Orientalisch - und Occidentalischer Sprachmeister : welcher nicht allein hundert Alphabete nebst ihrer Aussprache, so bey denen meisten Europaisch -Asiatisch Africanisch - und Americanischen Volckern und Nationen gebrauchlich sind : auch einigen Tabulis Polyglottis verschiedener Sprachen und Zahlen vor Augen leget : sondern auch das Gebet des Herrn, in 200 Sprachen und Mund-Arten mit dererselben Characteren und Lesung, nach einer geographischen Ordnung mittheilet...

(Oriental and Occidental Master of Languages : which not only shows a hundred Alphabets together with their pronunciation, which are used by most European, Asian, African and American peoples and nations : but also some Polyglot Tables of different languages and numbers : and also the Lord's Prayer, as communicated in 200 languages and dialects with the same characters and reading, according to a geographical order...)

German language text on linguistics from the Enlightenment.

Compiled by Johann Friedrich Fritz with contributions by Benjamin Schultze.

LEIPZIG: Christian Friedrich Gessnern, 1748. First edition.

Hardcovers, later half vellum with pebbled cloth covered boards, 4.5x7.25 inches (12x18 cm). Pagination: [20], 219, [5], 128, [16]. Deckled front and bottom edges. Textually complete. Illustrated with 10 (of 38 called for) tipped in plates.

Collated page by page with a copy held in the Bibliotheque Jesuite des Fontaines, Lyon, France.

Previously owned by JAMES LE BOUTILLIER, and donated by him to the Theological Seminary of Ohio, with his ink presentation, signature and date (1869) on the front free endpaper, and his almost completely faded heraldic bookplate on the front pastedown (with magnification his printed name is still visible at the bottom of the plate). James Le Boutillier was a prominent businessman in Cincinnati. He became renowned for his large heraldic book collection.

GOOD Condition: Ex-libris of the Diocese of Ohio with inked call number on spine, bookplate on the front pastedown, and some library marks here and there. The cover's have some wear and soiling to the vellum, and the spine gilt has mostly worn away, but are sturdy and doing their job well. Internally, there is a previous owner's inscription on the front free-endpaper, as noted above; the front and rear hinges are cracked but holding well; there is light shorelining mostly on the early pages, and some foxing here and there; overall a solid copy with pages that are tight, bright, clean, clear and fully legible throughout. Textually complete but with only 10 (of 38) tipped in plates. A nice, presentable copy.

RARE in its 1748 first edition state.

Additional Details about the ORIENTALISCH - UND OCCIDENTALISCHER SPRACHMEISTER (from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University website):

******Contains the Lord's prayer in some 200 languages, including 8 spoken in the Americas: Mexicana, Poconchica, Carabaica, Savanahica, Virginiana, [DJS: = Mass?], Mohogica, Karirica, Guarinica sive Brasilica (p. 124-127, fourth count). Author's name from Sabin, who gives credit for the compilation of the text to Johann Friedrich Fritz. The first part contains some contributions by Benjamin Schultze.******

About JAMES LE BOUTILLIER, a previous owner of the book (from his 1906 Obituary in the New York Observer):

******James Le Boutillier, who died on September 19, was the sole surviving member of the old firm of Le Boutillier Brothers, which founded dry goods houses in New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati about sixty years ago. He was born on the Island of Guernsey in 1814, and came to New York in 1849, and after living in this city for four years, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he founded the Cincinnati branch of the firm He developed the Cincinnati house to great success and prominence. Mr. Le Boutillier built one of the finest and largest heraldic libraries in the United States.******

MEMORABILIA SUSATENSIA QUIBUS ORIGO FATA IUDICA MAGISTRATUS PRIVILEGIA PACTA STATUTA MANDATA ORDINATIONES POLITICAE AC IUDICIALES RECESSUS IURISDICTIONALES, ALIAQUE INCLUTAE REIPUBLICAE SUSATENSIS NOTABILIORA HACTENUS PARTIM INEDITA AD ILLUSTRANDAM ... By Theodor Georg Wilhelm Emminghaus. Published by Georgii Michaelis Margraffi, Iena (Jena, Germany),

M D CC XXXXIIII

(1749). Hardcovers, marbled paper covered boards with black paper covered spine and corners, spine titled in gilt and with decorative bands, page edges stained red, 6.5"x 8". Pagination: blank front free endpaper, [1] blank, [1] frontispiece engraving, [1] title page, [1] blank verso to title page, [4] author's prefatory notes, I-XXII Prefatio, 1-760 TEXT PARS I - PARS VII, [18] Index, [1] Printer's Colophon page with Printer's Engraving, [1] blank verso, rear free endpaper. TEXT in GERMAN and LOW GERMAN with Title Page, Preface and Introduction in LATIN. A book of LAW COMMENTARY by a Professor of Law. Condition: The paper covered boards are very worn, with scrapes and rubs and with much of the paper peeling from the edges, the black paper spine covering has numerous chips along the folds,

nonetheless the covers remain tightly bound and are doing their job well; there is a previous owner's lovely bookplate on the front free endpaper "A. F. M. Schulenburg", there is shorelining to the front and rear endpapers and the first and last few pages, there is some foxing throughout, heavy on some pages, light on most; overall a nice, solid, complete copy, with worn but well-bound covers. SCARCE 1749 BOOK on LAW.

HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS & PAPERS of the FULLERS of MIDDLETON, MASSACHUSETTS - from the COLONIAL, REVOLUTIONARY and POST-REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, 1750-1823. Important for their Historic and Genealogical information. The papers are FULL of GENEALOGICAL INFORMATION related to the FULLERS and related families, including:

THOMAS FULLER who came to Middleton from Woburn in 1663. He settled in a house on Old South Main Street. He was a blacksmith and iron worker. He died in 1698. BENJAMIN FULLER. Fifth son born in 1689. Died in 1754. BENJAMIN FULLER, JR. ARCHELAUS FULLER. Eldest son of Benjamin Fuller Jr. Born in 1727. Built a house in Middleton about 1759 (now knows as the "Daniel Fuller House"). Was a COLONEL IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1775-76. Died in 1776 as a result of smallpox he got during the Revolutionary War. DANIEL FULLER, Esq. Educated at Philips Andover in 1785. Married SALLY ETSY in 1798. JEREMIAH FULLER. Born 1809, died 1855. Married Eunice Pike. Lived with his sister SOPHONIA, a school teacher. and MANY OTHERS.

THE DOCUMENTS are:

1750 Original Document - Printed and Handwritten - TIMOTHY FULLER (b. 1706, d. 1796) deeds to ARCHELAUS FULLER; 1765 Original Indenture - Printed and Handwritten - Signed by ANDREW FULLER; 1781 Four Page Handwritten Document; 1782 Six Page Handwritten Probate Document. Lists ALL THE MANY LANDS / PROPERTIES being "divided and set off to the widow BETTY FULLER..."; 1785,1787, 1792 Three Probate Documents; 1793 Single handwritten sheet, accounting of ARCHELAUS FULLER; 1823 Four page memo on the personal estate of Betty Fuller; plus a few miscellaneous small pieces.

There is much about the early FULLER FAMILY of MIDDLETON, MASSACHUSETTS to be found on the Internet.

Hamburgisches Magazin, oder gesammlete Schriften zum Unterricht und Vergnügen aus der Naturforschung und den angenehmen Wissenschaften überhaupt. Achtes Bandes (Volume 8).

Published by Georg Christian Grund and Adam Heinrich Holle, Hamburg and Leipzig, Germany, 1751.

Six issues bound in one volume, hardcovers, leather covered boards, gilt coat-of-arms embossed on the front and rear covers, six spine bands, gilt decorations on spine, marbled page edges, marbled endpapers, 12 mo., 4.5x7 inches (10.5x18 cm), 658 + [14] pages. Illustrated with one folding plate, engravings on the title page of each issue, and tail pieces.

The Hamburgisches Magazin was a scientific journal containing essays, letters to the editor, etc., on the natural and physical sciences, often highlighting work from foreign scientists translated into German.

GREAT ASSOCIATION COPY. There is an OWNERSHIP BOOKPLATE of JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH, b.1752 d. 1840, on the front pastedown. Blumenbach was one of Germany's most important and influential early anthropologists. The bookplate has his PRINTED SIGNATURE on its face. I feel the Signature is PRINTED even though others claim it is HAND SIGNED / AUTOGRAPH. The two copies I found online, one held by a noted HISTORY OF SCIENCE bookseller and another held by the important Herzog August Bibliothek (Herzog August Library), claim that the signature on Blumenbach's bookplates is HAND SIGNED. However, the signatures on both the examples presented online, and mine, are EXACT in even the minutest details, and convince me that this is a printed signature. I have seen his signature on documents in the past and, like all signatures, they all had noticeable, even if sometimes small, deviations. These three examples have none that I can detect. A RARE BOOKPLATE and IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY.

GOOD MINUS CONDITION: The front cover is detached but present, the rear cover is just holding on with the cord bindings, the leather spine title labels are missing and the spine gilt has substantially worn off, the leather covered boards are rubbed and scraped, the gilt coat-of-arms on the front and rear covers is bright but scratched and rubbed; the marbling on the top edges has faded away but is visible on the front and bottom page edges; internally, there is light browning and spotting throughout but the text is always clear and fully legible, overall the pages remain tightly bound, clean and unmarked. A complete, presentable copy with a detached front cover.

This publication is often found disbound with the various articles sold separately. It is hard to find a complete volume (i.e. 6 bound issues).

RARE with the ownership bookplate of the great natural scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.

About JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH (from Wikipedia):

******Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, b.1752 d.1840, was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. He was also important as a race theorist.

He was one of the first to explore the study of the human being as an aspect of natural history. His teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to his classification of human races, of which he claimed there were five, Caucasian, Mongolian, Malayan, Ethiopian, and American. He was a member of what modern historians call the Göttingen School of History.

Blumenbach's contemporaries considered him one of the great theorists of his day and a leading light of German science. Kant and Friedrich Schelling both called him "one of the most profound biological theorists of the modern era". In the words of science historian Peter Watson, "roughly half the German biologists during the early nineteenth century studied under him or were greatly influenced by him".******

A SUCCINCT and IMPARTIAL HISTORY of all the REGENCIES, PROTECTORSHIPS, MINORITIES, and PRINCES of ENGLAND, GREAT-BRITAIN and WALES, that have been since the CONQUEST. With a proper dedication to a great DUKE. Anonymous. A historical survey of Royal Succession. Written soon after the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, who surprised the commonwealth when he, on his death bed, made his son heir to the British throne. This Royal Succession booklet determines that Frederick's son was indeed entitled to be heir apparent to the Crown, but was not entitled to certain benefits due the Prince of Wales. LONDON: Printed for M. COOPER, at the Globe, in Pater-Noster-Row. 1751. First Edition. Booklet, disbound but now bound in recent marbled paper wrappers, 5x8", 60 pages. GOOD condition, toning, soiling and some spotting to the first and last few pages, the last page almost disbound, otherwise the pages are bright, clean and unmarked.

