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Early humanist edition, printed by Plantin

AESCHYLOS and Gulielmus CANTERUS (editor). Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium, ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1580. 16mo. With a small woodcut printer's device on the title page, 9 decorated woodcut initials, 7 woodcut headpieces, and 8 woodcut tailpieces, further with printed manicules in the margins throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [2 blank], 355, [1 blank], [7], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics Music, Theatre & Dance Plantin Press School & Textbooks
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One of the earliest Antwerp records of Charles V’s Italian financier

AFFAITATI, Giovan Carlo (Johannes Carolus de AFFAYTADI). Ratificatio facta p[er] m[agnifi]cu[m] d[ominum] Jo[hannes] Carolu[s] de Affaytalis, in favorem m[agnifi]ci et r[everen]di d[omino]. Guidi d[e] Crema et Rafaelis Krumani p[e]r Castro S[anc]ti Laurentii et terris.
Antwerp, 20 January 1546. Manuscript notarial document in Latin, written in a Latin hand on one side of a single piece of sheepskin parchment (31 x 54.5 cm), opening with a large capital and closing with the notary's decorative signature, with the title and "M. Johan Carlo" on the back. Folded and loosely inserted in a paper folder (ca. 1690s?). [1] leaf. Full description
€ 1,250
Belgium Economic History & Trade Italy Manuscripts & Documents
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Extensively illustrated classic of cosmography, geodesy, mensuration, perspective and optics

APIANUS (APIAN), Petrus and Gemma FRISIUS. Cosmographia.
Antwerp, Jan Verwithagen (colophon: printed by Verwithagen), 1574. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title-page (with a terrestrial globe and other instruments); 4 printed paper volvelles with moving parts and a woodcut sun dial with a string attached to its centre; a folding woodcut cordiform mappa mundi (block size 19×27.5 cm) with letterpress text in the margins; well over 100 further woodcut illustrations, diagrams, maps, etc., in the text. Recased in 17th-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment. [2], 64, [2] ll. plus folding woodcut. Full description
€ 12,500
Astronomy & Cosmography Charts & Maps Early Printing - 16th century Earth Sciences Mathematics Optics & Perspective Science
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The hexameter acts of the apostles by Arator

ARATOR. Acta apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1534 (impressum: 1535). 8vo (15.2 x 9.7 cm). With the title on the verso of leaf 24 underlined in red ink and the accompanying initial also coloured in red. Modern half brown calf. [48] ll. Full description
€ 1,250
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Religion (16th Century)
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The work that gave rise to the Batavian myth

AURELIUS, Cornelius Gerardi. Batavia, sive de antiquo veroque eius insulae quam Rhenus in Hollandia facit situ, descriptione & laudibus; adversus Gerardum Noviomagum, libri duo ...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1586. 8vo (16.6 x 10.7 cm). With a woodcut device on the title page and woodcut initials throughout. Limp vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints (top one broken), with a green morocco label lettered "Batavia Ant. 1686" in gold on the spine. [16], 135, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 700
Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Netherlands Philosophy & Humanism
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Shaping Brabant’s past: a Humanist chronicle

BARLANDUS, Adrianus. Rerum gestarum Brabantiae ducibus historia, nunc primum Latine conscripta ... usque in annum vigesimu[m] sextu[m] supra 1500 restitutae salutis ... Catalogus insignium oppidorum Germaniae inferioris. Emendationes, quibus incuriae typographorum occurritur.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Hadrianus Tilanus & Johannes Hoochstraten, 1526. 8vo (12.8 x 8.9 cm). With woodcut frame on the title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. 19th-century half vellum. [148] pp. Full description
€ 950
Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Philosophy & Humanism
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The definitive edition of an anthology of classical and Humanist anecdotes

BARLANDUS, Adrianus. Jocorum veterum ac recentium libris tres ... Primae aeditioni nunc adjecti sunt libri duo.
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten for (colophon:) Gregorius de Bonte, 1529. 8vo. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page, and several woodcut initials throughout. 18th-century mottled calf. [64] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Caricature & Satire Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Greek & Roman Classics Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism
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Lavishly and vividly hand-coloured copy of the famous Moerentorf Bible by Moretus & Keerberghen, the standard Dutch translation of the Vulgate for centuries, in contemporary, richly blind-tooled calf

[BIBLE - DUTCH - VULGATE]. Biblia sacra. Dat is de geheele heylighe schrifture bedeylt int out ende nieu Testament ...
Antwerp, (colophon: printed by Daniel Vervliet and Hendrik Swingen for) Jan I Moretus & Jan I van Keerberghen, 1599. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With an engraved title page (coloured by a contemporary hand with extensive use of gold) showing Moses on the left, David on the right, and the four evangelists below, and 90 woodcuts in the text of both the Old and the New Testament, all except one vividly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports, with brass catchplates, remnants of leather strap fastenings, brass corner pieces on all corners and a brass centrepiece on each board, all with brass bosses. [4], 410; [106] ll. Full description
€ 27,500
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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Latin New Testament printed by Plantin, in an attractive binding with elaborately gauffered edges

[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - LATIN]. Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1564[-1565].
With: (2) [BIBLE - ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BIBLICAL NAMES AND PLACES]. Hebraea, Chaldaea, Graeca, et Latina nomina virorum, mulierum, populorum, idolorum, urbium, fluviorum, montiu[m], caeterorumq.; locorum quae in Bebliis sparsa leguntur ... cum Latina interpretatione: additis etiam Bibliorum locis in quibus ita scripta legu[n]tur: qua in re interpretationem quae in Bibliis Compluti excusis erat ....
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565. 2 works in 1 volume, the 1st in 2 parts. 16mo (11.2 x 7.2 cm). With Plantins woodcut compasses device on both title pages ("Labore et constantia"), with woodcut decorated initials throughout the first work (and 1 in the second). Hebrew and Greek types in 2nd work. Contemporary blind- and gold-tooled calf, each board with a doubler frame of blind double fillets with a small gold fleuron in the centre and a gold curl at each corner of the inner frame, gilt and elaborately gauffered edges, including floral decorations and six-pointed stars. 316, [68]; [111] [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,950
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Plantin Press Religion (16th Century)
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Bishop Pierre-Daniel Huet's psalmbook with his annotations

[BIBLE - PSALMBOOK]. PSALTERION. Prophetou kai Basileoos tou David [in Greek type] - Davidis Regis ac Prophetae Psalmorum Liber. Ad exemplar Complutense.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1584. 16mo (11,8 x 8 cm). With woodcut printer's device on the title page, the text is partially printed in Greek. Late 17th-century dark brown calf, with gold-stamped coat of arms of Pierre-Daniel Huet on both covers and gold-tooled dubbel-lined borders on covers and spine, (faded) red speckled edges. 267, [13] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Plantin Press Religion (16th Century)
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A foundational work of early modern anthropology

BOEMUS, Joannes. Omnium gentium mores, leges & ritus ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, nuper collecti, & novissime recogniti. Tribus libris absolutum opus, Aphricam, Asiam, & Europam describentibus. Accessit libellus de regionibus septentrionalibus
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1538. 8vo (14.7 x 9.6). With a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and some woodcut initials. Later vellum. 149, [3] ll. Full description
€ 850
Anthropology & Ethnography Early Printing - 16th century
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The future King Philip II of Spain’s travels from Spain to the Low Countries: eye-witness account by his tutor

