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A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion Written in French by MORNAY, Phillippe de

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Title: A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion Written in French
Author: MORNAY, Phillippe de
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: [By [John Charlewood and] George Robinson] for Thomas Cadman, 1587. SIDNEY, Sir Philip; GOLDING, Arthur. GOLDING, Arthur, [translator]. SIDNEY, Sir Philip, [translator]. A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion Written in French. Against Atheists, Epicures, Paynims, Jewes, Mahumetists, and other Infidels. By Philip of Mornay Lord of Plessie Marlie. Begunne to be translated into English by Sir Philip Sidney Knight, and a his request finished by Arthur Golding. London: [By [John Charlewood and] George Robinson] for Thomas Cadman, 1587. First English edition. A translation of "De la verité de la religion chrestienne," and possibly Sir Philip Sydney's first published work, although there is some debate whether he contributed to this translation even though his name is noted on the title-page. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 187 x 140 mm). [28], 480, 491-641, [1, colophon] pp. Jumps in pagination, but collates complete and is the same as the British Library copy. Title within an engraved boarder. Largely printed in black letter. With engraved initials, and head and tail-pieces. Later tree calf over wooden boards. Rebacked to style. Spine stamped in gilt. Some wear to front joint. Top margin trimmed close, occasionally affecting the running headline, mainly towards the end. With two previous owner's signatures on title-page dated 1713 and 1809. Some other early ink marginalia throughout. With the bookplates of the Fox Pointe Collection on the back pastedown an other bookplate detached from front paste down, laid in. Bookseller description tipped in on front pastedown. Previous owner's pencil notes on front free endpaper. Some minor soiling and toning, mainly to edges. A small damp stain to the first few pages of the preface and the final four leaves. Overall a very good copy. "The best edition of this work." - [Lowndes]. [Phillippe de Mornay, a "Politician, Protestant leader; served as a diplomatist for the future Henri IV as soon as 1574 and his political role expanded to the point of earning him the nickname of 'the Huguenot pope'; although his influence faded when Henri IV abjured Protestantism (1593), he remained moderately influential, particularly in the drafting of the Edict of Nantes (1598)." (British Museum) "In the years following the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the civil wars continued to unfold like a bloody game of tennis. Each time it seemed that the Huguenots had achieved some protection of their rights, the Catholics soon knocked them back again in a new round of fighting. Matters were made much worse in 1584, when the heir to the throne, the Duke of Anjou, died, leaving King Henry III with no clear successor. This provided an important opportunity for both the Huguenots (led by Henry of Navarre) and the Catholics (now operating as the Catholic League, formed in 1576 and led by Henry, Duke of Guise), as both sides realized that if they could secure a representative on the throne, the wars would be as good as won. What had started as wars of religion now became wars of succession also. During this time there emerged a new wave of Huguenot leaders and diplomats, who helped to shape the remaining years of the civil wars. One such diplomat was Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly. Having been brought up with a Protestant education, de Mornay was one of the strongest advocates for the Protestant cause during the later years of the Wars of Religion, and beyond. He had been in Paris on the day of the St Bartholomew's Massacre, and had narrowly escaped with his life. Following this, he wrote several political tracts which outlined Protestant policy; he also fought in the Huguenot army in the later years of the 1570s. The College has various copies of his works, which are all heavily pro-Reform and often launch attacks on the Pope. Philippe de Mornay's many writings were very important for the defense and continuation of the Huguenot cause, and... are valuable sources for this period. However, de Mornay's role extended to well beyond that of just a political writer, for he was also a trusted counsellor of Henry of Navarre, and was greatly involved in the important diplomatic negotiations that helped pave the way for the end of the wars." (The Huguenots: The Story of the French Reformation. Cambridge University). Sir Philip Sidney was an "English courtier, statesman, soldier, and poet. Born into an aristocratic family and educated to be a statesman and soldier, Sidney served in minor official posts and turned to literature as an outlet for his energies. Astrophel and Stella (1591), inspired by Sidney's passion for his aunt's married ward, is considered the finest Elizabethan sonnet cycle after William Shakespeare's sonnets. The Defence of Poesie (1595), an urbane and eloquent plea for imaginative literature, introduced the critical ideas of Renaissance theorists to England. His heroic romance Arcadia, though unfinished, is the most important work of English prose fiction of the 16th century. None of his works was published in his lifetime." (Brittanica) "Although Sidney appears to have been sympathetic towards and friendly with Catholics, and associated with them throughout his life, he was no closet adherent to their faith. His political affiliations, including his eventual marriage to Sir Francis Walsingham's daughter, and his later literary projects, like his translations of the Psalms and of De la verité de la religion chrestienne by his friend Du Plessis Mornay, point rather to an essentially protestant outlook... [Sidney] became more involved with Du Plessis Mornay, who was beginning to write De la verité de la religion chrestienne, a work concerned with geography and politics as well as religion." Some sources note that Sidney died before he finished his translation of De la Verite, and thus it was finished by Arthur Golding, while other sources claim that Sidney did in fact do a full translation of this work which was has been lost and this present edition is Sidney's text fully modified by Golding. ESTC S112896 Lowndes 1616. HBS 68594. $4,500.

