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La vita et miraculi de sancto Anello benedicto by MIRACLES. EXORCISM. Giovanni da Napoli (fl. ca. 1516-1532)

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Title: La vita et miraculi de sancto Anello benedicto
Author: MIRACLES. EXORCISM. Giovanni da Napoli (fl. ca. 1516-1532)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Naples: per maestro Ioanne Sulsbach [Giovanni Sultzbach] Alemano, 1532. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary vellum (a bit wrinkled, small defects to spine) with a contemporary Sicilian gift inscription occupying the full length of the lower cover: “Al mio padre Gia[como] Batt[ist]a Serabone [?] della Compagnia del Giesu. Messina.” Inscription on title (scored through) “Collegii Messiniensis Soc. Jesu.”; 16th or 17th c. ownership inscription on title: "Custodia Caraffa" and associated ownership inscription on leaf B1 verso, “Questo libro è dela S[uor] Custodia et S[uor] Ginobia Carrafe” with the subscription “Vittoria Caraffa”. 19thc. book ticket on front pastedown: “Jacob Manzoni” (1816-1889), whose library was dispersed in various auctions between 1892 and 1894; 20th c. book ticket “Libreria Rappaport”(Rome). Contents in overall good condition but with several gatherings browned and other minor faults: title page foxed and lightly soiled, with small marginal chips and a couple of stains; several gatherings (as well as the margins of a few other leaves) with damp-stains to margins. With a large title page woodcut (see below) and unusual, intricate woodcut initials. A search of KVK, OCLC, EDIT16, and Universal STC finds only a single copy (Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples.) An extremely rare Neapolitan printing (this copy once owned by nuns) of a life of Saint Agnello (“Aniello the Abbot)”, co-patron saint of Naples (b. ca. 535- d. ca. 596), responsible (in life and in death) for numerous miraculous healings. The title page woodcut depicts the Saint towering over Naples, carrying a banner, protecting the city from the Lombard invasion of 581. The book is replete with accounts of miraculous healings, including exorcisms, performed by the saint. The book is listed in EDIT16 under the name of “Petrus Subdiaconus”, 10th c. monk of Monte Cassino and sub-deacon of St. Januarius in Naples. However, the text is not, in fact, a translation of Peter’s life of Sant’Agnello (“Libellus Miraculorum”) but rather a new, composite work by the 16th c. Augustinian Canon Giovanni da Napoli, who cites several sources for the saint’s vita (f. 4v-5r). The title page tells us that this Vita has been translated from the Latin original, which I have thus far failed to trace. The dedication -to the Neapolitan noblewoman Vincenza Montalto, the content of the book, and the provenance indicate the book’s strong appeal for women. An early inscription (see provenance note above), indicates that the book was owned by the nuns (suore) Custodia and Ginobia [Genovia] Carrafa, possibly daughters of the woman who penned the inscription, Vittoria Caraffa. The Vita begins with the story of Sant’Agnello’s conception, which strongly mirrors the birth of Christ. The first chapter focuses on the experience of the Saint’s mother, Giovanna, a barren (“sterile”) woman who prayed before an image of the Virgin Mary for 30 days in the hopes of conceiving a child. On the 30th day, the image of the Virgin glowed and from it emanated a voice that announced to Giovanna that she would give birth to a boy. Soon thereafter, women began to flock to the image of the Virgin (still preserved in the author’s time in the Church of Sant’Agnello) in the hope of conceiving children. The Saint: Born in Naples, Agnello was the scion of a prosperous family of Sicilian origin, and perhaps a relation of Saint Lucy, with whom he is still closely associated. Agnello spent his youth living as a hermit, first in a cave and later in the church of Santa Maria Intercede (now Sant’Agnello Maggiore.) The story that he saved the city of Naples from the Lombards in 581, while widely-known, is not found in Pietro’s life of the saint. He died at the age of 61, while a priest in the church of Santo Gaudioso, which had been founded by African clergy fleeing the Vandals. Agnello’s jawbone is preserved as a relic in a 17th c. reliquary in the Naples cathedral. His body is buried in Sant'Agnello Maggiore in Caponapoli. The saint’s cult is still active. His feast day is December 14th.

Corpus Basilicarum Romae Christianarum: Le Basiliche Cristiane Antiche di Roma (Sec. IV-IX) by Krautheimer, Richard, et al.

