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De institutis coenobiorum. - Collationes patrum XXIV by CASSIANUS, Johannes

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Title: De institutis coenobiorum. - Collationes patrum XXIV
Author: CASSIANUS, Johannes
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Basel: [Johann Amerbach, 1485. [Bound with:] THOMAS À KEMPIS. Opera: Sermones, epistolae et alia opuscula. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder [for Peter Dannhauser], 29 November 1494. Two volumes in one, chancery folio (284 x 195 mm). Cassianus: collation: π10 A-B8 C-F6.8 G8; a-b8 c-d6 e-h6.8 i8 k-n6.8 o-t8 v6. 208 leaves, unrubricated. 47 lines and headline, double column (except title verso). Types: 1:185G (title, incipit, headlines). 3:92G (text), 5:106(92)G (headings and colophon). Quarter-page woodcut of the conversion of Paul (b5r). Initial spaces with printed guide letters, rubricated: initials, paraphs, capital strokes in red. Thomas a Kempis: collation: π4 a-b8 c-d6 e-g8 h-l6.8 m-o6 p8 q6 r-z A-B8.6.6 C8. 184 leaves, a1-C8 foliated i-clxxviii (recte 180). 53 lines and headline, double column except prefatory letters (π2-3). Types: 2:168G (title and headings), 1:83G (text). Initial spaces with guide letters. Rubricated, in a style similar to that of the first work, but in a slightly less neat hand. A few small stains. Binding: 17th-century alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, covers panelled with ornamental roll-tools, at center of both covers the oval stamp of Saint Peter’s Abbey, Salzburg, the date 1665 stamped below it on upper cover, spine overlaid with white reversed pigskin and with two later calf gilt lettering-pieces and one manuscript shelfmark label, pair of brass fore-edge clasps with pin catches, edges red-stained, two index tabs. Provenance: Thomas Welti of Zurzach, inscription dated [14]86 on first title, “Vo[n] mir thomas welti vo[n] zurzach 86”; neat contemporary marginal note on fol. i5v of the Cassianus, a few marginal nota bene notes in the Thomas a Kempis; Salzburg, Benedictines of the Abbey of St. Peter’s, 18th-century inscriptions (in different hands) on titles, letterpress shelf-mark label of 1767 or later on front pastedown: “Ex bibliotheca antiquo-nova monasterii ad sanctum Petrum Salisburgi O. S. Benedicti ab anno 1767, in alium ordinem redacta,” with boxes for the Armarium, Classis, and Numerus, accomplished in manuscript; Helmut N. Friedlaender, book-label. Two fundamental religious works from very different periods of Christianity, bound together by the Benedictine monks of Salzburg: the fifth-century hermit Cassian’s treatise on the basic rules of and psychological obstacles to the monastic life; and the first collected edition of the works of Thomas à Kempis to include (and acknowledge as his) the work that personalized religious devotion on the eve of the modern era, sowing the seeds for both the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, the Imitatio Christi. I: First Edition of Cassianus’ De institutis coenobiorum, and second edition of his Collationes patrum. In Books 1-4 of the Institutes, Cassian set out the basic outline of monastic life, covering clothing, prayer, and rules; and in Books 5-12 he tackled the eight vices that impede monks’ achievement of spiritual perfection. These guidelines served as the basis for many monastic orders, including that of St. Benedict. The Collationes, or “Conferences” (previously published by the Brussels Brothers of the Common Life in 1476), relate Cassian’s conversations on the principles of spiritual and ascetic life with the major figures of Eastern monasticism. The Collationes were regularly read aloud in Benedictine monasteries at the time of a light meal, and is the source for the French word collation, denoting a snack. The woodcut showing Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus appears to be by the same artist who engraved some of the woodcuts of the Spiegel menschlicher Behältnis, printed in Basel by Richel in 1476. ISTC ic00233000; GW 6160; Goff C-233; BMC III 748; Bod-inc C-102; CIBN C-127; BSB-Ink C-165; Schramm XXI, p. 26 & pl. 585; Schreiber 3676. II: Second collected edition of the works of Thomas à Kempis, who is here explicitly recognized as the author of the Imitatio Christi. The previous edition ([Utrecht : Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt, ca. 1473]) did not include the Imitatio, presumably because of the controversy over its authorship. The edition is prefaced by letters between Georg Pickhamer or Pickheimer, prior of the Carthusians at Nuremberg (and cousin of the famous humanist), and Peter Dannhauser. The Imitatio occupies fols. 1-28, and is followed by De meditatione cordis, by Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris, who had defended the Brothers of the Common Life at the Council in Constance; this work became so closely connected to the Imitatio that Dannhauser saw fit to include it here. The edition also includes the Liber vitae of Gerhard Groote, founder of the Devotio moderna, and works by one Dominus Florentius, as well as other anonymous tracts. The printer Caspar Hochfeder, a native of Heiligbrunn, was in Nuremberg by 1490 at the latest; his first dated book (27 March 1491) was the Opera of St. Anselm, also edited by Peter Dannhauser, a young lawyer and astrologer who had studied in Ingolstadt and Tübingen, and who went on to edit several more texts printed by Hochfeder. The latter moved to Metz in 1498. ISTC it00352000; GW M46672; Goff T-352; BMC II 475; CIBN T-222; Bod-inc T-090; BSB-Ink T-195; Delaveau & Sordet, Édition et diffusion de "l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ", 1470-1800 (2011), 41.

