The Druids: A Study in Keltic Prehistory by Kendrick, T.D - 1927

Paris: George Steinheil, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to. 4to. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, red morocco labels on spines. Three volumes bound in two. This is a limited edition of 150 copies, this being No. 11. Volume 1: xxvjii, 284 p.p.; Volume 2: 458 p.p., Volume 3: x, 477 p.p. Illustrations throughout text of alchemtical symbols. Light rubbing to spine labels and extremities to boards. Slightly bumped edges. Light foxing throughout. Top edge gilt. A nice set in fine condition. Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) was a French scientist and professor at College de France in Paris. Berthelot believed that all chemical reactions depend on the physical forces that can be measured. He proved that organic compounds can be formed by ordinary methods of chemical manipulation and obey the same principles as inorganic substances. He was the recipient of the Davey Medal (1883) and the Copley Medal (1900) for his scientific achievements. Berthelot was interested in and… Read More

Antwerp: Christoffel Plantijn [printer], 1600. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. With Typus Mundi in Quo Eius Calamitates et Pe ricula nec non Diuini Humanique Amoris Antipathia (R.R.C.S.I.A.). Antwerp, Johannes Cnobbaert, 1652.Third Edition. 32mo. Full calf binding. Morocco label on spine. In custom slip case. Book I: 319 p.p., text illustrated with beautiful b/w engravings of emblems throughout. Collation: A-D8, F-F8, E-I8, K-K8, L-T8, V-V8. Book II: 240 p.p., 2 p.p. publishing information, in-text illustrations throughout. Collation: A-F12. Bookplate 'Kirchen' on front pastedown endpaper, from the library of the Dukes of Arenberg, Germany. Second newer bookplate on front free endpaper, 'Bibliotheque I.G. Schorsch.' Minor rubbing to spine and extremities. Bumped edges. Some errors in pagination and stained pages, light foxing. In second book, some trimmed pages affecting text in a minor way. Tight boards. A scarce and near fine copy. Claudius Paradin and Gabriel Simeoni's book of heroic symbols and… Read More

Paris: Passard, 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. London label of W. Foulsham & Co. pasted over imprint. [Part 2 of 5). contemporary pebbled cloth. [2] 312 p.p. Illustrated with astrological tables, in-text images and decorative tail pieces. Sporadic foxing, some faded pencil checkmarks to margins. Light rubbing to boards, edges. Some fraying at spine tail. Else near fine and scarce copy, published 2 years following the death of famous French fortune teller, Marie Anne Adelaide Le Normand. Only one copy of Part 2 listed in Worldcat at the Wellcome Library. Discusses the planets, 12 houses of the Zodiac, as well as kabbalistic numbers.

Oxford: Printed by H.H., Printer to the University, for Ric Royston and Ric Davis, 1665. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 32mo. Calf. [23] 155 p.p. Bumping to corners. Spine tilted. Wear and scratches to spine. Hinges bound tightly. Note in iron gall ink on leaf facing title page: "this Henry Hammond is thought to be the author of Whole Duty of Man.' The Whole Duty of Man is a Protestant devotional book that was published anonymously, with an introduction by Henry Hammond, though authorship was later attributed to Richard Allestree [1621-1681]. Henry Hammond [1605-1660] was a churchman, preacher, and Royalist sympathizer during the English Civil War. As a theologian, he produced several sermons and religious tracts, and compared texts of the New Testament in his book, "Paraphrase and Annotations Upon all the Books of the New Testament" [1653].

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Vellum. Title in gilt on green calf label on spine. [32] 740 p.p. Slightly bumped spine and edges. Some soiling to boards and extremities. Light foxing, some yellow staining to pages. Ex Libris Neathman Mill Library stamp on rear fly leaf. Tight boards, pages otherwise clean and crisp with decorated black and white initials. A near fine copy. A Dominican friar and writer, Remigio Nannini produced religious as well as secular works, and poetry. Nannini published "two collections of orations drawn by historians (the first, Military Orations collected by all the ancient and modern historians, Venice, 1557)" [Cantimori, Delio. Italian Encyclopedia, 1934]. Nannini also went on to publish the works of St. Thomas Aquinas (1570) at the request of Pope Pius the V.

