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Vade mecum praestigio practicum seu methodus benedictionum et exorcismorum contra maleficia et praestigia by MANUSCRIPT; EXORCISM

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Vade mecum praestigio practicum seu methodus benedictionum et exorcismorum contra maleficia et praestigia
Author
MANUSCRIPT; EXORCISM
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
?Germany, 1706. Manuscript in brown ink on paper in Latin and German written in two highly legible secretary hands by one scribe (one for Latin and one for German), single- and double-column, 27 lines to a full page. Contemporary blind-ruled black morocco, red edges. Authorial inscription on the pastedown dated 1706, ex-libris inscription on the title verso “J.M. Herré Presbyt. 1802.” In excellent condition. A unique and curious manuscript manual for pharmaceutical exorcisms, highlighting a pivotal moment in Enlightenment Era Europe when scientific innovation collided with deeply rooted religious traditions. Divided into four parts, the first and longest section of the text provides the necessary incantations, psalms, and prayers for exorcising evil spirits and putting protections over the body and home. It lists specific saints to invoke for assistance and biblical excerpts to read in different situations. It also includes recipes for holy water, talismanic salt, and anointing oil, as well as holy baths for dunking witches, purgatives for vomiting up demons, and potions for expelling evil spirits from the house. The recipes for holy water differ according to the intended use: menstruating women, plague victims, gardens, and building foundations. There are also illustrated instructions for making cross talismans. The second part of the manuscript is more proscriptive, listing practical instructions for conducting exorcisms and equipment necessary, such as vessels, herbs, and fire. It is about setting the stage for the ceremony: arranging furniture, restraining the cursed victim, administering medications and ointments, and creating cleansing smoke. It includes numerous recipes for pharmaceutical implements which are written in German (as opposed to Latin for the clerical text), presumably because the compounds would be prepared by a layman pharmacist or healer who did not read Latin and because the recipes incorporate contemporary metals and plants that did not have Latin names. The section concludes with an alphabetic glossary of pharmaceutical terms with their definitions in Latin. The third part focuses specifically on exorcising demons sent by Satan. The text describes the steps to identify a demonic possession and invoke the help of angels to expel it. The final section comprises an alphabetic materia medica sorted according to ailment. Each entry lists ingredients for medications to treat the illness incorporating pharmaceutical symbols for amounts and dosage. As with the previous section, the directions for mixing the compounds are written in German. The manuscript concludes with two alphabetic indices—one for prayers and exorcisms, the other for medicine. It is perhaps worth note that this bookseller has handled dozens of grimoires that were placed on the Index of banned books and used as evidence to convict healers of witchcraft, and I find few differences between those texts and this manuscript. This text demonstrates how the essential elements of faith and medicine were at play in very similar ways both within the Church and in the communities of its supposed enemies.
Dei delitti e delle pene.

Dei delitti e delle pene. by Beccaria, Cesare (1738-1794).

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Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Title
Dei delitti e delle pene.
Author
Beccaria, Cesare (1738-1794).
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Milano: Luigi Mussi, 1812. Edition limited to 50 copies.. Very Good+. Milano: Luigi Mussi, 1812. Very Good+. Folio (47 cm); xv, 206, [2 blank] pages. Contemporary green cloth with green polished morocco backstrip titled and decorated in gilt. Vellum tips. Margins are remarkably wide. Some wear at spine ends and extremities. Negligible traces of finger-smudges here and there. Preserved in custom slipcase constructed of cloth-covered board. Justification page completed in manuscript, numbered and SIGNED by the publisher, Luigi Mussi, with acknowledgment of the purchaser, one Antonio Martonitotti of Pavia. Later bookplate of Emilio de Marchi Gherini, secretary of the ill-fated Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed under scandal in 1982 after the corpse of its chairman, Roberto Calvi, was discovered hanging from a rope under Blackfriars Bridge in London. References: PMM 209 (1764 ed.); Gamba 2147 ("magnifica ristampa") and 2148; One of the great texts of the Enlightenment presented in spectacular style by the Milanese printer Luigi Mussi, who had apprenticed with Bodoni and absorbed his design sensibilities. Mussi appears to have been one of the earliest exponents of the "limited edition" a marketing incentive that became more common in the late 19th- and early 20th-century. This grand folio was produced in a numbered edition of 50 copies on "velino reale" paper (out of a total run of 60), numbered and signed by Mussi.
Reports of the Secretary of War with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso,... Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe, Expedition into Navajo Country, ... Western Frontier of Texas

Reports of the Secretary of War with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso,... Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe, Expedition into Navajo Country, ... Western Frontier of Texas by Johnston, Col. J.

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Reports of the Secretary of War with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso,... Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe, Expedition into Navajo Country, ... Western Frontier of Texas
Author
Johnston, Col. J.
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Complete with all plates as issued (i.e., without plates numbered 2, 21,39). Later black cloth, gilt spine title. Plates foxed; the large map has old repairs on the reverse at the folds and with some fold separation (no loss). Howes J-178. .
Melodies for Childhood

Melodies for Childhood by [ANTHOLOGY: ADAMS, BREMER, DUNCAN, HOULD, HEBER, HOWITT, TAYLOR, WADSWORTH, WARD, WATTS, et al.]

