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1859ref. 140940505Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson 1859. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Follows the original French and some multi-volume British editions with ghostwritten material tacked on. 580 2-12 1 pp. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth front stamped in blind gilt spine lettering yellow ad endpapers. A Very Good copy with cloth worn away along head and tail lettering a little oxidized and rubbed light sporadic foxing penciled name on first blank erased pencil on title page plates toned. The autobiography of the first private detective Eugene Francois Vidocq a former criminal and father of criminology. His exploits inspired Edgar Allan Poe to create detective fiction as a genre. T.B. Peterson unknown books
1931ref. 17082110London: Jonathan Cape Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press Cambridge 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Gill Eric. No. 129 of 160 octavo size 206 pp. signed by Eric Gill. Clothing has long been an integral part of society and can be used to reflect diverse religious and cultural identities. In this essay Eric Gill 1882-1940 discusses the significance of clothes in society and argues for a more egalitarian approach to clothing; for example Gill advocates the suitability of men's clothing trousers for women as a way to liberate the sexes and create a more equal society. Gill provides wood engravings for the book illustrating his concepts and showcasing his masterful rendering of the technique; his illustrations have a slightly satirical slant while evoking the pathos of his arguments. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter brown pigskin with marbled paper boards gilt rules and lettering on the spine top edge gilt fore- and bottom edges uncut illustrations include title page device "Woman Dancing" P712; "Art and Prudence" P714; "Clothes as Houses" P715; "Clothes as Workshops" P716; "Clothes as Churches and Town Halls" P717; "Clothes for Special Parts" P718; "The Tyranny of Tailors" P719; "Nature and Nakedness" P720; "Trousers" P21; and a tailpiece of "Trousers and Spats" P722; octavo 7.5" by 5.25" pagination: i-vii 1-2 3-196 197-198 1 colophon one of 160 copies this number 129 signed "Eric G" on the colophon. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; some slight rubbing to the bottom edges of the boards and to the corners a faint stain to the gutter of Contents page and very slight cracking to the gutter at pages 128 and 129 but hinges are still tight. ___CITATION: Gill 22. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Jonathan Cape [Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge] hardcover books
1983ref. JC9382New York: Random House 1983. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 73 illustrated. A special edition published for the conservators of the New York Public Library. Book is fine. Dust jacket a little wrinkled along the edges with a few small closed tears here and there; spine and rear panel somewhat sunned. Random House hardcover books
1940ref. 2156New York N.Y. William Edwin Rudge 1940-1948. 4to. Vol.I-Vol. V. Number 1-4 of each year plus Vol. V Number 4. 1940-1948. Printed wrappers for each volume. 1st Edition. All in fine condition each year encased in a blue paper covered sleeve. Vol. I: 1940 Vol 1-4 A mutitude of articles on prints and books as well as numerous illustrations. Vol. II: 1942 #1-4 "Aristocracy in Prints" American engraver Vol. III: #1-4 1943 t. Vol. IV: 1946 #1-4Vol. V:1948 #4 only. On request I will provide a detailed list of articles included. The journal was founded by William Edwin Rudge to demonstrate "the far reaching importance of the graphic arts" including art prints commercial printing wallpaper etc. Contents were eclectic covering typography book making book printing fine prints as well as the trade journal aspects of printing candy bar wrappers.8 Initially the publication included original prints such as the frontispiece for Vol 1 #1 Jun 1940 a two color woodcut by Hans Alexander Mueller and Vol 1 #3 December 1940 a black and white wood engraving by Paul Landacre. By Volume 8 1953 the focus of the periodical had shifted to a trade journal. William Edwin Rudge books
1733ref. 1417713Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain 1733. Hardcover. Folio 8 152 pages 4. In Good condition. Fully bound in early lightly marbled brown leather. Boards show moderate shelf wear with rubbing to corners and all edges. Spine is brown with light brown label and gilt lettering and gilt patterning to spine body. Scattered light scratches to back cover. Moderate wear along spine hinges. Spine shows moderate rubbing with loss of gilt ornamentation and partial loss of label. Text block shows moderate age toning to edges and interior. Scattered light foxing throughout interior. Mild to moderate offsetting across from all plates. All page edges dyed red. Stain to fore edge affecting ~40 leaves. Contains total of 61 full-page copper plat engravings including frontis piece. 1417713. Special Collections - Upstairs. Zacharie Chatelain hardcover books
