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Duchaussois, Pierre. The Grey Nuns in the far north. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (copyright 1919). 8vo. [4], 287, [1] pp.; illus.
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This is illustrated with a good many half-tones.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with black-stamped title; spine sunned and with inked call number, spine head chipped, corners slightly rubbed. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, front free endpaper faintly rubber-stamped. (24822)
“La
Condamnation des Templiers”Dupuy, Pierre. Traitez concernant l’histoire de France: Sçavoir la condamnation des Templiers, avec quelques actes: L’histoire du schisme, les Papes tenans le siege en Avignon: Et quelques procez criminels. Paris: Edme Martin, 1700. 12mo (16 cm, 6.25"). Frontis., [8], 564 pp. (i.e., 570; pagination repeats 271–76)
one of the earliest published sources for records of the Templar trial; the preface here notes that many previous historians had judged Philip IV and his attack on the Templars harshly “parce qu’ils ignoroient les fondemens de cette condamnation, qui consistoient aux preuves qui te sont ici representées” (p. [vii]).
Early editions of this work are all uncommon; only 10 U.S. holdings of this edition were found in searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956. The frontispiece portrait of “Petrvs Pvteanvs” is unsigned.
• Brunet, II, 902. Contemporary vellum, spine with stamped, gilt-framed title; spine showing very faint traces of a now-absent label. Front pastedown with bookplate of a 19th-century collector; frontispiece shaved close (just into impression) by binder. Title-page browned; some intermittent moderate foxing. 
An attractive and interesting little book.
Eck
on the Blood Libel
Eck, Johann. Ains Juden büechlins verlegung darin ain
Christ, gantzer Christenhait zu schmach, will es geschehe den Juden unrecht in bezichtigung der
Christen Kinder Mordt. Gedruckt zü Ingoldstat: durch Alexander Weissenhorn, 1541. 4to (19.5
cm; 7.75"). [96] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. The text is printed in gothic with side- and shouldernotes, and the title-page has a woodcut of the arms of the Bishop of Trent.
WorldCat
locates only three copies in the U.S. and COPAC only three in the U.K.
An
Arch-Opponent of LUTHER'S Eck, Johann. Der viert tail Christenlicher Predigen von den siben H. Sacramente[n] nach aussweysung Christlicher Kirchen vn grund Byblischer gschrifft den alten frummen Christen zu gut, durch Johann von Eck. [colophon: Augspurg: getruckt durch Alexander weyssenhorn, in verlegung D. Iohan Ecken zu Ingelstat], 1534. Folio (31.5 cm; 12.25"). [6], 158, [1] ff. (lacks final blank).
Click the images for enlargements. Present here are 76 sermons, being vol. 4 of Eck's Christliche Auslegung der Evangelien. The volumes were all issued separately over the course of several years, by different publishers, and all are treated as stand-alone productions by VD16 and all bibliographies as well as library catalogues.
Provenance: Ownership signature of Joannes Bintengerber (1579); unidentified 16th- or early 17th-century ownership mark in ink on top edge of volume (resembling a brand mark); Howard Osgood (late 19th-, early 20th-century collector and Baptist minister and teacher); later in collection of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (deaccessioned, with their old circular pressure-stamp partially discernable on title-page).
Evidence of readership: Scattered marginalia (e.g. 68r, 96v, 97r, 120r, 137r, 140v, 155v), usually short but not always.
Rare: Via OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 we trace only 4 copies in U.S. libraries.
