New acquisitions 22-Dec-2008
 | EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF SPANISH PERSECUTION OF JEWSSOLOMON BEN VERGA.Shevet Yehudah ...Amsterdam, Salomon & Joseph Proops, [5]469 [= 1708/09]. Small 8vo in 4s (13.5 x 8 cm). A history of the Jews, especially their persecution in Spain, with the title-page in a frame of acorns, and 1 woodcut tailpiece. Late nineteenth-century half yellow cloth, "Gustav" marbled sides. Full description »
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 | MENNONITE DEFENCE AGAINST CHARGES OF SOCINIANISM[STINSTRA, Johannes].Request met bygevoegde Deductie voor het Regt van de Vryheid van Geloove, Godsdienst, en Conscientie.[Harlingen], [Folkert van der Plaats], 1740. 4to. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Full description »
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 | 1ST GREAT INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT FRAUD & SCANDAL 1ST ED. WITH ALL 68 PLATES + INDEX PLATE + 3 EXTRA PLATES [TAFEREEL]. LAW, John (subject).Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in dem jaare MDCCXX: ...[Amsterdam], [Dirk Onder den Linden and/or Isaac Stockmans], 1720. Folio (37 x 24.5 cm). With a letterpress title-page in red and black, all 68 plates listed in the index plate (where they are numbered 1- 67, plate "26" actually comprising 2 plates) plus the index plate itself and 3 additional plates not always included. Many of the plates are double-page or larger folding, 3 are maps (one in the form of a foolscap), several include letterpress text, and some have elaborate decorative borders. One (loosely inserted) map is a sophistication. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, blue-sprinkled edges, new endpapers. Full description »
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 | SCARCE POSTHUMOUS WORK BY LEADING MENNONITETWISCK, Pieter Jansz.Verscheyde Artikulen des Geloofs, Spreuken en Sententien.Hoorn, Elbert Beukelman, Feyken Rijp, 1694. 4to. With a woodcut illustration on the title-page (with motto "Vive ut Vivas"), 2 woodcut headpieces, 7 woodcut tailpieces, and 30 decorative woodcut initials from 2 series. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. Lacking 1 quire of 4 leaves (3T), replaced in manuscript in 1839. Full description »
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 | SUPPLEMENT TO THE CHRONICLE OF HOLLAND[VEER, Ellert de].Appendix, andersins genoemt een byvoechsel, waer in verhaelt worden vande Ghedencweerdichste Gheschiedenissen, de Oorloge belangende, als ooc van sekere verscheyden dingen, welcke inde gravel ckheyt van Hollant, Zeelandt en Vrieslant ... ghebeurt zijn.Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz [printed by Peeter Verhagen in Dordrecht], 1597. 8vo with woodcut publisher's device on the title-page and 2 decorative woodcut initials. Set in textura types with incidental roman. Eighteenth-century vellum. Full description »
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 | JEWISH RITUAL SLAUGHTER, WITH A VERSE SUPPLEMENT FOR CHILDRENVENTURA, Moses ben Joseph, and Hayyim Moses ben Abraham CAREGAL.Sefer Yemin Moseh ...Amsterdam, [The Hague], Löb Soesmans, Jan Hendrik Munnikhuizen, [5]537 [= 1776/77]. INCLUDING: MIZRACHI, Abraham ben Baruch. Sefer Zikaron li-Vene Yisrael ... Amsterdam, [The Hague], Löb Soesmans, Jan Hendrik Munnikhuizen, [5]538 [= 1777/78]. INCLUDING:. NAGARA, Israel ben Moses. Sefer Shohate ha-Yeladim ... Amsterdam, [The Hague], Löb Soesmans, Jan Hendrik Munnikhuizen, [5]538 [= 1777/78]. 8vo. Three Hebrew works on Jewish ritual slaughtering, published together. With 3 title-pages, each in a decorative frame built up from thick-thin rules and cast fleurons, 2 rococo woodcut tailpieces (plus repeats) and 4 rococo tailpieces built up from cast fleurons. Set in several sizes of sephardic meruba Hebrew types with extensive commentaries in 2 sizes of rashi. Late nineteenth-century half yellow cloth, "Gustav" marbled sides. Full description »
