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Three rare early schoolbooks bound in one volume View picture(s) 301 MACROPEDIUS, G. Adamus. Fabula Christianae Pietatis plaena. In qua "koozikoos" ostensitur, quo pacto lapsus homo post multas multorum saeculorum calamitates et miserias per Christum ab initio promissum, tandemque mundo exhibitum, saluti restituitur. Ultraiecti (=Utrecht), Harmannus Borculous, 1552. Sm.8vo. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt fillet borders on sides with small gilt ornaments at the four corners, red painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on title. (68) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Children's Books  Education  Proverbs  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the founding fathers of Latin schooldrama View picture(s) 302 MACROPEDIUS, Georgius. Asotus Evangelicus seu evangelica de filio prodigo parabola ... comice descripta. ('s Hertogenbosch), Ioannes I Schoeffer, 1541 Mense vero Iulio. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Title within fine ornamental woodcut borders with the monogram of the printer Gerard Hatard in center of lower border, and full-page woodcut printer's device of Hatard on verso of the last leaf. (40) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Popular Books  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two of the leading textbooks of letter writing in the 16th century, published together View picture(s) 303 MACROPEDIUS, Georgius. Methodus de conscribendis epistolis, ... secundum veram artis rationem tradita. Eiusdem. Epitome praeceptionum de paranda copia verborum & rerum, per quaestiones: item de novem speciebus argumentationum rhetoricarum, rem omnem breviter explicans. Accessit Christophori Hegendorphini Epistolas conscribendi methodus. Cologne, Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1570. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum; spine lettered in ink; rests of ties. With the printer's device on the title and three nice woodcut initials. (2), 1-70, 70-108, 106, 109-123 leaves, without the last blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Neo-Latin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The erring schoolboys and the farcical villagers View picture(s) 304 MACROPEDIUS, Georgius. Rebelles, fabula longe iucundissima, rudibus adhuc & tenellis Traiectinae scholae auditoribus nuncupata.- Aluta, fabula admodum iucunda & lepida, denuo recognita, & Traiectinae iuventuti denuo nuncupata. 's Hertogenbosch, Gerard Hatard, 1539 Mense Februario. 2 plays in 1 vol. Small 8vo. Modern wrappers. Full-page woodcut printer's device on lf. 28 verso, and separate title to the second play. (42) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Schoolbooks  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First attempt for a history of the mission in Japan View picture(s) 305 MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum volumen, continens historiam iucundam lectu omnibus Christianis, praesertim ijs, quibus vera Religio est cordi. In qua videre possunt, quomodo nunquam Deus Ecclesiam suam deserat, & in locum deficientium a vera fide, innumeros alios in abditissimis etiam regionibus substituat. Cologne, Gervinus Calenius, & haeredes Iohannis Quentel, 1574. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum over thin boards, title in ink on spine. With several charming woodcut initials; many woodcut Japanese characters on pp. 451-7. (16), 472 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Japan  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The abridged version of Olaus Magnus' history of the Northern People, probably printed by Plantin View picture(s) 306 MAGNUS, Olaus. Historia de gentibus Septentrionalibus. A Cornelio Scribonio Graphaeo ... sic in epitomen redacta, ut non minus clare quam breviter quicquid apud Septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur. Antwerp, Joann. Bellerus (= Christopher Plantin?), 1562. Small 8vo. Later vellum with title in ink on spine. With woodcut printer's device on title, and 138 fine woodcut illustrations in text. (8), 192 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First issue of an early Plantin edition of a valuable work on Scandinavian customs and folklore View picture(s) 307 MAGNUS, Olaus. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus. Sic in epitomen redacta, ut non minus clare quam breviter quicquid apud Septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1558. 8vo. Early 17th-century calf with gilt and decorated spine, gilt-stamped ornament in centre and gilt filet along the edges of both sides, g.e. Woodcut printer's device on title, 135 fine woodcut illustrations by Arnaud Nicolai in text. (8), 192 lvs. (Collation: a8, A-2A8). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Plantin  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With attractive woodcuts View picture(s) 308 MARAFFI, D. Figure del Nuovo Testamento, Illustrate da versi vulgari Italiani. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1559. Sm. 8vo. 19th century brown morocco, spine ribbed and gilt and blindstamped, with blindstamped borders on sides and blindstamped inner panel with gilt ornaments at the four corners and large central gilt ornament of a wreath of vine leaves and grapes, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With title within a fine arabesque woodcut border, and 95 beautiful woodcuts by Bernard Salomon, illustrating the New Testament, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Apocalypse. (52) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Italy  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on the marvellous qualities of precious stones View picture(s) 309 MARBOD(AE)US (Redonensis). De gemmarum lapidumque pretiosorum formis, naturis, atque viribus eruditum cum primis opusculum, sane quam utile, cum ad rei medicae, tum scripturae sacrae cognitionem nunc primum non modo centum ferme versibus locupletatum pariter & accuratius emendatum, sed & scholiis quoque illustratum per Alardum Aemstelredamum. Cuius studio additae sunt & praecipuae gemmarum lapidumque pretiosorum explicationes, ex vetusitissimis quibus'que autoribus coactae. Cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Cologne, Hero Alopecius (= Hero Fuchs), 1539. 8vo. Seventeenth century red morocco with three gilt fillets alomng the edges; two gilt stars in each corner and one in the centre; spine gilt in compartments with green laber lettered in gold; gilt edges; marbled endpapers.. With an interesting woodcut on the title representing a Jewish priest with a board in front of him on which 12 stones are named and connected with the 12 tribes of Israel. 128 ff. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Gemology  Medicine  Mineralogy  Occult  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous Dutch translation of the psalms View picture(s) 310 MARNIX VAN SINT ALDEGONDE, Philips van. Het boeck der psalmen. Uit der Hebreïsscher sprake in Nederduytschen dichte op de ghewoonlicke oude wijsen van singen overgeset mitgaders de heylige schriftuerlicke lofsangen uyt den ouden ende nieuwen Testamente by een getogen ende oock in Nederlantschen dichte na der Hebreisscher en Grieckscher waerheyt mit elck sijnen text van woirde te woirde daer tegen over int Duytsche gestelt.- Het boeck der heylige schriftuerlijkcke lofsangen. Uyt den ouden ende nieuwen Testamente by een getogen ende in Nederlandtschen dichte nae de Hebreissche ende Grieksche waerheyt trouwelijck overgeset. Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1591. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary vellum With musical notation. (192, 36) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nice copy of the first Aldine edition View picture(s) 311 MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius. [Epigrammata]. (Colophon: Venice, Aldus Manutius the Elder, December 1501). 8vo. 17th-century calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. (192) ff., including the last blank. [Collation: A-Z8 &8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first 'real work' by Hugo Grotius with his famous portrait by Jac. de Geyn in first state View picture(s) 312 MARTIANUS CAPELLA. Satyricon, in quo De nuptiis philologiae & mercurij libri duo, & De septem artibus liberalibus libri singularis. Omnes, & emendati, & notis, sive februis, Hug. Grotii illustrati. Leiden, Ex off. Plantiniana, Christoph. Raphelengius, 1599. 8vo. Later brown morocco, spine gilt, with gilt borders and a gilt stamp of the Lincoln's Inn Library on front cover, gilt binding edges, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. With woodcut printer's device on title and engraved portraits of the dedicatee, the Prince of Condé, and Hugo Grotius, both by Jac. de Geyn. (24), 336, (86) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dutch  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important 16th-century relation of a shipwreck near the Cape of Good Hope View picture(s) 313 MARTINEZ, Pierre. Raguaglio d'un notabilissimo naufragio, cavato da una lettera del P. Pietro Martinez, scritta da Goa. Al Molto Rever. P. Generale della Compania di giesu, Alli 9. di Decembre M.D. LXXVI. In Venetia, Appresso i Gioliti, 1588. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. 62 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  East Indies  Jesuits  Shipwrecks  South Africa  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The best sixteenth-century work on syphilis View picture(s) 314 MASSA, Nicolaus. Liber de morbo Gallico, noviter editus, in quo omnes modi possibiles sanandi ipsum, mira quadam et artificiosa doctrina continentur. Addita est epistola ad eximium Thomam Cademultum in qua quamplurima ad perfectionem operis totius & multarum aliarum egritudinem curam leguntur. Venice, Fr. Bindoni & M. Pasini, 1536. 