Saint by Meyer, First Edition (14 results)

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 129 pages; Description: vii, 129 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Thomas, a Becket, Saint (1118?-1170) --Christian saints -- Great Britain --History --Henry II (1154-1189) --Fiction 3 Kg.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. All in VG internal order. Well illustrated. Pictorial card covers are worn, with small tears at head and foot of spine. French language. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). Oblong folio (310x200mm). Unpaginated.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 129 pages; Description: vii, 129 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Thomas, a Becket, Saint (1118?-1170) --Christian saints -- Great Britain --History --Henry II (1154-1189) --Fiction 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition thus, hardcover, has a hint of bowing to the boards, light bumps to the spine ends, and very subtle sunning to the spine and head. Overall, this is a solid, tight and clean, Very Good+ copy in a Very Good dust jacket, which has light toning along the spine and cover edges, wear with a couple tiny tears to the spine ends, edges and corners, rubbing to the covers, and a previous seller's fading sticker/tag to the back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. B1 : 96 Seiten mit 90 ­farbige Abbildungen, Hardcover - Stephan Balkenhol in Kassel. Neben bestehenden Arbeiten wie Sempre Piu und dem Großen Kopf zeigt Stephan Balkenhol in der Kasseler Sankt Elisabeth Kirchengemeinde am Friedrichsplatz auf Einladung des Bistums Fulda und der Katholischen Kirche Kassel sieben neue großformatige Holzreliefs für das Mittelschiff, eine weibliche Figur für die Turmkapelle sowie eine männliche Figur auf goldener Kugel für die Freifläche hoch oben im Glockenturm.

1. ed. XXXVIII, 389 p. Cover a bit rubbed, stamped, otherwise very fine copy. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 Large-8°, contemporary half-cloth binding.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. In-4° broché, 51 pages.

Condition: Très bon état. in-12, demi-chagrin bleu, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre miel, couvertures conservées, XV + 281 pp. Traduit de l'allemand par Charly Clerc, préface de Robert d'Harcourt. Edition originale française numérotée sur alfa satiné d'Outhenin-Chalandre. Bon exemplaire en reliure moderne.

First American Edition. Swiss author's novel of the events leading up to the murder of Thomas Becket. With a forward by Thomas Mann. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, with nicks at top flap corners.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition copy of this uncommon work on Thomas Becket's manuscripts. An uncommon work, in French.Thomas Becket was the archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170. This work was issued as a part of the 'Societe des Anciens Textes Francais' series. The first edition of this publication from the society.With several facsimile leaves of Thomas Becket's manuscripts to the rear. Several leaves remain unopened to the top edge. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

FIRST EDITION of these old French fragments concerning the life of St. Thomas a Becket. 2 leaves; xlii, 37 pp.; 1 leaf plus 8 fine heliogravure facsimiles, reproducing the manuscripts of the fragments. A SPECIAL LARGE-PAPER COPY ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER. The regular edition of this book was printed on laid paper, and 100 copies were also printed on Whatman wove. There is no mention anywhere of copies printed on Japan. In fact, despite being the only book dealer in the world with a strong focus on first editions of medieval French texts, I have never seen ANY copy of ANY publication of the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais printed on Japan. Title-page printed in red and black. 4to. Attractively bound in recent marbled boards, original parchment wraps preserved. Entirely uncut and unopened. Slight chipping to wraps, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 3391; Vicaire I, 59.

Saint Petersburg's new palm house --- First edition of this rare, large-format work published in Saint Petersburg and presenting the new palm house in Russia's northern capital, along with hand-coloured lithographs and descriptions of outstanding floral specimens. Complete with its two parts, published with a 6-year interval. Very rare, especially on the market, as we couldn't find any other copy selling at auction, including in Russia. WorldCat shows 6 copies, with only 3 in the US (Chicago, Saint Louis and Morton Arboretum). The Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden, the second-oldest such institution in Russia, was founded in 1714 on Apothecary Island, which took its name from the herb garden planted there by Peter the Great. In 1823 it became the Imperial Botanical Garden. 25 greenhouses were constructed in the 1820s, and 1845 saw the construction of a new palm house, to which this publication is dedicated. The large, thin folio is complete with its two volumes, respectively published in 1846 and 1852. The first opens with a description in French of the building of the palm house, with special attention paid to the innovations imposed by Petersburg's harsh climate. There follows an architectural plan of the new edifice, before fine, sometimes impressive botanical plates, including some hand-coloured, together with scientific descriptions in Latin of the exotic plants that the authors Fischer and Meyer have succeeded in cultivating. The former served as director of the Botanical Garden from 1823 to 1850, after which he was succeeded by another Russian-German scholar, Carl Anton von Meyer. The second part of the publication follows a format similar to the first: architectural information and illustrations including a remarkably fine interior view captioned in French and Russian, followed by botanical studies in Latin. It was edited by Meyer alone, though it includes contributions from Fischer. A contemporary account hints at some drama underlying this change, regarding "discussions" arising from the construction of the new palm house, which compelled Dr. Fischer to "quit the garden, the library, the herbarium, and the other collections, which had been almost wholly formed by himself and which he cherished with a parent's love" (Bell, p. 40). Provenance: Physical description:Two volumes in one large folio (54.8 x 36.6 cm). Title (French), dedication leaf, title (Latin), [4] pp. notice and list of architectural plates, [44] pp., with 11 plates, including 4 with original hand-colour; title (Latin), 2 pp. notice, [50] pp., list of architectural plates, with 15 plates, including 9 with original hand-colour -- in all 26 plates including 13 with original hand-colour, some after J.A. Satory. Contemporary dark green pebble-grained cloth boards, black sheep flat spine, gilt lettering on upper board. Condition:Binding a bit rubbed or marked, trace of dampstain to upper board; light foxing internally, heavier on final pages, occasional creasing, dampstain on a text leaf corner and on several plates but not affecting image and on the corner of one page of text. Bibliography:Nissen 629; Sitwell and Blunt, p. 56; Pritzel 2916; Stafleu 1788; Bell, T. "Address of Thomas Bell, Esq., V.P.R.S., etc. the President, Together with Obituary Notices of Deceased Members by John J. Bennett, Esq., F.R.S., the Secretary, Read at the Anniversary Meeting of the Linnean Society on Thursday, May 24, 1855." Taylor & Francis: London, 1855.