1733ref. 1417714Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain 1733. Hardcover. Folio 8 152 pages 4. In Good condition. Fully bound in early black leather later rebacking in green leather with majority of spine preserved. Spine is black with raised bands gilt lettering and gilt ornamentation. Boards show moderate overall shelf wear with rubbing to corners and edges and numerous scratches and abrasions to both covers. Moderate cracking and discoloration along spine hinges. Spine shows moderate wear to tail and head with loss of gilt-tooled leather at spine head. Text block shows mild age toning to interior and moderate toning to page edges. Light chipping to fly leave. Previous owner's name in ink to front free end page. Marbled end pages. Occasional mild to moderate offsetting across from plates. Scattered very light foxing throughout interior. Contains 61 full-page copperplate engravings including frontis piece. 1417714. Special Collections - Upstairs. Zacharie Chatelain hardcover books
2011ref. 47394Berkshire: Memminger Medien Center for the Folio Sociaty 2011. Facsimile edition after the original. Hardcover. Fine condition. 477/1250. Folio. 309 2 48pp. Original black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on cover and spine gilt edges with companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. Red initials. Historiated endpieces. Black ribbon marker. Companion volume with frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster 1927. Exquisite publication and beautifully illustrated in margins with large drawings by Eric Gill. These drawing were perceived by the public as erotic. Modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece printed on Rigoletto Panna felt-merked paper. "Troilus and Criseyde was originally printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926-7 using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum for the Folio Society on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. Colophon. The companion volume "Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition with minor emendations. " Imprint. Contains notes at rear. Memminger Medien Center for the Folio Sociaty hardcover books
1991ref. 350570Roslyn: The Stone House Press 1991. 31p. frontispiece note from the printer rubricated initial caps #49/75 hand-numbered and signed by both the author and the artist designed Mary Ahern and printed by M. A. Gelfland by hand at The Stone House Press printed from type and woodblock on Mohawk Letterpress paper gray cloth boards over green cloth spine with gilt titles and clear mylar dust jacket in near fine condition. Essay on poetry. The Stone House Press unknown books
1989ref. 327176San Francisco: North Point Press 1989. 56p. illustrated signed by Berry on the title page first trade edition hardcover bound in decorative boards and green quarter-cloth slight toning to top quarter of the boards otherwise in very good condition. Originally published in a limited edition of 150 copies by the Press of Appletree Alley. North Point Press unknown books
ref. 009824England 1808: Alnwick Printed By W. Davison Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Later Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1 preliminary leaf illustrated title page ix-xxvi pages 1 leaf 29-198 pages 1 leaf including plates frontispiece. Bound in contemporary pebbled calf covers with central floral decoratios in gilt surrounded by decoratibve gilt border and two rules back gilt marbled end papers all edges gilt. Very Good Plus back gilt dulled and sunned light wear at spine ends and corners. Some of the illustrations toward the back are thought to be by Bewick. Alnwick, Printed By W. Davison Hardcover books
1969ref. 009593San Francisco: Kayak Press 1969. Book. Very Good Plus. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at front end page. His 2nd book. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Very Good Plus bottom corner crease rear wrapper spine and half of rear wrapper evenly browned. Kayak Press Paperback books
1841ref. 008974London: Longman Orme Brown Green and Longman 1841. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in contemporary fine binding two volumes in polished calf the backs with black and red morocco labels and intricate gilt tooling marbled end papers and edges the bookplates of Walmer Castle and a later 20th c. owner front end papers prior owner inscriptions in pencil and ink concerning Walmer Castle and Cattermole's engravings "considered to be some of his finest". Very Good the calf rubbed and soiled. Both volumes with frontis engravings and engraved title pages Vol. I with 7 engravings in text Vol. II with 13 in text. The title pages call for 15 in Vol. I and 13 in Vol. II leaving the possibility of 4 missing engravings however no evidence of removal. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman Hardcover books
