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[POST-INCUNABLE ~ 1508]. [Opus in evangelium Ioannis]. Opus insigne beati patris Cyrilli patriarche Alexandrini in euangelium Ioannis

[POST-INCUNABLE ~ 1508]. [Opus in evangelium Ioannis]. Opus insigne beati patris Cyrilli patriarche Alexandrini in euangelium Ioannis by Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, Saint (Cyrillus, Georgius)

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[POST-INCUNABLE ~ 1508]. [Opus in evangelium Ioannis]. Opus insigne beati patris Cyrilli patriarche Alexandrini in euangelium Ioannis
Author
Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, Saint (Cyrillus, Georgius)
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Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
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Paris: Printed by Wolfgang Hopyl for himself, Jean Petit and Thielmann Kerver, 1508. First Complete Edition. Very good. Folio. a-o8 p3 A10+1 B-G8 H10 q-z8 A-C8 D4, COMPLETE. Inconsistent foliation: 115, 64, 116-223 (i.e. 222) ff. With Wolfgang Hopyl's elegant title-page woodcut (Sylvestre, Marques typographiques 1066) depicting two eagles displayed, in their beaks a circle crowned with letterpress title in the center, in their claws a second circle (early ownership canceled, evidence of what may have been MS notes surrounding it), in the margins are fine renderings of trees and plants. Slight foxing or toning, occasional minor stains or wormholes in blank margins, inexplicable 2 cm. tears in lower blank margins of a number of consecutive leaves 55-126 (second numbering), none affecting text. Occasional marginal notes and notes of chapter parts. Contemporary Italian blind stamped leather, heavily restored (SEE IMAGES), modern smooth spine with portions of original spine laid down, four deerskin ties replacements, original pastedowns and endleaves retained (3 at the front and 3 at the back). The binding and annotations are INTRIGUING and the paper stock is VERY CRISP AND CLEAN. FIRST EDITION OF CYRIL'S COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPELS OF SAINT JOHN. OUR COPY WAS EXPORTED TO ITALY AT AN EARLY DATE WHERE IT WAS BOUND, POSSIBLY IN ROME, AND BEARS AN EXTREMELY INTRIGUING APOCALYPTIC POEM IN MANUSCRIPT AS WELL AS A MANUSCRIPT COPY OF A LITTLE KNOWN POEM BY PETRARCH. The Apocalyptic Prophecy: On the rear pastedown is following 14-line poem dated 1529: "Bella, fames, pestis, fraudes Saturnia regna Sternent, et veteres pellentur ubique tyranni. Monstra loquor tunc cum pariet bos rubeus hydram, Nec Deus extinguet flammas, nec deseret iram, Ni prius Ausoniae feriant mala singula gentes. [Poenae] Tempus erit prope lustrum. Mox aliger ingens Surget et issomno, rostro metuendus et ungue. Colla bovis caedet, sitibundus iniqui draconis Viscera depascet. Gallorum insignia, flores Sternet humi; reduces statuetque in propria reges. Galatia genitus terra Vir Justus et aequus Pastor erit coeli claves, non sceptra gubernans. Pax erit: et toto surget Concordia Mundo. Una fides, unus regnabit in omnia Princeps." TRANSLATION: "War, famine, pestilence, and deceit shall prostrate the Saturnian (i.e. ancient Italian) kingdoms, and the old tyrants shall everywhere be expelled. A shepherd will hold the keys, not the one governing kingdoms. I speak of monsters! When the red cow shall give birth to the hydra, God will not extinguish the flames nor abandon his anger until all these calamities shall have stricken the people of Ausonia. This state of affairs shall last about five years. Then an enormous bird shall awaken as from a sleep, and with its terrible beak and claws shall cut off the neck of the ox, and shall feed on the entrails of the thirty wicked dragon. He shall spread the insignia and flowers of the Gauls on the ground and restore the legitimate kings. Born in the land of Galatia is a just and equitable man, he will lead as a shepherd with the keys of heaven, not govern with scepters. There will be peace, and harmony shall rise throughout the world. One faith, one ruler shall reign over all." A number of variants of this extraordinary apocalyptic prophecy exist, and its authorship remains unconfirmed. Petrus Galatinus (Pietro Galatino) has been proposed, for which see Sharon Ann Leftley, Millenarian Thought in Renaissance Rome with Special Reference to Pietro Galatino (c. 1465- c. 1540) and Egidio da Viterbo (c. 1469-1532), Univ. Bristol thesis (1995). Jennifer Britnell mentions Boethius Severinus in conjunction with Galatinus, for which see "Jean Lemaire de Belges and Prophecy" in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 42:1, p. 160 & n. 86. A revisionist political version of the poem was published in "I futuri destini degli stati e delle nazioni, ovvero, Profezie e predizioni" (1860), pp. 135-136, and it is presumably this that appears (uncredited) in R. Gerald Culleton's The Reign of Antichrist (2009) no. 347. The Petrarch Poem: On the front binder's blanks are written, by the same hand as the preceding, two poems, the second and longer one being a copy of Francesco Petrarch's beautiful but little known 36-line "Dulcis amica Dei" (Petrarch Seniles XV, 15. 