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Gale, Theophilus The court of the gentiles, or a discourse touching the original of human literature, both philologie and ph

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Gale, Theophilus The court of the gentiles, or a discourse touching the original of human literature, both philologie and philosophy. Oxford: for T. Gilbert, 1672 [London: T. Cockeril, 1677], 4 parts in 2 volumes, 4to, second edition of parts 1-2, first edition of parts 3-4, contemporary calf, slight wear to extremities, head of one spine repaired Note: Gale traces every European language to the Hebrew, and all the theologies, sciences, politics and literature of pagan antiquity to a Hebrew tradition. Wing G136 & G149; Madan 2830 & 2887

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German theology--Brunner, Johannes Rudimenta hebraicae linguae. Freiburg, 1585, 4to, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, clasps; [Rosa da Sta. Maria] Kurtzer Begriff dess wunderbarlichen Lebens, vilwerthen Todts der seligen Schwester Rosae von S. Maria. Augsburg: S. Buschneider, 1670, 12mo, contemporary vellum, spine worn; Caulet, F. de Tractatus generalis de regalia, 1689, 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt, head of spine slightly rubbed; Segneri, Paolo Homo christianus in sua lege institutus. Augsburg & Dilingen, 1702, 3 volumes in one, 4to, contemporary blindstamped vellum over wooden boards, clasps, browning; Blochinger, F. Puteus aquarum viventium. Cologne: J. Widenfelds, 1696, 4to, engraved title, contemporary vellum, library stamps; Ibid. Geistliche Stein-Grub, Cologne: J. Weidenfeldt, 1690, 4to, engraved frontispiece (laid down), contemporary vellum, library stamps; Thauler, J. Sermones. Cologne: A. Quentel, 1695, 4to, contemporary vellum, browned; Leigh, E. Critica sacra. Frankfurt & Leipzig: A. Boetius, 1696, 2 volumes in one, 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporary vellum; Origen. Dialogus contra Marcionitas. Basle: J. Bertschius, 1673, 4to, contemporary vellum; Puente, L. Dux spiritualis. Cologne: J. Kinckius, 1613, 8vo, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards; Machiavelli, N. Princeps. Frankfurt: L. Zetzner, 1622; [Languet, H.] Vindicae contra tyrannos. Frankfurt: L. Zetzner, 1622, 2 works in one volume, contemporary vellum, first work wormed with loss, mainly to index, both slightly browned; and other seventeenth-century German theology; sold not subject to return (quantity) Provenance: Many with bookplate or stamp of the Bibliotheka Monasterii Einsidlensis

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Gregory I, Pope, Saint Moralia beati Gregorii pape [with the text of Job]. [Basle: in officina Nicolai Keslers, 1496]. Folio

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Gregory I, Pope, Saint Moralia beati Gregorii pape [with the text of Job]. [Basle: in officina Nicolai Keslers, 1496]. Folio, 364, with the 3 blanks, Black Letter, text in two columns, 55 lines in a column, capitals supplied in red and black, printer's device on the verso of HH7, contemporary vellum over wooden boards, brass clasps present, covers wormed, upper board split, first leaf loose and repaired, worming throughout. Note: Goff G - 432; HC 7934

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Gregory I, Saint, Pope Epistolae. [Augsburg: Gunther Zainer, not after 1476], large folio (403 x 279mm.), 163 leaves of 164

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Gregory I, Saint, Pope Epistolae. [Augsburg: Gunther Zainer, not after 1476], large folio (403 x 279mm.), 163 leaves of 164 (without 5/7), 59 lines and headline, double column, headings and colophons printed in red, lavishly rubricated with red filling to small capitals and printed paragraph signs, red capital strokes and underlines, various flourishes and ornaments, nineteenth century half mottled sheep, marbled sides, 6/12 and 11/5.6 supplied from a shorter copy, 14/7 rehinged, reinforcements to inner margins of 17/4-6, tear to 17/5 repaired without loss of text, several wormholes to blank margins, some with old repairs, rebacked and repaired with spine laid down Note: First and only incunable edition of the letters of Pope Gregory the Great. The edition is dated from a rubricator's inscription in a Munich copy. Zainer was the first printer of Augsburg (1468), the first after the R printer (Adolf Rusch) of Strassburg to use Roman type in Germany, and the first to introduce woodcut capitals as a regular feature of book production. Goff G-415 (9 copies); Hain 7991* Provenance: rubricated in 1477 by someone who signed V on 1/10r, C.W.E.G. on 6/8v, W.S.D.L. A.M.S. on 6/9r, and W.S.D.L. A.S.M.S. on 17/8r; two versions of the same coat of arms, coloured, on 2/1r, in outline on 17/8r; dated on 5/6r, 6/8v, 17/8r; John Hadmar Sticht, bookplate dated 1947

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Guarini, Giambattista Il segretario. Venice: Roberto Megietti, 1594, first edition, 4to, woodcut device on title, woodcut in

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Guarini, Giambattista Il segretario. Venice: Roberto Megietti, 1594, first edition, 4to, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and ornaments, with final blank Aa2, contemporary vellum, marginal repair to last leaf, tear to vellum repaired Note:Guarini's literary reputation is almost entirely based upon his Pastor Fido (The Faithful Shepherd), a Iyrical pastoral drama written to rival the Aminta of his friend and contemporary, Tasso. Adams G1432

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Haslam, John Observations on madness and melancholy. London: J. Callow, 1809, second edition, 8vo, black half morocco, raise

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Haslam, John Observations on madness and melancholy. London: J. Callow, 1809, second edition, 8vo, black half morocco, raised bands, morocco label, a little light spotting Note: From the library of Middlesex Hospital with stamp on dedication leaf and preface. A number of marginal notes reflect first-hand experience: symptoms of depression evident and proved so beyond doubt by examination of several cases in this hospital after death, here the symptoms were violent yet the appearances were not such as to mark such increased action G. & M. 4794

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Hebraica--Manasseh ben Joseph, Ben Israel De resurrectione mortuorum, libri III. Amsterdam: typis & sumptubis auctoris, 1636

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Hebraica--Manasseh ben Joseph, Ben Israel De resurrectione mortuorum, libri III. Amsterdam: typis & sumptubis auctoris, 1636, 8vo, Hebrew and Latin text, contemporary vellum, upper hinge weak Note: Manasseh ben Israel (1604-57), a renowned preacher to the Amsterdam Jewish community, founded the first Hebrew printing press at Amsterdam in 1626 and published many works in Hebrew, Spanish and Portuguese over the next three decades. He was Spinoza's teacher, a friend of Hugo Grotius and Rembrandt and during the 1650s was a key figure in the partially successful negotiations for the return of Jews to England.

