Religion & Devotion / Church History & Missions

PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. 8vo (14.4 x 6.6 cm). With a woodcut coat of arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck within a 4-piece woodcut frame on the title page, 2 woodcut illustrations, each enclosed in the same four-piece woodcut border (distinct from that on the title page), a large woodcut incorporating Vorsterman's printer's device on the last page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century half calf. [116] ll. Full description

POMPONAZZI, Pietro. De naturalium effectuum causis, sive de incantationibus ... ante annos XXXV compositum, nunc primùm verò in lucem fideliter editum. Adiecta brevibus scholiis à Gulielmo Gratorolo Physico Bergomate.
Basel, (colophon:) Heinrich Petri, August 1556. Small 8vo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. 17th-century vellum. [16], 349, [3] pp. Full description

POMPONAZZI, Pietro Opera. De naturalium effectuum admirandorum causis, seu de incantationibus liber. item de fato: libero arbitrio: praedestinatione: providentia dei, libri V. In quibus difficillima capita & quaestiones theologicae & philosophicae ex sana orthodoxae fidei doctrina explicantur ...
Basel, Heinrich Petri, (colophon:) March 1567. 8vo. With the woodcut printer's device of Petri on the verso of the last leaf, several woodcut historiated initials throughout. 17th-century overlapping vellum. [60], 1015, [1] pp. Full description

PORRENO, Balthasar. Oraculos de las doce Sibilas. profetisas. de Christo nostro Señor entre los gentiles...
Cuenca, Domingo de la Iglesia, 1621. 4to. With an engraved title-page, 12 full-page woodcuts (on integral leaves), each text page in a frame of thin rules, the text opens with a woodcut decorated initial. Contemporary limp vellum, remnants of ties. Engraved title-page plus [6], 72 ll. Full description

[PROPAGANDA FIDE]. Africa [-] Greci - Italo Greci [-] Armeni di Venezia [-] varie.
[Rome and perhaps elsewhere, ca. 1758-1764 (transcribing original documents going back to at least 1664)]. 4to. Collection of manuscript transcriptions of about 30 letters and other documents. Contemporary Italian sheepskin parchment over flexible boards. [416] pp., including about 15 blank leaves. Full description

PÜRSTINGER, Berthold. Theologia Germanica in qua continentur articuli de fide, evangelio, virtutibus et sacramentis: quorum materia iam nostra tempestate controversi solet.
(Colophon:) Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn for Martin Silbereysen, 1531. Folio (30.4 x 19.6 cm). With a woodcut title frame by Jörg Breu the Elder, the title is printed in red and black, and with small woodcut initials throughout. Modern white half calf. [222] ll. Full description

QUENSTEDT, Johann Andreas. Antiquitates biblicae et ecclesiasticae, accedit ejusdem autoris tractatus de antiquis ritibus sepulchralibus Graecorum, Romanorum, Judaeorum & Christianorum ...
Wittenberg, Christian Schrödter, 1688.
With: (2) PFEIFFER, Johann Philipp. Libri IV, antiquitatum Graecarum gentilium sacrarum, politicarum, militarium & oeconomicarum.
Königsberg; Leipzig, Heinrich Boye, 1689. With an engraved title-page, engraved author's portrait as frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [16], “971” [=980], 183, [1], 48; [16], “773” [=771], [88], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[REBOUL, Guillaume]. La cabale des Reformez, tiree nouvellement du puits de Democrite.
Montpellier [= Lyon?], "chez Le Libertin, imprimeur juré de la saincte Reformation" [= Jacques Roussin?], 1597.
With: (2) REBOUL, Guillaume. Apologie ... sur La cabale des Reformez.
[Lyon?, Jacques Roussin?], 1598. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 17th-century gold-tooled calf; rebacked, preserving most of the backstrip. 224; 141, [1 blank] pp. Full description

REINAUD, Joseph Toussaint. Extraits des historiens Arabes, relatifs aux guerres des croisades, ouvrage formant, d'après les écrivains Musulmans, un récit suivi des guerres saintes ...
[Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 8vo. Contemporary dark green half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. XLVIII, 582 pp. Full description

RHIJN, Leonard Johannes van. Reis door den Indischen Archipel, in het belang der evangelische zending.
Rotterdam, M. Wijt & zonen, 1851. 8vo. With 1 chromolithographed and 4 lithographed folding maps and 8 tinted lithographed illustrations. Rebacked in modern half cloth and the original gold-tooled green sheepskin backstrip laid down. XX, IV, “655” [= 651], 28 pp. Full description