AN EXHORTATION TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE PROVINCE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, To Bring Their Deeds to the Light of Christ, In Their Own Consciences; In Which is Inserted Some Account of the Author's Experience in the Important Business Of Religion. By S. H. [Sophia Hume].

PHILADELPHIA, Self-Published (Sophia Hume), 1752. Originally Printed in 1748 by B. Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) & D. Hall, Printer, Philadelphia; then in London in 1750; then this reprinting by James Lister, Leedes (Leeds), MDCCLII (1752).

Recent professionally bound hardcovers, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling to the spine, new endpapers, original book bound within, 3.75x6.25 inches (9x15.5 cm), 100 pages.

Condition: The pages of this 1752 bound-in book are complete but show their age, they are age toned, the title-page is worn, edge chipped, pulling from the binding, and its gutter edge is repaired/reinforced with a strip of brown paper that has affected some text and letters along that edge (see photos); otherwise the pages just have some shorelining, age spots, small edge repairs, and a bit of edge wear here and there; the book is tightly bound making the words at the fold a bit difficult to read. The recent covers and new endpapers are fine. Overall a complete, presentable copy.

RARE COLONIAL AMERICAN BOOK written by an SOUTH CAROLINA WOMAN who self-published it in PHILADELPHIA.

About SOPHIA HUME (from Wikipedia):

******Sophia Wigington Hume (born South Carolina 1702 - died London 1774) was an American author and preacher associated with the Quakers. Hume was born and raised in a wealthy South Carolina Anglican family. In 1737, after the death of her husband, she gave up her wealth to live as a Quaker, becoming an outspoken advocate for the faith.

Hume was the author of books written to offer guidance to Quakers on a variety of topics including theology, philosophy, and personal ethics. She is significant as an early example of influential women whose writings were addressed to a wide audience regardless of the sex of the reader.

Given the wealth of her writings there is a puzzling lack of scholarship on Hume. One article by Phyllis Mack of Rutgers University is not focused specifically on Hume, but does discuss her place in both Quaker history and the larger contexts of women writers and feminism.******

DAS NEUE TESTAMENT zum Wachsthum in der Gnade und der Erkaenntniß des Herrn Jesu christi, nach dem revidirten Grundtext übersetzt und mit dienlichen Anmerckungen begleitet von D. Johann Albrecht Bengel.

(The New Testament...translated and accompanied with notes by Johann Albrecht Bengel.)

Contemporary vellum covered boards, 6x8 inches (12x19.5 cm), 1016 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece.

STUTTGART: Johann Benedict Metzler, 1753.

GOOD condition: the vellum covers are age browned, have some scrapes, rubs, etc., but are still doing their job. Internally, the front joint is split but holding, a couple of the first blank leaves are loose, there are extensive relevant ink notes in a neat, tiny script on the blank front free endpapers, the inner pages are age toned, overall generally sound with text that is bright and clear throughout.

About JOHANN ALBRECHT BENGEL (from Wikipedia):

******Johann Albrecht Bengel, b.1687 d.1752, also known as Bengelius, was a Lutheran pietist clergyman and Greek language scholar known for his edition of the Greek New Testament and his commentaries on it.******

THE ENTIRE WORKS OF DR THOMAS SYDENHAM, Newly Made English from the Originals: Wherein the History of Acute and Chronic Diseases, and the Safest and Most Effectual Methods of Treating Them, are Faithfully, Clearly, and Accurately Delivered. To which are added, Explanatory and Practical Notes, from the Best Medicinal Writers...by John Swan, M.D.

LONDON: Printed by E. Cave at St. John's Gate, 1753. Third Edition.

Hardcovers, leather covered boards, 5x8 inches, 672 pages + Index at the rear.

CONDITION: Front and rear covers are detached but present, the leather spine covering is present, the covers and spine are rubbed and worn; internally the front free endpaper is loose, chipped, and has a very tender vertical fold-partial tear that runs through the inscription (holding now but give it a tug and it is a full tear), there is foxing and toning throughout, most noticeably on the early pages, light on most pages; the text is clear throughout and the pages are complete from the title page through the last page of the Index which ends with "FINIS"; the rear pastedown has some numbers written on it. Overall a textually complete copy with interesting early American provenance. Deserving of loving restoration.

PROVENANCE of Moses Brown, Jacob Maine (aka Jacob Main), and Thomas Wistar Brown. Early Americans, Physicians and Philanthropists.

The bookplate of "T. WISTAR BROWN" (Thomas Wistar Brown) is on the front pastedown. An early inscription, unsigned, is on the loose front free endpaper; it reads: "A present from my deceased friend Doctor Jacob Main - he presented me this book in the Spring of the year 1807 but little time before his death - He was my friend, faithful and just to me." At the top of the title page there are the signatures of "JACOB MAIN / 1802" and "MOSES BROWN / 1807", and an inked out signature.