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Heereboord, Adrian Late 17th century MS copy of Heereboord's Eremeia logica seu synopses logicae Burgesdiciane explicatio. [

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Heereboord, Adrian Late 17th century MS copy of Heereboord's Eremeia logica seu synopses logicae Burgesdiciane explicatio. [n.d.]. 8vo., 262 leaves, written in a single hand, contemporary vellum, small stain to upper margin of some signatures Note: From the 1640s until the 18th century, Dutch philosophy was dominated by the physics and metaphysics of Descartes. Adrian Hereboord (1614-1665) was the first professor of Philosophy at Leiden to be interested in the new philosophy and in the present work he examines propositions of his predecesor in the chair, Franco Burgesdijk, the last of old guard of Neo-Aristotelians. The work enjoyed a number of printed editions including several in England.

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Helmont, Johann Baptista van Ortus medicinae, id est, initia physicae inaudita. Amsterdam: Ludovicus Elzevir, 1652, 4to, eng

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Helmont, Johann Baptista van Ortus medicinae, id est, initia physicae inaudita. Amsterdam: Ludovicus Elzevir, 1652, 4to, engraved plate, contemporary vellum, upper joint split, vellum slightly soiled Note: First published in 1648 by Elzevir.

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Hermes Trismegistus Mercurii Trismegisti poemander, seu de potestate ac sapientia divina. Paris: Adr. Turnbebus, 1554, small

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Hermes Trismegistus Mercurii Trismegisti poemander, seu de potestate ac sapientia divina. Paris: Adr. Turnbebus, 1554, small 4to, 2 parts in one volume, Greek and Latin title and text, the Greek edited by P. Angelio da Barga, woodcut initials and ornaments, part 2 with final blank, seventeenth century calf, slightly spotted, some light dampstaining to lower margin at beginning, once rebacked and recornerned, rubbed, lower cover detached Note: The name Pimander is derived from the Egyptian P-eime nte-re, the knowledge [or understanding] of Re, rendered into Greek as the intelligence of the supreme power. It was the name given to the first fourteen treatises of the Corpus Hermeticum, after the name of the first treatise. This new corpus of Greek texts arrived in Florence in about 1463 where they were studied by Ficino and from which he found a link between Plato and the Old Testament. Ficino's Latin translation was first published in Treviso in 1471; Adams M346, cf. Caillet 5094.

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Hieronymus Opera divi Hieronymi stridoniensis. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1578-79, large folio, volumes 1-5 (of 8), edite

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Hieronymus Opera divi Hieronymi stridoniensis. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1578-79, large folio, volumes 1-5 (of 8), edited by Marianus Victorius, engraved frontispiece, additional general engraved title, printed titles with woodcut device, contemporary blindstamped vellum incorporating roll-tooled images of Fortitude, Faith and Charity, lacks one clasp, rather wormed at beginning and end, apparently bound without the dedication leaf Note Voet notes that the printer ommitted from some copies the first quire (8pp. including the dedicatory letter of Plantin to Archduke Mathias of Austria), as it was not likely to please the Spanish party. Voet. 33 Provenance: Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Recollectorum Conventus, inscription on title and half-title.

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Holy Bible The Bible, that is the Holy Scriptures. London: Robert Barker, 1606, 4to, titles within woodcut borders, lacking

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Holy Bible The Bible, that is the Holy Scriptures. London: Robert Barker, 1606, 4to, titles within woodcut borders, lacking leaf before title, woodcuts, eighteenth-century calf, some spotting and water-staining, rubbed, upper cover detached, lacks one clasp; The Bible, translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke. London: Robert Barker, 1608, 4to, titles within woodcut borders, nineteenth-century brown morocco, first border cut round and remounted, several leaves repaired with loss, some headlines cropped, rather soiled, ink inscription on N.T. title, rubbed; The Bible, translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke. London: Christopher Barker, 1599, 4to, contemporary panelled calf, imperfect, lacking New Testament title, very soiled and defective; sold not subject to return Note: Darlow and Moule 285; 294; 247

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Hutcheson, Francis An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue... second edition, corrected and enlarg'd.

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Hutcheson, Francis An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue... second edition, corrected and enlarg'd. London: J. Darey, A. Bettesworth [&c.], 1726, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf Note: Hutcheson sets out to demonstrate against Hobbes and Mandeville that altruism cannot ultimately be for the pleasure the benevolent person derives from seeing others happy, since such pleasure presupposes a prior desire that they be happy, hence the disinterestedness of benevolence. The first edition was published the previous year. A fine copy. Provenance: Sir C. Macdonald Lockhart, early inscription on endpaper

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Institoris, Henricus and Jacob Sprenger Malleus maleficarum, in tres divisus partes. Venice: J.A. Bertanus, 1574, small 8vo,

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Institoris, Henricus and Jacob Sprenger Malleus maleficarum, in tres divisus partes. Venice: J.A. Bertanus, 1574, small 8vo, woodcut device on title, old vellum, lacks M8 and final blank leaf Note: First published in 1486, the work had gone through nineteen editions by 1669. Adams S1614, Caillet 7055. Provenance: E.K. University Library of Graz and duplicate stamp on title and colophon; Max Dutilh and J.B. Holzinger, bookplates

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Italian alchemical manuscript Secretum secretorum secretissimum sive thesaurus sapientae prophetis a de revelatus, et per Sy

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Italian alchemical manuscript Secretum secretorum secretissimum sive thesaurus sapientae prophetis a de revelatus, et per Sybillam Eritrheam in numerus doctrina solus prestantionibus concessus omnia manifestans, Italian manuscript, small 4to, 72 folios, plus two loose inserted fragments, largely from 1740-60, with some later additions up to 1808, containing a variety of simple vaticinatory/cryptographic games, referred to as Cabala, based on basic literal-numeral substitutions, the first 12 pages in Latin, the remainder in Italian Note: Much of the notebook is devoted to using vaticinatory methods to predict winning names or numbers of lotteries (Estrazioni). Reference is made to Giovanni Caramuel Bishop of Vigevano, a cabala used by St. Malachi, St. John of Capistrano and Abbot Joachim di Fiore, and the numbers of the lottery printed in Venice by the publisher Cenzo, 1800.

