041459. Johan Veely, Tongerloo, Jasper Doll hardcover books
1654réf. 046147Amsterdam: Joannis Blaeu 1654. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Early mottled calf three volumes in one the last printed 1652. Modest wear and some surface marks and scars to calf very neatly rebacked some time ago a very attractive binding overall. Scattered mostly minor foxing mild age toning small dampstain in the gutter of title and first few pages generally quite clean internally with numerous genealogical tables many folding and two folding maps. i-lxxxi 13 Index 2 errata corrigenda i; x 2 errata 439 450 i.e. 440 cxxx 6 Index; viii 109 ii Relentlessly unsentimental about mythology and illegitimate historical material Blondel is most famous for discrediting the Sibylline Oracles the Pope Joan story and the origins of the fleurs de lis. This work meticulously refutes Jean-Jacques Chifflet's claims as to the supremacy of the genealogy of the Spanish kings over the French. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046147. Joannis Blaeu hardcover books
1658réf. 045382London: Henry Hills and John Field 1658. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf rebacked endpapers replaced wear and browning to early leaves old stamp of the Royal Society to title and endpaper modest browning throughout but generally very clean otherwise. Printed largely in black letter. 42 186 4 515 43p. Mispaginated: jumps from 160 to 163 but catchwords match and there is nothing missing. A collection of Cromwell era acts of parliament that picks up where Pulton's "A Collection of Sundry Statutes" left off. Size: Folio. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; History. Inventory No: 045382. Henry Hills and John Field hardcover books
1647réf. 046538Amsterdam: Elzevirium 1647. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in modern full calf old ownership marks and a long pen mark to title modest foxing and age toning to pages clean overall and a nice copy. 8 80 192 119 1 60pp; 8 62 8pp. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046538. Elzevirium hardcover books
1685réf. 046297Amsterdam: H. & Viduae Theodori Boom 1685. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum darkened significant tear to vellum on spine and rear cover but binding sound scattered minor foxing otherwise very clean internally. 32 470 16pp. First edition of Perizonius's foundational work of historical criticism. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046297. H. & Viduae Theodori Boom hardcover books
1608réf. 038925Paris: Petri Chevalier 1608. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full early calf nicely rebacked. Some soiling in margins tabs added and some have torn off occasional early notes and underlining and a few small ink droplets. A nice wide margined scholarly edition of Tacitus and Velleius with a host of notes from earlier editors and an attractive title vignette. 3 volumes in 1; 20 1 276 708 154 151. Graesse VI 9. Size: Folio. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: history; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 038925. Petri Chevalier hardcover books
1604réf. 045016Ambrosium & Hieronymum Drouart 1604. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 5 volumes bound in 9 in contemporary calf. Worn at the edges and corners spines a little dry but intact and attractive overall. Volume 1 with a single title page some copies were apparently bound with a second title page noting Estienne the publisher of the Folio edition. Old bookplates inside covers ownership marks and stamps to titles and first pages occasionally trimmed a little close on the top edge just touching the running title scattered minor pencil marks light dampstain to the corners of a section of vol vii but otherwise clean and a very good set overall. This is the second edition of Thou's history published 1604-1608 and the first octavo edition. It was published just after the Folio edition a few months after for the first volumes and almost simultaneously thereafter. The first two octavo volumes corresponding to the first folio volume and printed in 1604 identified here as Pars I and Partis Primae Tomus II is bound in four volumes as is the second volume published in two octavo volumes in 1606 and corresponding to the Folio volume also published in 1606. They are identified as Tomus Secundi Pars Prima and Tomi Secundi Pars altera. The final volume identified as Libri VI is bound in one and published in 1608 the Folio edition was published in 1607-8. Because Thou was editing and changing his systems of identification as he published the books the naming system is a little odd - this final volume follows the third and fourth octavo volumes and not the first two in how it is numbered. 1005pp index; 1013 index; 958 index; 886 index; 501 privilege index. Kinser pages 10-20. Graesse VII 147. Thou's history is one of the great monuments of Renaissance history and in its scientific factual take on events was much more a work of the enlightenment than the counter-reformation. As a result and despite some minor changes from the first edition all of the later books dealing with the wars of religion and other topics ended up on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1609. A 1620 edition collected all of the history and added Thou's Mémoires. Size: Octavo 8vo. 9-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045016. Ambrosium & Hieronymum Drouart hardcover books
