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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
Humanism & Reformation Netherlands Philosophy & Humanism
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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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Mosellanus' oration for the Leipzig Disputation in 1519,
with Erasmus' letters and Langius closing speech

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
€ 3,750
Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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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.
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(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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Erasmus in memoriam, Nausea's funeral oration and Rhenanus' letter

NAUSEA, Friedrich, and Beatus RHENANUS. In magnum illum laudatae felicisque memoriae Erasmum Roterodamum, nuper vita functum monodia. eiusdem vita ex Beati Rhenani epistola ad archiepiscopum coloniensem.
Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1536. Small 8vo (9.7 x 16.4 cm). With Wechel's woodcut device on the title page and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Modern, marbled paper boards. [23], [2 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,950
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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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