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Legenda aurea

Legenda aurea by VORAGINE, Jacobus de

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC
Title
Legenda aurea
Author
VORAGINE, Jacobus de
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg, 1486. sanctorum sive Lombardica historia. [Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (perhaps associated with Georg Husner)], 19 December 1486]. Folio (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 x inches; 293 x 215 mm.). 265 leaves. Collation: [1], 18 ,26 a-z8.6 ,A-E6.8 ,F-I6.8 ,K-M6 ,N8. Gothic type. Double columns. Forty-seven lines plus headline. Initials supplied in red and blue throughout. Title-page and initial and final blank renewed and laid down. Contemporary binding of blindstamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked with original spine laid down. Original spine chipped along top and bottom edge. Intersecting triple fillets dividing the covers, the center panel stamped in blind with fleur-de-lis and floral stamps. With two brass clasps. Later endpapers. Title-page and initial and final blank renewed and laid down. Paper flaw repaired in the lower margin of leaf 1, not affecting text. A few additional minor marginal tears or paper flaws, not affecting text. Some worming to covers and throughout the leaves, generally marginal, and otherwise only pinhole sized worming in the text. Dampstaining to the inner margins of leaves 13-26, b1-b6, and F5-N7. A few early ink marginalia. From the library of Dr. Detlef Mauss, with his name blindstamped on front free endpaper. Overall an excellent copy. The "Golden Legend" was extremely popular in the late Middle Ages, not only on the Continent but also in Britain. Caxton printed an illustrated edition of his own translation of a much enlarged text in 1483, reprinted by his successor Wynkyn de Worde. Through 1527 a total of eight editions were published in England. But for the original Latin texts English readers had to turn abroad. Jacobus de Voragine, who became a Dominican in 1244 and died in 1298, after six years as bishop of Genoa, wrote various works of which the Golden Legend, perhaps of the 1260s, was by far the most successful. A compilation to accompany the major feasts in the church calendar, the Golden Legend details the lives and miracles of saints and explicates events in the lives of Christ and the Virgin, ordered according to the liturgical year. It must have been the most widely consulted authority on these matters and is consequently an invaluable insight into what was generally known by writers, artists, and their patrons. BMC I, p. 135 (IB. 1868). Copinger 6444. Goff J-117. Polain 2199. Proctor 608. HBS 68134 $12,500.
Economic Writings of Sir William Petty

Economic Writings of Sir William Petty by PETTY, William

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Title
Economic Writings of Sir William Petty
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PETTY, William
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Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Cambridge: The University Press, 1899. Full Description: PETTY, William. The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty. Together with the Observations upon the Bills of Mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt. Edited by Charles Henry Hull. Cambridge: The University Press, 1899. First edition of Petty's collected economic writings. Two octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 207 x 144 mm). With a frontispieces for each volume. Volume II with two frontispieces. This set includes "A Treatise of Taxes", "Political Arithmetic", "Verbum Sapienti", and "The Political Anatomy of Ireland", alongside John Graunt's "Observations upon the Bills of Mortality" among others. Publisher's quarter black cloth over blue cloth boards. Spines ruled and lettered in gilt. Previous owner's small ink signature on front free endpaper of each volume. Some minor rubbing to boards and spine extremities. Endpapers with some offsetting. Overall a very good set. "The key figure in the development of an agrarian model in English political economy is William Petty. Petty is widely acknowledged to be a founder of classical political economy. Marx dubbed him 'the father of English political economy' and praised his 'audacious genius.'" (Political Economy and the Rise of Capitalism, David McNally). "Sir William Petty (1623--1687), political economist, served as administrator in Ireland under Cromwell and Charles II. He completed the survey of Ireland, published an accurate map of the island, and worked throughout his life for the improvement of the English administration of that country, particularly in financial matters. He was the valued friend of Pepys and Evelyn, and author of various treatises on taxes, currency, economy and government, including the first book on vital statistics, a study of London." (Howell) HBS 69518. $1,250.
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The Home Messenger Book of Tested Receipts. Total Abstinence. Respectfully Dedicated to the Patrons and Friends of the Detroit Home of the Friendless. by Stewart, Isabella G. D.; Sill, Sally B.; Duffield, Mary B.

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Title
The Home Messenger Book of Tested Receipts. Total Abstinence. Respectfully Dedicated to the Patrons and Friends of the Detroit Home of the Friendless.
Author
Stewart, Isabella G. D.; Sill, Sally B.; Duffield, Mary B.
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Detroit, MI: E. B. Smith & Company, 1878. Very good. Second edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [5], iv-xv, [2], 2-287; pebbled green cloth over boards; gilt title to spine and elaborate gild decorations to front board; illustrated with one wood engraving; silk-ribbon loop to top of spine for hanging (as published); small rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; faint signature of previous owner to ffep; a few minor spots; overall in about very good condition. Second edition of Detroit's first cookbook, this second edition would also be the first to present Angel Food Cake as a variation of white sponge cake, the name coined by Isabella Graham Duffield Stewart (1830 - 1888), a philanthropist and daughter of Rev. George Duffield (1794 - 1868) - a leading 19th-century New School Presbyterian minister, who served the First Presbyterian Church of Detroit (also called First Church of Detroit). In the early 1860s, at the onset of the Civil War, Rev. Duffield would gather the women of the First Church and would task them with finding ways to help the less-fortunate citizens of the city, primarily focusing on women and children. That would lead to Isabella founding and presiding over the "Home of the Friendless" - a charitable agency still existing today under the name "Children's Aid Society" - for which she would bring together women from more than ten Detroit churches. Shortly after, in 1862, the first edition of the current book would be published as a fundraising effort for the agency. Included were numerous recipes for oysters and lobsters, cakes, mutton and poultry, sauces, macaroni, and so on.
Bimbashi Baruk of Egypt

Bimbashi Baruk of Egypt by Rohmer, Sax

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Title
Bimbashi Baruk of Egypt
Author
Rohmer, Sax
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), lightly rubbed and soiled. Blue cloth, rubbed at the bottom edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature inside the front board, clean otherwise. Rohmer's crime novel about the titular character, the son of an Arab sheik and English mother, who has an "uncanny power of scenting crime and bringing the criminal into the open.
Family Government, a Treatise on Conjugal, Parental, and Filial Duties

Family Government, a Treatise on Conjugal, Parental, and Filial Duties by Andrew, James O.

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Family Government, a Treatise on Conjugal, Parental, and Filial Duties
Author
Andrew, James O.
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Philadelphia: Saurian and Ball, 1846. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Sixth Edition. 151pp. Contemoprary ink name on front free endpaper, foxed throughout, boards scuffed with some wear to the extremities, else good in publisher's green cloth.

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