1845ref. 007972London: Printed for Thomas Tegg 1845. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition. Tall 8vo. Very Good in contemporary half pebbled brown morocco over marbled boards spine with five raised bands and lettered in gilt marbled end papers the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down along with a small bookseller's label. Prior owner name top edge verso front end page. Boards rubbed at edges binding solid contents quite clean and unmarked. A scholar's copy. Printed for Thomas Tegg Hardcover books
1969ref. 007399San Francisco: Kayak Books 1969. Book. Near Fine. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page -"To Joe on his birthday with love Keith May 20 1977 Las Cruces N.M.". From the collection of noted literary scholar and translator Joseph A Buttigieg the father of current Democratic Party presidential candidate and South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Near Fine faint browning to fore edge of wrappers. One of 1000 copies designed and printed by George Hitchcock at the Kayak Press. Illustrated with lovely prints by Robert McChesney. Kayak Books Paperback books
1870ref. 13079Paris: Unique. ca 1870. Original frame / Modern frame. Very good. Framed oblong scene of women harlequins and dancers rendered in subtle color lithography. Each of the figures is applied to the background in relief thereby producing a three dimensional effect for the viewer. Accompanying this is another framed "family scene" of nobility. Man woman and children composed of color lithographic figures with applied metallic highlights; gold braided tassle applied to the cushion at one corner as an embellishment. A anonymous unique composition of what appears to be a company of dancers or actors. Each is posed in a coquettish manner interacting as a group and looking at the viewer. Each is gayly attired in elaborate harlequin costumes in the manner of tinsel prints see Speaight Juvenile Drama . Chap. 11 with complicated silk ruffles and ties. The figures were produced through color lithography and mounted in relief to give the impression of depth to the scene. The item measures appx. 30 1/4 x 25 3/4 inches without the frame. There is no information available as to its origin. But given the quality of the lithography and subject matter a guess would be French. This is offered with a "noble family scene" of the same collage mode of representation. This is in a modern frame and measures appx. 12.5 x 16 inches without the frame. The relief effect is accomplished in the same manner. See Natl. Galleries of Scotland Collage #18 & #40. Unique. unknown books
1971ref. 1391357Santa Cruz CA: Kayak Books Inc 1971. First Paperback Edition First Printing. Softcover. Octavo 55 pages. In Good condition. Tan spine with red lettering. Covers have mild shelving wear moderate bending wear along the tail fore corners mild water damage along the front fore edge and moderate age-toning throughout. Textblock has mild water damage along the fore edges from the front end-page to page 20 light soiling throughout mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning throughout. Signed flat by Philip Levine on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391357. Special Collections - Downstairs. Kayak Books, Inc unknown books
1950ref. 55275London: The Collectors Book Club 1950. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good- to fine condition. 1/100. Folio. Unpaginated with six tissue-guarded copper engravings. Original green Morroco with five inch black cloth strip laid to covers gilt decorated grape motif across front cover and raised bands with gilt ruling on spine. Gilt top edge. Purple ribbon marker. Title page printed in red-brown. Signed by the artist on dedication page. Printed with the permission of the University Presses of Oxford and Cambridge. Contains six beautiful copperplate engravings by the decorated Dutch sculptor Ru van Rossem well known for his sculptures pen drawings lithographs wood and copper engravings as well as set and costume designs. Printed on English handmade paper by John Roberts Press engravings on Japanese vellum. A pupil of Jam van Tongeren and Arend Hendriks Ru van Rossem 1924-2007 taught at the Great Yarmouth College of Art while he lived in England. For almost twenty years he was a lecturer at the Tilburg Academy and among other awards was appointed Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2003. Spine and left Moroccan panel on front cover faded with very light wear at along edges slightly more pronounced at head and tail of spine. Some offsetting of leather edges to endpapers. Binding in good- interior in very good to fine condition. The Collectors Book Club hardcover books
