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The Year inFour Vols. & Beautiful Bindings

(A HANDSOME QUARTET). Catholic Church. Liturgy & ritual. Breviaries. Breviarium romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii tridentini restitutum S. Pii V. pontificis maximi iussu editum, Clementis VIII. ac Urbani VIII. auctoritate recognitum, cum officiis sanctorum novissimis usque ad SS. D.N. Pium VI, pro recitantium commoditate diligenter dispositis. [Romae]: A. Galler , 1781. 8vo (18 cm, 7.1"). 4 vols. I: [20], 632, cclxxxviii, 19, [1] pp.; illus. II: [18], 646, ccliv, 21, [1] pp.; 1 plt. III: [54], 566, cclxxvi, 26 pp.; 1 plt. IV: [20], 608, cclxx, 15, [1] pp.; illus.
$2750.00

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• Beautifully printed and handsomely bound set of the Roman Breviary. The text is printed in double-column format, in black and red, with a vignette on each title-page and an engraving in each volume.

Binding

• Not in Weale & Bohatta. Bindings as above, edges and extremities rubbed, spine leather with tiny cracks, one spine head chipped, one joint starting. Ex-library with bookplates, rubber-stamp on lower edges of pages of the closed volumes. One volume with text block separating from spine and sewing loosening; this with the most leather rubbed away and the darkest instances of the usually-light waterstaining and spots of foxing seen occasionally throughout. Endpapers bear early inked ownership inscriptions and annotations. An elegant quartet. (12406)

This entry is repeated in the
“Ca–Cath1” section of this
catalogue . . .

A Catholic School Prize Copy: “High Sanctity Attained in an Indian Wigwam”

(A SWEET SINGLETON). Smet, Pierre-Jean de. New Indian sketches. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., [ca. 1870]. 12mo (16.4 cm, 6.45"). Frontis., [2], [2]–3, [7]–175, [1] pp.
$200.00

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New Indian Sketches

Provenance: Front pastedown with presentation bookplate of a Catholic Sunday School in Virginia, dated 1880; front free endpaper with recipient's ownership inscription.

• Sabin 82267; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 3631; Wagner-Camp 395; Howes D285. Publisher's green cloth blind-stamped in diapered pattern containing crosses (not in Krupp), spine with elaborate gilt-stamped title and decorations; binding cocked and rubbed, sides with spots of discoloration. Front pastedown and free endpaper as above. Back hinge (inside) reinforced with cloth tape. Pages age-toned, with scattered spotting. (26581)

This entry is repeated in the
“Sb–Sz” section of this
catalogue . . .

Christian History’s Chronicle

Adrichem, Christiaan van. Chronicon de Christiano Adricomio Delfo; traducido de latin en español por Don Lorenco Martinez de Marcilla. Madrid: En La Imprenta Imperial, 1679. Small 4to. π⁴ A–Z⁴ Aa–Pp⁴ Qq²; [4] ff., 284 (i.e., 286) pp., [11] ff.
$700.00

translation into Spanish

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The title is within a typographic border; text is printed in double-column format, in roman type.

• Palau 2864. 19th-century half sheep with marbled paper sides; binding shows wear. Lower margin of title-leaf and leaves of the preliminaries with minor worming; repaired with pasted-over paper. Some side- and shouldernotes shaved with loss. Sporadic soiling, not severe.

An EXTENDED MANUSCRIPT in anUNCOMMON PHILIPPINE LANGUAGE

Antonio Lobato de Santo Tomás. Manuscript in Ibanag on paper: “Quinque sermones in quinque precipuis festivitatibus B. Maria Virginis. Quibus accedunt sermo in feria quarta cinerumz et sermo in dominica 2o post octavam trinitatis. Per R. P. fray Antoniium Lobatao de Sto. Thomas. Tuguegarao, The Philippines: 1776–80. Small 4to. 196 pp.
$30,000.00

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• Precious few manuscript sources in the Ibanag language survive from the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines. Only a handful of missionaries worked in the region of the northeastern Philippine provinces of Isabela and Cagayan, most notably in Tuguegarao City, Solana, Cabagan, and Ilagan, where the language was/is spoken; and not all mastered the tongue. Fray Antonio Lobato was one of those who did and it was he who took Fr. José Bugarin's Ibanag–Spanish dictionary, created in the previous century, and edited it to a usable work — though the result was not published until the 19th century, and, apparently, no other work was published in the language during the 16th, 17th, or 18th centuries.

a large body of work set down in the Ibanag language, from the 18th century and as written/spoken by one of the seminal scholars of the language

Provenance: A signature “Fr. Antonio Lobato de Sto. Thomas” appears at the bottom of the last page and is almost certainly that of the the friar himself, which would mean that this is his autograph manuscript of the sermons.

• Contemporary very stiff vellum. Binding gnawed by a rodent with loss. Written on a good quality European paper, with some soiling and an occasional stain. No faults are serious and overall this is a remarkably good survival for an 18th-century Philippines manuscript. Now housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. (23668)

His Fellow Novice Was Fra Angelico . . .
AnIncunable from the Press of Grüninger

Antoninus, Saint, Abp. of Florence. Tertia pars totius su[m]me maioris beati Antonini [i.e., Summa theologica, pars tertia]. [Argentinae: Johann Grüninger, 1496]. Folio ( 31 cm; 12/25"). [311 of 312] ff., lacks final blank.
$4000.00

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Summa Theologica Moralis is the saint's principal work and was written shortly before his death. Scholars say it marks a new and considerable development in moral theology, as well as containing a fund of matter for the student of the history of the 15th century.

