WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
“Christian
Alarm-Clock!”
Barcia y Zambrana, José de. Despertador christiano, divino, y eucharistico, de varios sermones.... Madrid: Por Alonso Balvàs a costa de Francisco Laso, 1727. Folio (30 cm, 11.875"). [6] ff., 406 pp., [13] ff.
Provenance: Bookplate of Stellita Stapleton (first half of 20th century; see image above right).
• Palau 24060. Contemporary limp leather with traces of ties; binding worn with a little holing. Title-page torn and repaired with some obscuring of letters; paper browned and text dog-eared with some staining and tattering, resulting in no apparent loss of text. Inked ownership inscriptions on title-page.
“Opera quae exstant”
NOT Basilius Seleucensis. [five lines in Greek, the] B. Basilii
Seleuciae Isauriae Episcopi, qui I. Chrysostomo contubernalis fuit, Opera quae exstant. [Heidelberg]: In bibliopolio H. Commelini, 1596. 8vo (16.5 cm; 6.5"). 8, 408 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Provenance: Early 19th-century armorial bookplate of Robert Chambers; manuscript ownership “Ex libris G.R.W.”— William R. Wittingham, fourth Anglican bishop of Baltimore (a Latinophile who used “Guillelmus” for “William”), dated Sept. 22, 1856; later in the diocesan library of Maryland; deaccessioned 2006.
• VD16 B 727. Contemporary limp vellum with evidence of ties; slightly yapp edges. Occasional light foxing. 19th-century library stamps on the front free endpaper and title-page. A clean solid copy. (24432)
The
Threat
of ProtestantismBelaunzarán y Ureña, José María de Jesús. Segunda carta pastoral que dirige a su clero y diocesanos..., el...obispo de Monterey [sic]. México: Impr. de Luis Abadiano y Valdes, 1835. 8vo. 16 pp. 
• Removed from a nonce volume. Light stain in upper outer corners, and on title-page (only) in an additional few places. Still, a crisp, good copy.
La
puntual observancia — Do
It RightBelaunzarán
y Ureña, José María de Jesús. Quinta carta
pastoral que sobre la puntual observancia de los sagrados ritos y ceremonias,
en la celebracion de la santa misa y administracion de los santos sacramentos,
dirige a su clero.... Mexico: Impr. de Luis Abadiano y Valdes, 1836. 8vo. 34 pp.
• A call for attention to detail in the celebration of mass and other
clerical duties and obligations.
• Removed from a nonce volume. Clean and nice.
Belaunzarán
y Ureña, José María de Jesús. Septima carta
pastoral que el...obispo de Monterey, dirige a su venerable clero secular y regular
y diocesanos. Mexico: Impreso por Jose Uribe y Alcalde, 1838. 8vo. 14 pp.
• Removed from a nonce volume. Light foxing in some upper margins. Crisp.
St.
Bernard from
theGiunta
Press
Bernard, of Clairvaux,
St. Opera, in duos tomos distincta. Quibua adiecimus eiusdem auctoris
opuscula: quae, ut caetera eius scripta, coelestem, ac divinam sapiunt eruditionern.
Nuncrens impressa accuratissime recognita, & repurgata: sedulaq collatione,
ad antiquiorum exemplarium sidem, natiue integritati restituta. Cum amplissimis,
ac locupletissimis indicibus, utrique tomo inseruientibus. Venetiis: Apud Iuntas,
1583. 4to. 2 Vols. I: [76], 435 ff. II: 503 ff.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Provenance: Bookplate of William Ely; earlier, unidentified armorial bookplate also.
• Late 17th- or early 18th-century leather, plain sides, gilt spine extra; gilt darkened, with leather abraded, worn, and dry. Tops and bottoms of spines pulled with small loss of leather; labels damaged with loss. Vol. I with small worming to one section of index, with loss of some letters; this volume with old ink notations in same(?) hand as an undeciphered signature on the title-page of vol. II. Vol. dII with variable waterstaining; both volumes with old pencilling. All edges red. (23988)
A Guide to HeavenBona, Giovanni. Manuductio ad coelum medullam continens sanctorum patrum, & veterum philosophorum. Parisiis: Apud Robertum Pepie, 1692. 12mo (14.6 cm, 5.75"). A–S8,4 T2; [3] ff., 214 pp. 
• On Bona, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, II, 655. Speckled paper over light boards, lightly soiled. Interior with some light soiling, especially on outer pages and upper edges, and a little faint waterstaining.
All about the Mass — Best Edition & Beautiful Binding Bona, Giovanni, & Robertus Sala. Rerum liturgicarum libri duo. Augustae Taurinorum [i.e., Turin]: Ex Typographia Regia, 1747–53. Folio (40 cm, 15.75). 3 vols. I: xcvi, 522 pp. II: xi, [29], 391, [1], clxiii pp. III: xv, [25], 444, xcv pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. The typography is by the Royal Press and is handsome, employing roman and italic faces in a variety of point sizes. The text is presented in single and double-column format with finely engraved initials, and head- and tailpieces. The title-pages are printed in red and black with an engraved vignette.
Binding: Contemporary treed sheep, covers framed in double gilt fillets, spines with gilt-stamped red leather label, gilt-ruled raised bands, and elaborately gilt-tooled floral decorations in compartments. 
A most pleasing production!
• Bound as above, covers with some cuts/abrasions, rubbing at corners and joints, surface cracks on spines; spines of vols. I and II with head and foot chipped. Front pastedowns with institutional bookplates; front free endpapers with early inked ownership inscriptions. Ex-library with old shelf labels to spines, and pressure-stamps (not rubber-stamps) including some on title-pages. All edges marbled, and marbled endpapers. Imposing. (21444)
Catholic Orthodoxy Defended — An Edition in ENGLISHBossuet, Jacques Bénigne. An exposition of the doctrine of the Catholic Church, in matters of controversy. To which is added, the approbation of his Holiness Pope Innocent the XI.... [London?, ca. 1785]. 8vo (20.1 cm, 7.9"). viii, 112 pp.
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ESTC and OCLC find only four U.S. holdings of this edition.
• ESTC T106709. Recent quarter calf over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and with gilt-stamped decorative devices within compartments. Title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution; one page with offsetting to inner margin from a now-absent bookmark; volume otherwise clean and in fact a nice copy.
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