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A Guide to Eternity:
Extracted out of the Writings of the Holy Fathers, and Ancient Philosophers. Written originally in Latine, by John Bona: and now done into English, by Roger L’Estrange Esq; the Second Edition.
London, Henry Brome, 1680.
Second [First] Edition in English. 12mo (133 x 67 mm), pp. [xii], 188, [4], advertisements, preliminary leaves including additional engraved title-page; engraved frontispiece and pp. [xlvi], 108, [2], 126, [4] advertisements, the frontispiece to the second work shaved close to the image (but not touching it) but with loss to some of the caption below the image, in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled edges, with the Hayhurst bookplate.
Guide to Eternity: Wing B3545; ESTC r23243, at BL, CUL, Bodleian, King’s Lynn; Harvard, Huntington, Union Theological, Illinois and Yale.
Precepts: Wing B3553; ESTC r17339, at BL, CUL, Downside, Bodliean and Sion College; Columbia, Folger, Huntington, Union Theological, Clark, Illinois and Yale.More details Price: £1,200.00 -
Apologie du célibat chretien.
Par M. l’Abbé *** Prêtre & Licencié
Paris, La veuve Damonneville, Musier fils, Vatel, la veuve Berton, 1761.
[with] Sentimens desFirst editions. Two works in one volume, 12mo (168 x 92 mm), pp. [ii], [xii], [2], 414, [2]; [2], 14, with occasional slight browning, small paper flaw to lower outer blank corner of I5, bound in handsome contemporary crushed crimson morocco, with an elaborate border of double gilt fillet, feather tools, fleurons and tendrils along inner border, gilt centrepieces with the arms of Cardinal G. Doria Pamphili, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, with green morocco label lettered in gilt, with blue silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, the upper joint partly split at head with small loss, minimally repaired at foot, head and foot of spine a bit rubbed, endpapers a little faded, with the nineteenth century ownership inscription of Pietro Ceriani and the nineteenth century bookplate of Bernardine Murphy, with manuscript shelfmark to front pastedown, red ink stamp of Libraria Colonna to front free endpaper, title and final blank, with some offsetting.
1: OCLC lists BN, Sainte-Geneviève, Cornell and Penn.
II: OCLC lists BN, Sainte-Geneviève, Cambridge, Bowdoin and Library of Congress.More details Price: £2,000.00 -
Dissertationes duae criticae-historicae.
Una de vigintiquinque annis Romanae Petri Cathedrae adversus utrumque pagium. Altera de actis SS. Martyrum Cosmae, et Damiani necnon de monumentis Basilicae ipsis in urbe erectae.
Rome, Salomoni, 1750.
First edition. 4to (233 x 170 mm), pp. [xxiii], [3], 90, with two folding engraved plates representing interiors of Roman churches, woodcut initials and ornaments, first two leaves minimally toned, occasional very minor marginal spotting, bound in contemporary, probably Roman, crushed crimson morocco, bordered with gilt double fillet and gilt roll of palmettes to inner border, large cornerpieces with feather tools, acorns and fleurons, large centrepiece with the arms of the Altieri family, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt, marbled edges, joints minimally worn at head and foot, pink pastedowns.
OCLC lists half a dozen copies in Continental Europe only.
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Principes Politiques sur le rappel des Protestans en France,
par M. ***. Première [-Seconde] Partie.
Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1764.
Same Year as the First Edition. Two parts in one volume, 12mo, (160 x 90 mm), pp. [iv], 163, iv (épitre dédicatoire à Madame la *** misbound before p. 163); [iv], 144, with the half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black with the same engraved title vignette on each volume, text a little dampstained, particularly title-pages, binding slightly sprung between the volumes, in contemporary speckled calf, double filet gilt to covers, spine ruled in gilt with olive green morocco label lettered in gilt, paper shelf mark label at the foot of the spine, with the later Leipziger Stadtbibliothek bookplate and library stamps of Leipzig University and Bibliothek von Schloss Püchau, crossed through, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
See Cioranescu 62546 (1768 edition only); Quérard IX, 580; INED 4633.
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Uffizio della B.V. Maria. Per tutti i tempi dell’anno coll’uffizio de’ morti, della SS. Croce, e dello Spirito Santo: e co i Sette Salmi Penitenziali, ed altre divotissime Orazioni. Rome, Vatican Press [Giovanni Maria Salvioni], 1725.
Two parts in one volume, 8vo (198 x 128 mm), second with separate title-page and continuous pagination, engraved frontispiece by Arnold Westerhout after Joseph Passarus and pp. [32], 336, [xxxviii], [2], printed in red and black throughout, engraved printer’s device on title-pages, 14 engraved plates by Jo. Hieronymus Frezza after Joseph Passarus, engraved tailpieces and woodcut initials, slight browning and light marginal dampstaining to first four gatherings and a handful of other leaves, including blank margins of frontispiece and first plate, verso of last leaf a bit soiled, in crimson morocco, covers bordered with gilt chain roll and feather and star roll, with gilt urns to corners, spine gilt in compartments, pink and blue marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gauffered and painted in red and green to a floral pattern, green silk marker, extremities a little bumped, a trifle dusty, ownership inscription of Tammaro de Marinis pencilled on front endpaper.
OCLC lists a handful of copies in Italy, and V&A, Harvard and Brown.
More details Price: £2,400.00