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Rare theological work by 'the Luther from Württemberg', and founder of modern Rosicrucianism' View picture(s) 41 (ANDREAE, Johann Valentin). Mythologiae Christianae sive virtutum & vitiorum vitae humanae imaginum. Libri tres. Argentorati [=Strassburg], Heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, (1619). 3 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Engraved allegorical title for book 1, woodcut vignette on titles of book 2 & 3, woodcut initials. (24), 352, (7, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Religion  Rosicrucians  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Book with fixed price View picture(s) 42 (ANDRIES, Josse). Perpetua crux, sive passio Iesu Christi a puncto incarnationis ad extremum vitae; iconibus quadragenis explicata; quarum ligneae laminae in bonum publicum gratis datae. Pretium libelli, vide pag. 15. Title of part 2 : Altera perpetua crux Iesu Christi a fine vitae usque ad finem mundi, in perpetuo altaris sacrificio ... Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. 2 parts in one. 12mo. Contemporary parchment over boards. Title-vignet with the instruments of the passion on the title of part 1; 40 full-page woodcuts, all appearing twice: in part 1 as well as in part 2. 96 , 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Devotion  Emblem Books  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated manuscript explaining Catholic Doctrine to deaf-mutes View picture(s) 43 (ASSAROTTI, Ottavio Giovanno Battista). Dottrina Christiana.- MANUSCRIPT IN  ITALIAN. (Genoa, ca. 1815-20). 8vo. (lvs. 233 x 170 mm). Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with title lettered in gold. With 117 (out of 118) full-page coloured drawings within borders consisting of two lines (206 x 138 mm) illustrating lively the Christian Doctrine, on staunch paper. One leaf with written introduction (one leaf missing), 117 (numbered 1-95, 97-118) lvs. with drawings, and 3 blank lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Catholicism  Education  Italy  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Teaching young children things they do not understand View picture(s) 44 (BEETS, N.). Christelijke Lesjes voor Jonge Kinderen. Haarlem, Erven F. Bohn, 1843. Small 8vo. Original wrappers. IV, 42, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Education  Pedagogy & Didactics  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eroticism and the original sin View picture(s) 45 (BEVERLAND, Adrianus van). Peccatum originale [GREEK TEXT] sic nuncupatum, philologice [GREEK TEXT] elucubratum   Themidis alumno. Vera redit facies, dissimulata perit. Eleutheropoli (=Leiden), extra plateam obscuram ... (in fine : In horto Hesperidem, typis Adami et Evae terrae filii, 1678). 8vo. Contemporary vellum, double gilt fillets on both sides. (10), 146, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Erotica  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Books on theology, Belgian history and law View picture(s) 46 (CANO, D. Philippus Josephus DE.). Catalogus Librorum rev. adm. amplissimi ac prænobilis domini. D. Philippi Josephi de Cano, Toparchæ de Moll, Baelen, Deschel, &c., Decani ecclesiæ cathedralis B.M.V. Qui publicè vendentur pecunia cambiali Antverpiæ in domo mortuaria 23. Aprilis 1759. Antwerp, Joannis Grange, (1759). 8vo. Contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in 6 compartments, red morocco title label. Engr. vignette on title. 132, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Catalogues  Church History  History  Low Countries  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare devotional print-series View picture(s) 47 (CASTELLO, ALBERTUS DA). Miracula et Beneficia SS. Rosario Virginis Matris devotis a Deo Opt. Max. collata. Paris, Nicolas de Mathoniere, (ca. 1620). Large 8vo. Early 19th century red morocco, gilt, g.e. With fine engraved title, and 15 engraved plates on Mary's rosary, all within lightly decorated borders, with a motto above and 8 lines of text underneath, all borders and text engraved on the plate, versos blank. (16) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Devotion  Print Series  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The new iquisition: a Dutch hack against Libertines, or the followers of Spinosa and Descartes within or without the Dutch Reformed Church View picture(s) 48 (CLAUS VAN LAAR, Jan Willem). Het wysgerige Babel, of Willem Deurhof, de arglistige en gevaarlykste ongodist. Amsterdam, Arnoldus Olofsen, 1741. 8vo. Modernhalf blind tooled calf, ribbed spine with black title-label lettered in gold. Woodcut end-pieces. (26), 263, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Netherlands  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dream of a free Europe & a court of arbitrage View picture(s) 49 (CULANT-CIRE, LE MARQUIS RENÉ ALEX.). Recueil de fables, contes, epigrammes & pensées diverses de monsieur le M. de C… C… avec le symbole raisonné du philosophe, un discours sur la cavalerie & la comédie de l'impudent pièce en vers & en cinq actes. Le tout mis au jour par ***. The Hague, 1767. 