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The House of Mary translated to Loreto: its history printed in, and bound for the city of Liège View picture(s) 301 TURSELLINUS, Horatius (Orazio TORSELLINO). Lauretanae historiae libri quinque. Ad illustriss. D. Petrum Aldobrandinum S.R.E. Card. Liège, Willem Hovius, 1621. 12mo. Contemporary full calf, ribbed spine with small gilt ornaments in compartments, with gilt-stamped coat-of-arms of the city of Liège (a column crowned by a pine cone and cross, flanked by the letters G and L) on both sides, gilt gauffered edges. Wooduct vignette on title with Mary and Child, somewhat larger woodcut with Mary and Child on the roof of a church (the Cathedral of Loreto with the House of the Holy family, carried away through the air by angels on the verso of the title, woodcut end-pieces and initials. 373 (11) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Catholicism  History  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Description of Gujarat (India) by the director of the VOC View picture(s) 302 TWIST, Johan van. Generale Beschrijvinghe van Indien. Ende in 't besonder van 't coninckrijck van Guseratten, staende onder de beheersinge van den groot machtighen coninck Chaiahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor. Uyt verscheyden autheuren ende eygen onder-vindinghe vergadert ende by een ghestelt. Batavia, Druckerye vande Gansen Pen, 1638 [= Amsterdam, J. Jansz., 1645]. Oblong 4to (ca. 19 x 24 cm). Old wrappers. [2], 112 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  East Indies  India  Trade  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The life and works of Johannes Uytenbogaert View picture(s) 303 UYTENBOGAERT, Johannes. Johannis Uytenbogaerts leven, kerckel cke 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. Contemporary vellum. With portrait of the author by W. Delff after M. Mieris with a 6-line verse by Caspar Barlaeus. [40], 451, [3], [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Netherlands  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first European to enter Mekka and Medina View picture(s) 304 VARTHEMA, Ludvico di. De uytnemende en seer vvonderlijcke zee-en-landt-reyse van de heer Ludovvyck di Barthema, van Bononien, Ridder &c. Gedaen inde Morgenlanden, Syrien, vrughtbaer en woest Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien en andere. Utrecht, Gerard Nieuwenhuysen & Willem Snellaert, 1654. 4to. Old vellum. With engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates. [8], 56, 56 [= 60], 24, [2, 2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  East Indies  Islamitica  Middle East  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The History of the Dutch Republic in the light of God's interventions View picture(s) 305 VELDE, Abraham vande. De wonderen des alder-hoogsten, ofte aenwijfinge van de oorsaecken, wegen, en middelen, waer door de Geunieerde Provintien, uyt hare vorige onderdruckinge soo wonderbaerlijck, tegen vermoeden van de heele wereldt, tot soo grooten macht, rijckdom, eere, en onsaggelijckheydt zijn verheven, gelijck deselve in verscheyden voorname historie-schrijvers voorkomen, en tot noodigh gebruyck, en verscheyden nuttigheden, na dese tijdts ghelegentheydt by een vergadert zijn. Middelburg, Henrick Smidt, 1668. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title written on spine. Sm. woodcut vignette on title, woodcut initials. (48), 488, (8). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  History & Historiography  Netherlands  Protestantism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The religious disputes in Alkmaar (1608-1611) View picture(s) 306 VENATOR, Adolphus (Adolphus de JAGER). Nootwendigh historisch verhael, van allen swaricheyden, verschillen, ende proceduren, soo wel in kercklijcken, als politijcken saken, etlijcke jaren herwaerts binnen der stadt Alckmaer voorghevallen. Wtghegheven by Burgmeesteren, Vroetschappen, ende Kerckenraedt, der voorsz stede, ende ghemeynte, respective. Teghens het Laster-boeck Cornelii Hillenii, ende zijner toestanders. Alkmaar, printed by Jacob de Meester for Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1611. 4to. Contemporary vellum over boards. With woodcut title-vignette with the coat of arms of Alkmaar and larger coat of arms on the verso of the last leaf. [12], 271, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alkmaar  Noord-Holland  Protestantism  Reformation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic work on warfare by one of the greatest military commanders of the 16th century View picture(s) 307 VERE, Francis. Commentaries, Being Diverse pieces of service, wherein he had command. Published by William Dillingham. Cambridge, London, John Field, 1657, 1672. Folio. Later dark red calf, with gilt title, blindtooled and gilt decorated covers. Two titles; woodcut device of Cambridge University on first title, 3 full-page engraved portraits, of Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere, and John Ogle, double-page engraved plate of Francis Vere's monumental tomb by R. Gaywood, and 6 double-page engraved maps and plans by Robert Vaugham, of the sea-coasts  of Europe, the Netherlands, Cadiz and the Azores, the armies arranged for battle at Turnhout and Newport, and the siege of Ostende. (18), 209, (2, 1 blank) PP. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  England  English  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Advising an early marriage View picture(s) 308 VERGENOEGDE, Petrus de. De tien delicatessen des huwelyks: of de wederlegging van de tien vermakelykheden des huwelyks door Petrus de Vergenoegde. getrouwde. Nevens een St. Nikolaas Avond, en een berigt dat het raadsaam is te trouwen. Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1678. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. Engraved frontispiece and 10 full-page engravings. (8), 160, 45 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Erotica  Satire  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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50 engraved portraits of important church reformers View picture(s) 309 VERHEIDEN, Jacobus and Henricus HONDIUS (II). Af-beeldingen van sommighe in Godts-woort ervarene mannen, die bestreden hebben den Roomschen Antichrist. The Hague, Beuckel Corneliszoon Nieulandt, 1603. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title written on spine, remains of ties. With the letterpress title in a window cut in the plate used for the engraved title-page of the Latin edition (with 7 tiny figures representing the Pope as antichrist in the mouth of the devil, and Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals falling through the air and losing their hats, staffs, etc.), 50 engraved portrait plates (13 x 12 cm plus the name and 4-line Latin verse at the foot) by Hendrik HONDIUS, showing important church reformers, an engraved emblematic plate, showing a diagram of a geocentric solar eclipse (an allegory for the anti-Christ blocking God's light?) with a Latin poem below it, Nieulandt's woodcut device above the colophon and 16 decorative woodcut initials (2 series) plus about 40 repeats (the largest initial shows the fall of Icarus). [12], 147, [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Church History  Engravings  Portraits  Reformation  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fencing in the Sicilian manner View picture(s) 310 VILLARDITA, Giuseppe. Trattato della scherma Siciliana ove si mostra di seconda intentione con una linea retta; difendersi  di qualsivoglia operatione di resolutione, che operata per ferire à qualunque, ò di punta, ò taglio, che accadesse in accidente di questionarsi. Con expressione di tutte le regole che nascono di seconda operatione. Palermo, Carlo Adamo, 'Impr. Cuz. G. & V.G. Impr. R. Ioppulus', 1673. 12mo. Late 19th century half leather with gilt lettering on spine, marbled paper boards. 16, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fencing  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Last edition of a 16th-century manual on sundials View picture(s) 311 VIMERCATO, Giovanni Battista. Dialogo de gli Horologi Solari ... Nel quale con ragioni specolative, e pratiche facilmente s'insegna il modo di fabricar tutte le sorti di horologi. Novamente ristampo con le sue figure ... & con un agiunta di un horologio da servirsene al lume della luna. Padua, [after the Venice edition by Giolito, 1585], 1672. 4to. 18th-century stiff plain wrappers. With a large woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 3 large folding woodcut plates, more than 30 woodcuts in the text, nearly all full-page, and numerous woodcut decorations. [27], [1 blank], 79, [1 blank], 89-331 [= 131], [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Horology  Science  Scientific Instruments  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Virgil translated by the Antwerp rhetorician Cornelis van Ghistele View picture(s) 312 VIRGIL. De twaelf boecken Aeneas, ghenaemt int Latijn Aeneidos: In Duytsche talen door Cornelis van Ghistele Rhetorijckelijc overghezet: plaisant ende weerdich om lesen. Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1609. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut portrait of Virgil on title and 12 woodcut illustrations in text, one to each book. 264, (3, 1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Greek & Latin  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Virgil in Elzevir's famous duodecimo format View picture(s) 313 VIRGIL. Opera, Nic. Heinsius rec. Amsterdam, Ex off. Elzeviriana, 1676. 12mo. 19th-century morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt borders on sides. With fine engraved allegorical title with a large swan, and double-page folding engraved map of the sea-voyage of Aeneas from Troy to Italy. (64), 387, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Elzevier  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition by Daniel Heinsius of Virgil's works View picture(s) 314 VIRGIL. Opera; nunc emendatiora. Leyden, Ex off. Elzeviriana, 1636. 12mo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with richly gilt and blindstamped borders on sides and gilt fillet inner panel with gilt fan-ornaments at the four corners, gilt decorated inner borders, g.e. (P. GREFFIER). With fine engraved allegorical title with a large swan, woodcut of two sides of a medal with the portrait of Virgil, 2 pages printed in red, and double-page folding engraved map of Aeneas' sea-voyage from Troy to Italy. (40), 411, (43) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Greek & Latin  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Blaeu edition View picture(s) 315 VISSCHER, Roemer. Brabbelingh. By hem selven oversien, en meer als de helft vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. (Blaeu), 1614. 16mo. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut emblem on title, 2 engraved emblems with jesters  titled "Elck heeft de zijn" and ''Quaeso''. 220, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Literary History  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With an etching after Rembrandt; from the library of Samuel Iperuszoon Wiselius View picture(s) 316 VONDEL, Joost van den. Werken. (Amsterdam, Amersfoort, etc.), 1645-1781. 16 vols. 4to. Half calf, gilt and decorated spine with green title-label. With the ex-libris of Samuel Iperuszoon Wiselius pasted on inside of front cover in most vols. with his motto 'Dulcia non meruit, qui non gustavit amara' (Who did not taste the bitterness, does not deserve the sweet). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Engravings  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A major contribution to reforming education at the Latin Schools by a famous humanist View picture(s) 317 VOSSIUS, Gerard Janszoon. Latina Grammatica, ex decreto Illustr. D.D. Hollandiae, West-Frisiaeque Ordinum, in Usum Scholarum adornata; multis quidem in locis Lud. Lithocomi verbis, quibus Scholae adsueverant, reservatiis: sed erroribus, quibus scatebat, emendatis; inutilibus refectis; pluribus, quae defierent, suppletis; & omnibus meliori ordine  dispostis; studio, atque opera. Editio septima & ultima, nova hujusque anni cura aliquot in locis castigatior prioribus; notis vero longe auctior.- Latina Syntaxis, in usum Scholarum Hollandiae, & West-Frisiae, Superiorum  auctoritate, adornata; Passim quidem reservatis fere  praeceptis, & exemplis. Ludolffi Lithocomi; Sed plurimis repurgata ab erroribus, etiam superfluis omissis, additis necessariis, atque omnibus meliori ordine digestis. Amst., Joannes Ravesteinius, 1666. 2 parts in 1 vol. Contemp. vellum. With woodcut printer's device on 2 titles, first title printed in red and black. (10), 176; 177, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Greek & Latin  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important Works on the early history of Flanders, including many images of the Roman Goddess 'Nehellennia' View picture(s) 318 VREDIUS, Olivarius (Olivier de WREE). Historiae Comitum Flandriae. Libri prodromi duo. Quid comes? Quid Flandria? - (Pars 2:) Historiae Comitum Flandriae leber prodromus alter. Flandria vetus sive ethnica dicta Prima Francia. - (Pars 3:) Historiae Comitum Flandriae pars secunda. Flandria Christiana a Clocoveo primo Francorum rege Christiano. usque ad annum D.CC.LXVII. Pipini Francorum regis XVI. Bruges, Lucas van den Kerckove, 1650 (-1652). 3 parts in 2 vols. Folio. Uniformly bound: contemporary mottled calf, ribbed spines gilt in compartments. With Engraved title-page for part 1 by Joh. de Mel who also engraved the 4 (folding) plates incorporated in the 'Additiones' of part 2 (= pp. LI-LIV), including Roman votive altars of the goddess Nehellennia, city walls and seals, also an engraved vignette on the title of part 2. (10), 110, (12), 292, (4), LXXX, (24) pp.; vol. 2: (2), 400 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Flemish  History  Humanism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three VOC voyages together in the very rare Dutch translation View picture(s) 319 VRIES, Simon de. Drie seer aenmercklijcke reysen nae en door veelerley gewesten in Oost-indien; gedaen van Christophorus Frikius, chirurgijn: Elias Hesse, bergh-schrijver: Christophorus Schweitzer, boekhouder; yeder bysonder, van 't jaer 1675 tot 1686. Bevattende, nevens noyt beschrevene gedenckwaerdigheden, oock. Een eygentlijck beright van den laetsten Bantamschen oorlogh, en de veroveringh van geheel Groot-Java door de Hollanders. Desgelijcks van de staet der Sillidaische goudmijn van d'E. E. Oost-indische Compagnie op Sumatra. Alles van de schrijvers in eygener persoon bygewoond. Utrecht, Willem vande Water, 1694. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, and 7 engraved plates. [6], 435, [29] pp Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Earth Sciences [General]  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Best edition of this early manual on heraldry and French noble families by the inventor of indicating colours by hatching View picture(s) 320 VULSON, Marc de. La science heroique, traitant de la noblesse, et de  l'origine des armes; de leurs blasons, & symboles des tymbres, bourlets, couronnes, cimiers, lambrequins, supports & tenans & autres ornements de l'ecu; de la devise & du cry de guerre, de l'ecu pendant & des pas & emprises des anciens chevaliers, des formes différentes de leurs tombeaux; et enfin des marques extérieures de l'ecu de nos Rois, des Reines, enfans de France, & des officiers de la Couronne, & de la Maison du Roy. Seconde Edition, Reveüe, corrigée, & augmentée des Armes de plusieurs illustres Maisons. Paris, Seb. Mabre-Cramoisy, 1669. Folio. Contemporary red morocco, with triple fillet borders on sides, spine richly gilt and lettered in gold, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, g.e., blue end-papers. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by Greg, Huret Jr (1606-1670), large  engraved printer's device by Charles Audran (1594-1674) after Chauveau on title, engraved allegorical portrait of a knight confronting a Cerberus, full-page coat-of-arms of the author, a full-page plate of the hatching table of Vulson, many  engravings, mainly of coat-of-arms, in text, and numerous coat-of-arms and heraldic devices on 130 mostly full-page engraved plates, probably by Bernard Samuel (1615-1687). (12), 540, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  French  Heraldry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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