Religion
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[Embroidered Binding]. Eckartshausen, Hofrath von. Gott ist die reinste Liebe. Mein Gebeth und meine Betrachtung. Siebente verbesserte, und mit sehr schönen Kupfern vermehrte Auflage. Hildesheim: Jacob Sieger, 1799.
![[Embroidered Binding]. Eckartshausen, Hofrath von. Gott ist die reinste Liebe. Mein Gebeth und meine Betrachtung. Siebente verbesserte, und mit sehr schönen Kupfern vermehrte Auflage. Hildesheim: Jacob Sieger, 1799.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5304.jpg)
8vo. [8 including frontis.], 216 pp. Illustrated with five engraved plates including frontispiece, plus an engraved title-page vignette. Bound in white silk over boards, bordered with green and gold thread and sequins, the same materials sewn to frame the initials CJ, in silver thread, on front cover and 1827 on rear cover, pink silk endpapers,…
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[NUNS]. De Ribera, B. Juan. Regla y Constituciones dadas á las Religiosas del Convento de S. Gregorio de la Ciudad de Valencia… Valencia: D. Benito Monfort, 1834. 8vo. [ii (blank)], XIII, [1], 281, [1]; [6] pp. (index).
![[NUNS]. De Ribera, B. Juan. Regla y Constituciones dadas á las Religiosas del Convento de S. Gregorio de la Ciudad de Valencia… Valencia: D. Benito Monfort, 1834. 8vo. [ii (blank)], XIII, [1], 281, [1]; [6] pp. (index).](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5261.jpg)
With six bars of music printed in red and black on two pages, and printedsidenotes throughout. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. first edition of rules for the nuns of San Gregorio, an Augustinian convent in Valencia, Spain, that was demolished in 1911 to make way for the Olympia Theater. Among the rules we find guidelines…
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Falk Wiesemann, The Esther Scroll, published by Benedikt Taschen, Koln, Germany, 2015.
New condition, straight from the publisher. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being currently only two copies available and beginning at $1,100. Esther was a real mensch. Spectacular books need spectacular homes and loving hands. The Book of Esther and the Song of Songs are the only two books of the Hebrew Bible that do…
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Alexandris (Cajetanus de), Confessarius Monialium: commoda, brevi, & practica methodo instrus, published by Balleoniana [Paolo Balleoni], 1728.
![Alexandris (Cajetanus de), Confessarius Monialium: commoda, brevi, & practica methodo instrus, published by Balleoniana [Paolo Balleoni], 1728.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Alexandri-4.jpg)
Good condition. The title continues: “Circa earum Obligationes, Privilegia. Editio quarta, pluribus in locis locupletata.” Thus, the Fourth edition, the First Edition having been published in 1706 and another several after the author’s death in 1730, two years after publication of this volume. Designed as a how-to manual for priests who would hear and pronounce…
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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Coelius Firmianus, Opera. Venice, Andrea de Paltasichis and Boninus de Boninis of Ragusa, 1478
Folio. (213) leaves (signatures: a2–9, b–d8, e10, f–m8, M8, N6, n–r8, s–t6, u–x8, y6, z8, &8, £10). Lacking leaf a10 (table); a1 (blank) not preserved. Early 19th-century half blond calf, smooth spine decorated with red long-grain morocco title label. Hinges restored, rubbing on spine, corners worn, small marginal dampstains, worming, slight foxing on the first…
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THE EXTREMLY RARE FIRST GREEK BOOK EVER PRINTED IN OXFORD.
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, Homiliae VI, ex manuscriptis codicibus Novi Collegii Joannis Harmari (…) opera et industria nunc primum græce in lucem editæ. Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1586. 16vo, (6) ff. 138 p. (signed : A6 , A-H8 , I4 , L1 ). Brown mid-19th century boards, (some rubbing to binding, corners dulled, pp. 103-104 crossed by a…
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WILD, Johann, Sommerteil der Postill. Evangelischer… Mainz, Franz Behem, 1558 & Sommerteil der Postill. De Sanctis. Mainz, Franz Behem, 1559
Two parts in one folio volume, [6], 501 (i.e., 500) leaves; [4], 161 (i.e., 162), [1] leaves. Pigskin over wooden boards. Contemporary German binding, blind-stamped. Spine with four raised bands; outer borders adorned with floral motifs; inner borders featuring figures of Christ, David, Paul, and John the Baptist. Central panels decorated with floral designs. Traces…
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Hopkins, Daniel. A sermon, preached December 29, 1799, in the South Meeting House, Salem, the Lord’s Day after the melancholy tidings were received of the death of General George Washington, who died Dec. 14, 1799
(19 x 12cm). 28 pp. In recent soft cover binding for protection. Easily removable with no damage to original text block. 1/4″ of head of title page removed, 1/4″ x 1/4″ chip to head of page 1, rest of text block unmarked with occasional foxing and ink bleed through of the thin paper. 1880 OCLC 559905541 2)1817 Specimens of…
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Rare Lyon ‘s impression (1555) of the works of Philo the Jew by S. Gelen
Philonis Iudaei, scriptoris eloquentissimi, ac Philosophi summi, lucubrationes omnes quotquot haberi potuerunt, nunc primum Latinae ex Graecis factae, per Sigismondum Gelenium. Addito in fine rerum memorandarum Indice foecundissimo. In-12° full leather, speckled calf. Restored binding (corners, caps and top of joints). 16th century edition with printer’s mark in an 18th century binding with red edges,…
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The Nuremberg Chronicle: a Pictorial World History from the Creation to 1493 Shaffer, Ellen Folio 1950
(34 x 24cm). xiv, 61 [3]. 176/300. Blue printed cloth covers. Corners bumped. Pictorial endpapers reproducing the map from the Nuremberg Chronicle. Title and first text page in red and black. Printed at the Plantin Press. With a Leaf from the Pirated Augsburg Latin Edition of 1497 Offered by Liberty Book Store $350 To purchase, contact…