OEUVRES COMPLÈTES by (BINDINGS - THOUVENIN). HORACE

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Title: OEUVRES COMPLÈTES
Author: (BINDINGS - THOUVENIN). HORACE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: [Printed by Jules Didot l'aine for] Chez Dalibon, 1823. 210 x 132 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4"). Three volumes.. VERY ELEGANT CONTEMPORARY VIOLET CALF BY THOUVENIN (stamp-signed in gilt on backstrip of volume I), covers each with two single gilt rules enclosing a blind-stamped panel composed of swirls and floral motifs on a stippled ground, with smooth medallion at center within an ornate frame, raised bands ruled in gilt, compartments with rectangular gilt tool or gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Volume I with engraved frontispiece. Front pastedowns of volume I with pink ex-libris of Henri Beraldi; front flyleaves of all three volumes with woodcut ex-libris of "A. N. B." ◆Variably foxed as is typical of French paper from this period (significant portions of two of the volumes with heavy foxing), but the set otherwise faultless--the text seemingly unread, and THE BINDINGS IN PERFECT CONDITION. From the collection of the leading expert on 19th century French bindings, this is a set of the works of Horace, covered in calf of considerable refinement by the great Joseph Thouvenin, the eldest of three bookbinder brothers. In "La Reliure de la XIXe Siècle," our former owner Henri Beraldi names Simier, Purgold, and Thouvenin the triumvirate of binders who ruled the French Restoration (1815-40), a period he considered "one of the grand epochs of French bookbinding." Of those three, he tells us Thouvenin (1779-1834) stood out as "one of the most famous names in bookbinding." He was the gifted pupil of Bozerian, the leading French binder of the late 18th century, and he was viewed as a demi-god by his contemporaries, who claimed he must be instructed and guided by Minerva, the goddess of craftsmen. He established his workshop in 1814, and swiftly became one of the most successful and in-demand binders in Paris. Our binding was done in the latter part of the binder's career: according to the British Library Database of Bookbindings, the stamp-signed signature "R[elié] P[ar] Thouvenin" appeared on works produced before 1820; afterwards, as here, the signature consisted only of the last name of the binder by itself. The style of our binding is also characteristic of work he produced after 1820, when he turned from the lacy gilt "millepoint" tooling he had perfected under Bozerian to blind-stamped designs that would typify his "Cathedral" style. The text here is a fine printing of the odes and satires of Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 B.C.) by Jules Didot the elder, printer to the king. Henri Beraldi (1849-1931) was surely the most distinguished and knowledgeable writer on French bindings of the 19th century. His collection of French illustrated books and bindings was considered to be among the very best in the world. The outstanding condition here is typical of volumes from Beraldi's library..

Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act . . . intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof by Rickman, John; British Census

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Title: Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act . . . intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof
Author: Rickman, John; British Census
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: London: House of Commons, 1822. [Rickman, John (1771-1840).] Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act . . . intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof" . . . Folio. [2], xxxv, [3], 551, [3], 160pp. Folding table on p. xv. [London;} House of Commons, 1822. 334 x 207 mm. Library buckram, spine a bit faded, slight wear, stamp of King's College Library, London on spine. Very good. First Edition of Great Britain's third census, showing a population of 14.4 million people, an increase of 1.8 million over the census of 1811. The 1821 census was the first to break down Great Britain's population by age; the data showed that about half the British population was under 20 years of age, in contrast to about 25% today. John Rickman, who drafted the bill that became the 1800 Census Act, supervised the first four British censuses and prepared the abstracts and reports for each. .

