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Catalogue
72
Books
from the Past
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83.
RALEGH, WALTER. The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bevvtiful
Empyre of Guiana,...1596;
[bound with]:
GALVÃO, ANTONIO. The Discoveries of the World... 1601.
Cleveland, World Publishing, 1966. $225
Square 8vo; pp. (16), 112, f; pp. (12), 97, (1); full vellum binding
with cloth ties; gilt arms of Elizabeth I on front cover; with 20-pp.
pamphlet of notes published with it; in original fall-down-back
box. A mint copy.
Hill, pp. 119 and 247. These are facsimiles of two important works,
printed in Italy in 1966. The pamphlet contains historical introductions
by A. L. Rowse, noted historian, and bibliographical notes by Robert
O. Dougan, then librarian of the Huntington Library. The facsimile
of Ralegh is taken from one of the issues of the first edition;
that of Galvão is from Richard Hakluyt's revision of an English
translation of the first edition, published in Portugal in 1563.
A very good work.
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"History the Tutor of Politics"
From the Library of Simon Segar
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84. RALEIGH, Sir WALTER. The History of the World, in Five
Books. The First, Intreating of the Beginning and first Ages of
the same, from the Creation unto Abraham. The Second, Of the Times
from the Birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Solomon.
The Third, From the destruction of Jerusalem to the time of Philip
of Macedon. The Fourth, From the Reign of Philip of Macedon, to
the establishment of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. The
Fifth, From the settled Rule of Alexander's Seccessours in the East,
until the Romans (prevailing over all) made Conquest of Asia and
Macedon. Whereunto is added in the Edition, the Life and Tryal of
the Author. London, Printed for Robert White, T. Basset, J. Wright,
R. Chiswell, G. Dawes and T. Sawbridge, 1677. $1,950
Thick folio; engraved frontispiece; pp. [46] (Mind of the Front,
Title, Preface and Contents), pp. 1-44, 51-54 (Life and Tryal);
pp. 1-10, 7-10, 15-119, 118 -[126], 129-376, 393-480, 569-660, 577-708,
737-885, [1], [2] (To The Reader), [40] (Chronological and Alphabetical
Tables); other minor pagination anomalies; 8 double-page maps and
plans, and few textual woodcuts; wanting frontis. port., but with
engraved title and the Mind of the Front; signatures variously in
fours, sixes and twos; title in red and black; the work is printed
in double columns, except for The Life of .... [B-Ei]; recent full
blind-stamped calf, new endpapers; printed partially in Black Letter;
few contemporary notations, and contemporary notes on verso of "Mind";
first leaves chipped (nibbled?) at bottom edge; some old dampstaining
at upper portion of prelims; text age-browned; sporadic small chips
or tears, and some small sporadic stains. The collation here described
is correct for this edition.
Wing R167; Sabin 67560n; vide Printing and the Mind of Man 117:
"... Raleigh's perception that geography, 'the knowledge of
the places wherein history is performed' is fundamental to the right
understanding of historical events." The book was first written
while the author was a prisoner in the Tower, and within its context
he criticizes the philosophy of the Divine Right of Kings, as practiced
by the Stuart line. "Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh can be taken
as the epitome of the Elizabethan idea of the courtier and politician,
sailor and explorer, writer and poet... He was among the first Englishmen
to envisage clearly that the Americas should be the principal goal
of English overseas expansion, the ultimate aim of which was to
be the supersession of the Spanish by an English empire." -(PMM)
First published in 1614, it was reprinted many times thereafter.
The title page bears an inscription by Simon Segar, and his name
is neatly written a second time in the middle of the page. Simon
Segar (fl. 1656-1712) was the great-grandson of Sir William Segar,
Garter king-of-arms and was, himself, a member of Gray's Inn. In
the 1670's he was appointed second butler and library keeper, and
was paid to set up the readers' coats-of-arms in the Library.- (DNB
LI: 198). Beineke Library at Yale holds some of his books.
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85.
REYHER, SAMUEL (1635-1714). Samuelis Reyheri JC. Antecessoris
& Mathematum Professoris in Academia Christian-Albertina Juridico
- Philsophica Dissertatio de Nummis quibusdam ex Chymico Metallo
factis. Kiliae Holsatorum (Kiel), Typis Joachimi Reumanni, Acad.