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Title: Corpus Basilicarum Romae Christianarum: Le Basiliche Cristiane Antiche di Roma (Sec. IV-IX)
Author: Krautheimer, Richard, et al.
Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description: 1937. 5 vols., XVIII, 323, XI, 327, XI, 309, XI, 322, IX, 298 pp. corpus in Italian, with an introduction, detailed description, and analysis of each church and available archeological material, copious notes, bibliographies and chronologies for each church, altogether 1176 text illus. from photographs, old drawings, etc., 102 folding and double-page plates from measured drawings. Sm. folio. Cloth. Vatican City (Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana/Institute of Fine Arts) 1937-1980. (Monumenti di Antichità Cristiana, Series 2, Vol. 2). Arntzen J 93. The crowning achievement of the field's foremost scholar and an indispensable work. The corpus details nearly 80 churches, each profusely and finely illustrated, with the final volume devoted to S. Giovanni in Laterano, S. Paolo fuori le Mura, and Old St. Peter's. The co-authors of the work are Spencer Corbett, Wolfgang Frankl, and Alfred Frazer.

Clinton Bank Ledgers

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Title: Clinton Bank Ledgers
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Clinton, Hunterdon Country, New Jersey, 1868. Two volumes, 1.) General Ledger 1856 to 1863. 12" x 18", 440 numbered pages; 2.) Discount Book. October 1861 to September 1868. 11½" x 16"; bound ledger. 533 numbered pages. Full calf, leather labels. Ink, legible hand. Very good (heavy). The oldest banking institution in Clinton, New Jersey, was founded in 1856, under the general banking law, as the Clinton Bank, with a capital of $100,000, of which $80,000 was paid in. There were thirteen directors; Robert Foster, James P. Huflinan, J. T. Leigh, J.A. Young, William Egbert, E.A. Rockhill, J.H. Huffman, Joseph Boss, Peter Melick, Peter Sigler, N.S. Cramer, Bennet Van Syckel, and Whitfield Dunham. Robert Foster was chosen president and N.W. Voorhees cashier. Business was commenced in a building standing just west of the post-office, but about 1860 the banking house was occupied. The first ledger contains pages with the headings; bills and notes, Jersey City Bonds and other state bonds, interest and discounts, loans, bonds and mortgages, incidental expenses, dividends, as well as transactions to other banks (such as Easton Bank, Phillipsburgh Bank, American Exchange Bank, State Bank at New Brunswick etc.). The Discount Book contains lists of discounted notes which include the customer name, discount, proceeds. Some of the customer names include John E. Voorhees, P. Van Pelt, William M. Shipman, George H. Huffman, Van Horn & Prost, James R. Kline, J. Taylor Conover, and dozens more. In July, 1865, the institution was reorganized as "The Clinton National Bank," with a capital of $100,000. In 1874, Mr. Voorhees was succeeded as cashier by B.V. Leigh, and in January, 1875, Mr. Foster retired from the presidency, when Joseph Van Syckel was chosen to succeed him. Messrs. Van Syckel and Leigh were respectively president and cashier, and John T. Leigh vice-president. The directors for 1880 were J.H. Rockafellow, J.N. Ramsey, N. Boyd, T.E. Hunt, Edward Humphrey, William Egbert, and Elijah Stout, S. Van Syckel, J. Van Syckel, John T. Leigh, A.J. Reeves, Fisher Pidcock, and Sydney Yard. [ref. History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey 1881]. In 1972 the First Clinton National Bank merged into and subsequently operated as part of First National Bank of Central Jersey in Somerville, New Jersey. In 1977 the bank headquarters moved to Bridgewater Township, New Jersey.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. In a Fine Binding and with Many First Issue Plates by Dickens, Charles

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Title: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. In a Fine Binding and with Many First Issue Plates
Author: Dickens, Charles
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 1937. First Edition. Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) & Seymour. two volumes, in a fine binding by Champs and bound from the original parts; with 91 leaves of ads, including the front wrapper of part XV, a few are mounted on thin paper.The plates in part III are by "Phiz" not Buss. Most of the remaining plates are first plates, most notably the quite scarce plate 24, "Mr. Pickwick Slides" (with 4 stakes in ice); plates #17 through 43 are all first plate, first issue (plates 42 and 43 are the frontis and vignette title). Most plates have tanning at edges and light age-toning. Bound without half-title. Binding is three-quarter tan morocco over marbled boards, marbled end papers, top edges gilt. Internally quite clean. Octavo, 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" - a beartiful copy of Dickens' first major novel - the book that made Dickens famous.

Five Poems by Alice Walker

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Title: Five Poems
Author: Alice Walker
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1972. Near Fine. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1972. First Edition; one of 500 copies. Slim octavo booklet (21cm); [4]pp. Cream-colored paper with purple text; single sheet folded. Toned at edges and centerfold. Near Fine. A collection of five poems that would be included in Walker’s Revolutionary Petunias, published by Harcourt the following year. A lovely example of this early scarce work.

