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Extremely rare Antwerp edition (1502) of popular pseudo-Magnus treatises Liber aggregationis
and De mirabilibus mundi

ALBERTUS MAGNUS (pseudo). De virtutibus herbarum. De virtutibus lapidum. De virutibus animalium et mirabilibus mundi. Item parvum regimen sanitatis valde utile. [Liber aggregationis and De mirabilibus mundi].
[colophon (f4r):] Antwerp, Govaert Bac, 1502. 4to. With a full-page woodcut on the title-page (a monk offering a book to a prince), repeated on the back of the title-page, and Govaert Bacs full-page woodcut printer's device of on the verso of the last leaf. With 3- and 4-line lombardic initials and smaller 2-line initials, supplied by hand in red. Rubricated throughout. 19th-century calf with double gold fillets along the edges of both boards. [36] ll. Full description
€ 35,000
Alchemy Astrology & Occult Early Printing - 16th century Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Mineralogy & Gems
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Rules and regulations for life in an Amsterdam orphanage or elderly home in the 17th- and 18th centuries

[AMSTERDAM - WALLOON COMMUNITY]. Ordres et reglemens de la Maison des Orphelins, des vieillards, & des vielles femmes de l'église Walonne d'Amsterdam. Avec des prières à l'usage de cette maison. Nouvelle edition.
Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772. Large 4to (21.5 x 27 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page and a divisional title page for the Prieres, a l'usage de la maison des orphelins walons (on leaf I3r). Further with 2 woodcut headpieces. Near contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. VIII, 91, [8], [1 blank], [6] pp. interleaved with blank pages. Full description
€ 3,500
Amsterdam Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (18th Century)
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Fables for Christians, by one of the founders of Rosicrucianism

[ANDREAE, Johann Valentin]. Mythologiae Christianae sive virtutum & vitiorum vitae humanae imaginum. Libri tres.
Strasbourg, heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, [1619].
With: (2) [GESSEL, Timan van]. Synopsis locorum sacrae scripturae patrum, et recentiorum quorundam theologorum, quibus demonstratur, quaenam sint ad salutem creditu necessaria & sufficientia.
Amsterdam, [Joan Blaeu?], 1650. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Ad 1: with an engraved title-page, a small woodcut device on the two divisional title-pages and some woodcut initials. Ad 2: with the title-page printed in red and black, a woodcut headpiece and initial. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. [24], 352, [7], [1 blank]; [38], 197, [1] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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The first English translation of one of the most important Taoist texts

BALFOUR, Frederic Henry. The divine classic of Nan-Hua; being the works of Chuang Tsze, taoist philosopher.
Shanghai & Hongkong; Yokohama; London, Kelly & Walsh; Kelly & Co.; Trübner & Co., 1881. 8vo. With Chinese characters in the text. Contemporary blue buckram, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine. IX, [1 blank], XXXVIII, 425, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Treatise on education and pedagogy based on the Christian religion

BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht der Jugend in der Religion und Sittenlehre der Vernunft nach dem in der Philalethie angegebenen Plane.
Altona, David Iversen, 1764.With: (2) BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht in der überzeugenden Erkenntniss der biblischen Religion, zur vorgesetzten Ausführung des in der Philalethie angegebenen Plans.
Altona, David Iversen, 1764.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved illustration on both title-pages (not identical) and some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Slightly later brown pastepaper boards, with title-label on spine, red sprinkled edges. LXII, 272; XXXII, 224, 144 pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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Four rare political tracts

BEN SADDI, Nathan (= Robert DODSLEY). Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, ecrite en Anglois selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs.
London [= Hanover?], Thomas Cooper [= Johann Wilhelm Schmidt?], 1743. Title in red & black with engraved vignette (a seascape with a sea creature in the foreground), headpieces and tailpieces. 144; [4], XXIV, 191, [1 blank], [2], 192-228; 108; 16 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
France Humanism & Reformation Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Philosophy & Humanism UK - United Kingdom
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With the 6 large Daniel Stoopendaal maps

[BIBLE – DUTCH - KEUR]. Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.
Dordrecht, Jacob and Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Pieter Rotterdam and Pieter Rotterdam the younger (colophon: printed by Jacob and Pieter Keur, Dordrecht), 1714 (New Testament without Pieter Rotterdam the younger, 1713). 3 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (42.5 x 27.5 cm). With engraved general title-page, letterpress title-pages for the New Testament and Apocrypha (and half-title for the Prophets), a series of 6 engraved double-page folding maps by Daniël Stoopendaal (his larger set) and a series of 24 (of 25) engrave plates, with 6 engraved Biblical scenes each, by Dirk Jonkman. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps, anchor and catch plates, and corner pieces. Full description
€ 3,500
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The beautifully bound 17th-century States Bible of Catharina Maria Daey,
presumably presented to her upon her marriage to Captain Peter Ebels

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia. Dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonycke boeken des Oude en des Nieuwen Testaments ...
Amsterdam, Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1676.
With:
(2) [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - DUTCH]. Het Nieuwe Testament ...
Amsterdam, for Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1677.
(3) [PSALMBOOK - DUTCH]. De CL Psalmen des propheten Davids ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1676. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo (15.3 x 9.3 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved general title page, the woodcut coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam on the verso of the title page, a small woodcut decorated initial , and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, the woodcut coat of arms below the "acte van consent" on the verso of the title page, a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, all psalms are accompanied by musical notation. Late 18th- or early 19th-century brown sheepskin with late 17th-century silver fittings, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. 338; [2], "109" [= 107], [1 blank]; [98] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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First Italian translation of De consolatione philosophiae, with the coat of arms of the Gaetani family on both covers

BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius. Di consolatione philosophica volgare, nuovamente revisto & di molti errori porgato opera al tutto dignissima eccellente & bella.
(Colophon:) Venice, Melchior Sessa, December 1531. 8vo. With the title and leaf 1 printed within a border made up of typographical ornament, and 6 decorated woodcut initials, of which one historiated. 17th-century gold tooled green morocco. [8], 104 ll. Full description
€ 3,750
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Important treatise on palaeontology with 441 illustrations of fossils and shells

[BOURGUET, Louis]. Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des pétrifications dans les quatre parties du monde.
The Hague, Jean Neaulme, 1742. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 60 folding engraved plates with 441 illustrations of fossils and shells. Modern half calf, gold-tooled spine. XVI, 163, [1 blank]; 91, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Fossils / Palaeontology Philosophy & Humanism Shells & other Invertebrates
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The classic book of Biblical travels: the first edition to be accompanied
by the complementary Lower Saxon chronicle in contemporary, richly blind-tooled Saxon pigskin

