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Rare dissertation printed on silk, in a red velvet binding

HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.
Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers. 35, [13], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography Law & Politics
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Important 18th-century bibliography of Italian rare books on history, poetry, prose and arts & sciences

[HAYM, Niccolo Francesco]. Biblioteca Italiana, o sia, Notizia de' libri rari nella lingua Italiana, divisa in quattro parti principali: cioe istoria, poesia, prose, arti e scienze, annessovi tutto il libro dell' Eloquenza Italiana di Mons. Giusto Fontanini col suo ragionamento intorno alla stessa materia. Con tavole copiosissime, e necessarie.
Venice, Angiolo Geremia, 1728. 4to. With woodcut historiated initials, head- and tailpieces. 19th-century vellum, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold, red and blue sprinkled edges. [24], 264 pp. Full description
€ 850
Bibliography & Biography Italy
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A famous auction catalogue, re-issued as an important reference work

HEINSIUS, Nicolas. Bibliotheca Heinsiana sive catalogus librorum, quos, magno studio, & sumtu, dum viveret, collegit.
Leiden, (Abraham Elsevier, for) Johannes de Vivie, (1682). Two parts in one volume. 12mo. With the title page printed in red and black, and a woodcut printer's device. Contemporary marbled calf. [2], 374, [2 blank]; 286, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Auction Catalogues & Bookselling Bibliography & Biography
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"Father of History" in elegant & famous first Greek edition by Aldus Manutius, from the Arenberg library

HERODOTUS. [Historiarum] libri novem. Quibus musarum indita sunt nomina.
(Colophon: Venice), Aldus Manutius, (colophon: September 1502). Folio (29.5 x 20 cm). With Aldus's anchor and dolphin device on the title page and the verso of the last leaf. Late 19th-century blind-tooled, polished tan calf, the central panel with the arms of the Dukes of Arenberg. [140] ll. Full description
€ 45,000
Aldine Press Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Egypt Greek & Non-Western Types North Africa West Asia
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Rare Latin treatise on the Greek Bacchanals

HERRENSCHMID, Jacob. Peripatheticus orgiorum ethnico-pontificius. Justè castigatus, justius profligatus, justissimè condemnatus. Hoc est, brevis dissertatiuncula De Bachanaliorum nomine, origine, progressu, placentis, larvis, excusationibus, exemplis, poenis, ludis, choreis, symposiis, ludibriis, &c.
Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, [1626]. 12mo.19th-century red half morocco, marbled paper sides. 132 pp. Full description
€ 550
Classical Antiquity History / 17th Century School & Textbooks
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Collected poems by the owner of one of the most famous Dutch Alba amicorum

HEYBLOCQ, Jacobus. Farrago Latino-Belgica, of mengelmoes van Latijnsche en Duitsche gedichten, gepast op allerhande gelegentheden en voorvallen.
Amsterdam, Pieter van den Berge, 1662 (engraved title: 1663). 8vo. With the title printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device, an engraved title, a full-page engraved view of 't Huys Mannepat, an engraved illustration in the text, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum. [24], 267, [1] pp. Full description
€ 950
Alba Amicorum Dutch Literature Songbooks
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Introduction to reading the Bible, intended for young people

HOFFMANN, Gottfried. Außerlesene Kern-Sprüche Heiliger Schrifft, durch kurtze Fragen deutlich erkläret und nützlich angewendet, nebst einer ausführlichen Einleitung zum Bibel-Lesen ...
Leipzig, Friedrich Lankisch, 1705. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, a folding letterpress table and occasional lines in Greek and Hebrew type. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [34], 704 pp. Full description
€ 950
Church History & Missions Education & Pedagogy
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