1615réf. 046695Naples: Tarquinio Longo 1615. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Early full vellum marbled endpapers spotting and foxing mostly in the margins a few old notes in the margins. Lacking the folding engraving otherwise complete. Just 6 copies in Worldcat. 8 76pp Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046695. Tarquinio Longo hardcover books
1669réf. 045228Geneva: Jean Herman Widerhold 1669. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Later but old half vellum spine with a few small tears but binding sound. Scattered minor foxing and browning a bit of worming in the bottom margin early on one gathering misbound but not missing any pages. 2 folding plates 1 folding table. 15542pp First French edition of Sprat's important early history of the Royal Society first published in English in 1667. The quick turnaround is testament to the thirst for Enlightenment ideas on both sides of the channel. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; History. Inventory No: 045228. Jean Herman Widerhold hardcover books
1681réf. H0011a2-a6b-b7c-c7d-2315 pages. Small square octavo 7 ¾" x 6 ¼" bound in full leather. Second edition. Thomas Barlow 1607-1691 was an English academic and clergyman who became Provost of The Queen's College Oxford and Bishop of Lincoln. He was considered in his own times and by Edmund Venables writing in the Dictionary of National Biography to have been a trimmer a reputation mixed in with his academic and other writings on casuistry. His views were in fact Calvinist and strongly anti-Catholic and he was one of the last English bishops to identify the Pope as the Antichrist He worked in the 1660s for the 'comprehension' of nonconformists but supported the crackdown of the mid-1680s; and declared loyalty to James II of England on his accession having strongly supported the Exclusion Bill which would have denied the Catholic James the succession. Pope Pius V's response to Queen Elizabeth I of England assuming governance of the Church of England included support of the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots and her supporters in their attempts to take over England "ex turpissima muliebris libidinis servitute". A brief English Catholic uprising the Rising of the North had just failed. Pius then issued a bull Regnans in Excelsis dated April 27 1570 that declared Elizabeth I a heretic and released her subjects from their allegiance to her. In response Elizabeth who had thus far tolerated Catholic worship in private now actively started persecuting them. Condition: Original bards with new period spine and red label with gilt lettering to spine corners rubbed and bumped else a good to very good copy. Printed by S Roycroft for Robert Clavel at the Peacock hardcover books
1700réf. E0566xxiii43313 table pages with two folding maps of the Marsianes and Guam. Duodecimo 6 1/2 x 3 1/4" bound in contemporary full sheep with red label in gilt spine and five raised spine bands speckled red end pages. Brunet 28230 Cioranescu 41783 First edition. Charles Le Gobien was a French Jesuit writer founder of the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses a collection of reports from Jesuit missionaries in China. It is a major source of information for the history of Catholic missions and life in China in those times. Le Gobien was born at Saint-Malo Brittany. He entered the Society of Jesus on 25 November 1671. As professor of philosophy and especially while procurator of the Franco-Chinese mission he sought in a series of papers to awaken interest in the work of Christianizing Eastern Asia. In 1697 appeared at Paris his Lettres sur les progréz de la religion à la Chine. Apropos of Chinese Rites controversy he published among other things Histoire de l'édit de l'empereur de la Chine en faveur de la religion chrétienne avec un éclaircissement sur les honneurs que les Chinois rendent à Confucius et aux morts Paris 1698; and in the year 1700: Lettre à un Docteur de la Faculté de Paris sur les propositions déférées en Sorbonne par M. Prioux. Under the same date there appeared in Paris the Histoire des Isles Mariannes nouvellement converties à la religion chrétienne. The second part translated into Spanish by J. Delgado is found in the latter's Historia General de Filipinas Manila 1892. In 1702 Père Le Gobien published Lettres de quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus écrites de la Chine et des Indes Orientales; this was the beginning of the collection soon to become celebrated under the title of Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangéres par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus. The first eight series were by Le Gobien the latter ones by Fathers Du Halde Patouillet Geoffroy and Maréchal. The collection was printed in thirty-six volumes duodecimo Paris 1703–76 and reissued in 1780-81 by Fathers Yves de Querbeux and Brotier in twenty-six volumes duodecimo omitting the prefaces. New editions appeared in 1819 1829–32 and 1838-43. One abridgment in four volumes octavo was entitled Panthéon Littéraire by L. Aimé Martin 1834–43. A partial English translation came out in London in 1714. The publication incited the Austrian Jesuit Stöcklein to undertake his Neuer Welt Bott about 1720 at first considered merely a translation but soon an independent and particularly valuable collection five volumes folio in forty parts substantially completing the Lettres Edifiantes. This is a history of the Christian missions in the Marianas or Ladrones Islands in the north-western Pacific the principal island of which is Guam. Reprinted in the text are several letters from early missionaries Medina Clain Sanvitores &c. The Jesuit mission was established there by Diego Luis de Sanvitores. Father Le Gobien never visited the Mariana islands but based his account chiefly on the relations and letters of missionaries sent to him from Rome Spain the Netherlands etc. Includes a letter by P. Clain about the discovery of the Caroline Islands. Condition: Rebacked with original spine laid down provenance: Jesuit College library with old stamps to front free endpaper half title and title page else about very good. Nicolas Pepie hardcover books