5 works in 1 vol. 8vo. With woodcut vignettes on the main title and on two separate titles, large woodcut in text and 2 folding engraved plates showing positions of the cavalry on the battlefield. (4), 42; (6), 72; 8; 34; 126 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fable Books  French  Militaria  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded edition of a Dutch devotional work View picture(s) 50 (FLORIS VAN HAARLEM). Den wech des levens. Een gheestelijc boecxken leerende hoe dat een goet kersten mensch moet beginnen ende voortgaen in duechden, met veel devote ghebeden ende gheestelike corte vermaninghen om tot een warachtich gheestelijc leven te comen, ghemaect biden prior vander Carthuser oordenen binnen der stadt van Loven. … Dit boecxken is gevisiteert ende geapprobeert by Symon de Planen van Asperen, onder prochiaen tot onser lieuer vrouwen Thantwerpen. (Antwerp, H. Peetersen van Middelburg ?, ca. 1546). 8vo. Contemporary parchment; remnants of ties. Title in woodcut borders, printed in red and black; charming 3- to 7-line woodcut initials. (200) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Devotion  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of an extensive history of the Roman Catholic church in Malabar, India View picture(s) 51 (GOUVEA, Antonio de). Historia Ecclesiae Malabaricae cum Diamperitana Synodo Apud Indos Nestorianos, S. Thomae Christianos nuncupatos coacta ab Alexio de Menezes Augustinensi An. MDXCIX. Nunc primum e Lusitano in Latinum versa (curia) JO.FACUNDI RAULIN, cui Accedunt, cum Liturgia Malabarica, tum Dissertationes variae: omnia perpetuis animadversionibus illustrata. Roma, Hieronymus Mainardi, 1745. Large 4to. Contemporary vellum, red mottled edges. With title printed in red and black, engraved papal coat-of-arms on title, fine engraved headpiece by Hieronymus Rossi, and 3 large engraved initials. (36), 529, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  India  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous Protestant Martyrbook View picture(s) 52 (HAEMSTEDE, Adriaen Cornelisz. van). Historie der Martelaren, die om het getuygenisse der evangelischer waerheydt haer bloedt gestort hebben, van de tijden Christi onses Salighmakers af tot den jare sesthien hondert vijf-en-vijftigh toe. Niet alleen in dese Nederlanden, maer oock in Vranckrijck, Engelandt,  Schotlandt, Spanjen, Italien, Duytschlandt, America en andere landen, met vele van hare brieven en belijdenissen: als mede de moort van Parijs, de moort in Voltoline, d'ongehoorde wreetheyt in Yerlant: mitsgaders de schrickelike moort aen de vaudoysen in Piemont, en andere vervolgingen der geloovigen. In desen laetsten druck op een nieuw neerstelick oversien, verbetert, en veelsins vermeerdert; en el Amsterdam, Jan Fredericksz. Stam, 1658. Folio. Contemporary blindstamped vellum with title in ink on spine, remnants of ties, blue speckled edges. Full-page engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved plate in text divided in ten compartments, showing in different scenes the pride and haughtiness of the Roman Catholic popes, and 149 engravings in text, mostly depicting the horrifying manner in which the martyrs were put to death. (12), 483, (5) lvs. [Collation: *6 a6 A-6G4]. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  History  Protestantism  Religion  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of the famous collector J. Gomez de la Cortina: the famous Vitae Patrum once owned by the Carthusians at Wesel, Germany View picture(s) 53 (HIERONYMUS, Pseudo -). Vitae patrum sanctorum, sive vitas patrum. (Cologne, Bartholomaeus de Unckel, ca. 1480). Folio. 19th-century full brown calf, spine gilt in compartments with gilt title in second compartment, blind and double gilt fillet lines on both sides, enclosing the large gilt coat of arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Fully rubricated in red, red lombards of 2-4 lines, two red decorated initials of 5 lines and 19 blue initials for the prologues and beginnings of the four first books, the first with elaborate red penwork extending in the top and inner margin. 160 lvs., printed in two columns, 41 lines, written space 210 x 133mm.- Collation: a10-1 (first blank missing), b-d10, e-f8, g-l10, m-n6, o-q10, r8, s6-1 (last blank missing). Type 103 (BMC, I, Pl. XXIII). Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Catholicism  Germany  Incunabula  Provenance  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Dutch edition of the in the Middle-Ages very popular "Lives of the Fathers" View picture(s) 54 (HIERONYMUS, Sophronius Eusebius). Vitaspatrum ende is ghenoemt dat vader boeck Inhoudende die Historien ende legenden der heiligher vaderen die haer leven in strenger penetencie overghebracht hebben Ende met veel schone exempelen Ende miraculen Dat welc is seer oerbaerlic ghelesen voer alle kersten menschen gheestelic ende waerlic Overgeset in gueder verstandelreduytscher sprake ende is anderwerf gecorrigeert. Leyden, Jan Seversoen, 1511, 8 January. Sm. folio. Modern blindstamped calf in antique style. With large woodcut title-initial (the full height of the seven-line title), above an almost full-page woodcut of a pilgrim being regaled in the garden: three figures, two of them labelled 'lacteur' and 'entendement' and sitting at a table, within 3-side borders of 6 parts; large 7-line woodcut first initial. Final leaf with small woodcut printer's device (incorporating the coat-of-arms of the city of Leyden), underneath the colophon on recto and a full-page woodcut on verso: the large figures of a noble-man (again labelled 'lacteur') and a hermit (labelled 'entendement') standing at either side of an open door with caption 'c'est le cloitre de souvenance', behind which the attributes of a hermit's life are depicted. (4), CXXVI (= 132) lvs. (LII-LVII present twice). