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With woodcut illustrations by a Holbein associate View picture(s) 1 (EVANGELIENBUCH (GOSPELS & EPISTLES)). Das Plenarium oder Ewangely Buoch: Summer un(d) Winter Teyl, durch das gantz jar ... menschen welche in disem ... mögen überlesen. (Colophon: Basel, printed by Adam Petri von Langendorff, 13 August), 1516. Folio (30 x 19.5 cm). Slightly later (ca. 1565) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, in a panel design with 3 rolls (1 with Reformation portraits and 1 with biblical figures), a rosette and a leaf, brass fastenings with engraved decoration. Title-page in red and black with a woodcut pictorial frame, about 125 woodcut illustrations plus about 15 repeats by Hans Lützenburger after Hans Schäufelein and Urs Graf (5 nearly full-page, plus 2 repeats), 2 woodcut decorative strips, numerous decorated uncial initial letters (3 series, 17-34 mm, with more than 1 block for some letters), and 2 series of plain uncial initials. With the main text in a bastarda (97 mm/20 lines) with opening words and running heads in a large textura. All woodcuts and a few initials coloured by an early hand. With a remarkable half-sheet letterpress bookplate of Johann Hartmann of Forccheim (Bavaria), dated 1581 and with an elaborate border built from Robert Granjon's arabesque fleurons (182 x 100 mm), giving a warning curse to ensure the book's return. (8), 278 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Devotion  Post Incunabula  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded edition of the story of Tobias View picture(s) 2 HISTORIE VANDEN OUDEN TOBIAS, DE-, ende synen sone den jongen Tobias inhoudende vele schoone leeringen: hoe een vader synen sone onderwijsen sal, ende hoe een God-vreesende kint synen vader onderdanigh wesen sal. Noch de historie van de groote kloeckheydt der edelder weduwe Judith. Noch de geschiedenisse van de eerbare vrouwe Susanna met het vonnisse van den jongen Daniel. Item, de historie van de koninginne Esther. Dordrecht, Widow Niclaes Vincenten van Spierings-hoeck (the widow of Niclaes Vincentsz. van Spierinxhouck), 1638. Small 4to. Modern half red calf with marbled boards, gilt title on spine. With four woodcuts on title, each depicting a scene from the biblical stories of Tobias, Judith, Susanna and Esther, and the same 4 woodcuts repeated at the beginning of each story, title and last page within typogr. woodcut borders. (36) pp. (Collation: A8, B10). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Children's Books  Devotion  Education  Netherlands  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) 3 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 lvs. (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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Charmingly illustrated devotional 'book of hours' for the laity View picture(s) 4 POORTE, DIE-, oft dore des eewighen levens. Inhoudende seer schoone oeffeninghen vanden leven ende lijden ons Heeren Jesu Christi, ghedeelt op elcken dach vander weken met uren ende tijden. Ende is een devoet boecxken seer profijtelijck voor alle goetwillighe menschen, gheestelijcke ende weerlijcke, die begheerte hebben inden wech der duechden voorts te gaene, ende die suyvere ende onbevlecte voetstappens ons salichmakers Jesu Christi nae te volghen. Louvain, Anthonis Maria Bergaigne, 1551. Small 8vo. Half calf. With 42 woodcut miniatures in text and one woodcut initial, all contemporarily coloured by hand. (43) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Prayer Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Book with fixed price View picture(s) 5 (ANDRIES, Josse). Perpetua crux, sive passio Iesu Christi a puncto incarnationis ad extremum vitae; iconibus quadragenis explicata; quarum ligneae laminae in bonum publicum gratis datae. Pretium libelli, vide pag. 15. Title of part 2 : Altera perpetua crux Iesu Christi a fine vitae usque ad finem mundi, in perpetuo altaris sacrificio ... Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. 2 parts in one. 12mo. Contemporary parchment over boards. Title-vignet with the instruments of the passion on the title of part 1; 40 full-page woodcuts, all appearing twice: in part 1 as well as in part 2. 