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John, Damascene, Saint Contenta. Theologia Damasceni. I. De ineffabili divinitate. [Paris: Henricus Stephanus, 1507], 4to, i

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John, Damascene, Saint Contenta. Theologia Damasceni. I. De ineffabili divinitate. [Paris: Henricus Stephanus, 1507], 4to, imprint on colophon, early annotations on verso of colophon leaf, later boards, hinges broken, slight spotting, small dampstain in a few margins Note: Adams J277. Henry Estienne, the founder of the Stephanus Press, printed his first book in 1502 and his hundredth and last book in 1520. This edition, pirnted in a fine large Roman letter, reminiscent of fifteenth and early sixteenth century Italian printing, was printed just six years after the press was founded.

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Kabalah--Elijah Phinehas ben Meir. Sefer haBerit. Brno [Brunn]: 1797, first edition, 2 parts in one volume, 4to (225 x 180mm

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Kabalah--Elijah Phinehas ben Meir. Sefer haBerit. Brno [Brunn]: 1797, first edition, 2 parts in one volume, 4to (225 x 180mm.), square and rabbinic letter, approbation (Zensur) leaf at beginning dated from Prague 1799, nineteenth-century half sheep, slightly browned, spine worn and detached Note: This first edition of this work, which is in 2 parts, the first dealing with (albeit outmoded) scientific subjects and the second with ethics and the Kabalah, was published anonymously, although the author's name appears in an acrostich before the preface. 'The work enjoyed a relatively wide circulation, and was particularly well received in Haskalah circles in Galicia and Berlin' (Enc. Jud. 6, 639b). The second and third editions were published under the author's name. References: Steinschneider 6753 (note; the Bodleian has the 1807 ed.); Zedner p. 636

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Kant, Immanuel Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre. Koenigsberg: R. Nicolovius, 1797, first edition, 8vo, contempora

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Kant, Immanuel Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre. Koenigsberg: R. Nicolovius, 1797, first edition, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, rather spotted and browned, slightly rubbed; Ibid. Prolegomena zu einer jeden kunstigen Metaphysik die als Wissenschaft. Riga: J.F. Hartknoch, 1783, first edition, 8vo, with final blank, contemporary half calf, slightly spotted; Ibid. Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst. Koenigsberg: F. Nicolovius, 1798, first edition, early nineteenth century half sheep, owner's name on title-page washed out & erased with resulting hole, lacks free endpapers, rubbed; Beobachtungen über das Gefuhl des Schönen und Erhabenen. Riga: F. Hartknoch, 1771, first edition, 12mo, nineteenth-century boards, light spotting and occasional underlining; Ibid. Die Metaphysik der Sitten. Koenigsberg, F. Nicolovius, 1797, 2 volumes in one, errata leaf at end of volume 1, contemporary boards, browned and spotted, rebacked, joints split, worn; [Haywood, Francis] An analysis of Kant's Critick of Pure Reason. London: W. Pickering, 1844, 8vo, original cloth, paper label chipped; and 4 later critical works relating to Kant (11)

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Lee, Henry Anti-scepticism: or notes upon each chapter of Mr. Lock's essay concerning humane understanding. London: printed

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Lee, Henry Anti-scepticism: or notes upon each chapter of Mr. Lock's essay concerning humane understanding. London: printed for R. Clavel and C. Harper, 1702. First edition, folio, [xxxii], 140, 201-342, contemporary calf gilt with armorial stamp of The society of writers to the signet on boards, worn, hinges split, lacking front free endpaper, browning [especially to title]

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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von & Samuel Clarke A collection of papers which passed between the late learned Mr Leibnitz and

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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von & Samuel Clarke A collection of papers which passed between the late learned Mr Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke, in the years 1715 and 1716. London: J. Knapton, 1717, first edition, 8vo, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked Note: The letters concern Newton's views on space, time, and matter and Leibniz' views on these topics and the principle of sufficient reason. Samuel Clarke, English mathematician and philosopher, was a fellow of Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge from 1696 to 1700. Babson 229.

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Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm von Theodicaea. Hannover: N. Forsters und Sohns, 1735, third German edition, 8vo, engraved portr

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Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm von Theodicaea. Hannover: N. Forsters und Sohns, 1735, third German edition, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and 1 plate, contemporary half vellum, some browning and spotting, boards rubbed Note: First published in French in 1710.

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Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm von Essais de Theodicée sur la bonté de dieu. Amsterdam: François Changuion, 1747, 2 volumes, 12

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Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm von Essais de Theodicée sur la bonté de dieu. Amsterdam: François Changuion, 1747, 2 volumes, 12mo, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, contemporary mottled calf, folding table, with initial blank leaves, head and tail of spines worn; Ibid. another copy. Amsterdam: D. Mortier, 1720, 12mo, folding table at end, contemporary calf, rubbed, library stamp of Farnburo Bibliotheca on title, some spotting and light marginal staining, adhesion affecting a few words on B12, slightly rubbed (2) Note: First published in 1710 by Isaac Troyel at Amsterdam. Provenance:A.E. Tscharner, bookplate

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Locke, John Works... London: for John Churchill, 1714, first collected edition, 3 volumes, folio, engraved portrait frontisp

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Locke, John Works... London: for John Churchill, 1714, first collected edition, 3 volumes, folio, engraved portrait frontispiece and plate of Locke's epitaph, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, titles slightly dusty with slight chipping to edges

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Lugo, Juan de Disputationes scholasticae et morales, de sacramentis in genere. Lyons, 1652; Ibid.Disputationes scholasticae

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Lugo, Juan de Disputationes scholasticae et morales, de sacramentis in genere. Lyons, 1652; Ibid.Disputationes scholasticae de incarnatione dominica. Lyons, 1653, very slight marginal worming to first few leaves; Ibid Disputationes scholasticae et morales, de virtute fidei divinae. Lyons, 1656; Ibid. Disputationum de justitia et jure. Lyons, 1652, 2 volumes; Ibid. Disputationes scholasticae, et morales, de virtute... Lyons, 1651; Ibid Responsorum moralium libri sex. Lyons, 1660, portrait frontspiece, all folio, titles in red and black with engraved vignette, contemporary mottled calf, head and tail of a few spines rubbed, later endpapers (7) Note: Fine presentation inscription from Cardinal Newman. To John Stanislas Flanagan in affectionate remembrance of important services done by him on my behalf with much anxious trouble and with all his heart. John H. Newman. In fest. Assumpt. 1865. This poignant inscription was written in the year after the publication of Newman's Apologia pro vita sua. Provenance:Livraria de Alcobaca, Portugal, library stamp on titles; Cardinal Newman, inscription.