BÜNTING, Heinrich and Matthias HASAERT. Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, das ist Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze Heilige Schrifft ...
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[BÜNTING, Heinrich]. Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch over das Newe Testament.
BÜNTING, Heinrich. De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae. Dass ist: Ein eigentliche ausrechnung und beschreibung aller Müntz und Masse in heiliger Schrift. ...
Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1585. With 3 title-pages, 7 double-page and 2 full-page woodcut maps
With: (2) BÜNTING, Heinrich. Braunschweigische und Luneburgische Chronica.
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Das ander Theil Braunschweigischen Chronica, gehet auff das Land Lüneburg
Das dritte Theil, der Braunschweigischen und Lüneburgischen Chronica, ...
Das vierte Theil dieses Buches, gehet insonderheit auff das Fürstenthumb Grubenhagen, füret ... den geburts Stam des fürstlichen Hauses Braunschweig und Lüneburg.
Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1584-1585. General title-page in red and black with the woodcut coat of arms of Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, further with numerous finely detailed woodcut illustrations
2 works in 3 and 4 volumes, bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled pigskin, possibly by Nikolaus Müller in Wittenberg. With a matching pair of panel stamps in the central fields: portraits of Martin Luther (front board, 83 x 44 mm) and Phillip Melanchthon (back board, 81 x 45 mm), each with the date 1556 and text below. Ad 1: [16], “141” [= 242], [18]; [6], 110, [9] [3 blank]; [6], “34” [= 33], [1 blank] pp.; ad 2: [14], “150” [= 151], [1 blank]; “46” [= 47]. [1 blank]; [1], 47-82, [1 blank]; [1], “82”-“113” [= 83-109] ll. Full description
€ 27,500
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Calvin's commentary on the Pauline Epistles, one of his few works translated into Dutch before 1572

CALVIN, Jean. Uutlegghinghe ... op alle de Sendbrieven Pauli des Apostels: ende oock op den Sendbrief tot den Hebreen. Met een schoon register.
Emden, Gillis van der Erve and Willem Gailliart, 1566. Folio. With Van der Erve's woodcut device on title-page and several woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over bevelled wooden boards, each board in a panel design with 4 different rolls, engraved brass catchplates (remains of straps but clasps lost), later(?) brass decorated corner and centre pieces, each with a boss, rebacked. The rolls show (from outside to inside) decorative crests and foliage, 4 half-length portraits with mottos, and 4 nude putti, 1 with a saint's halo. [6], "464" [= 462], [16] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
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Important biography of one of the leading figures of the Protestant Reformation

CAMERARIUS, Joachim. De Philippi Melanchthonis ortu, totius vitae curriculo et morte, implicata rerum memorabilium temporis illius hominumque mentione atque indicio, cum expositionis serie cohaerentium.
Leipzig, (colophon: Ernst Voegelin, 1566). Large 8vo (19.5 x 12 cm). With woodcut printer's device on title-page. Contemporary pigskin, richly blind-tooled in a panel design, monogrammed and dated "I.V.S | 1566", by the Swabian bookbinder Wolfconrad Schwickart. [20], 423[=424], [2 blank], [18] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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The principal works of René Descartes, published with corrections and revisions in the year of his death

DESCARTES, René. Principia philosopiae.
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650.
With:
(2) IDEM. Specimina philosopiae: seu dissertatio de methodo rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: dioptrice, et meteora.
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650.
(3) IDEM. Passiones animae.
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650.
3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With 3 title-pages, each with Elzeviers woodcut Athena and tree device (Rahir M19), ads 1 and 2 with numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, ad 1 with a woodcut tailpiece (Rahir fleuron 102) and all three with a few woodcut decorated initials (2 series). Sprinkled calf (old boards rebound on 4 recessed cords with a blind-tooled spine, a spine label, and new endpapers ca. 1800?). [40], “302” [= 292]; [16], 316; [24], 98, [6] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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The 7500-page works of one of the most creative and influential minds of the Enlightenment

DIDEROT, Denis. Oeuvres de Denis Diderot, publiées, sur les manuscrits de l'auteur, par Jacques-André Naigeon, de l'Institut National des Sciences, etc. Tome premier[-quinzième].
Paris, Desray, Deterville (back of half-title, vol. I: printed by [Charles] Crapelet), an VI [=] 1798. 15 volumes. 8vo. With a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Charles Étienne Gaucher after a 1766 drawing by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 16 engraved plates and a folding letterpress table of all kinds of human knowledge for the Encyclopédie (52 x 37.5 cm). Contemporary, uniform half sprinkled calf, richly gold-tooled spines. [in total about 7500 pp.]. Full description
€ 6,500
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Two religious emblem books: a mixture of humor, intelligence, and protestant severity

DILHERR, Johann Michael. Heilig-Epistolischer Bericht, Licht, Geleit und Freud. Das ist: emblematische Fürstellung, der heiligen sonn- und festtäglichen Episteln.
Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endter and the heirs of Wolffgang der Jüngere, 1663.
With: (2) DILHERR, Johann Michael. Augen- und Hertzens-Lust. Das ist Emblematische Fürstellung der Sonn- und Festtäglichen Evangelien.
Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endter and the heirs of Wolffgang der Jüngere, 1661. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut printer's device, and 85 large engraved emblems by M. Küsell after G. Strauch. Further with numerous woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Ad 2: with an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut printer's device, and 91 large engraved emblems by M. Küsell after G. Strauch. Contemporary calf with the coat of arms of the Nürnberg patrician family Holzschuher Von und Zu Haszlach stamped in gold in the centre of each board, gold-tooled spine, gilt edges, floral chintz end papers. [8 blank], [30], 631, [33]; [8], 234, [4], 235-365, [31], [8 blank] pp. Full description
€ 11,500
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Very rare Dutch Hermetic work teaching alchemical and occult knowledge to a medical audience

FOLLIN, Herman (Hermanus FOLLINUS). Den Nederlandtsche sleutel van t'secreet der philosophie, in welck grondelijc bewesen wert, d'aert, so in 't generael, als in 't bysonder aller metallen, als goudt, silver, coper, etc. En die gheheele alchijmie, met haer verborghentheden. Midsgaders d'eerste materie der Philosophen, dat is: Quinta essentia des wijns, met haren volcomen ghebruyck, en verclaringhe aller duystere woorden des voorsz. constes, op dat Paracelsus claerlijck in alles mach werden verstaen.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman for Daniel de Keyser, 1613. Small 8vo. With 3 half-page woodcuts in the text, one repeated on the title-page, all showing distilling equipment. Modern vellum. 76 ll. Full description
€ 5,000
Alchemy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Philosophy & Humanism
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Rare first edition of official French Revolutionary decree for Voltaire’s reïnterment