Typogr., MDCXCII [1692]. $750
Small square 4to; pp. [10], pp. 141, [3] (Index); 1 folding table,
2 copperplates and several woodcuts in the text; old pasteboard
binding worn and spine perished; textblock cracked between initial
blank and title-page; Small square excised from front pastedown;
complete copy of a fairly scarce work.
Ferguson II, pp. 260-261; Wellcome IV, p. 514. The author received
his master's degree from Leipzig University in 1656 and then went
to Holland, continuing his studies at Leyden. He returned to Leipzig
where he became tutor to the eldest son of Duke Ernst of Gotha,
received his Doctor of Laws, and became the first professor of mathematics
and natural sciences at Kiel. He held several offices in his lifetime
and was a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin. "He
wrote largely on optics, astronomy, meteorology, &c... In the
present work, besides describing coins made from chemical gold and
silver, he has chapters on Chemical Enigmas, Goldmaking among the
Egyptians, on Mercury, on the goodness of chemical gold, on the
Canon law condemning goldmaking, opinions of jurists about artificial
gold, &c....."-(Ferguson) We have located seven copies
- Göttingen, Harvard, NLS, Wellcome, Liverpool, Univ. of London,
and BL.
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86.
REYNOLDS-BALL, EUSTACE A. The City of the Caliphs. A Popular
Study of Cairo and Its Environs and the Nile and Its Antiquities
... Boston, Dana Estes & Company, [1901]. $150
8vo; 5 ff, pp. 348; 22 photographic illustrations including frontispiece.
Original ornately-decorated white cloth in paper-backed linen dustwrapper;
t.e.g., others uncut. Two marks from cellulose tape on rear cover;
neat bookplate; a very good copy, with an appendix which was not
present in the first edition of c.1897.
Vide Bevis, p. 170 (citing the first edition of c.1897 and the London
edition of [1901], the latter with 17 plates only). "Very detailed
accounts of Cairo, which 'embodies so many of typical characteristics
of an Oriental city', and the Nile; historical background, customs,
day to day life, etc." (Bevis).
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87.
RIBADENEYRA, PEDRO DE (1527-1611). La Vie Dv Reverend Pere
Le Pere Iaqves Laynez Second General De La Compagnie de Iesvs. Auec
vn sommaire de la vie du R. P. Salmeron. Escripte par le R. P. Pierre
Ribadenere de la mesme Compaignie. Et nouuellement mise en François.
A Lyon, Povr Abraham Cloqvemin, 1599. $2,500
8to; pp. [14], 248. Signatures: *4, [3], A-P8, Q4. Contemporary
full vellum, slightly soiled; small slits for ties on front and
back; inked title on spine; heel of spine little worn; corners bumped.
Head-pieces, historiated and foliated initials. Two French ecclesiastical
library labels on front paste-down and stamp on title; printing
error on three leaves, causing fading to few lines of text; text
block little loose; ink spot on one leaf, affecting a few letters;
tear in gutter of one leaf, affecting two letters; eight pages erroneously
numbered.
BNF; NLC; not in DeBacker & Sommervogel. Diego Laínez
(1512-1565) was born in Castille and educated in philosophy at Alcalá.
He and his friend Alonso Salmerón (1515-1585) were among
the first seven men to join Ignatius of Loyola in forming the Society
of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1534. After Pope Paul III permitted their
ordination as priests, they were sent to Italy to teach theology.
Laínez and Salmerón, and a third Jesuit were later
chosen as papal representatives to the Council of Trent (1545-1563).
They were extremely important contributors, particularly in defining
the Dogma of Justification, an historically significant document
which clarified the differences in belief between Catholicism and
Protestantism. Laínez' influence at the Council was substantial,
and after the death of Ignatius, he became Vicar-General of the
Jesuits. Alonso Salmerón continued as a papal theologian,
publishing many volumes of commentaries on the scriptures. Pedro
de Ribadeneyra was also Castillian; he entered the Jesuits in 1540
and worked very closely with Laínez. He also wrote the Life
of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1572). The printer of this work, Abraham
Cloquemin, was active in Lyon from 1592 to 1629. A very interesting
look at the early history of the Jesuits.
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