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Primer in a Bantu dialect for the Finnish Lutheran mission in Namibia

KURVINEN, Pietari. Ondonga kielen ABD. Ensimäinen irja Ondonga kielellä . . . =ABD Moshindonga. Omukanda uatango koshindonga ua piangoa . . .
Helsinki, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran [=Finnish Literature Society], 1876. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, the first in Finnish and the second in Ndonga, a brief preface in both languages, but with the sample texts in Ndonga. Contemporary brown textured cloth. [4], 32 pp. Full description
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Richly illustrated pioneering work of modern Christian biblical scholarship

LABORDE, Léon de. Commentaire géographique sur l'exode et les nombres.
Paris and Leipzig, Renouard (Firmin Didot), 1841. Folio With 13 plates (3 folding and 8 full-page) showing a total of 19 maps, 8 of which are lithographs. Including:
(2) Discours du Roi. Royal Séance du 9 janvier 1843.
Large 8vo. 4 pp.
(3) [A richly illustrated advert for two other works by Laborde (Voyage en Orient and Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée)].
Large 4to. 4 pp.
Contemporary half maroon leather, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers LXI, [1], 146; 48 (supplement) pp. Full description
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A French voyage to the Levant

LA ROQUE, Jean de. Voyage de Syrie et du Mont-Liban.
Paris, André Cailleau, 1722. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 9 engraved plates (5 folding), including a folding map showing the course of the Orontes river; dedication with woodcut coat of arms of De Fleury. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spines with gilt-stamped crest of Henry Edward Bunbury. [12], 347, [1 blank]; [2], 321, [3] pp. Full description
€ 4,950
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Religious suffering versus worldly pleasures, with 7 engraved plates

LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de. Le breviere des courtisans, enrichy d'un grand nombre de figures.
Paris, Jeremie Boüillerot, 1642. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on title page and 7 engraved plates depicting contrasting double-scenes, after designs by Nicolaas van der Horst. Gold-tooled red morocco attributed to Henry Gaillard (active in the third quarter of the 19th century), richly gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges. [6], 304 pp. Full description
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South Africa at the beginning of the 19th century

LATROBE, Charles Ignatius. Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope.
London, W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R. Ackermann, 1818. 4to. With folding map (53 x 27 cm), partly hand-coloured, showing the tracks of the expedition, 12 full-page hand-coloured aquatints, and 4 full-page engravings of coastal views. Later half calf. VII, [1], 406, [2] pp. Full description
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Beautiful prints of early Christian hermits living in the desert

LEU, Thomas de (or de LEEUW) [drawn by Marten de VOS]. [Engraved title:] Solitudo sive vitae patrum eremicolarum ...
[Paris], Thomas de Leu, 1606. Small oblong folio (19 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page, and 29 engraved prints. Gold-tooled blue goatskin morocco (ca. 1890?) bound by Bernard David (or his son Salvador David) in Paris. [1], 29 engraved ll. Full description
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Rare work on the activities of the missionaries in Tahiti

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Narrative of the mission at Otaheite, and other islands in the South Seas; commenced by the London Missionary Society in the year 1797; with a map, and a geographical description of the islands.
London, printed for the society, 1818. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of the islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean, dated June 26, 1818. Modern half red morocco, blue paper sides, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered and decorated in gold. [3], [1 blank], 8, 86 pp. Full description
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Unpublished thesis on the Irish monasteries in the 5th and 6th centuries by a female student

LORCIN, Aimée. La civilisation monastique irlandaise aux Ve et VIe siècles.
Lyon, [unpublished typescript], 1944-1945. Folio (27 x 20.5 cm). With 1 duplicated manuscript map. Stiff brown paper wrappers, black cloth spine. [1], IX, 159 ll. plus 8 loose ll. with additions and corrections. Full description
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Catholic doctrine in 920 mnemonic poems, printed in Mexico

LOZANO, Francisco Xavier. Verdades eternas, confirmadas con la Sagrada Escritura, y expuestas en decimas castellanas para conservarlas facilmente en la memoria.
Mexico, Heirs of Joseph de Jauregui, 1794. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a full-page engraving of San Ignacio de Loyola by Aguera and several woodcut borders and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XIV, 168; 172, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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