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De Backer, Aloys & Sommervogel, Carlos.  BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA COMPAGNIE DE JESUS.  $1,100.

Cloth, Nine Volumes. Octavo.  9,000  pages. Bruxelles, 1860-1916. ISBN 1-57898-070-4. 

This massive nine volume work is whithout doubt the most comprehensive bibliography of the Jesuit order. It is absolutely indispensable for antiquarian booksellers and librarians seeking precise identification of many thousands of published works and their authors. Besterman cites the work as having citations for 150,000 printed items. Besterman 3261.

 

De Dampierre, Jacques. Essai Sur Les Sources De L'histoire Des Antilles Françaises (1492-1664). $60.00

Oversized Octavo. Paris: A. Picard et Fils, 1904. [v].xl.239.

French Antilles form two French overseas provinces (Départements), one being the island of Martinique, the other Guadeloupe. The French half of theisland of St. Maarten/St. Martin is part of Guadeloupe. The first inhabitants several hundred years before Christ were the Arawaks, an Indian tribe. The became extinct around the 9th century at the hands of the Karibs. Columbus' fleet landed onGuadelope on November 3, 1493. The Spanish showed little interest in the Island, which they though inhospitable, and as a consequence, the first settlers were French farmers, mostly from Normandie, the Bretagne or the Charente. Farming was not profitable at first, so the island was sold to Chalres Houel, who started the economic growth of the island with plantations of sugar, coffee and cocoa. Later one the island was owened by the Compagnie des Indes, then by King Louis XIV. The island survived attacks by the Dutch and was also occupied by the British. During the 18th century, it was a haven for buccaneers and the Caribbean islands lived mostly by attacking and looting foreign cargo. This early bibliography is one of the most extensive on French possessions in the Caribbean, and has never been reprinted previously. 1000 items are described. Besterman 6526-6527.

de Guaita, Stanislas. STANISLAS DE GUAITA ET SA Bibliothèque Occulte. $65

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.299. Paris: Dorbon Librarie, 1899.

Stanislas de Guaita was descended of a noble Italian family who had settled in France. He was born April 6, 1861 in the castle of Alteville. He studied at the Liceo de Nancy where he developed a natural propensity toward the empirical sciences, most notably chemistry, reaching a level of true mastery for his time. Over a period of time he gravitated more toward satisfaction of the artistic and literary spirit that lead him into metaphysics and the study of Cabala.
Stanislas de Guaita brought together in his house the biggest private library of writings on metaphysical subjects, magic, and hidden sciences in general that could be found in France in that century.
In 1899 the French Booksellers Librarie Dorbon published a catalogue of the occult books in the Library of Stanislas de Guaita. Included in this catalogue are 2227 books on the occult. The editors also provide a list of anonymous titles. Though once reprinted in 1980, no copies are currently in print. A hard-to-find title. Not located in Besterman.

 

 

de Keller, Auguste. APICULTURE BIBLIOGRAPHY. BIBLIOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE D'APICULTURE. $65.00

Small Octavo. 2 p. leaves, iii, 223, [1] p. Milan : U. Hoepli. 1881

De Keller's work is the first bibliography on apiculture, or beekeeping. The Feminin' Monarchi', Or the History of Bees by Charles Butler, 1634, London is considered the greatest of the early British bee books.
Modern beekeeping had its inception in L. L. Langstroth's development of his
movable-frame hive, patented in 1852. Langstroth's genius was to recognize the importance of bee space for optimal hive design. Langstroth (1810-95), a native of Philadelphia, at an early age took such an extraordinary interest in observing the habits of insects that he was punished for wearing holes the in the knees of his pants while learning all he could about ant life.
Although the first book on beekeeping printed in America appeared in 1792, it was based on the work of an Englishman. Various short works followed, many of which promoted patented hives. Thomas Miner wrote the first comprehensive guide for American beekeepers in 1849, a treatise that has always been overshadowed by the works of three giants of American beekeeping who followed him: L. L. Langstroth, Moses Quinby and A. I. Root.
In all 2250 titles are described. The arrangement of the work is alphabetical. An extremely scarce imprint. No copies are for sale online, and the title has never been reprinted. Besterman 436.

 

 

De la Torrecilla, Marques. INDICE DE BIBLIOGRAFIA HIPICA.  $110.

Cloth. Quarto, ii V.441. Madrid: Tipografico Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1916-1921. 

