Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

[STATES OF HOLLAND AND WEST-FRIESLAND]. Circulaire brief, van de Heeren Ridderschap en Edelen, van Hollandt en West-Vrieslant; nevens 't antwoort van de Ed. Groot Achtb. Heeren Burgermeesteren en Regeerders der stadt Amsterdam, op de voorsz. Brief.
[Amsterdam,] Jan Cyprianus van der Graft [= Jacobus Hackius?], 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Disbound. 24 pp. Full description

[RIJCKE, Lambertus de, Nathane (de) VAY & Job de RIEU]. Bergues sur le Soom assiegée le 18 de Jullet 1622, et des-assiegée le 3 d'Octobre ensuivant. Selon la description faite par les trois pasteurs de l'église d'icelle.
Middelburg, Jean vander Hellen for Rombout van Hamerste, 1623. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and several headpieces made up of typographical ornaments.19th-century gold-tooled red morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [16], 281, [11] pp. Full description

RINGELBERG, Joachim Sterck van. Institutiones astronomicae ternis libris contentae. Quorum primus sphaerae ac mundi naturam declarat: secundus orbium: tertius circulorum.
Cologne, Petrus Quentell, 1528. Small 8vo. With a richly decorated architectural woodcut border on the title page, a large woodcut printer's device on the final leaf, four decorated woodcut initials, and four woodcut headpieces. Modern blueish-grey paper over boards. [7], "92" [=94], [3] 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

[ROBERTI, Anthonius]. Clavis Homerica, sive lexicon vocabulorum omnium, quae in Iliade Homeri, nec non potissimâ Odyssae parte continentur. Accedit brievis appendix de dialectis. Opus prima in Anglia concinnatum, deinde auctum & saepius editum; nunc tandem summon studio correctius recusum.
Rotterdam, Arnold Leers, 1655. 8vo. Title printed in red and black, with the woodcut printer's device of Arnold Leers and woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary vellum. [4], 470, [88] pp. Full description

ROCKSTROH, Heinrich. Magazijn van belangrijke en leerzame kunststukjes, voor jonge lieden.
Zaltbommel, Johannes Noman, 1828. 12mo. With a hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 6 lithographed plates, and many smaller wood engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's printed paper boards. [2], XXII, 300 pp. Full description

ROEMER, Jan. Vruchtmandje voor de jeugd.
Amsterdam, J. Kaal, [1811]. 8vo. With a hand-coloured vignette (a fruit basket) on the title-page and 18 hand-coloured full-page plates. Original publisher's stiff brown printed paper boards. "XXXII" [= XXX], 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ROLLAND D'ERCEVILLE, Barthélemy-Gabriel. Recherches sur les prerogatives des dames chez les Gaulaois, sur les cours d'amour.
Paris, chez Nyon I'ainé, Libraire, 1787. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled dark blue morocco. [4], xii, 212, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

ROMAN, Johannes. Scheeps-bedenckingen, gevallen over verscheyde saken die den zee-varenden plachten te ontmoeten ...
Haarlem, Adriaen Roman, 1649. 4to. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title page, a large woodcut portrait of Laurens Janszoon Coster (printer's device of A. Roman, dated 1630 in the block) on the final page, 3 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Later black and orange painted paper wrappers showing a floral design. [1], [1 blank], [2], 23, [1] pp. 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