About JACOB MAINE, aka MAIN (excerpted from an 1879 report on the early Doctors of New Hampshire):

******Dr. Jacob Maine, b.1772 d.1807, son of Josiah, and grandson of Rev. Amos Main, the first minister of Rochester, N. H., was born in Rochester; was graduated from Harvard College in 1800, studied medicine with Dr. Ammi R. Cutter, of Portsmouth, N. H.. married Sarah Ann, daughter of his preceptor and began the practice of medicine in Dover, in 1803. In addition to his medical practice, he kept an apothecary store on Main street. He died in Dover, of consumption, at the age of 35.******

About MOSES BROWN (from an Internet ancestry site):

******Moses Brown, b.1793­ d.1878, married Mary Wistar, b.1807 d.1842. Mary was the sister of Caspar Wistar M.D., b.1801­ d.1867, and the daughter of Thomas Wistar, b.1764­ d.1851, and Mary Waln Wistar, b.1765­ d.1844. Moses and Mary's children were Thomas Wistar Brown, b.1826­ d.1916, Moses Brown, b.1829 d.1883, and Mary W. Brown, b.1831­ d.1839.******

About THOMAS WISTAR BROWN (from the Bryn Mawr / Haverford College Library website - where his archives are held):

******Although the central figure in this collection is the Philadelphia Quaker businessman and philanthropist, T. WISTAR BROWN, b. 1826 d.1916, it also includes materials relating to his FATHER MOSES BROWN, mother MARY WISTAR BROWN, and wife Mary Farnum Brown, along with other members of the Brown family.******

ALEXII SYMMACHI MAZOCHII (Alexius Symmachus Mazochius / Alessio Simmoco Mazzocolo).

COMMENTARIORUM IN REGII HERCULANENSIS MUSEI AENEAS TABULAS HERACLEENSES. Pars I and Pars II.

Qua prior Graeca inscriptio, agri Dionyso sacri dimensionem, partitionem, limites, locationes complectens, cum Britannico fragmento ferruminata, perpetuis adnotationibus illustrantur. Praemissis ad tabularum intelligentiam diatribis opportunissimis tribus.

NEAPOLI Ex Officina Benedicti Gessari, MDCCLIV (1754).

TWO VOLUMES bound together in a single large folio book, pagination is consecutive. Leather covered spine and paper covered boards, spine has five raised bands, embossed gilt pattern, and a leather spine label titled in gilt, folio 9x14.25 inches (23x36 cm). Pagination: XIV, 600 pages (Pars II begins on page 253).

ILLUSTRATED with a Map (Magna Graecia) and 10 large fold open plates, as follows: Fold open Map following page 46. Fold open Plate of Vases following page 138. Three fold open Plates following page 252. Two fold open Plates following page 256. Three fold open plates following page 280. Fold open Plate of Bowls following page 554.

Important treatise relating to the bronze tables of Heraclea datable between the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd century BC. Found in a stream bed between 1732 and 1735 near Metaponto. The tablets are especially important for their look at Roman Law. They are now held in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

CONDITION: The covers are worn, scuffed, scraped and with light stains to the spine; the front cover is disbound as is the front free endpaper and the half title page; the rear cover is just hanging on with the binding cords. Internally, there is foxing to the first and last few pages, and a bit here and there; the last few pages have shorelining at the bottom gutter area not affecting text, the last page is age toned, the half title page is loose, is creased, and is worn at the disbound edge but it is present and still solid; overall the inner pages are very nice, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The map and 10 plates are all in amazingly good condition, sturdy and feel rarely opened, they have some offsetting and age toning, and a few have a small tear to the edge of a bottom fold where the plate is bound in, but that is it, no significant tears and all are bright, clean and clear.

About the HERCLEAN TABLETS (from Wikipedia):

******The Heraclean Tablets (in older texts: the Heraclean Table(s); in Latin: Tabulae Heracleenses) were bronze tablets found a short distance from the site of Heraclea Lucania, between it and Metapontum. They are significant for the study of Roman Law.

As a consequence of its having accepted Roman citizenship in 89 BCE, Heraclea became a municipium, and the Tabulae Heracleenses contain a long Latin inscription relating to the municipal regulations of Heraclea, which is a part of a copy of a more general law, the Lex Iulia Municipalis, issued in 45 BCE for the regulation of the municipal institutions of towns throughout Italy. This document is a major authority for the municipal law of ancient Italy; it is engraved on two tablets of bronze, on the back of which is a long Greek inscription of earlier date, probably the 3rd century BC, defining the boundaries of lands belonging to various temples.

The tablets were separate, and the major one was in two fragments. They were found in 1732, and 1735, in the bed of the Cavone river. The tablets are now in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

The Latin inscription was first published by Michel Maittaire in 1735. Both inscriptions were published with commentaries, by Alessio Simmacho Mazzocchi, b.1684 d.1771, in Naples in 1754, 1755.******

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This book is heavy and will require substantial shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before payment is processed.