CALVETE DE ESTRELLA, Juan Cristóbal. El felicissimo viaje d'el muy alto y muy poderoso Principe Don Phelippe, hijo d'el Emperador Don Carlos Quinto Maximo, desde España à sus tierras dela Baxa Alemaña: con la descripcion de todos los estados de Brabante y Flandes. Escrito en quatro libros, ...
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius I, 1552 (colophon 25 May 1552). Small folio (27 x 19.5 cm). With the woodcut arms of Charles V on title-page, a full-page woodcut triumphal arch erected in Ghent for Philip's entry, Nutius's woodcut device at the end, and dozens of woodcut decorated initials (4 series). Near contemporary limp vellum, with 6 fragments of a 16th-century manuscript reinforcing the spine of the bookblock, blind- and (later) gold-tooled spine. [8], 335, [19] ll. Full description
€ 9,000
Belgium Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Early Printing - 16th century Germany Italy Netherlands Spain Travel & Voyages Europe Travel Low Countries
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Contemporary accounts of two power struggles, in Italy and in the Low Countries

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis [in the running heads: "De bello Mediolanensi"] libro octo ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser), 1533.
With: (2) SERVILIUS, Johannes (Jan KNAAP). Geldrogallica conjuratio in totius Belgicae clarissimam civitatem Antverpiam, duce Martino Rosheymio, ...
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Contemporary vellum wrappers, with 2 fragments of the March and April calendar leaf (in red and black) of a manuscript Missale romanum (ca. 1475/1500?) used as end leaves. 96; [44] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Italy Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Netherlands
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Correspondence of Emperor Charles V with King Francis I and Pope Clement VII
during the Italian Wars, from the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

[CHARLES V]. Pro invictiss[imo] Caesare Carolo ... ad epistolam Franci Regis ad Principes Imperii transmissam, necnon ad apologiam Madriciae conventionis dissuasoriam, responsio, ac erudita admodum refutatio. Cum aliis nonnullis ... (&c.).
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 19 August 1527. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the final page of ad 1, and 2 decorated woodcut initials in ad 2. With (bound before ad 1): [CLEMENT VII, Pope]. Epistolae duae, Altera Clementis VII Papae ad Karolum V Imperatorem Aug. etc. Altera Karoli V, Imp. Aug. etc. Clementi respondentis.
Cologne, [Petrus Quentell?], March 1527.17th-century vellum. [88]; [48] ll. Full description
€ 3,950
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century France History / 16th Century Italy Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Religion (16th Century) Spain
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Rare 1542 edition of one of the most important works of Saint John Chrysostomom

CHRYSOSTOM, John. In sanctum Jesu Christi evangelium secundum Matthaeum commentarii, diligenter ab Arrianorum faecibus purgati, & in lucem in sacrae paginae tyronum gratiam modo recens sub minoriforma aediti.
Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542.
With: CHRYSOSTOM, John. Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matthaeum in decem Homilias divisa.
Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with two woodcut initials at the beginning of the introduction and the prologue, of 2 different series, and a large woodcut printer's device on the last page, showing a staff, surrounded by doves and the text 'steelsius', stuck in a plaquette that says 'concordia, res parue crescunt'. Ad 2: with a woodcut initial on the first leaf. Contemporary Flemish blind-tooled, panel-stamped calf, with a tripartite panel on both sides and remnants of ties. [8],"313" [=314], [1]; 47, [1] ll. Full description
€ 9,500
Antwerp Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Bindings Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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Extremely rare Dutch translation of a devotional work by the Church father Johannes Chrysostomus
in an attractive contemporary Antwerp panel binding

CHRYSOSTOMUS, Johannes (Antonius VAN HEMERT, translator). Van die beweechnisse des herten, tot berouwe der sonde[n]. ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Symon Cock, 18 August 1546. 8vo. With the title-page in red and black in a framework of thin rules, 6 woodcut decorated initials and 2 vine-leaf ornaments. Set in 3 sizes of textura gothic types. A very interesting Antwerp binding of contemporary panel-stamped calf, each board with the same panel, showing 2 medallion portraits in, the whole surrounded by a floral decorative border, interesting fastenings with cord loops that fasten to bone buttons on leather straps. [131], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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Beautiful series illustrating the Book of Revelations, printed in Antwerp

[COLLAERT, Adriaan and Gerard de JODE]. Icones revelationum S. Johannis Evangeliste in Pathmo.
[Antwerp], Gerard de Jode, [ca. 1585]. Ca. 12 x 10.8 cm. With an engraved title page, and 24 full-page numbered engraved plates. 19th-century quarter vellum, marbled paper sides. Full description
€ 2,750
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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The complete series of Collaert's views around Brussels in its first state

COLLAERT, Hans I [after Hans BOL or Jacob GRIMMER?]. [Views in the vicinity of Brussels].
[Antwerp], Hans van Luyck, [ca. 1575/80]. Oblong folio album (24.5 x 35.5 cm). Series of 24 engravings (plate size ca. 20 x 14 cm) with views of landscapes around Brussels, by Hans I Collaert possibly after Hans Bol or Jacob Grimmer, each with a caption in the plate (plates 8 and 20 also with Van Luyck and Collaert's monograms "H.V.L.EX[cudit]" and "H.C.F[ecit]"). Trimmed down to the plate edge and mounted on album leaves, numbered in pencil on the album leaves, next to the engravings. Modern red half cloth, marbled sides. [24] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
Belgium City Plans, Topography & Views Early Printing - 16th century Prints & Print Series
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Defending the Church in turbulent times

CROCUS, Cornelius. Ecclesia ad confirmandam fidem catholicorum dogmatum, & stabiliendos animos adversus falsae doctrinae ventos, nimium extremis hisce periculosis temporibus ...
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus (colophon:) for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. 8vo (15.3 x 8.5 cm). With a full page woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern printer's waste paper binding. [55] ll. Full description
€ 2,250
Antwerp Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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A window onto the growing botanical world: early herbals by Dodoens and Plantin

DODOENS, Rembert. Florum et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia ... altera editio.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1569. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with 109 full-page woodcut illustrations, a woodcut incorporating Plantins device on the title page, one headpiece and one tailpiece, and several woodcut initials throughout. Ad 2: with 86 full-page woodcut illustrations, and with the same Plantin device on the title page. With:
(2) IDEM. Historia frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilium herbarum, ac eorum, additae sunt imagines vivae exactissimae, jam recens non absque haud vulgari diligentia et fide artificiosissime expressae, quarum pleruque novae, et hactenus non editae.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1569.
17th-century gold -tooled vellum, both boards show the stylised monogram of Denis de Sallo as a gold-tooled centrepiece within a single fillet frame, the author and title are lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, gilt edges. "309" [=311], [8], [1 blank]; 293, [1 blank], [9], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Flowering Plants Gastronomy Herbals & Medical Botany Horticulture Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Plantin Press Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Attacking Anabaptism: first edition of an apologetic work
by a leading Dutch Catholic of the Counter Reformation

DUNCAN, Martin. Anabaptisticae haereseos confutatio, et vere Christiani baptismi, ac potissimum paedobaptismatis assertio in duos libros divisa, quorum prior veram Christiani baptismi energiam declarat, posterior paedobaptismatis Christianam institutionem ex sacris literis demonstrat, contra Mennonis Simonis Frisii Anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias.
[part 2 title:] Liber posterior de paedobaptismate seu parvulorum baptismo, contra Menonis Simonis Frisii Anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias.
Antwerp, Johannes Gravius, 1549. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With printer's device on the title of the second part, many interesting woodcut initials. 17th-century boards covered with marbled paper. [15], [1 blank], 227 ll. Full description
€ 5,000
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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A call for peace amid Reformation turmoil

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Liber de sarcienda ecclesiae concordia deque sedandis opinionum dissidiis, cum aliis non nullis lectu dignis. Omnia recens nata, et nunc primum typis excusa.
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut illustration incorporating Hillen van Hoochstratens device on the last page, and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Modern boards covered with a leaf from a Latin incunable, probably part of a commentary on the Song of Solomon, red sprinkled edges. [56] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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On the art of preaching: one of Erasmus' major works

