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Use of Augsburg — Handsomely Printed & RARE
Catholic Church. Augsburg (diocese). Rituale augustanum ad normam ritualis romani à glor. mem. Benedicto XIV. anno 1752. Augustae Vindelicorum: Josephi Antonii Labhart, 1764. 4to (22 cm, 8.65"). Engr. t.-p., [18], 544, 544a–d, 545–58, [40 (index)] pp.
$1500.00
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In an attempt to unify Catholic practice, in 1752 Pope Benedict XIV revised the Rituale Romanum; this Augsburg use of that revision is here in the scarce first edition, with only two U.S. holdings reported by OCLC. The engraved title-page was done by Egide Verhelst; the text is printed in red and black, predominantly in roman type with some use of blackletter for the German portions of text.
Includes some of the music of the mass.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Clemens Wenceslaus, Duke of Saxony, Bishop of Augsburg, and the last Elector of Trier; bookplate now detached from front pastedown and laid into volume.
A very handsome production.
Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with speckled calf; gilt-stamped leather spine-label. Verso of front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1816. Title-page partially separated from bottom up, and with shadow of old pencilled numeral. A good clean copy. (18542)

Rules for the Choir
Catholic Church. Province of Mexico City (Mexico). Concilio Provincial (3rd, 1585). Statuta Ecclesiae Mexicanae necnon Ordo in choro servandus curante Vallisoletanae Ecclesiae capitulo sumptus suppeditante. Mexici: Apud Marianum Zunnigam, et Ontiverium, 1797. Folio (27.5 cm; 11"). [1], 140 pp., [2] ff.
$950.00
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Fray Antonio de San Miguel, the bishop of Michoacan, reprints the statutes promulgated by the Third Mexican Provincial Council (1585) and the “Ordo servandus in choro” of Archbishop Alonso de Montúfar (fl. 1512–70). The archbishop originally established these 42 rules on proper organization and deportment for the choir of the Cathedral of Mexico City. The bishop of Michoacan undoubtedly wished to bring some of this order to his own bishopric and cathedral.
Uncommon. OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three copies in the U.S.
Medina, Mexico, 8711. Contemporary vellum over paste boards of printer's waste, vellum cockled and that of the front cover lightly rodent-gnawed at board edges. Worming in text, some of which is meander type, costing letters. Not a great copy, but given the scarcity, an acceptable one. (24103)

Choir Boys' Colegio
Colegio de Nuestra Señora de la Asumpcion (Mexico City).
Constitvciones de el Colegio de Nvestra Señora de la Assumpcion, y el glorioso patriarcha Señor San Joseph, de la infantes de el coro de esta santa iglesia metropolitana de Mexico. Dispvestas y ordenandas por el m. ilustre señor venerable dean, y cabildo de dicha iglesia. Mexico: En la Imprenta Real del Superior Govierno, de Da. maria de Rivera, 1734. Small 4to. 18 pp.
$900.00
Rules for the administration and daily operation of the colegio established in the cathedral of Mexico for the boys of the choir. Begins with a very handsome title-page featuring a woodcut of the Virgin on a Nopal. From the press of a famous 18th-century woman printer.
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Very rare: Not in OCLC or RLIN. We locate only the copy at the John Carter Brown Library.
Medina, Mexico, 3319. In plain wrappers as issued. A very good copy. (12054)
Date, Henry, ed. Pentecostal hymns no. 2. Chicago: Hope Publishing Co., [1900]. 8vo (9.9 cm, 3.9"). [2], 30,
[16], 31–[222] pp.
$90.00

“Facsimile in miniature”: Pocket-sized hymnal, meant
to encourage readers to purchase one of the various larger bound editions but
containing complete music and lyrics for over 200 hymns. The compiler was a
Methodist evangelist whose family immigrated to the United States when he was
13; his hymnals (of which several volumes were published) are among the earliest
such works specifically earmarked for the nascent Pentecostal movement.
This “paperback” issue is VERY UNCOMMON, unlike the “hardback”
printing.
Publisher’s printed paper wrappers, lightly spotted, chipping
over spine and with edge nicks; back wrapper with upper outer corner torn
away just touching ornamental type border. Some corners dog-eared; one page
with inkstain obscuring a few words and notes, pages otherwise clean.
[Dunham, John Moseley]. The vocal companion, and Masonic register. In two parts.... Boston: John M. Dunham, 1802. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). 180 (lacking pp. 17–20, 51–58, 71/72, and plate), 103, v pp.
$650.00
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Brother John M. Dunham compiled and printed this
uncommon collection of Masonic songs and toasts, here in its first and only edition, in “A.L. 5802.” The two volumes, bound in one, include a history of
Freemasonry
in America along with descriptions
of early American lodges, membership rosters, and accounts of some rituals. Although no music is given, tune names are provided for many of the lyrics; song XXXIX, which begins “Hail Masonry divine; / Glory of ages shine, / Long mayst thou reign,” is set to “God Save the King.”
Sabin 100650; Shaw & Shoemaker 2166. Recent quarter calf with marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-stamped Masonic devices in compartments. Lacking the plate and pp. 17–20, 51–58, and 71/72 of the first part. Title-page and several others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages sometime exposed to moisture or mildew, thus variously
browned, age-toned, and brittle, with some tears; our second double-page photo was taken to show the worst such damage. P. 84 of the second part with two names carefully excised.
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