Highlights

BALTENSZ, Frans. Samaritane, ofte spieghel der godtsvreesentheyt en eerbaerheydt, ofte gespreeck van den Heere, met het rechtgeloovigh wijf van Samaria, oft uyt Jacob van Ephraim van Sichar, beschreven in het vierde capittel van den evangelist Johanne, in prijs voorghestelt, die met vergeldinghe vergolden wordt, volghens de woorden des Heeren. ... Ofte een woordelijcke verclaringhe, van het vierde capittel des evangelist Johanne. Ghedaen door F. B.
Dordrecht, Frans Baltensz., 1648.
With:
(2) OVERSCHIE, Francois Jakob van. Oiwd niiws of volbragte belofte, by tyd-uytkoop, bestaande in een geheel leeves bestuur, voor den uytgeever en de zyne besonder by een gestelt; ook ten diinst van andre op vriindelyk en sterk aansouk, of 't nut deed, meegedeelt: onder andre is hiir in 't Godlik kindschap beknopt te siin.
Delft, Pieter vander Kloot, 1735.
(3) [NATURA ET ARTE]. Brief, aen den edelen achtbaren Heere Mr. Francois Jacob van Overschie, raed en schepen der stat Delf, op de uitgave van zyn Oiwd Niiws of volbrachte belofte enz.
Rotterdam, Philip Losel, 1735. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 10 parts. Ad 1: 8vo but mounted into 4to-size leaves; ads 2-3: 4to. Ad 1 with 8 divisional title pages (within collation but also including the impressum, the start of the explanation of the "vijfde capittel" can be found on O4r on the second half of the page). Ad 2 with a woodcut ornament on the title page. Ad 3 signed "Natura et Arte" in brown ink on p. 2. 18th-century gold-tooled olive-brown morocco, with two reddish-brown leather title-labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 51, [1 blank], 315, [1 blank]; [8], 112, [4]; 8 pp. Full description

[BOOK OF HOURS]. Officium b[eatae] Mariae virg[inis], nuper reformatum et Pii V. Pont. Max iussu editum. Ad instar Breviarii Romani sub Urbano VIII recogniti. Ubi omnia suis locis sunt extensa. Cum Indugentiis & Orationibus ... & Hymns ab Urbano VIII correctis. Accedunt Psalmi Vesperarum & completorii ... una cum Rosario B. Mariae.
Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, widow of Balthasar Moretus, 1677. 32mo. Printed in red and black, within frame of double ruling, with 16 full-page engravings (ca. 60 x 34 mm). 19th-century gold-tooled dark blue grained morocco. [64], 712, [4] pp. Full description

[BOOK OF PSALMS]. Les CL pseaumes de David.
Amsterdam, Daniel du Fresne, [ca. 1672-1693]. 64mo in 8s (ca. 7 x 4 cm). With an engraved frontispiece, and decorated woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary black shagreen. [175] II. Full description

[BOOK OF PSALMS]. Het boek der psalmen, nevens de gezangen bij de hervormde kerk van Nederland in gebruik; door last van de hoog mog: heeren staaten generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, uit drie berijmingen, in den jaare 1773. Gekooren, met de noodige daar in gemaakte veranderingen.
Amsterdam, heirs and widow of J. Ratelband and J. Bouwer, 1781. 3 parts in 1 volume 32mo (8 x 5 x 3 cm). With a full-page engraved frontispiece showing David playing his harp in the clouds, the title is set within a frame built up from typographical ornaments, and with music notation in the text. Further with the (woodcut) stamp of the city of Amsterdam, together with a manuscript signature of Johannes Jacobus Kessler ("J J Kessler") in brown ink, at the end of the "acte van consent" on A1v-A2r. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, gold-tooled board edges, and (faded) blue marbled edges. [214 (of 216)] II Full description

CONDIO, Luigi. Preghiere. Miniature di Vittorio Vulten.
Torino, Carlo de Martini (printed by Stab. Litografico Giovanni Fraschini & C., Milan), 1902. 18mo (13.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 cm). A wholly chromolithographed Art Nouveau prayer book, printed in numerous pastel colours plus gold, with (mostly floral) decoration on every page and numerous additional illustrations. In a silver binding (hallmarked "800" at the foot of the otherwise blank back cover), with "Our Lady of the Rosary" from the shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary in Pompei depicted on the front cover in high relief (madonna and child presenting rosaries to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine) flanked by two irises, above "Ave Maria" and a panel with "SS. Vergine di Pompei", endpapers lithographed in pastel colours plus gold, in a repeating pattern of abstracted flowers, crosses, anchors, hearts and initials "VD" or "DV", gilt edges. [104] pp. Full description