GOSSIN, Pierre-François. Décret sur la translation des cendres de Voltaire à Sainte-Geneviève, précédé du Rapport fait par M. Gossin, au nom du Comité de Constitution, le 30 Mars 1791.
[Paris], by order of the Assemblée Nationale, [1791]. 8vo. Modern red half morocco. 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Revolution in Friesland and troubles in Leeuwarden: the Remonstrance of 1672

HAGIUS, Guilielmus. Afgeparste waerheyt, ofte nodige en naeckte aenwijsinge: Hoe dankbaerlijk de magistraat, enige uyt de vroedtschap, ende alle de praesente bevelhebbers van Leeuwarden tracteren hare gecommitteerden, die sy, tot het instellen en bevorderen van de reformatoire poincten, op den 27sten. Septembris 1672. by dEd. Mog. Heeren Staten van Frieslandt gearresteert, hebben genomineert ende versocht. Ingestelt door G. Hagius.
[Leeuwarden], for Haucke Egberts Heringa, [1673]. 4to. 19th-century blue wrappers. [8] pp. Full description
€ 650
Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism
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Deluxe issue of two print series illustrating the Chinese emperors and the life of Confucius

HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas. Faits memorables des empereurs de la Chine, tirés des annales chinoises... gravées ... d'après les dessins originaux de la Chine ... tirés du cabinet de mr. Bertin.
Paris, Helman and Nicholas Ponce, 1788.
With: (2) HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas. Abrégé historique des principaux traits de la vie de Confucius célebre philosophe chinois, ... gravées ... d'après des dessins originaux de la Chine envoyés à Paris par M. Amiot missionaire à Pékin ...
Paris, Helman and Nicholas Ponce, [1788]. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: wholly engraved series, consisting of a title-page, dedication, 24 illustrations and 24 text pages, each printed on one side of a leaf. Ad 2: wholly engraved series, consisting of a title-page, 24 illustrations and 28 text pages, 8 of the text pages printed on both sides of 4 leaves, and each of the others on one side of a leaf. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, sides, board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. Full description
€ 18,000
China Philosophy & Humanism
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The origins of the American Indians, together with the life and teaching of David Joris

HORNIUS (HORN), Georgius. De originibus Americanis. Libri quatuor.
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq (colophon: printed by Phillipe de Croy, Leiden), 1652.
With: (2) BLESDIJK, Nicolaas van. Historia, vitae, doctrinae, ac rerum gestarum Davidis Georgii haeresiarchae. Conscripta ab ipsius genero Nicolao Blesdikio. Nunc primum prodit in lucem ex musaeo Iacobi Revii.
Deventer, Nathanael Cost, 1642. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [9], [11], 282; [8], 189 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Radical Anabaptism: The Münster Rebellion and the Amsterdam Riots

HORTENSIUS, Lambertus. Het boeck van den oproer der Weder-dooperen. Eerst int Latijn beschreven, ende ghedruckt tot Basel ... Ende nu in Nederlandts overgheset. ...
Enkhuizen, Jacob Lenaertsz Meyn, 1614. Folio. With 1 half-page and 8 full-page engraved plates in text (one repeat). Contemporary vellum. [4], 26 ll. Full description
€ 1,950
Amsterdam Church History & Missions Germany Humanism & Reformation Netherlands Philosophy & Humanism
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Celebrating Gustav Adolf II, 'The Lion of the North' and champion of Protestantism,
magnificently illustrated by Crispijn vande Passe II

HULSIUS, Bartholomaeus. Den onderganck des Roomschen Arents, door den Noordschen Leeuw ...
Amsterdam, Crispijn vande Passe, 1642. 4to. Engraved allegorical title page with engraved title in a central panel below Fame sitting on a swan. Beautifully bound in 19th-century light brown gold-tooled calf (1850s or 1860s?), each board with triple along the edges, decorated spine with red and green labels lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, signed "PETIT SUCCr DE SIMIER": Charles Petit operated a Paris bindery from 1848 to 1873 as successor to René Simier (1772-1843), relieur du roi from 1815, and his son. [12], 91, [1 blank] pp. plus engraved title page. Full description
€ 15,000
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Antipapal dialogues (1520), with a lovely woodcut of Fortuna

HUTTEN, Ulrich von. Dialogi. Fortuna. Febris prima. Febris secunda. Trias Romana. Inspicientes.
Colophon: Mainz, Johann Schöffer, April 1520. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With a lovely woodcut of the blindfolded Fortuna on title-page (by Hans Weiditz?), a large woodcut initial Q (repeated twice) and several vine leaf ornaments. Printed in roman type. 19th-century half vellum, marbled paper sides. [72] ll. Full description
€ 3,750
Caricature & Satire Early Printing - 16th century German Literature Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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Second edition of a celebrated work on religion in Persia

HYDE, Thomas. Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum religionis historia.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1760. 4to. With 21 engraved plates (including 5 folding) by Michael Burghers. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [40], 580 pp. Full description
€ 1,800
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Rare first editions of two important spiritual works by the controversial Anabaptist David Joris

[JORIS, David]. Die eerste sullen die laetste, die laetste die eerste sijn.
With: (2) [JORIS, David]. Een twesprake tusschen man unde wijff, namelick Christus un[de] de gemeente oder verlorene mensch.
[Rostock, Ludwig Dietz, ca. 1550/52]. 8vo (15.5 x 11 cm). With gothic initials and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in schwabacher types with incidental and fraktur. Vellum (ca. 1680?). [211], [1 blank]; [71], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 17,500
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Most important work of the mysterious and controversial Anabaptist David Joris

JORIS, David. T'Wonder-boeck: waer in dat van der wereldt aen versloten gheopenbaert is.
[Vianen, printed by Dirck Mullem and distributed via a merchant in Emden, 1584]. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a half-page engraving of the Lamb of God in part 1, a spectacular full-page engraving of the nude bride of Christ in part 3 (by Hieronymus Wierix) and an engraved landscape with the way to eternal life in the sky in part 3. Blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (ca. 1645), each board in a panel design with three ornamental rolls, 2 brass clasps and catchplates with engraved decoration. [9 of 10], 125, [3]; [5 of 6], 164, [2]; [4], 50, [2]; [2], 34, [1], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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Dutch Anabaptist heretic burned in Basel three years after his death

JORIS, David (subject). David Georgen ausz Holand deß Ertzkätzers warhafftige Histori, seines Lebens, unnd verfürischen Leer, . . .
Basel, (colophon: printed by Hieronymus Curio, September 1559), 1559. Small 4to. With 2 large woodcut gothic decorated initials (56 mm). Set in schwabacher types with incidental fraktur and the year of publication in Roman numerals. Disbound. [63], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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2nd known copy of the 2nd edition (ca. 1595?) of David Joris’s first spiritual handbook