PRINCIPIA JURIS CRIMINALIS GERMANIAE COMMUNIS: Auditorum Usibus Destinata (Principia Ivris Criminalis Germaniae Commvnis: Avditorvm Vsibvs Destinata). By CHRIST. FRID. GEO. MEISTERI. D. (CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH GEORG MEISTER). An important and influential treatise on CRIMINAL LAW by Gottingen professor and law councilor Christian Friedrich Georg Meister. Published in GOETTINGAE (GÖTTINGEN) by Impensis Victorini Bossigelii (Bossiegel), MDCCLV (1755). Rare FIRST EDITION with the date 1755 both on the title page and at the end of the preface. Hardcovers, leather spine and corners with speckled paper covered boards, five raised spine bands, gilt lettered title label on the spine, marbled page edges, 4x6.5 inches (10x17 cm), 8vo. Pagination: [16], 492 pages including 2 pages of Errata at the end. TEXT in LATIN. Illustrated with engraved woodcut head and tail pieces. There is a lovely, early Armorial Bookplate on the front pastedown, with the initials "G.A.V.S." GOOD condition: The covers are chipped at the head of spine, splitting but holding well at the spine folds, and rubbed with some scrapes to the leather and paper covering. Internally, the front hinge is cracked but holding well, the pages are toned with the early and latter pages somewhat darker than the rest; overall this 1755 book remains tight, bright, clean, clear, and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy. This early law book was oft reprinted. While early editions are hard to find, the 1755 FIRST EDITION is almost impossible to find. About CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH GEORG MEISTER (excerpted from various Internet sources): Christian Friedrich Georg Meister, b. 1718 d. 1782, received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1741. He began his law career first as a private lawyer and highly sought after law lecturer. In 1754 he became a full professor of Law at the University of Gottingen. He quickly became one the University's most important law professors. In 1755 he wrote what is considered his most important and influential work, the PRINCIPIA JURIS CRIMINALIS.******

ABHANDLUNG VON DEN FINGERN, deren Verrichtungen und symbolishe Bedeutung, in so serne sie de deutschen Sprache Zusatche geliesect aus aller Art Alterthumer erwogen... by Friedrich GROSCHUFF [sometimes also attributed to Michael Gottlieb Griessbach.]

Rare study of the aspects of the hand, finger by finger, with historical, literary, scientific, and occult references to our digits.

LEIPZIG & EISENACH (Germany): Michael Gottlieb Griessbach, 1757. GERMAN TEXT.

Later Plain Paper Wrappers, 5x7.25 inches. Pagination: [14] prelim pages (title page and introductory pages), 312 numbered pages, [24] Register and Errata. Illustrated with Engraved Printer's Device on the title-page and on the last page of Errata, and with a few head and tail pieces.

Condition: The pages are toned / lightly browned with age, there is some foxing throughout (heavy on only a few pages), overall the pages are bright and the printing is clear and fully legible. A nicely maintained vintage book.

About FRIEDRICH GROSCHUFF (from a German Internet site):

****** Groschuff (1700-1784), German philologist. He studied theology and law at Konigsburg and Leipzig and then tutored several noble families. He was the secretary of Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippstahl, governor of Breda. He afterwards served as a lawyer and counselor. He published a number of works on various subjects, including two on hands and fingers******

BRIEFE EINES ABTS AUS MAYLAND AN EINEN PRÄLATEN IN ROM, Für die Gesellschaft JESU, Wider zwo Schriften unter dem Titel: Anmerkungen Ueber die Bittschrift der Jesuiten An Seine glücklich regierende Heiligkeit Pabst Clemens XIII. (LETTERS OF AN ABBEY FROM MILAN TO A PRELATE IN ROME, For the Society of JESUS, PROTESTING two writings under the title: Remarks On the Petition of the Jesuits to the Rulings of His Holiness POPE CLEMENT XIII. 3 parts bound together.) THREE PARTS Bound Together in this One Book / Erster Theil, Zweiter Theil, und Dritter Theil. No author is stated, but presumed to be the Jesuit Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, b. 1714 d. 1795, an Italian theologian, historian, and prolific writer. Italiänisch herausgegeben zu Fossombrone 1760 Durch Johann Bottagrifi und seine Mitverleger. Mit Genehmhaltung der Obern. (Published in the Italian in Fossombrone (Italy) in 1760 by Johann Bottagrifi and his co-publishers. With approval of the Superiors.) This GERMAN EDITION published in Bayern, Germany, undated but circa 1761. Card covers that are present but lacking almost all their paper covering, meaning the covers are only cardboard, there is old blue cloth tape to the spine, 7x8.5 inches (18x21 cm), each of the three parts is paginated separately. PAGINATION: Erster Theil: [8], 1-67; Zweiter Theil: 1-100; Dritter Theil: 1-54; Register: [1] pp. ASSOCIATION COPY. Armorial Bookplate on the front pastedown of IGNATIUS DOMINICUS S.R.I. COMES de CHORINSKY de LEDSKE (aka Count Ignatius Dominicus Chorinsky, Count Ignatz Dominik Chorinsky von Ledske, Count Chorynsky)."Count Ignaz Dominik Chorynsky of Ledská b. 1729 d. 1792, was a patron of the arts and a renowned collector of art and books. His superb collection of books and paintings were primarily based in his large chateau in Velké Hostice. A substantial portion of his library was sold by his family trust in three auctions that were held in 1930 and 1932 by Hamburg antiquarians Hans Götz and Franz Dörling." - found somewhere on the Internet. Condition: The covers are lacking their paper covering, as noted above; internally very nice, the pages are surprisingly tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. Beautifully printed text, great association copy.