1880ref. 52357London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. 17/50. Large Folio. 51 leaves. Original three-quarter blue leather over textured blue cloth with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Top edge gilt. Decorative floral endpapers rendered in lithography. Frontispiece engraving. Title page with engraving. Decorative initials. Black ribbon marker. Signed "Edition limited to 50 copies No. 17 C. O. Murray" in blue handwriting on half-title. illustrated with nineteen etchings including frontispiece and title page. All but the title page etching with C. O. Murray signature in plate and reference to the respective stanza. All plates tissue guarded with heavy paper plates. Contains list of etchings at front. Light wear along edges of binding some rubbing along hinges of spine. Offsetting to outer edges of endpapers from cover leather. Some offsetting of engravings to guards. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington hardcover books
1843ref. 47974Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Weber 1843. First edition. Hardcover. poor to vg. Quarto. 40 leaves 38 hand-colored plates some of them with tissue guards including frontispiece. Bound in three-quarter brown leather over marbled boards. Double-framed half-title. Frontispiece. Double-framed half-title and illustrated title page with black double frame. Collection of plates by the celebrated and decorated French military painter and printmaker Hippolyte Bellangé. His work was included into the 1855 Exposition Universelle a major event in France exhibiting agricultural and industrial products and the fine arts. All plates signed Bellangé in plates. OCLC lists only one copy with this title in the University and City Library of Cologne. This OCLC listing refers to an 1844 publication by the publisher J. J. Weber a volume with 364 pages and fifty original drawings of all types of military corps and uniforms of the French Republic and the Empire by Hippolyte Bellangé. Our copy with the original title page is dated 1843 and contains thirty-eight lithographs on the subject without any text but the captions in the double-framed pages. The collection contains images of generals officers and soldiers from different corps of the French army from 1795 to 1814 with many of the plates not dated. Conceivably this copy was a limited pre-publication bound by the publisher in 1843 during preparations for the 1844 copy. The indication of this being a limited edition is typed only onto a label glued to the front free endpaper. In addition our copy contains an oval paper label with handwriting pasted to the front cover as well as two strips with imagery of French soldiers lined up printed in color glued to top and bottom of the cover. The copy contains four additional color printed strips of soldiers one glued to the inside front cover two to the front free endpaper and one to the half-title. The number of soldiers depicted on each strip varies. The oval paper label on the front cover contains the name Adolf Brougier and the year 1877 in calligraphy and the title in English in a different handwriting. The front free endpaper also contains a paper label with typed title subtitle and publisher's information glued in between the two printed strips. Publisher's information on this label ends with "Limited" but no printed indication of limitation. The Ex Libris on the inside front cover is from Robert Florey the French-American film director screenwriter and actor. Laid in a cutout lithograph of a cavalry officer 7 x 5" cut with black printed borders partially visible. Text in German. Wear along edges small chips and scuffing with spine missing except two narrow leather strips at head and tail. Some sporadic foxing hardly effecting lithographs small closed tears and rubbing throughout. Some penciled numbers in margins outside of lithograph borders. Starting at two places with one plate loose held only with tan paper tape at top. Some of the plates reinforced with tape at gutter. Binding in poor plates in very good condition. Adolf Brougier. Painter etcher. Born in Stuttgart Germany in 1870. Brougier studied art in France and Germany. He exhibited portraits and landscapes in Los Angeles for ten years before his death in Santa Barbara CA on March 11 1926. Exh: Curtis Gallery LA 1924; Holland & Garrison Gallery LA 1924. Ben; AAW; SCA; DR; AAA 1926; LA Times 3-12-1926 obit. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Weber hardcover books
