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Celebrating the first Centennial of the Jesuit Society View picture(s) 1 AFBEELDINGHE van d'Eerste Eeuwe der Societeit Iesu voor Ooghen gestelt door de Duyts-Nederlantsche Provincie der selver Societeyt. Antwerp, Inde Plantijnsche Druckerije, 1640. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, red mottled edges. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece door M. Natalis after A. van Diepenbeek, and 103 half-page emblems, incl. a full-page closing emblem, all set within richly designed ornamental borders by Cornelis Galle. (8), 712, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Emblem Books  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important auction catalogue of books from Jesuits libraries in the Low Countries View picture(s) 2 CATALOGUE des livres choisis dans les différentes bibliotheques des ci-devant Jesuites des Pays-Bas, contenant un grand nombre d'ouvrages rares & curieux en tout genre, dont la vente se fera à Bruxelles, dans le college des ci-devant Jesuites le 4 du mois de Septembre 1780 & jours suivans. Brussels, Jos. Ermens, 1780. 8vo. Half calf, spine gilt with red title label lettered in gold. Vignette on title and some head- and tail pieces. (4), X, 302, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Jesuits  Libraries & Collections  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a very important collection of early Jesuit letters from Japan, India, the Moluccas and Brasil View picture(s) 3 EPISTOLAE Iapanicae, de multorum gentilium in variis insulis ad Christi fidem per Societatis nominis Iesu theologos conversione. In quibus etiam mores, leges, locorumque situs, luculenter descibuntur. Louvain, Rutger Velpius, sub castro Angelico. 1569. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. Contemp. calf, ribbed spine in 5 compartments, both sides ruled in blind with gilt centre piece and four ornaments in the corners. Printer's device on second title and the last lvs of both vols.; first title in typographical border; interesting woodcut initials. (60), 263 (1); 310, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  India  Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Spectacular embroidered binding with silver thread View picture(s) 4 HANDBÜCHLEIN-, Geistliches -, für die Reijsenden von newen in dise geschmeidige Form geordnet. Lüneburg, Hans und Heinrich Sternen, 1636-1637. Small 16mo. Contemporary silk over wooden boards, beautifully and finely decorated with a lavishly embroidered pattern in silver thread, gauffered edges, silver clasp in the form of two hands holding each other, with the initials "M.C.M. & M.C.B." on the back. With engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page, both depicting biblical scenes, small woodcut vignette with initials IHS for the Jesuits on printed title and on verso last page, 3 seperate titles in woodcut borders, small woodcut tailpiece at the end. (4), 155, 53, 18, 97, (1), 24, 106, 46, 175, (6), 44, 104, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Catechism  Embroidery  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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25 letters by Jesuit missionaries (1566-77) View picture(s) 5 LETTERE dell' India Orientale, scritte da' reverendi padri della Compagnia di Giesù. Nelle quali si scopre la grande arte usata da gli istessi, per liberar l'anime de gli infideli Indiani dalla potesta del nimico infernale, & ridurle alla nostra santa fede. Novamente stampate, & ampliate in molti luoghi, & ricorrette con diligenza. Venice, Antonio Ferrari, 1580. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with early ownership initials on title ('F', 'O'), marbled edges. Woodcut publisher's device on title and larger variant on recto of the first of the last blanks, woodcut headpieces and initials. (8), 342, (4, including 3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Spanish conspiracies View picture(s) 6 LETTRE MISTIQUE responce, replique. Mars jouë son rolle en la premiere; en la seconde la bande & le choeur de l'estat, la troisieme figure l'amour de Polypheme Galathee, & des sept pasteurs. L'ouverture de la Cabale amplifiee, L'index d'Espagne examiné, le desespoir de l'ombre achevé. Le tout dedié à l' excellence du Conte Maurice, Par M.D.L.F. Leiden, (Paris), 1603. 8vo. Contemporary brown calf, spine gilt in compartments, with red morocco title lable, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. (16) 103, (1 blank); 165, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Jesuits  Militaria  Netherlands  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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High school record incorporating a very rare mnemotechnical print-series View picture(s) 7 MANUSCRIPT NOTE-BOOK containing a course on physics, together with a letter-press table of contents of this course, an extensive engraved pictorial memory aid, and a letter-press list of names of students following the courses in philosophy and physics at the Jesuit College Aquicinctinus (Collège d'Anchin) in Douai. Douai, Widow of Balthazar Bellerus, Rector of the College Aquicinctinus, Guilielmo Le Vaillant, 1704. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, gilt binding edges. With large folding letter-press table, woodcut printer's device of the Widow of Balthazar Bellerus on title of the published list of names, and engraved print-series, consisting of a richly designed architectural title and 20 full-page finely engraved plates, each with numerous small illustrations to serve as a student's memory aid. 7, (1 blank) pp. for the Student's names list, (1), 20 lvs. for the print-series, and (2 blank, 106, 4 blank) lvs. for the manuscript note-book. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Jesuits  Philosophy  Physics  Print Series  Prints  Prints - 18th Century  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very early and unique reports on the Jesuit missions in India, south-east Asia, China and Japan View picture(s) 8 NUOVI AVISI dell' Indie di Portogallo, ricevuti dalli reverendi padri della compagnia di Giesu, tradotti dalla lingua Spagnuola nell' Italiana. Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1559. 8vo. Nineteenth-century light brown polished calf, gilt double fillets along the edges of both sides with four corner-pieces, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, woodcut initials. (4), 59 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Asia, East  China  India  Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Celebrating the remembrance of Saint Franciscus Xaverius View picture(s) 9 ONDERWYSINGHE om met godtvruchtigheydt te houden thien vrydaghen ter eeren van den H. Franciscus Xaverius apostel van Indien ende Japonien, priester der Societeyt Jesu. Seer gebruyckt tot Roomen, ende nu vermeerdert met eenige authentycke mirakelen ende wel-daden geschiedt door de voorsprake vanden selven glorieusen heyligen. Eerst geschreven in de Italiaensche, nu overghestelt in de Neder-duytsche taele door eenen priester der Soc. Jesu. Malines, Andreas Jaye, 1698. 8vo. Contemporary full calf with gilt and decorated spine in compartments. Woodcut fleuron on title, 3 full-page engraved plates by Hendrik Causé in text, woodcut Jesuit device on last page, woodcut head- and end pieces, woodcut initials. 128 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Japan  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With 3 splendid ceremonies View picture(s) 10 PRAEL-TREYN verrykt door ry-benden, praelwagens, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen toegeschikt aen het duyzend-jaerig jubilé van den heldmoedigen martelaer, bisschop, bezonderen apostel ende patroon der stad ende provincie van Mechelen, den heyligen Rumoldus. Mechelen, J.-F. vander Elst, (1775?). 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt flowers and red title label lettered in gold. Small engraved coat-of-arms in text, engraved vignette on p. 1, and 16 engraved plates of which 14 are large and folding, all depicting floats and other scenes as they were represented in the parade. (12), 34 (= 38 pp., i.e. p. 1-18, 15-34). Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Belgicana  Fireworks  Illustrated Books  Jesuits  Splendid Ceremonies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a rare and very beautiful Roman Catholic emblem book, composed by students of the rhetoric classes of the Antwerp Jesuit college View picture(s) 11 TYPUS MUNDI in quo eius Calamitates et Pericula nec non Divini, humanique Amoris Antipathia, Emblematicè proponuntur à RR.C.S.I.A. Antwerp, Ioan. Cnobbaert, 1627. 12mo. Contemp. calf, spine gilt, with black title-label. With engraved title, emblematic portrait of Ignatius  de Loyola standing on a terrestrial globe with a view into heaven through a celestial globe above him, and 32 finely engraved full-page emblems by Philip de Mallery, all on the theme of the globe. 240 (=140), (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Emblem Books  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The 'Summa Theologiae' in Chinese View picture(s) 12 (AQUINAS, Thomas). Chaozing xueyao. (Tchao sin hio yao). (No place, no date; probably early 20th century). 7 vols. out of a larger corpus. 8vo. Traditional Chinese binding with new wrappers,  pasted title label with Chinese characters and titles in contemp. ms. on front wrapper, preserved in a modern blue cloth slipcase with ivory clasps. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Do animals have souls? View picture(s) 13 (BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinth). Amusement philosophique sur le langage des bestes. Paris, Gissey, Bordelet & Ganeau, 1739. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold, gilt-stamped coat of arms of The Society of Writers to the Signet library on sides, gilt and decorated binding edges, marbled endpapers, red painted edges. Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut headpiece and initial. (4), 157, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  French  Jesuits  Medicine  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of the Dukes of Aremberg: essays by pamphleteer of the Enlightenment View picture(s) 14 (COYER, Gabriel-Francois). Bagatelles morales. ...... ridentem dicere verum / Quid vetat? ....... Horat. London (for sale in Paris with Duchesne), (Paul Vaillant?), 1754. 12mo. Contemporary sheepskin with gilt coat-of-arms of the Dukes of Aremberg on both sides, spine gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title and woodcut head-pieces. 349 (=249) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Enlightenment  France  Jesuits  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With chapters on Brazil and China View picture(s) 15 (JARRIC, P. Du). Nouvelle histoire des choses plus memorables advenuës tant és Indes Orientales, qu'autres pays de la descouverte des Portugais. En l'establissement et progrez de la foy Chrestienne & Catholique. Et principalement de ce que les religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus y ont faict, & enduré pour la mesme fin. Arras, Gilles Baudin, 1628. 2 parts in 1 vol. Early 19th century half green morocco. Title printed in red & black, with woodcut vignette. (10, 2 blank), 977, (53) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Brazil  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The mission in 1624 View picture(s) 16 (KIRWITZER, Wenceslas Pantaléon). Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume de la Chine en l'annee 1624. Tirée des letres écrites & adressées au P.P. Mutio Viteleschi, general de la Compagnie de Iesus. Traduite de l'Italien en François par un Père de la mesme Compagnie. Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1629. 8vo. 19th century half calf, spine ribbed and gilt. Woodcut vignette on title. (4), 102 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  China  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare journal on the missionary activities of the Moravian (Herrnhut) Brotherhood View picture(s) 17 (KRAMER, J.F. (editor)). L'ami des missions. Feuille mensuelle par L'Unité des frères. Locle, Ph. Courvoisier, 1853-54. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary boards covered with black paper, pasted title-label with title in ink on spine. With 7 full-page steel engraved plates and 3 smaller illustrations in the text. 214 (2); 208 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  French  Jesuits  Mission  Periodicals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare educational manual for the Christian Youth, magnificently bound for Jacobus Fagart View picture(s) 18 (LEBRUN, Laurent). Institutio Iuventutis Christianae. Paris, Sebastianus & Gabrielis Cramoisy, 22 February 1653. 12mo. Contemporary light brown calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, sides fully gilt, with richly gilt dentelle borders and arabesque ornaments in the four corners and large lozenge shaped arabesque ornament in centre, with a small oval medallion lettered 'Iacobus' on the front and 'Fagart' on the back cover, gilt binding edges, g.e.  Engraved vignette with Saint Laurentius on title, woodcut head pieces and initials. (12), 268, (2, 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Education  Jesuits  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Jesuits active in the Moluccas (Indonesia) View picture(s) 19 (MAGALHAENS, Diego de). Avvisi nuovi et certezza della parte di mezzo giorno. Dove s'intende tre infideli Rè della fede Mahomettana convertiti, & battezzati con li suoi regni, & venuti alla nostra Christiana fede. (Rome &) Florence ('Stampata in Roma, & Ristampata in Fiorenza'), 16 February 1571. 8vo. 18th-century (?) paper boards. Large woodcut title vignette with papal coat-of-arms. (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Indonesia  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The patron saint of Mexico during his missionary work in Japan View picture(s) 20 (MUNIBE, J.M.). Breve resumen de la vida y martyrio del inclyto Mexicano y proto-martyr del Japon, el Beato Felipe de Jésus. Añadidas algunas obvias reflecciones en honor del mismo Heroë esclarecido, y de esta dichosisima ciudad felize en ser su patria. Por un eclesiastico de este arzobispado, afecto del santo, quien lo dedica a la exemplarisima, religiosisima provincia del santo evangelio de esta ciudad de Mexico. Mexico, Oficina Madrilena, 1802. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. With engraved title, dated 1801, and 16 beautiful engraved plates by Montes de Oca, all strictly contemporarily coloured by hand. 71 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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