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Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessa, Venetiis (Venice): ., 1589 213 p. 16mo in 8°. 160 mm. Last leaf with a paper fault and the loss of a blank portion (2" x 2.5"). Latin italic. Early stiff paper wrapper. Spine title hand lettered. Date 1763 in manuscript on title page. Woodcut rococo Sessa family printer's device of a cat with mouse on… Read more about this item

(Per Joannem Gruninger ex Argenterato veteri) [Strasbourg, France ]., 1515 Ca. 640 p. **Wonderfully illustrated with woodcuts. Title within woodcut ornamental border, colored in sepia. Early manuscript bibliographic notes. Woodcut chapter heads and marginal diagrams. Numerous full-page and other woodcuts of significance. Includes musical notation and Hebrew language typography, etc. Folding diagram (with loss) mounted at front. Xerox facsimile of… Read more about this item

Andreas Frisius, Antwerp ., 1668 pp. (24), 576, (47) + Engraved title, engraved title vignete on the printed title + 44 engraved plates. Latin text. 12 mo. 140 mm. Full leather binding under 20th cent protective paper cover. Gallonius, Antonius (d. 1605) a priest of the congregation of the oratory, was a native of Rome. His works were numerous, but… Read more about this item

(Pietro Ravini Erban), Venice: 1549, 1549 pp. [10], 340. Text framed with extensive glosses, that sometimes include Greek text. Printer's mark on title page of a mermaid with her tail spread, and at the colophon. Woodcut illustrations and historiated initials at chapter heads. Some brief manuscript notes and ownerships. The ownerships include: Capitanii Adriani, Trigerii Mediolanensis (Zurich?). Some damp and… Read more about this item

Quae venalia repperies Johanem Petit In vico diui Iacobi sub Leone Argenteo, [Paris]: or 1508., 1507 Apparently lacks the general title page with Jean Petit's device, and probably the following 17 preliminary leaves. ff. CXL [i.e. 141] leaves. Woodcut initials. Some repeats in foliation. Small 4to. 190 mm. Latin text. Some old marginal dampstain. A few marginal manuscript notes. Attractive… Read more about this item

Apud Bernh. Christ. Breitkopf, Lipsiae (Leipzig): ., 1741 ff. 8, 384 p. 16mo. 170 mm. Text mainly in Greek and Latin, with small bits of Hebrew and Syriac. Plain paper boards binding. Edges decorated red. XLib. [Philadelphia Divinity School]. Hardbound. Very Good. Autograph ownership (1825) of Rev. Joseph Jaquett (1794-1869). Before becoming a Protestant Episcopal minister, he was engaged in… Read more about this item

Socit Belge de Librarie, Bruxellis (Brussels): ., 1896 pp. 548. Large 8vo. 250 mm. Attractive leather backed marbled boards binding. Hardbound. Very Good. A significant Latin text on the Canon Law of marriage and betrothal. Scarce. W112. Hardcover.

Apud Phil. Godofredum Saurmann, Bremae: ., 1722 pp. 76, 630, [56] + Engraved frontis. Title page printed in red and black. 16 mo. 170 mm. Early vellum backed paste paper boards binding. Latin text with some Hebrew. Early autograph ownership of Jno. Bliss Hibbins. Hardbound. Very Good. The title translates roughly as: Moses and Aaron, civil and ecclesiastical rites, used… Read more about this item

Matthaei Wagner, Ulmae (Ulm): ., 1678 pp. [4], 150. 24 mo. 135 mm. Worn and age stained. Last leaves with very slight loss. Disbound. Elias Veiel (1635-1706) was a Lutheran theologian in Ulm, Germany. Educated at the University of Strasbourg, where he earned a master's degree, he then studied Protestant theology at the universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig; Wittenberg and Jena.… Read more about this item

Printed by William Spotswood, Philadelphia: 1790, 1790 pp. iv, [40], 328. 8vo. 200 mm. Scattered age stain. Autograph ownerships of: Henry Cotton; Hugo Cotton. Original full plain leather binding; front board detached. Hardbound. Good. The short introduction calls this present edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses "the first that has ever been attempted in America." Metamorphoses in English & Latin, with extensive… Read more about this item