6) in hexameters, in praise of, and supplication to, Mary Magdalen: "Dulcis amica dei lacrimis inflectere nostris Atque humiles attende preces, nostræque saluti Consule, namque potes. Nec enim tibi tangere frustra Permissum, gemituque pedes perfundere sacros, Et nitidis siccare comis, ferre oscula plantis, Inque caput Domini pretiosos spargere odores" [etc.] Petrarch had made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Mary Magdalene in Sainte Baume (near Marsailles) and wrote several Latin hymns in her honor. Petrarch here commences with a brief imprecation to Magdalen to "look kindly" on his tears. Michael Haag explains: "In a manner suggesting at once the spiritual and the carnal, Petrarch is calling on Mary Magdalene, who soaked the wounds of Jesus with her tears, to soak his own wounds with her tears also" (see The Quest for Mary Magdalene: History and Legend). Petrarch then reflects upon Mary Magdalene as a contemplative hermit in her cave, where her "hunger, cold and hard bed of stone were sweetened by her love and hope." THE WATERMARKS: On three of the six binder's blanks appear a very distinctive Bull's Head with 5-leaf flower above, being a distorted version of Briquet 14950 which he recorded at Ferrara in 1505 and Constance in 1507. THE BINDING: At least one tool on this binding is reproduced by De Marinis, i.a. the unmistakale corner ornaments which are shared on BAV R.I.II.1069 (Vipera, Rome 1517) and which De Marinis attributed to Rome. THE PUBLISHERS: Responsible for printing and publishing this book was a multinational consortium acting in Paris: Wolfgang Hopyl was from the Low Countries, Thielmann Kerver was German, and Jean Petit Parisian. Roger Chartier described the latter as "a capitalist who without question was at the head of the Paris book trade at the end of the 15th century and in the early 16th century. From 1493 to 1530 he published more than a thousand books, most of them of major importance, amounting to one tenth of the entire output of the Paris trade" (The Coming of the Book, p. 121). Our publishers engaged Judocus Clichtoveus (Josse van Clichtove) as the editor (who utilized the Latin translation by Georgio Trapezontio). THE PRINTING TYPE: This was Wolfgang Hopyl's "English-bodied Roman" [r 98] which was apparently used here for the first time and was apparently proprietary to him. Records of his 1523 estate list an entry for "texte romyn," almost certainly the type used for printing this book according to Vervliet ("Early sixteenth-century Parisian Roman types" in: De Gulden Passer 83, 2005, p. 27 and fig. 10). BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Two so-called issues of this first edition exist; our copy belongs the second and obviously most complete issue, "with fresh material inserted" according to Adams. This so-called "fresh material" consists of an additional 64 (!) folios which literally constitute Books 5-8 of the total 12 books, thereby rendering ours the first complete edition of Cyril's Commentary on the Gospels of Saint John. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We believe that in this instance the term "issue" has been wrongly employed by bibliographers. "Issue" is a conscious publishing effort (i.e. issued on fine paper, special binding, etc.). Here, however, Hopyl's press made a series of colossal errors in which only Books 1-4 and 9-12 were printed and then sold. Was that intentional? We find it to be very unlikely. RARITY ON THE MARKET. Rare Book Hub, which currently lists more than 15 million records in the Rare Book Transactions database, lists just three copies at auction in over a century: 1. Gonnelli Casa Daste 3/12/25 lot 340 (lacking fols. A2 and A7 [or p8?]; this copy is currently being offered on by a British dealer); 2. Bonhams 12/2/12 lot 1006 (Serendipity copy); 3. Sotheby's 12/5/1991 lot 95 (in a Sammelband of two other titles printed by Hopyl). Ours is currently the only complete copy on the market. § Adams C-3177. Moreau, Inventaire chronologique 1508, no. 59. Index Aureliensis 149.143. Bibliographie des oeuvres de Josse Clicthove, Gand, 1888, pp. 401-402.
UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS a Guide for Management (Inscribed to the author)

UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS a Guide for Management (Inscribed to the author) by Blackburn, Thomas W. And H. Warren White

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UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS a Guide for Management (Inscribed to the author)
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Blackburn, Thomas W. And H. Warren White
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
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New York; (1969): Clarkson N. Potter, Inv. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER TO THE AUTHOR. A specially bound presentation copy inscribed by the publisher, to the author, Thomas Blackburn, Christmas, 1970. 214pp. Bound in 3/4 black morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt; top edge gilt, an exceptionally fine bright copy.
Six bankruptcy filings, being partly printed documents from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, each completed in manuscript and signed by a clerk of court, 28 March - 7 July, 1842

Six bankruptcy filings, being partly printed documents from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, each completed in manuscript and signed by a clerk of court, 28 March - 7 July, 1842

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Six bankruptcy filings, being partly printed documents from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, each completed in manuscript and signed by a clerk of court, 28 March - 7 July, 1842
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
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New Orleans, LA: The court, 1842. Documents. Each 4to, one-page, two with blank integral leaf, all six docketed on verso; all of the forms set a date in the court for hearings on a plea for bankruptcy, by (1) George E. Payne, (2) J.B. Hallin and Lucien Herman, (3) E. Ford of Forsyth, Goodwin & Ford, (4) John Mangum Hall, and (5 & 6) William Riddle. Each was sent to an agent of the United States Bank, W.W. Frazier (with two signed by him on verso), asking that he appear to "show cause why a certificate for bankruptcy should not be granted." Very good. All folded. (#5562).
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Two Lindenwood Female College Items by Various

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Two Lindenwood Female College Items
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Various
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
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St. Charles, Missouri: Lindenwood Female College, 1880. Very good. Two invitations - a commencement-exercises one and a graduating-exercises one, 1880 and 1882; single card stock sheets, printed in fancy fonts and elaborate ruling; minor wear and a few very small spots to verso; in very good or better condition. The driving force behind the founding of the Lindenwood Female College was Mary Easton Sibley (1800 - 1878), an educator and early pioneer. Born in Rome, New York, Mary moved to Missouri at the age of 5, as her father was appointed by President Jefferson to serve as Attorney General of the largest land jurisdiction in the United States. Marrying at 15, she moved with her husband to St. Charles, where she named their farm Linden Wood and started schooling a few local girls there in 1827. In 1832, the Lindenwood School for Girls was officially founded - the second-oldest higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River. By 1853 enrollment increased tremendously, promptying Mary and her husband to donate 120 acres of land, and Lindenwood Female College was incorporated (present day Lindenwood University).
SNCC - Non-Violent Freedom Force [broadside]

SNCC - Non-Violent Freedom Force [broadside]

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SNCC - Non-Violent Freedom Force [broadside]
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Atlanta: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1963. 11x17 inch broadside, printed both sides with reportage reprinted from the Atlanta Inquirer and other sources about the organization. Horizontal fold crease, paper toned, couple of small corner chips.
The First Part of Symboleographie. Which may be Termed, The Art..

The First Part of Symboleographie. Which may be Termed, The Art.. by West, William

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The First Part of Symboleographie. Which may be Termed, The Art..
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West, William
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The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
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9781584778721
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2008. ISBN-13: 9781584778721; ISBN-10: 1584778725. One of the Earliest English Texts that Addresses Conveyancing West, William. The First Part of Symboleographie which May be Termed, The Art, or Description, of Instruments and Presidents. First Collected by William West of the Inner Temple Esquire. And Since Augmented with Divers New Presidents Formerly Printed. Originally published: London: Printed by Miles Flesher, 1647. [624] pp. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778721. ISBN-10: 1584778725. Very attractive smyth sewn blue cloth bound hardcover, with gilt stamped spine and front cover. New. $125. * One of the earliest English texts that addresses conveyancing, it was first published in 1590 and 1594. It is a general practical treatise on English law under its several divisions, and was held in great esteem at the time. The demand for it was so great that West immediately began to prepare a second edition, practically rewriting the whole book." Marvin adds: "West's Symboleography has always been esteemed a book of authority...and contains not only precedents in conveyancing, but of indictments, and of proceedings in chancery.": Legal Bibliography (1847) 726.
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THE ISLAND OF CAPTAIN SPARROW by Wright, S. Fowler

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THE ISLAND OF CAPTAIN SPARROW
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Wright, S. Fowler
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
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THE ISLAND OF CAPTAIN SPARROW, Gollancz, 1928, first edition, a tight vg copy.

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