Search Results: Authors starting with W from Knuf Rare Books

1770. Jena, Croecker, 1770. Titlepage, (vi)pp introduction, 582, (26)pp index. Small stamp on titlepage. Contemporary vellum binding. The usual light browning, but a very good copy. Walch (1693-1775) was professor extraordinarus of philosophy in Jena. The present work, a bibliography on the Church Fathers, is one of his most important works. See the note in Bohn, Guinea Catalogue # 6473: " 'With respect to the Fathers in general,' says Prof. Marsh, 'the most information comprised in a small compass, is in the Bibliotheca Patristica of Walch. It relates to the Lives, the Writings, the Editions, and the various uses of the Fathers, and likewise enumerates the authors who have explained the particular subjects of enquiry"

1732. (London, 1732). 12mo. Drop head title. 12pp. Disbound. ESTC records one location (MBco).

1823. Leiden, S. & J. Luchtmans, 1823. 8vo. (10), 407 pp. Bound with: Bibliotheca te Wateranae pars altera sive catalogus, sistens collectionem epistolarum autographarum... quae omnia collegit vir celeberrimus Jona Guilielmus te Water... Die XXVIII Octobris et Seqq. a. MDCCCXXIII. (2), 128 pp. Uncut. Two volumes bound together in contemporary marbled boards, red label on spine. Auction catalogue of the library of J.W. te Water (1740 - 1822), professor at Leiden University from 1785 to 1815. The first catalogue covers Te Water's Book Collection, divided by size. The second catalogue includes autographs, manuscripts, coins and medals, portraits, maps, plates, bookcases, paintings and other items.

1847. Traduit du manuscrit allemand par le chevalier Jean de Carro. Bruxelles, 1847. 104pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, spine strenghtened with brown paper. Exlibris on inside front wrapper. Bigmore & Wyman say: "These pages go to prove the usual account of Gutenberg's parentage erroneous, and that he was born at Kuttenberg, a small town in Bohemia."

Segunda Ediçio. Porto, na Typografia a' Praça de S. Thereza N. 13, 1822. 4to. 136 pp. Uncut, wide-margined, copy in a lovely contemporary decorated paper binding. Some browning and staining and edges a bit dustsoiled and a bit damaged.Quite scarce edition of this in itself quite scarce satire on wine making in Portugal in the form of the minutes for the 1st-15th sessions of this assembly. Another (first?) edition was published the same year in Lisbon (Typografia Maigrense).OCLC 1 copy BL (Porto); 1 copy Bayerische Staats bibl. (Lisbon); In USA: Harvard, Kress collection (Lisbon), Newberry (Lisbon) and Univ. California Davis Shields Library (but cannot locate) and one of three in USA incomplete?

1721. London, printed for R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, and J. Tonson, 1721. In two volumes. (4 blank pages), titlepage in red & black, (12pp. introduction), 472, 286, (viii)pp. & (4 blank pages), titlepage in red & black, (4pp. introduction), 1186, 238, (viii)pp. 2 vols. Folio. In contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with 6 raised bands and richly decorated in gold. (corners slightly bumped). The main, paginated text is printed in two colums. The introduction and index printed as one page. Second, enlarged, edition. Anthony Wood (1632-1695) devoted a large part of his life to the composition of this biographical dictionary of Oxford writers and bishops. Towards this he unwearingly searched university and college registers, bookseller's shops, the Wills Office and Heralds Office in London, public and private libraries, auction catalogues and newspapers and he sent letters of inquiry, from 1681 onwards, all over England and even abroad. Wood was ready for press about the beginning of… Read More

1875. Paris, Delahaye, 1875. Grand in-8, demi-chagrin rouge de l'époque, dos dorée, xxxv, 457 p. et (2) p. de catalogue. Quelques rousseurs mais bon exemplaire. (Vicaire, VII, 1173).

1866. Amsterdam, 1866-69. 3 vols. Privately published in a limited edition. Unopened copy. Orbds. (slightly soiled; traces of use, but restored) Interior fine. Copy on better paper. Copy nr. 112 offered by the collector to Jeronimo de Vries Jsz.