• 1668-St. Gertrude
• 1695-First French Anabaptists
• 1621-St. Bernard
• 1703-Witsi’s Paul the Apostle
• 1646-Paul’s Letters First Edition

1668-St. Gertrude:

Gertrude the Great, Saint. (1256-1302) Pratiqve Des Exercices Spiritvels, Tirée Des Oevvres de Sainte Gertrvde. Vtile & profitable à l’Ame devote, qui desire s’avancer à la perfection. Avec plusieurs Meditations & salutaires enseignmens, tant pour les personnes seculieres, que pour la Profession Religieuse, & la renovation des Vœux. Nouvelle Edition, reveuë, corrigée, & mise en la pureté de nostre langue. Et enrichie de plusieurs figures en taille douce. Paris: Chez Iean Covterot, ruë S. Iacques, au petit Iesus, prés les Mathurins, 1668.

Saint Gertrude the Great: Duodecimo, 5.94 x 3.25 in. a8, e2, A-Z8/4, Aa-Zz4/8; lacking the engraved frontispiece, but with twenty one full-paged engravings, and four full-paged engraved tables. The engraving on page 272 is mistakenly printed upside down. This copy is in very good condition internally, without stains or browning. Some of the corners toward the end are a bit curled, but this is very minor. The binding is contemporary limp parchment with ties, and is also in good condition. The bookplate of the Maison des Oiseaux of Paris is pasted inside the front board.

Price: $1,200.00

1695-First French Anabaptists:

Hortensius, Lambertus. (1500 or 1501-1574) Histoire Des Anabatistes Ou Relation curieuse de leur doctrine, Regne & Revolutions, tant en Allemagne, Hollande, qu?Angleterre, ou il êt traité de plusieurs sectes de Mennonites, Kouakres, & autres qui en sont provenus. Le tout enrichi de figures en taille douce. Paris: Chez Charles Clouzier, 1695. Duodecimo, 6.25 x 3.75 in. First French edition. [¶]2, A4, A-G12, H4 (H4 blank and present). Pages 169-173 wrongly numbered 617-621. In this copy, the first two preliminary leaves consist of an added engraved title, and a typographical title with an engraved vignette. A1 is the same typographical title, without the vignette, because not enough room was left to accommodate it. It may be that A1 was meant to be canceled. This work contains an added engraved title and seventeen full-paged engraved plates of various martyrdoms in the text. This copy is bound in full modern calfskin. It was resewn at the time this binding was achieved, but the edges of the leaves were not trimmed. The engraved armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon & Baron Capell of Hadham is pasted on the verso of the first title; it is dated 1701. A rare work in excellent condition.

Price: $725.00

1621-St. Bernard-The works of:

Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint. (1090-1153) Livre de la Maniere de bien vivre, contenant le Sommaire de toutes vertus neccessaires a la Religion Chrestienne. Ecrit par Sainct Bernard Abbe de Clervaux, a sa Soeur. Auquel sont adioustez le Formulaire de la vie honneste, & le Miroir de Religieux, faicts par le mesme Autheur. Traduits par Reveren Pere en Dieu Messire Claude du Bellay, Abbe de Sugny, Conseiller du Roy, en ses Conseils d’Estat & Priue. Paris: Chez Mathurin Mauperlier, rue S. Jacques a l’Escu de Bretane, 1621.Octavo, 4 x 6 in. a8, e4, A-X8, Y4, Frontis portrait of Claude du Bellay. This book is bound in lace stiched vellum over limp boards. The pages are overall in good condition with some spotting but nothing that would impair legibility. A rare book.

Price: $495.00

1703-Witsi’s Paul the Apostle:

Witsius, Hermann [Herman Wits] (1636-1708): Hermanni Witsii, Meletemata Leidensia. Quibus continentur Praelectiones de Vita et Rebus Gestis Pauli Apostoli. Ne non Dissertationum Exegeticarum Duodecas. Denique Commentarius in Epsitolam Judae Apoltoli. Lugd. Batavorum, Apud. Jordanum Luchtmans, 1703. Collation: [blank], *4, **2, A4-I4, K4-T4, V4-Z4, Aa4-Ii4, Nest Section: Dissertationes Selectae, Maximam Partem Exegeticae. Kk4-Tt4, Vv4-Zz4, Aaa4-Iii4, Kkk4-Ttt4, Vvv4-Yyy4, Zzz2, [blank]. Rebound in paper boards with recreation of period swirl colors often used. Blanks are new. 4to. Very nice and tight binding that will last for many hundreds of years. Interior is bright and clean with chapter colophons and printing is sharp. A very nice book about the life of the Apostle Paul with frequent Greek text references and translated to Latin.

Price: $375.00

1646-Paul’s Letters First Edition:

Dieu, Lodewijk de. (1590-1642) Animadversiones In D. Pauli Apostoli Epistolam Ad Romanos, In Quibus, Collatis Syri, Arabis, Vulgati, Erasmi & Bezæ versionibus, difficilora quæque loca, & maxime præterita aliis illustrantur. Accessit Spicilegium in reliquas ejusdem Apostoli, ut & Catholicas Epistolas. Auctore Ludovico de Dieu.

Leiden: Ex Officianâ Elzeviriorum [Bonaventure & Abraham], 1646

Quarto, 7.5 by 6.0 inches. First Edition. *4, A4-Z4; Aa4-Zz4; Aaa4. This copy is complete and in good contemporary condition throughout internally. The title page is a bit chipped and torn but otherwise this is a very good copy. It has recently been repaired with modern vellum. A nice match for the other work about Paul the Apostle listed in our inventory, Hermann Witsi’s ‘…Meletemata…vita et Rebus Gestis pauli Apostoli’.

Price: $349.00