JORIS, David. Handt boecxken: inholdende vele godlijcke trouhertighe vaderlijcke vermaninghen unde leeringen: ...
[Rotterdam, Dirck de Raeff van Mullem, ca. 1595?]. Small 12mo in 8s (14 x 8 cm). With a woodcut spiral printed in the fore-edge margin to illustrate the spiritual workings of God, 11 interlaced gothic initials (cast in matrices) plus 22 repeats, and 3 vine-leaf ornaments (Vervliet 7, 127 and 184). Set in textura gothic types with an occasional word in roman. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (with tapered edges), sewn on 3 double cords, each board with a frame made with a 12 mm roll (reticulated diagonals making diamonds and half diamonds, each diamond containing a quatrafoil and each half-diamond a trefoil, in the general style of Einbanddatenbank roll r000355, workshop w007716 (Wittenberg, late 16th-century) and others in the motief group m000956, edged inside and out with multiple fillets, two brass fastenings with engraved decoration (each with a clasp on a calf strap, and a catchplate). [1], 142, [1] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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Rare work explaining the Dutch Reformed Church's view of the Lord's mercy

KEESSEL, Dionysius van der. De vastgestelde leer en praktyk, van Neerlands kerk omtrent byzondere, algenoegzame en kragtdadige genade in Christus, gezuiverd van het misbruik derzelve. Waar by gevoegt zijn de Dordse leer-regelen...
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(2) IDEM. De vastgestelde leer en praktyk ... tweede deel.
(3) IDEM. De vastgestelde leer en praktyk ... derde deel.
Deventer, Abraham van Wezel, 1749-1750. 3 parts (and part 2 in 2 sections) in 1 volume. 8vo. With several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces Contemporary vellum, sewn on 6 supports, manuscript title on spine. [32], 866, [2] pp. Full description
€ 750
Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism
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The rights and duties of women in sex, love and marriage

KORNMANN, Heinrich. Sibylla trig-Andriana, seu virginitate, virginum statu et jure tractatus novus et jucundus ...
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-De Annulo triplici: usitato, sponsalitio, signatorio: ...
-Linea amoris sive commentarius in versiculum glossae, ...
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq, 1654.
With: (2) BOETHIUS. De consolatione philosophiae, libri v. ex vetustissimis libris a Th. Pulmannus.
Leiden, Officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1590. With Plantin's woodcut compasses device on title-page. 2 editions in 1 volume (the first in 3 parts). 12mo. 17th-century overlapping sheepskin parchment. [24], 214; 69, [3]; 117, [3]; 144 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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The rights and duties of women in sex, love and marriage

KORNMANN, Heinrich. Sibylla trig-Andriana, seu virginitate, virginum statu et jure tractatus novus et jucundus ...
Including:
De annulo triplici: usitato, sponsalitio, signatorio: ...
Linea amoris sive commentarius in versiculum glossae, ...
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq, 1654. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [24], 214; 69, [3]; 117, [3] pp. Full description
€ 950
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Primer in a Bantu dialect for the Finnish Lutheran mission in Namibia

KURVINEN, Pietari. Ondonga kielen ABD. Ensimäinen irja Ondonga kielellä . . . =ABD Moshindonga. Omukanda uatango koshindonga ua piangoa . . .
Helsinki, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran [=Finnish Literature Society], 1876. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, the first in Finnish and the second in Ndonga, a brief preface in both languages, but with the sample texts in Ndonga. Contemporary brown textured cloth. [4], 32 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Early humanist edition of Lactantius' most important works, printed in Venice

LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus and Giovanni Andrea BUSSI) (editor) [and others]. Opera [and additional works].
Comprising:
(1) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De divinis institutionibus
(2) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De ira Dei.
(3) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De opificio Dei.
(4) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De phoenice carmina.
(5) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. [Epitome divinarum institutionem]. Nephytomon.
Additional works:
(6) RAUDENSIS, Antonius. [Lactantii Firmiani errata].
(7) GENUENSIS, Adam. His carminibus frater Adam Genuensis increpat fratrem Antonium. [Incipit:] Hic male corripuit stolidis Antonius aussis.
(8) BUSSI, Giovanni Andrea. Ioannis Andreae episcopi Aleriensis ad Paulum secundum Venetum pontificem maximum epistola.
(9) OVIDIUS, Publius Naso. Metamorphoses (extract).
(10) ALIGHIERI, Dante. Comedia, inferno XXV (extract).
(11) FORTUNATUS, Venantius. [De christi resurrectione]. [Incipit:] Lactantii fir. de resurrectio[n]is dominicae die/ [S]alve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo.
(Colophon:) Venice, Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 1390 [=1490]. 5 works and 6 additional texts in 1 volume. Folio. The text is set in Roman type with some incidental Greek.20th-century goatskin parchment, with the author and title stamped on the spine with black foil, the name of the author added in manuscript on the bottom edge of the book block. [1 blank], [147] ll. Full description
€ 6,000
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Extremely rare Dutch translation of one of the most frequently printed works
on demonology by Ludwig Lavater

LAVATER, Ludwig and Sibrandus VOMELIUS (translator). Een boeck vande spoocken ofte nacht-gheesten ...
Amsterdam, Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1610. 8vo. With an oval woodcut vignette on the title page, a large 8-line woodcut decorated initial at the start of the preface and smaller woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary vellum, sewn on three tapes laced through the joints, with the manuscript title and a precious shelfmark(?) in brown ink on the spine, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [14], 287, [1 blank], [8] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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An influential compilation of the works of Ramon Lull

LULL, Ramon. Opera ea quae ad adinventam ab ipso artem universalem, scientiarum artium que omnium brevi compendio, firmaq[ue] menmoria apprehendendarum, locupletissimaq[ue] vel oratione ex tempore pertractandarum, pertinent.
Strasbourg, sold by the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1617.
With: (2) ALSTED, Johann Heinrich. Clavis artis Lullianae, et verae logices ...
Strasbourg, sold by the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1633.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 3 folding letterpress tables, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, a decorated woodcut initial at the start of each chapter, and a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. [16], 1109, [39], [2 blank]; [8], 182; [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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The wisdom of Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, and Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, received in an early incunable

MAGNI, Jacobus [Jacques Legrand]. Sophologium.
[Strasbourg, R-printer (Adolf Rusch), ca. 1468]. Folio (21 × 28.2 cm). With the text set in 35 lines in Roman type, spaces for initials show tiny guide letters, rubricated throughout, with 3- and 5-line blue or red Lombardic initials. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco, with a triple-fillet frame on the boards and elaborate ornaments and a title-label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers and bluish flyleaves. 217 (of 218) ff. (lacking the final blank). Full description
€ 75,000
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Vehemently anti-Papist satire

