Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

[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

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

[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

NAU, Michel. Voyage nouveau de la Terre-Sainte, enrichi de plusieurs remarques particulieres qui servent à l'intelligence de la Sainte Ecriture. Et de diverses reflexions Chrétiennes qui intruisent les Ames devotes dans la conoissance & l'amour de J.C.
Paris, Andre Pralard, 1702. 12mo. Woodcut printer's device and several woodcut headings and endings. Two bookplates (one of 1933) on silk inner side and first leaf. 19th-century red morocco, spine ribbed with 6 compartments of which 4 are richly ornamented with very fine gilt flowers, gilt bordered dentelles, inside boards lined with silk and gilt inside dentelles and gilt edges, the binding is signed "P. BOZERIAN". [20], 661, [3] pp. Full description

[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

NAZIANZENUS, Gregorius and Gregorius NYSSENUS. Orationes novem elegantissimae. Gregorii Nuysseni liber de homine, quae omnia nunc primum, emendatissima, in lucem prodeunt.
[Venice, heirs of Aldus Manuzius and heirs of Andrea Torresano], 1536. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the Aldine woodcut device on the title page and repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled black morocco, with the author, title, publisher, and year lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, gold-tooled tan morocco doublures, pink silk ribbon marker. Bound by François Bozerian (known as Bozerian le Jeune (the Younger), 1765-1826, fl. 1801-1818) and signed in gold lettering by the binder at the foot of the spine: "Rel. P. Bozerian Jeune". 148, "68" [= 76], [4] ll. Full description

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

[NEBRIJA, Antonio de] (editor). Libri minores. et primum Catonis disticha moralia. cum ... annotationibus.
Granada, [Sancho & Sebastián de Nebrija (sons of Antonio de Nebrija)], April (Aesop colophon May) 1545. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With main title in an elaborate ornamental frame made from 4 woodblocks, with numerous figures, beasts, etc.; the Aesop part-title in an ornamental frame 4 different woodblock, with musicians, animals, etc.; 2 drop-titles; and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Set in roman type with authors' names in rotunda gothic type in the margins of the dedication.
Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1652), stitched, with manuscript spine title: [Cato,] Disticha moralia cum an[n]otat[ione]b[us], and 2 leaves from a 1652 Leiden edition of Marcus Minucius Felix as endpapers. [63 of 64] ll. Full description

[NEEDLE CASE]. [Elaborate gilded openwork metal needle case in the form of a miniature book].
[The Netherlands?, circa 1700]. 45 x 43 cm. The "boards", as well as the "spine" of the gilded metal case are in an openwork floral design with scrolling foliage with a standing eagle in the centre. One clasp closure in the middle of the front edge. Both "boards" set with 8 small round cabochon agates (diametre: 7 mm). Full description

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