Religion & Devotion

RICCI, Matteo and Nicolas TRIGAULT. Histoire de l'expedition Chrestienne au royaume de la Chine, entreprinse par les PP. de la compagnie de Iesus.
Lyons, for Horace Cardon, 1616. 8vo. With an engraved title page and a full-page engraved portrait of prince Philippe Guillaume of Orange, and a large folding plan (42.5 x 15 cm). Contemporary overlapping vellum. [40], 1096 pp. Full description

RINTJES, Hendrik. De morgenstond in haer somersche vermakelikheden vertoont, en, tot s alderhoogsten lof, doorgaens leersaam toegeëigent. Op de maet van den achten psalm geriimt. Deesen tweeden druk meer als de helft vermeerdert.
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1690. 12 works in 1 volume. 4to (and 2 broadsheets of ca. 36-3 x 28-29 cm. folded to fit the 4to binding). Ad 1 with an engraved title page with the title in a floral cartouche and five separate landscapes at sunrise by Jan Luyken, a woodcut printers device on the typographical title page, and further with woodcut initials and tailpieces. Ad 2 with a large woodcut decorated initial, and the text is set in 2 columns. Ad 3 with a large woodcut vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut tailpieces. Ad 4 with an engraved illustration on the title page, a woodcut decorated initial, and several woodcut tailpieces. Ad 5 with a woodcut vignette on the title page and a woodcut decorated initial. Ad 6 with a woodcut decorated initial. Ad 7 with a woodcut vignette on the title page and a woodcut decorated initial. Ad 8 with 2 woodcut decorated initials and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 9 with a woodcut decorated initial and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 10 without any decoration. Ad 11 with a decoration between the 2 text columns built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 12 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 woodcut decorated initials, and 6 half-page engraved illustrations in the text. With:
(2) BRAKEL, Wilhelmus à. Geestelijke aandachten op de twaalf maanden des eersten jaars der achtiende eeuwe. 1701.
Rotterdam, Reynier van Doesburg, 1701.
(3) ROOS, Joan de. De Godheid betoogt door de natuurkunde, en heilige bespiegelingen over de drie-eenigheid Gods: nevens een toetssteen der waarheid.
Haarlem, Mozes van Hulkenroy, 1725.
(4) BENT, Jan. Rym-gedachten, over de voornaamste stukken van het lyden der weerelt heiland Jezus Christus.
Alkmaar, Nicolaas Mol, 1726.
(5) [DROSTE, Coenraet]. Dancksegging en overdencking naer het H. Nagtmael onses heeren Jesu Christi.
The Hague, Gerrit Rammazeyn, [ca. 1710].
(6) [POOT, Hubert Korneliszoon], Op den hoogen Watervloet, omtrent het einde des jaers MDCC XVII.
[1718].
(7) [CENTEN, Izaak]. Gods oordelen over Nederland, in de sterfte van t rundvee, den zwaren storm, en hogen watervloed.
Amsterdam, Johannes Oosterwyk, 1718.
(8) [VRIES, P.D.]. De oordeelen Gods over Nederlant, gezien in voorgaande jaren, maar byzonder in den jare 1726. Met het doorbreken van verscheide dyken.
(Colophon:) Rotterdam, Johannes van Eik, 1726.
(9) [HOOGSTRATEN, Jan van]. Sodoms appel, of gruwel der verwoesting.
[late 17th- or early 18th-century].
(10) Landsmet, of aller gruwelen gruwel.
[ca. 1730].
(11) Het klagende Nederlandt.
[ca. 1730].
(12) RUARUS, David. Des werelds ondergang.
Amsterdam, David Ruarus, 1687.
Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [8], 44; [1], [1 blank]; 19, [1]; [1], [1 blank], [22], 58, [1], [1 blank]; 13, [1 blank]; 8; [1], [1 blank], [10]; 12; 8; 8; [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [6], 48 pp. Full description

RINUCCINI, Giovanni Battista. Historia do Capuchinho Escoces.
Lisboa, Bernardo da Costa Carvalmo for Joseph da Cruz Cardozo, 1708. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a general title-page with a woodcut portrait of a monk (in the centre of a large rosette) and a divisional title-page for the second part of the tex. Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf, gold-tooled board edges, gilt and gauffered edges. [14], 54, [1], [1 blank], 55-237, [3 blank] pp. Full description

