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There is some foxing and toning throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48130194833719,"sku":"","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20240228_100745.jpg?v=1709314603"},{"product_id":"a-substantial-homeletic-text-and-two-other-theological-texts-germany-circa-1445-latin-manuscript-compilation-on-paper","title":"A Substantial Homeletic Text, and Two other Theological Texts, Germany, Circa 1445. Latin Manuscript Compilation on Paper","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTitle: A Substantial Homeletic Text, and Two other Theological Texts, Germany, Circa 1445. Latin Manuscript Compilation on Paper\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Johann van Isend(?)\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA rather interesting, albeit fragmentary, mid 15th century compilation of various liturgical and theological texts, with the beginning of each text lacking. The first text begins with a compilation of homilies or commentaries, with each chapter with a two-line Lombard in red and 2-3-line headings. The first present heading is \"Nupcie facte sunt in chana galilee et erat m(ate)r\". In the corresponding explicit \"in illa co(m)pilat(i)one\" a Joh(ann) vn Isend is named, perhaps the author? There is also a dating of 1445 or 1440, which is appropriate to the script. The second text also bears numerous 2-3 line Lombards in red, beginning with \"Ecce rex tuus venit tibi”. There is a bizarre half sheet, with an undated explicit bearing the formula \"Maria m(ate)r gr(atia)em(ate)r mi(sericordia)e tu nos hoste p (ro)tege i hora mort(is) suscipe\". An interesting manuscript well worth\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e the\u003c\/span\u003e additional study.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe second text bears some handwritten marginalia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis manuscript is written in a Gothic bastarda script, in brown ink. There are numerous, ornate Lombard initials throughout, mostly in red, with some blue and green examples as well, some bearing featherwork, and general rubrication through the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis manuscript is written in a 2 column, 46-line format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThree compiled manuscripts in folio, 72, 52 ½, 21 leaves\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis manuscript is in good shape, with minor rubbing and wear to the binding. There is minor browning and scattered staining throughout, and at least 30 leaves bear damp staining to the upper margin. There are a few ink stains as well, and the last page of the third text is torn with restorations. Using the power of my heavily congested nose, it seems the previous owner smoked some type of tobacco, and I leave it up to the future owner on the best method for removing the scent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49740486017335,"sku":"","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20240925_161200.jpg?v=1728407570"},{"product_id":"breviary-use-of-the-canons-regular-of-saint-rufus-spain-circa-1400-latin-manuscript-on-parchment","title":"Breviary, Use of the Canons Regular of Saint Rufus, Spain, Circa 1400. Latin Manuscript on Parchment","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTitle: Breviary, Use of the Canons Regular of Saint Rufus, Spain, Circa 1400. Latin Manuscript on Parchment\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA substantial 80 leaf fragment of an early \u003c\/span\u003e15th century manuscript Latin Breviary, produced in Spain, during the early 15th century, and following the Use of the Canons Regular of Saint Rufus. The text is written in Latin and is a Gothic script written black ink, with headings in red ink, and capitals in red and blue. There are also Latin annotations from a former owner, contemporary or near contemporary to the 15th century. Likely a clergyman since many appear to be liturgical instructions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAs the main order of Saint Suf was centered in Avignon, this manuscript is a more likely copy within the orbit of Catalan influence, such as the monastery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses, or Cardona, Tortosa, or really any of the cathedral canons who adopted the rule and customs of Saint Rufus in Urgell and Tortosa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis breviary opens with Vespers on the Saturday before the first Sunday of Advent from folio 1. From folio 47, the Office of the Virgin begins, ending abruptly at folio 80, and it is likely the Litany of Saints would have followed shortly after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAs per provenance, though there is no ownership inscriptions or bookplates of any kind, it is a good likelihood that this breviary was commissioned for the use of the monks themselves, owing to the professional, but not particularly luxurious decorations, the usage of multiple inks, and the filigree initials, together with the absence of miniatures and other more complex artistic elements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eScarce on the North American and European market, Spanish Breviaries are an uncommon sight outside of Spain. This manuscript does come with an export license at request.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe manuscript is written in a 29-line format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOne manuscript in 12mo (17.5 x 12.5 cm), 80 leaves on parchment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis manuscript is in very good shape, though lacking any sort of binding. There is a bit of restoration work to the upper right corner of the first leaf. There is an old threaded restoration to leaf 35. There is some light ink staining throughout, heavier to one leaf, with slight letter loss. There is some browning throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49746370232631,"sku":"","price":7000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20240925_145233.jpg?v=1728407022"},{"product_id":"aristotle-s-politics-and-nichomachean-ethics-circa-1275-1300-likely-paris-france-extraordinarily-rare-examples-of-two-substantial-fragments-of-aristotle-s-works-from-the-13th-century-scarcely-seen-on-the-market","title":"Aristotle’s Politics, and Nichomachean Ethics, Circa 1275-1300. Likely Paris, France. Extraordinarily Rare Examples of Two Substantial Fragments of Aristotle’s Works from the 13th Century, Scarcely Seen on the Market","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTitle: Aristotle’s Politics, and Nichomachean Ethics, Circa 1275-1300. Likely Paris, France. Extraordinarily Rare Examples of Two Substantial Fragments of Aristotle’s Works from the 13th Century, Scarcely Seen on the Market. Books I-V of Politics, and VIII-IX of Ethics Following the translations of William of Moerbeke \u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Aristotle; William of Moerbeke \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"_Hlk177505948\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eAn extremely rare late 13th century manuscript containing substantial portions of two of Aristotle’s works, being his Politics, or Politica, and his most notable work on ethics, the Nicomachean Ethics, the manuscript likely produced in France during the fourth quarter of the 13th century. The manuscript is written in Latin, a Gothic textura minuscule script, and in a black ink. There are numerous red and blue initials, varying from 2-8 lines in