[MARNIX VAN SINT ALDEGONDE, Philips van]. Binenkorb dess Heyl. Römischen Imenschwarms, seiner Hummelszellen (oder Himmelszellen) Hurnausnäster,Brämen- geschwürm und Wäspengestöss. Sampt Läuterung der H. Römischen Kirchen Honigwaben; Einweihung und Beräuchung oder Segfeurung der Imenstöck: und Erlesung der Bussenblumen, des heydnischen Klosterhysops, der Suiter Säudisteln, der saurbonischen Säubonen, dess Magisnostrischen Liripipesenchets, und dess Imenplatts der Plakimen: auch dess Messthaues und H Saffts von Wunderbäumen, &c. Alles nach dem rechten Himelstau oder Manna justirt, und mit Mentzerkletten durchzirt.
Christlingen [= Strassbourg], Ursino Gottgewin [= Bernard Jobin], 1580. Small 8vo. The title-page, with the woodcut illustration of a beehive, is printed in red and black, the same woodcut repeated in the text, and a devotional woodcut by T. Stimmer in the text. 19th century half vellum. 246, [18] ll. Full description
€ 3,000
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The most eminent bishop of Sweden admonishing the Swedish King Charles X to promote religious unity

MATTHIAS, Johannes (Johannes Matthiae Gothus). Copie van een brief van Joh. Matthias Luthers bisschop in Sweden aen de koningh van Sweden inde welcke hy Sijn Majesteyt versoeckt, de Kerckelijcke eendracht onder de evangelische, te willen promoveren. Uyt het Latijn over gheset.
1656. 4to. Modern boards. 8 pp. Full description
€ 650
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Failed attempt to assassinate the Dutch Stadholder

[MAURITS, Prince of Orange]. Clare af-beeldinghe, ofte effigien, der voornaemste conspirateurs, staende op het lichaem vande hoofdeloose Arminiaensche slange. Waer in vertoont word hoe den orangien boom, mitsgaders religie ende justitie (in spijt van 't bedrogh, en den vervallen boom) door de strael Gods, beschermt word.
Utrecht, Jan Amelisz. (printed by Jan Adrieansz. in Amsterdam), 1623. 1mo. Broadsheet (41 x 31 cm), with engraved illustration, letterpress title at the head and a letterpress poem in 3 columns below. Full description
€ 550
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Spectacular engraving on the failed attempt to assassinate the Dutch Stadholder

[MAURITS, Prince of Orange]. Clare verthooninghe, ofte af-beeldinghe des gantschen handels deser schrickelijcke ende moordadighe conspirateurs, (jeghens den heere Prince van Orangien, mitsgaders den staet ende wel-varen van 't land) vervaetende het begin , totten eynde haerder justitien toe.
Utrecht, Jan Amelissz., 1623. 1mo. Broadsheet (40 x 31.5 cm), with engraved illustration below the title, and a letterpress dialogue in verse in 3 columns plus and explanation of the plate, below. Full description
€ 1,250
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The first Dutch protestant martyrologium

MELLINUS, Abraham. Eerste deel van het groot recht-ghevoelende Christen martelaers-boeck ...
Dordrecht & Amsterdam, Isaack Jansz. Canin & Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1619. Folio. With an engraved title-page and 106 very vivid woodcut illustrations of tortured and/or executed martyrs (several repeats), the text alternately set in roman and gothic type. 17th- or 18th-century gold-tooled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold in the second compartment, with remnants of ties. [14], 632, [46] ll. Full description
€ 5,500
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Two pamphlets on the unity of the reformed church and against the Labadists

MULLENS, Gelasius [= Guilielmus SALDENUS]. Neerlands interest, tot vrede der kercke, en wegh-neminge van alle opkomende misverstanden in de selve.
Middelburg, Yemant Hendrickss., 1664.
With:
(2) [SALDENUS, Guilielmus]. Den God-vrughtigen boer ... tot verdedigingh van Jan Bakhuys den ghenaamden Boer van Ebbink-hoven, en Desiderius Pacius over sijn zedigh versoek aan Juffrouw Schurman.
Utrecht, Jacob van Doeyenborgh, 1670. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. 100 pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Rare remonstrant pamphlet

[NAERANUS, Johannes]. Af-gedrongen verantwoordinge tegens eenige onbillijke en vreemde proceduuren, gehouden by de Kerken-Raad der Remonstranten tot Rotterdam.
Rotterdam, Joannes Naeranus, 1656. 4to. With a letterpress ornament on the title page and 2 woodcut initials. 19th-century blue boards with reference-label on the front board. [4], 28 pp. Full description
€ 350
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The Carnatic coast in south east India and the Dänisch-Hallesche mission

NIEKAMP, Johann Lucas. Kurtzgefasste Missions-Geschichte oder Historischer Auszug der evangelischen Missions-Berichte aus Ost-Indien von dem Jahr 1705 bis zu Ende des Jahres 1736, ...
Halle, Waisenhaus, 1740. 4to. With 2 engraved folding maps (the second crudely highlighted in colour by a later hand). Contemporary tanned sheepskin. [22], 506, [54] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Philosophy of science, a refutation of Spinoza

NIEUWENTYT, Bernard. Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen, ter overtuiginge van ongodisten en ongelovigen aangetoont.
Amsterdam, Joannes Pauli, 1740. Large 4to. With title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author, and 28 engraved folding plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 916, [18] pp. Full description
€ 750
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First illustrated edition of Osiander's Harmony of the Gospels, with 98 woodcuts

OSIANDER, Andreas. Harmoniae Evangelicae libri quatuor, in quibus Evangelica historia ex quatuor Evangelistis ita in unu[m] est contexta, ut nullius verbum ullum omissum, nihil alienum immixtum, nullius ordo turbatus, nihil non suo loco positum. ... Elenchus harmoniae, ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Matthias Crom, 1540). 8vo. With a woodcut vignette at the foot of the title-page and the head of the first page of the main text (illustrating Luke 11), 1 full-page and 97 half-page woodcut illustrations by Levinus de Witte (including a few repeats). 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment. [164] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
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Well-bound treatises on natural law

PERRENOT, Abraham. Bedenkingen over de beoeffening der rechtsgeleerdheid, benevens vier verhandelingen over wysgeerige stoffen.
Dordrecht, Abraham Blussé and son (colophon: printed by Johan Joseph Besseling, [Utrecht]), 1781.
With: (2) PERRENOT, Abraham. Considérations sur l'étude de la jurisprudence, ... Nouvelle edition. Berlin, G.J. Decker; Utrecht, Henrikus Spruit, 1776. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards (triple fillets, with floral ornaments in each corner), board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. Bound by the Dutch court bookbinder Abraham van Rossum (active in Amsterdam 1812-1854), one of the "major binders" (Storm van Leeuwen) of that period, with his letterpress ticket on paste-down ("A.v. Rossum | hof-boekbinder"). 5, [1], 339, 5; 68 pp. Full description
€ 1,650
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First edition of a famous account of all religions of the world and their customs, richly illustrated