Published by Philip H. Nicklin; A. Small, Printer, Philadelphia: ., 1814 pp. [2], 260. 8vo. 200 mm. First two leaves worn. Text browned, but not brittle. XLib with a stamp on the title page. Original full leather; worn, with both boards detached. Hardbound. Fair. EARLY MANUSCRIPT COMMENTS on rear flyleaf: 'Vox populi Vox Dei, The voice of the people is… Read more about this item

Typis Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfr, Patavii (Padua, Italy): ., 1757 Part two of three parts. pp. (5), 484. Engraved title vignette; initials; head- and tail-pieces. 4to. 240 mm. Tp. with old foxing and soiling, but still attractive. Early stiff paper boards binding, without spine covering. A famous and important history of the University of Padua which was founded in 1222… Read more about this item

Typis T. Roycroft. Apud Hen. Brome. London: ., 1675 pp. (16), 165, [10] + Frontispiece portrait of Cosin, engraved by William Dolle; + Plus some early manuscript notes about this work and its author. Small 8vo. 180 mm. All edges gilt. Contemporary and entirely original full red leather gilt binding. Elaborately tooled variant cottage roof English Restoration binding. Front board… Read more about this item

(Typis J.B. Lamesle), Apud J. Delusseux, Parisiis (Paris): ., 1738 pp. XII-154; xxxvi. Small 12 mo. 135 mm. Age stained. Early boards binding without covering. Giovanni Bona (1609-1674) was an Italian Cistercian, cardinal, liturgist and devotional author. Shortly after his ordination he collected some of the most beautiful passages in the Church Fathers on the Mass, and later published them… Read more about this item

Ex Typographia Camerae Apostolicae, Rome: ., 1618 pp. [88], 598. Large 8vo. 230 mm. Contains 375 decisions of the court dating from February 1587 to May 1596. Latin printed in double columns. Title page in red and black; includes coat of arms of Cardinal Mantica. The first two leaves are stained, worn and slightly wormed; as are the last eight.… Read more about this item

Printed by Charles Cist, Philadelphia: ., 1798 pp. 131 [i.e. 231]. Lacks two (of 4 or 5) leaves at the beginning. 12 mo. 170 mm. NOTE: Extensive early schoolboy ink doodles, scribbles, wipes, and names, including: William M. Watson; William P. Orbison, Huntingdon, PA (1814-1898); George Washington Gray (and his Sweetheart - Sarah Nicholson). The condition of the book is… Read more about this item

Ex typographia Balleoniana, Venitiis (Venice):, 1750 pp. [12]. 367. Printed in double columns. Title page in red and black. Woodcut initials and devices. Folio. 385 mm. Contemporary full leather binding, sprung at top front joint. Very good. Hardbound. Benedictus XIV (1675-1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from 1740 to 1758. He was a polymath celebrated as intelligent and witty.… Read more about this item

Printed by Joshua Cushing, Boston, for Cushing & Appleton, Salem: ., 1809 237 p. Light damp stain. 12mo. 175 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Front board fragile. Title continues: "To which is subjoined, The Second Part of Lyne's Latin Primer.Adapted Also to the Syntax of Smith's New Hampshire Latin Grammar." Second edition. AI 17032. Hardbound. PA 64 0.0. Hardcover.… Read more about this item

Ex Typographia Milochiana, Venetiis (Venice): ., 1656 Three works in one volume, as issued. pp. [79], 687; 45 (2) [Tractatus de Origine et Clausura Sanctimonialium by Andrea Vittorelli]; 97, (5) [Institutio Confessariorum by Martino Formari]. Small 4to. 220 mm. Some age stains; worming to some leaves. Legible throughout. Short title written in an old hand on bottom edge. Disbound. Francisco… Read more about this item

Sumptibus Friderici Knochii, Francofurti ad Moenum (Knoch, Frankfurt am Main): ., 1705 pp. (18), 1064, 24 (Index). Double column Latin text. Lacks the frontis portrait found in some copies. Wood engraved head and tail pieces, and initials. Light damp stain. Folio. 400 mm. Original full leather binding; joints and corners worn and cracked. Dedicated to Charles XI. Baron Samuel von… Read more about this item