Highlights

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

CLENARDUS, Nicolaus. Nic. Clenardi Epistolarum libri duo. Quorum posterior iam primum in lucem prodit.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1566. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8to. Both title-pages with Plantin's woodcut printer's mark, Arabic type interspersed. Contemporary vellum with 4 raised bands and a manuscript title on the spine. 112, 258 [= 241], [4] pp. Full description

[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

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

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

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

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