PICART, Bernard and Abraham MOUBACH (translator). Naaukeurige beschryving der uitwendige godtsdienst-plichten, kerk-zeden en gewoontens van alle volkeren der waereldt; in een historisch verhaal, met eenige naaukeurige verhandelingen ontvouwen, door verscheiden aanmerkingen opgeheldert en in kunstige tafereelen afgemaalt.
The Hague, Rutgert Christoffel Alberts (vols. 1-3) and Isaac van der Kloot (vols. 3-4); Amsterdam, Hermannus Uytwerf; Rotterdam, Jan Daniel Beman, 1727-1738. 6 volumes (vols. 3, 4 & 6 in 2 parts each) bound as 7. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece, 8 title-pages (6 in red and black, each with one of 3 different engraved vignettes) plus 3 part-titles (with a woodcut decoration), 224 full-page engraved plates, including 1 folding and 38 double-page plates, an engraving on the dedication leaf in vol. 1 and a few engravings in the text. Further with several engraved headpieces, woodcut tailpieces and a few woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold tooled mottled calf, with red and black morocco title and volume labels, lettered in gold, each volume with a central lozenge-shaped ornament on both boards, surrounded by two decorative borders, gold tooled board edges, marbled edges. Full description
€ 9,500
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In a 17th-century richly gold-tooled Jesuit prize-binding

PLUTARCHUS. Moralia, quae usurpantur. sunt autem omnis elegantis doctrinae penus: id est, varij libri: morales, historici, physici, mathematici, deniq; ad politiorem litteraturam pertinentes & humanitatem: omnes de Graeca in Latinam linguam transscripti.
Basel, Thomas Guarini, 1570. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and repeated on last page, some mathematical woodcuts in text and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Early 17th-century Jesuit prize binding in richly gold-tooled light brown calf, sides with arabesques in the style of Gascon, richly gold-tooled double borders and inner panel with small bands in a geometrical pattern. [12], 857, [91] pp. Full description
€ 4,250
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"Probably the first original architectural book to be published in Hungary"

RAUSCH VON TRAUBENBERG, Franz. Elementa architecturae, ad structura oeconomicas applicatae, in usum academiarum per Regnum Hungariae et eidem annexas provincias.
Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 76 architectural illustrations and figures on 11 folding engraved plates. With: BAUMEISTER, Friedrich Christian. Philosophiae moralis institutiones ius naturae, ethicam, et politicam complexae.
Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. Contemporary blind-tooled marbled calf. XVI, 158; 235, [5] pp. Full description
€ 800
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Two incendiary pamphlets against French Huguenots, 3 years after the revocation of Edict of Nantes

[REBOUL, Guillaume]. La cabale des Reformez, tiree nouvellement du puits de Democrite.
Montpellier [= Lyon?], "chez Le Libertin, imprimeur juré de la saincte Reformation" [= Jacques Roussin?], 1597.
With: (2) REBOUL, Guillaume. Apologie ... sur La cabale des Reformez.
[Lyon?, Jacques Roussin?], 1598. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 17th-century gold-tooled calf; rebacked, preserving most of the backstrip. 224; 141, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Beautiful Jesuit emblems mixing science instruction and philosophical politics

REINZER, Franz. Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica, das ist: Philosophische und Politische Beschreib- und Erklärung der Meteorischen, oder in der obern Lufft erzeugten Dinge ...
Augsburg, Peter Detleffsen for Jeremiae Wolffen, 1712. Folio. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A.M. Wolffgang after Wolfgang Josephus Kadoriza and 83 large engraved circular emblems in text with motto above and various verses in text, all after designs by Kadoriza. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine with orange label, red sprinkled edges. [4], 424, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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Variant issue of an account of the "Landjuweel" of Ghent 1539

[RHETORICIANS]. Spelen va[n] sinne byde[n] .xix. gheconfirmeerden cameren van rhetorijcken binnen der stede van Ghendt comparerende, verthoont, volghende den octroye vander K. Maiesteyt, Grave va[n] Vlaendren, onsen gheduchte[n] Heere, schepenen der selver stede, en[de] camere van rhetorijcke vander heylige drievuldicheyt, gheseyt de fonteynisten, verleent, en[de] der charte uutghesonde[n] op de questie, welck den mensche stervende, meesten troost is: die selve spele[n] beghinnende by ordre, so hier na volcht, de[n] .xii. junij, int jaer m.ccccc.xxxix. En[de] werde[n] volspeelt en[de] gheeyndt, den .xxiii. vanden jare en[de] maent voorsz.
(Colophon: Antwerp, [Matthias Crom], 25 October 1539). 8vo. 18th-century half vellum. [220] ll. Full description
€ 13,500
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With the embroidered arms of the marquis and marchioness de Verneuil on front board

ROQUES, Pierre. Le vray pietisme ou traité, dans lequel on explique la nature & les éffets de la piété; la juste étendue du renoncement au monde; où l'on remonte à la source générale du peu de vertu qu'il y a entre les Chrétiens, où l'on indique les moyens d'acquérir une piété solide; & où l'on fait connoître comment la piété nous dispose à l'égard de ceux qui ne pensent pas comme nous en matière de religion.
Basel, Jean Brandmuller, 1731. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by F.A. Störcklein. Contemporary vellum, with large embroidered coat of arms on front board (17.5 x 15.5 x 1 cm), with silver and gold thread. 7, [1 blank], [12], 596, 70, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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The "Mirror of human life", printed at Rome in 1473, with contemporary marginal manuscript notes:
set in one of the first roman printing types ever produced

SÁNCHEZ DE ARÉVALO, Rodrigo (Rodericus SANCIUS or ZAMORENSIS). Speculum vit[a]e human[a]e.
Rome, Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, 31 July 1473. Small folio (26.5 x 20 cm). With spaces left for 2 large (6-line) and about 80 small (3-line) initials. Text block 19.5 x 11.5 mm with 31 lines per page. Set in a single roman type throughout (Lignamine 125R). Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1740/50). [163] ll. Full description
€ 22,500
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Rare and little-known critical essay on Descartes, printed in Benevento in the Kingdom of Naples

SANCTI, Marco Antonio. Crisis opinionum Renati De Cartes.
Benevento, Typographia Archiepiscopali, 1712. 4to. With the title in a double-line frame built up from short rules, a woodcut tailpiece, a factotum (plus one repeat with a different letter), and a factotum and other decorations built up of typographical ornaments. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, blue marbled edges. [12], 63, [5] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
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Four rare post-incunables in defence of the Catholic faith, printed in Antwerp