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Maclaurin, Colin An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries. London: for the author's children, 1748, first

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Maclaurin, Colin An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries. London: for the author's children, 1748, first edition, 4to, 6 folding engraved plates, half-title, list of subscribers, contemporary calf, head of spine and corners rubbed, upper joint splitting, early ink scoring to the Life of the Author

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Maximis, Fr. Xavier de. Musei etrusci quod Gregorius XVI pont. max. in aedibus vaticanis constituit monimenta... Rome, 1842,

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Maximis, Fr. Xavier de. Musei etrusci quod Gregorius XVI pont. max. in aedibus vaticanis constituit monimenta... Rome, 1842, folio, 2 volumes, engraved titles, 214 plates, contemporary half vellum gilt, worn, some foxing [mainly to titles] (2) Provenance: Bookplates of Norbury Booths Hall, 1862 and Robert Washington Oates. Note: These volumes are the earliest catalogue of the collection of the The Gregorian Etruscan Museum, part of the Vatican Museum's complex, founded by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837. The first volume illustrates the numerous metalwork objects, as well as terracotta urns and fragments of wall decoration, and the second volume is entirely dedicated to engravings of the museum's impressive holdings of ancient vases. These objects are thought to have come from early 19th century excavations in southern Etruria, then part of the Pontifical state [Vulci, Cere, Bomarzo, Tarquinia and Toscanella].

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Medici, Cosimo II de (1590-1621) Document on vellum, signed, 1 July 1613. 12 leaves (3 blanks), 272mm by 195mm, in contempor

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Medici, Cosimo II de (1590-1621) Document on vellum, signed, 1 July 1613. 12 leaves (3 blanks), 272mm by 195mm, in contemporary panelled red morocco gilt binding, gilt arms on sides, granting control of land around Monte San Sabino to the descendants of Giovanni Antonio Orsini, Latin, black ink with initials in gold, also signed by others, ties, small hole at head of first leaf

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Neuwaldt, Hermann Bericht von erforschung/Prob. und Ekentnis der Zauberinnen durchs kalte Wasser. Helmstadt: Gedruckt durch

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Neuwaldt, Hermann Bericht von erforschung/Prob. und Ekentnis der Zauberinnen durchs kalte Wasser. Helmstadt: Gedruckt durch Jacobum Lucjum, 1584, first edition, 4to, woodcut on title, with blank K2, later parchment boards, extreme lower corner of B4 repaired Note: An account of ordeal by immersion in water, a favourite method of determining the guilt or innocence of those accused of witchcraft. If the suspect floated they were found guilty, if they sank they were innocent. The chief European exponent of the swimming of witches was Wilhelm Adolf Scribonius, against whose views this pamphlet was written. Not in Adams.

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Newton, Sir Isaac Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel and the apocalypse of St. John. London: J. Darby and T. Browne,

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Newton, Sir Isaac Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel and the apocalypse of St. John. London: J. Darby and T. Browne, 1733. First edition, 4to, 2 parts in 1 volume, contemporary half calf gilt, boards rubbed, hinges split, title page loose, some light foxing to title

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Pelbartus, Oswaldus, de Themeswar Pomerium sermonum …. Has quatuor partes continet: De tempore dominicales; De Sanctis; Quad

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Pelbartus, Oswaldus, de Themeswar Pomerium sermonum …. Has quatuor partes continet: De tempore dominicales; De Sanctis; Quadragesimale triples; Stellariu beate virginis … [Hagenau: per Henricum Gran, 1521, in fine 1520]. Two of 4 parts, folio, Black Letter, title to the first work in red and black, both titles within woodcut borders of renaissance ornaments, in two columns, later half sheep, paper boards, morocco lettering piece, some single wormholes, light water staining of the lower margins of some leaves, neat repairs to a tear in the upper margins of sermons 27-33 and to outer margin of last leaf Note: BM, STC German Books p.680; Adams with various parts. The two parts are the De tempore dominicales and Stellariu beate virginis. The Franciscan writer and prearcher Pelbart (also known as Pelbartus Ladislaus de Temesavr) was born in Hungary in 1430 where from the University of Krakow he is next mentioned in the annals of the St. John Monastery in Buda. The first printed edition of the Sermons was in 1498 and these and other works were frequently reissued. He died in Buda in 1503.

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Petvin, John Letters concerning mind. To which is added, a sketch of universal arithmetic. London: J. & J. Rivington, 1750,

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Petvin, John Letters concerning mind. To which is added, a sketch of universal arithmetic. London: J. & J. Rivington, 1750, first edition, folding leaf of equations, errata leaf at end; Remarks on letters concerning mind. London: J. & J. Rivington, 1752, 2 works in one volume, 8vo, contemporary calf, spine gilt, joints slightly cracked at head

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Piccolomini, Alessandro In mechanicas quaestiones Aristotelis. Venice: Trianus Curtius, 1565, 8vo, woodcut device on title,

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Piccolomini, Alessandro In mechanicas quaestiones Aristotelis. Venice: Trianus Curtius, 1565, 8vo, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, diagrams in the text, contemporary limp vellum, a few leaves lightly damp-stained Note: Adams P1115 Second edition of this paraphrase and commentary by Alessandro Piccolomini of a work attributed at that stage to Aristotle, it contains an important early formulation of the theory of impetus.It was first published in 1547. It is accompanied by his essay De certitudine mathematicarum disciplinarum . Piccolomini was the first to compose an extended commentary on the Questions of mechanics. The most interesting section is a discussion of the conflicting doctrines of antiperistatis and impetus with regard to the problems of projectile motion and acceleration of free fall. Piccolomini’s account shows the degree to which even an orthodox Aristotelian was aware by the mid-sixteenth century of the difficulties in this matter (Drake & Drabkin, Mechanics in sixteenth-century Italy, p.51).