size, richly decorated with decorated vines and spring work. There are also paragraph marks in red and blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThese two substantial fragments follow the famous translation of William of Moerbeke, who was also the first translator of the Politics into Latin. When referring to Pieter Beullens’ article, \u003ci\u003eRobert Grosseteste and the Fluid History of the Latin 'Nicomachean Ethics',\u003c\/i\u003e study and comparison displays that this manuscript does not follow Robert Grosseteste or Burgundio of Pisa’s efforts, though it is also easier to determine the translator, as, firstly, neither of them had ever translated Aristotle’s Politics. Given that the Politics were translated by roughly circa 1260, Wiliam’s translation is the only possible candidate at that point for the entire manuscript, as it only seems to follow one concise translation. Though a bit over-optimistic to consider, there is also the small likelihood that this manuscript was potentially produced during Moerbeke’s lifetime, though as he passed away in 1286, and there is no inscribed date, this cannot be guaranteed nor confirmed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThe present manuscript contains sections from Books I-V of Politica\/Politics, as well as sections from Books VIII-IX of Ethica\/Nichomachean Ethics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThe sections of Politics are broken into the following:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eBook I concerns the city or \"political community” in comparison with other types of communities and partnerships such as the household, the master\/slave relationship, and the village.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eBook II concerns and studies various views concerning the best regime, opening with an analysis of the regime presented in Plato's Republic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eBook III concerns citizenship and who counts as a citizen. Aristotle asserts that a citizen is anyone who is \"entitled to participate in office, deliberative or judicial\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eBook IV concerns political science, where Aristotle raises and answers the following questions:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003eWhat constitutions are available, and which are best?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003eFor any particular world population according to it’s capabilities and circumstances, which constitution is best?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003eWhat are present state dynamics, how do they wax and wane, and how can individuals affect it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003eAre there simpler constitutional forms to recommend?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eBook V concerns political instability in greater detail, beginning with factionalism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThe present manuscript sections of Nichomachean Ethics are broken into the following:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eBooks VIII and IX expand upon friendship, first introduced as a core theme in Book II. In these books, Aristotle provides a series of philosophical discussions of friendship, displaying just how important the treatment of friendship is to Aristotle’s ethics as a whole. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThis manuscript is written in a 33-line, two column format.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThis manuscript bears the provenance and ownership label of one Dr. Gerhad Eis, a German medievalist, professor, medical historian, manuscript collector, and former member of the Nazi Party (membership number 6,587,459 according to Bundesarchiv R 9361-VIII KARTEI\/7901349), from 1939 to 1945. Given his rather long history of educational positions, and his Party affiliation, a breakdown of his career is as follows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eA professor from 1937-1945 at the German Commercial Academy in Reichenberg and the Comenius University of Bratislava from 1943-1945, Eis, for extremely obvious reasons, found himself unemployed at the end of the war, later finding his way back into work in 1946 as an assistant at the library of Freising Cathedral.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eFrom 1947-1953, he was appointed as lecturer and eventual head of the German Institute at the Philosophical and Theological College of Bamberg (now known as the University of Bamberg), briefly served as a lecturer from 1949-1950 at the Philosophical and Theological College in Passau (now known as the University of Passau), and lectured from 1950-1955, at the Technical University of Munich. Until 1955, he was appointed associate professor for German Philology and Folklore of the Middle Ages at the University of Heidelberg, later becoming chair of said field in 1957, succeeding Eugen Fehrle. He also took up a visiting professorship at the University of Maryland in 1967, attaining professor emeritus in 1973.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eFrom teaching and publishing material on Old High German, Saxon, and Middle High German language and literature, Eis maintained a focus on the research of the cultural and medical history of the Middle Ages, and the literature of humanism. To no surprise, he also collected medieval manuscripts for his own private collection. What remains of his collection, asides from examples sold at auction, remain with his son, Helko Eis, in the private collection in Heidelberg. There is no historical indication that any of the items in his collection were acquired in an unscrupulous nature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eTo the rear pastedown, there is an inscription indicating that Eis acquired this manuscript in August 1940, from the antiquarian bookselling firm P. Dienemann Nachf. (formerly E. Rechenberger), managed by Georg Leukroth (1899–2000) at the time, located in Dresden. Originally located in located on König-Johann-Straße (Wilsdruffer Straße today), the store was later destroyed during the Dresden Bombings in 1945, though Leukroth continued to operate from his personal residence until death, the business later taken over by his daughter, with no plan to continue after her passing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThis manuscript’s 19th century half vellum binding, as well as the notes made by him, indicates the manuscript was already in an incomplete state well before Leukroth acquired it. There is no indication of any prior ownership inscriptions or library marks being removed in an unscrupulous manner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThis manuscript is not recorded on Artloss, or as a lost or missing manuscript on the Schoenberg database, the ILAB Missing Books Registry, or on several of the databases listed on the Holocaust Looted Art and Cultural Property Initiative. Appropriate steps have been taken in researching provenance to confirm whether repatriation of this manuscript is required. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eManuscripts on Aristotle’s works are already rare on the market, and for a manuscript edition that is not simply a commentary, that makes this significantly rarer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThis Codex also represents only the second time in recent decades that a substantial portion of the Moerbeke translation of the Ethica has come to market, the most recent example being at the Christies' sale of 14 Dec 2022, selling for 138,600 GBP (Not including Hammer Premium). Bear in mind, their copy was significantly more complete, and was in octavo format with 90 leaves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eOne manuscript in folio, 50 leaves on parchment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177505948;\"\u003eThis manuscript is in good shape, with some rubbing and wear to the binding, the spine somewhat cracked, and one of the rear corners bent. A good rebind or restoration is advised. About 9 leaves have been subject to trimming of the margins, without text loss. Two more leaves (Folios 40-41) have been trimmed in a very unusual fashion, with some text loss to three lines of text from one column. There is some old staining to the bottom right corner of the leaves, with a bit of parchment loss, not affecting text. There is minor foxing throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49747849511223,"sku":"","price":125000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20240925_162243.jpg?v=1728400870"},{"product_id":"horae-use-of-rome-heures-a-lusaige-de-romme-book-of-hours-circa-1500-1510-with-a-bonus-leaf-from-cy-commence-la-destruction-de-hierusalem","title":"Horae, Use of Rome. Heures a l'usaige de Romme, Book of Hours Circa 1500-1510. With a Bonus Leaf from Cy commence la Destruction de Hierusalem","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"_Hlk177231521\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eTitle: Horae, Use of Rome. Heures a l'usaige de Romme, Book of Hours Circa 1500-1510. With a Bonus Leaf from Cy commence la Destruction de Hierusalem\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Gilles Hardouyn\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Paris, Gilles Hardouyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177231521;\"\u003eAn early 16th century Book of Hours, being a rarer copy printed on paper, and from the workshop of Gilles Hardouyn. There appears to also be one additional leaf at the end, being a leaf from the four-leaf work Cy commence la Destruction de Hierusalem avec le jugement de Pylate, qui commenca ou temps de Neron empereur, quarante ans après la mort de nostre seigneur Jesuchrist. There are five woodcuts to the single leaf.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177231521;\"\u003eThis book is printed in a 26-line format, in a gothic text, and is fully rubricated throughout in red and blue, with some larger initials being a combination of both colors. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177231521;\"\u003eThis Hours is profusely illustrated throughout, with 14 near-full page and full page metalcut illustrations, along with 21 smaller in-text metalcuts, and hundreds of border metalcuts, with numerous figures, saints, creatures, and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177231521;\"\u003eFrom 1500-1550, the brothers Gilles and Germain Hardouyn produced hundreds of printed Books of Hours from their workshop in Paris. Gilles served as the printer, and Germain was the illustrator, being registered in the Guild of Illuminators, and later printing and publishing under his own sign. With such quality of works being produced from their workshop, these printed Books of Hours could often be mistaken as illuminated manuscripts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177231521;\"\u003eLeaves A1 (the title) and B1 are lacking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177231521;\"\u003eThis volume has been rebound in a contemporary style, by Canadian bookbinder Keith Felton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177231521;\"\u003eOne volume in octavo, 103 of 105 leaves, plus one additional leaf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: _Hlk177231521;\"\u003eThis volume is in good shape, with some minor scuffing to the binding. Part of the leaf containing the Zodiac Man is lacking, with the gap carefully restored with period paper. The lower right corners of leaves H8, N3, and N5 are lacking, and carefully restored with period paper as well, though not obscuring text. The upper right corner of B5 is lacking as well, also restored. Several other leaves have old tears and older repairs. There is foxing and staining throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49753212682551,"sku":"","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20240924_221538.jpg?v=1728497334"},{"product_id":"robertus-caracciolus-opera-1479-containing-sermones-quadragesimales-de-poenitentia-sermones-de-adventu-sermones-de-timore-divinorum-iudiciorum-and-much-more-two-of-three-complete-works","title":"Robertus Caracciolus Opera, 1479. 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This Hours is profusely illustrated throughout, with 9 of 18 metalcuts (4 half page), with illuminated frames, and beautiful metalcut frames to every other page, with delightful border illustrations. There is an almanac, dated 1511-1521.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFrom 1510-1550, the brothers Gilles and Germain Hardouyn produced hundreds of printed Books of Hours from their workshop in Paris. Gilles served as the printer, and Germain was the illustrator, being registered in the Guild of Illuminators, and later printing and publishing under his own sign. With such quality of works being produced from their workshop, these printed Books of Hours could often be mistaken as illuminated manuscripts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis Book of Hours is printed in a 28-line format, with hundreds of illuminated 1 and 2-line initials against a red or blue background. 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There is some foxing throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49757975150903,"sku":"","price":725.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20240925_160938.jpg?v=1728508186"},{"product_id":"a-suite-of-ten-folios-with-large-miniatures-from-an-early-shahnameh-or-book-of-kings-likely-safavid-iran-circa-1600-1650-persian-illuminated-manuscripts-on-paper","title":"A Suite of Ten Folios with Large Miniatures from an Early Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, Likely Safavid Iran. Circa 1600-1650. 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Persian Illuminated Manuscripts on Paper \u003cbr\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAbu'l-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAn early 17th century suite of seven folios, each containing a large, heavily detailed half-page miniature from an early copy of the Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, likely produced in Safavid Iran, written in Arabic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAlso known as The Book of Kings, or شاهنامه, the work is a tremendous epic poem written by famed Persian poet Ferdowsi between 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. There are roughly 50,000 distichs or couplets, making it one of the world's longest epic poems, and the longest epic poem created by a single author.