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Ecclesiaastae [!] sive de ratione concionandi libri quatuor, opus recens, denuo ab autore recognitum, sed cum indice accuratiore quam antehac & copiosiore.
Antwerp, sub intersignio Rubri Castri (= Guilielmus Montanus), 1539. Small 8vo. With an architectural woodcut border on the title page, 7 decorated metalcut initials, 5 woodcut headpieces, 7 woodcut tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. 18th-century half vellum. "549" [=544], [31], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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1st Antwerp edition of Seyssel's French Eusebius, the contemporary binding with an unusual Flemish panel stamp

EUSEBIUS. L[']histoire ecclesiastique ..., translatee de Latin en Fra[n]coys, par Messire Claude de Seyssel, Evesque lors de Marseille, & depuis Archevesque de Thurin.
Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser, 1533 (colophon: 17 April). 8vo. With a woodcut border on the title-page, assembled from 4 blocks (that at the foot with De Keyser's printer's device), about 10 woodcut decorated initials plus about 10 repeats (2 gothic series and 2 roman series). Set in three sizes of bastarda type with textura initials. Contemporary Flemish blind panel-stamped calf, each board with the same panel and double and single fillets, a triple fillet in the panel stamp separating the inner and outer panel. The inner is an acorn cresting panel with 4 1/2 acorns on each side and the flowers not attached to the acorns, remnants of leather ties. [12], "297" [= 299], [1] ll. Full description
€ 7,500
Bindings Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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First Dutch translation of the Historia ecclesiastica

EUSEBIUS PAMPHILUS. Die Historie diemen heet ecclesiastica ... (&c.). nu ... ouerghesedt in onser duytscher spraken.
Antwerp, Govert van der Haghen, May 1534. Small folio. With the title printed in red and black, set within an elaborate woodcut title border, 12 decorated woodcut initials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. 17th-century vellum. [6], CLIII, [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 9,500
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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Early bogus claim to have squared the circle, with the circle’s views on the matter

FALCO, Jacobus (Jaime Juan FALCÓ y SEGURA). Hanc circuli quadraturam invenit.
Antwerp, Petrus Bellerus (Peter Belaert), 1591. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut of Euclid (or possibly Archimedes) with an enormous pair of dividers in his right hand and a book in his left, and between the two legs of the dividers a sceptre passing through a crown, and 29 woodcut diagrams. 20th-century half calf. 29, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Early Printing - 16th century Mathematics
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Causes and cures for flatulence

FIENUS, Joannes. De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.
Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. 215, [5], [4 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Antwerp Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)
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Sixteenth century commentary on psalms by the Italian humanist Marcus Antonius Flaminius
in an attractive binding

FLAMINIUS, Marcus Antonius. M. Antonii Flaminii in Librum Psalmorum Brevis Explanatio, ad Alexandrum Farnesium Cardinalem amplissimum ...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1558.
With: (2) FLAMINIUS, Marcus Antonius. M. Antonii Flaminii De Rebus Divinis Carmina ad Margaritam Henrici Gallorum Regis sororem.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1558.
2 works in 1 volume. 16mo (11.4 x 7.7 cm). With woodcut printer's device on both title pages: "Labore et constantia" and a different one on the verso of the final blank page of the second work: "Christus vera vitis". Ruled in brown/red throughout, 2 decorated initials at the beginning of the first work and 3 in the second work. Contemporary brown leather, gold-stamped frame and ornamental centrepieces on both covers, gold-tooling on spine, gold edges with blind-tooled arabesques. 365, [3]; [24] ll. Full description
€ 3,450
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Plantin Press
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A rare 16th-century Dutch devotional work printed in Antwerp

[FLORIS VAN HAARLEM]. Den wech des levens. Een gheestelijc boecxken leerende hoe dat ee[n] goet kerste[n] mensch moet beginne[n] en[de] voortgaen in duechden, met veel devote ghebede[n] en[de] gheestelike corte vermaninghe[n] om tot een warachtich gheestelijc leven te comen.
[Antwerp, Heyndrick Peetersen van Middelburg, 1547?]. 8vo. With title printed in black and red, within woodcut borders. Contemporary slightly overlapping parchment, remnants of ties. [200] ll. Full description
€ 7,500
Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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On the conquest of Africa and the Ottoman corsair Dragut

FUENTES, Diego de. Conquista de Africa donde se hallaran agora nuevamente recopiladas muchas y muy notables hazanas de particulares cavalleros.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570.
With (bound before ad 1): (2) VALLES, Pedro. Historia del fortissimo, y prudentissimo Capitan Don Hernando de Avalos Marques de Pescara con los hechos memorables de otros siete ... Capitanes del Emperador Don Carlos V.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Late-19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco "71" [= 72]; [8], "255" [=354], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa Spain Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Affirming the rights of Emperor Charles V to the Duchy of Gelre and the County of Zutphen

[GELDERLAND]. Het bescheet vanden Keyser Kaerle de vijfde van desen name, uutgegheven inden Rycxdach van Reynsborch Int iaer ons heeren M.D. ende XLI. vanden goeden rechte dat hij heeft tot ten hertochdom van Geldre ende Graefschap van Zutphen, Ende oock de wederlegghinghe, ende wederbescheet van heer Willem hertoch van Cleve te Franckfoort ghedaen Int iaer ons heeren M.D. XXXIX overgeset uiten latijn in duytsche.
Antwerp, Marten Vermeere, [1541]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Charles V on title-page. 19th-century half calf, brown decorated paper sides. [64] ll. Full description
€ 5,000
Early Printing - 16th century Germany Law & Politics Spain
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Rare edition printed under the patronage of Erardus de Marcha, prince-bishop of Liège

[GERSON, Jean]. Opus tripartitu[m] Tractans de preceptis. De confessione et de arte bene moriendi.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten), [ca. 1512]. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page, the title printed in red and black, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later vellum, red edges. [16] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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First edition of the only known contemporary source on the history of Britain directly after Roman departure

GILDAS and Polydore VERGIL (editor). Opus novum ... de calamitate excidio, et conquestu Britanniae, quam Angliam nunc vocant ...
[Antwerp, Christopher van Ruremund?, 1525]. Small 8vo. With 3 decorated criblé initials. Modern blind-tooled dark green calf by the Period Bookbinders in Bath. [44] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Early Printing - 16th century UK - United Kingdom
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One of the first European books printed with Chinese type

GONZALES DE MENDOÇA, Juan. Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del Gran Reyno de la China, sabidas assi por los libros de los mesmos Chinas, como por relacion de religiosos y otras personas que an estado en eldicho reyno.
Antwerp, Pierre Bellère I, 1596. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device and some woodcut initials. With a few (woodcut?) Chinese characters in the text. Contemporary mottled calf. [24], 380, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,000
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Antwerp on parade: the city staged for a prince,
finely bound by Albert Magnus for Paulo van Uchelen (ca. 1641-1702)

GRAPHEUS, Cornelius Scribonius, and Gilles COPPENS VAN DIEST (translator). De triumphe van Antwerpen. De seer wonderlijcke, schoone, triumphelijcke incompst, van den hooghmogenden prince Philips, prince van Spaignen ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Gillis Coppens van Diest for Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1550. Folio. With 24 mainly full-page woodcut illustrations, 4 double-page woodcut illustrations, and 1 folding plate, a half-title within a woodcut ornamental frame, and a frame on the colophon leaf. With several woodcut initials throughout, including 1 coloured in red. 17th-century gold-tooled vellum, bound by Albert Magnus for the Dutch book collector Paulo van Uchelen, each board showing a gold-tooled double fillet frame with small floral cornerpieces surrounding a gold-tooled frame built up from 2 double fillets with crown cornerpieces on the outside corners of the inner frame. The title lettered in black on the spine, and with the number "315" written in brown ink at the head. Sewn on six supports, with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [56] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
Antwerp Belgium Bindings Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century
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Early work on navigation and a primary source for seamen’s “barbaric” language