History of French Literature by Van Laun, Henri

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Title: History of French Literature
Author: Van Laun, Henri
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vol. I published 1878, Vol. II, 1877, Vol. III, 1880. Three volumes in contemporary half polished calf over marbled boards, backs elegantly gilt with red and green morocco labels, marbled end papers and edges. Bookplates lettered: 'Ex libris / Susanna. B. Holmes. / CC Snow". Susanna B. Holmes was the wife of Albion Bernard Emery, part-owner in the Silver King Mining Co. of Utah. Susanna became known as the "Silver Queen", and was at one time the richest woman in America. Near Fine, light wear to calf. A clean and lovely set..

The Chaste Planet by Updike, John

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Title: The Chaste Planet
Author: Updike, John
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Condition: Very Fine
Description: Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1980. Book. Very Fine. Soft French Marble Wrappers. Signed by Author(s). Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition. Publisher's note on the printing laid in. #176/300 copies printed in wrappers, there were also 26 lettered hardbound copies..

Praxis. by ANDREWS, Bruce.

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Title: Praxis.
Author: ANDREWS, Bruce.
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Description: Berkeley: Tuumba,, 1978.. First edition.. [30 pp]. Light toning to spine and extrems, else near fine in printed wrappers. One of 450 numbered copies. Tuumba 18.

Paris Peasant. by ARAGON, Louis.

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Title: Paris Peasant.
Author: ARAGON, Louis.
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Description: London: Picador/Pan, (1980).. First UK trade paperback printing.. 222 pp w/translator’s notes. Pages toned (cheap paper) else near fine in illustrated wrappers with an old price sticker on the rear cover. Translated from the original French by Simon Watson Taylor, with his introduction.

National Business Show, America's Efficiency Exposition, Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, March 8th to 13th, 1926. Directory of Exhibits by Tupper, Frank E.

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Title: National Business Show, America's Efficiency Exposition, Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, March 8th to 13th, 1926. Directory of Exhibits
Author: Tupper, Frank E.
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Condition: Very good
Description: New York: National Business Show Company, 1926. Very good. First edition; 5 3/4 x 4 1/4; pp. 2-23; stapled, pictorial wraps in beige and brown; illustrated with floor plan drawing of the exposition auditorium; front wrap with fore-edge a bit unevenly-trimmed and a slight spot to left margin; overall in very good condition.This America's Efficiency Exposition, held in March of 1926 in San Francisco, would precede the World's Fair in Philadelphia, also known as the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926, or also as America's Efficiency Exposition, the latter opening in May of 1926. The current directory listed the alphabetical list of exhibitors, with names, addresses, and booth numbers and included paper companies, typewriter distributors, binders, business book publishers, etc.

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The Floating Light Bulb. by ALLEN, Woody.

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Title: The Floating Light Bulb.
Author: ALLEN, Woody.
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ISBN: 9780394524153
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: NY:: Random House,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0394524152 . First printing. Remainder mark on top edge, else near fine in a near fine (age toning to flap edges) dust jacket. .

Europe: A Personal and Political Survey by ALINGTON, C.A.

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Title: Europe: A Personal and Political Survey
Author: ALINGTON, C.A.
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Description: New York: Scribner, 1948. hardcover. very good/very good(-). Illustrated. xii + 388pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper lightly edgeworn, price clipped. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. A very good copy in a very good (-) dust wrapper.

PRINT - Fairy Tales and Stories: "Johannes lay on his knees by Andersen, Hans Christian

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Title: PRINT - Fairy Tales and Stories: "Johannes lay on his knees
Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
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Description: 1900. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Black-and-white illustration from circa-1900s edition of Fairy Tales and Stories. Size: 12" x 8" page; approximately 5" x 5.25" illustration. PRINTS/112322.

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