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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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Rare lavishly illustrated devout Post-incunable printed in Antwerp View picture(s) 2 FASCICULUS MIRRE. Hier beghint een seer sonderlinghe ende devote materie van die passie ons Heren Jesu Cristi gheheten (dat busselkijn of dat bondekijn van mirre) vergadert ende gecompileert van eenen gheestelijcken ende seer verlichten broeder vander minrebroeders oerden van die familie der observanten in die provincie van Colen ... Antwerp, Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 18 January 1518. 4to. Old full speckled calf with decorated gilt spine in five compartments, red speckled edges. First word of title ('Fascilulus') printed in red from woodcut letters, with the initials 'H.E.' (Hendrick Eckert ?) worked into the 1st initial (F), 33 large and 2 smaller woodcut illustrations of the Passion in the text (27 blocks, 8 repeats) by the Master of Delbecq-Schreiber, decorative woodcut initials. Rubricated in red throughout, including underlining and the bleeding Christ in some of the woodcuts. (196) ff. Collation: a8, b4, c-e8, f-i4-8, k-n8-4, o-p8, q4, r-s8, t4, u8, x4, A-B8 C-H4-8, I8. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Dutch  Post Incunabula  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The decrees of 4 October 1540, issued by Charles V, together with the decrees issued by Mary of Hungary on 14 February 1549 in manuscript View picture(s) 3 ORDONNANCES, Les, statutes, & Edictz, que Lempereur Charles cinquies. de ce nom, toujours Auguste, a faict publier en la ville de Bruxelles, en la presence de sa tres haulte Maieste, & de la tres excellente Reyne, Gouvernante & Regente du pays bas, & et en la presence des Seigneurs de Lordre & du Toyson dor, avec le Chancelier, Presidentz, & Gouverneurs du Conseil de sa M. & les Seigneurs des finances, & aussy generalement les Etatz de tous ses pays bas. Le .iiii. iour Doctobre. Lan .M.D.&.xl. Antwerp, (Jacob van Liesvelt) for Marc Martin (Marck Martens), at Brussels, (1540). 4to. Modern half vellum, boards covered with a leaf from an incunable (Bible edition, annotated by a.o. Nicolaus de Lyra), red painted edges. With elaborate large woodcut with coat-of-arms with the two-headed eagle held yup by two angels on the title, historiated and large ornamental woodcut intitials. (10) lvs. Collation: A-B4, C2. 30-31 lines. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Law  Low Countries  Post Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the monastery of the Fratres Minores at Fritzlar View picture(s) 4 QUATTUOR NOVISSIMA cum multis exemplis pulcherrimis & de terroribus mortis cum eterne beatitudis gloria. Deventer, Jac. de Breda, 1502, 5 Nov. 4to. 19th century calf. Full-page woodcut on title with the symbols of the four evangelists. (47, 1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Post Incunabula  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition, complete with the often lacking index View picture(s) 5 (AURELIUS, C.). Die cronycke van Hollandt Zeelandt ende Vrieslant beghinnende van Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jhesu, Voertgaende tot den iare M.CCCCC. Ende Xvij. Met den rechten oerspronc hoe Hollandt eerst begrepen ende bewoent is gheweest van de Troyanen. Ende is inhoudende van die hertogen van Beyeren Henegouwen ende Bourgongen, Die tijt dat si ant graefschap geweest hebben. Met die cronike der biscoppen van Wtrecht seer suverlic geextendeert int lange verhaelt. Colophon: Leyden, Jan Seversz., 1517, 18. August. Folio. 18th century marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt. With title printed in red and black, half-page woodcut on title with woodcut borders on 2 sides, and 244 woodcuts of various size in text, one over half-page at the beginning of the text, one of the crucifixion full-page, showing medieval cities, knights, chatelaines, scenes of battle, tournaments, religious scenes, portraits of the counts of Holland, etc. mostly by Lucas van Leyden and Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen. (2), 436, (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dutch  History  Post Incunabula  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A lively picture of daily life in thirteenth-century France View picture(s) 6 (LAURENT D'ORLEANS, Frère). (Somme le roy.) Sconincx summe. Ende leert hoemen die sonden biechten sal. Antwerp, Henrick Eckert, 1519. