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[AGONIZANTS.]
Règles et indulgences de la confrérie des agonisans, erigée dans l’eglise abbatiale de RR. PP. Bénédictins...
Besançon, Jean-Mathieu Couché, [1769].
Very rare set of rules for male and female members of a confraternity of Agonizants established at the Benedictine abbey in Besançon, in the east of France.
£450
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AUGUSTINE, Saint.
Regula beatissimi patris Aurelii Augustini Hiponensis episcopi de communi vita clericorum cum expositione D. Ugonis...
Venice, Bernardino Fasani for the Canons Regular of the Lateran, April 1561.
Very rare Venetian edition of the famous monastic Rule of St Augustine, with commentary attributed to Hugh of Saint Victor, in the original Latin with interspersed Italian translation.
£550
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[AVRANCHES.]
Manuale Abrincense, autoritate illustrissimi ac reverendissimi D.D. Josephi-Francisci de Malide, Abrincensis episcopi,...
Avranches, François le Court, 1769.
Rare provincially printed liturgical manual issued by Bishop Joseph-François de Malide (1730–1812) for priests serving in the diocese of Avranches in Normandy.
£350
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BELLARMINE, Robert.
De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus. Cum adiunctis indicibus undecim, et brevi chronologia ab orbe condito...
Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.
First edition of a remarkable biobibliography of ‘ecclesiastical writers’ by the great Jesuit theologian and controversialist, Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621), one of the most important figures of the Counter-Reformation.
£350
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BESSE, Pierre de.
Conceptions theologiques sur tous les dimanches de l’année, preschées en divers lieux par Me Pierre de Besse...
Paris, Nicolas du Fossé, 1610.
Very rare first editions of two works by the noted French priest and preacher Pierre de Besse (1567–1639), in a contemporary devotional binding.
£1500
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[BIBLE, New Testament.]
Pauli Apostoli epistolae … Epistolae Catholicae … Apocalypsis Beati Ioannis.
Brescia, Damiano and Giacomo Filippo Turlino, May 1537.
Scarce Brescia edition of the Epistles of St Paul, St James, St Peter, St John, and St Jude, and of the Book of Revelation, in the Vulgate version, with a remarkable metalcut depicting St Peter and St Paul holding a Holy Shroud bearing the face of Christ, owned by an Italian Protestant-sympathiser.
£2500
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[BIBLE, New Testament.]
Novum D. N. Iesu Christi testamentum, cuius Graeco contextui respondent versiones duae, altera Gallica,...
Bezae. [Geneva], Jean de Tournes, 1629.
Uncommon trilingual New Testament, a reprint of the edition published by de Tournes in 1628.
£375
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ANDREWS, Mark E.
The Science and Engineering of Water: An illustrated catalogue of books and manuscripts on Italian hydraulics,...
Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.
A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing the development of science and engineering through the early modern period. Some 367 printed books, manuscripts, and maps are presented in chronological order, highlighting the relationship between the evolution of ideas and the authors who documented...
£85
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CALAMATO, Alessandro.
L’Espettatione dell’incarnato verbo, overo prediche sopra le domeniche dell’Avvento, e feste occorrenti...
Venice, presso i Giunti, 1653.
Later edition of a compendium of four works by Alessandro Calamato (d. 1648), a priest from Messina in Sicily, in an unusual Polish(?) devotional binding with stamps depicting St Hyacinth of Poland and St Francis of Assisi.
£1950
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ANDREWS, Mark.
The Science and Engineering of Water. An illustrated Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts on Hydraulics north of the...
Toronto, AE Publications, 2024.
An extensively illustrated catalogue of books, maps, and drawings on the science and engineering of water from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth, utilised by practitioners in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, the New World, and East Asia.
£85
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CANISIUS, Peter; Petrus BUSAEUS, editor.
Authoritatum sacrae scripturae, et sanctorum patrum, quae in Summa doctrinae Christianae...
Venice, ‘ex bibliotheca Aldina’, 1571.
Aldine edition of Canisius’s famous Catechismus major edited and expanded by the Dutch Jesuit Petrus Busaeus (1540–1587). The first Busaeus edition, in four parts, was published at Cologne in 1569–70.
£375
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[CAROLS.]
Noels et cantiques nouveaux, où l’on voit l’histoire de ce qui a précedé, accompagné et suivi la naissance de...
Metz, Jean Antoine, 1732.
Very rare collection of carols and canticles celebrating Christ’s nativity, printed at Metz in northeast France.
£575
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CATTANI DA DIACCETO, Francesco.
La vita dell’immaculata et gloriosissima sempre vergine Santa Maria madre di Dio et signor nostro...
Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1570.
First edition of a life of the Virgin Mary by Francesco Cattani da Diacceto (1531–1595), bishop of Fiesole and grandson of the noted Florentine Neoplatonist philosopher of the same name, dedicated to Cosimo I de’ Medici, the first Grand Duke of Tuscany.
£450
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[CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY SACRAMENT.]
Réglemens et prieres de la confrairie érigée en l’honneur du très-saint sacrement,...
Besançon, Jacques-François Couché, [1780].
Apparently unrecorded pocket-sized manual for the male and female members of a confraternity devoted to the Holy Sacrament established in 1780 in the church of St Paul and St Donatus at Besançon.
£850
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DENISSE, Nicolas.
Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus preclarissimum opus super quattuor novissimis cui Speculu[m] mortalium...
Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].
Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium of the Franciscan theologian Nicolas Denisse (d. 1509), printed at Rouen by Martin Morin (d. 1522).
£1650
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[EUDISTS.]
‘Vive Jesus et Marie. Regles des freres domestiques de la congregation ecclesiastique de Jesus et Marie. Ces regles...
[Northwestern France, c. 1730].
A most interesting manuscript detailing the regulations governing the brothers of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary, an ecclesiastical society dedicated to the education of priests in seminaries and to missions, founded at Caen in Normandy in 1643 by Jean Eudes (1601–1680).
£850
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FRANCIS DE SALES.
Introduction à la vie devote du bien-heureux François de Sales, evesque et prince de Geneve; instituteur de...
Paris, Jean Hénault, 1648.
A seemingly unrecorded edition of the famous Introduction to the Devout Life by Francis de Sales (1567–1622), bishop of Geneva, cofounder of the Visitandines, and one of the leaders of the Counter Reformation, with an engraved portrait of him.
£500
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[FRANCISCANS.]
Orationes dicendae in expositione SS. Sacramenti altaris pro conventu S. Mariae Angelorum Eugeniae.
[Northern Italy, 1787 and later].
An intriguing devotional manuscript compiled for a northern Italian Franciscan convent dedicated to Santa Maria degli Angeli, with a full-page image of a monstrance, and with evidence of the tumultuous impact of the Napoleonic era.
£1250
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HERLET, Friedrich.
Solitudo Norbertina, sive exercitia spiritualia, omnibus clericis, saecularibus, et regularibus, curata vel...
Georg. Schultermeyer, 1698.
Rare first edition of a collection of spiritual exercises by the Premonstratensian canon Friedrich Herlet (1644–1718), printed at Marchtal Abbey in Obermarchtal, southern Germany.
£450
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HEYNLIN, Johann.
Resolutoriu[m] dubioru[m] circa celebrat[i]onem missaru[m] occurrentiu[m] p[er] venerabile[m] patre[m] d[omi]n[u]m...
Strasbourg, Martin Flach, 1494.
First Strasbourg edition of this work on the celebration of Masses by the German humanist and theologian Johann Heynlin (d. 1496), boasting on the title-page that it resolves no fewer than 66 queries on the subject.
£2850