Literature & Linguistics

[REYNARD THE FOX]. The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox. Newly corrected and purged...
London, Thomas Ilive for Edward Brewster, 1701.
With:
(2) [REYNARD THE FOX]. The most pleasant and delightful history of Reynard the Fox. The second part. ...
London, Anne Maxwell and Robert Roberts, for Edward Brewster, 1681.
(3) [REYNARD THE FOX, ADDITIONS]. The shifts of Reynardine the son of Reynard the Fox, ...
London, Thomas James for Edward Brewster and Thomas Passenger, 1684. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With woodcut of King Lion's court on the title page, 61 woodcuts in text of part 1 (including 23 repeats) and 15 woodcuts in part 2, all repeated from part 1. Further with a large woodcut decorated initial in part 3 and decorations built up from cast fleurons in parts 1 and 2. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Late-18th-century sprinkled calf, gold double fillets, blind-tooled board edges, red morocco spine label in 2nd of 6 compartments, red sprinkled edges. [160]; [112]; [4], 160 pp. Full description

[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

RIDLEY, William. Kamilaroi, Dippel, and Turrubul: languages spoken by Australian Aborigines.
Sydney, Thomas Richards (New South Wales government printer), 1866. 4to. With an armorial vignette printed in several colours and gold (the unofficial "Advance Australia" Australian coat of arms), 4 fine full-page wood engravings of plants and flowers. Original publisher's maroon textured cloth. VI, 88, [2] pp. Full description

RIHANI, Ameen. Around the coasts of Arabia.
London, Constable & Co., 1930. 8vo. With a pictorial map as frontispiece, 31 photographic half-tone plates and a full-page map on an integral leaf. Original publishers black cloth, with title in gold on spine. X, [2], 364 pp. Full description

RINTJES, Hendrik. De morgenstond in haer somersche vermakelikheden vertoont, en, tot s alderhoogsten lof, doorgaens leersaam toegeëigent. Op de maet van den achten psalm geriimt. Deesen tweeden druk meer als de helft vermeerdert.
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1690. 12 works in 1 volume. 4to (and 2 broadsheets of ca. 36-3 x 28-29 cm. folded to fit the 4to binding). Ad 1 with an engraved title page with the title in a floral cartouche and five separate landscapes at sunrise by Jan Luyken, a woodcut printers device on the typographical title page, and further with woodcut initials and tailpieces. Ad 2 with a large woodcut decorated initial, and the text is set in 2 columns. Ad 3 with a large woodcut vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut tailpieces. Ad 4 with an engraved illustration on the title page, a woodcut decorated initial, and several woodcut tailpieces. Ad 5 with a woodcut vignette on the title page and a woodcut decorated initial. Ad 6 with a woodcut decorated initial. Ad 7 with a woodcut vignette on the title page and a woodcut decorated initial. Ad 8 with 2 woodcut decorated initials and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 9 with a woodcut decorated initial and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 10 without any decoration. Ad 11 with a decoration between the 2 text columns built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 12 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 woodcut decorated initials, and 6 half-page engraved illustrations in the text. With:
(2) BRAKEL, Wilhelmus à. Geestelijke aandachten op de twaalf maanden des eersten jaars der achtiende eeuwe. 1701.
Rotterdam, Reynier van Doesburg, 1701.
(3) ROOS, Joan de. De Godheid betoogt door de natuurkunde, en heilige bespiegelingen over de drie-eenigheid Gods: nevens een toetssteen der waarheid.
Haarlem, Mozes van Hulkenroy, 1725.
(4) BENT, Jan. Rym-gedachten, over de voornaamste stukken van het lyden der weerelt heiland Jezus Christus.
Alkmaar, Nicolaas Mol, 1726.
(5) [DROSTE, Coenraet]. Dancksegging en overdencking naer het H. Nagtmael onses heeren Jesu Christi.
The Hague, Gerrit Rammazeyn, [ca. 1710].
(6) [POOT, Hubert Korneliszoon], Op den hoogen Watervloet, omtrent het einde des jaers MDCC XVII.
[1718].
(7) [CENTEN, Izaak]. Gods oordelen over Nederland, in de sterfte van t rundvee, den zwaren storm, en hogen watervloed.
Amsterdam, Johannes Oosterwyk, 1718.
(8) [VRIES, P.D.]. De oordeelen Gods over Nederlant, gezien in voorgaande jaren, maar byzonder in den jare 1726. Met het doorbreken van verscheide dyken.
(Colophon:) Rotterdam, Johannes van Eik, 1726.
(9) [HOOGSTRATEN, Jan van]. Sodoms appel, of gruwel der verwoesting.
[late 17th- or early 18th-century].
(10) Landsmet, of aller gruwelen gruwel.
[ca. 1730].
(11) Het klagende Nederlandt.
[ca. 1730].
(12) RUARUS, David. Des werelds ondergang.
Amsterdam, David Ruarus, 1687.
Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [8], 44; [1], [1 blank]; 19, [1]; [1], [1 blank], [22], 58, [1], [1 blank]; 13, [1 blank]; 8; [1], [1 blank], [10]; 12; 8; 8; [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [6], 48 pp. Full description

RIPA, Cesare. Iconologia, of uytbeeldingen des verstands: ... Om uyt te drucken, en te vinden, 't begrip van alle sinnebeelden, invallen, devijsen of sinteykenen. ...
Amsterdam, Dirck Pietsz. Pers, 1644. 4to. With engraved allegorical frontispiece and 196 emblematic woodcut illustrations (ca. 8.5 x 6 cm) in the text by Jan Christoffel Jegher. Parchment (ca. 1725?). [14], 636, [8] pp. Full description

[ROBERTI, Anthonius]. Clavis Homerica, sive lexicon vocabulorum omnium, quae in Iliade Homeri, nec non potissimâ Odyssae parte continentur. Accedit brievis appendix de dialectis. Opus prima in Anglia concinnatum, deinde auctum & saepius editum; nunc tandem summon studio correctius recusum.
Rotterdam, Arnold Leers, 1655. 8vo. Title printed in red and black, with the woodcut printer's device of Arnold Leers and woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary vellum. [4], 470, [88] pp. Full description

[ROBINSONADE]. [Captain Pierre VIAUD]. Der französische Robinson. Oder außerordentliche Schicksale des französichen Kaptain Viaud nach seinen eigenen Berichten. Aus dem französischen.
Prague, Johann Herrl, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary blind-tooled half calf, red speckled paper sides. 122 pp. Full description

[ROCHEFORT, Charles de]. Histoire naturelle et morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amérique ...
Rotterdam, Arnout Leers, 1658. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved title-page, a woodcut printer's device on the typographical title-page, a full-page portrait of Amproux, 43 engraved plates in the text of all kinds of plants, trees, animals and costumes from the Antilles. Further with a divisional title-page for the second part, and woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, and a bright pink reading ribbon. [1], [1 blank], [12], 527, [12], [1 blank] pp. Full description

ROEMER, Jan. Vruchtmandje voor de jeugd.
Amsterdam, J. Kaal, [1811]. 8vo. With a hand-coloured vignette (a fruit basket) on the title-page and 18 hand-coloured full-page plates. Original publisher's stiff brown printed paper boards. "XXXII" [= XXX], 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description