• VD16 E288. Full modern calf old style: Round spine with raised bands, accented with gilt rules; red leather title label; rules in blind extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils with blind double fillets beyond. Title-leaf with repairs to foremargin and to small losses in five places at or within the borders; same instances affect four places in the text on the verso. Foremargins of some other early and late leaves a little tattered and irregular, with some repair; endpapers soiled and one other leaf soiled in outer margin; leaf A6 repaired in inner margin. Pin-hole type worming, not serious, in the text at times; waterstain in inner margin of some leaves; outer corners, especially upper ones, bumped/creased in first part. Ownership inscriptions and marginalia as noted. Despite flaws that must be recounted, a sound and handsome book. (25415)
Will
Eck & Zwingli Square Off? Eck, Johannes. Ein Sentbrieue an ein frum Eidgnoszschafft betreffendt die ketzerische disputation Frantz Kolben des aussgeloffen m[ue]nchs vnnd B. Hallers des verlognen predicanten zü Bern. Ein annderer brieue an Vlrich Zwingli. Der drit brieue an Cunrat Rotenacker zu Vlm. [Ingolstadt: Georg and Peter Apian, 1528]. Small 4to (20 cm; 7.75"). [4] ff.
Click the image for an enlargement. Schrodt and Vogelstein offer a different summary: “The letters refer to an invitation sent to Eck by Zwingli, Haller and Kolbe, all of them evangelical preachers, to participate in a religious disputation scheduled to take place in Bern. The first letter, addressed to the confederation, explains courteously enough that he, Eck, does not intend to follow the call of the three proven heretics individually, a call not issued by the civic authorities. Not that he is afraid of their arguments; but he insists on an authoritative invitation and presence.
The other letters are framed in very aggressive and personally offensive language but carry the same message. Eck challenges the evangelical disputants to appear with him before any of the Catholic potentates, spiritual or secular, or any of the great (Catholic) universities, and he would shatter their heretical arguments.”
This pamphlet is type-signed, “Johan. Eck. inquisitor.”
WorldCat locatesonly one copy in North America and one in Great Britain; COPAC locates an additional one in Britain.
• VD16 E422; Kuczynski 650; Hohenemser 3352; Pegg, Swiss Libraries, 1496; Schrodt & Vogelstein 64. Removed from a nonce volume. Spine with a reinforcing strip of 19th-century German scrap paper. Title lightly dust-soiled and evidence of old erased pencilling. A clean, good copy. (25964)
Two Works of theCatholic Reformation Eisengrein, Martin. Sechsz Christlicher Leichpredigen. Wie man die Verstorbne glaubigen klagen, Auch Christlich vnd ehrlich zu der Erden bestatten solle. Vnd Ob den Verstorbnen mit Betten, Vigilien, Seelmessen, vnnd andern Caeremonien, ... geholfen seye. Es wirdt auch ... Vom Fegfevr ... ein Bericht gegeben [with another, as below]. [colophon: Gedruckt zu Ingolstat: Durch Alexander und Samuel Weissenhorn gebruder], 1564. [with the same author's] Ein Christliche predig Was vom Heilthumb, so im Papstum[m], in so grossen ehren, zühalten sey. Vnd Ob ain frommer Christ mit güttem gewissen, züdisem oder jänem Heiligen walfarten gehen künde. Zü Jngolstatt in der Pfarrkirchen bey S. Mauritz gepredigt, Durch Martinum Eisengrein, der heiligen Schrifft Licentiatum vnd Probst zü Moßpurg. Gedruckt zu Ingolstatt: Durch Alexander und Samuel Weissenhorn, 1564. 4to (20.5 cm; 8.25"). XL ff. 4to (20.5 cm; 8.25"). [8], XC ff.
Click the images for enlargements. The present two works of preachings are scarce in the U.S., with only two institutions reporting ownership of Sechsz Christlicher Leichpredigen (one copy now deaccessioned) and only one reporting ownership of Ein Christliche predig (that copy also deaccessioned). The Sechsz Christlicher Leichpredigen ends with a two and a half page
poem by the Dutch humanist and poet Hannard Gamerius, Eisengrein’s colleague at Ingolstadt, where Gamerius taught Greek.
Each work has its title-page printed in red and black; the printing throughout is neat and typical.
• Sechsz: VD16 E817; Index Aurel. 159.363. Ein: VD16 E789; Index Aurel. 159.362. Full dark modern calf old style, with simple blind double fillets bordering covers and a chain rule as vertical accent towards spine; spine without labels and with gilt-touched raised bands accented by blind rules extending onto covers to terminate in trefoils. Text unmarked; light overall age-toning. (26143)
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