GUEVARA, Antonio de. Libro de los inventores del arte de marear, y de muchos trabajos que se passan enlas galeras. ... Tocanse enel muy excellentes antiguedades, y avisos muy notables para los que navegan en galeras.
Antwerp, Martin Nutius, [ca. 1545/46]. Small 8vo (13.5 x 10 cm). With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. Set in rotunda gothic type with a few words in a large roman. Blind-tooled brown goatskin (1920s?) in 16th-century style by Victor Arias (1856-1935) in Madrid, gold-tooled turn-ins. XXIX, [1], [2 blank] ll. Full description
€ 12,000
Early Printing - 16th century Language & Linguistics Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Navigation
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First edition of Guicciardini's celebrated 16th-century description of the Low Countries

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, 5 double-page woodcut maps (including 1 folding), 4 double-page woodcut views of cities, 6 double-page woodcut plans of cities, and 2 double-page illustrations of buildings (1 woodcut, 1 engraved). Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 parchment tapes laced through the joints. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Belgium City Plans, Topography & Views Netherlands
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The legendary 16th-century illustrated description of the Low Countries
in its first edition in French - with a very early acquisition date: 10 March 1567!

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Description de tout le Païs-Bas autrement dict la Germanie inferieure, ou Basse-Allemaigne ... Avec diverses cartes geographiques dudit païs. Aussi le pourtraict daucunes villes principales ... Avec un ample discours sur le faict de la negotiation et trafique des marchandises qui se fait audit pays. Plus une table ...
Antwerp, Guillaume Silvius, 1567. Folio. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 1 folding engraved map of the Low Countries by Cornelis de Hooghe, 1 folding engraved view of the town hall of Antwerp, the woodcut coat of arms and portrait of King Philip II, and 15 double-page woodcut maps, plans and (bird's-eye) views after Jacob van Deventer in the text, the title is set within a frame of ornamental typographical elements (also used for the half-titles and head-pieces) and woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled calf. [24], "389" [=405], [26] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Belgium Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Netherlands
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First edition of Guicciardini's celebrated description of the Low Countries

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, and 17 double-page plates, maps and views (15 woodcuts, 2 engravings).Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later vellum. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 8,000
Atlases & Globes Belgium Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands
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One of the most important works on the Low Countries in the 16th century

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore. Con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & col ritratto al naturale di molte terre principali; rineduta di nuovo , & ampliata per tutto la terz a volta dal medesimo autore. Al gran're Cattolico don Filippo d'Austria. Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1588. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece of the Low Countries (Belgia), an engraved architectural title in its first state with printed text, an engraved plate with a border of the coat of arms of the 16 Provinces and that of Brabant together with the coat of arms of Philip II in the centre pasted in, an engraved plate with an allegorical depiction of the Arts and Sciences and an architectural border with the portrait of Philip II in the centre, a large woodcut coat of arms of Guicciardini, 64 double-page engraved maps and views, 6 full-page engraved maps and views, 4 single pages with on each 2 engraved maps, woodcut headpieces and initials.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, with an oval centrepiece on both boards within a decorative frame, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [24], 432, [18] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Belgium Charts & Maps Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Netherlands Plantin Press
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An Antwerp union of the Iliad and Odyssey

HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528.
With:
(2) IDEM. Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked. 183; 259, [8]; [1], "184-214" [=31], [8] ll. Full description
€ 3,750
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics
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Plantin edition of an early Christian classic

IGNATIUS of ANTIOCH. [In Greek:] Toi en agiois ieromartiros ignatioi archiepiskopioi antiocheias, epistolai. (In Greek).- Antiochiae, & martyris epistolae, prosus apostolicae. (In Latin).
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin (colophon:) 8 August, 1566.
With: IDEM. Antiochiae, & martyris epistolae, prorsus apostolicae.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1566. Small 8vo. With Plantins woodcut compasses device on each title page and a couple decorated woodcut initials. Set in italic and Greek type. Contemporary calf. 69, [1 blank]; 78 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Variant of the rare editio princeps of a famous emblem book printed by Plantin

JUNIUS, Hadrianus. [title page *1:] Eiusdem Aenigmatum libellus, ad ... Arnoldum Rosenbergum jurisconsultum. [title page A1:] Emblemata, ad D. Arnoldum Cobeliu. Eiusdem Aenigmatum libellus, ad ... Arnoldum Rosenbergum.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565 (colophon:) 15 May 1565. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (17 x 11.5 cm). With 57 woodcut emblems, mainly by Gerard Janssen van Kampen with a few by Arnold Nicolai, all after Geoffroy Ballain and Pierre Huys. Red goatskin morocco (ca. 1850/60?) by Charles-François Capé in Paris, signed "CAPÉ" in the foot of the front turn-in. [15], [1 blank]; 149, [3] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Bindings Early Printing - 16th century Emblems Plantin Press
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Influential dictionary bridging science, language, and culture

JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Nomenclator, omnium rerum propria nomina, variis linguis explicata indicans. Multo quàm antea emendatior ac locupletior ... Tertia editio.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1583. 8vo. With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page.
18th-century marbled calf, sewn on five supports with corresponding raised bands on the gold-tooled spine, with a separate red calf label lettered in gold, red edges. [8], 432, [70], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 750
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Early Printing - 16th century
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Early Antwerp edition of Roman poetry

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
€ 4,750
Caricature & Satire Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Literature
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First edition of an account of the secrets of nature and the interplay of nature and medicine

LEMNIUS, Levinus. Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura duobus libris explicata, quae studioso avidoque lectori non tam usui sunt futura, quam oblectamento.
Antwerp, Willem Simon (colophon: Gillis Coppens van Diest), 1559. 8vo. With Simons woodcut device on the title-page and a woodcut coat of arms on title-page of the second part. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled calf. [16], 192 ll. Full description
€ 1,950
Alchemy Astrology & Occult Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Physics & Chemistry Wine / Viticulture
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The secret miracles of nature revealed

LEMNIUS, Levinus. Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura explicata.
Antwerp, Guillaume Simon (colophon:) printed by Christophe Plantin, 1567. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, an oval woodcut portrait of the author, and 6 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, the supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet as a central ornament on both boards. [16], 473, [22], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Astrology & Occult Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Physics & Chemistry
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First Dutch edition of one of the greatest herbals, with approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts

LOBEL [also L'OBEL or LOBELIUS], Matthias de. Kruydtboeck oft beschrijvinghe van allerleye ghewassen, kruyderen, hesteren, ende gheboomten.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1581. 2 volumes bound as 1, the second in 3 parts. Large folio. With an engraved title-page, the author's large "candore et spe" woodcut device on leaf *6r, approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts in the text, 8 woodcut decorated (sometimes interlaced) initials plus repeats (6 series) and 1 typographic interlaced initial. Set in fraktur types with extensive roman and textura and incidental italic and civilité. Later (17th-century?) blind tooled vellum. [10], 994, [2 blank], "312"[= 312, 294 + 2 blank], [2 blank], 15, [1 blank], [67], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Early Printing - 16th century Herbals & Medical Botany Plantin Press
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A mystical path through the Song of Songs

LOYAERTS, Samuel. Den wech der deuchden, bedeylt in acht boecxkens. Ghemaect op Canticum canticorum ...
Antwerp, Jan van Keerberghen, (colophon:) printed by Hendrik Swingen, 1599. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut illustration on the recto of the last leaf, and some woodcut decorated initials throughout.
Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards. [311], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 1,250
Antwerp Belgium Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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Acts of the synods of the Archbishopric of Malines of 1570, 1607 and 1609,
printed by Plantin and Moretus

