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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

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

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

[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

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

[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

[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

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

MOSELLANUS, Petrus. De ratione disputandi, praesertim in re theologica ...
[Augsburg], (colophon:) Sigmund Grimm & Marcus Wirsung, 1519. 4to. With title, printed in red and black, set within an elaborately decorated woodcut frame, and 3 large and 4 smaller woodcut decorated initials. Modern, gold-tooled half calf. [27], [1 blank] ll. Full description

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