Religion & Devotion / Church History & Missions

PORRENO, Balthasar. Oraculos de las doce Sibilas. profetisas. de Christo nostro Señor entre los gentiles...
Cuenca, Domingo de la Iglesia, 1621. 4to. With an engraved title-page, 12 full-page woodcuts (on integral leaves), each text page in a frame of thin rules, the text opens with a woodcut decorated initial. Contemporary limp vellum, remnants of ties. Engraved title-page plus [6], 72 ll. Full description

[PROPAGANDA FIDE]. Africa [-] Greci - Italo Greci [-] Armeni di Venezia [-] varie.
[Rome and perhaps elsewhere, ca. 1758-1764 (transcribing original documents going back to at least 1664)]. 4to. Collection of manuscript transcriptions of about 30 letters and other documents. Contemporary Italian sheepskin parchment over flexible boards. [416] pp., including about 15 blank leaves. Full description

REINAUD, Joseph Toussaint. Extraits des historiens Arabes, relatifs aux guerres des croisades, ouvrage formant, d'après les écrivains Musulmans, un récit suivi des guerres saintes ...
[Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 8vo. Contemporary dark green half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. XLVIII, 582 pp. Full description

RHIJN, Leonard Johannes van. Reis door den Indischen Archipel, in het belang der evangelische zending.
Rotterdam, M. Wijt & zonen, 1851. 8vo. With 1 chromolithographed and 4 lithographed folding maps and 8 tinted lithographed illustrations. Rebacked in modern half cloth and the original gold-tooled green sheepskin backstrip laid down. XX, IV, “655” [= 651], 28 pp. Full description

RICCI, Matteo and Nicolas TRIGAULT. Histoire de l'expedition Chrestienne au royaume de la Chine, entreprinse par les PP. de la compagnie de Iesus.
Lyons, for Horace Cardon, 1616. 8vo. With an engraved title page and a full-page engraved portrait of prince Philippe Guillaume of Orange, and a large folding plan (42.5 x 15 cm). Contemporary overlapping vellum. [40], 1096 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

RINUCCINI, Giovanni Battista. Historia do Capuchinho Escoces.
Lisboa, Bernardo da Costa Carvalmo for Joseph da Cruz Cardozo, 1708. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a general title-page with a woodcut portrait of a monk (in the centre of a large rosette) and a divisional title-page for the second part of the tex. Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf, gold-tooled board edges, gilt and gauffered edges. [14], 54, [1], [1 blank], 55-237, [3 blank] pp. Full description

RODRIGUEZ GIRÃO, João [RODRIGUEZ GIRAM, Joao]. Litterae Iaponicae annorum M.DC.IX et X. ad R. admodum piae mem. p. Claudium Aquavivam generalem praepositum Societatis Iesu A.R.P. Provinciali eiusdem in Iapone Societ. Missae.
Antwerp, Petrus and Johannes Bellerus, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page. Modern limp parchment, gilt edges. [24], 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[RODRIGUES GIRÃO, João and Jean VIREAU? (translator)]. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume du Japon l'annee 1624.
Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1628. 8vo. With a woodcut Jesuit seal on the title page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, blind-stamped with a fleur-de-lys. [16], 390 pp. Full description

ROLEWINCK, Werner. Formula vivendi canonico[rum] sive vicario[rum] seculariu[m] aut etiam alio[rum] devoto[rum] presbiterorum.
(Colophon: Delft, [Christiaen Snellaert], April 1496). 4to (19.5×13.5). With the main text in a rotunda type (64G), quire signatures in a slightly larger rotunda (82G), title and text opening in a larger textura (145G) and a few small printed "Lombardic" uncial initials. Rubricated throughout, with 1 4-line and a few smaller red "lombardic" uncial initials written or drawn in the blank spaces provided, red paragraph marks; type area 14.5×9 cm. Half vellum (ca. 1900?). [11] ll. Full description