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Five interesting and important early humanistic works printed in the second decade of the 16th century, bound together View picture(s) 1 AGRICOLA, Rudolphus. Dialectica. Dorpius studiosis. Ut rectis studiis consulator studiosi, excusa sunt vobis haec Agricola dialectica. Louvain, Theodor [Dirk] Martens, 1515, 4 January. With title-page printed in red and black with the famous large printer's device of Theodorus Martens (13.2 x 9 cm) flanked by 10 separate decorated and floral woodblocks. 62 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Catholicism  Church History  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Law  Mathematics  Netherlands  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare copy of the only edition of a pamphlet by the first evangelical bishop in Germany: 'the second Luther' View picture(s) 2 AMSDORFF, Niclas von. Offentliche Bekentnis der reinen Lehre des Evangelii, und Confutatio der jtzigen Schwermer. Item ein Register Illyrici, etlicher bittern unwarheiten Menii und anderer. Jena, Thomas Rewart, 1558. 4to. Modern boards. Two woodcut initials. (28) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Church History  Germany  Luther  Pamphlets  Protestantism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Catholic Mass explained View picture(s) 3 BECHOFFEN, Johannes. Quadruplex missalis expositio: Litteralis scilicet: Allegorica: Tropologica: et Anagogica: sit ordinata: ut etiam populo expediat predicari publice quo ad litteralem sensum, allegoricum et etiam tropologicum usque ad oblationem. Basel, Michael Furter, 1512. 4to. Modern boards. Title printed in red and black, large woodcut printer's device at the end, and some fine woodcut initials in text. (87, 1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Church History  Devotion  Greek & Latin  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of the papal Councils by the archbishop of Toledo View picture(s) 4 CARRANZA [DE MIRANDA], F. Bartholomæo. Summa omnium conciliorum, a Sancto Petro usque ad Iulium quartum (corrected in ink as "tertium") Pontificem, omnibus facræ scripturæ studiosis utilissima. Antwerp, Ioan. Steelsij, 1556. Sm.8vo. Modern half leather with green marbled boards. (8), 420 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Belgicana  Catholicism  Church History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare works on priesthood and education of priests in an interesting 16th century binding with the name of the first owner View picture(s) 5 CLICHTHOVE, Josse. De vita et moribus sacerdotum, opusculum: singularem eorum dignitatem ostendens, & quibus ornati esse debeant virtutibus: explanans. Paris, Ex officina Henrici Stephanus (Henri Estienne), 4 August 1519. 4to. Contemporary early 16th-century calf, ribbed spine, front cover blind tooled with triple rules, central panel with the name of the original owner: "D. Ioa(n)mes Lassere'', blind stamped in capitals, fleur-de-lys cornerpieces; back cover ruled in gilt with the motto ''Memento Mortis'' in gilt capitals. Printed title within elegant woodcut border with wreath, two scholars in upper corners on both sides of a coat-of-arms with three French lilies and a hand holding a book coming from heaven, and lace-strapwork in the lower corners; nice large and smal woodcut initials. 75, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Church History  Paris  Religion  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work from the Father of Gothic Revival View picture(s) 6 CUYPERS, Petrus Josephus Hubertus. & Jan KALF. De katholieke kerken in Nederland. Dat is de tegenwoordige staat dier kerken met hunne meubeling en versiering beschreven en afgebeeld. Amsterdam, 1906. Folio. Original richly illustrated boards. With numerous illustrations, plans, and phototypies of (interiors of) Catholic churches in The Netherlands, such as Abcoude, Amsterdam, Breukelen Haarlem, Kampen, Tiel, Wassenaar and Maastricht. VIII, 590 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Church History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Churchfather, edited by Erasmus in a magnificent contemporary blind stamped binding and with a very interesting Frisian provenance View picture(s) 7 CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius. D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis et Martyris opera. Lyon, Sebastien Gryphium, 1544. 2 parts in one. 8vo. Contemporary blind tooled calf over bevelled wooden boards, spine ribbed in 5 compartments with title written in second compartment, sides stamped with two different rolls: the first along the edges (width 23 mm), with personifications of the planets: Sol, Luna (signed with the monogram 'NP'), Saturnus, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercurius; en d the second as central panel (width 27 mm) with personifications of Charitas, Justitia, and Fortitudo; between the outer roll and 'central panel' stamps of a flower and fleur-de-lys; two pairs of contemporary copper clasps and catches, title in ink on front edge (carefully re-backed). Woodcut printer's device on both titles, woodcut vignette on the verso of the last leaf, woodcut initials. (32), 395, (12), (1 blank); 422, (10) pp. (Collation: 2a-2b8, a-z8, A-B8, C4; Aa-Zz8, 2A-2D8 (including the fols. 2D7 (blank) and 2D8 with the vignette on its verso). Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Church History  Erasmus  Religion  Theology  Theology & Church History, Roman Catholicism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine edition of Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica in the first French translation in a beautiful contemporary binding View picture(s) 8 EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA. L'histoire ecclesiastique translatee de latin en francoys, par Messire Claude de Seyssel, evesque lors de Marseille, & depuis archevesque de Thusrin. Antwerp, Martin l'Empereur (Martin Keyser), 17 April 1533. 8vo. Contemporary calf acorn panels, surrounded by an elaborate blind-tooled border on both sides. Printed in De Keyser's Small Pica Bastarda. Title-page in woodcut border, numerous woodcut initials. [12], 160, 157-293 ll. 295-299 [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Church History  French  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Contemporary history of the establishment of the new episcopal hierarchy in the Low Countries View picture(s) 9 HAVENS, Arnoldus. Commentarius de erectione novorum in Belgio episcopatuum, deque iis rebus, quae ad nostram hanc usque aetatem, in eo praeclarè gestae sunt. Cologne, Joannes Kinckius, 1609. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title written on spine. With printer's device on title, woodcut initials and head-pieces. (16), 312 (=310), (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Belgicana  Charts [Sea]  Church History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Only edition of the important history of the archdiocese of Utrecht from the Protestant 'Alteration' in 1580 till ca. 1720 View picture(s) 10 HOYNCK VAN PAPENDRECHT, Cornelius Paulus. Historia ecclesiae Ultajectinae a tempore mutatae religionis in Foederato Belgio. In qua ostenditur ordinaria sedis archiepiscopalis et capituli jura intercidisse. Malines, Laurens van der Elst, 1725. Folio. Contemporary full calf, gilt and decorated spine in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red speckled edges. Title printed in red & black with woodcut vignette, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials, and 5 folded printed tables (pp. 365-9). (12), 44 (6), 370 (1 blank, 33, 1 blank) [pp. 365-9 folding (double pages), versos blank]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Catholicism  Church History  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of a famous convent of the Regular Canons View picture(s) 11 LATOMUS, Joannes. Corsendonca sive coenobii canonicorum regularum ordinus S. Augustini de Corsendoncq. Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen II, 1644. 8vo. 18th-century calf with small blind stamped flowers and gilt lining on raised spine and borders of sides, new end papers. Small woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initials and endpiece. (16), 180 (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Antwerp  Belgicana  Church History  History  Religious Orders  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor View picture(s) 12 MARLOT, Guillaume (& FLODOARDUS REMENSIS). Metropolis Remensis historia, a Frodoardo primum arctius digesta, nunc demum aliunde accersitis plurimum aucta, et illustrata, et ad nostrum hoc saeculum fideliter deducta. Tomus I; [Title of vol. 2:] Metropolis Remensis historia. Sive supplementum Frodoardi, ab anno CMLXX. Ad nostram aetatem fideliter et accurate productum. Lille, Nicolas de Rache, 1666 (vol. I) & Reims, Protasius Lelorain, 1679 (vol. 2). 2 vols. Folio. Vol. 1: Dated binding: full calf, spine gilt in compartments with the gilt coat-of-arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in the centre of both sides, on the front cover dated '1740', gilt edges; vol. 2: contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with two red morocco title labels lettered in gold. Titles with woodcut vignettes, vol. 1 with one full-page beautiful engraving of the facade of the Cathedral of Rheims and 6 half-page engravings in text, 3 of which are signed by J. Dassonneville, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (14), 668, (16); (8), 1-754, (2), 755-858, (2), 867-886, (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Church History  French  History  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mysterious edition of a mediaeval work on church law View picture(s) 13 PERALDUS, Guilielmus. De fide et legibus. (Augsburg, Günther Zainer, 1475-1476). Small folio. Contemporary richly blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, with two brass clasps, blue painted edges. With all initials supplied in red, rubricated throughout. (139) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Church History  Incunabula  Law  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy by the author: the highest representative of the Roman Catholic Church in the protestant Dutch Republic View picture(s) 14 ROVENIUS, Philippus. Reipublicae Christianae libri duo, tractantes de variis hominum statibus, gradibus, officiis, & functionibus in ecclesia Christi, & quae in singuils (sic) amplectenda, quae fugienda sint. ... Accessit ejusdem auctoris tractatus de missionibus instituendis. Antwerp, Arnold à Brakel, 1668 (=1648). 