New acquisitions 01-Dec-2008
 | ETHICS & LEGALITY OF TAKING BOOTY IN WARABRA DE RACONIS, François d'.Le Vray But ou Doivent tendre tous Gens de Guerre qui aiment honneur. Auquel est traicté Du Butin et Droict Usage d'Iceluy.[Sédan?], 1587. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10 cm). With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page, 1 woodcut headpiece, 1 woodcut tailpiece and 1 woodcut decorative initial (plus 1 repeat). Set in roman type, with italic for the dedication, occasional Latin words, and one French quotation. With a 5-page dedication to Guillaume Robert de la Marck, Duc de Boullion and Prince of Sédan. Eighteenth-century paste-paper wrapper with a floral pattern printed from woodblocks in pink and olive. Preserved in a modern marbled folder. Full description »
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 | WARNING TO SMUGGLERS: 2ND COPY LOCATEDADMIRALITEIT OP DE MAAS. MAERTENSZ. Karel, and Gerbrand ZAS VAN DEN BOSSCHE.[Incipit:] De Gecommitteerde Raden ter Admiraliteyt, residerende binnen Rotterdam, notificeren by desen allen Koopluyden ende Schippers ..., dat hare Hoogh Mog. by ... resolutie ... vanden negenden deser lopende maent April, om de Frauden die Bevonden Wierden Begaen te Werden door de Schippers, ...[text signed and dated:] [Rotterdam], Admiraliteit op de Maas, 15 April 1676. 4to. With 1 woodcut decorative initial. Set in textura types, with the authors' names in roman. Disbound. Full description »
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 | 104 DISPUTATIONS BY SPIRITUAL FATHER OF REMONSTRANTS ARMINIUS, Jacobus.Disputationes Magnam Partem S. Theologiæ Complectentes, Publicæ & Privatæ. Priores cum accessione aliqua, & correctiores, nunc xxv numero. Altera vero totæ novæ, & lxxix numero. Quarum index epist. dedicatoriam sequitur.Leiden, Joannes Paedts, Thomas Basson, 1610. 8vo. With Basson's woodcut music-book publisher's device, a woodcut arabesque tailpiece and a few woodcut decorative initials (2 series). Including a biographical sketch by Petrus BERTIUS and a commendatory verse by C[aspar?] B[ARLAEUS?].Contemporary limp vellum with manuscript spine title. With an early gift inscription from from C. Williams to Johannis Mitchell, and Williams's earlier purchase inscription. Full description »
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 | RARE BIBLE EDUCATION BOOK FOR CHILDREN, WITH 269 ILLUSTRATIONS[BIBLE - PRINT BIBLE]. KULENKAMP, Gerard.Bybelschat, of de Voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament. Eerste [-twede] deel.Amsterdam, Jacbous Loveringh, 1758. WITH: SCHMIDT, Johann Jacob. Kort Begrip der Bybelsche Geographie, of heilige aardrykskunde: ... Benevens een korte historische kronyk ... Amsterdam, Jacbous Loveringh, 1762. 8vo. 2 volumes (with the 2nd work at the end of vol. 2). With 3 title-pages in red and black, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by J.C. Philips, 175 engraved illustrations in the text and 94 additional illustrations on 43 engraved plates, as published. Further with woodcut and built-up decorations. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines (with morocco labels) and board edges, marbled edges. Full description »
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1870 STATES BIBLE, WITH 1874 TORTOISE-SHELL BINDING AND HALLMARKED GOLD CLASP[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT & PSALMBOOK - DUTCH - FASTENINGS - GOLD].Het Nieuwe Testament, ...WITH: Het Boek der Psalmen, nevens de Gezangen, ... Nederlandsche Bijbel-Companie: Amsterdam, J. Brandt & son; Haarlem, J. Enschedé & sons, 1870. INCLUDING: Evangelische Gezangen, ... WITH: Vervolgbundel op de Evangelische Gezangen, ... WITH: [drop-title:] Catechismus, ... Amsterdam, J. Brandt & son; Haarlem, J. Enschedeé & sons; Groningen, heirs of R.J. Schierbeek, heirs of widow of M. van Heyningen Bosch, 1870. Small 8vo (binding: 13 x 9 x 4.5 cm). New Testament with metrical psalm- and songbook, with diamond head music notes. Contemporary tortoise shell, decorated gold clasp and catchplates with engraved decoration (unidentified hallmark), gilt edges, white silk endleaves with gold-stamped date 22 November 1874. Full description »
