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Jesuit missions in Brazil, Asia, and Mozambique View picture(s) 1 ABREU, Sebastiao d'. Vida, e Virtudes do Admiravel Padre Joam Cardim da Companhia de Jesu Portuguez natural de Vianna de Alentejo. Évora, University Press, 1659. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title on spine, red marbled edges. With engraved portrait of the Jesuit Joao Cardim, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and woodcut initials. [14], [2 blank], 440, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Biography  Brazil  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Arguments against the generally accepted opinions about sciences and arts View picture(s) 2 AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, Heinrich Cornelis. Van de onzeekerheyd ende ydelheyd der weetenschappen en konsten. Leerende met goedt en vast bewijs redeneeren tegen 't gemeen gevoelen in menigderleye zaken. Uit Latijn in Hollantsch overgezet; Door I. Oudaen, 1650. Haarlem, Thomas Fonteyn, for Jacob Aertsz. Colom, 1651. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved frontispiece, and author's portrait by R. à Persyn after C. Saftleven. [24], 610 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Courtesy Books  Education  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First steps toward peace between Spain & the Netherlands View picture(s) 3 ALBERT & ISABELLA, Archduke of Austria and Spanish Infanta, and the STATES GENERAL. Brief van hare Hoocheden aende E. Moghende Heeren Staten der Vrye Vereenichde Nederlantsche Provintien Ghesonden, gedateert binnen Brussel den 13. Martij, anno 1607. Mitsgaders seeckere antwoorde der E. Heeren Staten voorn. ende Syne Ex. aen hare Hoocheden. (Amsterdam?), 1607 (= 1608?). Small 4to. Modern plain paper wrappers. With a woodcut rampant lion holding a sword within a garden fence (symbolizing the Dutch Republic) surrounded by a wreath, and 1 woodcut decorated initial letter. (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Low Countries  Pamphlets  Politics  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Protestant parody ridiculing the Franciscan order View picture(s) 4 ALBERUS, Erasmus. Alcoranus Franciscanorum id est, blasphemiarum et nugarum lerna de stigmato idolo quod Franciscum vocant, ex libro Conformitatum. Deventer, Johannes Columbius Colomp), 1651. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, spine with title lettered in ink. Engraved title by J. Swelinck showing St. Francis of Assisi kneeling and receiving his stigmata. 248, incl. title [i.e. 250: pp. 167-8 repeated], (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Protestantism  Religion  Religious Orders  Satire  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Accounts of two Synods held in Santiago de Chile in 1688 and 1763 View picture(s) 5 ALDAY Y AZPEE ASPEE, Manuel de. Synodo Diocesana,… Lima, Oficina de la Calle de la Encarnacion, 1764. 2 works in one. Folio. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. With the title-page in ornamented border printed in red and black, text printed in frames of printed lines and many head- and tailpieces. [8], 170, [26] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  America [South]  Chile  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Largest assembly of natural history illustrations published before the 18th century View picture(s) 6 ALDROVANDI, Ulisse. Opera. Bologna, 1599-1667. 13 volumes. Folio (35 x 24 cm). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With engraved title to each volume, engraved full page portrait of Aldrovandi in 3 volumes and several thousand woodcut illustrations in text, mostly after designs by J. Ligozzi and many full-page. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Botany  Collections  Encyclopædic Works  Fishing  Italy  Natural History  Science  Shells  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The holy places of the Holy Land View picture(s) 7 AMICO DA GALLIPOLI, Bernadino. Trattato delle piante & immagini de sacri edifizi di Terra Santa. Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, (1619)-1620. Folio (205 x 295 mm). Contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title "Amico" to spine, red edges. With engrageved title page, large woodcut printer's device on reverse of final leaf, and 34 double-page-sized etchings by Jacques Callot, printed from 38 plates, with 46 numbered illustrations. Bound first is a large, folding engraved map of the eastern Mediterranean with insets of Palestine and Jerusalem, engraved by Nicolas Sanson: "Iesu Christi Salvatoris Nostri et Apostolorum Petri, et Pauli Mansiones, Itinera, Peregrinationes &c. per Galilaeam, Samariam, Iudaeam; et per Aegyptum, Asiam, Europam" (from: Sanson, Geographia Sacra. Paris, Mariette, 1665). (8), 65, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Engravings  Holy Land  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Prize binding from Gouda; with two impressive battle scenes by Romeyn de Hooghe View picture(s) 8 AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII. Ope mss. codicum emendati ab Frederico Lindenbrogio & Henrico Hadrianoque Valesiis cum eorundem integris observationibus & annotationibus, item excerpta vetera de gestis Constantini & regum Italiae. Omnia nunc recognita ab Jacobo Gronovio, qui suas quoque notas passim inseruit & necessariis ad Ammiani illustrationem antiquis nummis ac figuris exornari curavit. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1693. 4to. Contemporary vellum, ribbed decorated and gilt spine with title lettered in ink, sides with central gilt-stamped coat-of-arms of Gouda, surrounded by a thorn branch (Spoelder, p. 568: 'Gouda 2'), and double gilt filets along edges, red speckled edges. Full-page engraved allegorical frontispiece with Minerva sitting on a pedestal on with title in letterpress, printed title with engraved vignette, full-page engraved portrait of Gronovius by A. v. Zylvelt, 2 dated (1692) folding engraved battle scenes signed by Romeyn de Hooghe (ca. 232 x 355mm), folding engraved plate (468  x 328mm) of the famous Ramses obelisk erected in Rome, showing the hieroglyphs on all of its four sides, 6 full-page numbered engraved plates with Roman coins, 8 full-page engraved plates with Roman emperors on coins (space for title left blank), one half-page engraved illustration of Lacus Ascanius, and one engraved headpiece in text, woodcut end piece and initials. (68, incl. frontispiece), 724, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Greek & Latin  History  Numismatics  Rome  Romeyn de Hooghe  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Discussing the rules of orthography,and observations on the art of poetry and rhetorics View picture(s) 9 AMPZING, Samuel. Taelbericht der Nederlandsche Spellingé. Door Christiaen Vander Heulen Oversien en verbeterd. Wormer-veer, Willem Syminsz. Boogaert, 1649. Sm.8vo. Contemp. calf. With woodcut vignette on title. 87, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Linguistics  Poetry  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Book with fixed price View picture(s) 10 ANDRIES, Jodocus. Necessaria as salutem scientia partim necessitate medii, partim necessitate praecepti, per iconas quinquaginta duas repraesentata. Quarum ligneae laminae gratis dantur. Pretium libelli vide pagina 15. Antwerp, Cornelis Woons, 1654. 12mo. 19th-century blue wrappers with pasted title-label on spine. With 52 full-page woodcuts in text (ca. 88 x 63 mm), woodcut initials. 119 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Antwerp  Art  Theology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Appier's influential pyrotechnic manual View picture(s) 11 APPIER dit HANZELET, Jean. La pyrotechnie de Hanzelet de Lorrain ou sont representez les plus rares & plus appreuvez secrets des machines & des feux artificiels. Pont-à-Mousson, I. & Gaspard Bernard, 1630. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With an engraved title-page, numerous etched illustrations (including several full-page) in text, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. [8], 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fireworks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work on astrology and medicine by an Italian Professor at Padua View picture(s) 12 ARGOLI, Andreas. De diebus criticis et ægrorum decubitu libri duo. Padua, Paulus Frambottus, 1652. 4to. Contemporary publishers boards with title in ink on spine. With almost 230 woodcut diagrams. (8), 6, (2), 371 (109-112 unpag.), 1 blank, (11) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astrology  Italy  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In memory of the most important historiographer of Friesland View picture(s) 13 ARNOLDI, Nicolaas. Memoria magni theologi admodum reverendi C. Schotani V.D.M. SS. theol. D. & profess. celeberrimi oratione funebri ex mandato Senatus celebrata. Franeker, Johannis Wellens, 1671. Small folio. Later wrappers with paper label with title in ink in ms. on spine, frontwrapper with title in ink in ms. Woodcut armorial device of Friesland on title, woodcut initials. (8), 19, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Franeker  Friesland  History  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Inspired by Seneca's Hyppolitus and Hercules Furens View picture(s) 14 ARP, Jan van. Prixus, Prins van Theben. Amsterdam, Nicolaes van Ravesteyn for Dirck Cornelisz. Houthaeck, 1640. 