1698ref. 47512Amstelodami Amsterdam: Apud Abrahamum a Someren 1698. Altero Editio priori auctior & emendatior. Hardcover. good to vg. Large octavo 8 x 6 3/4". 72 344 1 40pp. Indices Errata of Vol. I 6 plates one folding; 4 345-752 60pp Indices Errata of Vol. II 14 plates one folding. Bound in full vellum. Red edges. Volume one with engraved half-title. Both title pages with publisher's device. Engraved Ex-Libris of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm father to the Brothers Grimm on verso of title page volume one. Decorative initials and headpiece. Originally published in 1680 Johannes Braun's "Vestitus sacerdotum Hebraeorum" was the standard work on Hebrew priestly vestiments; how they were produced and their ritual use. The text is accompanied with 20 striking full page one in-text engraving and numerous in-text tablets plus frontispiece by Bastiaan Stoopendaal-Schulz a celebrated Dutch engraver and mapmaker. Penciled note on "The Dress of the Hebrew Priests" on verso of engraved half-title in English. Text in Latin. Binding with light wear along edges rubbed with light line indentations. Red edges faded. First folding plate with two inch closed tear at fold near gutter light creasing at lower edge. Inked note in margin of page 384 of volume two. Some parts age-toned mostly indices. Front endpaper missing back endpaper with small chips. Binding and interior in overall good to very good condition plates very good. Apud Abrahamum a Someren hardcover books
1574ref. 47005Venice Venetia: Printed by Simon Calignani 1574. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. 8 109 1pp. Rebound in full leather with ornate period blind-stamped decor on covers gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Title page with elaborate architectural framing. Historiated woodcut initials. Twenty-three headpiece copper engravings 3 3/4 x6" for each chapter and tailpiece vignettes. Contains author's dedication to Ottaviano Manini and five page table of notable facts Index with errata note. Woodcut on colophon at rear is the printer's device initialed S. C. K. with his motto "The Tower and the Strength of my God." Famous work on ancient customs of funeral rites and ceremonies among Romans Egyptians Greeks Indians Scythians Cavemen and Christians by author and cartographer Thomaso Porcacchi illustrated by Girolamo Porro. Written as a dialog between author and two characters praising the talent of Girolamo Porro and the quality of his work. Porro who's eyesight was impaired is also credited with the design of a "flying machine" able to transport many man. Porro also illustrated Porcacchi's 1572 publication "Isole piu famose del Mondo Most Famous Islands of the World." Porcacchi's work on funeral rites known to have been consulted in arranging high profile funerals e.g. that of Cosimo I. de Medici. Text in Italian. Page 51 misnumbered 15. Binding with light wear along edges light streaking to boards. Some offsetting along edges of free endpapers form leather binding. Original endpapers and title page with some age-toning else only minor blemishes in block. Printed by Simon Calignani hardcover books
1729ref. 44168London: Printed for J. Tonson 1729. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Duodecimo. 1 plate 24pp. 1 plate 348pp. 11 plates with tissue guards. 19th century three-quarter calf with gilt lettering on black label of spine over marbled boards with guilt ruling; raised bands protected by modern mylar. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Historiated and decorative head and endpieces. Decorative initials. Content: Sapho to Phaon; The Fame wholly translated by Mr. Pope; Canace to Macareus Edward Poley; The same by Ed. Floyd; Hypermnestra to Linus; Ariadne to Theseus; Hermione to Orestes; Leander to Hero; Hero to Leander; Laodamia to Protesilaus; O Enone to Paris; A Paraphrase on O Enone to Paris; Paris to Helen; Helen to Paris; Penelope to Ulysses; The Fame by Mrs. Wharton; Hypsipyle to Jason; Medea to Jason; Phaedra to Hippolytus; Dido to Aeneas; The fame by another hand; Briseis to Achilles; Dejanira to Herculus; The fame by another hand; Acontius to Cydippe; Cydippe to Acontius; Ulysses to Penelope; Demophoon to Phillis; Paris to E Enone; Ovid's Amours. In Three Books. Illustrated with thirteen steel plate engravings with tissue guards. Binding with some scuffing along edges. Block somewhat age toned. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. Printed for J. Tonson hardcover books