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Pinel, Philippe A treatise on insanity. Sheffield: W. Todd, 1806, first English edition, 8vo, 2 engraved plates, folding tab

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Pinel, Philippe A treatise on insanity. Sheffield: W. Todd, 1806, first English edition, 8vo, 2 engraved plates, folding table, original cloth-backed boards, lacks half-title, somewhat browned and spotted, upper corner of title and lower outer corner torn from final leaf of text cut away not affecting text, boards damp-stained, spine worn Note: Pinel was among the first to treat the insane humanely; he dispensed with chains and placed his patients under the care of specially selected physicians. Garrison considered the above book one of the foremost medical classics, giving as it did a great impetus to the humanitarian treatment of the insane. Garrison & Morton 4922. Provenance: Thomas Cromwell, bookplate.

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Plato Opera, quae ad nos extant omnia, per Ianum Cornarium … latina lingua conscripta eiusedm Iani Cornarii Eclogae decem, b

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Plato Opera, quae ad nos extant omnia, per Ianum Cornarium … latina lingua conscripta eiusedm Iani Cornarii Eclogae decem, breviter & sentiarum et genuinae verborum lectionis, locos selectos complectentes:additis Marsilii Ficini argumentis & commentariis in singulos dialogos …. Basle: cautum est privilegio D. Ferdinadi [in fine: in officina Frobeniana, per Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium], 1561. Folio, printer's device on the titlepage and on the verso of the last leaf, woodcut intials, diagrams, 16th century panelled and sprinkled calf, joints splitting, head, tail and edges rubbed, title-page a little stained and dusty and with early autographs, some spots and patches of discolouration in the text, some stains at inner margins, paper fault in p. 559 (no loss), water staining of the last few leaves, couple of single wormsholes through the first and last signatures Note: Adams P 1448; British Museum STC German Books, p. 702; Marcel, p. 748 A.F. Johnson Decorative intial letters reproduces examples of one of the main series of intials used in this work, describing it as An unusual alphabet of Basle initials of somewhat later date than the work of Holbein. They were used in the editions of Aristophanes printed by Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius in 1547. Johnson shows it as a Greek alphabet, but the fact that some Roman letters were cut to be used where required, is illustrated in the present Plato by, for example a letter D on p. 972, a G on p. 869, and a Q on p. 703.

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Plato [Greek title] Opera quae extant omnia ex nova Ioannis Serrani interpretatione, perpetuis eiusde[m] notis illustrata …

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Plato [Greek title] Opera quae extant omnia ex nova Ioannis Serrani interpretatione, perpetuis eiusde[m] notis illustrata … Henr. Stephani de quorundam locorum interpetatione iudicium, & multorum contextus graeci emendatio. [Geneva]: excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1578. First complete edition, 3 volumes bound as 2 (volumes 1 & 3 bound togther, large device on the titlepage, text in two columns of Latin and Greek, decorative woodcut intials and headpieces, later light tan polished morocco, rubbed, titlepage a little dusty and with early ownership inscription, light water staining of the outer margins offirst volume and of upper margins of volume 2, some general paper discolouration (2) Note: Adams P. 1439;Renouard 145:1; Schreiber 201 Henri Estienne's monumental edition of Plato, the first complete edition, which for two centuries remained the indispensable instrument of Platonic studies; to this day its pagination is universally accepted as the standard system of reference to the text of Plato (Schreiber). It is the first ediiton of Jean de Serres' translation. The strikingly elaborate device, designed for this work, makes its first and only appearance here. The copy is complete with the dedications to Elizabeth I, James VI and the Canton of Berne - their absence is the works most common defect.

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Plato [Greek title] Opera quae extant omnia ex nova Ioannis Serrani interpretatione, perpetuis eiusde[m] notis illustrata …

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Plato [Greek title] Opera quae extant omnia ex nova Ioannis Serrani interpretatione, perpetuis eiusde[m] notis illustrata … Henr. Stephani de quorundam locorum interpetatione iudicium, & multorum contextus gareci emendatio. [Geneva]: excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1578. First complete edition, 3 volumes, large device on the titlepage, text in two columns of Latin and Greek, decorative woodcut intials and headpieces, leaves *** IV & V in volume 1 present in duplicate,18th century mottled calf, worn and rubbed, hinges split, titlepage a little dusty and with early ownership inscriptions, occasional light spotting, some marginal waterstaining in volume 3 (3) Note: Adams P. 1439; Dibdin **** ;Renouard 145:1; Schreiber 201. With the dedications to Elizabeth I, James VI and the Canton of Berne. Provenance

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Plato [Greek title]. Opera omnia quae exstant, Marsilio Ficino interprete … Frankfurt: apud Claudium Marnium, & haeredes Ioa

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Plato [Greek title]. Opera omnia quae exstant, Marsilio Ficino interprete … Frankfurt: apud Claudium Marnium, & haeredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1602. Folio, printer's device on the titlepage, text in two columns of Latin and Greek, decorative headpieces and intials, contemporary calf, worn and rubbed, joints split and lacking piece from bottom of spine, title-page and last leaf dusty, contemporary Ms. initials on title-page and some occasional marginalia, lower outer corners of first few signatures lightly water stained, margins of last few leaves stained Note: Brunet IV 695; Dibdin II, p. 298-9; Graesse V 314 Provenance: Verso of the front free ednpaper signed 'Isaac Barrow 1612' (possibly that of Isaac Barrow, master of Trinity College Cambridge, mathematician and classical scholar who taught Newton) on the front free endpaper, ex libris R. Wroe, 1671 (possibly that of Richard Wroe (1641-1717) Waren of Manchester College with an interest in occultism) on the verso, with the intials H.D.L.F. on the titlepage, and with the armorial bookplate of Le Gendie Pierre Starkie.

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Plato The works of Plato, viz his fifty-five dialogues, and twelve epistles, tanslated from the Greek; nine of the dialogues

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Plato The works of Plato, viz his fifty-five dialogues, and twelve epistles, tanslated from the Greek; nine of the dialogues by the late Flower Sydenham, and the remainder by Thomas Taylor. London: printed for Thomas Taylor, 1804. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to., without half titles, 1 plate in volume 1, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, covers detached from all but volume 3, occasional light spotting or foxing (5) Note: Lownders 1877; Raine & Mills Taylor, p. 525 While it is known that Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Shelly and Peacock owned Taylor's books, the reading public for his works must have been small, and much of their ideas and contents diseminated through discussion and by reaading reviews. In the case of his Plato, further limitations were placed by the bulk of the edition, which had been printed under the patronage of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, being bought up by that eccentric peer and kept locked up by him, before being eventually sold off in 1848. Provenance: With the bookplate of Thomas South and autograph of A.J. & M. Atwood.