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dutch  Popular Books  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With chapters on Brazil and China View picture(s) 55 (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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First edition of the first handbook by David Joris View picture(s) 56 (JORIS, David). Handt-Boecxken: inholdende vele godlijcke trouhertighe vaderlijcke vermaninghen unde leeringen: geschreven deur D.J. aen syne kinderen, sampt aen allen Godt-meenende liefhebberen der waerheyt Christi, beyde olden unde jonghen seer dienstlyck. (Not later then 1590). 12mo. Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, spine with three raised bands. (1), 142, (1) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Mennonites  Mystics  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare and beautiful edition of the most famous work by Thomas a Kempis View picture(s) 57 (KEMPIS, THOMAS A). Libri Quator De Imitatione Christi, praecipuo regni administro, dicati. Paris, Typographia Fratris Regis (Didot junior), 1788. Large 4to. Contemporary dark green morocco, spine richly gilt with red title-label, richly gilt ornamental border on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, silk over paste downs and fly leaves, fly leaves surrounded with richly gilt dark green borders in the same style as the dentelles, g.e. (VEGLIO). With full-page engraved portrait of Christ by Klauber, and woodcut coat-of-arms on title. (4), 338, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Literary History  Religion  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) 58 (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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Christ's life illustrated View picture(s) 59 (LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA). Dit is dleven ons heeren Jhesu Christu. Derdewerf gecorrigeert ende verbetert met schone moralizacien ende gheestelike leeringen ende devote meditacien. Ende achter elck capittele is een devoot gebet ghestelt. Oeck sijn hier noch toe ghedaen alle die Epistolen van den geheelen iare met haer glose ende verstandelike exposicie elc op sijn Evangelie dienende. De welcke noyt gheprent  en waren hoe wel dattet op somige boecken ghestelt is gheweest. Oeck heeft desen boec int beginsel twee tafelen. Die eene om die capittelen des boecx te vinden. Ende die andre om alle de Epistolen ende Evangelien vanden sondagen ende heylige dagen des gheheelen iaers te vinden. Antwerp, Claes de Grave, 1521. 4to. Contemporary richly blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, spine renewed, with 2 brass clasps, green painted edges. Title printed in red and black with 2 woodcuts between woodcut side borders underneath; 2 full-page devotional woodcuts, one between two beautifully designed side-borders and 5 smaller woodcut border pieces above and below; 141 large and smaller woodcuts depicting Christ's life in text, some repeated; large decorated woodcut initial, coloured by hand in red, and numerous smaller woodcut initials; text rubricated throughout. (6), 273, (1) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Mystics  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of 10 copies printed on vellum. Very fine bibliophile example of the German 'Neue Buchkunst' View picture(s) 60 (LUTHER, Martin). Die Psalmen - Übertragung Martin Luthers nach der letzten von ihm selbst durchgesehenen Ausgabe der Deutschen Bibel (Wittenberg 1545). Darmstadt, F.W. & C.H. Kleukens (Ernst Ludwig Presse) for Insel Verlag, Leipzig, 1911. 4to. (317 x 215 mm). Magnificently bound in full contemporary red morocco, both covers ruled in gold with two double lines along the edges, on the front cover with the partial  text of Psalm 150 in capitals in between: 'Lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum. Lobet Ihn in der Feste seiner Macht. Lobet Ihn mit Posaunen. Lobet Ihn mit Psalter und Harfen. Alles was Odem hat lobe den Herrn. Halleluia'; beautiful gilt Jugendstil ornamented centre piece with the title ('Die Psalmen') in the middle, ribbed and gilt spine with the gilt title ('Die Psalmen') in the middle compartment (bound by CARL SONNTAG, Jun., Leipzig). Text, titles and initials (4 ll.) set by F.W. Kleukens in Cicero Kleukens-Antiqua. (one blank vellum fly-leaf at the beginning and end, vellum past-downs), 119, (120) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliophily  Bindings  Book History  History of Printing  Luther  Private Press Books  Psalter  Reformation  Religion  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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