Provenance: 1630 ownership inscription; later in the library of a divinity school, deaccessioned.

GKW

BMC,

Printed by Hogal — Illustrated with Four Woodcuts

Aranda Novés, Gerardo. Maria Santissima, refugio de pecadores, idea de justos, iman del la christiana devocion. Libro unico. Dividido en tres partes, conforme a las tres vias de la vida espiritual, purgativa, iluminativa, y unitiva, en el qual con afectos tiernos, y encendidos trata la alma con la madre de misericordia del gran negocio de su salvacion. Mexico: por Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1726. 8vo (15 cm; 6"). [4] ff., 341 pp. (blank verso of p. 265 omitted in numbering), [2] ff., 1 plt.
[SOLD]

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• First Mexican edition of Aranda's work of devotion to the Virgin Mary, handsomely printed by the best printer working in Mexico in the 18th century: Hogal is often compared favorably with Baskerville. His type is a good roman with italic and he adds four good size, unsigned, woodcuts of four different apparitions of the Virgin.

An uncommon work of mariology; in the U.S. only the New York Public Library reports owning a copy.

• Medina, Mexico, 2844. Contemporary vellum over light boards, with the ties. Top and bottom edges of the closed volume with inked ownership of an unidentified conventual library. Clean copy. (26872)

Two Church Fathers — Two Scholar Printers

An Apparatus by Erasmus

Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria. Athanasii Episcopi Alexandrini sanctissima, eloquentissma que opera ... que omnia olimia[m] latina facta Christophoro Porsena, Ambrosio Monacho, Angelo Politiano, interpretibus, una cum doctissima Erasmi Roterodani ad pium lectorem paraclesi. [bound with another work as below]. Parisiis: Joanne Paruo [i.e., Jean Petit] , [1519]. Folio extra. [6], 255, [66] ff. [bound with] Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea. Basilii Magni Caesariensium in Cappadocia Antistitis sanctissimi opera plane diuina, variis e locis sedulo collecta: & accuratio[n]e ac impe[n]sis Iodici Badii Asce�sii recognita & coimpressa, quorum index proxima pandetur charta. [Paris: Venundantur eidem Ascensio [i.e., Badius Ascensius, 1520]. Folio extra. [10], 178 ff.
$3850.00

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• Two editions of Church Fathers from two scholar/printer presses. St. Athanasius's text was translated into Latin by three noted Renaissance scholars, edited by Nicholas Beraldus, and has the added prestige of apparatus by Erasmus. The title-page is printed within a four-piece woodcut border, with the title in red and black, and the page bears the famous Petit printer's device. The text enjoys handsome typography, side- and shouldernotes, and large woodcut initials.

The St. Basil is from Badius Ascensius's press and he acted as the editor, the translators having been Johannes Argyropoulos, Georgius Trapezuntius, and others. The title-page uses the same four-part woodcut title-page border as found on the St. Athanasius, bound in at the front, which makes much sense given the familial relationship between Ascensius and Petit.

Index Aurel.

Ascensius

(19915)

St. Augustine It isNOT — Anselm, Bernard,
& the Dean of Canterbury, It IS!

Augustinus Aurelius, S. (pseudo). Pious breathings. Being the Meditations of St. Augustine, his Treatise of the love of God, Soliloquies, and Manual. To which are added, select contemplations from St. Anselm, & St. Bernard. London: S. Sprint, T. Bennet, R. Parker, J. Bullord, & M. Gilliflower, 1701. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.1"). [10], 414 pp. (pagination 177/78 skipped, 209/10 repeated, text complete); 4 plts.
$325.00

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The volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and three other copper-engraved plates done by “I. Simons.”

• ESTC T97614. Contemporary speckled calf framed and panelled in blind with contrasting plain calf panel and blind-tooled corner fleurons, rebacked with lighter speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; sides abraded. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to back of frontispiece and similarly old small inked notation (monogram?) to title-page; ; title-page institutionally rubber-stamped at base (no other markings). Pages age-toned; intermittent light spotting and staining. (24438)

Dutch Opinions on theSpanish Inquisition

Avontroot, Johannes Bartholomeus. Den grouwel der verwoestinghe, oft grondich bericht ende ontdeckinghe, van de gronden der Spaensche inquisitie. In s'Graven-haghe: Aert Meuris, 1621. 4to (19.7 cm, 7.75"). [28], 212 pp.
$1275.00

Avontroot was executed by the Inquisition at Toledo in 1632.

This copy lacks the work by González de Montes, a.k.a. Reginaldus Gonsalvius Montanus, which should follow p. 212. It is largely printed in black letter.

Uncommon. OCLC finds only two holdings in the U.S., one being this copy, now properly deaccessioned, and the other at the John Carter Brown Library. NUC Pre-1956 does not identify any additional copies.

• Vekené, Bib. der Inquisition, 139-140; Boehmer, Bibliotheca Wiffeniana, 290 (identifying the volume as the second Dutch translation of the Montanus work not present here). 19th-century half calf with marbled paper-covered sides; joints and corners rubbed. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin. Pages age-toned with some mild waterstaining; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away, not affecting text. (19569)

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