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

New Reflections on each Chapter of Holy Scripture, by J. F. Ostervald, folio. Neuchâtel 1744. Large Type. 12 - 0. Jean-Frédéric Ostervald was a Swiss Protestant pastor whose Bible translations and commentaries became standard in French-speaking Reformed churches.

146 Ecclesiastical Annals of the Whole World original: "Annales Ecclesiastici totius Mundi" by Cardinal Baronius, 12 volumes, folio. Venice 1705. 30 - 0. Caesar Baronius wrote this massive history of the Church to defend Catholicism against Protestant historiography; it remains a primary source for church history.

147 Complete Works original: "Opera Omnia" of Petrus Barbosa, 6 volumes, folio. Cologne-Allobr. 1737. 12 - 10. Barbosa was a prominent Portuguese jurist known for his treatises on Roman and canon law.

148 Great Rabbinic Library, Hebrew-Latin original: "Bibliotheca Magna Rabbinica, Hebræo-Latina" by Bartholocci, 5 volumes, folio. Rome 1675. Very rare. 30 - 0. Giulio Bartolocci's work is a monumental bibliography of Jewish literature and a cornerstone of 17th-century Christian Hebraism.

149 Annotations on the Coins of the first 12 Caesars formerly published by Enea Vico, with the images of the same Caesars added, engraved in copper by the most excellent engravers original: "Adnotationes in XII. priorum Cæsarum Numismata ab Ænea Vico olim edita additis eorundem Cæsarum Imaginibus à præstantioribus Chalcographis æri incisis" by G. Pietro Bellori, in folio. Rome 1730. 7 - 10. Chalcographis From the Greek 'chalkos' (copper) and 'graphein' (to write/draw), referring to those who practice the art of copperplate engraving.

150 { Commentary on the Justinian Code original: "Commentarius in Codicem Juf-tianeum" by Johann Brunnemann; in which individual Laws and Authentics are explained briefly and succinctly, questions frequently raised in Universities and the Courts are resolved, Axiomata proposed by interpreters are subsequently examined, and others are drawn out from the Texts themselves, and other matters pertaining to Analysis are clearly handed down as if through an Abridgment, 2 volumes, folio. Lyons 1715.

150 { the same's Commentary on the fifty Books of the Pandects original: "Commentarius in quinquaginta Libros Pandectarum", a work revised by the author himself, enlarged with the interpretation of many Laws omitted in the previous Edition, with inserted notes here and there regarding what holds true in the newest Common Law, Saxon and Marcher law, and other Provincial Laws, from the edition of Samuel Stryk, 2 volumes, folio. Lyons 1714. 4 volumes total. 15 - 0. Pandects Also known as the Digest, the Pandects are a vast collection of legal opinions from Roman jurists, compiled under the Emperor Justinian I.

151 Complete Works original: "Opera Omnia" of George Buchanan, revised and corrected with the greatest care according to the faith of the Best Manuscripts by Thomas Ruddiman, 2 volumes in folio. Edinburgh 1715. 15 - 0. Buchanan was a major Scottish humanist, historian, and tutor to King James VI.

152 Carmelite Library, illustrated with critical notes and dissertations: collected by the care and labor of one of the Carmelites of the Province of Touraine, by the Author Brother Cosme de Villiers of St. Stephen, Carmelite of the Province of Touraine, 2 volumes, folio. Orleans 1752. 15 - 0. A comprehensive bio-bibliography of authors belonging to the Carmelite religious order.

153 Politico-Ecclesiastical Annals of the Years 640 [covering the era] from Caesar Augustus even unto Phocas, etc. original: "Annales Politico-Ecclesiastico-Ecclesiasticæ Annorum DCXLC. à Cæsare Augusto ad Phocam usque" by Samuel Basnage, 3 volumes, folio. Rotterdam 1706. 21 - 0. Basnage was a French Protestant exile whose work provided a critical response to Baronius’s Annals (Item 146).

154 The Fourfold Gospel of the Ancient Latin Version or Old Italic, now published for the first time and [taken from] Golden, Silver, and Purple Manuscript Codices, and others of more than a thousand years of antiqui- original: "Evangelium Quadruplex Latinæ Versionis Antiquæ seu Veteris Italicæ nunc primum in lucem editum & Codicibus Manuscriptis aureis, argenteis, purpureis, aliisque plusquam millenariæ antiquita-"