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Seneca's complete works, edited by Erasmus

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus and Desiderus ERASMUS (editor). Lucubrationes omnes, additis etiam nonnullis, Erasmi Roterodami cura ... repurgatae
Basel, Johann Froben, July-August 1515. Folio. With the title set in a splendid woodcut frame by Urs Graf, including Froben's small woodcut device, woodcut decorations in the fore-edge and gutter margins of the table of contents (verso of the title page), and another elaborate woodcut frame on the first page of the dedication. Further with some woodcut initials, and Froben's large woodcut device below the colophon on the last page. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass and leather clasps along the fore edge, professionally re-backed, with later blank pastedowns. [1 blank], 643, [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Humanist edition of Seneca’s tragedies

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus and Desiderius ERASMUS and others (editors). Tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae... explanatae diligentissime tribus Commentariis...
Paris, Jodocus Badius, 5 December 1514. Folio. With a woodcut border and printers device on the title page, printed in red and black, along with numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, both boards show a gold-tooled armorial centre piece (incorporating the arms of the city of Nevers or the arms of the Conflans family from the Champagne region, Rietstap I, plate CXVIII) within a gold-tooled floral frame, blind-tooled board edges, marbled edges. [6], CCLXVII, [1] ll. Full description
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Pamphlet against the ultra-orthodox minister Adriaan Smout

[SMOUT, Adriaan Joriszoon (reply to)]. Voorlooper. Over Adriani Smoutii schriftuerlyck jae, dienende tot openinge ende recht verstandt van synen toe-eyghen-brief aen de E.M. Heeren Staten, aengaende de questie: of de vyf verschillighe poincten de salicheyt raecken of niet. Ghestelt door eenen lief-hebber der waerheyt, tot dienste van alle ghetrouwe ondersaten ende vreed-lievende menschen hier te lande.
Rotterdam, Matijs Bastiaensz., [1613]. 4to. Disbound. [32] pp. Full description
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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
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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
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To prevent the destruction of Jerusalem and the Dutch Republic

TEELLINCK, Willem. Zephaniae waerschouwinge, om te voor-comen den onder-gang Jerusalems: oock passende op de tegenwoordige ghelegentheyt onses weerden Vader-lants.
Middelburg, Hans van der Hellen for Marten Jansz. Brandt, Amsterdam, 1623. 4to. With Brandt's charming woodcut device on the title page. Contemporary half calf. [8], 156 pp. Full description
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Comedy and commentary: Terence through the eyes of Donatus and Estienne

TERENTIUS AFER, Publius, Aelius DONATUS, and Desiderius ERASMUS. Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati co[m]mentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exe[n]plarium collatione, diligentius quàm unquam antehac, emendatae...
Paris, Robert Estienne, 5 April 1536. Small folio (20.2 x 30.3 cm). With Estiennes small woodcut device ona small woodcut the title page. Late 17th-century(?) calf. 378, [18] pp. Full description
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Second and best edition of a comprehensive history of the Hussite wars,
complete with all 17 portraits, often lacking

THEOBALD, Zacharias. Hussiten Krieg: darinnen begriffen, das Leben, die Lehr, der Todt M. Johannis Hussii, auch wie derselbe von den Böhmen, besonders Johann Zischka, ist gerochen, und seine Lehr hernacher inn dem Königreich erhalten worden ...
Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, 1621. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With the full-page portrait of the author (1621), and 17 numbered full-page portraits of Johannes Huss, popes, kings, emperors and other Bohemian reformers, by Johann Conrad Klüpffel. The 4 titles printed in red and black, the first 3 with the woodcut coat-of-arms of Bohemia, Halbmayers woodcut device at the end of all 4 parts, folding letterpress genealogical table in the 4th part, the added Confessio. Contemporary vellum, title on spine. [8], 322, [2]; 228; 179, [9]; 107, [5] pp. Full description
€ 4,750
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The religious strife in the Dutch Republic, as experienced by a key participant

UYTENBOGAERT (WTENBOGAERT), Johannes. Johannis Uytenbogaerts leven, kerckelijcke bedieninghe ende zedighe verantwoordingh ... Tweeden druck, daer eenige stucken van nieuws by gedaen zijn, ende alles dat nodigh was, uyt het Latijnsch ende Fransch overgheset.
[No place, no publisher], 1646. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author by Wilhelm Delff after Michiel van Mierevelt, with a 6-line verse by Caspar Barlaeus underneath. Contemporary vellum. [40], 451, [3], [2 blank] pp. Full description
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