SCHENCK DE TAUTENBURCH, Fredericus. Enchiridion veri praesulis secundum apostolicam traditionem.
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1526
With:
(2) ISIDORUS Hispalensis. De officiis ecclesiasticis libri duo ante annos D. CCCC. ab eo aediti, & nunc ex vetusto codice in lucem restituti.
Antwerp, Johannes Graphaeus for Johannes Steelsius, 1534.
(3) WICELIUS, Georgius. Loci ex sacris literis de bonis operibus.Ad haec praeconium Evangelicae gratiae. Theies aliquot. Praecatio pro ecclesia. Matth. v. Quisquis fecerit & docuerit, hic magnus vocabitur in regno coelorum.
Antwerp, Johannes Graphaeus for Johannes Steelsius, 1534.
(4) AMBROSIUS. De his qui mysteriis initiantur, cum nonnullis aliis hac tempestate scitu dignissimis. Claruit sub Theodosio imperatore clementissimo. Anno domini CCCLXXX.
Antwerp, printed by Johannes Graphaeus for Johannes Steelsius, 1534. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title-page of Enchiridion within a fine woodcut border, with the portrait of Virgilius Maro, and several decorated woodcut initial letters. 19th-century half calf. [48]; 72; [52]; [27], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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German Reformed congregations in America, with the baptism of a freed slave and report on the Iroquois

SCHLATTER, Michael. Getrouw verhaal van den waren toestant der meest herderloze gemeentens in Pensylvanien en aangrensende provintien.
Amsterdam, Jacobus Loveringh, 1751. 4to. Finely bound in early 20th-century(?) gold-tooled, tan goatskin morocco, green morocco label covering the entire spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on board edges, with the original Dutch-marbled wrappers bound in. XXII, 56 pp. Full description
€ 18,000
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Popular work on sorcery and witchcraft

SENNERTUS, Daniel and Daniël JONCTYS (translator). Verhandelingh der toover-sieckten. Geschil van de schôot- en steeck-vrije. Geschil van de wapen-salve. Paracelsi vrye-konst. Uyt verscheyde Latijnsche boecken vertaelt, en by een geschikt door D. Jonctys.
Amsterdam, Jan van Hilten (colophon: printed by Pieter Dircksz. Boeteman), 1646. 4 parts in 1 work. 8vo. With an engraved title-page showing a magician laying magic bones at a person's sickbed, a small vignette on the title-page, 3 typographical divisional title-pages, 1 small woodcut illustration in the text (p. 200), 3 decorated initials (3 different series) and 3 ornamental tail-pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [24], 331, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,250
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Richly gold-tooled French morocco in the style of "Le Gascon": includes Elichman's Greek, Latin and Arabic Tabula Cebetis and Aurea carmina Pythagoræ

SIMPLICIUS of Cilicia. Commentarius in Enchiridion Epicteti, ex libris veteribus emendatus. Cum versione Hieronymi Wolfii, et Cl. Salmasii animadversionibus, et notis quibus Philosophia Stoica passim explicatur & illustratur.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1640. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With three title-pages. Set in roman, Greek and Arabic types. Contemporary French pointillé binding in the style of "Le Gascon", richly gold-tooled in concentric panels on both covers, and in the six compartments of the spine, the second with the title. [20], 332, [12]; [1], [1 blank], 329, [23]; [34], 88, 15 pp. Full description
€ 9,750
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Pamphlet against the ultra-orthodox minister Adriaan Smout

[SMOUT, Adriaan Joriszoon (reply to)]. Voorlooper. Over Adriani Smoutii schriftuerlyck jae, dienende tot openinge ende recht verstandt van synen toe-eyghen-brief aen de E.M. Heeren Staten, aengaende de questie: of de vyf verschillighe poincten de salicheyt raecken of niet. Ghestelt door eenen lief-hebber der waerheyt, tot dienste van alle ghetrouwe ondersaten ende vreed-lievende menschen hier te lande.
Rotterdam, Matijs Bastiaensz., [1613]. 4to. Disbound. [32] pp. Full description
€ 250
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A chronicle of Spanish atrocities in the Low Countries ca. 1556-1609, with 40 detailed engravings

[SPANISH TYRANNY]. Warachtighe beschrijvinghe ende levendighe afbeeldinghe vande meer dan onmenschelijcke ende barbarische tyrannije bedreven by de Spaengiaerden inde Nederlandes: onder de regieringen van den Keyser Carel V. Philips II. en Philips III. Coningen van Spaengien. [Half-title:] De onmenschelicke, barbarische, en grouwelijcke tyerannije der Spangniaerden in Nederlandt.
[Northern Netherlands (Amsterdam?)], [printed by Barent Otsz.?], 1621. Oblong 4to (18 x 22 cm). With an integral engraved frontispiece (15.5 x 20 cm, with 1 large and 3 small views of Spanish atrocities), letterpress title-page with a small bear as ornament (a mounted casting made from a woodcut), 36 full-page engraved city views on integral leaves showing Spanish atrocities (plate size about 13.5 x 16.5 cm, irregularly numbered 3 to 236 and not quite in numerical order), each with a 4-line Latin caption engraved in 2 columns, and 3 engraved portraits on integral leaves (plate size 14 x 12.5 cm). Early 18th-century vellum, sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints. [8], 278 pp. Full description
€ 3,950
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17th-century positive reward philosophy of human resource management

ST. LO, George. England's safety: or, a bridle to the French King. Proposing a sure method for encouraging navigation, and raising qualified seamen ...
London, William Miller, 1693. 4to. With a pseudo-heraldic woodcut frontispiece (17 x 12 cm) with letterpress title and motto ("This encouraged, England must flourish."), with as bearing an anchor topped by the royal crown, and other nautical attributes, supported by 2 men, one with a globe and the other with a quadrant, each with a compass at his feet. The British flag flies above it with ships in the background. Set in roman and italic types. 18th-century blue paper wrappers, side stitched through 4 holes, with manuscript title-label on front. 54, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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The mayfly as a metaphor for human life

SWAMMERDAM, Jan. Ephemeri vita, of afbeeldingh van 's menschen leven, vertoont in de wonderbaarelijcke en nooyt gehoorde historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent haft of oever-aas. ...
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1675. 8vo (15.6 x 9.5 cm). With detailed illustration of the mayfly or ephemeron on 8 engraved plates (including 2 folding). Further with woodcut decorated initials and a woodcut ornamental tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with title in ink on the spine. [32], 422, [8] pp. Full description
€ 5,500
Insects & Spiders Instruments & Microscopy Philosophy & Humanism Women History
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To prevent the destruction of Jerusalem and the Dutch Republic

