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Arabic ABC primer

MUHAMMAD ALI UTAY. [Egyptian ABC book].
[Cairo, ca. 1925]. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations in the text. The title-page with a frame of foliage (oval inside, rectangular outside) and part of its text printed from a woodblock. Further with a portrait of King Fuad I of Egypt and illustrations of animals, etc. Original publishers printed-paper wrappers, matching the title-page but with the frame in green and the text in red. 46, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 950
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The defeat of the Ottoman corsair fleet, one of two known copies

[MURILLAS Y FEXADA, Juan Lopez de]. Relacion verdadera de las Gloriosas proezas, y Vitorias, que han hecho las invencibles Galeras de Malta en los mares de Levante, en este ano de mil y seiscientos y cincuenta y dos.
Madrid, Gregorio Rodriguez, [1652]. Folio (29 x 20.8 cm). With the Spanish Royal coat of arms on the recto of the first leaf [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Rare Dutch post-incunable on the value of learning and wisdom

MURMELLIUS, Joannus. Joannis Murmelii de discipulorum officiis q[uo]d Enchiridion scholasticon inscribitur. Ep[istol]a seu volumen divi Hieronymi ad Nepotianum de clericorum officiis cu[m] Murmellii commentariis. Hermanni Buschii carmen saphicu[m] in urbem Ruremundensem. Joa[n]nis Murmellii ode saphica de duplici voluptate.
Zwolle, Pieter van Os, ca. 1505. 4to. Woodcut title page illustration of Saint Jerome (88 x 66 mm), woodcut colophon illustration (73 x 55 mm). Later sheepskin parchment, wove paper pastedowns and late 18th-century endleaves (laid paper, watermarked 1783). [52] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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Rare remonstrant pamphlet

[NAERANUS, Johannes]. Af-gedrongen verantwoordinge tegens eenige onbillijke en vreemde proceduuren, gehouden by de Kerken-Raad der Remonstranten tot Rotterdam.
Rotterdam, Joannes Naeranus, 1656. 4to. With a letterpress ornament on the title page and 2 woodcut initials. 19th-century blue boards with reference-label on the front board. [4], 28 pp. Full description
€ 350
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News from Portobello of the death of a Peruvian Viceroy, printed in Lima

[NAVARRA Y ROCAFULL, Melchor, Duque de la Palata]. Copia de carta escrita a un cavallero de la ciudad de los Reyes, dandole cuenta de la muerte del Excelentisimo Señor Duque de la Palata, en la ciudad de Portovelo, Viernes Santo 13 de Abril de 1691.
[Lima, 1691]. Folio (29 x 19 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial on the first page. Kept together by a marbled paper strip around the spine. [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Extensive commentary on Ovid’s Fasti, in a sumptuous Jesuit binding

NEAPOLIS, Carolus. Anaptyxis ad fastos P. Ovidii Nasonis.
Antwerp, Balthasar I Moretus, 1639. Folio (ca. 31 x 21 cm). With the title page engraved by Jacob Neeffs after a design by Erasmus Quellinus II, Plantin's large woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, several woodcuts in the text, several woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled reddish-brown leather, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a brown leather title label on the spine lettered in gold, the Jesuit monogram "IHS" central in the large lozenge-shaped centrepiece on both boards, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [1], [1 blank], [30], 304, [30], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Learn how to count with the bible

NEEFF, Adriaan de. Cijffer-boeck der heylige schrift. Over de gelden, gewigten, ende maten der Hebreen arithmetisch gereduceerd op gelden, gewigten ende maten onsen lande en tijdt gebruykelijck.
Middelburgh, Gijsbertus Noorman, 1682. Small 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. With woodcut vignette on 2 titles, and at the end of the second work, showing identical blank escutcheons. Contemporary vellum. [14], 63, [1 blank]; [4], 75, [5] pp. Full description
€ 1,700
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A fine example of an Enlightenment children's book

NEWBURY, John. Philosophie der tollen en ballen; of het Newtoniaansche zamenstel van wysbegeerte, geschikt naar de vatbaarheid der eerste Jeugd, en gemeenzaam en vermaaklyk gemaakt door voorwerpen, welke aan haar zeer bekend zyn: bestaande in ses lessen, geleezen voor de Lilliputiaansche Maatschappie, door Tom Telescope.
Middelburg, Christiaan Bohemer, 1768. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece showing a little boy, Tom Telescope, standing on a table and explaining matter and motion to a group of other small children with some adults present too, a woodcut showing a pair of telescopes, and 8 fine engraved plates showing the solar system, an air-pump and air-gun, globes and armillary spheres, Vesuvius, etc. Contemporary half calf. [12], 134, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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