TRAITÉ DES SENSATIONS ET DES PASSIONS EN GÉNÉRAL, Et Des SENS En PARTICULIER, by Claude-Nicolas LE CAT. (TREATISE on SENSATIONS and PASSIONS in General, and on the SENSES in PARTICULAR) PARIS: Chez VALLAT-LA-CHAPELE, Libraire au Palai, fur le Perron de la Sante-Chapell, M. DCC. LXVII. (1767). Ouvrage Divisé En Deux Parties / TWO VOLUMES - Complete in these Two Volumes. (A year later, in 1768, a third volume was issued "La théorie de l'ouie" - "theory of the eye" - which is not here; but this work is complete as originally issued in two volumes in 1767.) TWO VOLUMES. Hardcovers, leather covered boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled page edges, marbled endpapers, xcv, [1], 264; lvi, [4], 201-684. (Note that the numbered pages at the end of Volume One and the beginning of Volume Two are not consecutive - i.e. Volume one ends at page number 264, Volume Two begins with page number 201. This is as the Two Volumes were originally published - probable printer's error. Both volumes have been collated by me with rare copies from major National Libraries that have been digitized online.) PRESENTATION COPY. Each Title-Page is INSCRIBED with a HAND-WRITTEN PRESENTATION by THE AUTHOR: "JEAN CHARLES GROSSARD... ex Dono auctoris". CONDITION: TWO BOOKS. The leather covers of both volumes are rubbed and scraped, the spine ends are chipped, the bottom of the spine of Volume Two is peeling, the front spine hinge of each volume is split but holding well; overall the covers are worn but remain attractive and are still doing their job well. Internally, the front pastedown has a long vertical scrape, as if from the removal of a piece of tape at some point. There are relevant handwritten margin notes and marks, in pencil and in English, here and there throughout. I do not know who might have written them, but they are certainly by someone carefully studying the work. The inner pages of both volumes have a bit of toning, foxing and some margin shorelining, here and there throughout, but overall the inner pages are tight, bright and clean, a remarkably well kept, sharp, clear and lovely printing of this scarce book. ILLUSTRATED with 19 ENGRAVED PLATES: ENGRAVED PORTRAIT by Thomiers at the front of Volume One, Lovely FRONTISPIECE ENGRAVING by Bacheley at the front of Volume Two (showing Women using all five senses: Sight - looking in a mirror, Sound - playing music, Taste - pouring wine; Smell - smoke from an incense burner; Touch - toughing a newly hammered helmet); PLUS 17 additional engraved PLATES (16 of which FOLD-OPEN). Also ILLUSTRATED with lovely ENGRAVED VIGNETTES at the head of many chapters, and with ENGRAVED HEAD and TAIL PIECES. This specific work by LE CAT, TRAITÉ DES SENSATIONS ET DES PASSIONS, is VERY SCARCE. About Claude-Nicolas LE CAT (from Wikipedia): ******Le Cat (1700-1768) surgeon, anatomist, & physiologist. In 1736 he established a school for anatomy & surgery in Rouen. The 'Traité Des Sensations Et Des Passions'; is considered to be Le Cat's most important work. The work grew as much out of his researches in physics as in physiology. In it Le Cat presented a theory of the propagation of light contrary to that of Newtonian attraction. He further reported on the pigmented choroid coat of the eye and assigned it a common embryonic origin with the pigment of the skin. Le Cat's reputation in France and Europe is reflected by his numerous academic awards, publications, and by surgical renown.******

HOGARTH MORALIZED - Being A COMPLETE EDITION of HOGARTH'S WORKS. Containing near Fourscore COPPER PLATES, and most elegantly engraved...[John Tusler]

LONDON: Sold by S. Hooper...and Mrs. Hogarth at her House in Leicester Fields, MDCCLXVII (1768).

FINE BINDING by RIVIERE & SON, with its imprint along the bottom dentelle of the inside front cover (impossible to read or find without a magnifier but beautiful once seen magnified). The binding is later, likely late 19th or early 20th century. FULL RED MOROCCO LEATHER, five spine bands, gilt spine titles, 6x8.75 inches (15x22.5 cm), dentelles on the inside front and rear covers. Pagination: [some prelim leaves, including frontispiece, engraved title, title page], viii, 212, v, [3] pages.

ILLUSTRATED with 78 PLATES by HOGARTH. There is an Index of the plates at the rear.

VERY GOOD condition, The covers have a little scuffing to the spine folds but are simply lovely with gorgeous dentelle decoration. The 1768 work bound within has just slight age toning and soiling to the page edges, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, very nice copy, in a gorgeous fine binding.

About RIVIERE BOOKBINDERY (from a British Museum website):

******In 1829, Robert Riviere set up in business in Bath as a bookseller and later bookbinder. In 1840 he moved to London where the firm did business at a series of addresses. His grandson Percival Calkin became a partner in 1881, and the firm's name was changed to Riviere & Son. Percival's younger brother, Arthur, became a partner in 1889 and Arthur's son Stuart Riviere Calkin entered the business in 1908 and was with the firm when it closed in 1939.******

POEMS (anonymous, but known to be FRANCIS NOEL CLARKE MUNDY). OXFORD, Printed by W. Jackson, MDCC,LX,VIII (1768). Disbound

(i.e. no covers), 4to 8x10 inches, 97 pages. Beautifully printed on heavy stock, watermarked, laid paper. The imprint of the type is fully tangible. FAIR Condition: Lacking covers (as noted above). The text block's sewn binding is mostly gone leaving all the signatures and many leaves loose. The front free endpaper is lacking, the brief errata has been clipped from its own page at the rear and pasted in the space below THE END on the last page of text, otherwise complete with all pages and signatures in their proper order. The pages themselves are in Good condition, with edge wear to their disbound edge, and some light edge toning and corner creases here and there. Overall the pages are bright, clean, clear and unmarked. Quite lovely as is (especially with the tactile printing), and a perfect candidate for rebinding. I have collated my copy page for page with the copy in the rare book room of the Oxford Library that has been digitized and put online.