RODRIGUEZ GIRÃO, João [RODRIGUEZ GIRAM, Joao]. Litterae iaponicae annorum M.DC.IX et X. ad R. admodum piae mem. P. Claudium Aquavivam generalem praepositum Societatis Iesu A.R.P. Provinciali eiusdem in Iapone Societ. missae.
Antwerp, P. & J. Bellerus, 1615. 8vo. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. Contemp. limp vellum, title in ink on spine with traces of colouring, remnants of ties. [24], 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description

RODRIGUEZ GIRÃO, João [RODRIGUEZ GIRAM, Joao]. Litterae Iaponicae annorum M.DC.IX et X. ad R. admodum piae mem. p. Claudium Aquavivam generalem praepositum Societatis Iesu A.R.P. Provinciali eiusdem in Iapone Societ. Missae.
Antwerp, Petrus and Johannes Bellerus, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page. Modern limp parchment, gilt edges. [24], 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[RODRIGUES GIRÃO, João and Jean VIREAU? (translator)]. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume du Japon l'annee 1624.
Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1628. 8vo. With a woodcut Jesuit seal on the title page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, blind-stamped with a fleur-de-lys. [16], 390 pp. Full description

ROLEWINCK, Werner. Formula vivendi canonico[rum] sive vicario[rum] seculariu[m] aut etiam alio[rum] devoto[rum] presbiterorum.
(Colophon: Delft, [Christiaen Snellaert], April 1496). 4to (19.5×13.5). With the main text in a rotunda type (64G), quire signatures in a slightly larger rotunda (82G), title and text opening in a larger textura (145G) and a few small printed "Lombardic" uncial initials. Rubricated throughout, with 1 4-line and a few smaller red "lombardic" uncial initials written or drawn in the blank spaces provided, red paragraph marks; type area 14.5×9 cm. Half vellum (ca. 1900?). [11] ll. Full description

[ROMAN MISSAL]. Missale ad consuetudinem Ecclesie Romane; ...
[Paris], Thielman Kerver, [colophon: anno domini 1506. x. kalendas apriles = 23 March 1507]. 8vo. Printed in red and black throughout in 2 columns, with Kervers finely executed criblée armorial device on the title page, a crucifixion woodcut, hundreds of impressions of at least 28 finely executed lombardic initials with decorations, as well as dozens of spaces left for manuscript initials, about half with printed guide letters, and a two-impression plainchant music type. The capitals are rubricated throughout. The main text is set in a rotunda gothic type, and the Canon in a larger textura gothic. The woodcut crucifixion, Kervers device and the criblée initials are all coloured by a contemporary hand. Gold- and blind-tooled black goatskin morocco (1st half of the 18th century), the front board dated "ANNO|DOMINI|1506" in gold, and the spine-title "MISSALE|ROMANUM" in gold, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, 2 brass fastenings. [8], 233, [3] ll. Full description

[ROMAN MISSAL]. Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii Tridentini restitutum ...
Antwerp, ex architypographia Plantiniana [= Joannes Jacobus Moretus], 1737.
With: (2) [SPANISH MISSAL]. Missae propriae sanctorum Hispanorum, qui generaliter in Hispania celebrantur. ex apostolica concessione, & auctoritate S. Pii V. Gregorii XIII. Sixti. V. Clementis VIII. & Urbani. VIII. aliorumque summorum pontificum.
Antwerp, ex architypographia Plantiniana [= Joannes Jacobus Moretus], 1737. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With 20 full-page engraved plates by Cornelius Galle, 10 engraved frames surrounding the text, and vocal music printed on pp. 153-155, 196-197, 199-207, 220-233, 235-237, 240-272, 286-288, 290-292, and xvii. The text is printed in red and black, with historiated initials hand-coloured in red, an engraved vignette on the title page of each work, and several woodcut tailpieces throughout, of which 3 printed in red. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco with (remnants of) brass catch and anchorplates along the fore edge, gilt and gauffered edges with intricately made tabs along the fore edge, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers. [64], 628, cxxviij, [4], [2], 30, [4], 24; 28, [12] pp. Full description

ROQUES, Pierre. Le vray pietisme ou traité, dans lequel on explique la nature & les éffets de la piété; la juste étendue du renoncement au monde; où l'on remonte à la source générale du peu de vertu qu'il y a entre les Chrétiens, où l'on indique les moyens d'acquérir une piété solide; & où l'on fait connoître comment la piété nous dispose à l'égard de ceux qui ne pensent pas comme nous en matière de religion.
Basel, Jean Brandmuller, 1731. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by F.A. Störcklein. Contemporary vellum, with large embroidered coat of arms on front board (17.5 x 15.5 x 1 cm), with silver and gold thread. 7, [1 blank], [12], 596, 70, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description