1692réf. 044549Lyon / Grenoble: Claude Naulot; Faure et Fils 1692. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Later leather backed boards spine rubbed hinges cracked. The Geometrie Pratique bound here last is a quite rare book on surveying but missing the final page - the text seems to end on 48 but other copies show 49 pages and the folding plate. Accompanying it are two almanacs from Dauphiné a region in the Southeast of France. xliv 179pp plus privilege and table; 242pp; xx 48pp. The Geometrie is prefaced by un extrait du droit François & L'Invention des Arbres. Geometrie trimmed a bit close at the top including on the title. Size: Octavo 8vo. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Mathematics; History. Inventory No: 044549. Claude Naulot; Faure et Fils hardcover books
1609réf. 046398Paris: Matreo il Maestro 1609. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in contemporary limp vellum remains of ties some discoloration to vellum occasional creasing to a few early leaves end papers rumpled and a little torn the third book is lacking the final two pages of the table ends at M generally fine otherwise. 6 books bound in 3. 6 283; 10 325; 8 362; 8 296; 8 338 6; 8 301 leaves. One of the most singular figures in the Renaissance Aretino was a poet playwright schemer satirist and pornographer who made a career out of infiltrating the highest levels of society and then alternately satirizing them in his writings or blackmailing them. For a time his patron was Cardinal Giulio de' Medici and he mocked Popes and would be popes but in time he settled in Venice - the Anti-Rome. Ariosto called him "the scourge of Princes". He is remembered most for his satires and his letters which detail conversations with both the great names of the day as well as regular folk both women and men. His ability to manipulate the reader of his letters - which were carefully chosen and probably always meant for publication - by constructing a compelling narrative with himself as central protagonist - changed epistolary collections forever. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Erotica. Inventory No: 046398. Matreo il Maestro hardcover books
1673réf. 045461Helmstedt: Henningum Mullerum 1673. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum a bit soiled but sound and attractive. Light browning internally but a clean crisp copy; lacking the front blanks. 2 volumes in 1. 16 824 104 43pp. First edition of Clasen's work on the Sibylline oracles which also adds Sébastien Castellion and Onofrio Panvino's important 16th century works on the same topic. Size: Quarto 4to. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 045461. Henningum Mullerum hardcover books
1662réf. 043191Amsterdam: Johannes van Ravesteyn 1662. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum a bit discolored. 10486 18 118 14pp. Portraits of Henrik and Cosimo de Medici. 2 works bound in one by the eminent Dutch historian and playwright. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History. Inventory No: 043191. Johannes van Ravesteyn hardcover books
1605réf. 046829Bordeaux: Simon Millanges 1605. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Later quarter vellum over marbled boards title page stained with repairs first leaf with a repaired corners a few marginalia in an early hand scattered minor foxing trimmed a little close in spots almost touching the running title. The second Latin edition of Florimund's argument against the Pope Joan story first published in French in 1587. 262 2pp - pagination errors corrected in an early hand. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; History. Inventory No: 046829. Simon Millanges hardcover books
1651réf. 046296Insulis 1651. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum mild age toning surface scar on front cover some edge wear endpapers worn and front endpaper with light dampstain date added in red pen to title a few notes in the margins in a contemporary hand otherwise clean internally. 694pp index. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046296. Insulis hardcover books
1625réf. WB18308Amsterdam: Apud Guildjel: Lanss. Caesium 1625. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. 886 pp. Full reddish brown leather antique style marbled ednpapers spine nicely gilt in 5 compartments. Engraved title; old inscription at bottom. Scattered later marks to text. A nice copy. Apud Guildjel: Lanss. Caesium hardcover books
1614réf. 045460Frankfurt: Avbriana 1614. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in contemporary vellum titles penned to spines. Modest soiling and wear one hinge just starting to crack but quite sound overall. Moderate mostly even browning to pages. The title of the second volume is Chronici Chronicorum Politici. 14 1432 10pp; 14 1336 21pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. 2-volume set complete. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 045460. Avbriana hardcover books