[MALINES - SYNOD]. Decreta et statuta Synodi Provincialis Mechliniensis, die undecima mensis Iunii, anni millesimi, quingentesimi, septuagesimi ... Praesidente D. Martino Rythovio Episcopo Yprensi ... nomine et loco ... D. Antonii Perrenot, Archiepiscopo Mechliniensis, & ... Cardinalis Granvellani.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1571.
With:
(2) Die vigesima sexta mensis Iunii anni millesimi sexcentesimi septimi ... et vigesima die mensis Julii eiusdem anno conclusae. Praesidente ... D. Matthia Hovio Archiepiscopo Mechliniensi ...
Antwerp, Jan Moretus, 1607.
(3) (Decreta et statuta Synodi Dioecesanae Mechliniensis): die quinta Maij anni millesimi sexcentesimi noni inchoataev, & die sexta eiusdem anni & mensis absolutae. Praesidente ... D. Matthia Hovio archiepiscopo Mechliniensi.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus, 1609.3 editions in 1 volume. With Plantins woodcut compasses device on the title page of the first work, incorporating the coat of arms of King Philip II of Spain, and another on the last leaf of the third work, and the woodcut coat of arms of Archbishop Matthias Hovius (1542-1620) on the title pages of the 2nd and 3rd works; some fine woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, remnants of ties, with the manuscript title on the spine and front board. 79, [1]; 127, [1]; 76, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Plantin Press Religion (16th Century)
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Beautiful Plantin edition of one of the favourite books of Emperor Charles V

[MARCHE, Olivier de La] and Hernando de ACUÑA (translator). El cavallero determinado, traduzido de lengua Francesa en Castellana por Don Hernando Acuña.
Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana (the widow of Plantin, Jeanne Rivière and Jean Moretus), 1591. 8vo. With an etched vignette on the title page, 20 full-page etchings, a full-page printer's device at the end, decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut tailpieces. Late 18th- or early 19th-century diced and blind-tooled red morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, with an almond shaped ornament in the center of both boards, surrounded by two fillet frames, blind tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled end papers. [32], 208, [5], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Early Printing - 16th century France Literature Plantin Press Spain
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Beautifully hand coloured copy of an abundantly illustrated work
detailing the genealogy of the Counts of Flanders

MARTIN, Cornelis and Pieter BALTEN (illustrator and publisher). Les genealogies et anciennes descentes des Forestiers et Comtes de Flandre, avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies et gestes le tout recueilly des plus veritables, approvees et anciennes croniques et annales qui se trouvent...
Antwerp, (colophon: Andre Bax for) Pierre Balthasar (also known as Pieter Balten), [1580]. Folio. With an engraved title-page, a full-page engraved plate with the dedication, a full-page engraved plate showing the coats-of-arms of the Foresters of Flanders and the counts of Flanders and a map of Flanders, a full-page engraving showing verse below an allegorical scene of death, 40 full-page engraved portraits of the Foresters and Counts of Flanders, 30 small coats-of-arms in the text, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. All illustrations (except for the initials) are expertly coloured by hand. Contemporary parchment, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with remnants of green closing ties. [6], 119, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
Antwerp Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags
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Six lively dialogues by a Spanish humanist from Seville, bound for the Landgrave of Hesse

MEXIA, Pedro. Coloquios o dialogos compuestos por el magnifico cavallero Pero Mexia, vezino de Sevilla, en los quales se disputan y tratan varias y diversas cosas de mucha erudicion y doctrina. Al illustrissimo senor don Perasan de Ribera Marques de Tarisa &c.
Antwerp, widow of Martinus Nutius, 1561. Small agenda 12mo (14 x 6.5 cm). With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. 17th-century(?) blind-tooled overlapping vellum, each board with the coat of arms of the Landgrave of Hesse, gilt edges. 165, [3 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,950
Bindings Early Printing - 16th century Earth Sciences Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Science Spain
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The birth of modern Flemish historiography

MEYERE, Jacobus de. Flandricarum rerum tomi X ... Cum Hymno de sanctissimo nomine Iesu. Chronica Flandriae.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1531. 8vo. With several woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Vorsterman's device at the end. 17th-century mottled calf, with a gold-tooled spine, and the title lettered in gold, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. 67, [5] ll. Full description
€ 1,250
Belgium Early Printing - 16th century
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Plantin's missal, from the famous Buxheim library

[MISSAL - LATIN]. Missale Romanum, ex decreto Sacrosancti Consilii Tridentini restitutum Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Additis aliquot SS. Officiis, ex praecepto S.D.N. Sixti Papae Quinti.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1587. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette with Peter and Paul by Peeter van der Borcht on the title page, 6 full-page woodcuts (ca. 112 x 75 mm) by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht, 6 half-page square woodcuts (55 x 55 mm) in border, one signed by Antoon van Leest, one woodcut (90 x 76 mm) by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht, and 2 smaller oval woodcuts. The work is printed in red and black.
Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on 4 double supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the manuscript title in the first compartment and the original manuscript shelf mark label ("H.36") of the Monastery of Buxheim in the fifth compartment, both boards with an ornamental roll and a roll with the portraits of Salvater (sic!), Maria, S. Bruno, and S. Johannes in a panel design, two original brass clasps and catches, ornamented with a small star, leather tabs, and six original bookmarkers plaited into a big knot. XLV, [19], 528, CX, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
Bindings Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Early Printing - 16th century Plantin Press Religion (16th Century)
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Nataliss famous print series in their first editions with both title-pages highlighted with gold as rarely seen

NATALIS, Hieronymus (Jerónimo NADAL). Evangelicae historiae imagines ex ordine evangeliorum, quae toto anno in missae sacrificio recitantur, in ordinem temporis vitae Christi digestae.
Antwerp, [Martinus Nutius], 1593.With: (2) IDEM. Adnotationes et meditationes in evangelia quae in sacrosancto missae sacrificio toto anno leguntur. Cum evangeliorum concordantial historiae integritati sufficienti. ...
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1594 (colophon dated 1595). 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Each work with an engraved allegorical title page, extensively highlighted in gold, and woodcut initials and headpieces. Ad 1 contains a print series showing the life of Christ in 153 full-page engravings by the Wierix brothers, Jan II and Adriaen Collaert and Charles de Malery after Bernardo Passari and Maarten de Vos. It also has an engraved allegorical and ornamental headpiece on A2, reading "IHS In nomine Jesu". Mid 19th-century light brown calf with a blind-tooled ornamental frame on both boards, a gold-tooled spine, a black morocco spine label with the title in gold, red edges and marbled endpapers. [5] ll. plus 153 engraved prints; [1], [3 blank], 595 [= 593], [5] pp. Full description
€ 9,750
Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Early Printing - 16th century Jesuits Religion (16th Century)
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Heralds of a new age: three first editions, including the first Renaissance narrative poetical works in Dutch (with 17 Coornhert illustrations)

NOOT, Jan van der. Cort begryp der XII. boeken Olympiados. ... Abregé des douze livres Olympiades.
Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1579. With 1 engraved plate (portrait of the author), 17 full-page engravings (ca. 16 x 11.5 cm.) by Dirk Volkertsz. Coornhert after designs of the monogrammist CVSK and a full-page woodcut of an obelisk at the end, signed with the monogram "HE".
With:
(2) NOOT, Jan van der. Lofsang van Braband. ... Hymne de Braband.
Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1580. With 4 full-page woodcuts (portrait of the author, allegorical illustration, arms of Brabant and the other 16 provinces, and an obelisk).
(3) NOOT, Jan van der. Verscheyden poeticsche werken. ... Divers oeuvres poetiques.
Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1581. With full-page woodcut portrait of the author, and a full-page woodcut obelisk at the end. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. All 3 works with text in Dutch and French. Early 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. [14], 87, [1]; [8], 33, [4]; [40] pp. plus 1 plate. Full description
€ 35,000
Dutch Literature Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands
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Most complete set known of the extremely rare series of laudatory poems by the first Dutch Renaissance poet