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Plato Dialogues [translated by Floyer Sydenham]. London: W.Sandby, 1759-1767. 7 parts (of 13), with the list of subscribers

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Plato Dialogues [translated by Floyer Sydenham]. London: W.Sandby, 1759-1767. 7 parts (of 13), with the list of subscribers and the dedication leaf to the Synopsis signed by Sydenham, 1 folding diagram at the end, contemporary calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, head and tail rubbed, joints splitting, dedication leaf loose, paper of the Rivals uniformly discoloured with small paper fault or tear to the title affecting one letter of text. Note: Contains the Synopsis, the Greater Hippias, the Lesser Hippias, the Banquet (first part), the Rivals, Io, & Meno. He [Sydenham] was an excellent Greek scholar and devoted himself to the task of translating the works of Plato. In 1759 he published his proposals in a quarto tract, and accomplished his purpose between 1759 and 1780 in four quarto volumes. Dr. Parr ranked Sydenham first among Platonic students, and Thomas Taylor, the Platonist (1758-1836), though less fervent, held a high opinion of his merits (DNB). The Republic … translated from the Greek by H. Spens, with a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients … Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1763. 4to., with a list of books printed by the Foulis brothers at the end, contemporary sprinkled calf; and 9 others Note: Gaskell 423 (12)

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Plotinus Operum philosophicorum omnium libri liv. in sex Enneades distributi ex antiquiss. codicum fide nunc primum Graecè e

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Plotinus Operum philosophicorum omnium libri liv. in sex Enneades distributi ex antiquiss. codicum fide nunc primum Graecè editi, cum Latina Marsilii Ficini interpretatione & commentatione (with the Life of Plotinus by Porphyrius). Basel: Perneas Lecythus [i.e. Pietro Perna], 1580, folio, parallel Greek and Latin text, woodcut device on title, Ss8 and final recto, woodcut initials, woodcut portrait of Ficino on verso of a6, contemporary calf, lower corner of title restored, some spotting and occasional light discolouration, damp-staining chiefly confined to upper margin, title with small ink-stain and single wormhole in upper margin, rebacked, scrapes neatly repaired Note: First edition of the original Greek of the writings of the founder of Neoplatonism. Ficino's Latin translation was first published in 1492 in Florence, the home of renaissance Platonism. Books 2 and 3 deal with physics and cosmology, and chapter 13 of book 2 contains a tract on astrology. Adams P1597, Caillet 8752. Provenance: John Alfred Spranger, Trin. Coll. Cambridge, bookplate

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[Polidori, John William] The vampyre; a tale. London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819, first edition, second issue, half-tit

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[Polidori, John William] The vampyre; a tale. London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819, first edition, second issue, half-title, late nineteenth-century half calf, rebacked, slight spotting Note: Polidori, physician and secretary to Lord Byron, allowed Byron's name to be ascribed to the work he had written until Byron disclaimed authorship. The second issue appeared without Bryon's name on the title and almost mispelled in the last line of p.36. In April 1819 Colburn, the publisher of the New Monthly Magazine (where the work first appeared in the April 1, 1819 issue), turned sheets of the work over to Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, while retaining some for his own title-pages. The first issues both by Colburn and by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones gave Byron as the author; the first is unrecorded, the latter extremely rare. Wise, Byron Library, p. 96

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Priestley, Joseph The doctrine of philosophical necessity illustrated. London: J. Johnson, 1777, first edition, 8vo, half-ti

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Priestley, Joseph The doctrine of philosophical necessity illustrated. London: J. Johnson, 1777, first edition, 8vo, half-title, errata leaf, advertisement leaf at end, period style half calf retaining original marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco label, occasional light spotting Provenance: Oldham, early inscription on title.

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Priestley, Joseph A free discussion of the doctrines of materialism and philosophical necessity, 1778, first edition, 8vo, 2

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Priestley, Joseph A free discussion of the doctrines of materialism and philosophical necessity, 1778, first edition, 8vo, 2 advertisement leaves at end, original boards, uncut, rebacked with original paper label laid down, some light spotting Provenance: George Ord, bookplate

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Priestley, Joseph Hartley's theory of the human mind. London: J. Johnson, 1775, first edition, 8vo, 3pp. advertisements at e

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Priestley, Joseph Hartley's theory of the human mind. London: J. Johnson, 1775, first edition, 8vo, 3pp. advertisements at end, contemporary calf, head of spine rubbed Provenance: H.F. Norman, bookplate

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Proclus The commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato in five books; containing a treasury of Pythagoric and Platonic

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Proclus The commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato in five books; containing a treasury of Pythagoric and Platonic physiology; translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. London: by the author, 1820. First edition, 4to., contemporary polished calf, gilt fillets, a.e.g., edges rubbed, title-page a little spotted; Plato The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides and Timaeus … translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor … London: White, 1793. First edition, 8vo., title-page a little spotted, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked; Bridgman, William Translations from the Greek, viz Aristotle's Synopsis of` the virtues and vices … to which are added, the Pythagoric sentences of Demphilus by Thomas Taylor. London, 1804. 8vo., contemporary half calf, marbled boards, with a presentation inscription from Bridgman (4)

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Reid, Thomas Essays on the active powers of man. Edinburgh: John Bell, London: G.G.J & J. Robinson, 1787, first edition, 4to

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Reid, Thomas Essays on the active powers of man. Edinburgh: John Bell, London: G.G.J & J. Robinson, 1787, first edition, 4to, half-title, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, red morocco label Note: Reid, professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow, has been described as the most complete example of a realist philosopher, and the forerunner of a line of British philosophers of whom G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell are the most distinguished examples in the twentieth century... Reid was contemptuous of philosophical subtleties which impeded the operation of scientific observation and common sense. (R.W. Harris: Reason and nature in 18th century thought) Provenance: Fort Augustus library bookplate.

