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Five rare architectural print series by the court architect of the Stadholders Frederick Henry and William II View picture(s) 221 POST, Pieter. Collection of five architectural print series of buildings designed and built by Pieter Post. Amsterdam, [Pieter Post (?) and] Frederick de Witt, 1654-1664. 5 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary sprinkled brown calf with two ornamental gilt borders with gilt ornaments at the four corners of the inner border around gilt centre piece, spine gilt in 8 compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. 5 series of resp. 10, 8, 4, 11, and 22 engraved plates - 3 full-page engraved titles (of series 1, 4 and 5), 2 folding, 27 double-page and 26 full-page - of plans and views of buildings and gardens designed by Pieter Post and engraved by Jan Mathys (54) and Pieter Nolpe (4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Engravings  Netherlands  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to increase your luck View picture(s) 222 PRAETORIUS, Johann. Philologemata abstrusa de pollice: in quibus singularia animadversa vom Diebes-Daüme et manu: item de patibulo, virgula Mercuriali, alruna, esu casei magico &c. Gerrae profanorum refutatae, cum revelata origine vera et admiranda superstitionum; et virga critica castigata habentur aliquot loca ambigua primaria celeberrimorum grammaticorum. Leipzig, Elias Fiebig, 1677. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges, green ties. Woodcut on title of a hand with turned up thumb and one woodcut in text of a hand divided in alphabetic compartments. 216 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Germany  Superstition  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to read hands and predict the future View picture(s) 223 PRAETORIUS, Johannes. Ludicrum Chiromanticum seu Thesaurus Chiromantiae, Locupletissimus: multis Jocis & amoenitatibus, pluribus tamen seriis instructissimus: Ex omnibus, qui prostant, & de chiromantiâ seu pro, seu contrà; vel multum, vel parum litterarum monumentis consignârunt, Scriptoribus refertissimus: plurimis perspicuis Iconibus, evidentibus experimentis, & singulari Mnemonicâ Methodô elaboratissimus: uti prafamen ulteriùs declarabit.- IDEM Centifrons idolum Jani. Hoc est Metoposcopia seu prosopomantia completissima & hactenùs desideratissima: cum Centum & pluribus Iconibus seu Capitibus illustrata: memorabili & memoriali methodô artificiosissimè in eruditorum conspectum veniunt, Autoribus conflata: innumeris noviter Inventis, Apophthegmatibus & Axiomatibus constipata; Opella lectu jucundissima & fructu utilissima: cum copiosô verum & verborum. Leipzig, Jena, Arnstadt, J.B. Oehler, C. Freyschmidt, 1661. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding leaf with several woodcut characters for hand-reading and planets, 4 full-page woodcuts of hands and numerous  woodcuts of hands, faces, signs, characters, etc. in text. (11+1 blank), 36, (1+1 blank), 14, (48), 10026 (=1026), 301-340, (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Esoterica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The siege of 's Hertogenbosch View picture(s) 224 PREMPART, Jacques. Récit, ou brève description de ce qui s' est passé durant le très-fameux Siège de Bois-le-Duc. Auec une carte generale du camp entier, & plusieurs particulieres des approches de chasque quartier à part. Leeuwarden, Claude Fontaine, 1630. Folio. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Woodcut printer's device on title, 2 large folding engraved maps, showing the city of s'Hertogenbosch, its fortifications, and the besieging army under Prince Hendrik of Orange, and 7 double-page engraved plans of the "approches" of the besieging army at various quarters, all versos blank. (2), 26, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Den Bosch  History  Militaria  Netherlands  Noord-Brabant  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to express yourself the right way View picture(s) 225 PYLL, E.V. Zinryke Spreuken, Deftige Sententien, Welsprekende en aardig vloeiende Concepten, Vergadert en getrokken soo uyt de Antique als Moderne Autheuren, Latijnse, Spaanse, Italiaanse, Franse en Nederduytse. Als mede Een eloquente maniere van spreken en schryven, gestelt op ordre van 't Alphabeth. 's-Grav., Harmanus Groenhout, 1690. 12mo. Contemp. blind stamped vellum. 248, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Education  Linguistics  Modelbooks  Proverbs  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A follower of Paracelsis and physician of Henry IV in conflict with the University at Paris View picture(s) 226 QUERCETANUS, Josephus (or CHESNE, Joseph du, DUCHESNE, QUESNE or QUERCETANUS). Traité familier de l'exacte preparation spagyrique des medicaments, pris d'entre les mineraux, animaux & vegetaux. Avec une breve response au livret de Jacques Aubert, touchant la generation & les causes des metaux. Paris, Charles Morel, 1680. 