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A very popular paraphrase of the psalms by an associate of Erasmus, translated into German

SNOY, Reinier & Nicolaus Hug LANDENBURGER (transl.). Der gantze Psalter dess heiligen unnd königklichen Propheten Davids, mit beygesetzter kurtzer Catholicher Erklärung ...
St. Gallen, Im Fürstlichen Gottszhaus [= Johann Landorth], 1644. 4to. Title page in red and black, a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments, and woodcut gothic decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, 2 brass clasps (on calf straps) and catchplates. [16], 574 pp. Full description
€ 1,900
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Hebrew for beginners, including alphabets of meruba, rabbinical, Yiddish and script Hebrew types

SOMMERHAUSSEN, Hartog. Hebreeuwsch spel- en lees-boekje voor eerstbeginnenden.
Amsterdam, Belinfante & Comp., J. van Embden & son, S.A. Proops, 5570 [=] 1810. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15.5 x 9.5 cm). With the authenticating oval stamp at the foot of the last page of the main text in part 2. Set in roman and italic type with 3 sizes of (sephardic) meruba Hebrew plus alphabets of rabbinical (semi-cursive), Yiddisch and script Hebrew types, and printed on Dutch wove paper. Publisher's original yellow, printed paper wrappers over thin boards. 24, [1], [1 blank]; 28, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
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Scarce broadside praising the Virgin of Guadalupe for delivering independence to the Mexican people in 1821

[SONNET - MEXICO]. [drop title:] Soneto. ¿Quién sino tú, dulcísima Maria ... ?
[Mexico, ca. 1821]. Ca. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. The text is set within a decorative woodcut border, together with a woodcut illustration of the Virgin of Guadalupe. [1] leaf. Full description
€ 1,800
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Marvelously illustrated emblematic work on moral education

SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Leerzaame zinnebeelden, ... Tweede druk.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1757.
With: (2) SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Vervolg der Leerzaame zinnenbeelden, Spiegel der boetvaardigheid en genade en eenige stichtelyke gezangen.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1758. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Ad 1 with engraved frontispiece and 50 beautifully engraved emblems in text. Ad 2 with same engraved frontispiece (with revisions), 30 engraved emblems in text and 4 engraved emblems on plates with letterpress text. Contemporary gold-tooled, tanned sheepskin. [16], 220, [3, 1 blank]; [8], XII, 144, 90, [2] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Religious festivities in the Southern Netherlands

[SPLENDID CEREMONY - MECHELEN]. Prael-treyn verrykt door ry-benden, praelwagens, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen...
Mechelen, J.F. vander Elst, [1775?].
With:
(2) [SPLENDID CEREMONY - BRUSSELS]. Beschryvinge van de ry-bende ofte cavalcade..
Brussels, J. vanden Berghen, [1770].
(3) [MEYER, Jean Thomas]. Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig jubilé van den heyligen Macarius...
Ghent, Jean Meyer, [1767].
3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved coat of arms, an engraved headpiece, and 16 engraved plates (including 14 folding). Ad 2 with 5 numbered folding engraved plates. Ad 3 with 15 mostly folding engraved plates, including one large folding plate showing fireworks (36.5 x 48 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [12], 34 [= 38]; 36; [8], XII, 84 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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A key moment in an early 16th-century religious debate

STUNICA, Jacobus Lopis. Jacobi Lopidis Stunicae libellus trium illorum voluminum praecursor quibus Erasmicas impietates ac blasphemias redar guit.
(Colophon:) Rome, Antonium Bladum de Asula, 1522. 4to. With Stunicas (House of Zúñiga) large woodcut coat of arms on the title page, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Modern gold-tooled half calf. [29], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
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First edition of Stunica’s 1523 pamphlet attacking Erasmus

STUNICA, Jacobus Lopis. Conclusiones principaliter suspecte et scandalose que re periuntur in libris Erasmi Roterodami per Jacobum Lopidem Stunica exerpte.
(Colophon:) Rome, [Marcello Silber], 1523. 4to. With the title set within a decorative woodcut frame, and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern gold-tooled half calf. [4] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
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From doctrine to diction: Stunica’s 1524 pamphlet against Erasmus

STUNICA, Jacobus Lopis. Assertio ecclesiasticae translationis novi testamenti a soloecismis quos illi Erasmus Roterodamus impegerat p laco bum lopidem stunicae.
(Colophon:) Rome, Marcello Silber, 1524. 4to. With Stunicas (House of Zúñiga) large woodcut coat of arms on the title page set together with the title within a woodcut decorated frame, and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern half calf, half marbled. [21], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,000
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First authorised edition, with many corrections, additions and improvements by the author,
of an important work on the Jewish calendar and on Jewish customs in Palestine

SUSAN, Issachar ben Mordecai ibn. [in Hebrew:] Sefer Ibur shanim.
Venice, Giovanni di Gara, [5]339 [= 1578/79]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With the title set in an elaborate woodcut architectural arch and 6 round woodcut calendrical or astrological diagrams with text. Set entirely in Hebrew type, the main text in semi-cursive (rabbinical) and the headings in meruba, each of the two styles in at least 3 sizes. Contemporary limp sheepskin wrap-around cover with flap and fastened with strap. 136 ll., including the blank leaf [108]. Full description
€ 38,000
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