AGRICOLA, Rodolphus. De inventione dialectica libri omnes et integri & recogniti... nunc demum ad autographi exemplaris fidem, per Alardum Aemstelredamum accuratius emendati & additis annotationibus illustrati. Cum aliis non parum multis eodem pertinentibus, (atque iis non sanè iam nunc primum aeditis) quae versa monstrabit pagina...
Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus, 1539. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with Gymnicus woodcut device on the title page and several woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with several woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with Wilckes woodcut device on the title page. With:
(2) IDEM. Lucubrationes ... in hanc usque diem nusquam prius aeditae ... nunc demum ad autographorum exemplarium fidem per Alard um Aemstelredamum emendata, et additis scholiis illustrata. Epistola Ioannis Phrissemii. Erudita cum primis Philippi Melanthonis epistola, mores, eruditionem, vitamque Rodolphi compendio perstringens. Cum aliis cognitu perquàm necessariis ... Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus, (colophon:) 1539.
(3) FUGMANN, Johann Christoph. Vetus et nova philosophia moralis: opusculum humanarum literarum cultoribus haud fortè in jucundum.
Wittenberg, Johann Wilcke, 1678.
18th-century half mottled calf, decorated paper sides, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the gold-tooled spine, with a light brown paper label on the spine with the authors name and title lettered in gold ("Agricola De Inventione Dialectica"), and blue and red sprinkled edges. [16], 471, [1 blank]; [20], 321, [1 blank]; [8], 128 pp. Full description

ALARDUS AMSTELREDAMUS. Selectae similitudines sive collationes, tum ex bibliis sacris, tum ex veterum orthodoxorum commentariis. per ... tomis tribus accurativs concinnatae, plurimum allaturae adiumenti verbi dei concionatoribus, iuxta ac scripturaesacrae tractatoribus.
Lyon, (colophon:) Jean and Francois Frellon, 1543. 8vo. With the title set in a woodcut frame, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum. [48], 304 ll. Full description

ALGERUS and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). De veritate corporis & sanguinis d[ominici in Eucharistia, cum refutatione diversaru[m] circa hoc haereseon, opus pium iuxta ac doctum ...
Cologne, [Jaspar von Gennep] Peter Quentel, August 1535.
With (bound before ad 1):
VIGILIUS. Opera ...
Including: CASSANDER, Georg. Commentarius de duabus in Christo naturis ...
Cologne, Arnold Birckman, 1555. 2 works in 1 volume, ad 1 in 2 parts. 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials, and a Quentels woodcut printers device at the end. Limp overlapping vellum with ties. 255 pp.; [16], 143, [1 blank]; 52 ll. Full description

ARATOR. Acta Apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1535 (title 1534). 8vo. Old boards. (48) ll. Full description

ARATOR. Acta apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1534 (impressum: 1535). 8vo (15.2 x 9.7 cm). With the title on the verso of leaf 24 underlined in red ink and the accompanying initial also coloured in red. Modern half brown calf. [48] ll. Full description

ARNOBIUS and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Arnobii aphri, vetusti pariter ac laudatissimi scriptoris in omneis palmos co[m]mentarii, iuxta pij atq[ue] eruditi. Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Commentarius in psalmum, quare fremuerunt gentes.
Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1522. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut frame on the title page, and 2 smaller woodcut frames on the first pages of the texts, and 5 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with armorial panel-stamps. Sewn on 4 supports, with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with remnants of 4 pairs of green closing ties, re-backed. [166], [36] ll. Full description

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE), Desiderius ERASMUS (editor), and others. Primus [- decimus] tomus eximii patris, inter summa latinae ecclesiae ornamenta ac lumina principis, D. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi ...
Basel, Ambrosius & Aurelius Froben, 1569. 11 parts in 10 volumes. Folio (38 x 25.5 cm). With the general title page in volume 1 set within an elaborate woodcut frame, all other title pages show the large woodcut Froben printer's device, repeated on all but one verso of the final page in each part. Further with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary half elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports (volume 1 on 4), with two brass clasps on the fore edge (leather anchor plate, brass clasp and catch plate). With the manuscript titles on the spines and the contents of each volume in manuscript on the bottom edge of all but one volume. Probably bound by Michael Hermann in Stuttgart before 1580. Full description

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). Collectanea, ex universo opere librorum D. Aurelii Augustini passim decerpta, semitam quanda[m] media[m] Christianis, nu[n]c misere dissentie[n]bus[!] mon[s]trantia, qua unanimiter ad ecclesiam Christi redeant.
Deventer, Albert Paffraet, 1529. 8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm). With the title in letterpress in a woodcut border and one woodcut initial. With a contemporary manuscript index (31 1/2 pp.) and contemporary manuscript notes (1 1/2 pp.) giving quotations from Saint Augustine on 16 leaves bound at the front. Contemporary blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards (the back board replaced with paperboard), with a brass catch-plate in the middle of the fore-edge (clasp and anchor plate lacking and binding repaired). 196 ll. Full description

AUGUSTINUS DE LEONISSA. Sermones pulcherrimi sup[er] d[omi]nica[m] or[ati]o[n]em Pater noster & angelicam salutat[i]o[n]em Ave Maria. Unicuiq[ue] ad populu[m] vole[n]ti declamat[i]o[n]es facere acco[m]modati. editi p[er] venera[n]du[m] patre[m] Augustinu[m] de Leonissa ...
(Colophon: Cologne, heirs of Heinrich Quentel, 1505). With 3 decorated woodcut initials, many 3-line and 2 larger Lombardic initials. With the first decorated initial hand coloured, and rubricated throughout.
With: (2) BONAVENTURA, Saint (pseudo). Sermo[n]es Quattuor novissimorum perutiles et n[e]cc[ess]arii. unu[m]que[m]que in devot[i]o[n]is ardorem dei quam timore[m] i[n]ducentes. a Beato Bonaventura editi.
(Colophon : Cologne), [Cornelis de Zierikzee, ca. 1502]. With a small woodcut of Christ at the Last Judgement on the title-page framed by 4 decorative woodcut strip borders, a full-page woodcut of King David meeting Christ at the Last Judgement (repeated at the end), a few 3-line Lombardic initials and spaces left for a few larger manuscript initials (not filled in). 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (14.5 x 10.5 cm). Modern blind-tooled brown goatskin morocco. [92]; [128] ll. Full description

AVILA Y ZUÑIGA, Luis de, and Willem van MALE (translator). Commentariorum de bello Germanico, à Carolo V. ... gesto, libri duo à Gulielmo Malinaeo Brugensi latinè redditi, & iconibus ad historiam accommodis illustrati.
Antwerp, In aedibus Joannes Steelsius, 1550. 8vo. With the printers device of Joannes Steelsius on the title page, 4 woodcut illustrations (a folding view, a double-page map, a double-page view, and a full-page view), and a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Emperor Charles V on the final page. Contemporary blind-tooled brown calf, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a paper shelfmark label ("P) in the top compartment and the manuscript number "4" in white ink in the compartment below, the coat of arms of Christopher Popel the elder of Lobcowicz (1513-1590) in the centre of the front board with the initials "C. B. A. L. Ae. A" and the motto "Insigniae" above, and the date "MDLIII" below, surrounded by an ornamental and triple fillet border, on the back a cross built up from four fleur-de-lis ornaments framed by the same border, 4 green closing ties. [8], 144 ll. Full description