Highlights

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

DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIENSIS (Denys van Rijkel). Vita sacerdotum.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, May 1532. Small 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut title border, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Modern blind-tooled half calf. [52] ll. Full description

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

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De contemptu mu[n]di epistola.
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, 1523. 8vo. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Later vellum. [32] ll. Full description

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

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

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

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

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

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