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. Woodcut of a man in confession on title. (156) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Fable Books  Post Incunabula  Religion  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Gospel Harmony, concentrated on the Passion of Christ, illustrated by Urs Graf View picture(s) 7 AGRICOLA, Daniel (Daniel MEYER). Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum seriem quattorum evangelistarum: per fratrem Danielem Agricolam ordinis minorum de observantia: accuratissima opera devotissimaque expositione illustrata: magnorumque virorum sententijs compte adornata. Basel, Adam Petri de Langendorff, 31 July 1514. 4to. Modern light-brown gilt-marbled calf, spine ribbed, with 2 black title-labels. With almost full-page woodcut(121 x 93 mm) on title, showing Mary with the Child, Christ preaching in the midst of three saints and a procession with a town on the background; the scene is framed by the emblematic representation of the four evangelists, each holding an open book, and four biblical figures each holding an horn-book with their name: Daniel vir desideriorum, Petrus princeps apostolorum, Jacob frater Donini, and Paulus doctor gentium, signed by Urs Graf with his monogram and dated 1514; the text is illustrated with 20 small woodcuts in text (ca. 45 x 35 mm), illustrating Christ's Passion, also by Urs Graf. 40 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Post Incunabula  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most famous "Facetiae" of the 16th century View picture(s) 8 BEBEL, Henricus. Facetiae Henrici Bebelii, superiorum aetatum sive dicta iocose, sive facta ridiculè, mira gratia continentes. Accesserunt illustrium olim virorum ioci, & quae facetiae alicuius specie adblandiebantur apophthegmata, ex Macrobio & Erasmo collecta. Item eiusdem argumenti quaedam ex Pogij, Camerarij, Erasmi, caeterorumque neotericorum scriptorum monumentis, quae voluptatis multum, spurcitiei nihil habere videbantur. Haec omnia (lector) nunc primum in encheridij formam redacta, atque seorsum sunt excusa. Antwerp, Antonius Goinus Morensis, March 1540. 8vo. Eighteenth-century half calf with red morocco title-label. Some woodcut initials. 168 Leaves (A-X8; 26 lines to a page). Full description >> Related Subjects: Erasmus  Literary History  Neo-Latin  Post Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Deventer post-incunable View picture(s) 9 BEROALDUS, Philippe. Heptalogus septem sapientium Graeciae, sententias praestantiores explicans. Deventer, Albertus Pafraet, 1517, May. 4to. Modern half morocco, spine gilt-titled. Woodcut of a haloed knight on title, with a pigeon on one hand and a raised sword in his other hand. (14) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Incunabula  Post Incunabula  Schoolbooks  Zwolle  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) 10 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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Latin dialogues by the rector of the Deventer Illustre School, leading humanist and teacher of Erasmus and Pope Adrian IV View picture(s) 11 HEGIUS, Alexander. Dialogi. Deventer, R. Pafraet, 1503, Dec. 31th. 4to. Boards. Large blue painted initial, rubricated throughout. (85) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Post Incunabula  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Of great importance for the study of ancient Jewish history, the archeology of the canon books and the apocrypha View picture(s) 12 JOSEPHUS, Flavius. De antiquitatibus ac de bello Judaico. Venice, excusit formis Bernardinus Vercellensis, sumptibus Andreae Asulani, 1502, XII Kal. Novemb. Folio. Contemporary blindtooled half vellum over wooden boards, remnants of two brass clasps. Some initials left blank, but mostly provided in woodcuts. (14), CCLX (=261), (1) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Post Incunabula  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very early post-incunable with satirical verses on the lascivious clergy View picture(s) 13 OLEARIUS, Paul (= WIMPFELING, Jac.?) & Jacob HARTLIEB. De fide concubinarum in sacerdotes. Questio accessoria causa ioci et urbanitatis in quod libeto Heidelbergensis determinata a magistro Paulo Oleario Heidelbergensis.- De fide meretricum in suos amatores. Questio minus principalis urbanitatis et facetie causa in fine quodlibeti Heidelbergensis determinata a magistro Jacobo Hartlieb Landoniensis. Augsburg, Johannes Froschauer, 1505. 