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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) 1 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) 2 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  Aldus Manutius  Deventer  Latin  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) 3 JOSEPHUS, Flavius. De antiquitatibus ac de bello Judaico. Venice, excusit formis Bernardinus Vercellensis, sumptibus Andreae Asulani, 1502, XII Kal. Novemb. Folio. Contemporary blind-tooled half vellum over wooden boards, remnants of two brass clasps. With some initials left blank, but mostly provided in woodcuts. [14], CCLX [261], [1] ll. 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) 4 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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Rare Post-incunable describing of 'German' Europe in the early 16th century, and an early Americanum as well View picture(s) 5 PIRCKHEIMER, Willibald Germaniae ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio. Augsburg, Heirich Stainer, 1530. 8vo. Modern boards covered with brown marbled paper. Printed title within broad woodcut ornamented border with five dancing putti in the lower section; 2 woodcut historiated initials. (36) lvs., including the last blank; collation: A-D8, E4. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [Central]  Americana  Geography  Germany  Post Incunabula  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) 6 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 volume. 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] ll. 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) 7 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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A work of learning and pastoral wisdom by a moderate inquisitor View picture(s) 8 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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Four rare post-incunables in defence of the Catholic faith, printed in Antwerp View picture(s) 9 SCHENCK DE TAUTENBURCH, Fredericus. Enchiridion veri praesulis secundum apostolicam traditionem. Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1526. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 19th-century three-quarter calf. Title within fine woodcut border; the block at the bottom with the portrait of Virgilius Maro in a roundel; some woodcut initials. [28, including final blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Catholicism  Luther  Post Incunabula  Reformation  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the 'Divisiekroniek', with 239 woodcut illustrations, in an exceptionally binding View picture(s) 10 [AURELIUS, Cornelius]. Die Cronycke van Hollandt Zeelandt ende Vrieslant beghinnende van Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jhesum voertgaende tot den jare M.CCCCC. ende Xvij. Leiden, Jan Seversz., 18 August 1517. Folio. Black blind-tooled goatskin, with gold-tooled title and date on side. With the title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut between different woodcut borders, and 239 woodcuts in text, including 121 woodcut portraits. [2], 436 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  History  Netherlands  Post Incunabula  Provenance  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) 11 [CHARLES V, Emperor]. Les ordonnances, 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) 12 [MODERN DEVOTION]. 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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Rare lavishly illustrated devout Post-incunable printed in Antwerp View picture(s) 13 [POST-INCUNABLE - ANTWERP]. 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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Rare early post-incunable from the Press of the Regular Canons in Den Hem (Schoonhoven) View picture(s) 14 [SERMONS]. [VORAGINE, Jacob de]. Sermonen op die ewangelien mitten text vanden sonnendagen des ghehelen iaers ende vanden groten hoechtiden. Den Hem, Monastery of the Regular canons, 1501, 20 March. Small folio (ca. 20 x 26 cm). Modern vellum over boards. With woodcut initial of 5 lines, one of 11 lines. 41 lines to a page, printed in 2 columns. 166 [of 168] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  Liturgy  Post Incunabula  Prayer Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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