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Antwerp: Ex officina Platiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1605. First Edition. This copy is bound in contemporary calf with a Cross insignia in gold on the front board and Mary and the Baby Jesus on the rear board. A very nice copy, Quarto, 8 x 6 in. First (and only)edition. +-++4, A-Z4, a-t4. Daly & Dimler Jesuit series ;part one: J.144 p.150. Sommervogel vol. II, 1847: 7.: Landwehr EFBLC #186. Bibl. Belgica II, D 139. Praz 313.; Praz II 60; Funck 303. Brunet II, 536: "Les ouvrages de J. David sont recherchés ů cause des gravures de Th. Galle dont ils sont ornés." First edition. A very beautiful collection of emblems, written by a Belgian Jesuit. The illustrations consist of one frontispiece and 12 engaging plates which were engraved by engraved by Théodore Galle. Each one depicts the goddess "Occasio"which is the Latin name for Caerus, personification of opportunity whose comments and depicts both opportunity and neglected opportunity. A second part with continuous pagination, but its own title… Read More

London : printed by J. Macock, for Richard Royston, book-seller to His most Sacred Majesty 1672, 1707. This copy is bound in full original sheep recently repacked!. No copies in the US. Gregory, born about 1625, was a native of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. He was educated at Westminster under Busby, who, as he afterwards said, was not only a master but a father to him, and in 1641 was elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating M.A. in 1648. He returned to Westminster School as usher till he was appointed head-master of the grammar school at Woodstock. He was a successful teacher, and numbered among his pupils several sons of noble families. An ardent royalist he was chosen to preach the thanksgiving sermon for the Restoration at St. Mary's, Oxford, 27 May 1660, and afterwards published it under the title of 'David's Return from Banishment.' He also published 'Votivum Carolo, or a Welcome to his sacred Majesty Charles II from the Master and Scholars of Woodstock School,' a volume… Read More

The Institutes were meant to help establish a Coenobium following the model of Egypt, in contrast to the existing monastic life in Gaul, which included the work of Martin of Tours. Hugh Feiss (Explanation of the Rule of Benedict. Translated,

London: 1697: William Rogers, 1697. Printed: 1697 1569-1626 Octavo , First Tate Edition A8,b8,B-H8 Bound in full early calf , it is a nice copy with spine label Sir John Davies (not to be confused with John Davies of Hereford) was a man of the same pattern, though without lord Brooke's memory of "the spacious days" and without his deep austerity He, too, was a man of affairs, and rose to a high position in the state His life, however, had not the same great beginning, and his was no smooth passage to fame Born in 1569, at Tisbury in Wiltshire, he went to Winchester and Oxford (partly, it appears, resident at New college, partly at Queen's college), and, like the majority of young men of the time, came, in 1587, to study law in London But he quarrelled with the frend to whom he had dedicated his Orchestra, Richard Martin, and, entering the hall, armed with a dagger, he broke his cudgel over Martin's head, who was eating dinner at the barristers' table In consequence of this outrage on the benchers, he… Read More