8vo. Contemporary goatskin, spine interestingly gilt in compartments, with a - not the - title in the second compartment lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. 152, (16) pp., last lv. blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  France  Medicine  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A world- famous Spanish satire translated into Dutch View picture(s) 227 QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS, Francisco Gomez de. Groote Spaensche droomer, ofte de VII. wonderlijke gesichten, in welcke alle de gebreken deser eeuwe, onder alle staten van menschen, vermakelijck en oock stichtelijck werden bestraft, en als in een schilderye naecktelick verthoont. Utrecht, Juriaen van Poolsum, 1687. 12mo. Contemporary limp vellum. With woodcut illustration on title, and 7 half-page woodcuts in text, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials. 332, (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Literature  Satire  Utrecht  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eighteenth-century biography of a famous seventeenth-century commander View picture(s) 228 RAMSAY, Andrew Michael de Histoire du Vicomte de Turenne, maréchal général des armées du Roy. Paris, The widow Mazieres & J.B. Garnier, 1735. 5 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green title labels, lettered in gold, marbled edges. Titles and half-titles printed in red and black, full-page portrait of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, by N. de Larmessin after Meissonier, 13 folding engraved plans (ca. 26 x 39 cm) of battles sieges and camps by Coquart, 8 large beautiful head- and end-pieces by J.B. Scotin, 2 engraved initials. Vol. 1: (12), 494 pp.; vol. 2: (4), 495-597, (1), 596-600, (601), (2), CL, LXXXVIII, CCIX pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Biography  France  History  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Dutch translation of an important French medical work View picture(s) 229 RANCHIN, François. Heelkonstige geschillen, wegens de werken van meester Guido de Gauliac. Geschift in drie deelen. Het eerste deel, handelende over het byzonder hoofd-stuk, d'ontleeding  en de geswellen. Het tweede en derde deel, handelende  over de wonden, sweeren, been-breuken, uyt-leedingen over de seste handeling, en over de tegen-giften. Beschreven  in 't Fransch, ... en nu vertaalt door Aarnout Van Wymis. Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin, 1661-2. 3 parts (8 books) in 1 vol. Sm. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title in ink on spine, blue speckled edges. First title in red & black, part-title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials and end-pieces. (8), 358; (4), 466 (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Anatomy  Dutch  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three rare German treatises, including one of the first works on wigs and a work on the night View picture(s) 230 RANGO, Konrad Tiburtius. De capillamentis seu vulgô Paruquen, liber singularis. Magdeburg, Tobias Schröter/ Johan Müller, 1663. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with manuscript title on spine. Engraved title-page and 1 engraved plate by A. Fröhlich after the author, woodcut vignette on letterpress title-page. (2),254 [=256] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Costumes  Fashion  Forbidden Books  Germany  Law  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ray's botanical classification in its definitive form View picture(s) 231 RAY, John (Johannes RAIUS). Methodus plantarum, emendata et aucta. In quâ notae maxime characteristicae exhibentur, quibus stirpium genera tum summa, tum infima cognoscuntur & à se mutuo dignoscuntur ... Accedit methodus graminum, juncorum et cyperorum specialis. Eodem auctore. London/ Amsterdam, Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford/ (J. and G.) Janssonius van Waesberge, 1703. Contemporary sheepskin, gilt, ribbed spine, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Abraham de Blois after a painting by William Faithorne, 2 folding letterpress tables. (36), 202, (26) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Botany  Great Britain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The rare first edition View picture(s) 232 REVIUS, Jacob. Over-Ysselsche Sangen en Dichten. Deventer, Sebastiaen Wermbouts, 1630. 