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First edition of a rare work on Syrian grammar, with excerpts from important Syrian authors

ADLER, Jacob Georg Christian. Brevis linguae Syriacae insitutio in usum tironum edita.
Altona, Johann David Adam Eckhardt, 1784. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and typographical ornaments at the head of every page. The text is set in Roman and Syriac type. Early 19th-century blue marbled paper wrappers. 64, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Original edition of the Italian translation of one of the key works of the Northern Renaissance

AGRICOLA, Rodolphus and TOSCANELLA, Orazio (translator). Della invention dialettica; Tradotto da Oratio Toscanella ... con alcune annotationi utilissime, & affronti importantissimi.
Venice, Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on the title page and last leaf (variant), several historiated woodcut initials, tables in the text. Mid to late 19th century gold-tooled quarter calfl. [12], "290" [= 294], [2] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
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Rare edition of a popular classical rhetoric handbook

APHTHONIUS of Antioch; Rodolphus AGRICOLA and Giovanni Maria CATANEO (translators). Aphthonii sophistae progymnasmata. Partim à Rodolpho Agricola, partim à Ioanne Maria Catanaeo latinitate donata. Cum luculentis & vtilibus in eadem Scholiis Reinhardi Lorichii Hadamarii. Nunc verò omnia multò quàm antea & emendatiora & meliori artificio disposita.
Paris, Gilles Gourbin, 1580. 16mo in 8s. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 3 woodcut headpieces in the beginning of the work, and 9 decorated woodcut initials throughout. 17th-century limp vellum. [12], 259, [3 blank] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
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The first three part of the first ever series of children's books

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio decerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adolescentulorum gratiam atq[ue] utilitatem.
Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1539.
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(2) BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De vasculis libellus.
Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1539.
(3) ESTIENNE, Charles. De re hortensi libellus.
Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1539.
(4) SENALUS [= CENEAU], Robert. De vera mensurarum ponderumque ratione.
Paris, Ioannes Roigny, 1535. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and final page of the first 3 works, each work with a decorated woodcut initial. Later vellum, with a brown morocco label on the spine with the author and title lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. 65, [11], [3 blank], [1]; 54, [7], [2 blank], [1]; 97, [15] pp.; [18], 119, [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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Early edition of the first real children's book

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adolescentulorum gratiam atque utilitatem.
Paris, Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], (colophon: 13 April) 1541. Small 8vo (ca. 16.5 x 10.5 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Modern blueish-grey paper over boards with the title printed in black on the spine, red sprinkled edges. 68, [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Second part of the first ever series of children's books

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De vasculis libellus, adulescentulorum causa ex Bayfio decerptus, addita vulgari Latinarum vocum interpretatione.
Paris, Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], (colophon: 13 October) 1543. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Later blueish-grey paper over boards with the title printed in black on the spine. 52, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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"As famous for its unintelligibility, as it is sought after for its rarity"

BALTENSZ, Frans. Samaritane, ofte spieghel der godtsvreesentheyt en eerbaerheydt, ofte gespreeck van den Heere, met het rechtgeloovigh wijf van Samaria, oft uyt Jacob van Ephraim van Sichar, beschreven in het vierde capittel van den evangelist Johanne, in prijs voorghestelt, die met vergeldinghe vergolden wordt, volghens de woorden des Heeren. ... Ofte een woordelijcke verclaringhe, van het vierde capittel des evangelist Johanne. Ghedaen door F. B.
Dordrecht, Frans Baltensz., 1648.
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(2) OVERSCHIE, Francois Jakob van. Oiwd niiws of volbragte belofte, by tyd-uytkoop, bestaande in een geheel leeves bestuur, voor den uytgeever en de zyne besonder by een gestelt; ook ten diinst van andre op vriindelyk en sterk aansouk, of 't nut deed, meegedeelt: onder andre is hiir in 't Godlik kindschap beknopt te siin.
Delft, Pieter vander Kloot, 1735.
(3) [NATURA ET ARTE]. Brief, aen den edelen achtbaren Heere Mr. Francois Jacob van Overschie, raed en schepen der stat Delf, op de uitgave van zyn Oiwd Niiws of volbrachte belofte enz.
Rotterdam, Philip Losel, 1735. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 10 parts. Ad 1: 8vo but mounted into 4to-size leaves; ads 2-3: 4to. Ad 1 with 8 divisional title pages (within collation but also including the impressum, the start of the explanation of the "vijfde capittel" can be found on O4r on the second half of the page). Ad 2 with a woodcut ornament on the title page. Ad 3 signed "Natura et Arte" in brown ink on p. 2. 18th-century gold-tooled olive-brown morocco, with two reddish-brown leather title-labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 51, [1 blank], 315, [1 blank]; [8], 112, [4]; 8 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Charming guide on the Hindustani language, printed in Calcutta

BANESS, Joshua Frederick. Manual of Hindustání or the stranger's Indian interpreter; A practical and easy guide to Hindustání conversation.
Calcutta, W. Newman & Co., 1890. 14 x 8,5 cm. With a woodcut tailpiece at the end of the work. Contemporary red pebble-grain cloth, with the title lettered in gold on the front board. 145, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 375
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Treatise on education and pedagogy based on the Christian religion

BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht der Jugend in der Religion und Sittenlehre der Vernunft nach dem in der Philalethie angegebenen Plane.
Altona, David Iversen, 1764.With: (2) BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht in der überzeugenden Erkenntniss der biblischen Religion, zur vorgesetzten Ausführung des in der Philalethie angegebenen Plans.
Altona, David Iversen, 1764.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved illustration on both title-pages (not identical) and some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Slightly later brown pastepaper boards, with title-label on spine, red sprinkled edges. LXII, 272; XXXII, 224, 144 pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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Catherine the Great's enlightened ideas on education, edited by Diderot

BETZKY (BETSKOI), Ivan Ivanovitch. Les plans et les statuts, des différents établissements ordonnés par sa Majésté Impériale Catherine II. pour l'education de la jeunesse, et l'utilité générale de son Empire.
Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, engraved allegorical plate, 3 large folding engraved plans, 4 folding tables, and 64 large engraved head-pieces, tail-pieces and allegorical engravings in text, including the coat of arms, medal and seal of Catherine the Great of Russia. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked with gold-tooled spine. VI, [2], 160, 42, [2]; 160 pp. Full description
€ 3,000
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