4to. Contemporary full parchment, spine lettered in ink. Title printed in red and black, with French title. (48), 587, 62 (=52) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Church History  Mission  Religion  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the Azevedo-Samodães collection View picture(s) 15 THOMAS A BECKET. Historea da vida e martyrio do glorioso sancto Thomas arcebispo, senhor de Cantuaria, primas de Inglaterra, legado perpetua da sancta see apostolica, trelada da novamente de Latim em lingoagé Portugues. Coimbra, Joâo Alvarez, 1554. 4to. 20th-century Portuguese tree calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title-label. Title and preliminaries supplied in neat manuscript facsimile, numerous charming woodcut initials in text. (8), ccci (=303), (1 blank, 20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Church History  England  Middle Ages  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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50 engraved portraits of important church reformers View picture(s) 16 VERHEIDEN, Jacobus & 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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Miracles from Brussels, illustrated by Adriaen Collaert View picture(s) 17 YDENS, Steven. Historie van het H. Sacrament der mirakelen. Berustende tot Bruessel inde collegiale kercke van S. Goedele. Beschreven door M. Steven Ydens Brusselaer, priester, licent. inde H. Godtheyt, ende canonick vande voorseyde kercke. Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1608. 8vo. Later 17th- or 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Engraved title vignette and 17 mostly full-page engraved plates (ca. 94 x 67 mm) by Adriaen Collaert, woodcut headpiece and initials. (46), 282, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Church History  Engravings  Judaica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Books on theology, Belgian history and law View picture(s) 18 [CANO, D. Philippus Josephus DE]. Catalogus Librorum rev. adm. amplissimi ac prænobilis domini. D. Philippi Josephi de Cano, Toparchæ de Moll, Baelen, Deschel, &c., Decani ecclesiæ cathedralis B.M.V. Qui publicè vendentur pecunia cambiali Antverpiæ in domo mortuaria 23. Aprilis 1759. Antwerp, Joannis Grange, (1759). 8vo. Contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in 6 compartments, red morocco title label. Engr. vignette on title. 132, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Catalogues  Church History  History  Low Countries  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous Rooklooster and the Congregation of Windesheim: two post-incunables and a 15th century manuscript in an original Rooklooster binding! View picture(s) 19 [INCUNABLE, POST]. Ordinarius divini officii pro ordine Canonicorum Regularium, Capittuli sive Congregationis Wyndesemensis. Anno Domini. M.CCCCC.XXI. Deventer, Albert Pafraet, April 1521. 4to. In a beautifully and richly paneled original and signed binding of the famous Rooklooster (the 'Red monastery'), the Augustinian Abbey of St. Paul in Oudergem (Auderghem) in the 'Soniënbos' (Forest of Zonia) near Brussels: full polished calf over wooden boards with (on both sides) two borders of three lines with rolls in between and a stamp of the Holy Lamb in the four corners and lozenge-shaped floral ornaments in the centre divided by three lines with a little floral double-rose stamp on the crossings; below the central panel on the front side a stamp "Roedencloester" flanked by eight little stamps of a star within a circle; one brass clasp and catch at the fore edge, brass strips at the edges of the corners; vellum pastedowns. Printed title within magnificent woodcut border consisting of four pieces: the four fathers of the church - Hieronymus and Ambrosius left and Augustinus and Gregorius at the right - and very lively and grotesque scenes of Indians, children playing with and riding exotic and fable animals like a dragon, a camel and an elephant above and below; two smaller woodcuts for the finding of the 'Golden number' and the Sunday letter' in text; very nice woodcut initials of 5 lines (one of 9 lines; the first 'O' on the title of 4 lines, with appropriately Augustin's symbol - a pierced heart); at the end a full-page woodcut of the Virgin with child on a crescent moon in a halo. All the illustrations are fully and nicely coloured by a contemporary hand. The book is printed in a beautiful and clear roman type, apart from the two first lines of the title which are in gothic; rubricated throughout. [16], LXXIV ll. (x4, a8, b4, A-C8, D4, E-I8, K6). LXXIIIv and LXXIVr blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  Church History  Devotion  Eclipses  Low Countries  Religious Orders  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of nepotism in Rome View picture(s) 20 [LETI, Gregorio]. Il nipotismo di Roma, o vero relatione delle raggione che muovono i Pontefici, all' aggrandimento de' nipoti. Del bene, e male che hanno portato alla Chiesa doppo Sisto IV. sino al presente. Delle difficoltà che incontrano i ministri de' prencipi nel trattare con loro, & insieme  col rimedio opportuno per liberarsi da tali difficoltà. E della causa perche le famiglie de' Pontefici non sono durate lungo tempo in grandezza. (Amsterdam, Daniel Elsevier), 1667. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine in compartments, gilt-lined with gilt stamped ornaments. (24), 208; 248, (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Catholicism  Church History  History  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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