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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
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Important source on the Reformation, in a contemporary signed binding

CRESPIN, Jean. Actiones et monimenta martyrum, eorum qui a Wicleffo et Husso ad nostram hanc aetatem ... veritatem evangelicam sanguine suo constanter obsignaverunt.
Genève, Jean Crespin, 1560.
With: (2) [PIBRAC, Guy du Faur, seigneur de]. De rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Elvidium, epistola. Et ad hanc de iisdem rebus Gallicis responsio.
[Paris, Fédérique Morel], 1573.
(3) [A. Q. F]. Memoriae Casparis Coligni Chastilonaei com. ductoris classis Gallicae ... una cum aliis ex nobilitate Gallica insidiose interfecti D. XXIIII. M. Vil. ann. Christi M. D. LXXII.
1572. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary richly blind-tooled panelled pigskin, with the arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the central panel on the front, and the arms of August of Saxony on the back, surrounded by two figurative and one ornamental border, the initials G.F.N. and the date 1573 on the front, signed by bookbinder S. Rab(e). [18], 321, [1] ll.; 102, [2 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
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A personal address to the imperial government

CRONBERG, Hartmuth von. Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.
Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers. [4] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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Erasmus' 1529 letter to Geldenhauer, refuting misuse of his Apologia

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Epistola ... contra quosdam, qui se falso iactant evangelicos, iam recens aedita.
(Colophon:) Freiburg im Breisgau, Johannes Faber, 1529. Small 8vo (9.5 x 13.9 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Fabers device on the final page. Modern, half vellum and brown sprinkled paper sides. [27] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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A hammer against heresy: the Catholic reply to Luther’s reformation

FABER, Johann and Johann HOST von ROMBERCH (editor). Malleus Joannis fabri doctoris celeberrimi, illustriss. Principis ferdinandi archiducis Austriae etc. à secretis, in haeresim Lutheranam, iam denuo vehemtiori studio et labore recognitus, in tractatus etiam et paragraphos divisus. Adiectus est triplex index.
(Colophon:) Cologne, Johann Soter for Peter Quentel, 1524. Folio. With a woodcut device on the title page, bearing the arms quarterly of Cologne, Angria, Westphalia, and Arnsberg, with an escutcheon of Wied, a crest showing a screen of the arms of Cologne, and two pennons of the cross of Cologne, partly coloured in red and with some woodcut decorated initials throughout.18th-century mottled calf. [12], CLXXVI ll. Full description
€ 1,750
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Satirical emblems of rogues in contemporary colouring

FLITNER, Johann [and Thomas MURNER]. Nebulo nebulonum, hoc est iocoseria modernae nequitiae censura; qua homine sceleratorum fraudes, doli ac versutiae aeri aëriqu exponuntur publice: carmine iambico dimetro adornata à Ioanne Flitnero, franco poëta laureato.
Frankfurt am Main, Jacobus de Zetter, 1620. 8vo. With an engraved title page, 33 engravings in the text (9.1 x 7.2 cm), several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Late 18th-century gold-tooled calf, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [8], 164, [2] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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Very rare Dutch Hermetic work teaching alchemical and occult knowledge to a medical audience

FOLLIN, Herman (Hermanus FOLLINUS). Den Nederlandtsche sleutel van t'secreet der philosophie, in welck grondelijc bewesen wert, d'aert, so in 't generael, als in 't bysonder aller metallen, als goudt, silver, coper, etc. En die gheheele alchijmie, met haer verborghentheden. Midsgaders d'eerste materie der Philosophen, dat is: Quinta essentia des wijns, met haren volcomen ghebruyck, en verclaringhe aller duystere woorden des voorsz. constes, op dat Paracelsus claerlijck in alles mach werden verstaen.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman for Daniel de Keyser, 1613. Small 8vo. With 3 half-page woodcuts in the text, one repeated on the title-page, all showing distilling equipment. Modern vellum. 76 ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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French fortification manual, probably from northern Germany

[FORTIFICATION - MANUSCRIPT]. Traité de fortification.
[Northern Germany?, ca. 1685/1700?]. 4to & small folio (23 x 18 cm). Manuscript in French, written in black ink on paper in an easily readable cursive hand, with the title in a pen and ink decorated cartouche, about 45 pen and ink drawings (14 full-page and 8 larger folding, 2 of the folding ones in red and black ink with coloured washes, one of the colour folding leaves 36 x 27 cm), mostly showing fortification plans. Contemporary or near-contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [1], [3 blank], 164 pp., ll. 165-171, [172], pp. 173-197, 197 [bis], 198-289, [24 blank, partly numbered]. Full description
€ 7,500
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Famous and beautifully illustrated chronicle of Paderborn

[FÜRSTENBERG, Ferdinand von]. Monumenta Paderbornensia ex historia Romana, Francicâ, Saxonicâ eruta et novis inscriptionibus, notis, ac figuris illustrata.
Including: [HORRION, Jean]. Panegyricus die natali Academiæ Theodorianæ Paderbornensis.
Amsterdam, Daniel Elsevier, 1672. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 engraved frontispieces by L. Visscher, an engraved author's portrait by A. Blotelingh, an engraved portrait of Theodor Fürstenberg, 3 double-page engraved maps, 2 double-page engraved plates, and 27 full-page etched illustrations in the text by Romeyn de Hooghe and others after I. G. Rudolphi. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, [56], 337, [19]; [16], 134, [6] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
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