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Reid, Thomas Essays on the active powers of man. Edinburgh: John Bell, London: G.G.J & J. Robinson, 1787, first edition, 4to

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Reid, Thomas Essays on the active powers of man. Edinburgh: John Bell, London: G.G.J & J. Robinson, 1787, first edition, 4to, half-title, advertisement leaf at end, modern calf-backed boards, spine gilt, raised bands; Ibid. Essays on the powers of the human mind. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1808, 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait, contemporary calf, morocco labels, joints cracking, head of spines rubbed; Ibid. An inquiry into the human mind. Edinburgh: Anderson and Macdowall, 1818, 8vo, modern calf, uncut, slightly spotted, a few leaves dampstained in margin (5)

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Reid, Thomas An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense. London: T. Cadell, 1769, third edition, 8vo,

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Reid, Thomas An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense. London: T. Cadell, 1769, third edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, spine gilt, lower board detached, rubbed at head of spine, lacks lettering piece; Ibid Essays on the intellectual powers of man. Edinburgh: Printed for John Bell, 1785. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, worn at corners, some browning to title and dedication, bookplates of Edward Doughty and R. Gambier Esq (2)

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Reynolds, Edward A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man. London: printed by R.H. for Robert Bostock, 1

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Reynolds, Edward A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man. London: printed by R.H. for Robert Bostock, 1640, 4to, title, [17], 533, contemporary calf gilt, worn, backstrip split, upper board loose, first gathering loose, browning Note: STC 20938

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Roman Catholic Church--Liturgical texts Council of Trent Catechismus ex decreto Concilii Tridentini, ad parochos, ante quidem Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu conscriptus … Ingolstadt: excudebat David Sartorius, 1577. 4to., woodcut arms of Cardinal Marcus Siticus on the titlepage, woodcut intials, signature Aaa provided in Ms, contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled calf, edges rubbed, only one clasp present, titlepage with early ownership inscriptions, water staining to the margins of the first few leaves; Officia propria sanctorum ordinis minorum. Lyon: sumptibus societatis, 1675, 8vo, 2 volumes in one, printed in red and black, contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled calf, clasps; Konrad, Franz Rituale Constantiense. Coutances: A. Lambert, 1775, 4to, contemporary calf, clasps; [Breviary] Breviarum romanum... pars hiemalis. Madrid: J.J. Siguenza, 1831, 8vo, engraved plates, printed in red and black, contemporary panelled red morocco gilt, clasps; Plumans, J.B. Expositiones mysticae in libros historicos veteris testamenti. [No place], 1766, 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt; [Breviary] Breviarium romanum... pars aestiva. Antwerp: ex architypographia Plantiniana, 1744, 12mo, engraved plates, printed in red and black, contemporary calf, g.e., worn; Molitor, Valentine Directorium seu cantus et responsoria. Monasterio S. Galli: A.J. Bell, 1692, oblong 8vo, woodcut staves, later calf, some spotting, a few small holes affecting text; [Martyrology] Martyrologii Romani Gregori III. Rome: J.M. Salvioni, 1749, 4to, contemporary red morocco, dampstained; sold not subject to return (8)

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Rousseau, Jean Jacques Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inegalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam: M.M. Rey, 1755, f

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Rousseau, Jean Jacques Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inegalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam: M.M. Rey, 1755, first edition, first issue, with the aigu accent on 'conformé' on page 11 added by hand, and the misspelling of the authors name on both the title-page and at the end of the Dedicace, engraved frontispiece by Eisen, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, contemporary calf, spine gilt, slight damp-staining to upper margin, upper hinge cracked, slight wear to head and tail of spine Note: First edition of Rousseau's classic work arguing that private property had exercised a corrupting influence upon primitive man and that it was the enduring cause of inequality and injustice in human society. Tchemerzine X, p.32; Goldsmith 9064; Kress 5470 Provenance: Lytton Strachey and Roger Senhouse, bookplates.

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Scarpa, Antonio Traité pratique des hernies. Paris: Gabon, 1812, first French edition, folio and 8vo, 11 engraved plates and 10 outline plates; Supplement au traité pratique. Paris: Gabon, 1823, plates numbered 12-21 and three outline plates, plate volume modern quarter cloth, tissue guards, some light dust-soiling and marginal damp-staining, text volume original wrappers, uncut, cloth box, slight spotting Note: One of the greatest classics on hernia Heirs of Hippocrates 1110; Garrison-Morton 3583, citing the 1809 Milan first edition.

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Scot, Reginald [The discoverie of witchcraft, wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, th

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Scot, Reginald [The discoverie of witchcraft, wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the knaverie of conjurors, the impietie of inchantors, the follie of soothsaiers... are deciphered...] London: William Brome, [1584], First edition, 8vo, black letter together with some roman and italic, woodcut head and tailpieces, numerous ornamental initials, lacking title, Sii - Svii [pp.243-54], Ti-Tviii [pp.257-72], Uiii [pp.277-78], Uvi [pp.283-84], Ppi [pp.513-14], 2 leaves of instruments, 4 pages of engravings between pp.352-53, woodcut removed from pp.415 [Conjurers breastplate], later calf, worn, upper board lacking top right corner, heavy staining to Aii, repairs throughout, some leaves loose. Sold not subject to return. Note: Mellon, Alchemy, 47; STC 21864; Caillet 10061 In this early, and important, work on witchcraft Scot notes that there is no religious or rational basis for the belief in witchcraft and magic. He exposes conjuring tricks and illusions and argues that spiritualistic manifestations were wilful impostures or illustions due to mental disturbance in the observers. King James VI attempted to confute Scot in his Daemonologie (1597) and when he came to the throne of England ordered Scot's work to be burned.

