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First and only edition of the collected works of "The reformer before the Reformation"

GANSFORT, Wessel [and Petrus PAPPUS (editor)]. Opera, quae inveniri potuerunt omnia: partim ex antiquis editionibus, partim ex manuscriptis eruta.
Groningen, Joannes Sassius, 1614. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [38], 921, [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Bibliography & Biography Humanism & Reformation Religion (17th Century)
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First edition of an early Reformation pamphlet: Johann Eberlin von Günzburgs Bundesgenossen VI, referencing Erasmus

[EBERLIN VON GÜNZBURG, Johann]. Erasmus von Rotherodam ein fürst aller gelerten zu unseren zyte[n], schreibt im buch gena[nn]t Encomion morias, vom predigen der ba[e]ttel münch. Ein jeden ich hie früntlich bit, Das er mich la[e]ss und lach nit. Der. VI. bundtsgnosz.
[Basel, Pamphilus Gengenbach, 1521]. 4to. With 1 large woodcut portrait of Erasmus on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece below the end of the text. Modern marbled calf. [5] [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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First edition of a collection of patristic writings, including Eucherius, Basil, and Jerome, with annotations by Erasmus

EUCHERIUS; Desiderius ERASMUS; Basil of CAESAREA; Petrus GERARDUS (editor). In hoc libello haec in sunt ... Intelligentiae spiritalis formulae: Instructionum libri duo ... epistola paraenetica, ad Valerianum suum ...
(Colophon:) Paris, Claude Chevallon, [ca. 1523]. 8vo. With Cevallons woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, the title is printed in red and black, and 10 woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum and beige paper sides, blue sprinkled head- and fore-edge, manuscript author and title on the spine in brown ink. [6], CVII, [1] ll. Full description
€ 2,950
Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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Defending Erasmus against the accusations of Archbishop Edward Lee

GERTOPHIUS, Johannes and Hermann von dem BUSCHE. Recriminatio ... adversus furiosissimum Sycophantam Edoardum Leum Anglum, qui ausus est primus Erasmum candidissimum luto aspergere. Epigramma extemporale sed felicissimu[m], Hermanni Buschii, in eundem Leum.
[Basel], (colophon:) Andreas Cratander, June 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Modern quarter vellum in older style. 25, [3] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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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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The first editon of Hugo’s religious emblem book Pia Desideria into Dutc, from the collection of printer and engraver Susanna Verbruggen

HARDUWIJN, Justus de, and Hermann HUGO. Goddelycke wenschen verlicht met sinne-beelden, ghedichten en vierighe uyt spraecken der Oud-Vaders. Naer ghevoilght de Latynsche vanden Eerw. P. Hermannus Hugo ... door Justus de Harduyn P.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Hendrick Aertssens, 1629. 8vo. With an engraved title page, a full-page engraved coat of arms, a full-page ornamental woodcut, 45 full-page engraved emblematical plates by Boëtius à Bolswert, and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], "604" [=602], [6] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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Saint Jerome through Erasmus eyes: selected letters with commentary, printed in 1518

HIERONYMUS, Eusebius Sophronius (SAINT JEROME) and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Divi Hieronymi epistolaeres ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitae, cuius & argumentis & scholiis oppidoque elegantibus sunt illustratae.
[Cologne, Johann Gymnic, 1518]. 4to. With the title set with in a frame built up from 4 (or possibly 6) woodcut illustrations including printer's initials and the date 1518, and 10 woodcut decorated initials. Modern faux-leather-patterned paper with a grey paper label on the spine with the authors name lettered in silver ("Erasmus v. Rotterdam"). [48] ll. Full description
€ 1,950
Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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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
Humanism & Reformation Language & Linguistics Latin America Middle America North America Philosophy & Humanism South America
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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
Bindings Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Emblems Germany History / 17th Century Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Scandinavia
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