A Glimpse of Light by Dr. Julian Schamroth - 1988: A Discussion on the Hebrew Calendar and Judaic Astronomy (Based on Maimonides' Kiddush Ha'chodesh)

Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1942, 1943, 1942. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Two Volumes, First Printings In Dust Jackets, Plus An Offprint: Xii, 261 (1942); Xviii, 159 Pp.; Pp 298-304 (1943). Blue Cloth, Gilt. Introduction To Semantics Is Very Good + To Near Fine, Glt Complete And Bright But Not Strong, Tiny Fray At Bottom Of Front Tip, No Names Or Marks; Dj Price Clipped With Publisher's Stamped Price $3.50, Some Browning Along Edges With Well-Browned Spine Panel, 12" Chip At Top Of Front Panel, 3/16" Chips At Upper Corners Of Spine, All Three Connecting With 1/8" Chipping Across Top Of Spine And Left Third Of Top Of Front Panel. Formalization Of Logic Is A Fine Book, No Wear Or Names Or Marks. Dj With Slight Wear, No Fading, Slight Dust, Minute Losses At Corners. Scarce In Jacket. Offprint (Of Church's Critical And Largely Discredited Review) , With Publisher's Special Printed Cover, Is Taller And Wider Than The Book It Reviews, And Is Consequently Worn And Chipped… Read More

London: D. Midwinter, W. Innys, D. Browne, C. Davis, J. And R. Tonson, A. Millar, And J. Ward, 1753. 2nd Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good. Frontispieces, Illustrated Title Pages, Tailpieces. Xxxv, [V],762; Viii, [Ii], 614, [Liii]; Xx, 750. [Xxxviii, With Errata At Bottom Of Last Page]. Three Volumes. Full Calf, 6 Bands, Red And Black Morocco Spine Labels. A Revision And Enlargement Of The 1740 "Works". Gilt Rules On Boards. Very Elaborate Engraved Bookplates Of Assheton Curzon / Hagley Farm; Later Interesting But Pseudo-Armorial Bookplates Of Claire Allen. No Marks. Bindings Worn, Fraying At Corners Chipping To Spine Ends, Joints Cracked But Holding Well By Cords. Page Block Square, Retaining Binders Polish To Edges Of Page Block. Pages Clean, In Excellent State, Light Foxing To Some Pages Of Volume Ii But Almost Entirely Confined To The Lower Margin Beneath The Printed Area. Shipping At Higher Than Stated Standard Rate.

London: Edward Jeffrey, 1794. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Lxvii, 288 Pp. First Printing. Original Tree Calf, Re-Backed Long Ago With A New Red Morocco Spine Label, Gilt. Very Large Heraldic Bookplate Over An Earlier Postage-Stamp-Size Bookplate Which Left A Faint Offset On The Facing Page. Some Page Numbers And Brief Reader's Notes On Rear Pastedown, One Line In Ink, The Others In Pencil. Boards Quite Worn, Calf Frayed Through Almost Entirely Along Edges, Re-Backing Entirely Intact And Secure.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo, 225pp. Stated second printing before publication. A very good copy in the publisher's black cloth, with some mild scuffing to the top edge, and the corners very gently bumped. In a very good dust jacket with shallow creasing to the extremities and a few tiny tears. Almost imperceptibly sunned on the spine. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Skinner on the front free endpaper to the original owner (whose name also appears on the front paste-down, under the flap). Books signed by Skinner are rare, and we could not find any other signed copies of this particular title at the time of listing.

1638 RARE Common Prayer Church England Anglican BIBLE Psalms Hanmer Shakespeare

A rare and desirable 17th-century 'Book of Common Prayer' published by Robert Barker. This popular devotional and supplement to the Bible was a critical part of the early English Church liturgy and doctrine. This 1638 edition features the Book of Psalms, separately paged.

