W. S. Cotter Rare Books

GAGUINUS, Robertus

Robertus Gaguinus de puritate conceptionis beate Marie virginis. [Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, after 13 August 1497]

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1497.
Occasionally described as a work on the Immaculate Conception, Gaguinus's brief treatise is in fact a theological and physiological examination of the immaculate conception, not of Christ, but of Mary herself. The medieval doctrine, which has no canonical biblical authority, supposes that since Christ could not.....

Price: $6,800.00

DEDEKIND, Frederic

Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, in gratiam omnium Rusticitatis amantium conscripti, per FRIDERICUM DEDEKINDUM. Iam denvò ab Auctore emendati, & plerisque in locis cùm præceptis tum exemplis aucti. IRON EPISCOPTES STudiosæ Iuventuti civilitatem optat. Ethica concenant veterum morosa sophorum, Cedat Aristoteles, cumque Platone Cato. Concedat Cicero Latius, concedat Erasmus, Et quotquot morum de gravitate docent. Hic liber exactam dat morum simplicitatem, Eque nova nuper prodiit ille schola. Hunc, studiose puer, vigili perdisce labore. Qui cupis ornatus moribus esse bonis. COLONIAE. AN. M. D. LVIII.

Cologne: 1558.
First published in two books in 1549, and enlarged to three in 1552, Dedekind's elegiac poem concerns a certain St. Grobian, a personage first envisioned half a century before by Sebastian Brant as a the patron saint of coarse manners. In Dedekind's satiric masterpiece, St. Grobian teaches students.....

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SENICOURT, Jean-François de

BIBLIOTHECA SENICURTIANA SIVE CATALOGUS LIBRORUM. QUOS COLLEGERAT, Joan Franciscus de Senicourt, in Suprema Curia Parisiensi Patronus. PARISIIS, Apud J. B. G. Musier filium Bibliopolam, ad Ripam Augustinianorum, sub signo S. Stephani. M. DCC. LXVI.

Paris: Musier, 1766.
[7319 lots, unpriced.] The celebrated library of Jean-François de Senicourt, bailiff at Poissy and avocat at Parlement in Paris (causidicus in supremo senatu), was dispersed from Monday 2 June to Friday 22 August 1766, and was naturally steep in law texts, with rare and obscure coutumiers numbering.....

Price: $2,100.00