NOOT, Jan van der. De poeticsche werken van mijn Heer vander Noot. Les oeuvres poetiques du Sr. Jan vander Noot.
Antwerp, Daniel Vervliet and Arnout Coninx (shared printing), "1594" [=1588-1595]. Folio. With the general title page bearing Vervliets 1594 imprint, the only part-title (for the Inkomste bifolium) bearing sConincxs 1594 imprint, 7 small bust portraits, 2 portraits of the author, 10 small rectangular illustrations, 2 medium illustrations, and 8 full-page illustrations (on integral leaves), all woodcut, some (and the 2 title pages) in architectural and/or arabesque woodcut frames. The text is variously set in 1, 2 or 3 columns, sometimes even mixing them on one page, each page in a frame (made partly from rules) and with the running titles in Dutch and French at the foot of the page. An occasional bifolium includes a woodcut decorated initial. The text, in Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek, is set in dozens of roman, italic, textura, civilité, fraktur and Greek printing types plus interlaced typographic capitals and arabesque typographic ornaments. Blind-tooled calf (ca. 1725/30?) by the so-called "Minnewit" bindery in Amsterdam. [102] ll. Full description
€ 35,000
Antwerp Dutch Literature Early Printing - 16th century Language & Linguistics
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First illustrated edition of Osiander's Harmony of the Gospels, with 98 woodcuts

OSIANDER, Andreas. Harmoniae Evangelicae libri quatuor, in quibus Evangelica historia ex quatuor Evangelistis ita in unu[m] est contexta, ut nullius verbum ullum omissum, nihil alienum immixtum, nullius ordo turbatus, nihil non suo loco positum. ... Elenchus harmoniae, ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Matthias Crom, 1540). 8vo. With a woodcut vignette at the foot of the title-page and the head of the first page of the main text (illustrating Luke 11), 1 full-page and 97 half-page woodcut illustrations by Levinus de Witte (including a few repeats). 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment. [164] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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Freedom of religion in times of Reformation

[PAMPHLET - REFORMATION] Supplicatie aen sijn hoocheyt ende heeren des Raets van State, overgegeven door de inwoonders deser Nederlanden welcke protesteren dat sy begeren te leven nae de Reformatie des Evangeliums. Den xxii dach junii, 1578.
[Antwerp, Christopher Plantin?, 1578]. 4to. With a vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, and a decorated woodcut initial. 18th-century gold- and blind-tooled mottled and polished calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label lettered in gold in the second compartment, the date of publication lettered in gold in the third compartment, fleurons in the other compartments, a blind-tooled border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers. [2], XXII pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Antwerp Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century)
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Third Plantin edition of a popular emblem book

PARADIN, Claude and Gabriel SYMEON. Symbola heroica. M. Claudii Paradini, beliiocensis canonici et D. Gabrielis Symeonis. Multo, quàm antea, fideliùs de Gallica lingua in Latinam conversa.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1583. 12mo. With 216 woodcut illustrations in text, namely 179 for Paradin and 37 for Simeon. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco, gilt edges; bound by Thompson. 319, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Early Printing - 16th century Emblems Plantin Press
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Crispijn de Passe's complete print series, The Acts of Mercy, including The Last Judgement

PASSE, Crispijn de (the elder) [after Maarten de VOS]. [The acts of mercy, including the Last Judgement].
Antwerp, Adriaen Collaert (7 plates with the Acts of Mercy) & Johannes Galle (the Last Judgement), ca. 1580-1588. Folio (7 of 8 plates trimmed). 8 engravings (ca. 17.5 x 20.5 cm) on laid paper by Crispijn de Passe I (the elder) after Maarten de Vos with the central scene framed by an exquisite ornamental border showing crafts, tools and scenes relating to the subject. All engravings captioned with engraved Latin text in a cartouche below the images. Loose prints. Full description
€ 9,500
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16th-century royal decree on marine insurance, printed by Plantin

[PHILIP II, King of Spain]. Ordinancie, statuyt ende policie gemaect byden coninck onsen aldernadichsten Heere, op tfeyt vande contracten vande asseurancien ende versekeringen in dese Nederlanden.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1571. 4to. With armorial woodcut on the title page. Modern vellum. 15, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Belgium Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Naval History Plantin Press
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First edition of the history of the dioceses Tongres, Maastricht and Liège

PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. Small 8vo (13.5 x 10 cm). Title with woodcut coat-of-arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck in a 4-piece woodcut border, a large woodcut coat of arms on the last page, 2 woodcut illustrations, one showing Mary and Jesus with Saint Anne (63 x 42 mm), and the other a bishop in his study (45 x 43 mm), each in the same 4-piece woodcut border (different from that on the title-page). Capitals rubricated throughout, some woodcuts also rubricated and some headings and other words underlined in red. Vellum (ca. 1700?). [16], [216] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands Religion (16th Century)
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A cornerstone of Low Countries ecclesiastical history

PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. 8vo (14.4 x 6.6 cm). With a woodcut coat of arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck within a 4-piece woodcut frame on the title page, 2 woodcut illustrations, each enclosed in the same four-piece woodcut border (distinct from that on the title page), a large woodcut incorporating Vorstermans printers device on the last page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century half calf. [116] ll. Full description
€ 3,950
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Early Antwerp edition of Pliny's letters in an exceptionally well-preserved contemporary pigskin binding

PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti ...
Including: (2) SUETONIUS TRANQUILLIUS. De viris illustribus liber.
(3) OBSEQUENS, Julius. Ab anno urbis conditae quingentesimoquinto, prodigiorum liber imperfectus.
(4) CATANAEUS, Johannes Maria. C. Plinii Caecilii secundi Vita.
Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1542.
8vo. With several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, both boards tooled in a panel design with floral motives in the 2 central panels, surrounded by a border with portraits on the front, and passion scenes and saints on the back, the manuscript initials "E.K" on the front, remnants of white leather closing ties. "494" [=496], [39], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Law & Politics
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Influential and popular work on natural history and magic

PORTA, Giambattista della. Magiae naturalis, sive de miraculis rerum naturalium libri IIII. Cum indice.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1585. 12mo. With Plantin's woodcut printer's device on the title page, and 9 decorated woodcut initials. Slightly later vellum, dark blue edges. 296, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Sacred verse and Humanist minds: Prudentius’ collected works

PRUDENTIUS CLEMENS, Aurelius; Johannes SICHARD and Elio Antonio de NEBRIJA (editors). Opera multo quam antea castigatiora, praeterea et Aelij Antonij Nebrissensis commentarijs haud poenitendis illustrata, quibus insuper adglutinata sunt scholia Joannis Sichardi, quae omnia nunc primum in philomusorum gratiam excusa sunt ...
Antwerp, Merten de Keyser, 1536 (preface dated march 1537). 8vo (14.9 x 9.5 cm). With some woodcut decorated initials throughout. Later overlapping vellum. [16], 563 [=576] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics
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Poetry and commentary: Prudentius presented by the Plantin press

