18TH-CENTURY BOOKS
“Dublin's Turbulent Priest” Goes after
the Archbishop of Canterbury 
Nary, Cornelius. A modest and true account of the chief points in controversie, between the Roman Catholicks. And the Protestants: together with some considerations upon the sermons of a divine of the Church of England. Antwerp [i.e., London?]: 1705. 8vo (17.3 cm, 6.9"). [14], 302 pp. (lacking 1 prelim. adv. leaf & final blank leaf).
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Nary, an Irish Roman Catholic priest, gained widespread fame as a controversialist following the publication of this rebuttal of Tillotson's arguments against Catholic doctrine. He later involved himself in politics with his influential Case of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, conducted a lengthy public religious debate with Archbishop Synge, and published a controversial, allegedly Jansenist translation of the New Testament.
Uncommon: ESTC and OCLC report only 10 U.S. holdings.
• ESTC N5227; Blom 1929; Clancy 710.3 (for first ed.). On Nary, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Period-style mottled calf framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binder's label of Starr Bookworks. One preliminary advertisement leaf and one final blank lacking. Title-page and last leaf institutionally pressure-stamped; faint inked ownership inscription in upper margin of title-page. Foxed, but not brittle. (24330)
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Otomí by a
Native-Speaker Neve y Molina, Luis de. Reglas de orthographia, diccionario,
y arte del idioma othomi. Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. Small 8vo. [12] ff., 160 pp., engr. leaf of errata, lacks the engr. frontis.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Medina, Mexico, 5174; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 55; Viñaza 356; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., II, 2154; Sabin 52413; Palau 190159. Original limp vellum, cockled and a little shrunken, a significant “L-shaped” piece of vellum torn and missing from front cover. Foremargins of front free endpaper, front fly-leaf, title-page, and first leaf of introduction torn with loss of paper and of small portion of title-page border and of a very few letters of the first two pages of the introduction; wormhole in early leaves costing a few letters. Lacks the engraved frontispiece. Not unblemished, but certainly a good copy of an important and scarce text. (22168)
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Imperial
Troops Enter Naples
(Newsletter —
Austrian Charles Is Crowned King). Relazione
della gloriosa entrata dell'armi cesaree in questo regno, e città di
Napoli. Sotto la condotta dell'Ecc. Signor Giorgio Adamo conte di Martinitz,
plenipotenziario cesareo in Italia, e vice-rè in questo regno per la
maesta' di Carlo III. d'Austria nostro glorioso monarca, e comandante dal signor
generale conte di Daun. Napoli: Presso Dom. Antonio
Parrino, e Michele-Luigi Muzio,1707. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). [2] ff. 
This
item is rare: No copies were found in OCLC, RLIN, or NUC Pre-1956.
• Removed from a nonce volume; without wrappers. Uncut. A few very light spots of foxing. In excellent shape.
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Hebrew Aramaic Latin Nold, Christian. ... Concordantiae particularum Ebraeo-Chaldaicarum in quibus partium indeclinabilium quae occurrunt in fontibus ... ostenditur ... Accommodantur huc etiam particulae graecae conferuntur versiones et multa scripturae loca ita explicantur ut ubi tenebrae uel dissensiones sunt adiungantur annotationes et vindiciae. Joh. Bottfr. Tympius ... summa cura recensuit ... Nunc primum congestas a M. Sim. Bened. Tympio ... denique appendicis loco subiunxit Lexica particularum Ebraicarum Joh. Michaelis et Christ. Koerberi. Jenae: sumtibus Jo. Felicis Bielckii, 1734. Large 4to. 984, 22, 37, [3] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Contemporary vellum over paste boards. Ex-library: Call number label removed from spine with noticeable result, bookplate, library name rubber-stamped on bottom edges of closed book, pressure-stamp on title-page. Librarian's pencil markings. Withal, a very nice copy. (21305)
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Christian Philosophy from the
“English Malebranche”
Norris, John. A treatise concerning Christian prudence: Or
the principles of practical wisdom, fitted to the use of human life, and design'd for the better regulation of it. London: Samuel Manship, 1710. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). [12], 399, [5] pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Provenance: 18th-century inscription, “Master Griffith Boynton”; 20th-century bookplate of the John Donne scholar Charles Monroe Coffin.
• ESTC T76120. On Norris, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled (with plain calf) in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, rebacked, spine with recent gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges and corners showing minor rubbing, front cover with small faint area of staining from a now-absent paper label. Front pastedown with private collector's bookplate (institutionally rubber-stamped), as above; front free endpaper with inked inscription, as above; title-page institutionally rubber-stamped in lower margin. Two pencilled marginal annotations; scattered pencilled bracketing. Pages age-toned, with occasional light spotting. (20902)
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