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Title
Melodies for Childhood
Author
[ANTHOLOGY: ADAMS, BREMER, DUNCAN, HOULD, HEBER, HOWITT, TAYLOR, WADSWORTH, WARD, WATTS, et al.]
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: James S. Claxton, Successor to Wm. S. & Alfred Martien, 1870. [JUVENILE]. Publisher located at: 1214 Chestnut Street. 12mo; xii, [iii], 8-309pp; maroon cloth over board, blind-stamped fillet, gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; brown eps; hand-colored engraved fp + 11 plates; hand-colored pictorial half-title; small engravings in text; binding tight; light shelf wear to boards; near fine. OCLC locates only 7 copies. An anthology of children's poetry and hymns popular during the mid-19th century is presented divided into two parts: Religious and Miscellaneous. The text features lovely engravings and hand-colored plates.
Tate House. Crown of the Maine Mast Trade

Tate House. Crown of the Maine Mast Trade by BARRY, William David, and Frances W. PEABODY

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Title
Tate House. Crown of the Maine Mast Trade
Author
BARRY, William David, and Frances W. PEABODY
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Portland, Maine: National Society of Colonial Dames of AMerica in the State of Maine, 1982. Limited Edition. cloth. Fine/near fine. W. L. Frost. Fold-out Map: FROST, W.L., Falmouth Neck and Stroudwater in the Time of the Tates, for the Colonial Dames, 1982. Fold-out Map: A Plan, of the Clear Inclosures in Brigadier Gen. Waldo's Farm of Stoudwater in the Year 1756, as bounded by the Rivers &c. Limited edition 23/750. 8vo; xii, 116 [4]pp; gilt stamped orange cloth over board with title on spine; SIGNED by the authors on the free front endpaper; light scuffing to tail spine; unclipped unpriced dust jacket with title on front; 10 illustration in black and white; fine in near fine dj. The history of the Colonial era George Tate House in Portland, Maine as well as the surrounding area and its inhabitants.
Prayers from the Ark and The Creatures' Choir. Two Volume Boxed Set

Prayers from the Ark and The Creatures' Choir. Two Volume Boxed Set by BERNOS DE GASZTOLD, Carmen. Rumer GODDEN, translator

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Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
Title
Prayers from the Ark and The Creatures' Choir. Two Volume Boxed Set
Author
BERNOS DE GASZTOLD, Carmen. Rumer GODDEN, translator
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. Jean PRIMROSE. [JUVENILE] [POETRY]. Small 4to; 71pp and 69pp; color pictorial boards, color illustrations throughout; unclipped color pictorial dust jackets, spines slightly darkened; both fine in fine dj. Color pictorial slipcase with light wear to edges.
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De Bevrijding by Wijdeveld, H. Th.

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Title
De Bevrijding
Author
Wijdeveld, H. Th.
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Lage Vuursche: Elckerlyc, 1944. Limited Edition, 6/50. Hardcover. Very Good. Pale-blue paper over boards, backed in navy cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine; 8vo; pp. 35, [4]. Van de oplage zijn vijftig exemplaren genummerd en gesineerd. Dit is nummer 6. De Bevrijding werd gezet uit de Plantjin corps 12 en gedrukt op de persen van de Drukkerij J. van Boekhoven te Utrecht op geschept Haesbeek Imperium. Signed by Wijdeveld on the limitation page. A lavish production. Lovely watermarked paper. Boards and endpapers a little rubbed and soiled; spine tips and corners lightly bumped.
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Vellozia: Bound Volume 1, Numbers 1-6

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Title
Vellozia: Bound Volume 1, Numbers 1-6
Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (United States)
Description
Rio De Janeiro: Centro De Pesquisas Florestaiss e Conservacao De Natureza, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). Portuguese and English text. 8vo., (approx. 300pp.) Collated Numbers 1-6 of Vellozia, volume 1, (1961-1968), containg botanical papers of species description and conservation. Illustrated. References. Bound in black cloth boards, with silver title on spine. Very Good.
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THE NEW YORK SCHOOL; THE FIRST GENERATION; by Tuchman, Maurice

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Title
THE NEW YORK SCHOOL; THE FIRST GENERATION;
Author
Tuchman, Maurice
Seller
J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Greenwich: NYGS, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Rev. ed. of the original Los Angeles County Museum exhibition of 1965. 131 plates. Biblio.
THE WORLD OF THE NURSERY

THE WORLD OF THE NURSERY by White, Colin

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Title
THE WORLD OF THE NURSERY
Author
White, Colin
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780525242604
Condition
Near fine in near fine jacket.
Description
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1984. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of White's illustrated survey of the Victorian and early 20th century nursery's visual language and material culture. 11'' x 8.25''. Original orange cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($29.95) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white. 224 pages. Light edgewear to boards and jacket.
The Sandman Presents: The Furies

The Sandman Presents: The Furies by Carey, Mike; Bolton, John

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Title
The Sandman Presents: The Furies
Author
Carey, Mike; Bolton, John
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781563899355
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: DC Comics Inc, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95 on the back panel). Black paper on the boards with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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