PRUDENTIUS CLEMENS, Aurelius, and Theodorus PULMANNUS (editor). Theodori Pulmanni Cranenburgii, et Victoris Giselini opera, ex fide decem librorum manuscriptorum, emendatus, et in eum, eiusdem Victoris Giselini commentarius.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, November 1564.
With:
(2) GISELINUS Victor. In Aurelii Prudentii Clementis v. cl. opera commentarius.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1564. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.7 x 10.2 cm). With Plantins woodcut device on the title page of both works, ad 1 with a woodcut decorated initial. 19th-century calf. 350, [2]; [168] pp. Full description
€ 850
Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Greek & Roman Classics Philosophy & Humanism Plantin Press Religion (16th Century)
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Second copy located of the 1550 Antwerp edition of the Dutch adaptation of the famous Sachsenspiegel

[REPGOW, Eike von]. Den spiegel van sassen van alle keyserlijcke rechten.
Antwerp, Marie Ancxt [= widow of Jacob van Liesveld, 31 October 1550. 4to (19 x 13.2 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with woodcut of the emperor (10.8 x 7.2 cm) holding a sword with coat of arms in the lower left hand corner, between two ornamental borders. 18th-century mottled calf. XLIIII ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Early Printing - 16th century Germany History / 16th Century Law & Politics
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A very important source for the early history of Zeeland

[REYGERSBERCH, Jan Janse]. Dye cronijcke van Zeelandt.
Antwerp, Widow of Heyndrick Peetersen, 1551. 4to. With an allegorical woodcut title with the coat of arms of the province of Zeeland, Charles V and Maximilian, a folding woodcut map of Zeeland, a small woodcut portrait of Charles V, a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on the verso of the last leaf, and 6 mostly full-page woodcut coats of arms of Maximilian, the province of Zeeland, and of the cities Middelburg, Veere, Zierikzee and Cortgene in the text, further with numerous decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [194] ll. Full description
€ 4,000
Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands Zeeland
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A eulogy to Erasmus and his works, by Beatus Rhenanus and other contemporaries

RHENANUS, Beatus. Des. Eras Roterodami viri incomparabilis vita, & epitaphia quaedam.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1536. Small 8vo (9.8 x 15.6 cm). With woodcut medallion portrait of Erasmus on the verso of the title page, and 4 woodcut decorated initials. Modern vellum. [24] ll. Full description
€ 3,750
Bibliography & Biography Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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Variant issue of an account of the "Landjuweel" of Ghent 1539

[RHETORICIANS]. Spelen va[n] sinne byde[n] .xix. gheconfirmeerden cameren van rhetorijcken binnen der stede van Ghendt comparerende, verthoont, volghende den octroye vander K. Maiesteyt, Grave va[n] Vlaendren, onsen gheduchte[n] Heere, schepenen der selver stede, en[de] camere van rhetorijcke vander heylige drievuldicheyt, gheseyt de fonteynisten, verleent, en[de] der charte uutghesonde[n] op de questie, welck den mensche stervende, meesten troost is: die selve spele[n] beghinnende by ordre, so hier na volcht, de[n] .xii. junij, int jaer m.ccccc.xxxix. En[de] werde[n] volspeelt en[de] gheeyndt, den .xxiii. vanden jare en[de] maent voorsz.
(Colophon: Antwerp, [Matthias Crom], 25 October 1539). 8vo. 18th-century half vellum. [220] ll. Full description
€ 13,500
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A work of learning and pastoral wisdom by a moderate inquisitor

ROSEMONDT, Godschalc. Confessionale sive libellus modum confitendi pulcherrime co[m]plecte[n]s, necessarius atq[ue] utilis, & cuilibet recte confiteri vole[n]ti, & ipsis sacerdotibus, qui aliorum confessiones audire habe[n]t. Editus a celeberrimo academie Lovanien[sis]. ... Denuo ab eodem recognitus et castigatus anno mil. CCCCC. XIX. men. Junii. die. xxvii.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 8 July 1519). Small 8vo (14 x 10 cm). Title-page in red & black with a red woodcut rebus of the author's name at the foot. 17th-century(?) vellum with the vellum. 251, [5] ll. Full description
€ 7,500
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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Four rare post-incunables in defence of the Catholic faith, printed in Antwerp

SCHENCK DE TAUTENBURCH, Fredericus. Enchiridion veri praesulis secundum apostolicam traditionem.
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1526
With:
(2) ISIDORUS Hispalensis. De officiis ecclesiasticis libri duo ante annos D. CCCC. ab eo aediti, & nunc ex vetusto codice in lucem restituti.
Antwerp, Johannes Graphaeus for Johannes Steelsius, 1534.
(3) WICELIUS, Georgius. Loci ex sacris literis de bonis operibus.Ad haec praeconium Evangelicae gratiae. Theies aliquot. Praecatio pro ecclesia. Matth. v. Quisquis fecerit & docuerit, hic magnus vocabitur in regno coelorum.
Antwerp, Johannes Graphaeus for Johannes Steelsius, 1534.
(4) AMBROSIUS. De his qui mysteriis initiantur, cum nonnullis aliis hac tempestate scitu dignissimis. Claruit sub Theodosio imperatore clementissimo. Anno domini CCCLXXX.
Antwerp, printed by Johannes Graphaeus for Johannes Steelsius, 1534. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title-page of Enchiridion within a fine woodcut border, with the portrait of Virgilius Maro, and several decorated woodcut initial letters. 19th-century half calf. [48]; 72; [52]; [27], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century) WIC
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A Dutch Humanist’s vision of the Psalms

SNOY, Reinier. Psalterium Davidicum paraphrasibus brevibus illustratum ...
Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1535. 8vo. With woodcut frame on the title page, 2 woodcut decorated initials and Hillenius' woodcut device on the final page. Contemporary blind-tooled calf in a panel design, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a central panel on both boards surrounded by a decorative frame with portraits in medaillions, with remnants of 2 pairs of green closing ties. [16], 233, [2] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century)
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16th-century Antwerp edition of "The Twelve Caesars"

SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius. Caesarum XII libri, iam denuo bonorum exemplarium & commentariorum ope emendati, cum M. Antonii Coccii Sabellici commentariis, nihil annotatu dignum dissimulantibus. Jo. Baptistae Egnatii Veneti, annot. in Suetonium. Annotata in eundem, & loca aliquot restitutae per D. Erasmum Roterodamum.
Antwerp, Jan van der Loe, 1548. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and numerous woodcut initials in text. Later marbled boards. [24], 661, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century
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Where Greek philosophy meets Christian doctrine: the second edition of Theodoret’s Graecarum affectionum curatio

THEODORET of CYRRHUS, and Zenobio ACCIAIUOLI (translator). De evangelicae veritatis ex Graecorum atque gentium philosophia cognitione, sive de Graecarum affectionum curatione, libri duodecim Zenobio Acciaolo interprete ...
Antwerp, (colophon: Joannes Grapheus for) Joannes Steelsius, 1540. 8vo. With some woodcut decorated initials throughout, and Steelsius's woodut device at the end. 18th-century red morocco. 8, 158, [6] ll. Full description
€ 2,950
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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Reintroducing Roman law to the Renaissance

THEOPHILUS ANTECESSOR and Jacobus CURTIUS (translator). Institutionum juris civilis libri quatuor ... è Graeco in Latinum per D. Iac. Curtium Brugensem Iurisconsultum conversi, ac iterum excusi.
Antwerp, (colophon: Joannes Grapheus for) Joannes Steelsius, 1539. 8vo (15.4 x 10.4 cm). With a large woodcut folding table at the end, a woodcut device of Steelsius on the recto of the otherwise blank last leaf, and some woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin. [8], 221, [3] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics
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Definitive edition of the first substantial Dutch manual on the notary's practice

THUYS, Jacques. Ars notariatus. Dat is: Conste en[de] stijl van notarischap: begrepen in Theorijcke ende Practijcke... Desen derden druck, grootelijcken vermeerdert ende verbetert ...
Antwerp, Arnout s'Conincx, 1590. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10 cm). With woodcut publisher's device (with letterpress motto "Virtute et constantia") on title-page, a woodcut tail-piece and woodcut decorated initials (3 series). Set in textura types with incidental roman, with sample documents set in civilité with incidental italic. 17th-century parchment. [16], 231, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade Law & Politics School & Textbooks
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Twin pillars of Titelmans’ Psalm commentary