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eThe tales stem from all points of Persia’s mythological and historic pasts, from the mythical age of such figures such as Tahmuras, Jamshid, Zahhak and more, to the Heroic age (about two thirds are devoted to this), going from Manuchehr's reign until the conquest of Alexander the Great (referred to as Iskander in this work). Lastly there are also some historical accounts, up to the seventh century, with the fall of the Sassanids, and Arab conquest of Persia, albeit narrated in a romanticized fashion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eThe miniatures are beautifully painted in gouache and gold illumination, the text being written in a four-column format of nasta‘liq script written horizontally and diagonally in black ink, and there are three illuminated headings with the title of the chapter. All the borders are nicely illuminated as well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eOf these 10 miniatures, 6 of them are court scenes yet to be identified. Of the identified miniatures, the first is a scene from the tale of Zahhak and Kaveh (two figures of Iranian mythology), with the tyrant Zahhak being at last laid low by the heroic blacksmith Kaveh (Zahhak can be distinguished by the twin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003esnakes protruding from his shoulders). Next is a general battle scene, of two warriors facing off against a horse archer. There is also at least one miniature displaying what appears to be one of Bahram Gur (Sasanian emperor Bahram V, also known as King of Kings from 420-438) and one of his seven brides. The final scene is that of mourning, possibly of Forud, ancient king of Kelat, shortly after being mortally wounded by Rehham, the son of Gudarz.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eThe leaves are written in a 23-line format.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eTen illuminated manuscript leaves on glossy cream paper, sizes range from 22.5 x 13.8 cm to 23.1 x 16.1 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eThese leaves are in very good shape despite having been trimmed, with scattered staining to the leaves, heavier to the verso of several examples. There is a bit of paint scraped away to each of the miniatures, heaviest to one of them, though the illumination work is largely unaffected. 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With 67 Magnificent and Massive Illuminated Medallions and Countless Gold Verse Markers and additional Decorations\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA rather impressive gathering of leaves from what a monumental and beautifully illuminated Abbasid Qur’an, produced in the late 12th century, likely in Iraq. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe manuscript is written in a sepia ink, in an early Rayhani script, one which is still surprisingly easier to read than some Naskh scripts. For context, Reyhani is one of the major canonical scripts of Perso-Arabic calligraphy, first developed by the calligrapher Ibn al-Bawwab, sometime around the very late 10th or early 11th century. It has been often likened as a finer variant of Muhaqqaq script. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis manuscript is beautifully illuminated, with 67 magnificent, illuminated medallions and other large devices serving as verse-counts and division markers. Each medallion has a diameter of 6cm, while the other devices can be as tall as 10cm in height. 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Even as an unbound gathering, it truly shines as a monumental example among Quranic manuscripts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eIt should be noted, that while most Qur’ans were written on paper by the 11th century, it was not done using the type of laid paper introduced to Europe in the 12th century. Rather, it has a surprisingly strong quality and glossy surface to it, and it has not been uncommon for the average layperson to mistake it for vellum. Unsurprisingly, this type of paper was admittedly still expensive for the period.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe manuscript itself was acquired from a private London collector, who purchased it sometime during the 1970s to 1980s. Sister leaves from this very same manuscript have sold at Christies during the April 7th, 2006, sale of Indian and Islamic Works of Art, and the Bonhams Islamic Works of Art Sales of October 2000 and 2001 (Referred to as an Important Qur’an). It is not entirely confirmed who has acquired these leaves, or whether they are all different parties.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe manuscript is written in a 12-line format.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne illuminated manuscript on glossed paper, 27 large leaves (Each measuring roughly 43 x 32.1 cm)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis manuscript is in good shape, with some staining to the paper, some heavier to the margins, others heavier within the text. All leaves have undergone various degrees of restoration work, with the margins being especially reinforced, and small holes or tears being professionally repaired. Two leaves in particular are more worn and degraded to the margins, with one suffering minor text loss. A few of the illuminated medallions have been affected by the margin restorations or are partially lacking. Judging by the light remnants of white cardboard to a few margins, it can be assumed that these leaves were once mounted and framed by a prior owner. 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Beautiful Calligraphy and Detailed Initials\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Nivard Kraysig\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA charming 18th century German manuscript, also known as a gebetbuch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe text is written in a flowing, if somewhat scrawly, Kurrent script, using black ink. There are large, opulent calligraphical headings, mostly in red, but also in gold ink at times as well. The decorations are mostly limited to large graphic initials and intertwined lines in the shape of a heart and geometric patterns on a few pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe writer on of this manuscript is named on page 513, one Nivard Kraysig. The inscription is as follows: \"I wrote this book with joy and love. Whoever prays it diligently should also think of Nivard Kraysig.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThough the date of production is lacking, the binding and script would suggest that the manuscript was written sometime during the second half of the 18th century, with the French styled tooled binding appropriate of the period, and the decorations more reminiscent of 18th century French printed head and tail pieces.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere are a few empty pages at the end with notes in a later hand, with dated between 1813 and 1855.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere is a watermark that can be seen at page 518, though not identified.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eBehind page 44, 15 additional leaves have been inserted in a slightly different script, though clearly trying to stay in line with the main manuscript.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e12 leaves are lacking, being the title page, 45-46, 57-58, 73-76, 185-186, 235-236, and 279-280\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne finely bound manuscript in quarto, 493 of 517+12 pages \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis manuscript is in good shape, the binding heavily rubbed and worn, some with leather loss, notably to the hinges. One of the cords to the rear board is broken, the board loosened, but holding. There is some soiling and staining throughout, heaviest to the first and last leaves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50608459481399,"sku":"","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20250508_121743.jpg?v=1747072637"},{"product_id":"the-resurrection-massive-historiated-initial-of-the-letter-d-early-16th-century-italy-leaf-from-a-manuscript-antiphonary","title":"The Resurrection. Massive Historiated Initial of the Letter D, Early 16th Century, Italy. Leaf From a Manuscript Antiphonary","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTitle: The Resurrection. Massive Historiated Initial of the Letter D, Early 16th Century, Italy. Leaf From a Manuscript Antiphonary\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA tremendous leaf from a Latin manuscript antiphonary produced on parchment, with a massive historiated initial depicting The Resurrection of Christ, produced in Italy (possibly the central region), and sometime during the early 16th century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe letter is painted in a brilliant variety of colors, bordered with gold and blue, and an illuminated halo to Christ in the initial. There are lines of text and musical notation to the recto and verso, written in a Gothic script, in black and red ink, and two smaller, but impressively detailed initials to the verso of the leaf.