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The history of the diocese of Deventer: still an important source of information on the Modern Devotion View picture(s) 161 LINDEBORN, Joannes. Historia sive notitia Episcopatus Daventriensis ex ecclesiarum membranis, monasteriorum tabulis, authenticic annotatis & classicis authoribus eruta ac publici juris facta. Cologne [= Amsterdam], Joachim à Metelen, 1670. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With printer's device on title. (16), 556 (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Netherlands  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest separate Jesuit letters entirely devoted to the Philippines View picture(s) 162 LOPEZ, Gregorio. Lettera annua della Provincia delle Filippine dell'anno MDCVIII. Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1611. 8vo. Later limp vellum with gilt title on spine, later endleaves. Woodcut 'IHS' vignette on title, woodcut initials. 124 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Jesuits  Philippines  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ciphers and theology View picture(s) 163 LORTE ET ESCARTIN, Jéronymo de. Arithmetica seraphica, omnibus ferme suis numeris à primo, usque ad milliones, accuratè digesta, sub qua elogia singularia, trophea Catholica, magnalia, & mirabilia, quae quasi cardines sunt, ac bases omnium aliarum excellentiarum, quae de Sancto Patre nostro Francisco, eius vita, moribus, miraculis, stigmmatibus (sic!), regula, & religione,  diversis doctoribus Catholicis dicta extant, breviter supputantur. Caesar-Augustae (= Zaragossa), Heirs of Didacus Dormer, 1695. Small 4to. Contemporary limp vellum; spine lettered in ink; rests of ties. Leaves from a 15th or 16th century printed book used as fly-leaves. Title in border of typographical flowers; printer's device on p.122; printed tables. (24), 156, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Religion  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare poetical jesuit work printed in Mexico View picture(s) 164 LOZANO, Francisco Xavier. Verdades eternas, confirmadas con la Sagrada Escritura, y expuestas en decimas castellanas para conservarlas facilmente en la memoria. Mexico, Heirs of Joseph de Jauregui, 1794. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, richly gilt spine with green morocco title label, red painted edges and very interesting marbled endpapers. With a full-page engraving of San Ignacio de Loyola by Aguera and several woodcut borders and endpieces. XIV, 168; 173 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Pedagogy & Didactics  Poetry  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Jesuits in India and China: adepting to local practice View picture(s) 165 LUCINO, Luigi Maria. Esame, e difesa del decreto publicato in pudisceri da monsig­nor Carlo Tommaso di Tournonpatriarcha d'Antiochia, commissa­rio, e visitatore apostolico, con Podesta do legato a letere delle Indie Orientali, Impero della Cina, e Isole adjacenti. Di poi Cardinale della S. R. Chiesa. Rome, nella stamperis Vaticana, 1729. 4to. Full parchment, spine lettered in gold, blue painted edges. Engraved printer's device on the title, title printed in red and black, some nice engraved initials and head- and tail-pieces, three full-page and one folding engravings of (1): Pulleyar esposta da Abramo Rogier, (2-3): 'Segni portati in fronte dagl'Indiani' and 'Segni permessi da'Missionarii', both coloured by hand, (4) views and plan of the church and house of the missionaries, 'Disegno della Chiesa colla separazione de nobili da'parreas, e della casa del missionario'. LXIII, 492 (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  India  Jesuits  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very important devotional book printed in Lyon in 1510 from the Carthusian monastery Marienburg near Duelmen and bound in that same monastery View picture(s) 166 LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA. Vita Jesu christi domini ac // salvatoris nostri ex evangelio & approbatis ab eccle- // sia catholica doctoribus sedule collecta per Ludol- // phum de Saxonia candidissimi chartusianorum ordinis // servantissimum: et accurate per Jodocum badium ascen- // sium annotata: atque alphabetico indicio ac vita sancte // Anne: atque laudibus divi Joachim aucta : diligenterque // rursus Lugdunum impressa. Lyon, Claude Davost for Stephanus Gueynard (Etienne Gueynard, dit Pinet), 29 July 1510. 4to. In a magnificent contemporary signed full calf binding over wooden boards, both covers richly tooled in blind: front cover with three triple fillets along the sides; the central panel with diamond-shaped fillets with floral and stamps with the monograms 'IHS', 'ioh(anne)s' and 'ma(thaeus)' in the rhombusses; four large stamps with foliation in the first border (Schunke, I, p.166, nr.227 (Laubstab)), with roundels of the four evangelists in the corners (Schunke, I, p.100, nr.56); signed: 'H' and 'G' in the lower second border (Schunke, I, p.278, nrs.25 and 27); the same fillets, blocks with foliation and roundels with the evangelists on the back cover; two diagonally crossed triple fillets in the central panel with four stamps with coat of arms containing the Arma Christi around a heart in the four compartments (Schunke, I, p.315, nr.106); spine in five compartments with the title in the second compartment lettered in ink on a red painted background and the shalf-mark 'B.88' in the first compartment