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 | LEUSDEN'S HEBREW & LATIN PSALMS, DEDICATED TO INCREASE MATHER[BIBLE - PSALMBOOK - HEBREW & LATIN]. LEUSDEN, Johannes, ed.Sefer tehilim = Liber Psalmorum.Utrecht, Willem vande Water, 1688. 12mo. The Psalms in Hebrew with a Latin translation on the facing pages. With a woodcut vignette (a putto in tree branches) on the title-page, 2 woodcut headpieces (plus 1 repeat) and 2 woodcut decorative initials (2 series). Dedicated to Increase MATHER. French tanned hairsheepskin(?) (ca. 1700), gold-tooled spine and board edges, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Full description »
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 | EARLY 17TH-CEN. RICHLY GOLD-TOOLED FRENCH DOS-À-DOS BINDING 1593 & 1604 POCKET EDS. OF REPUBLICAN ROMAN COMEDIES [BINDING - DOS-À-DOS]. PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius.Comoediæ viginti.Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius I/Officina Plantiniana, 1593. WITH: TERENTIUS (TERENCE), Publius. Comoediæ sex. Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius II/Officina Plantiniana, 1604. Agenda format 24mo in 8s (11 x 5.5 cm: binding 11.5 x 6 x 5 cm). With 2 different Plantin woodcut publisher's devices on the 2 title-pages. Bound dos-à-dos in contemporary, richly gold-tooled French tan goatskin morocco (the spines and boards showing hundreds of impressions of a dozen small flower and leafy branch tools), with the patron's initials "MK" in the central oval on each board, and the smooth spines decorated as single surfaces (not divided into compartments), gilt edges, with a small slit in the board of the Terentius for a single cloth tie (lacking). With seventeenth-century owners' inscriptions by Ottwell Newrell(?), Charles J... (dated 24 October 1663), J.P.(?) Langham of University College London, and later owners' inscriptions, stamps and bookplates. Preserved in a modern half-morocco slipcase. Full description »
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ERUDITE BIBLICAL ZOOLOGY, QUOTING ARABIC & OTHER NON-LATIN MANUSCRIPTSBOCHART, Samuel.Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus de Animalibus S. Scripturae.Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Zunner & Christoph Balthasar Wust, 1675. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio (36 x 22.5 cm). With an engraved portrait of the author, 2 title-pages (1 in red and black with an engraved publisher's device, 1 with a woodcut publisher's device), a few woodcut illustrations in the text, several woodcut and built-up head and tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initial letters. Set in roman type with words or passages in italic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Ethiopic, Syriac and Samaritan types. Contemporary vellum, blue sprinkled edges. Full description »
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| POETRY EXEMPLIFYING DUTCH 19TH CEN. HIGH SOCIETY CULTURE LITHOGRAPHS BY DESGUERROIS & LAVISH GOLD-TOOLED MOROCCO BOGAERS, Adrianus.Jochébed. Dichtstuk.Amsterdam, C.A. Spin, 1835. Large 8vo (24 x 15.5 cm). With 7 lithographed Old Testament illustrations by Desguerrois & Co., separately printed on fine "China" paper and mounted in the spaces left for that purpose. Contemporary grained red morocco, gold-tooled boards (each with a frame of flowers around a lyre), dark blue watered-silk doublures, the silk edged with gold foil and the turn-ins and hinge gold-tooled with a grape-vine frame, gilt edges. Full description »
