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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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A shining example for all French Protestants View picture(s) 2 AMIRAULT (AMYRAUT), Moise. La Vie de François, Seigneur de la Nouë, dit Bras-de-Fer. Ou sont continës quantité de choses memorables, qui  servent à l'éclaircissement de celles qui se sont passées en France & au Pays-Bas, depuis le commencement des  troubles survenus our la religion, jusques à l'an 1591. Leyden, Jean Elsevier, 1661. 4to. 19th century half vellum. With 2 folding genealogical tables. (8), 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Biography  Elzevier  France  History  Protestantism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Biography of the well-known martyr Ignacio de Azevedo View picture(s) 3 BEAUVAIS, Gilles-François. La vie du venerable pere Ignace Azevedo, de la compagnie de Jesus. L'histoire de son martyre, & de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même Compagnie. Le tout tiré des procès-verbaux dressés pour leur canonisation. Dédiée au Roi de Pologne. Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1744. 12mo, with quires in 4 & 8. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with ornamental flowers, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title and some head- and tailpieces. XLIII, (5), 300 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Biography  Brazil  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The life of the Stadholder/King William III, partly illustrated by Jan & Caspar Luyken bound for the wealthy Amsterdam merchant Aaron de Joseph de Pinto (1710-1758) View picture(s) 4 BOSCH, Lambert van den. Het leven en bedryf van Willem de Darde. Koning van  Groot-Brittannie, Vrankryk en Yrlant &c. &c. Prince  van Orangie &c. &c. &c. Sijn geboorte, jongelingschap, erf-Stadthouderschap en Koninglyke waardigheyd. Onder wiens heerschappy en bestieringe werden verhandelt, saken van Staat en Oorlog van den jare 1650. tot het uytgaen van 1693. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1694. 4 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt in compartments, with gilt fillets and gilt coat-of-arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in centre on sides. With engraved frontispiece with scenes of the life of William III by Caspar Luyken, folding engraved map of the battle of Landen (between Tienen and St. Truyden) on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates, of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken. (8), 432; 442, (6); (2), 180; 528, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Biography  Dutch  History  Nobility  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In honour of the Dutch national naval hero View picture(s) 5 BRANDT, Gerard. Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter, Hertog, Ridder, &c. L. Admiraal Generaal van Hollandt en Westvriesland. Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom, van Someren & Goethals, 1687. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed & gilt, blue edges. Title, full-page portrait of Michiel de Ruyter, 7 double-page plates with sea-battles and De Ruyter's funeral procession by Daniel Stoopendaal, full-page plate by J. Mulder of De Ruyter's tomb, all engraved. [8], 1063, [23] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Biography  Low Countries  Maritime History  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The private life of Napoleon View picture(s) 6 CASES, Comte de Las, Emmanuel. Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, ou journal ou se trouve consigné, jour par jour, ce qu'a dit et fait Napoléon durant dix-huit mois; par le Comte de las Cases.- IDEM. Suite au Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, ou observations critiques, anecdotes inédites pour servir de supplément et de correctif à cet ouvrage. Brussels, Paris, H. Remy, P.J. De Mat, Raynal, Roret, 1822-25. 10 vols. 12mo. Contemporary red blindstamped cloth, marbled edges. With 3 folding engraved plates and full-page engraved portrait of Comte de las Cases. 350; 330; 319; 324; 331; 326; 323; 400; 468; 472 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  France  History  Napoleon  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Holy Land visited by a Lady View picture(s) 7 EGERTON, Lady Francis. Journal of a tour in the Holy Land, in May and June 1840. With lithographic views, from original drawings, by Lord Francis Egerton. For private circulation only; for the benefit of the ladies' Hibernian female school society. London, Harrison and Co., 1841. 8vo. Original green blind-stamped decorated cloth with title in gilt on spine. Lithographed frontispiece and 3 lithographed plates, some illustrations in text. [8], 141, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Biography  Holy Land  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the biography of Erasmus, including hitherto unplushing letters by Erasmus View picture(s) 8 ERASMUS, Desiderius & Petrus SCRIVERIUS (ed.). Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis æqualibus fideliter descripta; accedunt epistolæ illvstres plus quam septuaginta, quas ætate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent. P. Scriverii, & fautorum auspicijs. Leyden, G. Basson, 1615. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut roundel with portrait of Erasmus on leaf 5, woodcut initials. (24), 286, (2 blank). Collation: *12, A-M12 (M12 blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Erasmus  History  Philosophy  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The best edition of the important biography of De Peiresc View picture(s) 9 GASSENDI, Pierre. Viri illustris Nicolai Claudij Fabricij de Peiresc, senatoris Aquisextiensis vita. Editio tertia; auctior, correctior, & distinctior. The Hague, Adriaen Vlacq, 1655. 4to. Contemporary full calf, triple blind filets along edges of sides, blind ruled spine, speckled edges. Title in red & black with woodcut vignette, full-page engraved portrait of De Peiresc in collation, some small woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. (8), 300 (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Biography  French  Philosophy  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated study on Dutch 17th century painting and painters View picture(s) 10 HOUBRAKEN, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. Waar van 'er veele met hunne Beeltenissen ten Tooneel verschynen, en hun Levensgedrag en Konstwerken beschreven worden: zynde een vervolg op het Schilderboek van K. van Mander. Den Tweeden Druk. Van veele Drukfouten gezuivert en met Nieuwe Registers voorzien. 's-Grav., J. Swart, C. Boucquet, M. Gaillard, 1753. 3 vols. Contemp. marbled calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-labels, red painted edges. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, several engravings in text, and 48 full-page engraved plates, showing 107 portraits of artists and including the author's own portrait, mostly engraved by J. Houbraken en D. Jongman, but including some by the author. Tog. ca. 1000 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Biography  Drawing & Painting  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Shining examples View picture(s) 11 LOON, Sophia van. Nuttige voorbeelden, bijeengezameld. Gouda, G.B. van Goor, (ca. 1850). Sm.8vo. Orig. lithographed boards, with illustration of a little bird on front cover. With 4 full-page lithographed plates, all nicely coloured by hand. VI, (2), 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art  Biography  Education  Painting & Drawing  Philosophy  Poetry  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First extensive biography on a notorious captain, smuggler and naval captain View picture(s) 12 M*** (= Nicolas Joseph MAREY). Vie du Capitaine Thurot. Paris, 1791. 8vo. Later marbled boards, new endpapers. 140 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Biography  Economy  French  Ships & Shipbuilding  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic Dutch art history View picture(s) 13 MANDER, Karel van. Het schilderboeck waerin voor eerst de leerlustige-jeught den gront der edele vrye schilderkonst in verscheyden deelen wort voor gedragen. Daer na in drij deelen 't leven der vermaerde doorluchtighe schilders des ouden ende nieuwen tydts. Eyndlyck d'uytlegginghe op den Metamorphoseon Pub. Ovidii Nasonis. Met uytbeeldinge der figuren. Alles dienstich ende nut den schilders, const-beminders ende dichters, en alle andere staten van menschen. Hier is op nieu bygevoecht het leven des autheurs. Amsterdam, Paulus van Ravestein for Jacob Pietersz. Wachter & Cornelis Lodewijcksz. vander Plasse, 1616-1618. 6 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum. Richly engraved allegorical title by N. Lastman after Warnaar van de Valkert, full-page engraved portrait of the author by Nic. Lastman after the portrait by Saenredam for the first edition, printer's devices of De Wachter, Van Ravesteyn and Vander Plasse on the separate titles (see the reprod. in Bibl. Belg. IV, p. 47) and some fine woodcut vignettes and initials in the text. (16), 22, (2); (4), 213, (3); (8), 122, (2); (8) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Drawing & Painting  Dutch  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of a short biography of a famous American View picture(s) 14 MIGNET, François Auguste Marie. Het Leven van Benjamin Franklin. Naar het Frans door G. Mees A.z. Een Volksboek, ter voorbeeld hoe men door eigen vlijt en deugd tot rijkdom en aanzien kan geraken. Deventer, A. ter Gunne, (ca. 1858). Sm.8vo. Contemp. gilt and richly blind-stamped purple cloth. With lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Benjamin Franklin by C.W. Mieling. XII, 175, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Americana  Biography  Dutch  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous defense of great men who were falsely accused of practising magic View picture(s) 15 NAUDÉ, Gabriel. Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de magie. The Hague, Adrian Vlac, 1653. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title in ink and former shelmark on spine. Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut headpieces and initials. (24), 649 (1 blank, 22) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Biography  French  Magic & Conjuring  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Thousands of famous people from all over the world between two covers View picture(s) 16 OETTINGER, Eduard Maria. (Ed.). Bibliographie biographique universelle. Dictionnaire des ouvrages relatifs a l'histoire de la vie publique et pricée des personnages célèbres de tous les temps et de toutes les nations, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a nos jours. Enrichi du répertoire des bio-bibliographies générales, nationales, et spéciales par Edouard-Marie Dettinger. Paris, A. Lacroix & Cie, Paul Daffis, 1866. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large 8vo. Half red morocco, spine ribbed with title in gilt. IV pp., 2192 cols. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bibliography  Biography  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"Who is who'' in Germany before 1566 View picture(s) 17 PANTALEON, Heinricus (BANDLIN, Hans Heinrich). Prosopographiae heroum atque illustrium virorum totius Germaniae, pars prima [secunda & tertia]. In hac personarum desriptione omnium tam armis et autoritate, quam literis & religione totius Germaniae celebrium virorum vitae & res praeclarè gestae bona fide referentur, à condito mundo [pars 1] ... ad ... annum 1566 usque [pars 3]. Opus plane novum et uicundissimum, ex omnium fere gentium chronicis, annalibus, & historiis magna diligentia excerptum: & vivis heroum imaginibus (quantum fieri potuit) passim illustratum: ac nunc primum ob patriae decorum in lucem editum. ita quod instar continuae historiae Germanorum esse queat. Basle, (Heirs of) Nicolaus Brylinger, 1565-66. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. 19th century boards. Woodcut printer's device on 3 titles, woodcut portrait of the author on the versos of the three titles accompanied by three different laudatory poems, numerous (ca. 1500)  woodcut portraits of famous men (Emperors, Kings, noble men, scholars, scientists, etc.) in German history; printed genealogical trees. (12), 291, (12); (8), 480, (12); (12), 565, (11) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Biography  Germany  History  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the life and martyrdom of a Jesuit missionary from Lisbon View picture(s) 18 PEREYRA DE BRITTO, Fernaõ. Historia do nascimento, vida, e martyrio do ven. padre Joaõ de Britto da Companhia de Jesu, martyr da Azia, e protomartyr da missaõ de Madurey, composta por seu irmaõ Fernaõ Pereyra de Britto. Coimbra, No Real Collegio das artes da Comp. de Jesu, 1722. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red morocco title label, lettered in gold, blue marbled edges. Title printed in red & black, with woodcut vignette, large woodcut head- and tailpieces. (52), 250 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Biography  India  Jesuits  Mission  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most influential Dutch translation of the 'lives' of Plutarch View picture(s) 19 PLUTARCH. T'Leven der doorluchtige Griecken ende Romeynen, tegen elck anderen vergeleken door Plutarchus van Chaeronea. Wt de Griecsche sprake overgeset door M. Iaques Amyot. Mitsgaders het leven van Hannibal, Scipio den Africaen, uyt het Latyn verfranscht by Carolus Clusius. Voorder het leven van Epaminondas, Philippus van Macedonien, Dionysius den ouden, Augustus Caesar, Plutarchus ende Seneca: ende noch het leven vande negen treffelijcke krijgs-oversten, beschreven door Aemilius Probus. Met een cort begrijp op elcx leven: leeringen op de kant, chronijck ende leer-registers: alles versamelt ende uytgegeven by S.G.S. Tesamen van nieus tot gemeen nut verduyscht, door A.V.Z.V.N.. ende ten deele by eenen anderen beminder. Delft, Adriaen Gerritsen van Beyeren & Felix van Sambrix, 1644. Folio. Contemporary calf with large gilt centre-piece on both sides, spine in compartments, with gilt red morocco label. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, dated 1644 with Romulus and Theseus - the subjects of the first two 'lives' presented as a pair - holding a cloth with the engraved title and an oval portrait of Plutarch at the top. Printer's device on the title with the motto 'Durate'. (6), 548, (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Classical Antiquity  History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eighteenth-century biography of a famous seventeenth-century commander View picture(s) 20 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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