4to. Contemporary vellum, with ms. title on spine, red painted edges. With woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Deventer on title. (2), 328, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Literature  Poetry  Renaissance  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The relation between Church and State: three rare first editions on one of the 'hot issues' of the Dutch Calvinist church during the Golden Age View picture(s) 233 REVIUS, Jacobus. Examen dissertationis D. Nicolai Vedelii de episcopatu Canstantini Magni, seu de potestate magiastratuum Reformatorum circa res ecclesiasticas. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1643. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. (12), 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Netherlands  Reformation  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The main characters in the Dutch War of Independence portrayed View picture(s) 234 REYD, Everhard van. Voornaemste gheschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders, vanden Jare 1566 totten Iare 1583. Arnhem, Ian Iansz, 1626. 4to. Contemp. vellum. With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem. (16), 734, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Dutch  History  House of Orange  Low Countries  Portraits  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On Vietnam and the Jesuit mission View picture(s) 235 RHODES, Alexandre de. Relazione de' felici successi della Sante Fede nel regno di Tunchino. Rome, Giuseppe Luna, 1650. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt figure of an eagle in centre on front cover, red  mottled edges. With full-page map of Annam. (16), 326, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Cartography  Jesuits  Maps  Mission  Vietnam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Of the utmost importance on the knowledge of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, written by the first Deshima doctor to describe the medicine and culture of Japan to the West View picture(s) 236 RHYNE, Willem ten. Verhandelinge van de Asiatise melaatsheid, na een naaukeuriger ondersoek ten dienste van het gemeen. Amsterdam, Abraham van Someren, 1687. With a woodcut fleuron on the title-page. [18], 181, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Japan  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Jesuit mission in the Philippines (1602-3) View picture(s) 237 RIBERA SJ, Giovanni (Juan RIVERA). Lettera Annua della Vice. Provincia delle Filippine. Dal Giugno del 1602. al seguente. Giugno del 1603. ... al ... il P. Claudio Acquaviva Preposito Generale della medesima Compagnia. Venice, Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1605. Small 8vo. Later half vellum with title lettered in ink on spine. With large woodcut device of the Jesuit Order on title. 69 (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Asia  Jesuits  Mission  Philippines  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The comet of 1664 View picture(s) 238 RICHTERN, Christophorus. Berichtendes Send-Schreiben vom Cometen, so in Christmonat des 1664. Christen-Jahres ist erschienen: darinnen derselbige Astronomicè, Physicè, Astrologicè, Theologicè, betrachtet und erkläret wirt. Leipzig, Ritzsch, 1665. 4to. Modern boards. With a woodcut of a comet on the title-page. (12) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astrology  Astronomy  Pamphlets  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare missionary work on preaching the Gospels to the Indians in Mexico by one of the first Mexican authors View picture(s) 239 RODRIGUEZ DE LEON, Juan. El predicador de las gentes San Pablo, sciencia, preceptos, avisos y obligaçiones de los predicatores Evangelicos con doctrina del Apostol. Madrid, Maria de Quiñones, 1638 (colophon: 1637). 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With engraved title-page in architectural border with the portrait of St. Paul, and woodcut headpieces and initials. [24], 256, [12] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America [Central]  Americana  Mexico  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Latin edition of the annual report on 1609 and 1610 View picture(s) 240 RODRIGUEZ GIRÃO, João. Litterae iaponicae annorum M.DC.IX et X. ad R. admodum piae mem. P. Claudium Aquavivam generalem praepositum Societatis Iesu A.R.P. Provinciali eiusdem in Iapone Societ. missae. Ex italicis Latinae factae ab And. Schotto. Antwerp, Petrus & Joannes Bellerus, 1615. 8vo. 19th century half green morocco, spine with gilt title, marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (24), 111 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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