96 , 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Devotion  Emblem Books  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare devotional print-series View picture(s) 6 (CASTELLO, ALBERTUS DA). Miracula et Beneficia SS. Rosario Virginis Matris devotis a Deo Opt. Max. collata. Paris, Nicolas de Mathoniere, (ca. 1620). Large 8vo. Early 19th century red morocco, gilt, g.e. With fine engraved title, and 15 engraved plates on Mary's rosary, all within lightly decorated borders, with a motto above and 8 lines of text underneath, all borders and text engraved on the plate, versos blank. (16) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Devotion  Print Series  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded edition of a Dutch devotional work View picture(s) 7 (FLORIS VAN HAARLEM). Den wech des levens. Een gheestelijc boecxken leerende hoe dat een goet kersten mensch moet beginnen ende voortgaen in duechden, met veel devote ghebeden ende gheestelike corte vermaninghen om tot een warachtich gheestelijc leven te comen, ghemaect biden prior vander Carthuser oordenen binnen der stadt van Loven. … Dit boecxken is gevisiteert ende geapprobeert by Symon de Planen van Asperen, onder prochiaen tot onser lieuer vrouwen Thantwerpen. (Antwerp, H. Peetersen van Middelburg ?, ca. 1546). 8vo. Contemporary parchment; remnants of ties. Title in woodcut borders, printed in red and black; charming 3- to 7-line woodcut initials. (200) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Devotion  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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St. Augustine translated in Dutch View picture(s) 8 AUGUSTINUS. Innighe alleenspraken der Sielen tot God. Nu nyeu ende gheheel over gheset door Anthonium van Hemert. Antwerp, Claes vanden Wouwere, (1562). Sm.8vo. 19th century half vellum. With large woodcut of St. Augustin showing a book to a small child playing at the waterside on title, title within woodcut decorations on sides and broad typographical border below, and 12 popular devotional woodcuts in text. (56) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Church History  Devotion  Dutch  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Catholic Mass explained View picture(s) 9 BECHOFFEN, J. 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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Very rare post-incunable from Cologne: a devotional text on the Holy Virgin View picture(s) 10 BONAVENTURA. Septem Psalmi illibate christipare virginis Marie pulcerrimi ac devotissimi. Cum letania dulcissima. Ex psalterio seraphici doc. Bonaventure. (Cologne, Carthusians of St. Barbara ?, ca. 1516). Small 4to. Later marbled wrappers. With large woodcut (77 x 58 mm) on title, showing Mary with Child on a crescent moon held by angels; not rubricated. (8) lvs. Collation: A-B4. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  Devotion  Prayer Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare and important devotional post-incunable: the first French edition of the lavishly illustrated 'Life of Christ' by a Carthusian monk from Antwerp View picture(s) 11 BRANTEGHEM, Guilielmus de. La vie de nostre Seigneur Jesu Christ par figures, selon le texte des quattre evangelistes, avec toutes les evangiles epistres & propheties de toute lannee, chantee en loffice de la Messe, avec aucunes oraisons. Antwerp, Adriaan Kempe de Bouchot & Matthieu Crom, 1539. 8vo. Modern violet morocco, spine ribbed and lettered in gold, gilt lines on binding edges and inside covers, marbled endpapers, g.e. Full-page woodcut title: Moses with the Tables of the Law and the Descent of the Holy Ghost (115x78mm) with title and mention of the privilege in letterpress and a woodcut tail piece underneath; full-page  woodcut border with the instruments of the passion and the flagellation for the beginning of "La Passion" on p. 255; 2 full-page woodcuts: (1) the Lineage of Christ, according to Matt. 1:1-16 (111x76mm.) and (2) the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2:1-13 (113x75mm); 185 half-page woodcuts (ca. 50x70mm.): 153 in the Life of Christ, 30 in the Passion and 2 in the Table; a few blocks used twice). The woodcuts are designed, and perhaps also cut (?), by Lieven de Witte; numerous tail-pieces and 28 small vignettes representing the tetragramme and biblical quotations (Veldman & Van Schaik (1989), figs. v and 187-208), used repeatedly for filing the blank spaces (sometimes more than one tail-piece - on p. (16) even 7 - on top of each other), and many charming woodcut initials. (16), 1-128, 119-294, (176) pp.- Collation: +8, A-Z8, a-g8 (248 lvs.). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Illustrated Books  Low Countries  Post Incunabula  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In an interesting original Antwerp panel binding View picture(s) 12 CHRYSOSTOMUS, Johannes. Van die beweechnisse des herten, tot berouwe der sonden. Met meer ander gulden tractaetkens des alder heylichsten joannis Chrysostomi: overgheset wt den Latine in duytsche, doer eenen religiosen der Regulier orden sancti Augustini. Antwerp, Symon Cock, 1546. 