Religion & Devotion

[WITCHCRAFT]. Factum, pour maistre Urbain Grandier, prestre curé de l'eglise S. Pierre du Marché de Loudun, & l'un des chanoines en l'eglise Saincte Croix dudit lieu.
[ca. 1634].
With:
(2) [WITCHCRAFT]. Remarques & considerations servans a la justification du curé de Loudun, autres que celles contenuës en son factum.
[ca. 1634].
2 works in 1 volume. 4to (ca. 18.5 x 24 cm). Modern marbled boards. 12; 8 pp. Full description

WOLZOGEN, Johann Ludwig von. Opera omnia, exegetica, didactica & polemica. Quorum seriem versa pagina exhibet. Cum indicibus necessariis.
Irenopoli [= Amsterdam], [Daniel Bakkamude for Frans Kuyper], 1656 [=1668].
With: (2) [WOLZOGEN, Johann Ludwig von]. [Operum tomus alter].
Irenopoli [= Amsterdam], [Daniel Bakkamude for Frans Kuyper], 1656 [=1668]. 2 volumes bound as 1, the second in 2 parts. Folio. With a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each tract, woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco label on the spine with the title "Sligtingii Tome VI" lettered in gold, a central ornament on both boards surrounded by a single and double fillet border, 2 slits for closing ties. [3], [1 blank], 1038; [1], [1 blank], 356; [2], 132, [8] pp. Full description

[XAVIER, Jerome, and others]. Raguagli d'alcune missioni fatte dalli padri della Compagnia di Giesu nell'Indie Orientali, cioè nelle provincie di Goa, e Coccinno, e nell'Africa in Capo Verde.
Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615. Small 8vo (14 x 9 cm).18th-century(?) sheepskin parchment. 165, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[YATES, William and John WENGER (translators)]. The Book of Proverbs, in Sanskrit verse. Translated from the Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries.
Calcutta, Printed for the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1862. 8vo (ca. 21 x 14 cm). The work is printed in Sanskrit, using Bengali characters. Original pale green wrappers. [1], [1 blank], 76 pp. Full description

YDENS, Steven. Historie van het H. Sacrament der mirakelen. Berustende tot Bruessel inde collegiale kercke van S. Goedele. Beschreven door M. Steven Ydens Brusselaer, priester, licent. inde H. Godtheyt, ende canonick vande voorseyde kercke.
Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1608. Small 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page and 17 engravings on the integral leaves, woodcut pictorial initials, and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Later calf (ca. 1700?). [46], 282, [20] pp. Full description

ZEHENTNER, Paul. Promontorium malae spei: impiis periculose navigantibus propositium. Sive, signum & nota reprobationis: procrastinatio poenitentiae, scripta cautelae hominum, emendatione[m] vita[e] cunctantium, spe aliquando resipiscendi.
Graz, [heirs of Georg] Widmanstetter for Sebastian Haupt, 1643. Large 4to (25.5 x 19 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece and a richly designed armorial and emblematic dedication plate, both by David Tscherning. Contemporary, richly gold-tooled black morocco, each board in a panel design of rolls and stamps with a large built-up centrepiece in a double frame of multiple decorative rolls (the diagonals connecting the inner and outer frames possibly intended to give the effect of a three-dimensional niche), and the spine treated as a single field with built-up decorations in a frame of multiple rolls, gold fillets on turn-ins, the whole with hundreds of impressions of dozens of stamps and rolls, gilt edges, traces of 2 pair of ties. [36], 752, [10] pp. including engraved frontispiece but not dedication plate. Full description

[ZINZENDORF, Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von]. Sammlung Einiger von dem Ordinario Fratrum während seines Aufenthalts in den Teutschen Gemeinen von Anno 1755 bis 1757 gehaltenen Kinder-Reden.
Barby, Seminario Theologico, 1758. 8vo. With ornamental woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled marbled calf, red edges. [8], 454, [20] pp. Full description

ZUTPHEN, Hendrik van (junior). De gekroonde penne konst.
[The Netherlands, 1807]. ca. 38.5 x 28 cm. Under a white and gold passe-partout, framed in a gold frame with a black fillet (ca. 57 x 46 cm). Full description

ZWEMER, Samuel Marinus. Arabia: the cradle of Islam. Studies in the geography, people and politics of the peninsula with an account of Islam and mission-work.
Edinburgh and London, Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, [preface dated: Dec. 1900]. 8vo. With a cut-out picture of a Bedouin woman on the verso of the half-title-page, a picture of "a typical Arab of Yemen" as the frontispiece, 15 plates, a floor plan of a mosque, 2 maps and numerous small illustrations in the text. Yellow cloth. [6], 437, [1 blank] pp. Full description