L'ART DE VÉRIFIER LES DATES, Depuis L'Année 1770 jusqu'à nos Jours Tome Seizieme.

Full title: L'Art de Vérifier les Dates, depuis l'Année 1770 jusqu'à nos Jours: Formant la Continuation ou Troisième Partie de l'Ouvrage Publié, sous ce Nom, par les Religieux Bénédictins de la Congrégation de Saint-Maur. Tome 16 - Chronologie Historique de L'Amérique.

(The Art of Verifying Dates, from the Year 1770 to Our Days: Forming the Continuation or Third Part of the Work Published, under this Name, by the Benedictine Religious of the Congregation of Saint-Maur. Volume 16 - Historical Chronology of the Americas.)

This volume gives a time-line history of THE ANTILLES, CUBA, JAMAICA, MARTINIQUE, GUADALUPE, MARIE-GALANTE, SAINTES, DESIRADE, PUERTO RICO, TRINIDAD and BARBADOS. It is one of the scarcer volumes in the series.

PARIS: Chez l'Éditeur (Marquis de Fortia), 1837. FRENCH TEXT.

Lacking covers, 5.5x8.5 inches (14x22 cm), 538 pages.

POOR but COMPLETE Condition: Lacks covers and blank endpapers, early and latter pages and signatures are loose, entire text block is shaky and tender, first few pages are creased and show lots of edgewear not affecting text, various signs of edge wear to the deckled page edges, toning to first and last pages, &c. NONETHELESS, the pages are complete, and surprisingly bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

This important early chronological history of the islands in the Caribbean is RARE and worthy of rebinding.

ITINERARIO PARA PÁRROCOS DE INDIOS En Que Se Tratan Las Materias mas Particulares Tocantes a Ellos Para su BUENA ADMINISTRACIÓN... Compuesto por... SENOR DON ALONSO DE LA PEÑA MONTENEGRO, Obispo del Obispado de San Francisco de Quito...

(PASTORS' GUIDE for the GOOD ADMINISTRATION of INDIANS... Composed by DON ALONSO DE LA PENA MONTENEGRO, Bishop of the Diocese of San Francisco de Quito...)

EN MADRID: En la Oficina de Pedro Marin, 1771. Nueva Edicion, Purgada de Muchisimos Hierros (New Edition, Purged of Numerous Errors). TEXT IN SPANISH.

VELLUM BOUND, limp vellum , five cord spine bands, manuscript title on spine (mostly faded), 8x12 inches (20cm x 30cm), Pagination: [2] blank free endpaper, [32], 612 pages.

CONDITION: The vellum covers are soiled, darkened, rubbed, missing a half-dollar size piece at the upper rear corner, and well creased (as normal for limp vellum); nonetheless the vellum covers remain quite lovely in a Harry Potter Hogwarts' Library way. Internally, the front and rear inner hinges are split but holding with the cord binding; the bottom half of the last two leaves (pages 609/610 and 611/612) is roughly torn off; the rear free endpaper is lacking, and the rear pastedown is mostly lacking; there is chipping to the bottom corner of the first few pages, not affecting text; light foxing and some age spotting here and there throughout; otherwise the inner pages are nice, complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

Contents:

LIBRO PRIMERO En que se Trata de la Elección y Canónica Institución del Párroco, y de todas las demás obligaciones que tiene el Doctrinero.

LIBRO SEGUNDO De la Naturaleza y costumbres de los indios.

LIBRO TERCERO En que se Trata de los Sacramentos - del Bautismo, La Confirmación - Del dolor que es parte material del Sacramento de la Penitencia, De la Confesión, Del Confesor, De la Satisfacción Sacramental que es el tercer acto Penitente, Del Inefable Sacramento de la Eucaristía, Del Sacramento de la Extremaunción, Del Sacramento del Orden, Del Sacramento del Matrimonio, De los Grados de Consanguinidad, Afinidad, y Cognación Espiritual y Dispensación en ellos.

LIBRO CUARTO De los Preceptos de la Iglesia y de la Ley Natural que deben Guardar los Indios .

LIBRO QUINTO En que se Trata de los Privilegios que tienen los Señores Arzobispos y Obispos, los Regulares, y los Indios en estas partes. Y de los Visitadores y modo como se han de portar en las visitas de los Indios y sus Doctrineros. De la conciencia errónea muy ordinaria en los Indios, y de algunas cuestiones misceláneas.

The Original Limp Vellum Binding makes this an especially attractive copy of this rare book.

MANUSCRIPT LATIN SPEECH written for and recited at a COLLEGE in THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, by HIERONYMUS VAN SLINGELANDT (his father was Baron Aelbrecht van Slingelandt). The date MDCCLXXIX (1779) is written as part of the Latin text on the first page.

Ten pages (5 leaves), seven of which are filled with the Latin manuscript speech. The leaves are string bound in embossed floral paper covers, 7.5x9 inches (19x23 cm).