8vo. Very interesting contemporary Flemish (Antwerp) binding: full calf, panel with two portraits in roundels on both sides, interesting fastening of two bone buttons on small leather bands to be fastened on two loops. With title printed in red and black, some woodcut initials (8 lines). Collation: A-Q8, R4-1. (131) lvs. (including the mostly lacking quire (R) with the privilege, without last blank) Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Devotion  Dutch  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very interesting sixteenth-century devotional print series onthe passion and resurrection of Christ View picture(s) 13 COLLAERT, Adriaen. Passio et resurrectio D.N. Iesu Christi. Edita et excusa ab Ad. Collaert. (Antwerp), A. Collaert, ca. 1590-1600. 12mo. Later half vellum, marbled boards. Engraved title and 23 full-page engraved plates (ca. 86 x 66 mm) with Latin captions, by Adriaen Collaert. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bibles  Devotion  Netherlands  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the core texts of the Dutch Devotio Moderna View picture(s) 14 GERARDUS Zerbolt van Zutphen Tractatus de spiritualibus ascensionibus. (Basel, Johannes Amerbach & Johannes Petri, 1488 or 1489). Sm.8vo. Modern vellum, title written on spine. All initials supplied by hand in red or blue, rubricated throughout. (68) lvs. Collation: a-h8, i4. Full description >> Related Subjects: Devotion  Dutch  Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded edition View picture(s) 15 GERRIT VANDER GOUDE. Dit is die beduydenisse der missen. Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, (ca. 1530). Small 8vo. 19th century calf, spine ribbed with red title-label, red mottled edges Title printed in red and black, full-page woodcut printer's device on verso of the last leaf, two woodcuts of the office of Mass on title and verso of the title, some woodcut initials coloured by hand, and 69 woodcuts in text, illustrating the life of Christ, his passion and resurrection, all fully and nicely coloured by hand; text rubricated throughout. (152) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very important devotional book printed in Lyon in 1510 from the Carthusian monastery Marienburg near Duelmen and bound in that same monastery View picture(s) 16 LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA. Vita Jesu christi domini ac // salvatoris nostri ex evangelio & approbatis ab eccle- // sia catholica doctoribus sedule collecta per Ludol- // phum de Saxonia candidissimi chartusianorum ordinis // servantissimum: et accurate per Jodocum badium ascen- // sium annotata: atque alphabetico indicio ac vita sancte // Anne: atque laudibus divi Joachim aucta : diligenterque // rursus Lugdunum impressa. Lyon, Claude Davost for Stephanus Gueynard (Etienne Gueynard, dit Pinet), 29 July 1510. 4to. In a magnificent contemporary signed full calf binding over wooden boards, both covers richly tooled in blind: front cover with three triple fillets along the sides; the central panel with diamond-shaped fillets with floral and stamps with the monograms 'IHS', 'ioh(anne)s' and 'ma(thaeus)' in the rhombusses; four large stamps with foliation in the first border (Schunke, I, p.166, nr.227 (Laubstab)), with roundels of the four evangelists in the corners (Schunke, I, p.100, nr.56); signed: 'H' and 'G' in the lower second border (Schunke, I, p.278, nrs.25 and 27); the same fillets, blocks with foliation and roundels with the evangelists on the back cover; two diagonally crossed triple fillets in the central panel with four stamps with coat of arms containing the Arma Christi around a heart in the four compartments (Schunke, I, p.315, nr.106); spine in five compartments with the title in the second compartment lettered in ink on a red painted background and the shalf-mark 'B.88' in the first compartment on a white-painted background; complete with the original elaborately tooled clasps and catches. This binding is made in the Carthusian monastery Marienburg in Weddern near Dülmen for their own library (Schunke, II, 276). Title printed in red and black beginning with a woodcut initial (V), underneath a woodcut of 122x 124mm. with Maria and the infant Christ sitting on a pillow and holding a large cross; at the right probably the publisher is praying; framed by woodcut borders of portraits of saints at the left, of five angels and saints, below and six separate woodcuts of ca. 32x20mm of angels and saints