Friday, 5 October 2018

Date (October)


October dates the rare books. Lyon, chez Antoine Offray, MDCLXIV. Author is Bolsec, a Catholic, then a Calvinist till he deemed predestination an “absurdity”, then Catholic again. This biography of Calvin is “violent in tone”, “scurrilous but highly entertaining”. MDCCXCVII, printed by Giambattista Bodoni himself, in Parma. Pagnini’s Italian translation of Hesiod’s Theogony. The fonts that caused a revolution we still enjoy. Amstelodami, apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, MDCLXXXIV. Author is the Carmelite Angelo à S. Joseph: Gazophylacium Linguae Persarum, triplici linguarum clavi Italicae, Latinae, Gallicae, i.e. Treasury [i.e. dictionary] of the Persian Language using a key of Italian, Latin and French. &c.

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