Religion & Devotion

ALVELDT, Augustin von. Super apostolica sede, an videlicet divino sit iure, nec ne, anque pontifex qui papa dici caeptus est, iure divino in ea ipsa praesideat, non parum laudanda, ex sacro bibliorum canone declaratio.
(Colophon: Leipzig, Melchior Lotter, 1520). 4to. Modern light brown quarter morocco. [2 blank], [39], [2 blank] ll. Full description

[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

ANDREAE, Jakob. Spiegel der offenbaren unverschämbten Calvinischen lügen wider reine lehrer der Augspurgischen Confession unnd grewlichen erschroeckenlichen loesterungen wider die Goettliche Majestat der menschhelt Jesu Christi.
Tübingen, Georg Gruppenbach, 1588. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and 2 decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century half pigskin, printer's waste sides. [20],130, [2 blank] pp. Full description

[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

[ANDRIES, Josse]. Perpetua crux, sive passio Iesu Christi a puncto incarnationis ad extremum vitae; iconibus quadragenis explicata; quarum ligneae laminae in bonum publicum gratis datae. Pretium libelli, vide pag. 15.
Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649.
With: (2) [ANDRIES, Josse]. Altera perpetua crux Iesu Christi a fine vitae usque ad finem mundi, in perpetuo altaris sacrificio ...
Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 1, and 80 full-page woodcut illustrations (40 in ad 1, which are repeated in ad 2). Contemporary parchment over boards, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. 96; 95, [1] pp. Full description

ANTONIO, João Carlos (pseudonym of António Correia de LEMOS). Relaçam de huma solemne, e extraordinaria procissam de preces, que por ordem da corte Ottomana fizeraõ os Turcos na cidade de Meca, no dia 16. de Julho de 1728. ... Primeira[-segunda] parte.
Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1730. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With woodcut title vignettes, headpieces and initials. Modern blue marbled paper wrappers. 23, [1 blank]; 24 pp. Full description

[ARABIAN HISTORY]. Hedendaagsche historie; of het vervolg van de algemeene historie; … Behelzende het leeven van Mohammed; en het begin van de historie der Arabieren, onder de drie eerste Khalifs …
Utrecht, Hermanus Besseling (vols. 1-2), Leiden, Amsterdam, P. van der Eyk, G. de Groot and son, K. van Tongerloo and P. Schouten (vol. 3), 1760-1764. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. With 3 engraved frontispieces, engraved coat of arms and 6 folding plates. Contemporary boards covered with sprinkled paper. Full description

[ARABIC-SCRIPT PRINTER’S WOODBLOCK]. Hand-cut woodblock bearing the text "Safr Nishd al-nishad li-Süleyman ..." (Book of the Song of songs of Solomon) in naskh Arabic script.
[Probably Ottoman provinces, mid-18th century (ca. 1750)]. A single hand-cut woodblock (17 x 9 x 2.2 cm, with protrusions to the left and right making it wider - 11 cm - near the head to accommodate the wider 2nd line) intended for use as printing block, with 6 lines of text, together with an inked impression on 18th century paper (16.5 x 10.5 cm). Full description

ARANEA, Vincenzo. In praecepta decalogi secundae tabulae dicta tractatus.
Including: [ARANEA, Vincenzo]. Disputationes de sacramentis novae legis.
[L'Aquila, ca. 1640]. 2 volumes. 4to. Written in a neat Italian cursive hand, some parts in other hands. Uniformly bound in contemporary vellum. [8], 270, [4] ll.; [4], 655, [10] pp. Full description

ARATOR. Acta apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1534 (impressum: 1535). 8vo (15.2 x 9.7 cm). With the title on the verso of leaf 24 underlined in red ink and the accompanying initial also coloured in red. Modern half brown calf. [48] ll. Full description