Item number: #23679
Price: $1500

Church of England

The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments. : And other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England

London: imprinted by Robert Barker, assignes of John Bill, 1638.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 parts in 1
o 'Common Prayer' – unpaginated (~140)
o 'Psalmes' – [2], 113, [9]
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~13.75in X 9.25in (35cm x 23cm)
· Very rare and desirable EARLY example

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Lyon: Haratio Cardon, 1613. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in contemporary vellum, very light wear and quite clean, volume titles inked to bottom page edges and spine. Moderate foxing and browning throughout, many text illustrations, largely in the sections on Roman armies and gladiators (the military engravings are very good impressions, the gladiator section a bit lighter) ; printed in two columns. Engraved title, complete in 2 substantial volumes. half title, title, (7), portrait of Lipsius, 882pp; (8), 899pp. Lipsius developed a Neostoic system based in large part on Seneca and Tacitus that espoused a rational, dispassionate Christianity that was widely influential in post-Renaissance and pre-Enlightenment Europe. Size: Folio. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Philosophy; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042358.

Liegnitz [Legnica]: David Siegert, 1752. Hardcover. Very Good -. 3 titles bound together: [14], 296 p.; [14], 221, [5] p.; 29, [3] p.: 2 frontispieces (both signed Boetius); 17 cm. Signatures: )(8 (-)(8) A-S8 T4; )( (-)(8) A-O8 P4; A-B8 (8vo). Contemporary half calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Dark brown speckled paper over boards. Simple decorations on page edges. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Small inscription on front free endpaper dated 1754. Contents: (1) Kortholt, Christian. Gründlicher Beweis der Wahrheit der Christlichen Religion, und der Wichtigsten Lehren, Welche in Selbiger zum Voraus gesetzet werden; mit einer Vorrede Herrn M. Jonathan Krausens (Liegnitz: David Siegert, 1752) Zweyte und viel verbesserte Auflage. (2) Sherlock, Thomas. Gerichtliches Verhör der Zeugen der Auferstehung Jesu, Worinnen nicht nur des berüchtigten Woolstons Einwürffe, die er in seinem so genanten sechsten Discours angeführet; Sondern auch diejenigen,… Read More

London: William Pickering, 1825. The RARE 1825 Basil Montagu edited edition, in a fine contemporary binding, signed Proudfoot Binder, of full black crushed morocco, front cover bordered by single gilt fillet, central gilt tooled decoration of the Aldine Dolphin and Anchor trademark of Pickering and Basil Montagu bordered by a gilt fillet and corner emblems, the rear cover the same except no central anchor, back lettered in gilt, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, with an appropriate period bookplate, artist A. Wyon, featuring a man writing at his desk in his library while a skeletal figure (representing Death) in the background plays a xylophone. The Latin inscription on the bookplate reads " stulte hac nocte repetunt animam tuam et quae parasti, cuius erunt?" This is part of a quotation from the Book of Luke, and translates ""`Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations--for whom shall they be?". Book is Near fine, light foxing throughout.… Read More

Paris: Chez M. Bobin & N. Le Gras, 1668. Hardcover. Very Good. Titlepage vignettes, several full-page diagrams + text illustrations throughout. . Quarto (23x17cm) contemporary half calf (spine restored, front joint cracked, scratched & rather scuffed), [4], 413, [31]pp. Page 121 mis-numbered as 221, p.128 as 228 and p.334 as 314. Title vignette. *Fourth and Final edition (simultaneously published by Girard in Paris). Includes 3 books, Les Meteores, Dioptrique, Discourses De La Methode, last of which contains Descartes' 1st use of famous phrase "Cogito, Ergo Sum". Also contains his formulation of Cartesian Coordinates, as well as observations and experiments on weather phenomena.

Geneva:: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1732-41., 1732. 5 volumes. 4to. 246x202 mm. xxiv, 526; viii, 396, [2]; vii, [1], 581, [1]; viii, 374, [2]; [8], 501 pp., including errata leaf at end of Volumes 2 and 4. WITH THE FINE COPPER-ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF WOLFF BY DAUDET AS FRONTISPIECE, AND WITH 164 FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES; occasional browning, scattered soiling and stains, some early marginalia. Contemporary vellum boards, marbled edges; somewhat soiled, spines darkened. Preserved in the Robert Honeyman-commissioned quarter red morocco slipcases. Stamps of the Cologne Gymnasium on titles; signatures of E. F. August dated 1822-23; bookplates of Robert Honeyman IV. [The August – Honeyman – Gutzwiller copy]. Later edition, published in Geneva, of the 1713 Latin version of Wolff's 1710 Anfangsgrunde aller mathematischen Wissenschaften, a textbook used as the basis for teaching mathematics through the end of the 18th century. This massive work encompasses all the aspects of mathematics, arithmetic, geometry,… Read More