at the right; together in a second border of floral and decorative woodblocks. An interesting and beautiful woodcut of the birth of Christ in a fantasized archtectural setting (98x75mm), flanked by three woodcuts of angels and saints (ca.32x20mm) at either side, in a border of floral woodcut blocks at the beginning of the text. Headline and beginning of the text printed in red. Many small woodcuts (ca.32x20mm) with biblical scenes and saints at the beginning of each chapter (some are bigger) and many woodcut initials. The artist who made these cuts is the famous Lyonese woodcutter G. Leroy II (Baudrier, IX, p. 172). The book is rubricated throughout. (12), (416) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Devotion  Prayer Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A show-piece of 17th-century binding, a magnificant show-piece for any collection View picture(s) 17 LUTHER, Martin. Biblia, das ist: Die gantze H. Schrifft, Altes und Neues Testaments Teutsch, Doctor Martin Luthers: Auff gnädigste Verordnung dess ... Herrn Ernsts, Hertzogen zu Sachsen, Jülich, Cleve und Berg, &c. Nürnberg, sons of the late Johann Andreae Endter, 1686. 2 volumes. Royal folio (46 x 32.5 cm). Contemporary richly gold-tooled red morocco, edges gilt and gauffered, marbled paste-downs. Kept in two giltletterd modern halfleather dropback boxes. With letterpress title-page in red and black, engraved frontispiece title-page, 18 numbered full-page engraved plates (each divided into 12 panels with illustrations), 12 of them serving as part-titles, including that for the New Testament; 5 double-page engraved maps; a double-page engraved calendar; a full-page engraved plate with the arms of Ernst, Duke of Saxony; 21 full-page engraved portraits; and 3 double-page and 1 full-page engraved plates with further illustrations. (44) pp., 11 lvs., (68), 686 pp.; 950, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bibles  Bindings  Devotion  Luther  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The father of Jan Luyken on profit without loss View picture(s) 18 LUYCKEN, Caspar. Onfeylbare regel van winste sonder verlies: ofte korte aenwijsinge en bericht, om 't zy door koopmanschap, ambacht ofte neeringe, altijdt winninge te doen; en in korten tijt rijck te worden: ende rijck geworden zijnde, den rijckdom (sonder eenige vreese van verlies) sekerlick te behouden. Als mede om geld op interest te doen, dat men gewisse sekerheydt hebbe, dat het capitael vast en onverlieslick zy, en dat men hoogen interest daer van trecke. Hier is noch achter gevoeght de wissel-banck, geopent door den selven autheur. De derde druck. Amsterdam, Christoffel Luycken, 1663. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemp. vellum. With small woodcut vignette on 2 titles. 212; 52 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Devotion  Mennonites  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Edifying poems by a follower of Jacob Cats View picture(s) 19 MAYVOGEL, Jacob Coenraeds. Gulden-Spiegel, ofte opweckinge tot Christelijke deugden. Afgebeeldt in twee delen: waer in vertoont werdt de schadelijcjheyt der sonden, midtsgaders de goedtheydt ende weldaden Godts over den boetvaerdigen ... Noch is hier by-gevoeght Thamars ontschaking, of de verdoolde liefde van Ammon. Als mede De vermaeckelijcke Bruylofts-kroon.. Door-gevlochten met verscheyde leersaeme gedichten, vermakelijcke bruylofts en aendachtige liedekens; voorgestelt op de vier getijden van den dagh. (With separate title: (2) IDEM, Thamars ontschaakingh of de verdoolde liefde van Amnon. (Amsterdam, Caspar Loots-Man, n.d.); and: (3) IDEM, Vermakelycke Bruylofs-kroon, door-gevlochten met vgerscheyden leersame gedichten, vermaeckelijcke bruylofts, ende aendachtige liedekens. (Amsterdam, Caspar Loots-Man, n.d.). Amsterdam, Caspar Loots-Man, 1699. 3 parts in one vol. Contemporary vellum. With an allegorical frontispiece with view on the harbour of Hoorn, and 23 half-page engraved plates in the text, 2 of which on a separate title. 256; (8), 56; (2), 206 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Devotion  Dutch  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In praise of solitude and the monasterical life View picture(s) 20 MUSIUS, Cornelius. Solitudo sive vita solitaria laudata. Antwerp, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1566. 4to. Contemporary vellum, remnants of ties. Title within large ornamental and architectural woodcut border. 64 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Poetry  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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