2 parts in one. Small 4to. Later marbled boards. Two titles, each with an identical large woodcut. (24) lvs. (collation: a6, b4 ; c6, d-e4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Erotica  German  Poetry  Post Incunabula  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldus edition of the collected works of one of the most important Italian humanists View picture(s) 14 PONTANUS, Joannes Jovianus (Giovanni PONTANO). Opera. Urania, sive de Stellis libri quinque. Meteororum liber unus. De Hortus Hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina sive postorales pompae septem. Item Meliseus. Maeon Acon. Hendeca syllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae vero in tot opere habeantur in Indice, qui in calce est, licet videre.  Venice, Aldus Manutius, (May-August 1505). 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Modern speckled brown calf in 16th-century style, frontcover with Aldus' printer's device stamped in gold, ribbed spine lettered in gilt. Title and final page with Aldus' woodcut printer's device. (242) lvs. Collation: a-z8 (part 1, May 1505); 2a-2f8, 2g10 (part 2, August 1505). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  Humanism  Italy  Meteorology  Post Incunabula  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare edition of a standard medieval textbook View picture(s) 15 PORPHYRIUS. Eisagoge, sive institutiones quinque uocum, ad Chrysaorium: Item, Aristotelis categoriae, & de Interpretatione liber: Joachimo Perionio Cormoeriaceno interprete, unà cum eiusdem annotationibus. Adiectus quoque est Danielis Barbari in Porphyrij Institutiones commentarius, acrerum verborumque in hisce omnibus memorabilium locupletissimus index. Basel, Joannis Oporinus, August 1545. 8vo. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine, ties lacking. Woodcut initials. (8, last 2 blank), 469 (35, last 5 blank) pp. [Collation: a4 a-z8 A-F8 G4 H-I8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Post Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The 'De bello Persico' for the first time in print! View picture(s) 16 PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA. De bello Persico (lib. 1-2; De bello vandilico, lib. 3-4). Rome, Eugarius Silber, alias Franck, 1509. Folio. 18th-century paper boards. Decorative woodcut initials of 4 to 8 lines. 90 lvs. (Collation: A-P6). Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Italy  Militaria  Persia  Post Incunabula  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A work of learning and pastoral wisdom by a moderate inquisitor View picture(s) 17 ROSEMONDT, Godschalk. Confessionale sive libellus modum confitendi pulcherrime complectens, necessarius atque utilis, & cuilibet recte confiteri volenti, & ipsis sacerdotibus, qui aliorum confessiones audire habent. Editus a celeberrimo academie Lovaniensis. Denuo recognitus et castigatus. Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, June 27 - (colophon:) July 8, 1519. 8vo. Re-cased in a 17th-century binding (overlapping vellum), title in ink on spine. Title in red & black with red woodcut rebus of the author's name: a rose followed by 'mondt' = Rosemondt; woodcut initials. 251 (5) ff. [Collation: (A)8 B-2K8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Catholicism  Post Incunabula  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded post-incunable, printed by the well-known Antwerp publisher Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten! View picture(s) 18 TERENTIUS Afer, Publius. Comoediae ex D. Erasmi & Jo. Rivii Attendoeriensis castigationibus multo absolutissimae, quibus praeter omnes omnium hactenus annotationes, adiecta quaedam quae ad poetam trectius intelligendum supra modum necessaria  sunt, neque hactenus visa, ut proxima pagella indicabitur. Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1536. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. Title in woodcut border of four blocks, including the block with the monogram of Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, a full-page woodcut (88 x 65 mm) of 'Father Time' ('Tempus') at the end, both tipped in red, and several woodcut initials. 1-104, 103-254, (4) lvs. (Colophon: A-Z, 2A-2I8, 2K4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Latin  Literature  Post Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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