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Catalogue
72
Books
from the Past
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32.
CAMPBELL, THOMAS. Letters from the South. London, Henry Colburn,
1837. Two volumes. First London edition. $525
8vo; pp. xx, 354; f, pp. xi, [1], 358, [2]; 2 engraved frontispieces
and 9 engraved plates (4 folding); 4 pages of printed music; recent
full calf; some sporadic foxing; offsetting from plates to text;
overall a very good set.
Playfair 689. The author (1777-1844) travelled in Algeria, and the
account of his travels was written in the form of letters, first
published in the New Monthly Magazine. The work is interesting as
the point of view of a British citizen travelling in a North African
Moslem country that had been a French colony since the reign of
Louis Philippe. The first [American] edition, published the previous
year, was an unprepossessing work which had probably been pirated
by the American publisher from the Magazine; it was a 12mo of approximately
300 pages, and contained no plates.
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33.
CARACCIOLI, LOUIS-ANTOINE, Marquis (1719-1803). La Religion
de l'Honnête homme. par le Marquis Caraccioli. Paris, Chez
Nyon, M.DCC.LXVI (1766). $400
12mo; pp. [4], 338, [2] (Privilege). Signatures: [2], A-O12, P2.
Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary full mottled
calf; corners bumped; spine worn, gilt in compartments with floral
tooling; label partially perished; upper joints cracked; paper flaw
in margin of one leaf; marbled endpapers; bookseller's label on
front paste-down; signature on top margin of half-title; occasional
light spotting, but otherwise text block clean and tight. Publisher's
adverts (list of works by the author) on half-title verso.
Quérard II, 48. Copies with this collation located only at
Cambridge and Stanford. Louis-Antoine Caraccioli was a writer and
historian whose many works spanned topics such as philosophy, religion
and manners. This work discusses the aspects of religion which may
contribute to the formation of an "honest man." Caraccioli
is known to book collectors as the author of two books printed in
colour - Le livre de quatre couleurs (1757) and Le livre à
la Mode (1759).
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34.
CARYL, JOSEPH (1602-1673). Heaven and Earth Embracing; or,
God and Man Approaching: Shewed In a Sermon Preached before the
Honourable House of Commons upon the day of their publike Fast at
Margarets Westminster, January 28. 1645. By Joseph Caryl. Minister
of the Gospel at Magnus neer London-Bridge. London, Printed by G.M.
for George Hurlock Book-seller at Magnus Church-corner, and Giles
Calvert at the black-spread Eagle at the west end of Pauls, 1646.
$450
4to; pp. [4], 44. Signatures: A2, B-F4, G2. Later cardboard wrappers;
spine perished; small tear in margin of one leaf, no loss. Decorative
head-pieces; two foliated and historiated initials; printed marginalia
in Greek, Latin and Hebrew; running title: A Sermon preached before
the Honourable House of Commons on the Fast, January 28. 1645. Year
date in title is given according to Lady Day dating (ESTC).
ESTC R200557. A scarce little work of which we locate copies only
at five Scottish libraries, the British Library, Lambeth Palace,
and the London School of Economics. Joseph Caryl was born in London
and educated at Oxford, where he was known for his oratory skills.
He entered the ministry and was called to preach to the Long Parliament
on solemn occasions. He was later nominated to attend Oliver Cromwell
during his journey to Scotland. Caryl was expelled from his church
after the Restoration by the Act of Conformity of 1662. His "Commentary
on the Book of Job", in 12 volumes (1651-1666), is considered
one of the great Puritan commentaries (DNB).
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35.
[CATHOLIC CHURCH]. Gradvale Romanvm De Tempore, & Sanctis.
Ad Ritvm Missalis. Ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitvti,
Et Clementis VIII. auctoritate recogniti. Cum facultate Superiorum.
Ingolstadii, Ex Typographeo Ederiano, Apud Elisabetham Angermariam,
Viduam, Anno M.DC.XIX (1619). $3,500
Folio; pp. [4], 327, [1] (blank); 301, [6] (Index and Errata), [1]
(blank). Signatures: [2], A-c6, d-e4, Aa-Hh6, Ii-Kk4, Ll-Bbb6, Ccc-Ddd4.
Contemporary cream pigskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind with
pictorial panel design; figures in roll border with inscriptions
SPES, FIDES, FORTE, CARIT; cracked at upper and lower edges and
dusty; decorated brass bosses (five on upper cover and three on
lower) at corners and centres; two pairs of hinged brass clasps
and catches, one wanting clasp; small tear at head of spine; few
small perforations on lower cover. Title page in red and black,
with vignette woodcut detail of Last Supper, signed with initials
AD; foliated initials, some historiated, throughout text; decorated
tail-pieces; some pencilled notes in margin of title; tear in margin
of few leaves, with early repair to edge of one leaf, no loss of
notation; few leaves with worming in gutter; first few and two other
leaves little loose. Erroneous pagination: pp. 39 as 37, Zz3 as
Yy3, 261 as 26. Musical notation very clear.
VD17. Psalms are poems written in praise of God, recited with or
without musical accompaniment. In the Roman Catholic rite, psalms
are chanted between the three readings from the old and new testaments
in the order of service of the mass. The Gradual is the book that
contains the psalms and music selected for weekly services and the
feast days of saints, organized by their place in the liturgical
calendar. First arranged by Gregory the Great (c540-604) for use
during services in monasteries, these psalms are sung by the cantor
from the steps at the centre of the sanctuary in the church. The
mass service was standardized in 1570 after the Council of Trent
(1545-1563), and this version of the Gradual reflects those changes.
The printer, Elisabeth Angermaier, was active in Ingolstadt from
1578 to 1621, having taken over the presses of two husbands after
their deaths. Aside from theological and philosophical books printed
for professors at the University of Ingolstadt, she also published
classical and scientific literature, notably the important monograph
on comets by Swiss mathematician and astronomer Johann Baptist Cysat
(1587-1657).
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