A philosophical treatise … writ in America1687

"--Franck's book is now regarded as the first work of philosophy written in North America, though it is a confusing, unfocused text complicated by grossly ornamental language—" Approaching this book, like any other will certainly lead to confusion , as...

Some serious considerations on marriage. Wherein (by way of caution and advice to a friend) its nature, ends, events, concomitant accidents, &c. are examined. Conjugium Conjurgium

Seymar, William. (William Seymar is a pseudonymous anagram for William Ramsey.) Cf. Halkett and Laing Conjugium conjurgium: or, some serious considerations on marriage. Wherein (by way of caution and advice to a friend) its nature, ends, events, concomitant accidents, &c. are...

The Secrets of women….

704J pseudo Albertus Magnus Albertus Magnus de secretis mulierum cum commento. [Venetiis]; [Per Jo. Alvisium de Varisio], 1501. $8,800 Quarto 24 x 14.5 cm. Collation: a-g⁸. 56 leaves. (The text is that of the undated edition of Perugia.) This copy...

A small Plantin Æschylus 1580

   754J   Aeschylus (c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC), Willem Canter 1542-1575.  Αισχύλου τραγῳδίαι Ζ =.  Æschyli tragœdiæ VII. In quibus præter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio, hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri. VLTRAIECTINI. Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, architypographi regij, 1580.               Price $ 2,000 Duodecimo...

A miniature Boethius

796J Boethius , Anicius Manlius Severinus Anicii Manlii Torquai Serverini  BOETHII de consolatione philosophiæ Libri V Oxonii Typis Will Hall, Anno Dom. 1663                                    Price $1,100 Sextodecimo 9 x 7 cm. A6 B- O8, This tiny copy is very clean internally. There is...

British Merlin only two copies recorded

635J Crdanus Ryder Riders (1684.) British Merlin: bedeckt with many delightful varieties and useful verities, fitting the longitude and latitude of all capacities within the islands of Great Britains monarchy. And chronological observations of principal notes to this year 1684. Being...

First Printed edition of “One of the earliest printed books on the ars memorativa or mnemotechnics” . . ca.1480

502J Petrus de Rosenheim. (1380-1432). Nom probable : Petrus Wiechs [incipt Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum] / [Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschland (Oberrhein?).      ...

Annotated Cicero

411G Cicero 106 B.C.-44 B.C Epistolarum familiarium…libri XVI, ex Christophori Lo[n]golij eloquentiss. oratoris castigationibus recogniti, quàm antè hac multò etia[m] à mendis curiosiùs adserti; elenchum eorum, quae adiecimus, versa habet pagina Coloniae : Apud Viduam Marini Gymnici, 1551                                     Price $3,300 Edited...

Lossius, Dialecticæ et Rhetorica, Melanchthon & Erasmus

795J Lucas Lossius (1508-1582) Erotemata Dialeticae Et Rhetoricae Philippi Melanchthonis :breuia ac dilucida, & item praeceptionum D. Erasmi Roterodami, devtraeque Copia Verborum & rerum.   Frankfurt: Haeredes, Christiani Egenolphi, 1583                                              Price $ 2,500 Octavo 16 x 10cm. Signatures A-X8 (X8 is colophon and present)...