The paper is WATERMARKED with a large fleur-de-lys and "J KOOL". The "J Kool" watermark refers to a Dutch family of papermakers who were active during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

VERY GOOD condition: there is a recent label on the inside front cover with #652 written on it, and a blank label on the blank verso of the title page / first page, otherwise the manuscript has been very well cared for, still bright, clean and clear, with writing that is fully legible (especially if you read Latin).

About HIERONIMUS VAN SLINGELANDT (from GENI and other genealogical websites):

********** Hieronimus van Slingelandt Birthdate: February 15, 1762 Birthplace: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Death:August 31, 1829 (67) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Son of Baron Aelbrecht van Slingelandt and Helena Slicher Husband of Maria Antonia Fortunata Franceschini Father of Hieronymus Nicolaas van Slingelandt Brother of Johan Diederik Barthout van Slingelandt

Baron Aelbrecht van Slingelandt, [his father], 1732-1801 Aelbrecht married Helena Slicher, born in 1737, in The Netherlands. They had 2 sons: Hieronimus van Slingelandt and one other child.. Aelbrecht passed away in 1801, at age 69. **********

If you are curious to see what kind of family Heronimus van Slingelandt was born into, check out his mother's wedding gown by searching "Helena Slicher wedding gown". Wow.

NATUURKUNDIGE EN OPHELDERENDE AANMERKINGEN over het Eerste en Tweede Deel /Derde en Vierde Deel VAN J. F. MARTINET'S KATECHISMUS DER NATUUR, door J. DE VRIES. (ENLIGHTENING COMMENTS on the First, Second, Third and Fourth Part of J.F. MARTINET'S CATECHISM OF NATURE, by J. DE VRIES. FOUR PARTS IN TWO OCTAVO VOLUMES. AMSTERDAM: Joannes van Selm, MDCCLXXIX (1779). TEXT in DUTCH. A Critical and Expansive Study by J. De Vries of JOHANNES FLORENTIUS MARTINET'S work KATECHISMUS DER NATUUR (CATECHISM OF NATURE). Two Volumes, hardcovers, leather spines and corners with marbled paper covered boards, the spines have five raised bands and are decorated in gilt, black leather title labels on spines, 5x9 inches. Pagination: Volume I: XIV, [2], 198, [2]. Volume II: [VI], 192. GOOD condition. The covers have scrapes and rubs to the boards and edges, including the loss of the paper covering in various places; the spine title labels are mostly worn away; nonetheless the covers are sturdy, attractive, and are doing their job well. Internally very nice, some light foxing and offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise the pages are lovely, bright, tight, clean and unmarked. A solid, nice, two volume set.

COMPTE RENDU AU ROI, par M. Necker (Monsieur Necker), Directeur Général des Finances. Au mois de Janvier 1781. Imprimé par ordre de Sa Majesté.

(Report to the King, by M. Necker, Director General of Finance. In the month of January 1781. Printed by order of His Majesty.)

Paris, de L'Imprimerie du Cabinet du Roi (the Printing Office of the King's Cabinet), M.DCC.LXXXI (1781).

Hardcovers, marbled paper covered boards, 8x10 inches. Pagination, 2 blank leaves, title-page, [2] table-of-contents, 116 pages. Contains TWO COLOR FOLD-OPEN MAPS of FRANCE showing various tax districts. One is a gabelle map (a tax on salt) and the other titled Carte Des Traites. They are quite lovely, each suitable for framing imho. There is also a large fold open table. The two maps are often missing in copies of this book.

FAIR condition, the covers are well worn, with scrapes, chipping, rubs, etc. Internally, the inner hinge is split, separating, and shaky,

but the pages remain bound with the three cord bindings; the front pastedown has a French paper company notice pasted on it; the blank front endpapers have tears and pieces missing at the corners, and a previous owner's name and inscription in French: "Stephen Bates / mil huit cent et onze / Juni vingt huit (June 28, 1811)", the table-of-contents leaf is torn at the bottom affecting the bottom couple of lines, the fold-open table at the rear has a few inch closed tear; there is some foxing throughout; but the pages overall are bright, clean, clear and fully legible.

The Compte Rendu Au Roi is one of the most important documents relating to the finances of pre-revolutionary France. It is the work of Mr. Jacques Necker, then Minister of Finance for Louis XVI. In the midst of the American War of Independence, and the immense debt France was taking on as a participant in the War, Necker presents in detail the financial situation of France.

About JACQUES NECKER and the COMPTE RENDU AU ROI (from Wikipedia):

******Jacques Necker, b.1732 d.1804, was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent.

Necker held the finance post between July 1777 and 1781, when in the latter year, he earned widespread recognition for his unprecedented decision to publish the COMPTE RENDU - thus making the country's budget public - a novelty in an absolute monarchy where the state of finances had always been kept a secret. Necker was dismissed within a few months of its publication. By 1788, the inexorable compounding of interest on the national debt brought France to a fiscal crisis and Necker was recalled to royal service. His dismissal once again on 11 July 1789 was a factor in causing the Storming of the Bastille.

By 1781, France was suffering financially, and as director general of the royal treasury he was blamed for the rather high debt accrued from the American Revolution. After Necker had shown Louis XVI his annual financial report, the king tried to keep its contents secret. Necker met the challenge aggressively by making the Compte Rendu Au Roi public. It is his most influential work, and brought him instant fame, Necker summarized governmental income and expenditures to provide the first record of royal finances ever made public. The Account was meant to be an educational piece for the people, and in it, he expressed his desire to create a well-informed, interested populace.******