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne illuminated manuscript on parchment, 67.5 x 48 cm, Initial Size of 20 x 20.5 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis manuscript is in very good shape, with minor wear and creasing to the parchment, and a bit of soiling to the margins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50608647078199,"sku":"","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/20250429_231429.jpg?v=1747078287"},{"product_id":"saint-lawrence-massive-historiated-initial-of-the-letter-g-early-16th-century-italy-leaf-from-a-manuscript-antiphonary","title":"Saint Lawrence. 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Leaf From a Manuscript Antiphonary\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA tremendous leaf from a Latin manuscript antiphonary produced on parchment, with a massive historiated initial depicting Saint Lawrence, produced in Italy (possibly the central region), and sometime during the early 16th century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe letter is painted in a brilliant variety of colors, bordered with gold and blue, and an illuminated halo to Saint Lawrence in the initial. There are lines of text and musical notation to the recto and verso, written in a Gothic script, in black and red ink, and two smaller, but impressively detailed initials to the verso of the leaf. The letter also has a zoomorphic design of a birdlike face and beak.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne illuminated manuscript on parchment, 67.5 x 48 cm, Initial Size of 21.2 x 21.2 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis manuscript is in very good shape, with minor wear and creasing to the parchment, and a bit of soiling to the margins. 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Leaf From a Manuscript Antiphonary\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA tremendous leaf from a Latin manuscript antiphonary produced on parchment, with a massive historiated initial depicting Pentecost, produced in Italy (possibly the central region), and sometime during the early 16th century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe letter is painted in a brilliant variety of colors, bordered with gold and blue, and illuminated halos to Christ and the various Saints in the initial. There are lines of text and musical notation to the recto and verso, written in a Gothic script, in black and red ink, and a smaller, but impressively detailed initial to the verso of the leaf.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne illuminated manuscript on parchment, 67 x 48.2 cm, Initial Size of 22.2 x 21.2 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis manuscript is in very good shape, with some wear and creasing to the parchment, and some soiling to the margins. 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The Third Giunta Pontificale, Beautifully Illustrated with Over 150 Woodcuts\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Catholic Church\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eIn florentissima Venetiarum vrbe, per spectabilem virum dominum Lucamantonium de giunta florentinum\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA scarce early 16th century edition of the Roman Pontifical\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003econtaining the rites performed exclusively by the pope and bishops of the Catholic Church, predating the official edition published under Clement VIII in 1596. This edition is divided into three parts, with two of three woodcut title pages within historiated borders for each one, and the text printed in red and black throughout, with printed rubrication in red.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe first section is devoted to the blessings, consecration, and ordination of abbots, abbesses, and other members of the clergy, as well as the coronation of kings, queens and emperors; the second section describes the consecration and benediction of church properties, their furnishings, and ritual objects; and the final section deals primarily with temporal rituals and celebrations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere are numerous woodcut initials and over 150 woodcut illustrations throughout (including a magnificent full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion), depicting the rites described in the text, as well as musical notation in black on red staves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere are a few marginal annotations, and bookplates for Michaelis Tomkinson Franche Hall Worcestershire and W. H. R. Blacking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e5 leaves are lacking, being leaf 104, and leaves 239 to 242. Leaf 104 has been supplemented by an early hand, and very beautifully handwritten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eUSTC records 40 existing copies of this edition in libraries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne finely bound volume in folio, (6)+248 of 253+(1) leaves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis volume is in very good shape, with some rubbing and wear to the binding, and some stress to the hinges. There is a small tear to the upper margins of leaves 251 and 252, partially affecting a border woodcut. There is a small hole to the last three leaves, obscuring several letters. There is light, scattered staining throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616099963191,"sku":"","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20250508_180819.jpg?v=1747246340"},{"product_id":"ex-emendationibus-adque-commentariis-bernardi-saraceni-ioannis-petri-vallae-plauti-comoediae-xx-1511-illustrated-plautus","title":"Ex emendationibus, adque commentariis Bernardi Saraceni, Ioannis Petri Vallae Plauti comoediae XX, 1511. 