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Simeoni, Gabriele Les illustres observations antiques du Seigneur Gabriel Symeon Florentin en son dernier voyage d'Italie l'

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Simeoni, Gabriele Les illustres observations antiques du Seigneur Gabriel Symeon Florentin en son dernier voyage d'Italie l'an 1557. Lyon: Ian de Tournes, 1558. First edition, 4to, engraved vignette on the titlepage, ornamental initials on criblé-ground and typographical ornaments, numerous woodcut illustrations of tombs, coins, inscriptions, view, etc. in the text, later tan polished calf, gilt arms on both boards, spine decorated gilt, titlepage a little dusty, light marginal water staining, a few occasional small stains Note: Adams 51161, Mortimer 497, BM, STC French Books p.402. The author notes in the preface that he composed the work in both French and Italian with the French to appear first followed by the Italian (Illustratione de gli epitaffi et medaglie antiche, 1558) which was to be augmented. The work has many fine woodcuts including numerous inscriptions surrounded by arabesque borders or architectural frames to represent monuments, rare Roman medallions, statues, sarcophagi and other antiquities. There is a view of Vaucluse with the villa of Petrarca; a Roman calendar with fine woodcuts of the Zodiac heading the months; a woodcut of Actaeon which also appeared in the de Tournes edition of Ovid in 1557. There is a medallion portrait of the author on title surrounded by an elaborate architectural frame. The illustrations comprise 61 woodcuts of epitaphs, 35 of medallions and 15 smaller cuts in the text and are attributed to Bernard Salomon. Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill as son and heir of Thomas Earl of Elgin and Earl of Ailesbury, dated 1712.

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Simplicius of Cilicia Commentarius in Enchiridion Epicteti … cum Hiermonymi Wolfii et Cl. Salmasii animaderversionibus et no

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Simplicius of Cilicia Commentarius in Enchiridion Epicteti … cum Hiermonymi Wolfii et Cl. Salmasii animaderversionibus et notis quibus philosophia stoica passim explicatur … Leyden: typis Iohannis Maire, 1640. 4to., 4 parts, titlepage in red and black, contemporary full red morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet, gilt arms in the centre of both covers, spine decorated gilt in compartments, a.e.g., heads, tails and joints rubbed, scratch on upper cover. Note: Dibdin I p. 322, Brunet II 1012 Includes a preface by Daniel Heinsius who first planned this edition and Elichmannus, Iohannes. Tabula Cebetis graece, arabice, latine item Aurea carmina Pythagorae, cum paraphrase Arabic … cum praefatione Cl. Salmasii. Provenance: From the library of Chrétien François De Lamoignon (1735-1789), bound in his characteristic style, with his label Bibliotheca Lamoniana V 60, his ink stamp and his shelf-marks 2K 59 6060 in manuscript (with the 59 and first 60 crossed through) on the front flyleaf and the shelf-mark tooled in the bottom panel of the spine. Lamoignon was one of the earliest collectors to regularly tool the date of publication at the foot of the spine with his shelf-marks. His library was bought by Thomas Payne, who issued a catalogue of it in 1793.

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Stanley, Thomas The history of philosophy. London: printed for Thomas Bassett, 1687, second edition, folio, first edition to

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Stanley, Thomas The history of philosophy. London: printed for Thomas Bassett, 1687, second edition, folio, first edition to contain all four parts in one volume, portrait frontispiece, full-lengths portraits in text, contemporary calf, rebacked, ink inscription on title of Francis Bedford, some worming [no loss to text] [Wing S5239]; Ibid The history of philosophy. London: printed for W. Battersby, 1701, third edition, folio, lacking portrait frontispiece, portraits in text, late 18th Century tree calf gilt, rebacked, some foxing and browning (2)

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Swedenborg, Emanuel A theosophic lucubration on the nature of influx. London: M. Lewis & W. Heard, 1770, first English editi

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Swedenborg, Emanuel A theosophic lucubration on the nature of influx. London: M. Lewis & W. Heard, 1770, first English edition, 4to, advertisement leaf at end, later red panelled morocco gilt, head of spine slightly rubbed

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Swedenborg, Emanuel De coelo et ejus mirabilibus, et de inferno. London: [John Lewis], 1758, first edition, lacks errata leaf; Ibid. De nova Hierosolyma et ejus doctrina coelisti, 1758, first edition, lacks errata leaf; Ibid. De ultimo judicio, et de Babylonia destructa, London: [John Lewis], 1758, first edition; Ibid.De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi, London: [John Lewis], 1758, first edition; Ibid. De telleribus in mundo nostro solari, London, [John Lewis], 1758, first edition, 5 works in one volume, woodcut vignette on title-pages, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, modern antique style calf, spine gilt, raised bands, some early annotations and scoring, some damp-staining, chiefly of De nova Hierosolyma, first title slightly dust-soiled and repaired in fore-margin Note: An attractive set of five important first editions by Swedenborg, probably printed by John Lewis of Hyde, with the aim of disseminating Swedenborg's religious teachings. It includes his famous tracts on Heaven and Hell and on the New Jerusalem. Honeyman 2947; 2948 Provenance: L.L. Anjou, early inscription

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Swedenborg, Emanuel The delights of wisdom concerning conjugial love. London: R. Hindmarsh, 1794, first English edition, 4to

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Swedenborg, Emanuel The delights of wisdom concerning conjugial love. London: R. Hindmarsh, 1794, first English edition, 4to, modern half calf, slightly spotted, loosely inserted is a blank endpaper from another work inscribed Ex libris Em. Swedenborgii Note: cf. Caillet 10461 [Amsterdam 1768, First edition]

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[Sykes, A.A.] An essay on the nature, design and origin of sacrifices, 1748, 8vo, calf-backed boards, 8vo, advertisement lea

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[Sykes, A.A.] An essay on the nature, design and origin of sacrifices, 1748, 8vo, calf-backed boards, 8vo, advertisement leaf, number in ink at head of title; Davison, J. An inquiry into the origin and intent of primitive sacrifice, 1825, 8vo, original boards, head of spine chipped; [Anon.] Two discourses of purgatory, for R. Chiswell, 1687; Amos. A. The great oyer of poisoning, 1846, extra-illustrated with numerous plates, brown morocco gilt by Bayntun, g.e.; [Fassman, D.] Gesprache in dem Reicher derer Todten. Leipzig, 1722, 4to, first frontispiece defective, 1 plate torn, some browning and worming of lower margin, old calf, very worn; La danse des morts... de l'eglise St. Jean à Bâle. Basle: Birmann, [c.1836], 4to, plates, upper wrapper bound in, modern calf, ?lacking German title, slight soiling; Holbein, H. The dance of death. London, 1803, 8vo, frontispiece, 47 plates, contemporary boards, some foxing; Holbein, H. The dance of death. London, 1804, 8vo, frontispiece, 33 plates [one folding], contemporary half calf gilt, upper board loose, ink notes on endpaper and another 1804 copy in boards, disbound; Holbein, H. The dance of death, 1816, 8vo, engraved plates, half roan, some spotting, rubbed (10)

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