This extremely rare bibliography on books about horses and horsemanship in Spain and Portugal is the most definitive study of its kind. In all 565 rare books are fully described, many with useful annotations.  The arrangement of the bibliography is alphabetical by author.  There is also an index of anonymous books, and one for titles.   Several of the entries have annotations that go on for several pages.  This title is virtually unobtainable. Copies in fine condition sell for upwards of $500.  We could not find copies for sale on the Internet. The book is illustrated with hundreds of drawings, photos and diagrams.  To our knowledge this title has never been reprinted. Besterman 2913.

 

 

Decker, Peter.  A DESCRIPTIVE CHECK LIST…DESCRIBING ALMOST 7500 ITEMS OF WESTERN AMERICANA…OF THE IMPORTANT LIBRARY FORMED BY GEORGE F. SOLIDAY.   $75.

8vo. [8], 165, 117, 128, 103 pp. Seattle, 1940-5. ISBN 1-57898-008-9.

Over a period of 50 years George W. Soliday of Seattle, Washington acquired a collection of 25,000 volumes of Americana. Soliday and Peter Decker, the famed Americana book dealer, set out to catalogue the best items of Western Americana from the collection. Between 1940 and 1945 Decker put out several catalogues containing 7,500 items, all of which are collated. A 103-page index is provided. 

 

 

de Leguina, D. Enrique.  BIBLIOGRAFIA E HISTORIA DE LA ESGRIMA ESPANOLA. $65.

Cloth.  Octavo. 148pages. Privately Printed for the Author: Madrid 1904 

This rare bibliography was originally published in an edition of only 150 copies.  In it is described 290 books on the subject of dueling. The author provides a short historical essay on Spanish dueling and duelists, followed by a bibliography of Spanish and Portuguese books on the subject printed from the late 15^th century to contemporary works. The 290 numbered entries are sometimes annotated.  Full author, title and mention of editions are provided for each book. There is a chronological index at the end. To our knowledge this title has not been previously reprinted and is scarce.  There are no copies of the original on the internet. Besterman 1723.

De Leguina, D. Enrique & De Uhagon, D. Francisco. STUDIO BIBLIOGRAFICOS: LA CAZA. $50.

Cloth. Octavo. Madrid: [R. Fé], 1888. xi, 114 pp.

This early bibliography on Spanish hunting and sporting books was printed in an edition of 100 copies only. The authors describe 672 items on the subject printed before 1888. Full author-title information is provided, as are brief annotations.
De Leguina is also the author of the definitive bibliography on Spanish Fencing books.
We could find only one auction record for this item in the U.S. in the last 25 years. So rare that not even the famous Jeanson sale of 1987 offered a copy. Still a basic bibliography of sporting books. Besterman 5880.

 

 

 

De Morgan, Augustus. Arithmetical Books From The Invention Of Printing To The Present Time Being Brief Notices Of A Large Number Of Works Drawn Up From Actual Inspection. $ 60.00

Oversized Octavo. Pp. [iii].xxviii.124. 124. London, Taylor and Walton, 1847. ISBN 157898467X.

According to the DSB this work is "probably the first significant work of scientific bibliography". The bibliographer A.N.L. Munby commented that " it is one of the earliest, and still one of the best, of the class of work now called a catalogue raisonnee. The notes, based on total familiarity with the subject-matter of each work, are testimony to the extraordinary range of its author's learning. "-Munby. The arrangement of the book is chronological, and begins in 1491 with Philip Calandri's Philippi Calandri ad Nobilem et Studiosum Julianum Larentii Medicem de Arimethrica Opusculum. De Morgan goes on to provide 200 word annotation about this title. Most of the works cited have some annotation, and many are of paragraph length. The format is as follows --The place at which the work was printed. --The date of the title page, or colophon. --The author's name --Title --The form in which the book is printed. --Annotations. At the end is an index of Authors, editors and of works on arithmetic. Besterman 509.

 

 

De Puy, Henry F. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH COLONIAL TREATIES WITH THE AMERICAN INDIANS.   $50.

Cloth. Octavo. pp.109.  New York:  The Lenox Club, 1917.

During the long period in which Great Britain and France struggled for the supremacy of the North American continent the affairs and friendship of the Indians were of the greatest importance.  Many of the records of the various treaties with the Indians exist only in manuscript; some have been printed in the Journals of the Governors and Councils. It is the object of this bibliography to locate and describe such as were separately printed.  A brief synopsis of the contents of each treaty is given, and also the location of copies in the principal libraries and private collections.  It is quite possible that they were printed in very small editions, which would account for their rarity even in 1917 when De Puy published his bibliography.  They are superlatively rare today. In all 50 treaties are exhaustively described.  Full collation is provided, as is a thorough synopsis and locations in the major libraries.  Each treaty is illustrated. Though reprinted several times, no edition of De Puy’s bibliography is currently in print. Besterman 352.