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50 ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF IMPORTANT CHURCH REFORMERSVERHEIDEN, Jacobus.Af-beeldingen van Sommighe in Godts-Woort Ervarene Mannen, die bestreden hebben den Roomschen antichrist.The Hague, Beucker Cornelisz. Nieulandt, 1603. 4to (22.5 x 17.5 cm). With the letterpress title in a window cut in the plate used for the engraved title-page of the Latin edition (with 7 tiny figures representing the Pope as antichrist in the mouth of the devil, and Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals falling through the air and losing their hats, staffs, etc.), 50 engraved portrait plates (13 x 12 cm plus the name and 4-line Latin verse at the foot) by Hendrik HONDIUS, showing important church reformers, an engraved emblematic plate, showing a diagram of a geocentric solar eclipse (an allegory for the anti-Christ blocking God's light?) with a Latin poem below it, Nieulandt's woodcut device above the colophon and 16 decorative woodcut initials (2 series) plus about 40 repeats (the largest initial shows the fall of Icarus). Seventeenth or early eighteenth-century calf, gold-tooled spine (nineteenth-century labels), red-sprinkled edges, with the ca. 1762 armorial bookplate of Count Franciscus Cornelis Ghislenus Cuypers. Full description »
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 | LIVELY SCENE OF LOWER BROADWAY IN SOHO, WINTER 1854/55[VIEW - AMERICA - NEW YORK CITY]. GIRARDET, Paul, after Hippolyte Victor Valentin SEBRON.New-York Winter Scene in Broadway = Scène d'Hiver dans Broadway.New York, Michael Knœdler; Berlin, Paris & London, Goupil & Cie (printed by Goupil), 1 October 1857. Very large aquatint view (60 x 87 cm plus caption; plate size 71 x 99 cm; paper 79 x 108 cm) looking down Lower Broadway in New York's fashionable SoHo district, with horse drawn sleighs, a fire engine and fire fighters, pedestrians, dozens of buildings (many flying American flags) and gas street lamps. Printed on heavy wove paper. In a passe-partout. Full description »
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WITH 24 LOVELY COLOUR VIEWS OF ROTTERDAM[VIEWS - NETHERLANDS - ROTTERDAM].Rotterdam Geschetst in zijne voornaamste Gebouwen, Kerken en Gestichten. Met bijschriften.Rotterdam, P.C. Hoog, 1863. WITH: Rotterdamsche Courant. no. 42. Rotterdam, 18 February 1864. Royal 4to (30 x 22.5 cm) with the 4-page newspaper folded and bound in at the end. With a vignette on the title-page, a double-tinted frontispiece view of the city and 23 additional double-tinted lithographed views of buildings and other sights, printed in 2 or 3 colours and black. The third chapter is devoted to the Museum Boymans, and the newspaper includes a lengthy article about its destruction by fire. Slightly later (ca. 1890?) publisher's green cloth, gold- and blind-blocked. Full description »
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ALBUM WITH 57 PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMIN PRINTS OF CITY & ALPINE VIEWS[VIEWS - PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMIN PRINTS].[City, Alpine and Other Views on a travel route from Utrecht through Germany to Austrian Tirol and neighbouring regions].Salzburg, K.F. Würthle & H. Spinnhirn; [Reigate (Surrey)], F. Frith & Co.; Munich, J. Albert, F. Finsterlin, Verl. für Kunst & Wissenschaft; etc., ca. 1885. Album (35.5 x 26.5 cm) with photographs mounted on the leaves. A series of 57 original photographic albumin prints (mostly about 20 x 25 cm) showing city, alpine and other views in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and perhaps Italy. Contemporary half dark green morocco, textured cloth sides, watered silk-pattern endpapers. Full description »
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 | COLLEGIANT DEFENDS MENNONITE BAPTISM AGAINST REMONSTRANT ATTACK[WAGENAAR, Jan].Onderzoek over de Oudheid en Schriftmaatigheid van den Kinderdoop.Leiden, Jacob Pietersz vander Kluis, 1740. WITH: GALE, John. Aanmerkingen over den Kinderdoop, ... uit 't Engelsch vetaald door Jacobus van Zanten. Leiden, Jacob Pietersz vander Kluis, 1741. WITH: HOUTTUYN, Adriaan. Eenige Redenen, waarom, in 't stuk des Christelyken Waterdoops de In-of-Onderdompeling te Verkiezen Zy, boven de Besprenkeling. Hoorn, T. Tjallingius, 1762. 8vo. 3 works in 1 volume. With 3 title-pages (1 in red and black, 1 with a woodcut decoration and 1 with a woodcut "TM" cypher monogram), a woodcut tailpiece, decorated woodcut initials, and factotums and other decorations built up from fleurons. Contemporary half red roan (sheepskin) entirely covered (not just on the sides) with eighteenth-century sprinkled-paper, red morocco spine label, red sprinkled edges. Full description »
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