Nuremberg and Schwaz: Hieronymus Höltzel printed for Caspar Rosenthaler, 1512. Octavo (20 × 15.3 cm). Modern crushed morocco over five raised bands and with gold-embossed title to spine; [212] pp. with 57 woodcuts from 51 blocks by Wolf Traut. Front pastedown with exlibris of collector and cultural patron Renate König; front board very lighly rubbed; spine lightly faded; edges gilt by binder; leaves very carefully cleaned and with discrete, barely perceptible restorations in places; occasionally very faintly fox-stained; else very good. First edition of these woodcuts by Wolf Traut, a painter and graphic artist from the Dürer circle, and the first German-language print edition of the hagiography of St. Francis, which Bonaventure completed in 1262. He produced a more extensive version (Legenda maior) and a popular, shorter version (Legenda minor). Bonaventure - considered the "second founder" of the Franciscan order and canonized in 1482 by the Rovere Pope Sixtus IV (himself a Franciscan and the commissioner of the Sistine Chapel) - wrote the Vita at a time when the dispute over the ideal of poverty was increasingly coming to a head - a conflict that was fought not only within the order, but also in the European power struggles. The goal was to reconcile both factions, the Spirituales and the Conventuales - that is, the advocates of the strictest poverty and the adherents of a milder interpretation - through this biography. The life description was thus meant to present, pars pro toto, a successful reconciliation of both positions. Only a few years after its completion, in 1266, the General Chapter declared all previous Francis legends obsolete and ordered their destruction. From then on, together with the Rule of 1223, the Vita formed the Franciscan canon. But the work not only set standards in the handling of the material. The text was written in almost classical Latin and had a formative influence on later humanism. The manuscript was also translated into vernacular languages. In Germany, the manuscript of the Poor Clare Sibilla von Bondorf is regarded as a linguistic monument. (Cf. Joachim Schickel, Bonaventure, Legenda Sancti Francisci, in: KLL.) The translator of the present edition is unknown, but the literature mentiones the Basel Franciscan Agricola, born as Daniel Meyer, as a potential candidate. He was the author of the Vita of the Swiss local saint Beatus, which appeared in 1511 both in Latin and in German; both editions were illustrated by the glass painter and graphic artist Urs Graf. Agricola is also thought to be the translator of the "Meditationes vitae Christi", written by a Tuscan Franciscan. This edition, printed in Nuremberg in 1514, was illustrated with woodcuts by Wolf Traut. The financial backer of this edition, as well as of the present one of the Vita of Francis, was a merchant originating from Nuremberg and a partner in a mining enterprise named Caspar Rosenthaler. He had lived in the Tyrolean mining metropolis of Schwaz since 1505, where, in addition to a smelting works, he also operated the city's first bookshop. At that time, Schwaz was the second-largest city after Vienna in the Habsburg Archduchy. Above all, an abundance of silver and copper formed the basis for the power and wealth of the Habsburg ruling house and the Augsburg patrician Fugger family. Rosenthaler had no small share in this with his smelting works. At the end of the fifteenth century, a smelting process was practiced in Schwaz that allowed more silver to be extracted from the mined ores. Rosenthaler was the decisive patron in the establishment of the Franciscans in Schwaz, whose monastery foundation in 1507 he supported as a donor, and in whose church he was buried in 1542. (Cf. Werner Williams-Krapp, Die volkssprachliche Literatur der reformorientierten Franziskaner und Klarissen, in: Die Literatur des 15. und frühen 16. Jahrhunderts: Part 1: Modelle literarischer Interessenbildung, Berlin 2020, pp. 363-404.) The vernacular translation, with its numerous woodcuts, thus stood in a direct connection with the foundation of the monastery in the rapidly growing Alpine town, which was expanding quickly due to mining and was also located near the central trade route between Augsburg and Venice. Even before the construction of the monastery, the Franciscans had taken on preaching and other pastoral duties in Schwaz. In order to advance the monastery foundation - desired by the mine operators - under canon law, particularly in relation to the bishop, Emperor Maximilian I personally intervened in 1507, demanding that the project "not be hindered nor obstructed", since, after all, the "highly valued gift of God in the mines" had led to "so many Christian people settling in the town of Schwaz". However, there were clear reservations, which even led to threats of interdict against anyone who participated in the construction of the new monastery. The representatives of Schwaz - among them Caspar Rosenthaler - responded by having the emperor's letter read aloud after mass in front of the open church doors, announcing their decision to continue work on the monastery despite the threats of interdict, as long as the emperor maintained his position. Caspar Rosenthaler, among others, was also involved in the financial administration of the construction work. Complex negotiations followed between the town's representatives, the episcopal authority, and the Benedictines in Schwaz, which ultimately led to approval. Moreover, Maximilian I placed the monastery under his special protection and also supported it financially. The monastery cloister was completed in 1509 and the church in 1515. (Pax Leitner, Die Anfänge des Franziskanerklosters Schwaz, in: Heimat-Blätter: Schwazer Kulturzeitschrift, no. 61, 2007, pp. 4-11.) Parallel to the printing of the present edition and the completion of the monastery, the bitter dispute over the interpretation of the vow of poverty - fought among the Franciscans for centuries -.