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Illustrated Plautus\u003cbr\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTitus Maccius Plautus; Bernardo Saraceni; Giampietro Valla\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eVenezia, per Lazzaro Soardi\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Poor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAn early 16th century 1511 edition of Plautus' Comoediae XX, being the second Saracenus-Valla edition, and the most lavishly illustrated Plautus of the Renaissance! This work is richly illustrated with roughly 300 of 316 beautiful woodcuts throughout, and there are countless woodcut initials throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eLeaf X, bearing the woodcut of the audience, as lacking, as well as the last seven leaves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne vellum bound volume in folio, CCXXVII of CCXXVIII, LXXXII of LXXXIX leaves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis volume is in poor shape, the vellum binding detached, some staining throughout, and damage to the first and last handful of leaves, the last leaves being more damaged. There is some staining throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616270684471,"sku":"","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20250508_180426.jpg?v=1747247932"},{"product_id":"p-m-v-omnia-opera-diligenti-castigatione-exculta-aptissimisque-ornata-figuris-commentantibus-servio-donato-probo-domitio-landino-antonioque-mancinello-viris-clarissimis-1514-extremely-scarce-and-illustrated-virgil","title":"P.M.V. Omnia Opera diligenti castigatione exculta, aptissimisque ornata figuris, commentantibus Servio, Donato, Probo, Domitio, Landino, Antonioque Mancinello viris clarissimis, 1514. Extremely Scarce and Illustrated Virgil","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eP.M.V. Omnia Opera diligenti castigatione exculta, aptissimisque ornata figuris, commentantibus Servio, Donato, Probo, Domitio, Landino, Antonioque Mancinello viris clarissimis, 1514. Extremely Scarce and Illustrated Virgil, with 18th Century Woman Ownership. No Recent Copies Recorded at Auction\u003cbr\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003ePublius Vergilius Maro; Domizio Calderino; Aelius Donatus; Cristoforo Landino; Antonio Mancinelli; Marcus Valerius Probus\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eVenezia, per Bartolomeo Zani\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAn extremely scarce early 16th century edition of the Works of Virgil, being the Zani imprint of 1514, and containing the commentaries of Landino, Probus and Donatus from earlier imprints, as well as the most newly added commentary of Mancinelli.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis edition is beautifully illustrated with 17 large woodcuts, one for the beginning of each book within every text. There are numerous woodcut initials throughout as well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere are several ownership inscriptions for one Marie Derebier, most likely an 18th century owner, judging by the script. I am unable to find other books with her exlibris inscription, but it is interesting to imagine what the early printed collection of an 18th century lady of France could look like.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe preliminary leaves and the title, as well as leaves 355-387 and the last text leaf are lacking. The Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid are textually complete. The Maphaeus Vegius is mostly present, but incomplete.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eCollation and digital comparisons indicate that the 1514 Zani imprint is the likely match (USTC 862696), due to the fact that the 1508 and 1510 editions have slightly different header placements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eUSTC records six existing copies of this edition in libraries. There do not appear to be any auction records for ANY of the Zani editions, which is an unusual sight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne finely bound volume in folio, 355 of 387 leaves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis volume is in very good shape, with some rubbing and wear to the binding, with the head of the spine split. There is staining to the right-side margin of leaves 130 to 186, significantly heavier to the middle count of those leaves, and lighter at the beginning and end. There is very little soiling or staining elsewhere, only heavier to the first and last leaves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619528872247,"sku":"","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20250508_233736.jpg?v=1747330988"},{"product_id":"q-horatii-flacci-odarum-libri-quattuor-epodi-carmen-saeculare-porphyrio-anto-manci-ascensio-interpretibus-1520","title":"Q. Horatii Flacci Odarum libri quattuor Epodi Carmen saeculare Porphyrio Anto. Manci. 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Ascensio interpretibus, 1520\u003cbr\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eQuintus Horatius Flaccus; Josse Bade; Giovanni Britannico; Antonio Mancinelli; Pomponius Porphyrio\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eVenetiis, per Gulielmum de Fontaneto de Monteferrato\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA scarce, early 16th century edition of the works of Horatius Flaccus, containing the Four Books of Odes by Epodes, the secular poem by Porphyry, Antonius Mancius, the Ascension to the interpreters, the poetical art of the same, two books of Sermons, as many Epistles, by John Britan, the interpreter of Brixus. Added, are lengthy commentaries by Josse Bade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe work is illustrated with 12 woodcuts, beginning with a large example to folio I. There are 55 large woodcut initials, and hundreds of smaller ones throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe first six preliminary leaves, including the title page, are lacking. The main work is textually complete.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eUSTC records 30 existing copies of this edition in libraries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne volume in folio, CCXXXIIII leaves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis volume is in very good shape, with some rubbing and wear to the binding, and the hinges split. The first and last leaves are stained and mounted for restoration. There is some staining throughout, heavier to the first 30 and last 30 or so leaves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619617771831,"sku":"","price":1275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20250508_233358.jpg?v=1747334588"},{"product_id":"the-historie-of-quintus-curtius-conteynng-the-actes-of-the-greate-alexander-1561-third-english-edition-of-rufus-s-alexander-the-great","title":"The Historie of Quintus Curtius, Conteynng the Actes of the Greate Alexander, 1561. 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Written with dramatic flair, it follows Alexander from his march through Phrygia and cutting the Gordian knot. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe first four preliminary leaves and first main text leaf (A1-B1) are lacking, including the title, and have been provided in photocopy facsimile. The final blank HH4 is lacking as well. The main text is otherwise complete. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe contemporary blind stamped calf binding has been preserved, with some margins and corners of the covers restored, and the spine having been rebacked, and the remaining portion of original spine relaid.