Various Leather Bound Collection of Pamphlets Relating to New Hampshire and Massachusetts

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• Gutbirio's three Syriac biblical masterworks

  

  Aegidio Gutbirio

  Aegidio Gutbirio Novum Testamentum Syriace; Notae Criticae In Novum Testamentum Syriacum; Lexicon Syriacum

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  Dodman Books

  Hamburg; Aegidio Gutbirio [Typis & Sumptibus Gutbirianis], 1664. Gutbirio’s three Syriac biblical masterworks, published between 1664 and 1667 and bound in a single volume. His Syriac (or Syriac Aramaic) translation and printing of the new testament (1664, paginated from rear) is accompanied by a Syriac/Latin lexicon and new testament concordance (both 1667), with appendices and indexes. There is some foxing and toning, but in general all is in VG internal order bar insect damage to leading edge of first few pages. Engraved title not present. Original boards and endpapers have been sympathetically rebacked in brown calf with new title label. A handsome and significant volume. 12mo. [32], 604pp; [8], 146pp [64]; [8] 55pp less

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• America to be the coming New Jerusalem!

  

  Samuel Sewall; Samuel Willard

  Samuel Sewall; Samuel Willard Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica ad Aspectum Novi Orbis Configura; (with) The Fountain Opened Or, some few Lines towards a description of the New Heaven As It makes to those who stand upon the New Earth

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  Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green, 1727. Second Edition (with additional material). Binding: Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good Condition, with two leaves printed in facsimile. Size: 8″-9″ – Octavo (8vo). 88 pages (64 p., 24 p.). In bringing together his earlier work, Willard’s sermon and an update in his appendix, Sewall marshals the evidence for his position that the Millennium is near and that the discovery and Christianizing of America is a crucial and perhaps final development to that end. Drawing from prophetic passages describing the coming Millennium, Sewall find significance in the discovery of the Americas as the final remaining area to be found. He also sees the New World as a logical place for the New Jerusalem to be established. Drawing upon others, including Manasseh Ben Israel, who speculated that the native Americans were the remnants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, Sewall writes, “God’s removing Israel out of his sight, is no less than three times mentioned; which may insinuate the Remoteness of that Land, into which God by his Providence intended to cast them. And none was no remote, and so much out of sight, as America” (p. 41). The summary description for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Digital Commons provides this assessment: “Often misunderstood, Phænomena illustrates the intricate connection between prophetic exegesis and New England politics, between eschatological speculations and self-representation and policies toward the Indian populations of North America.” Rebound in leather over boards, the leather paneled with a line embossed around the borders of the front and rear cover. Spine scored to give the effect of four compartments. Laid paper has been used for the replacement end papers. Text block is tight. The first two leaves (title page for Sewell and address to Sir William Ashhurst) are printed in facsimile on laid paper and trimmed slightly smaller on the outside edge as the original pages. The original text begins at Sig. B (p. [iii]). There are three holes in the outside margin of that leaf, affecting two of the marginal notes on the recto and another hole on p. 43 in the middle of the page. There is a tide mark on pp. [iii] to 52 and 57-62. Any prefatory pages for Willard’s work have not been reprinted here; the pages go directly from the last page of Sewell to the first of Willard’s. Although the two works are paginated separately, the signatures are continuous (Sewall ends with Sig. S and Willard begins with Sig. T). Willard’s pamphlet is followed by an appendix written by Sewall.  The last two leaves of the appendix to Willard’s pamphlet have been strengthened at the edges with paper tape. Both of the pages are missing their upper corner. The page edges are slightly browned. less

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• Two important Counter-Reformation works

  

  Maurice Chauncy & Arnold Havens

  Maurice Chauncy & Arnold Havens Commentariolus de Vitae Ratuion et Martyrio Octodecim Cartusianorum [bound with] Historica Relatio Duodecim Martyrum Cartusianorum