[LANDRY, Pierre]. La Sainte Messe, ou sont representés par les actions du prêtre les misteres de la passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ avec les oraisons appliqué à chacun mistere. Ouvrage tres utile aux fideles pour assister devotement a ce Saint Sacrifice.
Paris, chez Pierre Landry, [ca. 1690]. 12mo. With an engraved title, 35 numbered full-page engraved plates, and 37 engraved text leaves. Early 20th-century richly gold-tooled red morocco, signed and dated (1918) by Charles de Samblanx. [73] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - SERVICE BOOK - DIVINE OFFICES]. Ordine da osservarsi nell'oratorio di Santa Maria di Passione, circa gli Essercicii Spirituali delle feste cavato dalla Regola maggiore.
[Milan], [18th-century]. Folio (27,5 x 18,5 cm). With 5 full-page and 2 half-page, hand-painted religious illustrations and 9 hand-painted initials on a blue background, heightened with gold and silver. 18th-century gold- and blind-tooled parchment, each board with a blind ornamental centre-piece ornament in a blind-tooled frame, in a larger frame of gold fillets, with a gold flower in each of the 6 spine compartments. [1 blank], [1], 66 pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - RELIGION - DUTCH - KLAUBER, Joseph Sebastian and Johann Baptist KLAUBER (engravers)]. [Stigtelyke uytbreiding der Litanie van O.L. Vrouwe van Loretten. Op rym gestelt tot geestelyk vermaak en vermeerdering der devotie tot de selve alder-heyligste Maget en Moeder Godts Maria. In 't ligt gegeven door M.V.D.L.].
[Flanders?, 1792]. 8vo. With 56 tipped in numbered engraved plates, and a hand-drawn frame in brown ink on every page, in which the text is written. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf in a clear plastic protective sleeve. [8], [1 blank], "55" [= 90] pp. Full description

PETRARCA, Francesco (attributed). Psalmi confessionales.
[Deventer, Albert Pafraet, ca. 1514-1517]. 8vo. With 2 allegorical woodcut illustrations. The first, on the title-page, shows "Cognitio" leaving the room to go inquire who wounded the Daughter (of) Zion. The second, on the last page, shows "Spes", "Fides" and "Cognitio" comforting the Daughter (of) Zion, who is lying in bed. Later sheepskin parchment with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [6] ff, Full description

[PSALTERIUM - ELZEVIER]. Psalterium Davidis, ad exemplar Vaticanum Anni 1592.
Leiden, Johannes and Daniel Elzevier, 1653. 12mo. With an engraved title, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Slightly later red morocco. 381, [1 blank] pp. Full description

RINTJES, Hendrik. De morgenstond in haer somersche vermakelikheden vertoont, en, tot s alderhoogsten lof, doorgaens leersaam toegeëigent. Op de maet van den achten psalm geriimt. Deesen tweeden druk meer als de helft vermeerdert.
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1690. 12 works in 1 volume. 4to (and 2 broadsheets of ca. 36-3 x 28-29 cm. folded to fit the 4to binding). Ad 1 with an engraved title page with the title in a floral cartouche and five separate landscapes at sunrise by Jan Luyken, a woodcut printers device on the typographical title page, and further with woodcut initials and tailpieces. Ad 2 with a large woodcut decorated initial, and the text is set in 2 columns. Ad 3 with a large woodcut vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut tailpieces. Ad 4 with an engraved illustration on the title page, a woodcut decorated initial, and several woodcut tailpieces. Ad 5 with a woodcut vignette on the title page and a woodcut decorated initial. Ad 6 with a woodcut decorated initial. Ad 7 with a woodcut vignette on the title page and a woodcut decorated initial. Ad 8 with 2 woodcut decorated initials and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 9 with a woodcut decorated initial and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 10 without any decoration. Ad 11 with a decoration between the 2 text columns built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 12 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 woodcut decorated initials, and 6 half-page engraved illustrations in the text. With:
(2) BRAKEL, Wilhelmus à. Geestelijke aandachten op de twaalf maanden des eersten jaars der achtiende eeuwe. 1701.
Rotterdam, Reynier van Doesburg, 1701.
(3) ROOS, Joan de. De Godheid betoogt door de natuurkunde, en heilige bespiegelingen over de drie-eenigheid Gods: nevens een toetssteen der waarheid.
Haarlem, Mozes van Hulkenroy, 1725.
(4) BENT, Jan. Rym-gedachten, over de voornaamste stukken van het lyden der weerelt heiland Jezus Christus.
Alkmaar, Nicolaas Mol, 1726.
(5) [DROSTE, Coenraet]. Dancksegging en overdencking naer het H. Nagtmael onses heeren Jesu Christi.
The Hague, Gerrit Rammazeyn, [ca. 1710].
(6) [POOT, Hubert Korneliszoon], Op den hoogen Watervloet, omtrent het einde des jaers MDCC XVII.
[1718].
(7) [CENTEN, Izaak]. Gods oordelen over Nederland, in de sterfte van t rundvee, den zwaren storm, en hogen watervloed.
Amsterdam, Johannes Oosterwyk, 1718.
(8) [VRIES, P.D.]. De oordeelen Gods over Nederlant, gezien in voorgaande jaren, maar byzonder in den jare 1726. Met het doorbreken van verscheide dyken.
(Colophon:) Rotterdam, Johannes van Eik, 1726.
(9) [HOOGSTRATEN, Jan van]. Sodoms appel, of gruwel der verwoesting.
[late 17th- or early 18th-century].
(10) Landsmet, of aller gruwelen gruwel.
[ca. 1730].
(11) Het klagende Nederlandt.
[ca. 1730].
(12) RUARUS, David. Des werelds ondergang.
Amsterdam, David Ruarus, 1687.
Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [8], 44; [1], [1 blank]; 19, [1]; [1], [1 blank], [22], 58, [1], [1 blank]; 13, [1 blank]; 8; [1], [1 blank], [10]; 12; 8; 8; [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [6], 48 pp. Full description

SENAULT, Elisabeth (engraver). Heures nouvelles dédiées à Monseigneur Dauphin. Ecrites et gravées par Elisabeth Senault.
Paris, Chez Claude De Hansy, [before 1715 (ca. 1690?)]. 12mo. With the text fully engraved and set within a decorative border, several engraved floral initials, and head- and tailpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco by Charles Petit. [4], 212 pp. Full description