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How to play the lottery View picture(s) 1 BALDERIC LE ROUGE. Chronicon Cameracense et Atrebatense, sive Historia utrisque Ecclesiae, III Libris, ab hinc DC sere annis conscripta. Nunc primum in luce edita, & notis illustrata Per G. COLVENERIUS. Douay, Ioan. Bogarde, 1615. Sm.8vo. Contemp. vellum. With engraved printer's vignette on title, 9 engraved illustrations of seals and dice in text, and 3 large folding plates, partly in woodcut and partly engraved, of three different tables for a popular lottery game. (40), 601, (1 blank, 16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Games & Pastimes  History  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the first Dutch humanists on the history of his country View picture(s) 2 BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Hollandiae Comitum historia et icones: Cum selectis  scholijs ad lectoris lucem. Eiusdem Barlandi Caroli  Burgundiae ducis vita. Item Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & res gestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.- IDEM, Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae. Frankfurt a/M, Joh. Wechel for Sigismund Feyerabend, 1585. 2 parts in 1 vol. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, title written on spine, rests of ties. With woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on  p. 25) on title, woodcut printer's device of Feyerabent ('Fama') on 2nd title, a variant of his printer's device on verso of last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits, except for the first three with their coats-of-arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath, woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces. (16), 1-224, 227-393 (error in pagin.); 109 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Middle Ages  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two orations commemorating the bicentennial of the 'Unie van Utrecht' (1579), together with an early edition of the Walthariuslied View picture(s) 3 BONDAM, Pieter. Oratio secularis de Foedere Trajectino, publice habita D. 29. Januarii anni MDCCLXXIX. in Auditorio majori Academiae Trajectinae, ipso loco, quo annis abhinc ducentios Foedus illud feliciter fuit initum. Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg, 1779. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gilt, ribbed spine with red morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled boards. Engraved allegorical title-vignette by I. de Wit Jansz. after W.H. van de Wal of a memorial with a medallion portrait of William the Silent flanked by Faith and Liberty, woodcut initial and tailpiece. (6), 189, (9) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Germany  History  Law  Leyden  Middle Ages  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Masterpieces of the Flemish Primitives View picture(s) 4 DEHAISNES, Chrétien César Auguste. De l'art Chrétien en Flandre. Peinture. Douai, widow of Adam, 1860. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine. Double-page lithographed frontispiece with extra wings of the altar of Anchin at the Church of Notre Dame , Douai, pasted in, 10 full-page lithographs (last 2 on recto and verso of one leaf), all in brown ink. 387, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Belgicana  Lithographs  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Still important for the history of the Normans and their conquests; many first editions of relevant medieval texts View picture(s) 5 DU CHESNE, Andreas. Historiae Normannorum scriptore antiqui, res ab illis per Galliam, Angliam, Apuliam, Capuae principatum, Siciliam, & orientem gestas explicantes, ab anno Christi DCCCXXXVIII, ad annum MCCXX. Insertae sunt monasteriorum fundationes variae, series episcoporum ac abbatum: genealogiae regum, ducum, comitum, & nobilium ... Paris, for Robert Foüet, Nicolaus Buon & Sebastien Cramoisy, 1619. Large folio. 19th century red morocco, richly gilt in the style of the 17th century, spine gilt in compartments, gilt borders on both sides with gilt crowned monogram (a 'V' between 'E' and 'B' ?) in centre, marbled endpapers, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, g.e. With engraved printer's device on title: a beehive surrounded by four emblematic medallions and the marks of the three publishers; many woodcut head- and tail pieces. (12), 1104, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  France  History  Italy  Middle Ages  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An important impartial history of the Low Countries until 1565 View picture(s) 6 HEUTER, Pontus de. Rerum Belgicarum libri quindecim, quibus describuntur pace belloque gesta à principibus Austriacis in Belgio, nempe Maxaemiliano primo caesare, Philippo primo Castellae rege, Carolo quinto caesare, Philippo secundo Hispaniarum rege. Continentur hoc opere ea potissimum quae hactenus ab aliis sunt omissa, aut obiter tantum narrata. Praemissus est operi libellus singularis de vetustate & nobilitate familiae Habspurgicae ac Austriacae. Antwerp, Martinius Nutiius, 1598. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum, spine lettered in ink. With printer's device of Martinus Nutius in roundel with the inscription "Pietas homini tutissima virtus", 13 folding printed family trees (numbered A-H, 3 unnumb. I, one unnumb.), some small woodcuts, head- and tail pieces in the text. (24), 751, (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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18th century edition of a medieval classic View picture(s) 7 MAERLANT, Jacob van. Spiegel historiael of rijmkronijk met aanteekeningen door Jacob Arnout Clignet en Jan Steenwinkel. Eerste deel. Tweede deel. Derde deel met aanteekeningen van Jan Steenwinkel. Vierde deel. Leyden; Amsterdam, Frans de Does; M.F. Pieper; G. van Tyen, 1784-1849. 