BUCHANAN, George, and Théodore de BÈZE. Psalmorum Davidis paraphrasis poetica, nunc primum edita... Eiusdem Davidis psalmi aliquot à Th.B.V. versi. psalmi aliquot in versus ite(m) Graecos nuper à diversis translati.
[Geneva], Henri & Robert Estienne, [1566]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page. 18th century gold-tooled calf. [8], 277, [3 blank]; 46 pp. Full description

CONDIO, Luigi. Preghiere. Miniature di Vittorio Vulten.
Torino, Carlo de Martini (printed by Stab. Litografico Giovanni Fraschini & C., Milan), 1902. 18mo (13.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 cm). A wholly chromolithographed Art Nouveau prayer book, printed in numerous pastel colours plus gold, with (mostly floral) decoration on every page and numerous additional illustrations. In a silver binding (hallmarked "800" at the foot of the otherwise blank back cover), with "Our Lady of the Rosary" from the shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary in Pompei depicted on the front cover in high relief (madonna and child presenting rosaries to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine) flanked by two irises, above "Ave Maria" and a panel with "SS. Vergine di Pompei", endpapers lithographed in pastel colours plus gold, in a repeating pattern of abstracted flowers, crosses, anchors, hearts and initials "VD" or "DV", gilt edges. [104] pp. Full description

EUCHEL, Isaac Abraham. Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.
Vienna, J.B. Zweck, 1813. 8vo. With a woodcut head-piece. The book is printed in Gothic type, with the original titles also in Hebrew type. Contemporary blind-tooled half calf. [4], 394, [2] pp. Full description

EUCHEL, Isaac Abraham. Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.
Vienna, Anton Schmid, 1815. 8vo. The book is mainly printed in Gothic type with some Hebrew types to the titles and in the notes. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, with a brown label on the spine. 458 pp. Full description

GARCIA, Diego S.J. Sermon funebre en las exequias de la serenissima Señora D. Mariana de Austria Reyna Madre del Rey N. Señor Carlos II. Rey de las Españas. Que celebrò la nobilissima, y fidelissima ciudad de Mallorca en su Iglesia Catadral á 28. de Noviembre de 1696.
Palma de Mallorca, Miguel Capo, 1697. 4to. With the title in an ornamental frame built up from typographic ornaments (a fleur-de-lis and Vervliet vine leaf 207), three woodcut initials and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern marbled boards. [12], 26 pp. Full description

MCFARLAND, Samuel Gamble (editor). Siamese hymnal.
Phetchaburi (Thailand), Samuel Gamble McFarland, 1876. 8vo. With Western round-head letterpress music notation. Set in Thai type with incidental roman. This copy with the letterpress presentation slip on blue paper tipped in (from McFarland and his wife), for people who contributed to the project. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, probably bound for presentation. 148 pp. Full description

N. S. V. L. [= LEEUWAARDEN, Nicolaas Simon van] and Hieronymus Simons van ALPHEN. De godvreezende zeeman, ofte de nieuwe Christelyke zeevaart, bestuurd door een schriftmatige verhandeling, van zes-en-twintig uytgelezene schriftuurplaatsen ...
Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Gijsbert de Groot, 1725. 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title-page by Jan Luyken (within collation) and a woodcut vignette on the typographical title-page. Contemporary sprinkled calf. [1], [1 blank], [52], 754 pp. Full description

NATALIS, Hieronymus (Jerónimo NADAL). Evangelicae historiae imagines ex ordine evangeliorum, quae toto anno in missae sacrificio recitantur, in ordinem temporis vitae Christi digestae.
Antwerp, [Martinus Nutius], 1593.With: (2) IDEM. Adnotationes et meditationes in evangelia quae in sacrosancto missae sacrificio toto anno leguntur. Cum evangeliorum concordantial historiae integritati sufficienti. ...
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1594 (colophon dated 1595). 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Each work with an engraved allegorical title page, extensively highlighted in gold, and woodcut initials and headpieces. Ad 1 contains a print series showing the life of Christ in 153 full-page engravings by the Wierix brothers, Jan II and Adriaen Collaert and Charles de Malery after Bernardo Passari and Maarten de Vos. It also has an engraved allegorical and ornamental headpiece on A2, reading "IHS In nomine Jesu". Mid 19th-century light brown calf with a blind-tooled ornamental frame on both boards, a gold-tooled spine, a black morocco spine label with the title in gold, red edges and marbled endpapers. [5] ll. plus 153 engraved prints; [1], [3 blank], 595 [= 593], [5] pp. Full description

SENAULT, Louis (calligrapher & engraver). Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Écrites et gravées par L. Senault.
Paris, "l'autheur" and Claude De Hansy, [1690 or soon after]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a richly engraved title-page with the title in a wreath of flowers with 2 dolphins and the crowned coat-of-arms of the Dauphine, and 260 engraved calligraphic text-pages, richly decorated and illustrated, including 8 engraved divisional titles, this copy with the frontispiece, the 4 illustration plates and 2 otherwise blank pages with gilt borders. 18th-century richly gold-tooled (browned) olive-green goatskin morocco, each board with a wide border, spine with the title in roman capitals in the 2nd of 6 compartments and a flower built up from several stamps plus several decorations in each of the other compartments, rolls on the raised bands and at the head and foot, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges, 2 silver clasps with a stamped mark, red silk paste-downs, gilt edges, red silk ribbon marker. [1], [1 blank], 260 engraved pp. plus 5 engraved plates including frontispiece. Full description

TAYLOR, Jeremy. Holy living and dying together with prayers. Containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnished for all necessities.
London, printed by James Moyes for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, etc., 1849. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gilt and gauffered edges, marbled endpapers, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a blue silk reading ribbon. xvi, 573, [1 blank] pp. Full description