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Early 16th-century collection of Lutheran works the press of Simon Corver in Zwolle,
featuring works of Wessel Gansfort and early Netherlandish reformers

GANSFORT, Wessel. De sacramento eucharistiae. Et audienda missa.
[Zwolle, Simon Corver, ca. 1521].
With:
(2) IDEM. Epistola adversus M. Engelbertum Leydensem ... et aliae epistolae. [Zwolle, S. Corver, between 30 July and the start of September 1522].
(3) IDEM. Tractatus ... De oratione & modo orandi cum luculentissima Dominicae orationis explanatione.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(4) IDEM. Farrago ... olim uulgo dicti, rarae & reconditae doctrinae, notulae aliquot & propositiones ...
[Zwolle, S. Corver, beginning of 1522].
(5) GOCHIUS, Pupper. In divine gratie et christianae fidei, commendationem, contra falsam & Pharisaicam multorum de iustifiis & meritis operum doctrinam & gloriationem, fragmenta aliquot ... nunquam excusa.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(6) GANSFORT, Wessel. De autoritate officio et potestate pastorum ecclesiasticorum.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1522]. 6 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ads 1-3 and 6 with a woodcut title frame on each of the title pages and several large woodcut decorated initials. Ads 4-5 with several large woodcut decorated initials.
Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 2 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine. Further with brass catch- and anchor plates and one clasp, and a paper label at the head of the spine, lettered in ink referring that this is a collection of Wessel Gansforts works, dated 1520. [3536]; [32]; [4], “CX” [= XC]; [4], XCVIII; “46” [= 44 (of 46)]; [16]; [24] (belonging to ad 2) ll. Full description
€ 25,000
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One of the earliest recorded copies of the Deventer almanac

GRAPHEUS, Rodolphus. Schrijf almanack, offte calender na[er] de[n] olden stijl, op dat nije schalt iaer [...] MDXCVI.
(Colophon:) Deventer, Simon Steenbergen, [1595]. 16mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 12 woodcut illustrations in the calendar (1 for each month), and 2 woodcut illustrations in the text, the work is printed in red and black. Later vellum wrappers, with the manuscript year of publication on the back. [32] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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Essential for the history of the Dutch War of Independence

LE PETIT, Jean François. La grande chronique ancienne et moderne, de Hollande, Zelande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'An 1600. Receüillee tant des histoires desdites provinces, que de divers autres auteurs.
Dordrecht, Jacob Canin for the author (colophon volume 2:) printed in Dordrecht by Guillaume Guillemot, 1601. 2 volumes, Folio. With the title set within a richly engraved allegorical border, repeated for the title in volume 2, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and 57 mostly full-page engraved portraits in the text, including one portrait in woodcut, and allegorical engraved plate of the States General of the Dutch United Provinces, by Christoph van Sichem. Further with several large woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the small gold-tooled crest of Thomas Hutton and the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges. [1], [1 blank], [38], "650" [= 656], [2], 240; [1], [1 blank], [14], "779" [= 788], [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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