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JEROME (HIERONYMUS), Saint (subject). Epistola Beati Euseby ad Damasium Portunensem Episcopum & ad Theodomum senatorem Romanum de morte gloriosi Hieronimi doctoris eximy.
[d7:] Epistola Beati Augustini Episcopi ad Cirillum venerabilem Archiepiscopium Hierosolimitanum de vita obitu & miraculis Beatissimi Hieronimi prespiteri & doctoris eximy.
[e5:] Epistola Cirilli Archiepiscopi ad Beatimi Augustinum Episcopium de miraculis gloriosi Hieronimi necnon & de morte Beati Euseby discipuli Sancti Hieronimi.
[Blaubeuren, Conrad Mancz, ca. 1475/77]. Small folio (27.5 x 20 cm). Set in what is sometimes called a gotico-antiqua type (119 mm/20 lines, with 31 lines per page), in this case mixing some roman influences into what is largely a rotunda gothic type. With about 150 "Lombardic" initials in red ink: 2 4-line, 4 3-line, about 140 2-line (1 with pen-work decorations in brown ink) and 4 1-line, in spaces left for that purpose and capitals rubricated throughout. Modern parchment. [130] pp. Full description

[JESSEN, Heinrich]. [Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg].
[Hamburg, B.S. Berendsohn, Wilhelm Jowien, and others], [ca. 1850]. 8vo. With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates (ca. 20 x 12.5 cm) highlighted with egg-white, (44 lithographs, 3 engravings, 3 wood-engravings), including 33 after drawings by Heinrich Jessen. Contemporary blind-stamped decorated red cloth, front board with title lettered in gold. [50] plates. Full description

[JESUITS - JAPAN]. Cartas que los Padres y Hermanos de la Compañia de Iesus, que andan en los Reynos de Iapon ...
Alcalá [der Henares], Spain, Juan Iniguez de Lequerica, 1575. 4to in 8s. With woodcut of the Crucifixion on verso of the colophon (2R4v), woodcut Japanese characters in the text (I8v), and woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary limp vellum, with ties. [6 (of 8)], 315, [5] ll. Full description

[JEWELLED BINDING - FRENCH PRAYER BOOK]. L'abbé de la HOGUE. La journée du chrétien, sanctifiée par la prière et la méditation.
Lyon and Paris, Librairie Catolique de Perisse frères, 1844. 16mo. Binding: ca. 11 x 7 x 2.5 cm. With a small printer's device on the title page. 17th-century elaborately jewelled and decorated gilt silver binding with a gilt silver imperial double-headed eagle and two hands holding a heart centre piece, below Jesus on the cross (with an added skull and bones at the foot of the cross) and ornamental gilt silver corner pieces connected to the gilt silver board edge fittings on both boards. The whole is set with numerous jewels (amethysts, garnets, turquoise, and (simulated) sapphires). With two jewelled clasps closing on pegs in the fore edge of the front board, gilt edges, red velvet paste-downs and blue silk flyleaves backed with paper. VIII, 524, [5], [3 blank] pp. Full description

[JEWELRY MODELS]. [Album with hand-drawn jewelry models].
[Paris?, in or soon after 1872]. Oblong (17.5 x 28 cm). With 101 very neat drawings in ink, some hand-coloured (blue and yellow). Half purple morocco and purpleish-brown weave-grained cloth sides, with "album" lettered in gold on the front board. 52 ll. Full description

[JOMARD, Edmé François]. Arithmétique élémentaire ou tableaux d'arithmétique composés selon les principes et assujetis aux procédés de l'enseignement mutuel; par M. Jomard, secrétaire de la Societé pour l'enseignement élémentaire.
[France?, ca. 1822]. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 19 cm). With 6 folding text leaves. Contemporary quarter vellum. [1], 88, [1 blank] ll. Full description

JONCHÈRE, Charles Chrétien de la. Fables imitées de Lessing, Gellert, Lichtwer, Pfeffel, Dodley, et autres fabulistes étrangers suivies de fables originales.
Stockholm, Johan Imnelius, 1819. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, gilt edges. [2], 144, [2] pp. Full description

JONG, Cornelius de, and J. OLIVIER Jz. Reizen naar de Kaap de Goede Hoop, enz. ... Voor jonge lieden bearbeid.
Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, [1833]. 8vo. With an engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates (including 3 folding). Contemporary half vellum. XII, 208 pp. Full description

[JONG, Dirk de]. De walvischvangst, met veele byzonderheden daartoe betrekkelyk.
Including: Beschryving der haringvisschery.
Amsterdam, Petrus Conradi, and Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1784-1786. 4 parts bound as 1. 4to. With 6 folding engraved maps and 2 folding engraved plates by H. Kobell and M. Sallieth, 3 additional folding and 10 full-page engraved plates. Every title page features a small woodcut illustration, and several woodcut tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half marbled calf and marbled paper sides. VII, [1], 96; [4], 116; [4], 116; [4], 116 pp. Full description

JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius. Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine, brevis commentarii vice adiectis.
Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1540. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, with a central panel on both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border and a blank border, brown sprinkled edges. 64 ll. Full description