Paris: George Steinheil, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to. 4to. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, red morocco labels on spines. Three volumes bound in two. This is a limited edition of 150 copies, this being No. 11. Volume 1: xxvjii, 284 p.p.; Volume 2: 458 p.p., Volume 3: x, 477 p.p. Illustrations throughout text of alchemtical symbols. Light rubbing to spine labels and extremities to boards. Slightly bumped edges. Light foxing throughout. Top edge gilt. A nice set in fine condition. Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) was a French scientist and professor at College de France in Paris. Berthelot believed that all chemical reactions depend on the physical forces that can be measured. He proved that organic compounds can be formed by ordinary methods of chemical manipulation and obey the same principles as inorganic substances. He was the recipient of the Davey Medal (1883) and the Copley Medal (1900) for his scientific achievements. Berthelot was interested in and… Read More

Antwerp: Christoffel Plantijn [printer], 1600. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. With Typus Mundi in Quo Eius Calamitates et Pe ricula nec non Diuini Humanique Amoris Antipathia (R.R.C.S.I.A.). Antwerp, Johannes Cnobbaert, 1652.Third Edition. 32mo. Full calf binding. Morocco label on spine. In custom slip case. Book I: 319 p.p., text illustrated with beautiful b/w engravings of emblems throughout. Collation: A-D8, F-F8, E-I8, K-K8, L-T8, V-V8. Book II: 240 p.p., 2 p.p. publishing information, in-text illustrations throughout. Collation: A-F12. Bookplate 'Kirchen' on front pastedown endpaper, from the library of the Dukes of Arenberg, Germany. Second newer bookplate on front free endpaper, 'Bibliotheque I.G. Schorsch.' Minor rubbing to spine and extremities. Bumped edges. Some errors in pagination and stained pages, light foxing. In second book, some trimmed pages affecting text in a minor way. Tight boards. A scarce and near fine copy. Claudius Paradin and Gabriel Simeoni's book of heroic symbols and… Read More

Paris: Passard, 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. London label of W. Foulsham & Co. pasted over imprint. [Part 2 of 5). contemporary pebbled cloth. [2] 312 p.p. Illustrated with astrological tables, in-text images and decorative tail pieces. Sporadic foxing, some faded pencil checkmarks to margins. Light rubbing to boards, edges. Some fraying at spine tail. Else near fine and scarce copy, published 2 years following the death of famous French fortune teller, Marie Anne Adelaide Le Normand. Only one copy of Part 2 listed in Worldcat at the Wellcome Library. Discusses the planets, 12 houses of the Zodiac, as well as kabbalistic numbers.

Oxford: Printed by H.H., Printer to the University, for Ric Royston and Ric Davis, 1665. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 32mo. Calf. [23] 155 p.p. Bumping to corners. Spine tilted. Wear and scratches to spine. Hinges bound tightly. Note in iron gall ink on leaf facing title page: "this Henry Hammond is thought to be the author of Whole Duty of Man.' The Whole Duty of Man is a Protestant devotional book that was published anonymously, with an introduction by Henry Hammond, though authorship was later attributed to Richard Allestree [1621-1681]. Henry Hammond [1605-1660] was a churchman, preacher, and Royalist sympathizer during the English Civil War. As a theologian, he produced several sermons and religious tracts, and compared texts of the New Testament in his book, "Paraphrase and Annotations Upon all the Books of the New Testament" [1653].

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Vellum. Title in gilt on green calf label on spine. [32] 740 p.p. Slightly bumped spine and edges. Some soiling to boards and extremities. Light foxing, some yellow staining to pages. Ex Libris Neathman Mill Library stamp on rear fly leaf. Tight boards, pages otherwise clean and crisp with decorated black and white initials. A near fine copy. A Dominican friar and writer, Remigio Nannini produced religious as well as secular works, and poetry. Nannini published "two collections of orations drawn by historians (the first, Military Orations collected by all the ancient and modern historians, Venice, 1557)" [Cantimori, Delio. Italian Encyclopedia, 1934]. Nannini also went on to publish the works of St. Thomas Aquinas (1570) at the request of Pope Pius the V.