The Third Aldine Homer In 18th c. Red Morocco

Homer

Two octavo volumes: I. [1-7]8, A-Z8, AA-LL8, MM6 II. A-z8, A-H8, I4 THIRD ALDINE EDITION. 18th c. French red morocco, gilt. With the Aldine anchor and dolphin device (A6) on the title page and the verso...>FULL DESCRIPTION<

Homer edited by Camerarius

Homer

Folio: SECOND HERWAGEN EDITION, the first to be edited by Jacob Micyllus (1503-1558) and Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574), who greatly improved the text of Herwagen's 1535 edition. 18th c. English speckled calf.
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The Elzevir Homer in a Contemporary Dutch Prize Binding

Homer
ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ, ΚΑΙ ΕΙΣ ΑΥΤΑΣ ΣΧΟΛΙΑ, Η ΕΞΗΓΗΣΙΣ. Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, Et in easdem scholia, sive interpretatio Didymi. Cum Latina versione accuratissima, Indiceque Graeco locupletissimo Rerum ac variantium lection. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio.

Quarto: FIRST ELZEVIR EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Contemporary, blind-ruled Dutch vellum with large, gilt arabesques at the centers of both boards. With an added engraved title page featuring...>FULL DESCRIPTION<

A Perfect Copy of the Ogilby Odyssey
With 24 full-paged Engraved Illustrations

Large Folio: FIRST EDITION of John Ogilby's translation of Homer's "Odyssey". A beautiful, large copy, containing all of the elements called for in Schuchard's bibliography. Contemporary English paneled calf. >FULL DESCRIPTION<

A Boston Imprint

Hooker, Thomas (1586-1647); Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
The Poor Doubting Christian Drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men from coming to Christ, are discovered. With special helps to recover God's favour. By Thomas Hooker. With an abstract of the author's life

Octavo: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Contemporary scabboard. With Cotton Mather's life of Hooker, in which he writes of his subject, "he had no Superior, and scarce any equal, for the skill of treating a troubled soul." >FULL DESCRIPTION<

Hooker, Richard (1544-1600).
The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, (that learned, godly, judicious, and eloquent divine) vindicating the Church of England, as truly Christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polity.

Folio: FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of Hooker's "defense of the Church of England as established in the reign of Elizabeth I, and more particularly as a defense of Episcopacy and the government of the Church against the objections of the Presbyterians."(PMM) "The edition is of major importance textually." (Hill, Richard Hooker) Contemporary calf.
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Illustrated with 48 Astronomical Woodcuts

Hyginus, C. Julius (1st century A.D.); Aratus, of Soli. (c. 315-c. 245 B.C.); Proclus Diadochus (ca. 410-484)
C. Iulii Hygini Augusti Liberti Fabularum Liber… Eiusdem Poeticon Astronomicon Libri quatuor…. Arati Phaenomena Graece, cum interpretatione Latina. Procli de sphaera libellus, Graece & Latine.

Folio: SECOND EDITION THUS (first ed. 1534). The text of Hyginus is illustrated with... >FULL DESCRIPTION<

The Elizabethan Chrysostom: a Spenser Source

John Chrysostom, Saint (c. 347–407)
An exposition vpon the Epistle of S. Paule the Apostle to the Ephesians: by S. Iohn Chrysostome, Archbishop of Constantinople. Truely and faithfully translated out of Greeke.

Quarto: FIRST EDITION of this anonymous English translation of Chrysostom's commentary on Ephesians. Bound in modern sponged calf. With a fine woodcut title page border with winged victories, a lion and a dragon. The book "contains remarkably exact parallels, both thematic and verbal, to passages in Book I, canto vii...>FULL DESCRIPTION<

Ben Jonson's Complete Works

Jonson, Benjamin (circa 1572-1637)
The Works of Ben Jonson, Which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are now Reprinted in One. To which is added A Comedy, Called the New Inn. With Additions never before Published.
London: Thomas Hodgkin, 1692
$6,500

Folio: FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTED EDITION. With the engraved frontispiece portrait of Jonson as Poet Laureate, by William Elder after Robert Vaughn, bound opposite the title. Bound in contemporary speckled calf. "This is the first edition in one volume and the last of the folio editions."(Pforzheimer) >FULL DESCRIPTION<

"On the Recipients, Signs, and Promise of the Holy Sacrament,
The Flesh and Blood of Christ"

Karlstadt, Andreas Bodenstein von (ca. 1480-1541)
Von den Empfahern: zeichen: und zusag des heylige(n) Sacraments, fleysch unnd bluts Christi.

Quarto: One of five printings, all printed in 1521, of Karlstadt's first treatise on the Lord's Supper of 1521. Karlstadt still holds to the doctrine of corporeal presence, but views it as a sign of divine promise. He argues for the use of the sacrament "in both kinds" by the laity. Modern wrappers.>FULL DESCRIPTION<