WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
Really Printed in
Kilkenny, not Cologne 
Burke, Thomas. Hibernia Dominicana. Sive Historia Provinciae Hiberniae Ordinis Praedicatorum. Coloniae Agrippinae [i.e., Kilkenny]: ex typographia Metternichiana sub Signo Gryphi, 1762. 4to (23 cm; 9.125"). xv,, 949, [1] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Those copies with the Kilkenny impirnt (Killkenniae: ex typographi Jacobi Stokes) are far fewer than those with the Cologne imprint, but it is clear that all copies were printed at Kilkenny by Stokes.
Not a common work: NUC Pre-1956 and OCLC combine to locate only eight copies in U.S. libraries.
Provenance: On title-page, ownership inscriptions of the Revs. Thomas Qualy (1829) and Jacob Cleary. Additional Cleary ownership inscriptions on p. 1 (1873) and iii (1891), the latter a gift inscription on the occasion of that owner's giving the volume to a Rev. Thomas Kelly.
• Bradshaw Irish Coll., nos. 5222-5223; ESTC t036179. Recent full brown calf with covers panelled in the Cambridge style, author/title/etc. lettering in gilt directly to spine; spine with gilt rules above and below bands and gilt devices in the compartments. Title-page soiled and small portion of lower inside blank margin torn away and repaired; same page has old library call number in ink and the date of publication in ballpoint! Ownership notes as above. Very light waterstain in lower blank margins of preliminary leaves. Generally a very nice, clean copy. (24805)
Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, 1810 Bustamante, Carlos María de. Al señor D. Josef Mariano Almanza, ministro honorario del Supremo Consejo de Hacienda y regidor alférez real de la ciudad de Veracruz. Mexico: no publisher/printer, 4 de septiembre de 1810. Small 4to. [1] f., 52 pp., [1 (blank)] f.
Click the images for enlargements. Also incorporated here are some of the poetic effusions that the statue inspired: sonnets by Manuel Antonio Valdés, Dr. Alcocer, José Manuel Sartorio, Mariano Barazabal, and José Aries de Villafañe, plus at least two whose authors are not specifically identified.
A historically important work for
Mexico during the period of May through early September, 1810, and apparently rare: Two major bibliographies fail to list it, and NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, and RLIN combined locate only four copies, although there is a fifth at the Sutro.
The drop-title of this item is “Memoria principal de la piedad y lealtad del pueblo de México, en los solemnes cultos de nuestra Señora de los Remedios, desde su llegada hasta su regreso al santuario de Totoltepec.”
• Medina, Mexico, 10436; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 624; Sutro 71; not in Steele; not in Palau. As issued, without a title-page but with a dated dedication leaf that serves as the front wrapper and is integral with the blank back wrapper. Worming in upper and foremargins. Staining in lower outer corner of pp. 25 to end, heaviest at end. Small loss of lower outer corner of the rear wrapper. Overall, a good+ copy of this important work on “the other” Virgin that is important in Mexico. (24592)
By a Man of
Wide-Ranging — Catholic — InterestsButler, Charles. Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln’s Inn, with a letter to a lady on ancient and modern music. New York: E. Bliss & E. White, and Collins & Hannay (pr. by H.C. Sleight), 1825. 12mo (20 cm, 7.9"). Frontis., viii, 350 pp.
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• NSTC 2B62711; Shoemaker 19905. On Butler, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary paper-covered boards, spine with printed paper label; sides with spots of light discoloration, paper split and cracked along joints and spine, paper shelving label on spine. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1828; front free endpaper, title-page, and dedication rubber-stamped. Back free endpaper affixed to back pastedown. Sewing loosening. Pages untrimmed.
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