 

De Ricci, Seymour (Revised by). GUIDE DE L’AMATEUR DE LIVRES A GRAVURES DU XVIII SIECLE.  $90.

Cloth, 8vo. [iii],xxvi pp., 1248 cols. Paris: A Rouquette, 1912. ISBN 1-57898-047-X.

It was not until 1912 that Seymour de Ricci took on the editing of another edition, the sixth, of this work it would become the standard bibliography of French eighteenth century illustrated books. It is this sixth edition, which we are reprinting. In all, 5,000 books are meticulously described.

 

De Ricci, Seymour.  A CENSUS OF CAXTONS.  $50.   

Hardbound. Cloth. Oversized, Octavo. XV. 196 pages.  Oxford: Bibliography Society 1909.

William Caxton (1422-1491) was the first English printer, who as a translator and publisher exerted an important influence on English Literature. He learned printing in Cologne, where he lived from 1470 to the end of 1472. He set up a press in Brugge in about 1474, where he published the Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, the first book printed in English, in 1475. His first dated book printed in English, Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers appeared on Nov. 18, 1477. He printed nearly all the English literature available to him during his time. Caxton translated about 24 books, some of them very long ones. By the time of his death he had published about 100 items of various kinds. With the possible exception of some Shakespeariana, no books are more highly cherished than Caxton's editions. De Ricci's census of Caxton's work also serves as a bibliography of the publisher's work. Each title is fully described and collated. All known owners are cited, and cross-references are given to all the standard bibliographies of the period. Not in Besterman.

De Vesme, Alessandro. LE PEINTRE-GRAVEUR ITALIEN; Ouvrage Faisant Suite au Peintre-Graveur de Bartsch. $85.

Cloth. Large Octavo. 542 pages.Milano: Hoepli, 1906.

This is the basic work on late 16th century through 18th century Italian engravers and engraving. De Vesme includes 61 painter-engravers, providing a biographical sketch as well as a list of engravings for each artist. This standard work also supplements Bartsch. Includes works by Della Bella, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Tiarini, Lampugnani, Ridolfi, Mei, Cervi, Carrocci, Bisi, Travi, Merano, Guazzo, Bruni, Lanzeni, Parolini, Marchesini, Luzzi, Creti, Lunghi, Carloni, Rotari, Bottani, Pelleri, Guarana, Bellotto, and many others. Though reprinted since 1906, no edition is currently in print, and no copies of any edition are for sale on the internet. A valuable and hard-to-find reference. Arntzen & Rainwater N113 and Riggs, page xxxiv.a

 

De Vinne, Theodore Low; Joseph Pennell. NOTABLE PRINTERS OF ITALY DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED WITH FACSIMILES FROM EARLY EDITIONS AND WITH REMARKS ON EARLY AND RECENT PRINTING. $65.00
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. 3 p.l., 3-210 p., 1 l. incl. facsims. New York: The Grolier Club of the City of New York, 1910.
1828-1914, American printer, b. Stamford, Conn. He learned his trade in the office of the Newburgh (N.Y.) Gazette and in 1848 entered the shop of Francis Hart in New York City. In 1858 he was made a junior partner, and after Hart's death in 1877 De Vinne became owner of the business. It continued as Theo. L. De Vinne & Company until 1908, when it was incorporated as the De Vinne Press. De Vinne became the best-known American printer of his day and did much by his writings and by his example of workmanship to advance the cause of good printing. He printed the Century Magazine and the Century Dictionary, both of them considered fine specimens of the art in that period. He also printed many of the Grolier Club books. He was a close student of types and did much to make American printers type conscious. D Vinne helped to bring reproduction and illustration processes to new standards of excellence.
His numerous books include The Invention of Printing (1876), The Practice of Typography (4 vol., 1900-1904), and Notable Printers of Italy during the Fifteenth Century (1910).
This title is devoted primarily to early Italian Printing types, especially older Roman Alphabets, and to the most well known early Italian printers, including Aldus Manutius, Antonio Zarotto and dozens of others. To our knowledge this title has not been previously reprinted.

 

de Visser, Marinus Willem. Ancient Buddhism In Japan Sutras And Ceremonies In Use In The Seventh And Eighth Centuries A.D. And Their History In Later Times. $110.00

Hardbound Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. 832pp. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1935.