Fine original oil portrait painting of Wagner. Unsigned and undated. [?]German, ca. 1870 by WAGNER, Richard 1813-1883

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Title: Fine original oil portrait painting of Wagner. Unsigned and undated. [?]German, ca. 1870
Author: WAGNER, Richard 1813-1883
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: On re-lined canvas within contemporary decorative wooden frame gilt. Original oval wooden stretcher. Image 64.5 x 54 cm (25.25 x 21.3 inches), frame 82 x 72.5 cm (32.25 x 28.5 inches). The composer is depicted quarter-length turned slightly left. He wears a white shirt, dark olive brown jacket with satin lapels, black waistcoat, and dark brown silk cravat with decorative gold pin with a jeweled center. Some minor cracking to the subject's left shoulder, otherwise in very good condition. Frame slightly worn. The painting closely resembles a number of contemporary photographic images of Wagner dating from the 1870s.

Signed, dated sketch celebrating the International Year of Youth, World Federation of the UN, 1985 by HARING, KEITH

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Title: Signed, dated sketch celebrating the International Year of Youth, World Federation of the UN, 1985
Author: HARING, KEITH
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: The sketch reflects the printed drawing and shows the character's head as the UN stamp. Signed, "K. Haring," dated "85," as noted on the image, with the Peace symbol following the date.

Dream's End by Smith, James Thorne (1892-1934)

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Title: Dream's End
Author: Smith, James Thorne (1892-1934)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Very good to fine
Description: 342 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with front board and spine lettered in gilt in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Meandering labyrinth of a story about a New York advertising executive who leaves his job in the city to write poetry in a hut by the sea. Although entranced by the ocean and the miles of sand and the salt marshes, David finds himself caught in the coils of his attraction to two women: Hilda, "the mate to his flame, the answering spark," but despairing and fragile (and married), and Scarlet, seductive and available (but morally rotten). Hilda's husband is a sadistic libertine whose subtle cruelties are slowly killing his wife; a situation that so unsettles the poet's wits that he falls prey to a heavily symbolic dream obsession. Smith successfully establishes a surreal voice and includes wonderful passages describing the mad moods of the sea and notes and observations about life and the hereafter, all waiting to be discovered sparkling in the sand throughout the story. The ax of a sharp and discerning editor might have turned Smith's efforts into a compelling Gothic romance, but, alas, the story gets lost in a shifting fog of dreams and fantasies, and never emerges fully formed. Dream's End is a radical departure from Thorne Smith's humorous novels, and was, in fact, Smith's first book rejected by publishers until his Topper novels became successful. Fans of Thorne Smith are likely to be intrigued by this book for its Gothic nature and for an unexpected glimpse at a more serious side of the author. Condition: Light rubbing to binding, offsetting toning to end-leaves, small bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Some rubbing and soiling to jacket, spine stained a bit, ends and corners chipped, splitting up front fold; faint stain to front cover else a very good to fine copy in about very good jacket.

The transistor: Selected reference material on characteristics and applications

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Title: The transistor: Selected reference material on characteristics and applications
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1956. [8], 792pp. Text illustrations. 279 x 215 mm. Original printed boards. Library stamps on title and front endpapers. Contains 35 papers from an important Bell Labs symposium, including 4 papers authored or co-authored by William Shockley, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics with Bardeen and Brattain for their discovery of the transistor effect.

Cruising (Original German poster for the 1980 film) by William Friedkin (director, screenwriter); Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen (starring); Larry Cohen (screenwriter); Gerald Walker (novel)

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Title: Cruising (Original German poster for the 1980 film)
Author: William Friedkin (director, screenwriter); Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen (starring); Larry Cohen (screenwriter); Gerald Walker (novel)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: N.p., 1980. Vintage German A0 poster for the 1980 film. Extremely scarce. Based on the 1970 novel by Gerald Walker, about a cop who goes undercover in the leather scene in New York to catch a serial killer targeting gay men. "Cruising" was widely protested at the time of its release by gay rights groups for its depiction of homosexuality as intrinsically linked to violence, but has since been reconsidered as one of the few mainstream Hollywood movies to depict queer life in New York before the AIDS crisis, as well as one of the few movies to address police discrimination and brutality towards homosexuals. Set and shot on location in New York. 33 x 46 inches, folded as issued. About Fine. Carlson and Connolly, Destroy All Movies. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir.

New Worlds to Conquer by Halliburton, Richard

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Title: New Worlds to Conquer
Author: Halliburton, Richard
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled, lightly rubbed and with a few small chips. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, inscription on the half-title page, clean otherwise. Halliburton's account of his travels following the expeditions of Columbus and Cortez.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo (Translated By Constance Garnett)

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Title: Anna Karenina
Author: Tolstoy, Leo (Translated By Constance Garnett)
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Fine+
Description: Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Fine+. (1975). Hardcover. ANNA KARENINA By Leo Tolstoy, Translated By Constance Garnett. Introduced By Lionel Trilling; The Easton Press. (1975.) - Fine, unread condition. .

Tail Spin: Women at War In The Wake Of Tailhook by ZIMMERMAN, Jean

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Title: Tail Spin: Women at War In The Wake Of Tailhook
Author: ZIMMERMAN, Jean
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Doubleday, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Clean text with black and white pictures, clean cloth covers with one minor bump on bottom edge& corners, dust jacket is worn and rubbed lightly.

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

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Title: Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: BYU, 2003. Very Good. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. Provo: BYU, 2003. 118pp. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with minor wear to edges. Annotation in pen.

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