4to. Later blue paper wrappers. Woodcut title-vignette depicting a beehive ('Door Yver in liefde Bloiende'[sic!]), woodcut initials. (27), (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Classical Antiquity  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two first editions, contemporarily bound together View picture(s) 15 ARTHUS, Gothard. Historia Indiae Orientalis, ex variis auctoribus collectae, et iuxta seriem topographicam regnorum, provinciarum & insularum, per Africae, Asiaeque littora, ad extremos usque Iaponios deducta, qua regionum et insularum situs & commoditas ; regum & populorum mores & habitus; religionum & superstitionum absurda varietas; Lusitanorum item Hispanorum & Batavorum res gestae atque commercia varia ... describuntur. Cologne, Wilhelm Lutzenkirch, 1608. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With finely engraved allegorical borders on title of the second work. (14, 2 blank), 616, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Africa  Americana  Asia  East Indies  Travel & Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Written for the benefit of mankind View picture(s) 16 BACON, Francis. Sermones fideles, ethici, politici, oeconomici; sive interiora rerum. Accedunt faber fortunae colores boni et mali, &c. Leyden, Franciscus Hackius, 1644. 2 works in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with two clasps, red edges. Engraved title. (2), 5-416, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Philosophy  Politics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the most important work on the Dutch in Brazil View picture(s) 17 BARLAEUS (VAN BAERLE), Caspar. Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum, sub praefectura illustrissimi Comitis. I. Mauritii Nassau ... Historia. Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1647. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, gilt spine with raised bands. Woodcut printer's device on title, engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait, and 56 finely engraved double-page maps, plans and views on 58 sheets. All but the portrait (which is in black and white) in later handcolouring. [12, incl. title, frontispiece and portrait], 340, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America [South]  Americana  Brazil  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Barlaeus translating and contributing to Jacob Cats' most famous work on marriage View picture(s) 18 BARLAEUS, Caspar [& Jacob CATS, Cornelius BOYUS & Jacobus LYDIUS]. Faces augustae, sive poematia, quibus illustriores nuptiae, à nobili & illustri viro, D. Jacobo Catsio, Eq. & praepot. Holl. ac Frisiae Occidentales Ord. Syndico, antehac belgicis versibus conscriptae. Dordrecht, Hendrik van Esch for Matthias Havius, 1643. 4 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. Printer's device on title, 14 half-page engravings in the text, 2 signed by Crispijn van den Queborn, woodcut and typographical head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials. (60), 272, 149, (3), 32, 198 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Neo-Latin  Netherlands  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most important work on the Jesuit missionary activities in Goa View picture(s) 19 BARTOLI, Danielle. Missione al Gran Mogor del P. Ridolfo Aquaviva della Compagnia di Giesu, Sua vita e morte, e d'altri quattro compagni uccisi in odio della fede in Salsete di Goa. Roma, Per il Varesi, 1663. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. 218, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  India  Italy  Japan  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important military treatises of the 17th century View picture(s) 20 BASTA, Conte d'Hust, Giorgio. Il governo della cavalleria leggiera: Trattato che concerne anchi quanto basta alla grave per intelligenza de capitani. Oppenheim, Jeronimo Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1616. Small folio. Contemporary limp vellum. With richly engraved allegorical title-border, full-page portrait of the author, and numerous illustrations of fortified military camps, and march- and battle-arrays of the cavalry on 12 double-page engraved plates, including 2 folding, by Johann Theodor de Bry. 8, 73, [11] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Horses & Horsemanship  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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