The moon eclipses of 1834

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1 [ALMANAC].
Rotterdam, T.L. Thompson, 1834. Sm.8vo. Contemporary green painted vellum with blind-stamped coat of arms of the navy on both covers, back cover overlapping. With 2 woodcut double-page maps of Zeeland and the United Netherlands, woodcut device on title-page, 13 small woodcuts and some tables and calendars. (130) pp.
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Related Subjects: 19th Century  Almanacs & Calendars  Astronomy  Dutch  Eclipses  Maps  Woodcuts  Zeeland 

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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!

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2 [INCUNABLE, POST].
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 

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