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HOFFMEISTER, Johann.
Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae hodie in controversia agitantur, ad regulam, et consensum verae, catholicaeque...
(colophon:) Ingolstadt, Alexander Weissenhorn, 1547.
First edition. In the dedication to the present work, Hoffmeister (1509–1547), one of Luther’s resolute adversaries, and Vicar General of the Augustinians in Germany, explains that there are people who wish, bono fortasse zelo, to find the truth for themselves and who hope that it may be possible...
£500
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IRENAEUS.
Opus eruditissimum divi Irenaei episcopi Lugdunensis, in quinque libros digestum, in quibus mire retegit et confutat...
Paris, Oudin Petit, 1563.
Jean François Foppens’s copy of Erasmus’s pioneering edition of Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, first published at Basel by Johann Froben in 1526.
£1200
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[JESUS CHRIST.]
Recherches curieuses et morales sur la naissance de Jesus-Christ.
Paris, Jacques le Febvre, 1684.
Rare first editions of two devotional works, with engraved frontispieces by Landry, and in an attractive contemporary binding.
£475
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[LA TOUCHE-LOISY, Jacques-Ignace de.]
Avis salutaires, d’un philosophe Chrétien, distribués pour chaque jour du mois, et traduits...
Paris, chez Prault père, 1740.
Rare first edition of a devotional work by the French artist, philosopher, and man of letters, Jacques-Ignace de La Touche-Loisy (1694–1781), with an engraved frontispiece depicting allegories of faith, hope, and charity, in a handsome near-contemporary dentelle binding.
£950
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[LITURGY.]
L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, selon le Messel et Breviaire Romain; avec la concordance du Messel; et Breviaire de...
Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires associez au livre de la Semaine Sainte, 1700.
Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy Week in parallel French and Latin, in an attractive binding bearing the arms and monogram of Philippe I, duc d’Orléans (1640–1701).
£1250
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[MASS.]
Brevis elucidatio totius Missae, interrogationibus, et responsionibus distincta, iussu … D. Francisci Vander-Burch archiepiscopi...
Mons, François Waudré, 1639.
First edition, second issue(?), of a catechism on the Mass published at Mons in Belgium by order of François van der Burch (1567–1644), archbishop of Cambrai.
£375
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[PRAYERS.]
Christ-Catholischer Gottseeligkeit andächtige Verrichtungen, bestehende in Morgen- Abend- Mess- Beicht- und Communion-Gebethern...
Prague, Johann Norbert Fitzky, 1733.
A very rare Jesuit prayerbook published in Prague by the Polish-born printer Johann Norbert Fitzky (d. 1745), in a distinctive Bohemian binding.
£950
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[RITUAL.]
Rituale della venerabile Archiconfraternita delle Sagre Stimmate del padre S. Francesco di Roma.
Rome, nella stamperia del Bernabò, 1711.
Uncommon revised second edition (first 1669) of the Ritual of the Archconfraternity of the Sacred Stigmata of St Francis in Rome (established in 1594), in an attractive binding bearing the arms of the noble Caetani family.
£800
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[ROUEN.]
L’Office de la semaine sainte à l’usage du diocese de Rouen. Avec des prieres pour la Confession et la Communion,...
Rouen, François Oursel, 1742.
A seemingly unrecorded edition of a prayerbook for Holy Week, illustrated with woodcuts and with a tipped-in manuscript prayer for Napoleon, in an attractive binding.
£475
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RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS.
Historia monachorum in Aegypto, parts of chapters 10, 14, and 15.
Italy?, late twelfth century.
A remarkable mix of travelogue and hagiography, the Historia monachorum is a collection of stories and miracles relating to a pilgrimage through Egypt undertaken in 394–395 by seven monks from Rufinus’ monastery. In the original Greek and in Rufinus’ Latin translation it was one of the most popular...
£750
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THOMAS À KEMPIS; Henricus SOMMALIUS, editor.
Thomae Malleoli a Kempis cum docti tum religiosissimi viri, ordinis canonicorum regularium...
Antwerp, Martin Nutius, 1607 [1606].
The collected works of the great ascetical writer Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380–1471), including his famous manual of spiritual devotion The Imitation of Christ, edited by the Jesuit priest Henricus Sommalius (1534–1619), illustrated with a fine portrait of the author.
£450
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[BARNABITES.]
Vesperae quae cantantur solemniter a clericis regularibus S. Pauli, in ecclesia SS. Blasii et Caroli de urbe. D. Augustinus...
[Rome, 1693 and later].
A finely executed manuscript comprising texts to be sung at vespers by the Clerics Regular of Saint Paul – better known as the Barnabites – in the church of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari in Rome, bearing signs of adapted use over time.
£2750
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CYPRIAN.
D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis, martyris Christi opera, quotquot perquirentibus reperire Dei munere concessum...
Paris, Guillaume Des Bois, 1564.
An attractive edition of the works of Cyprian (and indeed Pseudo-Cyprian) edited by the Parisian printer and scholar Guillaume Morel (d. 1564), with interesting marginalia.
£975
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OTTINGER, Joseph.
Hier ist das ewig leben, dös sich in bittern tott, ganz willig hat ergeben, O Jesu liebster Gott. Ecce homo....
[Strasbourg, late eighteenth century].
A striking depiction of a scourged Jesus, bound and crowned with thorns, by the Strasbourg-based artist Joseph Ottinger, using his characteristic découpé and collage techniques to add colour and highlights to the image.
£600
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PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.
Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit novoque adparatu critico instruxit...
Cambridge, University Press, 1928.
First edition of Richmond’s controversial Propertius, A. F. Scholfield’s copy, with three letters from the editor.
£400
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OATES, Russel [or Russell].
‘Specimens of Writing by Russel Oates, at Mr Richd Kemplay’s Academy, St John’s Place,...
Leeds, 1825.
A pair of calligraphic dictation books from a pupil at Richard Kemplay’s Academy for Young Gentleman in Leeds, with printed class lists ranking pupils by their errors.
£850
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LAUTERBACH, Barbara, and Georg Christoph LAUTERBACH.
A group of five school exercise books comprising geographical dictations.
Lenk, 1834-1849.
A charming group of school exercise books from the Swiss village of Lenk im Simmental, unusually bound in decorated printed wrappers.
£1250
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LIPSIUS, Justus.
De amphitheatro liber. In quo forma ipsa loci expressa, et ratio spectandi. Cum aeneis figuris.
Antwerp [i.e. Leiden], Christophe Plantin, 1585.
Two works by the great Flemish humanist and philologist Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), on amphitheatres and on Latin pronunciation.
£950
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[WALLPAPER BINDING.]
‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves a joseph Paul Roegier et marie margu te [sic] Bourdeau son espouse,...
Hainaut, 1750–1773.
A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph Paul Roegier and his son, recording receipts over a quarter-century, in an attractive and unusual binding reusing a large fragment of gilt leather wallpaper.
£3500
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VARILLAS, [Antoine].
La Pratique de l’education des princes, contenant l’histoire de Guillaume de Croy, surnommé Le Sage,...
Amsterdam, H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes, 1686.
A highly unusually decorated binding, likely an amateur imitation of then-fashionable tooling.
£750