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et impensis bibliopolii Orphanotrophei,
1769-70-71-72-74
With an engraved portrait and engraved viignette title-pages, in
Greek and Latin throughout in parallel columns, pages xxiii,
(5),52, (8), 600, viii, (2), 601-1586, (4): xi, (5), (8), 668, (2),
669-1694: xiii, (9), (6), 1089, (5); (4), (1099)-1319, (9): (24),
1364, (4): viii, (6), 1248, (736, index), 11 parts in 5 vols bound
in 6, 8vo, uniform contemporary half calf: the bindings rubbed
and worn but very strong and not unattractive, internally in
fine state.
Theodoret of Cyrus (or Cyrrhus or Kyros), c. 393-c. 460, an
important writer in the domains of exegesis, dogmatic theology,
church history and ascetic theology. His Christological opinions have
been a matter of controversy, but it is now conceded that he held
Nestorian views but abandoned them circa 451. His historical works
include a “Religious History” (a collection of biographies of monks)
and a “Church History” which is important for the many authentic
documents used in it.
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€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1345
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THIERS (Jean-Baptiste).
Traité de la clôture des
religieuses: où l’on fait voir par la tradition & les sentimens de
l’eglise, que les religieuses ne peuvent sortir de leur clôture, ni
les personnes étrangeres y entrer, sans necessité …
Paris, chez
Antoine Dezallier,
1681
FIRST EDITION, pages (26), 464, 467-508, (6, blank),
complete thus in spite of pagination jump, large 12mo,
contemporary calf, fully gilt spine: the headbands worn but the
binding strong and attractive, and still a nice copy with a
contemporary fore-edge paper label on the front endpaper
folded to show on the lower fore-edge.
An appropriate subject, monasticism and religious orders for women,
nunneries, convents, etc, for this French ecclesiastic (1636-1703), noted
for a temper which led him to delight in polemics.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
LAMY (Bernard).
Apparatus
Biblicus … Editio sexta Veneta. Juxta novissimam
Lugdunensem caeteris auctorem: addita nunc primum auctoris
vita in synopsim redacta …
Venetiis, apud Laurentium Basilium,
1777. With 12 folding engraved plates (maps, illustrs, etc.),
pages xxxii, 755, 8vo, contrmporary vellum: skillful repair to
short tear without loss in one plate, otherwise a very good
copy. (2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1346
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[THOMAS A KEMPIS, Saint].
The Following of
Christ. In four books. Written by John Gersen, Abbot of
Vercelles, of the Holy Order of St. Benedict: drawn out of ten
ancient manuscripts; some written above four hundred years
ago, and set forth by the famous Abbot Cajetan, chronologist
to Paul the V. and dedicated to him; and printed at Rome …
1644.
Printed at London,
1673
With an engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates, pages
(36), 120, 97 (bis) - 471, (9), complete with the initial blank
leaf, large 12mo, contemporary vellum: one small section
working loose, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
Wing T 952. Clancy 950. An uncommon edition of this famous
mediaeval Christian devotional work, for long variously ascribed to
Thomas a Kempis or John Gerson.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1347. THOMAS, À KEMPIS. Opera … aucta & diligentius
recognita …
[Paris:] Vaenundantur Iodoco Badio Ascensio
(1523)
The title-page with a fine, deep woodcut border enclosing
Badius’s large woodcut of a printing press in use, folios (8),
191, (1, blank), folio, old half roan: with a short clean tear
without loss in two leaves and the running headline touched
only very slightly on just a very few leaves, otherwise a well-
margined and very good-nice copy.
Adams K14 (2 copies). An uncommon edition of the collected
works, ascetical, homiletic, poetical, biographical, etc., all
pervaded by the devotional spirit which finds its classic expression
in the ‘Imitation’, of this ascetical writer (1380-1471). This
edition follows that of Pirckheimer (1494) and carries his
intrroduction as well as a short prologue by Jodocus Badius, the
publisher of the present edition.
€800-€1,200 (£640-£960 approx.)
1348
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THOMASSIN (Louis).
Vetus et Nova Ecclesiae
Disciplina circa beneficia et beneficiarios … Editio Latina
secunda post duas Gallicanas auctior & emendatior.
Lugduni,
sumptibus Anisson & Joannis Posuel,
1706-05-05
Pages (32), 868: (12), 622 (but actually 934), (2, blank): (8),
632, (122), (2, blank), 3 vols, folio, contemporary mottled calf,
fully gilt spines: with just a little wear at the corners but the
bindings sound and very strong and attractive, a large, crisp
and clean copy.
His principal work, the one upon which his reputation rests. Innocent
XI wished to reward him by making him a cardinal, but the offer was
declined. This Latin edition is preferable to the French original, being
re-arranged in a more accessible form and greatly augmented. “The
classic historical work on Benefices. “ - Cath. Ency.
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€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1349
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THOMSON (Sir Charles W.).
The Voyage of the
‘Challenger’. The Atlantic. A preliminary account of the
general results of the exploring voyage of H. M. S.
‘Challenger’ during the year 1873 and the early part of the
year 1876.
Macmillan and Co.,
1877
FIRST EDITION, with a portrait, 13 folding coloured
maps,26 double-page and folding charts,5 plates and 169 other
illustrs, pp xxix, (3), 424: xiv, (2), 396, (4, ads),2 vols, 8vo,
original green cloth, gilt, top edges gilt, by Burn, with ticket: a
very good to nice copy.
Observations and soundings in the North Atlantic and West Indies,
between Madeira and Brazil, and at the Falkland Islands. Thomson
was chief scientific officer on the ‘Challenger’ during its famous
voyage to inspect the physical and biological conditions of the sea-bed.
These volumes, providing the earliest account of the voyage, preceded
the official account by three years and were the only ones Thomson
lived to complete. They represent probably the most important
oceanographic work of the nineteenth century.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
SPRY (Wm. J. J.).
The Cruise of
Her Majesty’s Ship “Challenger”. Voyages over many seas,
scenes in many lands. Second edition.
Sampson Low...,
1877.
With a folding map, 12 plates and 35 other illustrations, pages
xviii, 388,24 (adverts), 8vo, original green cloth, gilt: a very
good to nice copy.
Dispatched in Dec 1872, Challenger returned in May 1876 with a
mass of scientific data, having circumnavigated the globe in a journey
of some 69,000 miles.
(3)
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
1350
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TOLKIEN (John R. R.).
The Hobbit, or, there and
back again.
Unwin Hyman,
1987
With endpaper maps, plates, some coloured, and other
illustrations, pages (8), xvi, (11) - 286, complete thus in spite of
pagination error, 8vo, original publisher’s full dark green
morocco, gilt, top edges gilt, silk marker, in the original
matching cloth and morocco slip-case. a choice, unmarked
copy.
“This is copy number 135 of a limited collectors’ edition of 500 copies
… with a special foreword by Christopher Tolkein commemorating the
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