on a white-painted background; complete with the original elaborately tooled clasps and catches. This binding is made in the Carthusian monastery Marienburg in Weddern near Dülmen for their own library (Schunke, II, 276). Title printed in red and black beginning with a woodcut initial (V), underneath a woodcut of 122x 124mm. with Maria and the infant Christ sitting on a pillow and holding a large cross; at the right probably the publisher is praying; framed by woodcut borders of portraits of saints at the left, of five angels and saints, below and six separate woodcuts of ca. 32x20mm of angels and saints at the right; together in a second border of floral and decorative woodblocks. An interesting and beautiful woodcut of the birth of Christ in a fantasized archtectural setting (98x75mm), flanked by three woodcuts of angels and saints (ca.32x20mm) at either side, in a border of floral woodcut blocks at the beginning of the text. Headline and beginning of the text printed in red. Many small woodcuts (ca.32x20mm) with biblical scenes and saints at the beginning of each chapter (some are bigger) and many woodcut initials. The artist who made these cuts is the famous Lyonese woodcutter G. Leroy II (Baudrier, IX, p. 172). The book is rubricated throughout. (12), (416) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Devotion  Prayer Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A beehive of conscience: the first edition of a popular emblem book View picture(s) 167 LUIKEN, Jan. De bykorf des gemoeds, honing zaamelende uit allerly bloemen. Vervattende over de honderd konstige figuuren. Met Godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen. Amsterdam, widow P. Arentz. & K. van der Sys, 1711. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. With etched frontispiece and 101 half-page etched emblems in text by Jan Luiken. (10),404,(2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Emblem  Emblem Books  Poetry  Religion  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The unworthy world in 50 fine emblems View picture(s) 168 LUIKEN, JAN. De onwaardige wereld, vertoond in vyftig zinnebeelden, met godlyke spreuken en stichtelijke verzen. Amsterdam, Kornelis van der Sys, 1728. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. With engraved allegorical frontispiece and 50 fine engraved emlems in text. (6), 208, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Emblem  Emblem Books  Engravings  Jan Luyken  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The father of Jan Luyken on profit without loss View picture(s) 169 LUYCKEN, Caspar. Onfeylbare regel van winste sonder verlies: ofte korte aenwijsinge en bericht, om 't zy door koopmanschap, ambacht ofte neeringe, altijdt winninge te doen; en in korten tijt rijck te worden: ende rijck geworden zijnde, den rijckdom (sonder eenige vreese van verlies) sekerlick te behouden. Als mede om geld op interest te doen, dat men gewisse sekerheydt hebbe, dat het capitael vast en onverlieslick zy, en dat men hoogen interest daer van trecke. Hier is noch achter gevoeght de wissel-banck, geopent door den selven autheur. De derde druck. Amsterdam, Christoffel Luycken, 1663. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemp. vellum. With small woodcut vignette on 2 titles. 212; 52 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Devotion  Mennonites  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the origins of Protestantism: the Waldensians and Hussites View picture(s) 170 LYDIUS, Balthasar. Waldensia id est, conservatio verae ecclesiae, demonstrata ex confessionibus, cum Taboritarum, ante CC ferè annos, tum Bohemorum, circa tempora Reformationis, scriptis. Rotterdam (vol. 1) & Dordrecht (vol. 2), Joannes Leonardus Berewout, 1616-17. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporarry overlapping vellum with titles in ink on spines, rests of ties. With woodcut printer's device on both titles, woodcut initials. (16, including last blank leaf), 415, (16), 367; (40, incl. last blank leaf), (48, incl. last blank leaf), 358, (4), (12), 262 (irregular pagination/foliation in the beginning). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Protestantism  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First attempt for a history of the mission in Japan View picture(s) 171 MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum volumen, continens historiam iucundam lectu omnibus Christianis, praesertim ijs, quibus vera Religio est cordi. In qua videre possunt, quomodo nunquam Deus Ecclesiam suam deserat, & in locum deficientium a vera fide, innumeros alios in abditissimis etiam regionibus substituat. Cologne, Gervinus Calenius, & haeredes Iohannis Quentel, 1574. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum over thin boards, title in ink on spine. With several charming woodcut initials; many woodcut Japanese characters on pp. 451-7. (16), 472 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Japan  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With attractive woodcuts View picture(s) 172 MARAFFI, D. Figure del Nuovo Testamento, Illustrate da versi vulgari Italiani. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1559. Sm. 8vo. 19th century brown morocco, spine ribbed and gilt and  blindstamped, with blindstamped borders on sides and blindstamped inner panel with gilt ornaments at the four corners and large central gilt ornament of a wreath of vine leaves and grapes, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With title within a fine arabesque woodcut border, and 95 beautiful woodcuts by Bernard Salomon, illustrating the New Testament, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Apocalypse. (52) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Italy  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare offprint of an extract of a work on the Jews of Abyssinia that was never published View picture(s) 173 MARCUS, L. Notice sur l'époque de l'établissement des Juifs dans l'Abyssinie. Extrait du Nouveau Journal Asiatique. (Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1829). Modern paper wrappers. 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hebraica & Judaica  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous Dutch translation of the psalms View picture(s) 174 MARNIX VAN SINT ALDEGONDE, Philips van. Het boeck der psalmen. Uit der Hebreïsscher sprake in Nederduytschen dichte op de ghewoonlicke oude wijsen van singen overgeset mitgaders de heylige schriftuerlicke lofsangen uyt den ouden ende nieuwen Testamente by een getogen ende oock in Nederlantschen dichte na der Hebreisscher en Grieckscher waerheyt mit elck sijnen text van woirde te woirde daer tegen over int Duytsche gestelt.- Het boeck der heylige schriftuerlijkcke lofsangen. Uyt den ouden ende nieuwen Testamente by een getogen ende in Nederlandtschen dichte nae de Hebreissche ende Grieksche waerheyt trouwelijck overgeset. Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1591. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary vellum With musical notation. (192, 36) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous catalogue of a famous library View picture(s) 175 MARTIN, Gabriele. Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym, olim regis Poliniae Augusti II. Apud regem Christianissimum legati extraordinarii. Paris, Gabriel & Claude Martin, 1738. 8vo. Modern half marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label. With woodcut coat of arms on title and woodcut head- and tailpieces. (6), XX, 528, (58) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Law  Libraries & Collections  Literature  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare first editions of works by Menasseh-Ben-Israel; important for the history of jewish-christian relations in tolerant 17th century Amsterdam View picture(s) 176 MENASSEH-Ben-Israel. De creatione problemata XXX: cum summariis singulorum problematum, & indice locorum Scripturae, quae hoc opere explicantur. Amsterdam, Typis & sumptibus auctoris (by the author), 1635. 8vo. Full contemporary calf, three blind lines ruled along the edges. Hebrew text (Ps. 85,11: 'Veritas e terra orietur') in a frame on the title, used as printer's device: a so-called 'magical square' in which the consonants are arranged in such a way that horizontally as well as vertically the text of Ps. 85,11 can be read Hillesum, in: Het Boek); some nice woodcut initials. Some Hebrew characters in the text. (16), 156, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hebraica & Judaica  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous work on exorcism View picture(s) 177 MENGUS, Hieronymus. Flagellum daemonum, se exorcismi terribiles, potentissimi, & efficaces; Remediaque probatissima in malignos spiritus expellendos; facturasque, & maleficia effuganda de obsessis corporibus; Cum suis benedictionibus, & omnibus requisitis ad eorum expulsionem. Bologna, for Ioannes Rossius, 1578. 8vo. Limp vellum. Printer's device on title page, decorative woodcut initials, tailpieces. (24), 263, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  Demonology  Italy  Occult  Religion  Witchcraft  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Greetings from the Salomon Islands View picture(s) 178 MEYER, Peter. Briefe aus Oceanien (Salomonische Inseln). Luxemburg, St. Paulus-Gesellschaft, 1903. Wrappers. With photographed portrait of father Peter Meyer, and 5 illustrations in text. 31, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Mission  Pacific  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The wars in defence of Christianity waged by the dukes of Brabant View picture(s) 179 MOLANUS, Johannes (Jan VERMEULEN, van der MEULEN). Militia Sacra Ducum et Principum Brabantiae. Adietae sunt ad huius historiae Illustrationem Annotationes M. Petri Louwij Sylvaeducensis. Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, the widow (of Chr. Plantin), & Joh. Moretus, (1592). 8vo. Contemporary vellum, rests of ties, red painted edges. With engraved title and two large folding genealogical trees. (40), 179, (5, incl. the often lacking last blank leaf) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  Brabant  Education  History  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First American edition View picture(s) 180 MOLINA, J.I. The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili. With notes from the Spanish and French versions, and an Appendix, containing copious extracts from the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Translated from the original Italian. Middletown (Conn.), I. Riley, 1808. 2 parts in 1 vol. Half calf. With large folding map of Chile. (8), XII, 271, (1); VIII, 305, (3); 68 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chile  Commerce  Cultural History  Geology  History  Militaria  Natural History  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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