  $325.00

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  Ghent: Gualterus Manilius, 1608. Binding: Hardcover (Vellum). Illustrator: Johannes Leopold. Book Condition: Very Good Condition. Size: 6″ – Small Octavo (Sm. 8vo). 188 pages. Text is in Latin.  Pagination: [8] 111 [1 blank]; [16] 77 [3] – Missing four pages [leaves 9-12], which Allison & Rogers (1989) describe as “the ‘Index capitum’ . . . [and] the end of dedicatory verses covered over with a new, folding, engraved plate ….” Collation: 4 A-G8 (E2 for F2); a/8 b-f8 – Allison & Rogers (1989) say, “In pt. 2 the title is cancelled and replaced by a bifolium consisting of a new title printed by Manilius and an engraved plate,” but that is not the case here, where the original title page (with no imprint) is retained. This small volume brings together two important Counter-Reformation works: Maurice Chauncy on the martyrdom of 18 Carthusian monks in England under Henry VIII between 1535 and 1540 and Arnold Havens on twelve Carthusians killed in the Netherlands in 1572 by soldiers of William of Orange. Both have a separate title page and one internal engraving by Johannes Leopold (pp. 48 & 27). Chauncy provides what Gribbin (2012) calls “a largely accurate and moving account of the martyrdom” of the English monks, who refused to take the Royal Supremacy oath recognizing Henry VIII as the head of the Church. In rejecting the English king’s claim, the refusal was viewed as treasonous. Chauncy, a monk at the London Charter House, initially refused to take the oath, but relented, thinking it would preserve the monastery. He quickly renounced his oath but was haunted by his brief betrayal. Havens was also a Carthusian monk, an eyewitness to the 1572 massacre from which he escaped. In 1608 he published a detailed account of the event. After Chauncy fled to Belgium he wrote four different versions of his account, one of which was first published in 1550. It appears here in a version adapted by Havens and printed in 1608 to accompany his new work on the Roermond martyrs.  Although there is no indication of the place of publication or printer of Havens’ account, it is included in the initial omnibus title page, which has the imprint of Gualterus Manilius in Ghent. Both are dated 1608. Frans Hendrickx, in a 2008 review in Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, writes, “Without an impressum, it is not known exactly where the first edition [of Havens’ work] was published. Reference has been made to the printed matter in Cologne, Würzburg and Ghent, all from 1608.” He argues “there is good reason to accept that the first place of publication was Ghent,” pointing particularly to the fact that Havens’ letter of dedication is dated February 29, 1608 in Ghent. He adds, “This may mean that Gualterus Manilius, a member of the famous Ghent printing family, published the story first.”  The second part also includes Haven’s “Exhortatio … de observatione disciplinae regularis” (pp. 57-77) in which he praises the regular discipline and solidary life of the Carthusian monks. According to the STCV listing, this oration is mentioned in Vanderhaeghen, F. Bib. Gantoise I, 477, but it is overlooked in the other listings. The omnibus title from the first title page roughly translates, in part, as: “Account of the Life and the Martyrdom of Eighteen Carthusians who in England under King Henry VIII were cruelly murdered for the defense of the Church and against a detestable schism. … Together with a new Historical relation of the twelve Carthusian Martyrs of Roermond in the Year 1572.” There are two errors in the sub-title: (1) The year for the Roermond attack is misprinted as M.D.DXXII (with D rather than L for 72) and (2) “angonem” has been corrected to “agonem” by the extraneous “n” being scratched out. USTC 1003501, STCV 6623698, Allison & Rogers I, 239, Graesse III, p. 220. Allison & Rogers describe this as another issue of their no. 238, “Innocentia et constantia victrix …” (published by Bernard Gualterus, Cologne, 1608), with a revised title. The STCV listing adds that “Manilius substituted the title page and preliminaries” in this printing. Text block is unmarked. There is separation in the bottom three inches at the beginning of signature A in the first work. Sympathetically rebound with laid paper endpapers in the original vellum cover. The outside edge of the first title page has been carefully repaired to replace loss in the lower half of the margin, not affecting any text. There is a handwritten note in brown ink in an early hand at the head of the first title page.  The USTC reports six copies in four institutions; Allison & Rogers report 15 copies in 15 institutions. less

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• An Important and Revealing Copy

  

  Niebuhr, Reinhold

  Niebuhr, Reinhold The Nature and Destiny of Man

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  The Accidental Bookseller

  New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949.  First one volume edition. Signed and inscribed by Niebuhr, adding “I try in this volume to explain that the meaning of life for the individual and the whole of mankind is found in the love as it is revealed in Christ.” An important and revealing copy of this landmark of twentieth-century thought. Exploring the complexities of human nature and the philosophical and theological implications of humanity’s existence, the Nature and Destiny of Man was rated number 18 of the Modern Library’s Top 100 Nonfiction works in the 20th century.  “A collection of theological lectures delivered by Niebuhr in 1939, The Nature and Destiny of Man tackles the Christian concept of human nature, the powerlessness of man, and Christianity’s impact on human history. Delivered just before the outbreak of World War II, these lectures were so influential that Cold War containment policies and aspects of realpolitik can be traced back to them.  Highly recommended for fans of ontology.” less

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