4to. Nineteenth century blindstamped vellum. Title within fine woodcut borders showing monsters and sentries; several fine woodcut initials in the text. 50, (1), 1 blank lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Medicine  Veterinary Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy by the author in remarkable German late Renaissance pierced vellum binding View picture(s) 315 MAURITIUS, Augustus. Davidis regii prophetae psalterium, vario genere carminis Latine redditum. Schmalkalden, Michael Schmuck, 1593. Small 4to. Contemporary pierced vellum over red silk binding, richly gilt-tooled: the same arabesque rolls on spine and sides, central panel with coat of arms of the author on the front cover and with lozenge-shaped ornament on the back cover; both panels nicely cut out, and a regular pattern of spades, flowers and stars cut out in the surrounding vellum, showing the red silk underneath; gilt and gauffered edges in a floral pattern (by HANS BAPES VON ERFURT). Small woodcut coat-of-arms of Hessen on title and large woodcut coat-of-arms of the author at the end. (150) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Provenance  Psalter  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of Christ. Vurstisius's edition of two classical Latin geographers View picture(s) 316 MELA, Pomponius & Gaius Julius SOLINUS. Pomponii Melae de orbis situ, libri III. et C. Iulii Solini, Polyhistor. Quorum ille descriptionem singularum Orbis terreni partium atque regionum: Hic vero praeter eadem, quae ubique memorabilia sint loca, animantia, plantae, gemmae, & similia, compendiose enarrat. Basel, Henric Petri, 1576, 2 works in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary vellum over boards with title in contemporary hand writing on spine. With woodcut printer's device on title and larger variant on verso last leaf, 20  numbered double-page woodcut  maps in the first part (nrs. 1 and 13 lacking), and 13 (of 14) full-page woodcut  maps in the second part, numbered 21-25 (26 lacking), 27, 28/29 on folding leaf, 30-32, 33 folding leaf with two full-page maps two folding, in second part, and numerous charming woodcut  initials. (30), 363 (=365), (3) pp.; collation: a8-1 (blank lacking), *8, A-Z8, including the blank I8. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Cartography  Classical Antiquity  Geography  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Spanish view on the Dutch War of Independence View picture(s) 317 MENDOÇA (MENDOZA), Bernardino de. Comentarios de don Bernardino de Mendoça, de los sucedido en las guerras de los Payses baxos, desde el anõ. 1567. hasta el de. 1577. Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1592. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt and ribbed spine with brown gilt title label, blindtooled covers, marbled edges. Woodcut printer's device on title, 5 half-page engraved plates in text of which one map of East Friesland with Emden, woodcut initials. (8) , 336, (12) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Militaria  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous work on exorcism View picture(s) 318 MENGUS, Hieronymus. Flagellum daemonum, se exorcismi terribiles, potentissimi, & efficaces; Remediaque probatissima in malignos spiritus expellendos; facturasque, & maleficia effuganda de obsessis corporibus; Cum suis benedictionibus, & omnibus requisitis ad eorum expulsionem. Bologna, for Ioannes Rossius, 1578. 8vo. Limp vellum. Printer's device on title page, decorative woodcut initials, tailpieces. (24), 263, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  Demonology  Italy  Occult  Religion  Witchcraft  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three medical treatises by a famous 16th-century physician on pediatrics, toxicology and on Hippocrates View picture(s) 319 MERCURIALE, Hieronymus. De morbis puerorum. Item de venenis et morbis venenosis. Quibus adiuncta est Censura Hippocratea. Basilae, Ex off. Pernea per Conrad. Waldkirch, 1584. Three works in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped three-quarter pigskin, with monogram D*L*H and date 1611, written on front cover, ribbed spine with paper title-label lettered in ink. With woodcut printer's device on general title, vignettes on the separate titles of second and third work, woodcut initials, and head- and tail-pieces in text. (8), 356, (2 blank); (8), 134, (2 blank); (2), 24, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Medicine  Philology  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original Latin edition of the first contemporary history of the Netherlands - with a unique portrait of the author View picture(s) 320 METEREN, Emanuel van. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis Belgii sub quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis principibus coniunctionem & gubernationem breviter. Turbas autem, bella et mutationes tempore Regis Philippi, Carli V. Caesaris filii, ad annum usque 1598. plenius complectens, conscripta. (Cologne, A. Mylius, 1598). Folio. Contemporary vellum with red morocco title label lettered in gold. Printed title in finely engraved border with scenes of trade and war (Verduyn, pl. XIV), engraved medallion portrait of the author mounted on blank verso title by Hendrik Hondius the Elder, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, verso blank, by Frans Hogenberg, and 22 engraved portraits on 19 plates. (8), 623 (=643), (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Engravings  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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