De Medicina by CELSUS, Aulus Cornelius

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Title: De Medicina
Author: CELSUS, Aulus Cornelius
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Amsterdam: Johann Wolters, 1687. LATER EDITION. Etched frontispiece and portrait, full-page etched plate of medical instruments, half-page etched plate of a spinal disc. Contemporary stiff vellum, manuscript spine title, red edges. Contemporary and later manuscript notes and concordances throughout. A very good copy. The oldest western text on medicine after the Hippocratic corpus containing all the medical knowledge of ancient Rome. It was the first printed medical book, originally published in 1478 from an incomplete Greek manuscript. This revision and expansion by Theodoor Janson van Almeloveen (1657-1712) of an edition of 1657 contains a biography of Celsus as well as a three-page bibliography of the editions of Celsus to 1687. Divided into eight books, it covers diet, hygiene, disease and treatment, anatomy, pharmacology, skin diseases, surgery, and bone setting. It includes the first accurate description of the preparation of opium and the first discussion on electrotherapy (using torpedo fish) for headaches and nervous disorders. Heirs of Hippocrates, 23; Krivatsy, 2335; Osler, 295; Wellcome, II, p. 318.

BONNARD LITHOGRAPHE by (Bonnard) Claude Roger-Marx

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Title: BONNARD LITHOGRAPHE
Author: (Bonnard) Claude Roger-Marx
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: Monte Carlo, Andre Sauret, 1952.

The Century of Louis XIV by Emilr Bourgeois

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Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB

Title: The Century of Louis XIV
Author: Emilr Bourgeois
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Charles Scribner's, 1897. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Atlas Folio - over 23 - 25" tall. Superb Fine Copy First edition(1897) in Reddish Ornate Boards.Large Folio. Gorgeous Fresh Copy. Excellent Condition.Beautiful Steel Plates..

Nineteen Years and Counting, A Retrospective Bibliography, 1969-1988 by D'Ambrosio, [Joseph J.]

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Title: Nineteen Years and Counting, A Retrospective Bibliography, 1969-1988
Author: D'Ambrosio, [Joseph J.]
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: n.p.: Joseph J. D'Ambrosio, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ocatvo size, 137 pp., signed by Joe D'Ambrosio, one of 10 AP copies. A work of art itself, this, his second bibliography, sets forth books produced over a period of almost twenty years. First/Limited edition of 10 artist proofs and 75 numbered copies. Joseph J. D'Ambrosio (1934-2009) was an exceptional book artist who wrote, set type, printed designs, did the artwork, and bound his books. He tells the story of how he came to the book arts in the Preface of this Bibliography. His editions are signed, numbered and issued, as a limited edition of fine art prints. Mr. D'Ambrosio exhibited in many one-man and group exhibitions, and his works are in both private and institutional collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. ___DESCRIPTION: From the colophon page: "printed with hand-set Della Robbia type on Johannot paper with a Vandercook No. 4 proof press, (with) hand-marbled endpapers". The same marbled endpapers are used on the boards, with an overlay of copper on the front board, and grey leather on the back board and hinged spine. The text pages are all artistically designed, on the verso of most of the pages is an image done by color laser which highlights the individual book's exterior and/or interior design. Octavo size, (1-6), 9-130 pp. plus colophon page, one of only 10 Artist's Proof copies, signed by D'Ambrosio on the title page and designated "A.P.". . The dust jacket is of grey linen bordered with the same hand-made marbled paper, the title in copper lettering on the spine, signature of D'Ambrosio in copper on the lower right corner of the front panel, the interior of the jacket is of black paper. ___CONDITION: The book is in fine condition overall, with some very faint marks on the copper overlay, and minimal marks on the leather spine transferred from the interior of the paper lining of the dust jacket. The dust jacket/chemise is also overall in fine condition, with just a few very tiny tears to the seams of the marbled paper and some extremely minor wear to some of the joints/outer creases. ___PROVENANCE: This book has been deaccessioned from the Book Club of California, their bookplate is on the front pastedown and their numbering convention is in pencil on the verso of the front free endpaper; no other markings are present. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please contact seller for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families by BAILEY, ROSALIE FELLOWS

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Title: Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families
Author: BAILEY, ROSALIE FELLOWS
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description: 1936. BAILEY, ROSALIE FELLOWS. Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York. New York, 1936. Thick 4to. 612 p. Illus. Cloth. One of 334/666 numbered copies of a total printing of 1000 copies. An important genealogical as well as illustrated architectural reference work on early Dutch houses and families. Includes Bergen and Hudson Counties as well as Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, and, to a lesser extent, the northwestern counties. Also Rockland, Richmond, and Kings and Queens Counties in New York. A very handsomely produced book, published by the Holland Society and with an introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

