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Catalogue
72
Books
from the Past
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51.
FRESHFIELD, DOUGLAS W. The Exploration of The Caucasus. London
and New York, Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. $3,500
Large 4to; pp. xxiii, (1), 278; pp. x, 295, (1); 74 plates, including
2 frontis, 3 large, folding panoramas, 1 folding photographic illustration;
4 folding, coloured maps; numerous illustrations and vignettes in
the text. Full red morocco bindings by Parker of Oxford, gilt-lettered
spines and gilt supra libros on covers; t.e.g. and others uncut;
a fine, large, clean copy.
Neate F64: "A magnificent work, compiled and illustrated by
Freshfield and his friends." Freshfield was a lawyer and mountaineer,
president of the Alpine Club from 1893-1895, and editor of the Alpine
Journal. A great mountaineer, he is especially known for his climbs
in the Caucasus. The striking photos are by alphine photographer
Vittorio Sella. The Alpine Club, founded in 1857 by a group of British
Mountaineers, celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2007.
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52.
[GAUTHIER, FRANÇOIS LOUIS, Curé de Savigny, Abbé]
(1696-1780). Traité contre les Danses et les Mauvaises
Chansons, Dans lequel le danger & le mal qui y sont renfermés
sont démontrés par les Témoignages multipliés
des saintes Ecritures, des SS. PP. des Conciles, de plusieurs Evêques
du siécle passé & du nôtre, d'un nombre
de Théologiens moraux & de Casuistes, de Jurisconsultes,
de plusieurs Ministres Protestans, & enfin des Payens même.
A Paris, Chez Froullé, M.DCC.LXXXV (1785). $425
12mo; pp. 36, 1-347. Recent quarter mottled paper over boards; spine
with printed paper label overlaid on brown cloth; original paper
wrappers bound in; head and tail pieces; slight rubbing on lower
edge and corners; edges untrimmed; two leaves have small tear, perforation
in margin. A very good copy.
Barbier IV, 741; Cioranescu 30457. Copies located at: LAC; NYPL;
McGill. First published in 1765, l'Abbé Gauthier's thesis
is that singing songs with suggestive lyrics and performing any
type of dance will encumber the purity of the male soul and lead
it to eternal damnation.
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53.
GEDDES, MICHAEL (1650?-1713). Several Tracts Against
Popery: Together with The Life of Don Alvaro de Luna. Written by
Michael Geddes, LL.D. And Chancellor of the Church of Sarum. London,
Printed by E.J. for B. Barker at the White-Hart, and C. King at
the Judge's-Head, both in Westminster-Hall, 1715. $475
8vo; pp. [4], xxiv, [4], 383, [1] (publishers' adverts). Rebound
with original calf covers onlaid; covers framed with intricate blind
tooling and a gilt border; gilt label on spine; head- and tail-pieces;
foliated and historiated initials; brown spot in margin of one leaf;
p. 160 misnumbered 159. Each tract has its own title page, but continuous
pagination.
ESTC N22361. Michael Geddes was educated at Edinburgh and Oxford
during the 1670s, and became a cleric in the Episcopal church. He
spent some time as chaplain to English workers in Portugal until
the Inquisition objected to his presence, and on his return to England
was made chancellor of the church in Salisbury. He published several
works on church history, including three volumes based on documents
he acquired during his time in Portugal (DNB). His strong anti-papist
sentiments are the subject of this collection of tracts, published
posthumously.
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54.
GEDDES, MICHAEL (1650?-1713). The History of the Church of
Malabar, From The time of its being first discover'd by the Portuguezes
in the Year 1501. Giving an Account of The Persecutions and Violent
Methods of the Roman Prelates, to Reduce them to the Subjection
of the Church of Rome. Together with the Synod of Diamper, Celebrated
in the Year of our Lord 1599. With some Remarks upon the Faith and
Doctrine of the Christians of St. Thomas in the Indies, agreeing
with the Church of England, in opposition to that of Rome. Done
out of Portugueze into English. By Michael Geddes, Chancellor of
the Cathedral Church of Sarum. London, Printed for Sam. Smith, and
Benj. Walford, at the Prince's-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1694.
$650
8vo; pp. [24], 109, [11], 89-443, [5]. Signatures: *4, **8, a8,
A-Z8, Aa-Ff8. Contemporary full panelled calf, expertly rebacked;
tooled floral decoration in blind; covers rubbed, worn at corners;
armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Copley, bookseller's label on front
paste-down; front hinge reinforced; small burn holes on few leaves,
loss of four letters; p. 364 erroneously numbered 384; two early
manuscript annotations; complete with Imprimatur leaf.
ESTC R2995; Wing G446; Lowndes II: 871. Included in this volume
is a list of the vice-roys, governors and bishops of Goa from 1505
to 1599.
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The Turkish Wars - A Very Scarce Work
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55. GEUDER VON HEROLTZBERG, JACOB (1575-1616), trans. Tvrca
Nikhtos: Hoc est, De Imperio Ottomannico Evertendo, et Bello Contra
Tvrcas Prospere gerendo, Consilia tria Lectione & cognitione
valde digna: I. Lazari Soranzii, Patr. Veneti: quod Ottomannvm,
sive de rebus Turcicis: II. Achillis Tarduccii: quod Tvrcam Vincibilem
inscribere placuit: III. Anonymi cuiusdam Dissertatio, de Statv
Imperii Tvrcici, cuiusmodi sub Amurathe III. fuit: deq[ue] eius
euertendi modo. Nunc primum ex Italico idiomate in Latinum conuersa
a lacobo Gevdero ab Heroltzberga. Francofvrti, Typis Wechelianis,
apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Io. Aubrii, MDCI (1601). $1,750
8vo; [16], 389, [27]. Signatures: *8, A-Z8, Aa-Cc8. Full vellum,
lacking clasps; spine crudely repaired; embossed religious emblems
and fleurs-de-lis on front and back covers; engraved bookplate of
Order of Servites Conventus Viennensis in Rossangia on front paste-down;
small printed stamp replicating bookplate laid down at end of second
dedication; historiated and foliated initials; head- and tail- pieces;
age browning on few leaves; two pp. mispaginated; notations on title,
front fly leaf, and paste-down; name of Gerard Ecker of Brabant,
1614 on free endpaper; printers' device of the heirs of Andreas
Wechel on title and verso of final leaf.
BL 23:161; Oxford; BNF; Harvard (under Soranzo). The 150-year Turkish
occupation in Hungary (1556-1606) was an unsettling period in European
history. Aside from continuous military conflicts, the religious,
cultural and social consequences of the occupation were far-reaching.
The three tracts in this collection, translated from the Italian
by Jacob Geuder von Heroltzberg, discuss the rise of Turkish power
and the military defeats in Hungary, focusing on the period under
Mehmed III (1595-1603). Lazzaro Soranzo's L'Ottomano, first published
in 1598, reviews the events leading to the occupation; Achille Tarducci,
a career soldier (fl. 1600), who served in Transylvania during the
Turkish wars, proposes strategies to thwart further Turkish military
gains; and the anonymous work discusses the state of the Ottoman
Empire at the time. The library bookplate indicates previous ownership
as the monastery of the Order of Servites, founded in 1639 in the
Rossau parish of Vienna. The printers, the heirs to Andreas Wechel,
and Claude de Marne and Johann Aubry, were active in Frankfurt from
1584-1621 and 1582-1602 respectively. A very scarce work.
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