Highlights

GALLENSIS, Johannes (John of WALES). Co[m]muniloquium sive su[m]ma collationu[m].
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg = Georg Husner], (colophon:) 25 May 1489. Small folio. Printed in Gothic type in 2 columns, with 52 lines to the page, and a headline. Modern vellum, reusing an old manuscript antiphonary leaf. [79] ll. Full description

GANSFORT, Wessel. De sacramento eucharistiae. Et audienda missa.
[Zwolle, Simon Corver, ca. 1521].
With:
(2) IDEM. Epistola adversus M. Engelbertum Leydensem ... et aliae epistolae. [Zwolle, S. Corver, between 30 July and the start of September 1522].
(3) IDEM. Tractatus ... De oratione & modo orandi cum luculentissima Dominicae orationis explanatione.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(4) IDEM. Farrago ... olim uulgo dicti, rarae & reconditae doctrinae, notulae aliquot & propositiones ...
[Zwolle, S. Corver, beginning of 1522].
(5) GOCHIUS, Pupper. In divine gratie et christianae fidei, commendationem, contra falsam & Pharisaicam multorum de iustifiis & meritis operum doctrinam & gloriationem, fragmenta aliquot ... nunquam excusa.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(6) GANSFORT, Wessel. De autoritate officio et potestate pastorum ecclesiasticorum.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1522]. 6 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ads 1-3 and 6 with a woodcut title frame on each of the title pages and several large woodcut decorated initials. Ads 4-5 with several large woodcut decorated initials.
Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 2 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine. Further with brass catch- and anchor plates and one clasp, and a paper label at the head of the spine, lettered in ink referring that this is a collection of Wessel Gansforts works, dated 1520. [3536]; [32]; [4], “CX” [= XC]; [4], XCVIII; “46” [= 44 (of 46)]; [16]; [24] (belonging to ad 2) ll. Full description

GANSFORT, Wessel. Farrago rerum theologicarum uberrima ... In hoc libello tractatus I. De benignissima dei providentia ... II. De causis misteriis, & effectibus dominicae incarnationis & passionis. III. De dignitate & potestaate ecclesiastica. De vera & recta obedientia. Et quantum obligent subditos mandata & statuta praelatorum. IIII. De sacramento, penitentiae, & quae sint claves ecclesiae, De potestate ligandi & solvendi. V. Quae sit vera communio sanctorum, De thesauro ecclesiae, de participatione & dispensatione huius thesauri, De fraternitatibus &c. VI. De purgatorio, quis & qualis sit ignis prugatorius. De statu & profectu animarum post hanc vitam &c.
(Colophon:) Wittenberg, [Melchior Lotter the Younger, 1522]. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Modern blind-tooled sheepskin. [4], LXXXVI ll. Full description

[GENEAOLOGY - NOBILITY]. Executoria de hildaguia de los Echeniques y Aguirres, y de sus descendientes.
[Spain, 1657-1664?]. Folio. With an elaborately decorated letterpress title page, the letters of the title are highlighted in blue, red, gold, and silver, and are surrounded by a contemporary hand-drawn, hand-coloured, and highlighted in gold and silver floral frame (in the same style as the other floral borders in this work) including equally decorated arms of the Echeniques y Aguirres family. All text is set within woodcut borders incorporating the familys coat of arms, the borders show two different floral designs which are repeated throughout the work. All borders are vividly coloured by a contemporary hand and highlighted in gold and silver. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco, sewn on six supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the gold-tooling is built up from numerous impressions of small (pointillé) tools creating a large intricate centrepiece within two detailed frames, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled pastedowns, and gilt edges. [24 blank], 232, [2], [24 blank] pp. Full description

[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

GOOS, Abraham. Nieuw Nederlandtsch caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden, soo in t geheel, als elck besonder met grote neersticheyt ende kosten gesneden ende in t licht gebracht. Mitsgaders een nieuwe beschryvinge uijt verscheyden autheuren ordentlyck tsamen gestelt door Reinier Telle ... .
Amsterdam, Abraham Goos in de Kalverstraet, [1616]. Oblong 4to (ca. 16 x 21 cm). With an engraved title page (signed by P.S[erwouter] scul. (bottom right) after D.V[inck] B[oons] (bottom left)), 23 full page maps, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. 19th-century quarter calf. [7], "305" [=294], [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

HUTTEN, Ulrich von. Dialogi. Fortuna. Febris prima. Febris secunda. Trias Romana. Inspicientes.
Colophon: Mainz, Johann Schöffer, April 1520. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With a lovely woodcut of the blindfolded Fortuna on title-page (by Hans Weiditz?), a large woodcut initial Q (repeated twice) and several vine leaf ornaments. Printed in roman type. 19th-century half vellum, marbled paper sides. [72] ll. Full description

[JORIS, David]. Die eerste sullen die laetste, die laetste die eerste sijn.
With: (2) [JORIS, David]. Een twesprake tusschen man unde wijff, namelick Christus un[de] de gemeente oder verlorene mensch.
[Rostock, Ludwig Dietz, ca. 1550/52]. 8vo (15.5 x 11 cm). With gothic initials and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in schwabacher types with incidental and fraktur. Vellum (ca. 1680?). [211], [1 blank]; [71], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[KERSSENBROCH, Hermann von]. Historia Anabaptistarum Monasteriensium.
3 July 1734. Folio. With small calligraphic decorations. 18th-century sprinkled calf, sewn on six supports with corresponding raised bands, spine gilt, with title and author lettered in gold, and red sprinkled edges. At the foot of the spine a separate paper label inscribed "ZH 53" in ink. With a separate paper label on the front board bears an alternative title pasted-on the front cover of the binding: Historia Monasteriensis urbis et episcopatus, inprimis motuum in reformatione anabaptistarum ... ad an. 1576. 362, 28 ll. Full description

KIRCHER, Athanasius. Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum quo universa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus scientiis & artibus usus, nova methodo explicatur: ...
Rome, Biagio Diversin and Zanobio Masotti (printed by Vitale Mascardi), 1654. Folio. With engraved frontispiece by F. Valentius, letterpress title-page printed in red and black with engraved double publisher's device, full-page engraved plate with the portrait of Emperor Ferdinand IV, 34 mostly full-page engraved illustrations, 215 woodcut illustrations and about 50 letterpress tables. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [32], 618, [28] pp. Full description