How to Be a Jewish Mother. Based on the book by Dan Greenburg by [Typescript – musical book; Vall, Seymour; Greenburg, Dan]

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Title: How to Be a Jewish Mother. Based on the book by Dan Greenburg
Author: [Typescript – musical book; Vall, Seymour; Greenburg, Dan]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: New York: Hart - Multi-copy printing, 1967. Quarto-sized typescript play (28.5 x 22.5 cm.), 1-52, 2-31 pages, with some holograph corrections. The stage book based on the published book by the prolific American humorist Dan Greenburg. Originally published in 1964, Greenburg's work became the best-selling non-fiction book of 1965. The book and the subsequent musical dealt in familiar tropes of the Jewish woman, and has more recently been considered anti-Semitic for doing so. This was Seymour Vall's stage book for the musical version produced for Broadway in 1967, with music by Michael Leonard and lyrics by Herbert Martin. How to Be... opened with Molly Picon in the lead at the Hudson Theater December 28th, 1967 and closed January 13th, 1968, after just 20 performances. Vall went on to have greater success on Broadway, as a Producer on a 1972 revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. There are modest holograph corrections throughout, though this is not signed, and thus unclear who the annotator may have been. In blue, metal post-bound binder, titled in silver. Fine.

Hidden Titles

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Title: Hidden Titles
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Good to very good. Wear to extremities of box, light toning/dust soiling, a couple short tears to instructions sheet. Tape repai
Description: Salem, Massachusetts: Parker Brothers, Inc, 1900. Good to very good. Wear to extremities of box, light toning/dust soiling, a couple short tears to instructions sheet. Tape repair to box.. A clever boxed party game published by Parker Brothers, based on rebuses. A rebus is a puzzle using pictures or glyphs to represent words or phrases. For example, if there is a picture of a cube next to the letter "A", the answer would be "Cuba". To play the game, one player is made the leader and time keeper. They shuffle the cards, then show them one by one to the remaining players. The answers are recorded in the instructions sheet. The player with the most correct answers wins. This set is complete, containing all thirty (30) cards, printed instructions bifolium, and the original illustrated box. Some example answers: Salem; Arkansas; Panama; Mohawk; Rome; and Cape Horn. Each card measures approx. 3.25" by 5.25". Printed instructions measures 3.5" by 4.5", and the box measures approx. 5.25" by 6.5" by 1.25

Lord Byron’s Love Letter, Opera in One Act, by Raffaello de Banfield. Libretto by Tennessee Williams. by Banfield, Raffaello de. [Williams, Tennessee]

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Title: Lord Byron’s Love Letter, Opera in One Act, by Raffaello de Banfield. Libretto by Tennessee Williams.
Author: Banfield, Raffaello de. [Williams, Tennessee]
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Ricordi, 1955. 1st edition, with cover price of 50 cents. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, stapled, 16 pp. Near-Fine.

THE GREEK COMMONWEALTH by Zimmern, Alfred

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Title: THE GREEK COMMONWEALTH
Author: Zimmern, Alfred
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. 5th ed, Oxford, 1931. 471 pages, clothbound, no jacket, pencil marginal emphases, else good condition. .

GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE by WSP 640 -- Piper, Arthur M.

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Title: GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
Author: WSP 640 -- Piper, Arthur M.
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington, D.C.: GPO. Very Good. 1932. Softcover. USGS, 1932 Wrappers, very good condition, complete with all maps and plates. .

Ein deutscher Cisianus für das Jahr 1444 gedruckt von Gutenberg by Wyss, Arthur

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Title: Ein deutscher Cisianus für das Jahr 1444 gedruckt von Gutenberg
Author: Wyss, Arthur
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: Strassburg: J. H. Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1900. 19p., double-foldout facsimile, original stiff printed wrappers, mostly unopened, quarto format (Drucke und Holzschnitte des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts in getreuer Nachbildung, 5).

Concerted Sacred Music of the Bologna School by SMITH, Peter, ed

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Title: Concerted Sacred Music of the Bologna School
Author: SMITH, Peter, ed
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9780895792211
Condition: Fine
Description: Madison, Wis: A-R Editions, 1987. Softcover. Fine. Folio. 82 pp. Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque 57.

Sunstone, Volume 9, Number 1, January-February 1984

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Title: Sunstone, Volume 9, Number 1, January-February 1984
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sunstone, 1984. Very Good. Sunstone, Volume 9, Number 1, January-February 1984. Salt Lake City: Sunstone, 1984. 47pp. 4to. Wraps. Book condition: Very good.

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