Search Results: Authors starting with V from Irving Book Company

Taurini (Turin): Marietti, 1924. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Ex-library, with 'Conventual Library' stamps to top & bottom edges and white call numbers to spines. Previous Dominican ownership stamps also to top & bottom edges, with his circular seal stamp & ownership signature to title pages. Very light toning to edges of textblock. Bindings square & tight. Text, besides ownership markings, remains rather clean & bright.. Two-Volume Set. 8vo. 6 x 8.5 in. xxxi, 608; 557 pp. Dark brown half-calf over pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on spine with ornamental rules & six compartments. Text in Latin. Thomas de Vallgornera (d. 1665) was a Spanish Dominican theologian, whose principle work was The Mystical Theology of St. Thomas, first published in 1662. A nice, serviceable set.

(Gallimard), 1968. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good. Binding sound.. 16mo. 1829 pp. Original brown leatherette, two ribbon markers. Introduction, Introduction Biographique, Poésies, Traduction en Vers de Bucoliques de Virgile, Mélange, Variété, Notes. Edited and annotated by JEAN HYTIER. Text in French. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1972 ownership signature in black ink to front flyleaf, copious pencil annotation to endpapers.

Lugduni [Lyon]: Sumptibus Horatii Cardon [Horace Cardon], 1606. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Pages trimmed rather close to text. Binding square & tight, text crisp and unmarked.. 4to. 6.5 x 9.75 in. [viii], 894 pp. + [69] (index), [1 blank] pp. The fourth edition of Brás Viegas' excellent 'Exegetic Commentary on the Apocalypse of John the Apostle' (first published in 1601), edited and revised, and supplemented with an index of biblical passages and an index of significant words. Prefaced by a four-page dedication to Cardinal Odoardo Farnese, patron of the arts; a note to the reader by Fernando Rebello, doctor of theology & chancellor at the Univ. of Évora; and an epigram by Jesuit Emmanuel Pimenta. Rebound in dark brown roan leather, titled in gilt on upper cover. Ornamented throughout with black & white vignettes, tailpieces, decorative drop capitals, etc. Text in Latin. Brás Viegas (1553-1599) was a Portuguese Jesuit, teacher of theology & professor sacred scripture. His exegesis on… Read More

London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1923. First English Edition. Hardcover. Dampstaining to covers, otherwise very good. Moderately rubbed, gilt titling clear but no longer bright. Previous ownership inscription to front pastedown; 1932 first communion inscription to front free endpaper; text otherwise bright & unmarked. Binding square.. 16mo. 4.125 x 6.25 in. viii, 121, [1] pp. Red paper, titled in gilt on spine with Burns & Oates martlet device stamped in gilt on upper cover. From the Translator's Note: 'This little volume is intended for girls and boys of from twelve to fifteen years -- the awkward age both in spiritual and temporal affairs. Older persons, however, will find much to charm them in its pages. A well-loved copy. Scarce.

Strasbourg: Editions Broceliande, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in very good jacket. Covers lightly soiled & worn, some sun-fading to spine; chip from rear panel of jacket. Ribbon marker detached but present.. 12mo. 254 pp. Original ribbed yellow cloth, with oval black & white pictorial onlay affixed to upper cover, in acetate dust jacket; ribbon marker. Illustrated with 7 black & white plates; black & white illustrated endpapers. Copy no. 4456. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with his June 1973 ownership signature to half-title, light pencil annotation.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good only. Wrappers soiled.. Demy 8vo. 193 pp. Original aqua wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with his ownership signature in year of publication to half-title; several annotations.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Early ML Printing. Hardcover. Light soiling to covers, else near fine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.625 in. viii, [ii], 347 pp. + adverts. ML Binding Style 3, dark brown 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in black on upper cover, gilt title to spine; Brodzky endpapers. North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey's copy, with his ownership signature to front pastedown. An exceptionally fresh copy of an early ML edition.

Salzburg: Otto Müller, 1954. First Thus. Hardcover. Lightly soiled at extremities with some bumping to upper fore-corner, otherwise near fine in original cloth, and very good dust jacket, with large chip from top of rear panel. Ludwig Kempe's bookplate to front pastedown. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright.. 8vo. 6.5 x 9.25 in. 414 pp. A handsome German edition of the first work of the mystical Benedictine Abbess Hildegard von Bingen's visionary theology, SCIVIAS ('sci vias Domini', i.e. 'know the ways of the Lord'), illustrated with 35 beautiful plates. Bright orange cloth, blocked in black & gilt on spine, ornamented in gilt on upper cover; with pictorial dust jacket. Translated into German and edited by Maura Böckeler, choirwoman of the Benedictine Abbey St. Hildegard zu Eibingen. This copy belonged to Dr. Ludwig Kempe, German-American neurosurgeon, ornithologist, and illustrator, retired colonel in the U.S. Army, asst. chief of neurosurgery at Walter Reed, etc. etc. According to… Read More

Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1958. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine. Nice 1963 previous ownership signature to front free endpaper. Very light rubbing to edges. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Octavo. 6 x 8.5 in. vi, [2], 817, [2], [3 blanks] pp. Full silvery grey cloth, titled in dark blue and ornamented in brown. Reprint of the 1849 Berlin edition, originally published by G. Reimer. Text in Greek and Latin. Including Meineke's 'Praemonitum Editoris', along with his critical apparatus. A very fresh copy of this uncommon edition.