TEELLINCK, Willem. Zephaniae waerschouwinge, om te voor-comen den onder-gang Jerusalems: oock passende op de tegenwoordige ghelegentheyt onses weerden Vader-lants.
Middelburg, Hans van der Hellen for Marten Jansz. Brandt, Amsterdam, 1623. 4to. With Brandt's charming woodcut device on the title page. Contemporary half calf. [8], 156 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Second and best edition of a comprehensive history of the Hussite wars,
complete with all 17 portraits, often lacking

THEOBALD, Zacharias. Hussiten Krieg: darinnen begriffen, das Leben, die Lehr, der Todt M. Johannis Hussii, auch wie derselbe von den Böhmen, besonders Johann Zischka, ist gerochen, und seine Lehr hernacher inn dem Königreich erhalten worden ...
Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, 1621. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With the full-page portrait of the author (1621), and 17 numbered full-page portraits of Johannes Huss, popes, kings, emperors and other Bohemian reformers, by Johann Conrad Klüpffel. The 4 titles printed in red and black, the first 3 with the woodcut coat-of-arms of Bohemia, Halbmayers woodcut device at the end of all 4 parts, folding letterpress genealogical table in the 4th part, the added Confessio. Contemporary vellum, title on spine. [8], 322, [2]; 228; 179, [9]; 107, [5] pp. Full description
€ 4,750
Central Europe Church History & Missions Czech Republic & Slovakia Humanism & Reformation Military History (17th Century) Philosophy & Humanism
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Rare first edition of an early work by Trotsky

TROTSKY, Leon. Tuda i Obratno: vmesto predislovija. I. Ot Peterburga do Berezzova. Sovet rabočich deputatov po etapam. II. Moj pobeg. - 800 verst na olenjach. [There and back again] [text in Russian in Cyrillic type].
St. Petersburg, Shipovnik, 1907. With a lithographed device on the front cover. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 123, [1 blank], IV pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Eastern Europe Law & Politics Literature Russia (incl. Siberia)
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A critique and chronology of Hermetic writings

URSINUS, Johannes Heinrich and Christophorus ARNOLDUS. De Zoroastre Bactriano, Hermete Trismegisto, Sanchoniathone Phoenicio, eorumque, scriptis, & aliis, contra Mosaicae scripturae antiquitatem ...
Nürnberg, Michael Endter, 1661. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 6 decorated woodcut initials, 7 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and 5 tailpieces (2 built up from typographical ornaments, 3 woodcuts).
Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], 240; 71, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Alchemy Astrology & Occult Philosophy & Humanism
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The religious strife in the Dutch Republic, as experienced by a key participant

UYTENBOGAERT (WTENBOGAERT), Johannes. Johannis Uytenbogaerts leven, kerckelijcke bedieninghe ende zedighe verantwoordingh ... Tweeden druck, daer eenige stucken van nieuws by gedaen zijn, ende alles dat nodigh was, uyt het Latijnsch ende Fransch overgheset.
[No place, no publisher], 1646. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author by Wilhelm Delff after Michiel van Mierevelt, with a 6-line verse by Caspar Barlaeus underneath. Contemporary vellum. [40], 451, [3], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Collected works of an indicted Belgian canonist

VAN ESPEN, Zeger Bernard. Opera, quaecunque hactenus in lucem prodeunt, omnia. Tomus primus [-secundus] . Continens ... juris ecclesiastici universi.
Louvain, 1721. 2 volumes. Folio. With the title-pages printed in red and black. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines. [30], 924, [39], [1 blank]; [4], 230, [14], [4], 400, [16], [8], 208, [22], [8], 90, [6], 28, [4], 57, [2], [1 blank], 18, [4], 30, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Plea for concord after years of religious quarrels and disputes (with book burning symbolizing tolerance!)

[VELDE, Jan II van de, and Jan Jansz. STARTER]. AMNH∑TIA ofte Vergetelheyd. Vermanende inwoonders der Vereenighde Nederlanden tot eendracht ende vergetelheyd van al de bitterheden, die onder de naem van Remonstranten, Arminianen, &c. in hare gheherberght zijn geweest ende noch souden moghen wesen.
[Utrecht, Jan Amelisz., 1623]. Oblong 1mo (full sheet) broadside. Etched print (plate size 19.5 x 26 cm) with letterpress text on paper. Mounted on a paper support. [1] leaf. Full description
€ 950
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Impressive large allegorical print of the defeat of the Arminians at the Synod of Dort in 1618

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. [and Simon FRISIUS]. t' Arminiaens testament.
[Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1618]. Large 1mo broadsheet (66.5 x 46.5 cm), with engraved illustration (53 x 45.5 cm) at the head (with Visscher's name in the plate at lower right) and a letterpress verse text below. Full description
€ 2,500
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Skilful engraving of the execution of the conspirators in the failed attempt to assassinate the Dutch Stadholder Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. Justitie over enige Arminiaensche verraders, geschiet in s'Gravenhaech.
[Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623]. Engraved print (26.5 x 32 cm) mounted on a large sheet of 18th-century(?) laid paper (50.5 x 33 cm), with manuscript text in three columns with the title: Cort verhaal ende waerachtige afbeeldinge der justitie geschiet in s'Gravenhage, over seeker, conspirateurs, diens conspiratie deur Gods voorsienigheid ontdekt is den 6e. February 1623. Full description
€ 1,500
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Portraits and executions of four conspirators in the failed attempt to assassinate the Dutch Stadholder

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. Cort verhael ende afbeeldinghe der justitie, geschiet den 5. mey 1623. in sGravenhaghe.
Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623. Oblong 1mo. Engraved illustration (26.5 x 14.5 cm), giving four circular portraits and 10 separate scenes, flanked by a letterpress description in Dutch. Full description
€ 750
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Portrait of the arrested Arminian preacher Slatius, one of the conspirators in the failed attempt to assassinate the Dutch Stadholder

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. Hendrick Danielsz Slatius, gewesene predicant tot Bleijswyck, naert 'tleven afgebeelt den 12 maert 1623.
[Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623]. Engraved illustration (22 x 12.5 cm), with an engraved title in Dutch at the head and Visscher's name at the foot, and with two letterpress poems in French on the left signed "A. Lancel."(measuring 24.5 x 25 in tital). Mounted on a larger blank leaf (36 x 41 cm). Full description
€ 750
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The secrets and rituals of the freemasonry revealed

WOLSON (WILSON), Thomas. De metselaar ontmomd, of het rechte geheim der vrye metselaren ontdekt, in allen deele oprechtelyk en zonder achterhouding, door een gewezen vryen metselaar. ... Derde druk.
Arnhem, Jacob Nijhoff, 1753. 8vo (16.5 x 10 cm). With a woodcut freemasonry device on title-page and 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. [8], 106 pp. Full description
€ 950
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