TITELMANS, Frans. Elucidatio in omnes psalmos juxta veritatem vulgatae & ecclesiae usitatae aeditionis Latinae ...
Antwerp, Merten de Keyser, June 1531.
With:
(2) IDEM. Annotationes ex Hebraeo atque Chaldaeo in omnes psalmos ...
Antwerpen, Simon Cock, 1531. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio (27.6 x 22.2 cm). Ad 1 with a woodcut decorated title frame, a full-page woodcut of the kneeling Charles V at the end, and several woodcut decorated initials throughout. Ad 2 with the same full-page woodcut of Charles V at the end, and 1 woodcut decorated initial. 18th-century overlapping vellum. [18], 393, [1]; XLIII, [1] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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Rare 1527 edition of classical dictionary, owned by the neo-Latin poet Renier Tengnagel (d. 1565)

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus (Herman van der BEKE). Elucidarius poeticus co[n]tinens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas regiones, urbes, fluvios, mo[n]tesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, ...
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, 1527. With the title in an elaborate woodcut border.
With: (2) [FIOCCHI, Andrea Dominico (Andras Dominicus FLOCCUS)] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iamprimum nitori restitutus.
[Cologne, Hero Fuchs, 1527]. With the title in a finely cut 4-piece woodcut border. 2 editions in 1 volume. 8vo. 16th-century(?) limp vellum (formerly used for a slightly thinner book). The binding is an interesting example of a spine reinforced with a horizontal metal rod at the central sewing support to give more support and prevent the bookblock from becoming concaved or developing sharp kinks; probably bound in Flanders. [88]; [88] ll. Full description
€ 9,500
Aldine Press Bindings Church History & Missions Classical Antiquity Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Religion (16th Century)
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The art of persuasive speech

VALERIUS, Cornelius. In universam benedicendi rationem tabula, summam artis rhetoricae complectens: recognita & emendatius excusa.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1573. 8vo (16.1 x 10.2 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 950
Early Printing - 16th century School & Textbooks
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A popular 16th-century compendium of natural philosophy

VALERIUS, Cornelius Physicae, seu de naturae philosophia institutio.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1574. 8vo (16.1 x 10 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title, and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 103, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Philosophy & Humanism School & Textbooks
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A foundation of Renaissance Latin scholarship

VALERIUS, Cornelius Grammaticarum institutionum libri IIII. I. De primis grammatices Latinae rudimentis. II. De etymologiae, seu analogia. III. De syntaxi, seu recta partium orationis consecutione. IIII. De carminum ratione, seu de versibus faciendis.
Including:
- II. De etymologiae, seu analogia.
- III. De syntaxi, seu recta partium orationis consecutione.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1575.
With: (2) IDEM. IIII. De carminum ratione, seu de versibus faciendis.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1573. 4 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (16.1 x 10.3 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on all 4 title pages, some woodcut initials throughout. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 94, [1], [1 blank]; 97-207, [1 blank]; 209-285, [1], [2 blank]; 259-287, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Language & Linguistics Plantin Press School & Textbooks
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Dialectics made visible: gesture and method in a Renaissance textbook

VALERIUS, Cornelius. Tabulae, quibus totius dialecticae praecepta maxime ad usum disserendi necessaria breviter & summatim exponuntur, ordine perspicuo digestae.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1575. 8vo (16.1 x 10.1 cm). With a woodcut illustration on p. 79, some tables, Plantins woodcut device on the title page, and several woodcut initials throughout. Modern binding using older printer's waste. 104 pp. Full description
€ 950
Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Language & Linguistics Philosophy & Humanism Plantin Press School & Textbooks
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Memorable deeds and sayings of Imperial Rome

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Dictorum factorumq[ue] memorabilium exempla. adjecto indice propriorum nominum rerumq[ue] memoria dignarum locupletissimo
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1535. 8vo (14.6 x 9.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end. Old half vellum. 237, [11] ll. Full description
€ 950
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Philosophy & Humanism
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Rare mystic work, with 22 woodcuts by the gifted Pieter van der Borcht

[VERVOORT, Frans]. Dat vyants net, der booser wercken raet, visioenen, ende met alder sijnder verholender stricken, leerende hoe wi de werelt, den vyant, ende ons selven sullen sterven, kennen, ende leerende hoe wi die werelt, den vyant, ende ons selven sullen sterven, kennen, ende overwinnen.
Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen, (colophon: 1561). 8vo. With the title in a four-piece woodcut border by Pieter van den Borcht (with his initials at the foot), Jan van Ghelen's woodcut device on verso of last leaf, a full-page armorial view (dated 1552) on the last leaf, and 20 mostly full-page woodcut illustrations by Pieter van der Borcht in text. Modern half vellum. [88] ll. Full description
€ 6,000
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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71 excellent large prints (1561-ca. 1600) on architecture and decoration

VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Jan (Hans), Antonio LABACCO, Giacomo Barozzio da VIGNOLA and others. [Collection of architectural and decoration prints including fortification plans, garden plans and architectural decoration].
Antwerp, Venice, Rome, various publishers, [engraved] 1561-1585, [printed 1580-ca. 1600]. Large folio & small 1mo (38.5 x 27 cm). Collection of 4 separately published prints (3 large full-sheet & 1 small full-sheet), plus 67 prints from 9 series (including 3 double-page prints and a 1½-sheet plan of classical Roman ports printed from 2 copperplates). Contemporary or near contemporary limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1600?). [77] engraved ll. containing [71] prints. Full description
€ 15,000
Architecture Early Printing - 16th century Prints & Print Series
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Rare first edition of a philological aid to the Bible

WESTHEIMER, Bartholomaeus. Phrases seu modi loquendi Divini Scripturae, ex sanctis & orthodoxis scriptoribus ... (&c.).
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. Small 8vo. With 15 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf. 340, [8] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Language & Linguistics Religion (16th Century)
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Beautifully illustrated by the Master of Delbecq-Schreiber

[WEYNSEN, Matthias (editor)]. Fascicul[us] mirre. Hier beghint een seer sonderlinghe ende devote materie van die passie ons Heren Jesu Cristi gheheten (dat busselkijn of dat bondekijn van mirre) vergadert ende gecompileert van eenen gheestelijcken ende seer verlichten broeder vander minrebroeders oerden van die familie der observanten in die provincie van Colen ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 18 January 1518. 4to. With the first word of the title printed in red, 35 woodcut illustrations in the text (of which 8 repeats), with Christ's wounds coloured in red, and 53 decorated woodcut initials. The work is rubricated throughout. 17th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf. [196] ll. Full description
€ 14,500
Antwerp Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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Europe described, the future foretold, and Ethiopia revealed; the rare first edition

ZELL, Anselm and Christoph ZELL. Europae descriptio lucidissima D. Caroli V Romanorum Imperatori dedicata. Prognosticon Antonii Torquati ... ab anno M.CCCC.LXXX usque ad annum M.D. XXXVIII Matthiae Ungariae regi dicatum. De fide et moribus Aethiopum, libellus Christianis lectu planè dignus.
Antwerp, (Colophon: Joannes Grapheus) for Joannes Steelsius, Aug. 1535. Small 8vo (ca. 9.1 x 14.1 cm). With 3 woodcut decorated initials, and Steelsius printer's device on the verso of the last flyleaf. Modern gold-tooled vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with a single fillet border on both boards. [24] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Astrology & Occult Central Europe East Africa Eastern Europe Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia
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