Theology and Bibles

BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS. Modus bene vivendi in christianam religionem. (Venice: Pietro de Quarengiis, 3 October 1502), 8vo, later vellum [Censimento 16 CNCE 36195]
AUCTORITATES notabiles de castitate et moribus. [Cologne: Martin von Werden, c. 1506], 8ff., woodcut on final verso, later boards, [VD16 A4035]
INFORMATIONES et cautele presbyteris observande divina celebrare volentibus circa defectus et casus qui in Missa oriri possunt. (Cologne: H. Höltzel, 1507), 4to, [VD16 I186], later vellum, another work removed from binding
GREGORIUS I, Pope. Decretales. [Paris]: Berthold Rembolt, 1510, folio, later calf over wooden boards, lacking first quire, rebacked, boards detached
DUNS SCOTUS, Johannes. Tabula generalis; Questiones quodlibetales; Disputationes collationales. Lyon: Jacques Myt, 1520, 3 works in one volume, 8vo, woodcut titles, nineteenth-century calf, upper cover detached
HIERONYMUS, Sanctus. Octavus tomus commentarios in Psalterium habet. Lyon: S. Gryphe, 1530, later half navy calf, title-page defaced, spine rubbed, joints cracked
PIO, Alberto. Tres & viginti libri in locos lucubrationum variorum D. Erasmi Roterodami. Paris: Badius Ascensius, 1531, folio, woodcut title-page, contemporary calf, rebacked, somewhat worn
CORSIER, Jean. Deci. Capelle Tholose. Lyon: Vincent de Portonariis, 1538, 8vo, later vellum
OPERA NOVA di santo Anselmo de l'arte del ben morire. [Venice: Guglielmo da Fontaneto, 1539], 8vo, later half vellum, [Censimento 16 CNCE 76170, 1 copy]
ROSEMONDT, G. Confessionale. Louvain: J. de Winghe, 1554, 8vo, old limp vellum
LANCELOTTI, G.P. Institutionum iuris canonici libri IIII. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1566, 8vo, later calf, [John Waugh, chancellor of Carlisle, bookplate]
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Operum tomus primus. Venice: V. Valgrisi, 1570, 4to, contemporary calf, somewhat worn
LA SAINCTE BIBLE, en François. Lyon: Estienne Michel, 1582, 4to, woodcut illustrations, old calf, slightly worn
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Operum tomus quintus. Venice: D. Zenaro, 1584, 4to, old calf, signed by Luke Wadding, Edward Barwick and John Green, somewhat worn
LIPSIUS, Justus. De cruce. Antwerp: Plantin, 1597, 8vo, contemporary vellum, [Johann Leonard von Behr, bookplate]
BINET, E. Sancti fundatores religiosorum ordinum in ecclesia Laetiensis... Antwerp: Jan Galle, 1634, 4to, engraved throughout, later calf
WIERIX, Hieronymus. Vita deiparae Virginis Mariae. (Rome: F. Zannetti, 1638), 8vo, engravings, old vellum gilt, gilt edges, title-page cut out and laid down
HORSTIUS, J.M. Paradisus animae Christianae. Cologne: J. Kinch, 1644, 12mo, contemporary black morocco gilt, covers with double gilt fillet borders enclosing two panels with side- and corner ornaments, inner panel with delicate sun, floral and other tools, spine in six compartments richly gilt, gilt edges, [Earl of Fife, bookplate; Sir William Dunbar of Durn, ownership signature on title]
PIISSIMI in Deum affectus cordis. Paris: A. Vitré, 1656, 12mo, old calf gilt
CORVUNUS, A. Ius canonicum per aphorismos strictim explicatum. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1663, 12mo, old calf, [John, earl of Loudoun, bookplate]
PLATINA, Bartolomeo. De vitis ac gestis summorum pontificum. [Nuremberg], 1664, old calf, binding worn
CORNEILLE, P. Lovanges de la Sainte Vierge. Rouen and Paris: G. Quinet, 1665, 12mo, old marbled calf
HORSIUS, J.M. Paradisus animae Christianae. Lyon, 1675, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf
BIBLE. NT. Latin. Cologne, 1677, 16mo, folding map (slightly torn), vellum
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Les confessions. Paris: P. le Petit, 1683, 8vo, red morocco, gilt edges [Francis Cunningham, bookplate; "From the Gibson Craig Library... Bound by Duseuil", O'Brien's note on flyleaf]
HORSTIUS, J.M. Paradisus animae Christianae. Cologne: B. ab Egmondt, 1683, 8vo, nineteenth-century straight-grained black morocco gilt, gilt edges, [John Towneley, bookplate]
SCHOONEBEEK, A. Neete afbilingen der eyge dragten van alle geestlyke orders. Amsterdam: the author, 1688, 8vo, engravings, contemporary vellum
SCHOONEBEEK, A. Neete afbilingen der eyge dragten van alle geestlyke Vrouwen en Nonnen-orders. Amsterdam: the author, 1691, 8vo, engravings, contemporary vellum
HORSTIUS, J.M. Paradisus animae Christianae. Lyon, 1698, 12mo, contemporary calf
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. De civitate Dei. Naples: G.A. Elia, 1748, 4to, later mottled calf by Bedford, gilt edges, ["Craufurd's Sale", Sir Edward Sullivan bookplate], upper cover detached

sold as a collection, not subject to return

William O'Brien, bequest booklabels dated 1899

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