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 | MYSTICAL WORK THAT CIRCULATED AMONG ELITE MINDS OF EUROPEBÖHME, Jakob.Het tweede boeck des auteurs, handelende vande Drie Principien van 't Goddelijcke Wesen.[Amsterdam], [Nicolaes(?) van Ravesteyn], written in German 1619 (translator's foreword dated 20 August 1636). INCLUDING: BÖHME, Jacob. Appendix, Grondelijcke ende Ware Beschryvinge van 't Drievoudig Leven inden Mensche: ... [Amsterdam], [Nicolaes(?) van Ravesteyn], written in German 1619 (translator's note to reader dated 15 February 1637). 4to. First edition (translated into Dutch from German manuscripts by Abraham Willemsz van Beyerland) of the mystic Christian Böhme's second work. With the singleton leaf containing an engraved plate of Christ's resurrection, with a letterpress poem by Böhme on the reverse. Further with woodcut decorations, decorations built up from cast fleurons, and about 20 decorated woodcut initial letters (about 7 series) plus about 10 repeats. Lacking the engraved frontispiece. Contemporary vellum. Full description »
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 | 86 BOTANICAL DRAWINGS OF SOUTH AFRICAN FLOWERS[BOTANICAL DRAWINGS]. MOSNIER, A.[South African Flowering Plants].[United States or Canada?], ca. 1905. An album (32 x 42 cm) containing a series of 86 ink and watercolour botanical drawings on paper (each about 27 x 18.5 cm) showing South African flowering plants, all but 10 with the species name and the signature of the artist, A. Mosnier. The drawings mounted on the leaves of a contemporary commercial photograph album (blocked green cloth). Full description »
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ESSENTIAL PRIMARY TEXT FOR CALVIN'S REFORMED DOCTRINECALVIN, John.Institutionum Christianæ Religionis libri quatuor. Editio postrema, innumeris mendis, ... cum indicibus, ... præmissa est vita eiusdem Calvini, authore Theodoro BEZA.Leiden, Franciscus Hackius [printed by Johannes and Daniel Elzevier], 1654. Folio (37.5 x 24 cm). Calvin's Institution of Christion Religion, with a biographical sketch and other additions by Théodore de Bèze. Title-page in red and black with an engraved publisher's device, a woodcut headpiece, tailpiece and 11 decorated initial letters (3 series) plus several repeats. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum with the coat of arms of The Hague in the centre of each board, (slightly later?) morocco spine label, ties lacking. Full description »
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 | SCARCE MENNONITE CATECHISM[CATECHISM - MENNONITE].Belydenisse des Geloofs, voor de zulken welke geneegen zyn, om door den H. waterdoop, in de Christelyke kerk in 't gemeen, en die der doopsgezinde gemeente tot Ryp in 't byzonder, te werden ingelyft.Purmerend, Jacobus Postma, 1799. Small 8vo. With a decoation built up from cast fleurons on the title-page. Nineteenth-century(?) blue paper wrappers. Full description »
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SCHOLARLY ANSWER TO MENNONITES' "BLASPHEMOUS TEACHINGS"DORESLAER, Abraham à and Petrus Jakobus AUSTRO-SYLVIUS.Grondige ende Klare Vertooninghe van het Onderscheydt in de Voornaemste Hooftstucken der Christelijcker Religie, tusschen de Gereformeerde ende de Weder-dooperen: ...Enkhuizen, Albert Wesselz. Kluppel (colophon: printed by Floris Jansz. Camerling), 1649. 4to. With an emblematic woodcut publisher's device, 6 decorated woodcut initial letters. With the main text in 2 columns, a 19-page dedication and the authors' 34-page foreword. Eighteenth-century stiff sprinkled-paper wrappers, rebacked with orange cloth. Full description »
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WATERCOLOUR DRAWING OF DUTCH SHIPS & BOATS BEFORE CITY[DRAWING - WATERCOLOUR - SHIPS]. [SCHOUMAN, Martinus?]["De Liefde" and other Dutch Ships and Boats before an unidentified city].[Holland], ca. 1815. Large ink and watercolour drawing (39 x 52.5 cm) on wove paper watermarked "D & C Blauw." Mounted with paper hinges in a passe-partout. Full description »
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