The Suttas (in Sanskrit, Sutra) are mostly discourses delivered by the Buddha or one of his close disciples. They are all, even those not actually spoken by him, considered to be 'Buddhavacana' or the word of the Buddha, just as in the case of all canonical literature. The Buddha's discourses were perhaps originally organised according to the style in which they were delivered; there were originally nine, but later twelve, of these: * Sūtra: prose discourse * Geya: mixed prose and verse discourse * Vyākarana: explanation, analysis * Gāthā: verse * Udāna: inspired speech * Ityukta: beginning with 'thus has the Bhagavan said' * Jātaka: story of previous life * Abhutadharma: concerning wonders and miraculous events * Vaipulya either 'extended discourses' or 'those giving joy' (cf Mahayana Texts) * Nidāna: in which the teachings are set within their circumstances of origin * Avadāna: tales of exploits * Upadesha: defined and considered instructions This work remains a standard text and one of the few works on Sutras in English. Inventory # 1265

 

De Visser. The Arhats in China and Japan. $85.00

Hardbound. Quarto. Book 215 p. xvi pl. Berlin, Oesterheld & Co., 1923 .

In Theravada Buddhism the Buddha himself is first named as an Arahat, as were his enlightened followers, since he is free from all defilements, without greed, hatred, and delusion, rid of ignorance and craving, having no "assets" that will lead to a future birth, knowing and seeing the real here and now. This virtue shows stainless purity, true worth, and the accomplishment of the end, Nibbana. In the Pali canon, Ven. Ānanda states that he has known monastics to achieve Nibbana in one of four ways: * one develops insight preceded by serenity (Pali: samatha-pubbaṇgamaṃ vipassanaṃ); * one develops serenity preceded by insight (vipassanā-pubbaṇgamaṃ samathaṃ); * one develops serenity and insight in a stepwise fashion (samatha-vipassanaṃ yuganaddhaṃ); * one's mind becomes seized by excitation about the Dhamma and, as a consequence, develops serenity and abandons the fetters (dhamma-uddhacca-viggahitaṃ mānasaṃ hoti). This is one of the few works on arhats in china and japan. Scarce. Inventory # 1273

 

Desamukha, Panabarava. The Origin and Development Of Religion In Vedic Literature. $75.00

Hardbound, Cloth, Octavo. xvi, 378 p. London, New York [etc.] Oxford university press, 1933.

This is a thoughtful book based on a large material and dealing in four parts with: 1. Definition and origin of religion, 2. Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Religion, 3. Vedic Religion, 4. Brahmanism. The main idea is that religion does not owe its origin to magic, but springs directly from the "belief in the powers beyond" which is also the root of magic, and that both existed side by side in the most primitive times. A Scarce title. Inventory # 1270

 

 

Max, Dessoir. BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES MODERNEN HYPNOTISMUS WITH RARE 1890 SUPPLEMENT. $55.00

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.94 + 44. Berlin: Carl Duncker's Verlag, 1888 & 1890.

Historically, modern hypnosis can only trace its roots back to the mid 1700's. It was at this time that Frederick Anton Mesmer utilized magnets to effect the human organism and cure disease. Mesmer's beliefs contradicted the established medical community and a committee was established to "study" Mesmer's treatments. Benjamin Franklin served on the committee and denounced the treatments saying that imagination was everything and magnetism is nothing. Oddly enough, the use of magnets has been proven to affect the human organism in many positive ways.
During the 1890's, France had three main schools of magnetism / hypnotism: Saltpetriere, Nancy and Charity. The debate was one of methods, which were utilized to bring about hypnotic phenomenon. The school at Nancy utilized a more formal verbal method, which ultimately became the style initially utilized by Sigmund Freud and continues to be utilized to this day by hypnotic practitioners.
Dessoir'w bibliography covers the period from 1855 to 1900. Also included is the scarce 1890, which adds 382 citations to the 812 cited in the 1888 edition. Besterman 2980.

 

Dessumbré, M.  BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L’ORDRE DES TEMPLIERS. $75.

Cloth. Octavo.  xix.324pp.  Paris: È. Nourry, 1928.

The Knights Templar were a monastic military order formed at the end of the First Crusade with the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims on route to the Holy Land. Never before had a group of secular knights banded together and taken monastic vows. In this sense they were the first of the Warrior Monks. In November of 1095 Pope Urban II in a field in Clermont Ferrand launched the First Crusade. The myths and legends surrounding this gathering are probably as great as those surrounding the Knights Templar themselves or the legendary Knights of Camelot. The Knights Templar were without a doubt the single most influential and powerful of the religious military orders that sprang up as a result of the crusades. Although younger than their rivals “The Order of the Hospital,” as a monastic institution, the Templars were the first to add a military face to monasticism. Dessumbre’s work is the only book on the subject listed in Besterman.  In all 1201 titles are described.  Though once reprinted, this title is quite difficult to find. Besterman 6058.