1695ref. 43155Amstelaedami Amsterdam: Apud Johannem Wolters 1695. Second edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Octavo 7 3/4 x 6 1/4". 58 859 49pp. Original full blind-stamped parchment with handwritten lettering to spine. Raised bands. Additional engraved title by Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver Gerard Hoet. Title page in red and black lettering. Title vignette. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. Originally published in 1692 this work is the second edition of Hermann Witsius' compendium of religious works. It includes eight full-page engravings by Jan van den Aveelen including four double-page. Six of these appear in the text on Jewish law and ritual "de Tabernaculi Levitici mysteriis" and one includes an overflap showing the Ark of the Covenant. At the end of the Preface has been added a large engraved portrait of the author by Pieter van Gunst after a painting by Gerard Hoet. The portrait is dated 1700 and comes from a later edition of Witsius' "Miscellaneorum Sacrorum" published in Amsterdam and Utrecht in 1700 by Francisci Halmae François Halma. Also includes an extensive Index at rear. Minor foxing and darkening to binding. Ex-library bookplate on inside of front cover. Minor and sporadic clear water-staining at upper lower or outer margin of pages never affecting lettering. Slight rippling to pages due to damp exposure. Otherwise pages are extremely clean and white. Text in Latin with some Hebrew and Greek. Binding in overall good to very good interior in good to very good condition. About the author: Hermann Witsius 1636-1708 was "Professor of Divinity in the Universities of Franeker Utrecht and Leyden. A brilliant and devout student he was fluent in Latin Greek and Hebrew by the age of 15 when he entered the University of Utrecht. He was ordained at 21 and served in several pastorates filling both the pulpit and the academic chair over the course of his life" Encyclopedia Britannica. Apud Johannem Wolters hardcover books
1692ref. 43176Trajecti ad Rhenum Utrecht: Apud Franciscum Halmam 1692. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Octavo 8 1/4 x 6 1/4". 28 859 49pp Index. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Additional engraved title by Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver Joseph Mulder 1658-1742 after a painting by Dutch Baroque era painter Gerard Hoet 1648-1733. Title vignette. Decorative initials and tailpieces. Scarce first edition of Hermann Witsius' compendium of religious works illustrated with eight full-page engravings by Jan van den Aveelen including four double-page. Six of these appear in the text on Jewish law and ritual "de Tabernaculi Levitici mysteriis" and one includes an overflap showing the Ark of the Covenant. Age-toning to binding. Ex-library sticker at head of spine and stamp on free front endpaper. Previous owner's gift inscription dated 1830 on fly leaf. Clear water-staining along fore-edge of the first two leaves of Dedication then sporadically along fore-edge of a few pages throughout 9not affecting lettering. Both hinges slightly starting. Sporadic foxing and age-toning throughout. Text in Latin with some Hebrew and Greek. Binding in overall good- to good interior in good- to very good condition. About the author: Hermann Witsius 1636-1708 was "Professor of Divinity in the Universities of Franeker Utrecht and Leyden. A brilliant and devout student he was fluent in Latin Greek and Hebrew by the age of 15 when he entered the University of Utrecht. He was ordained at 21 and served in several pastorates filling both the pulpit and the academic chair over the course of his life" Encyclopedia Britannica. Apud Franciscum Halmam hardcover books
1736ref. 42844Amsterdam: J. Wetstein; G. Smith 1736. First French-language edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto 10 1/4 x 8". 14 lxxv 1 696pp; 4 848pp. Modern half brown calf over light green cloth with gold lettering and tooling to spines retaining the original gilt-lettered leather titles. All paper edges red. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and engraved portrait of Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach Queen of Great Britain as the wife of King George II by George Vertue. Title vignettes. Title pages in red and black lettering. This work was originally published in London in 1619 by Paolo Sarpi 1552-1623 an Italian historian prelate scientist canon lawyer and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict 1605-1607 and its war 1615-1617 with Austria over the Uskok pirates. The author published it under the name of Pietro Soave Polano an anagram of Paolo Sarpi Veneto plus o. The book's emphasis was on the role of the Papal Curia and its slant on the Curia hostile. Sarpi's work attained such fame that the Vatican opened its archives to Cardinal Pietro Sforza Pallavicino whom it commissioned to write a three volume rebuttal entitled the "Istoria del Concilio di Trento scritta dal P. Sforza Pallavicino della Comp. di Giesù ove insieme rifiutasi con auterevoli testimonianze un Istoria falsa divolgata nello stesso argomento sotto nome di Petro Soave Polano" "The History of the Council of Trent written by P. Sforza Pallavicino of the Company of Jesus in which a false history upon the same argument put forth under the name of Petro Soave Polano is refuted by means of authoritative testimony" 1656-1657. Sporadic foxing and offsetting throughout. Bindings in overall very good interior in good to very good condition. J. Wetstein; G. Smith hardcover books
