Catalogue of a Large Collection of Rare and Curious Books of All Kinds

...a most polished binding original Latin: "ligatura nitidissima", in marbled calfskin, with gilt edges and covers. A very rare book original Latin: "rarissimus Liber". Worth one hundred Ducats. 375-0.

120 The Library of the Lord of la Croix du Maine, which is a Catalog of all sorts of Authors who have written in French for five hundred years and more until today, with a Discourse on the Lives of the most illustrious and renowned among the 3,000 who are included in this work, and an account of their Compositions, both printed and otherwise, in folio. Paris 1584. Rare. In calfskin. 20-0.

121 The Library of Antoine du Verdier, containing an Annotated Catalog of the Authors who have written or translated into French and other dialects of this Kingdom, etc. in folio. Paris 1585. A very beautiful copy in calfskin and very rare. 20-0.

122 The Holy Polyglot Bible, with Latin Translations of the Oriental Texts and Versions; edited by Brian Walton, [including] Castell’s lexicon, 8 volumes folio. London 1657. French binding. The Walton Polyglot is the last of the four great Polyglot Bibles, famed for its scholarly rigor and the inclusion of diverse Near Eastern languages. 95-0.

123 The Great Roman Bullary from Leo the Great to Benedict XIII, 14 volumes folio, Lucca 1727–1740. A "Bullary" is a massive chronological collection of Papal Bulls—official edicts or charters issued by the Pope. 50-0.

124 The Complete Works of Samuel Bochart with the Life of the Author described by Etienne Morin. From the Edition of the Illustrious Johannes Leusden & P. de Villemandy, folio with figures illustrations, 3 volumes. Leiden 1712. Best edition. Bochart was a famous 17th-century Protestant scholar known for his works on biblical geography and the animals mentioned in the Bible. 21-0.

125 The Complete Works of St. Basil (our Holy Father), Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, in Greek & Latin. Produced through the work and study of Dom Julien Garnier, Priest and Benedictine Monk of the Congregation of St. Maur, 3 volumes folio. Paris 1721. The Maurists were a French Benedictine congregation known for their exceptionally high standards of historical and textual scholarship. 22-0.

125* The New Library of Manuscript Libraries: where the contents of almost innumerable manuscript libraries, regarding every kind of Literature and worthy of note, are described and indexed, by the Author the Reverend Father Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, etc. 2 volumes folio. Paris 1739. Montfaucon is considered the founding father of the study of Greek manuscripts (palaeography). 10-10.

126 The Clementine-Vatican Oriental Library, in which the Manuscript Codices in Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Samaritan, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek, Egyptian, Iberian, and Malabar [languages]—collected from the East by the command and munificence of Pope Clement XI—are compared, reviewed, arranged, and presented with the Life of each Author added, by Giuseppe Simone Assemani, a Maronite Syrian, etc. 4 volumes folio. Rome 1719. Assemani's work was a landmark in Western understanding of Eastern Christianity and Near Eastern literature. 36-0.