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eESTC records 12 existing copies in libraries, only within the United Kingdom and United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne finely bound volume in quarto, 226 of 227 leaves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis volume is in good shape, with some rubbing and wear to the original leather. There is extensive restoration to leaves B2, B3, and HH3, with some text loss, and marginal restoration elsewhere. There is a small burn hole to the outer margin of D4, affecting the last letter of a line, and a few gatherings with a small wormhole to the text. There is mottling and staining throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50623987319095,"sku":"","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20250516_180553.jpg?v=1747443413"},{"product_id":"actes-and-monuments-of-matters-most-speciall-and-memorable-happening-in-the-church-with-an-universall-history-of-the-same-1596-97-the-fifth-edition-of-foxe-s-great-book-of-martyrs-with-almost-150-woodcuts","title":"Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Universall History of the Same, 1596-97. The Fifth Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs, With Almost 150 Woodcuts","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Nunito; color: #111827; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eActes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Universall History of the Same. Wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles and great persecutions against the true Martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by Heathen Emperours, as now lately practised by Romish Prelates, especially in this Realme of England and Scotland. Now againe, as it was recognised, perused, and recommended to the studious reader, 1596-97. The Fifth Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: John Foxe\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Nunito; color: #111827; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eLondon, Peter Short, by the assign of Richard Daye\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAn uncommon late 16th century, and Fifth Edition of John Foxe’s ecclesiastical history, Actes and Monuments, and more famously known as the Book of Martyrs, the first imprint produced following his death in 1583, and containing the six-verse encomium in memory of the author by John Hopkins, included at the end of the preliminary leaves to volume One.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003ePublished rather early in Queen Elizabeth the First’s Reign, the work is a polemical account of the sufferings of Protestants under the Catholic Church, focusing particularly on England and Scotland. The powerful Protestant messaging in Foxe’s work, combined with the narrative and visual impact of the martyred English very much helped shape the perception of Catholicism among the English and Scottish for centuries to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eVolume I is an \"Ecclesiastical History\" containing \"the acts and monuments [no capitals] of thynges passed in every kynges tyme in this realm [England], specially in the Church of England\". It describes \"persecutions, horrible troubles, the suffering of martyrs [new], and other such thinges incident ... in England and Scotland, and [new] all other foreign nations\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eVolume II has its own title page and, again, an altered subject, being an \"Ecclesiastical History conteyning the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis edition has been numerous woodcut illustrations, being roughly 140 large in text examples, with the cuts to the second volume providing vividly brutal imagery of various Protestant martyrs in their final stages of life, whether burnt at the stake, beheaded, or executed in some other gruesome fashion. There is also a rather large and decorated historiated initial at the beginning of the dedication, depicting Queen Elizabeth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere is an early ownership inscription of one 'Mary Hope, May 1659' to the lower margin of the second volume title page, and a bookplate for one Willaim Horton Esq, Chaderton to the front pastedowns of each volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe first volume has been rebacked with only the original upper board preserved. The second volume has been fully rebound in matching dark calf, with blind stamped borders to the upper boards, and gilt lettering to the spines of both volumes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe volume one title page, as well as both folding woodcuts are lacking, though the folding insert of Windsor Castle has been replaced in facsimile. The main work is textually complete.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eETST records 42 existing copies in libraries. But of those 42, 18 are either imperfect, incomplete, or simply orphan volumes. It is a common note that the folding plates are often lacking as well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTwo finely bound volumes in large folio, (26 of 28)+1-718+719-1949+(27) pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThese volumes are in very good shape, with minor rubbing and wear to the binding, less so to the modern leather. Leaf Aaaa2 in the Second volume has small repairs to the lower corners of the margins, and a prior ownership inscription has been erased. The first three and last few leaves of volume One has repairs to the outer margins. A few other leaves have minor marginal repairs. There is very light, scattered, soiling throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50623987548471,"sku":"","price":12000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20250516_181219.jpg?v=1747443523"},{"product_id":"actes-and-monuments-of-matters-most-speciall-and-memorable-happenyng-in-the-church-with-an-uniuersall-history-of-the-same-1583-the-scarce-fourth-edition-of-foxe-s-great-book-of-martyrs-profusely-illustrated","title":"Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happenyng in the Church, with an Uniuersall History of the Same, 1583. The Scarce Fourth Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs, Profusely Illustrated","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTitle: Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happenyng in the Church, with an Uniuersall History of the Same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, 1583. The Scarce Fourth Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: John Foxe\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Nunito; color: #111827; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eLondon, John Daye\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA scarce late 16th century, and Fourth Edition of John Foxe’s ecclesiastical history, Actes and Monuments, and more famously known as the Book of Martyrs, largely being a reprint of his 1570 Second Edition, but still being one of his lifetime imprints.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003ePublished rather early in Queen Elizabeth the First’s Reign, the work is a polemical account of the sufferings of Protestants under the Catholic Church, focusing particularly on England and Scotland. The powerful Protestant messaging in Foxe’s work, combined with the narrative and visual impact of the martyred English very much helped shape the perception of Catholicism among the English and Scottish for centuries to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eVolume I is an \"Ecclesiastical History\" containing \"the acts and monuments [no capitals] of thynges passed in every kynges tyme in this realm [England], specially in the Church of England\". It describes \"persecutions, horrible troubles, the suffering of martyrs [new], and other such thinges incident ... in England and Scotland, and [new] all other foreign nations\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eVolume II has its own title page and, again, an altered subject, being an \"Ecclesiastical History conteyning the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere are numerous woodcuts throughout, with the cuts to the second volume providing vividly brutal imagery of various Protestant martyrs in their final stages of life, whether burnt at the stake, beheaded, or executed in some other gruesome fashion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe title page to volume one is lacking, as are the 15 preliminary leaves, the initial text leaf A1, leaves A6, D1, D2, D5 \u0026amp; D6, and the Poysoning of King John folding plate. Leaves A1, A6, D1, D2, D5 \u0026amp; D6 and the King John plate are provided in facsimile. Other than the folding plate, none of the in-text woodcuts are lost.