4 parts in 4 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half black cloth, spines gilt. Engraved portrait of Van Maerlant, designed by M. van Noort and executed by L. Brasser in first vol. (2), LXXII, 466, 84 (1-84); (4), 14, 476, 62 (85-146), (2); (40, XLVIII, 352, 73, (1); (4), IV, 437, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Literature  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important sources of Dutch mediaeval history: first edition of the second text version View picture(s) 8 MELIS STOKE. Hollandse Jaar-boeken of Rijm-kronijk, behelsende de geschiedenissen des Lands, onder de Princen van het  eerste Huis, tot den Jare 1305. Met de afbeeldingen van alle de Hollandse graven, geschetst naar de aloude schilderyen der Karmeliten te Haarlem. Nevens verscheide egte bylagen, betreffende de ware toestand der geschillen, tussen Graaf Floris de V, en de Hollandse edelen. Mitsgaders de beeldenisse van Heer Gerard van Velsen; en andre oude frayigheden, noit te voren in 't ligt gebragt. Alles met noodige uitleggingen opgehelderd, door Cornelis van Alkemade. Leiden Johannes du Vivie & Isaak Severinus, 1699. Folio. Contemporary calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. With fine engraved series of 33 full-lenght portraits of the Counts of Holland, on full-page plates (verso blank), including one double-portrait on double-page plate, all engraved after the wall-paintings in the Carmelite Monastery at Haarlem, the series is preceded by a full-page engraved plate of a herald with a blank name-panel, and closed by a full-page engraved allegorical picture of Death, a full-page engraved portrait of Gerard van Velsen, and an engraved plate with the tomb of Floris V. (6), 23, (3), 263, (63) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Middle Ages  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mysterious edition of a mediaeval work on church law View picture(s) 9 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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Heavily annotated copy of one of the early Cologne (Quentell) editions View picture(s) 10 SACROBOSCO, Johannes de. Opus sphericum magistri Joannis de Sacro Busco natione angli figuris verissime exculptis et interpretatione familiari ad comoditatem desiderantium iucundissima Artis Astronomice callere principia pulcherrime et iterata recognitione illustratum. Cologne, Sons of Henricus Quentell, January 1505. 4to. Modern boards. With a six-line woodcut initial on title comprising a teacher with his pupil, full-page woodcut of a armillary globe held by angels above and below, with the zodiac and a small view of a walled small town in centre on the verso of the title, and 27 large half-page astronomical and cosmological woodcuts in text, 2 other 6-line woodcut initials. (38) lvs. (last blank present; collation: A6, B-C4, D6, E-F4, G6, H4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  England  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Seventeenth-century research into the historicity of the Pied Piper of Hamelin View picture(s) 11 SCHOOCKIUS, Martinus. Fabula Hamelensis, sive disquisitio historica, qua ostenditur fabulis accenseri debere, quod refertur de infausto exitu puerorum Hamelensium, qui inciderit in annum a Christo nato MCCLXXXII. Praemissa est dissertatio generalis de judicio circa historicas narrationes instituendo: atque in examine fabulae, distincte respondetur D.M. Samuelis Erich libello, qui inscribitur Exodus Hamelensis. Groningen, Frans Bronckhorst, 1659. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, blue sprinkled edges. With woodcut printer's device on title. (16), 212 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Anthropology  Fable Books  Folklore  Germany  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Editio princeps of the famous prose Edda from the library of the son of Colbert View picture(s) 12 STURLUSON, Snorri. Edda Islandorum an. chr. MCCXV Islandice conscripta per Snorronem Sturlae Islandiae. nomophylacem nunc rimum Islandice Danice et Latine ex antiquis codicibus m. ss Bibliothecae regis et aliorum in lucem prodit opera et studio Petri Johannis Resenii I.V.D. Copenhagen, Henricus Gödianus, 1665. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf spine gilt in compartments with flower ornaments and crowned monograms, double fillet borders with gilt coat-of-arms in the centre of both covers. (4), 52, 138, 22, 14 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fable Books  Iceland  Literature  Middle Ages  Mythology  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the Azevedo-Samodães collection View picture(s) 13 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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Dutch history till 1560 in rhyme View picture(s) 14 WACHTENDORP, Caspar. De oude Hollandsche geschiedenissen ofte Korte Hollandsche rym-Kronyck, verdeylt in 14. poëtische boecken, beginnende van de sunt-vloet, ende eyndigende met d'beginselen vanden tegenwoordigen oorlogh inde Nederlanden, ontrent 't jaer 1560. En werden nevens d'Hollandtsche historien oock daer in kortelijck verhandelt de eerste outheden van de naest om leggende landen, als niet alleen van Zeelandt en Vrieslant, die meest altijdt een Heer gehadt hebben met d',Hollanders, maer oock de beginselen van Uttrecht, Gelderlant, en Vlaenderen. Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten for Johannes Pauli, 1645 Contemporary overlapping vellum, spine with title written in ink. Engraved title, vignette on printed title, 13 half-page engraved plates and 31 portraits of the Counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, beginning with Dirk I till Philips II, all bit the last after the drawings by W. Thibaut, with coat-of-arms and within a laurel wreath (the portrait of Philips II: in oval with Latin legend and 6-line Latin poem underneathafter Car. Veenhuysen by Chr. van de Passe: from the De Passe series Viva et vera delineatio quatuor potentissimorem totius Europae monarcharum ...), woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Collation A-Z4, A-D, Ee-Nn4, A-F4, G2. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important sources of British law View picture(s) 15 [LAW - GREAT BRITAIN]. Fleta, seu commentarius juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, sub Edwardo Rege primo, seu circa annos abhinc CCCXL ab anonymo conscriptus, arque è codice veteri, autore ipso ipso aliquantulum recentiori, nunc primum typis editus. Accedit tractatulus vetus de agendi excipiendique formulis Gallicanus, Fet assavoir dictus. Subjungitur etiam Joan. Seldeni ad Fletam dissertatio historica. Editio secunda, multis erroribus purgata. London, 'Typis S.R.' for H. Twyford, T. Bassest, J. Place, & S. Keble, 1685. two parts in one vol. 4to. Eighteenth-century calf, blind fillets on sides and ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red sprinkled edges. Title within a frame of double lines, a half-page engraved plate (127 x 103 mm) after a historiated initial from an medieval manuscript op p. 462. (8), 452, (2 blank), 453-553 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  History  Law  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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