TRADITIO periodically offers for sale used traditional Catholic books and compact discs that are typically hard to find and not listed on auction sites. Anyone may bid on the lots offered in a "silent auction." However, if you have an active interest in purchasing such books and wish to be placed on our special E-mail list for advance notification of booksale announcements, simply send your name and E-mail address in an E-mail to the TRADITIO Network.
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The book lots currently open for bidding are listed below. Lots frequently sell at a price substantially higher than the minimum, and each bidder may enter only one bid per lot, so be sure to send the highest bid that you can to the TRADITIO Network.
All books are in good to as-new condition in hardcover, unless otherwise noted. Shipment will be made by Federal Express. U.S. shipping addresses only.
LOT 11-10
Gregorian Chant CDs
Minimum Bid: $100.00
Latin Church Music I & II, Lamentations of Jeremias, Christmas Mass by Thomas Tallis. Tallis is known as the English Palestrina. His music rivals the sublimity of that great Italian, who saved Sacred Polyphony at the Council of Trent. Taverner Consort & Choir under Andrew Parrott, EMI and Gimell, 4 CDs, excellent condition.
A Child Is Born: A Chant Christmas. Selections of the Office and Masses of Christmas in Gregorian chant sung by the Trappist Monks of the Abbey of Gethsemani. Sony, c. 1995, audio CD, in new, sealed condition.
The Mystery of Santo Domingo de Silos: Gregorian Chant from Spain. Selections of Gregorian chant sung by the Monks of the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos. Deutsche Grammophon, c. 1969, audio CD, new sealed condition.
Venetian Vespers Traditional Vespers sung in Gregorian chant, together with parts in Sacred Polyphony by Monteverdi, Rigatti, Grandi, and Vivaldi in the acclaimed set conducted Paul McCreesh and the Gabrielli Consort. Archiv, c. 1993, two audio CDs (used).
Music for the Feast of St. Roch (1608) Sacred Polyphony in the acclaimed set conducted Paul McCreesh and the Gabrielli Consort. Archiv, c. 1996, audio CD (used).
Praise of the Virgin Mary. Gregorian chant by the Monastic Choir of the Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault. Audio CD (used).
St. Benedict. Gregorian chant by the Monastic Choir of the Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault. Audio CD (used).
Famous Gregorian Chants. CD in new, sealed condition.
Gregorian Christmas Chants & Motets, by Capella Gregoriana. Laserlight, audio CD (used).
The Liturgical Year in Gregorian Chant, Vol. 8: All 18 Gregorian Mass Ordinaries and 6 Credos. 3 audio CDs (used).
LOT 11-08
Traditional Catholic Books
Minimum Bid: $75.00
The Aquinas Prayer Book: The Prayers and Hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated and edited by Robert Anderson & Johann Moser. The text of St. Thomas Aquinas's beautiful Eucharistic hymn in the original Latin and in an English prose translation. (Sophia Institute Press, c. 2000, paperback, 116 pages, like new condition).
Baltimore Catechism No. 2. This is a reprint of the 1933 traditional version, not the "modernized" version after Vatican II (Tan Books, 1933/reprinted 1977, paperback, 95 pages, excellent condition).
Chant: The Origins, Form, Practice, and Healing Power of Gregorian Chant, by Katherine Le Mee (Bell Tower, c. 1994, hardback, 167 pages, like new condition).
Is It a Saint's Name: Over 3,000 Christian Names for Boys and Girls with a List of Patron Saints by William Dunne. Traditional names for boys and girls to be baptized or confirmed. (Tan Books, 1949/reprinted 1997, paperback, 47 pages, excellent condition).
Divine Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary. Detailed meditations on the fifteen traditional Mysteries of the Rosary, together with information on how to say the Rosary and how to pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary (JMJ Book Co., 1993/6th reprinting 1998, paperback, 601 pages, excellent condition).
The Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Edition. This is the traditional Catholic Bible, containing by the Old Testament and the New Testament, translated from St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate, approved by the dogmatic Council of Trent, which Bishop Richard Challoner (1749-1752) diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in diverse languages, bearing an imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons (1899). This edition contains annotations, references, and an historical and chronological index. (Tan Books, 2000 reprint, large-size paperback, approximately 1500 pages, like new condition).
LOT 11-07
Vulgate New Testament and The Imitation of Christ Latin Audiotapes
Minimum Bid: $100.00
This lot consists of 23 audiocassettes comprising the St. Jerome's entire Vulgate New Testament read in Latin, together with 9 audiocassettes comprising the entirety of Thomas a Kempis's De Imitatione Christi [The Imitation of Christ], the second most popular religious text after the Bible. The 32 audiocassettes are packaged in two convenient plastic fold-out cassette library holders (295 mm high x 250 mm wide x 3 deep, when folded).
LOT 11-06
Latin Books and Tapes
Minimum Bid: $100.00
The Passion of the Christ. Mel Gibson's blockbuster film on the last hours of Christ on the basis of the Gospels and other sources. Dialogue is in Latin and Syriac, but the story tells itself. Icon Productions, c. 2004, Widescreen DVD, like-new condition.
Missae Propriae Dioecesis Argentinensis pro Graduali Romano [Masses Proper to the Diocese of Argentina for the Roman Gradual, in Gregorian chant (H. Dessain, 1924, used pamphlet).
A Brief Catechism for Adults: A Complete Handbook on How to Be a Good Catholic, by Fr. William J. Cogan (Tan Books 1958/1993, paperback, like-new condition).
Lexicon Nominum Locorum [Lexicon of Place Names] by Carolus Egger, in Latin (Officina Libraria Vaticana, paperback, like-new condition, rare).
Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, Utrumque textum cum apparatu critico ex editionibus et libris manu scriptis collecto, edited by Eberhard Nestle (Stuttgart: 3rd revised edition/1910), 665 pages + 6 maps, used, good condition
Societas Latina. Five cassette tapes discussing and illustrating how to read and speak classical and Church Latin.
The New Missal Latin Pronunciation Guide. Two cassette tapes to accompany Baummeister's book of the same name.
Let's Read Latin: The Language of the Church by Ralph McInerny. Cassette tape to accompany the book of the same name.
Sounds of the Roman World and Various Latin Readings. Three cassette tapes.
Do It Yourself Hebrew/Do It Yourself Greek. One cassette tape.
LOT 11-05
Catholic Cassette Library Audiotapes on the Traditional Latin Mass
Minimum Bid: $75.00
The Pronunciation of Ecclesiastical Latin
The General Rubrics of the Roman Breviary and Missal (1962, 2 tapes)
the Celebrant's Chant at a Sung Mass
Practicum on Using the Missal
Practicum on Latin in the Mass - Common of the Saints
The Celebrant's Chant on Holy Saturday
Serving Low Mass - Responses and Ceremonial
Useful Latin Prayers
Traditional Catholic Latin MIdnight High Mass of Christmas
Traditional Catholic Latin High Mass for the 24th Sunday after Pentecost
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