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere is a bookplate for one George Weare Braikenridge of Broomwell House to the upper pastedown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe first volume has been bound in near contemporary blind panelled calf, being rebacked and repaired to the corners. The second volume is in modern blind panelled calf, with red morocco title labels to the spines of each volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe second volume is lacking the Ridley\/Latimer and Bucer\/Paulus folding plate, and the last five index leaves, also provided in facsimile.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eESTC records 30 existing copies of this edition in libraries. Of those 30 copies, 15 are either defective, imperfect, or otherwise orphan volumes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTwo finely bound volumes in large folio, 293 of 305+307-373+373-1221, 1223-2110+2112-2154+(22 of 32) pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThese volumes are in very good shape, with some rubbing and wear to the original calf. A few leaves bear repaired torn margins and have occasional loss mostly of marginal notes, and there are a few repaired closed tears. There is some toning and marginal browning, as well as old dust soiling scattered throuhgout. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50623987646775,"sku":"","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20250516_181135.jpg?v=1747443571"},{"product_id":"the-first-second-volume-of-the-ecclesiasticall-history-contayning-the-actes-and-monumentes-of-thinges-passed-in-every-kinges-time-in-this-realme-1576-the-third-edition-of-foxe-s-great-book-of-martyrs-vividly-illustrated-with-numerous-woodcuts","title":"The First [\u0026 Second] Volume of the Ecclesiasticall History Contayning the Actes and Monumentes of Thinges Passed in Every Kinges Time, in this Realme, 1576. The Third Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs, Vividly Illustrated with Numerous Woodcuts","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Nunito; color: #111827; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe First [\u0026amp; Second] Volume of the Ecclesiasticall History Contayning the Actes and Monumentes of Thinges Passed in Every Kinges Time, in this Realme, Especially in the Churche of England Principally to be Noted. With a full discourse of such persecutions, horrible troubles, the suffring of martirs, the severe punishment of persecutors, 1576. The Third Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs, Vividly Illustrated\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: John Foxe\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Nunito; color: #111827; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eLondon, John Daye\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAn uncommon late 16th century, and Third Edition of John Foxe’s ecclesiastical history, Actes and Monuments, and more famously known as the Book of Martyrs, largely being a reprint of his 1570 Second Edition, but still being one of his lifetime imprints.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003ePublished rather early in Queen Elizabeth the First’s Reign, the work is a polemical account of the sufferings of Protestants under the Catholic Church, focusing particularly on England and Scotland. The powerful Protestant messaging in Foxe’s work, combined with the narrative and visual impact of the martyred English very much helped shape the perception of Catholicism among the English and Scottish for centuries to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eVolume I is an \"Ecclesiastical History\" containing \"the acts and monuments [no capitals] of thynges passed in every kynges tyme in this realm [England], specially in the Church of England\". It describes \"persecutions, horrible troubles, the suffering of martyrs [new], and other such thinges incident ... in England and Scotland, and [new] all other foreign nations\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eVolume II has its own title page and, again, an altered subject, being an \"Ecclesiastical History conteyning the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis edition has been numerous woodcut illustrations (and one folding plate), being roughly 150 large in text examples, with the cuts to the second volume providing vividly brutal imagery of various Protestant martyrs in their final stages of life, whether burnt at the stake, beheaded, or executed in some other gruesome fashion. There is also a rather large and decorated historiated initial at the beginning of the dedication, depicting Queen Elizabeth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere is a bookplate of one Elkan Nathan Nadler, designed by May Sandheim, and dated 1902 to the upper pastedown.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA total of 27 leaves and three folding plates are lacking (largely preliminary and index), being the original title page to volume one, which has been supplemented by a title page from the 1570 Second Edition. Also lacking are four other preliminary leaves, and pages 153-162. Volumes Two is lacking the last four main text leaves, and the 14-leaf index and colophon as well. Three of the four folding plates are lacking, but the Poysoning of King John is present. Surprisingly, none of the missing text leaves contained any woodcuts. ESTC records 37 existing copies of this edition in libraries. Of those 37 copies, 14 are either imperfect, incomplete, or in a couple cases, simply orphan volumes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTwo volumes finely bound in one folio, (18 of 26)+\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e762 of 771+(3)+773-1820+1833-1868+1848 of 1857-2008 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe volume is in near contemporary calf, albeit with some modern repairs to the upper and lower spine compartments, the joints, board corners, and upper board near the fore-edge also being repaired, and a modern calf title label being inserted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThis volume is in very good shape, with very little rubbing or wear to the binding. The supplemented Volume 1 title page is torn at the fore edge, with a bit of loss, and repaired. The folding plate has been repaired and backed for protection, as has the final page to Volume 1, with the large woodcut of the “Allegory of Christian Justice”. There is some marginal fraying, with a few leaves slightly cropped to the margins, and several leaves worn or torn at the margins, with the occasional bit of text loss and a few repairs, especially to the last handful of leaves. A small upper corner to pages 1761-1762 is lacking but has been supplemented by hand to replace missing text. There is minor, scattered browning and soiling, with a bit of damp-staining at the foot of the pages throughout much of the volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50623987712311,"sku":"","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/IMG_20250516_181108.jpg?v=1747443570"}],"url":"https:\/\/thatguywiththebooks.com\/collections\/june-summer-sale-2026.oembed?page=4","provider":"That Guy With The Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}