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Beautiful series illustrating the Book of Revelations, printed in Antwerp

[COLLAERT, Adriaan and Gerard de JODE]. Icones revelationum S. Johannis Evangeliste in Pathmo.
[Antwerp], Gerard de Jode, [ca. 1585]. Ca. 12 x 10.8 cm. With an engraved title page, and 24 full-page numbered engraved plates. 19th-century quarter vellum, marbled paper sides. Full description
€ 2,750
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Important source on the Reformation, in a contemporary signed binding

CRESPIN, Jean. Actiones et monimenta martyrum, eorum qui a Wicleffo et Husso ad nostram hanc aetatem ... veritatem evangelicam sanguine suo constanter obsignaverunt.
Genève, Jean Crespin, 1560.
With: (2) [PIBRAC, Guy du Faur, seigneur de]. De rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Elvidium, epistola. Et ad hanc de iisdem rebus Gallicis responsio.
[Paris, Fédérique Morel], 1573.
(3) [A. Q. F]. Memoriae Casparis Coligni Chastilonaei com. ductoris classis Gallicae ... una cum aliis ex nobilitate Gallica insidiose interfecti D. XXIIII. M. Vil. ann. Christi M. D. LXXII.
1572. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary richly blind-tooled panelled pigskin, with the arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the central panel on the front, and the arms of August of Saxony on the back, surrounded by two figurative and one ornamental border, the initials G.F.N. and the date 1573 on the front, signed by bookbinder S. Rab(e). [18], 321, [1] ll.; 102, [2 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
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Defending the Church in turbulent times

CROCUS, Cornelius. Ecclesia ad confirmandam fidem catholicorum dogmatum, & stabiliendos animos adversus falsae doctrinae ventos, nimium extremis hisce periculosis temporibus ...
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus (colophon:) for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. 8vo (15.3 x 8.5 cm). With a full page woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern printer's waste paper binding. [55] ll. Full description
€ 2,250
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A personal address to the imperial government

CRONBERG, Hartmuth von. Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.
Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers. [4] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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First Erasmus edition of the works of Saint Cyprian, an important work in the Humanistic rediscovery of the early Church Fathers

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius and Desiderus ERASMUS. Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus ...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1520. Folio. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page and on the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf, numerous woodcut decorated initials by Ambrosius Holbein throughout, and some ornamental woodcut headpieces. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps, catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge and brass edge guards around the corners and on the bottom board edge near the spine, manuscript waste pastedowns, re-backed. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
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Second Erasmus edition of Saint Cyprian’s works, with manuscript annotations

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius, and Desiderus ERASMUS Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus ...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1521. Folio. With a detailed woodcut border on the title page and the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf and with woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with brass catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge of the boards, lacking the clasps. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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By a female publisher: the first separate edition of Cyril's commentary on the Law of Moses

CYRIL of Alexandria. De adoratione in spiritu et veritate, & spiritali totius legis Mosaicae in religione Christiana observantia, ...
Lyon, Sybille de la Porte, 1588. 4to. With Porta's woodcut device on title-page, a woodcut headpiece, several woodcut tailpieces, numerous decorated woodcut initials (at least 3 series) and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary limp calf parchment. 24, 454, [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
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Eight year old King Sebastião's speech for the Council of Trent

[DOM SEBASTIÃO, King of Portugal and Giovanni STROZZI (attributed)]. Oratio habita serenissimi Portugaliae Algarbiorumque Regis Sebastiani Nomine, in Concilio Tridentino. Die IX. februarij. M.D.LXII. Unva cum responsione Sanctae Synodi.
Ripae [= Riva del Garda], Italy, Pietro Antonio Alciatis, 1562. 4to (18.2 x 13.4 cm). With the woodcut coat-of-arms of the Medici popes and a woodcut head-piece on the title-page, 2 large woodcut decorated initials in the text, a woodcut head-piece at the start of the text and two ornaments at the start and end of the text. Mid 19th-century marbled paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], [6] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Attacking Anabaptism: first edition of an apologetic work
by a leading Dutch Catholic of the Counter Reformation

DUNCAN, Martin. Anabaptisticae haereseos confutatio, et vere Christiani baptismi, ac potissimum paedobaptismatis assertio in duos libros divisa, quorum prior veram Christiani baptismi energiam declarat, posterior paedobaptismatis Christianam institutionem ex sacris literis demonstrat, contra Mennonis Simonis Frisii Anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias.
[part 2 title:] Liber posterior de paedobaptismate seu parvulorum baptismo, contra Menonis Simonis Frisii Anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias.
Antwerp, Johannes Gravius, 1549. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With printer's device on the title of the second part, many interesting woodcut initials. 17th-century boards covered with marbled paper. [15], [1 blank], 227 ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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