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A worldy guide for Dutch ministers and other clergy men

BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Nieuwe kerkelyke geografische zak- en reisatlas der vereenigde Nederlanden. Als mede van de landen der generaliteit, ingericht, naar de kerkelyke verdeeling dezer landen, in synoden, benevens derzelver onderhoorige klassen. Zeer dienstig en gemakkelyk, niet alleen voor de Eerw. heeren proponenten, om te zien onder welke classen de vakante plaatzen leggen, maar ook voor anderen, die de provintien willen doorreizen, om de reisroute te neemen.
Amsterdam, De erven Dirk onder de Linden en zoon, 1794. Large, narrow 8vo. With a folding typographical title page and 13 folding double-page engraved maps by J. van Jagen, all coloured by a contemporary hand. The maps are mounted on stubs for ease of use (the maps fold out/open flat). Contemporary half tan mottled calf, red and black decorated paper sides, with remnants of a white paper label at the foot of the spine, and with two 20th-century library labels (of the "Verzameling Oudheidkamer Twente") on the back board. [14] folded leaves. Full description
€ 2,500
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Royal instructions, drafted for the Archbishop of Goa, with anti-Jesuit themes

JOSÉ I, King of Portugal. Instrucçõens com que el Rey meu senhor manda passar ao Estado da India o reverendo Arcebispo de Goa primaz do Oriente.
[Lisbon?, dated 10 February 1774 at the foot of the of each of the six Instrucçõens]. Folio. Manuscript on paper, written in a neat secretarial hand. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. [2 blank], [4], [68], [2], [4 blank] ll. Full description
€ 16,500
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Beautifully hand-coloured engravings, heightened with gold, in a splendid Amsterdam binding

SELS, Willem Hendrik. Salomon, Koning van Israël. In XII boeken.
Amsterdam, F. de Kruyff, A. van der Kroe, 1765[-1768]. 4to (23.5 x 17.5 cm; binding 24.5 x 19.5 x 4 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, a small engraved scene on the title page, and an armorial engraving above the dedication, all coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gold. Contemporary richly gold-tooled dark olive morocco by the so-called "Three Acorn Bindery" in Amsterdam, with a central ornament on both boards, surrounded by an elaborate decorative frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a red morocco title label on the spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, green ribbon marker. [22], 292 pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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Christianity and children's education intertwined: a very rare Italian ABC book

[ABC BOOK]. Correttissima Santa Croce per facilissima istruzzione de' fanciulli.
[Rome], Francesco Ansillioni, [ca. 1750]. Small 8vo. With 2 nearly full-page woodcuts (the Holy Virgin on the front cover and a monk with a shining nimbus containing the word "charitas" around his head on the back cover) and 7 small religious woodcuts in text. Front and back cover and the first two pages with alphabets and numbers in ornamental woodcut borders. Sewn. [16] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Rules and regulations for life in an Amsterdam orphanage or elderly home in the 17th- and 18th centuries

[AMSTERDAM - WALLOON COMMUNITY]. Ordres et reglemens de la Maison des Orphelins, des vieillards, & des vielles femmes de l'église Walonne d'Amsterdam. Avec des prières à l'usage de cette maison. Nouvelle edition.
Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772. Large 4to (21.5 x 27 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page and a divisional title page for the Prieres, a l'usage de la maison des orphelins walons (on leaf I3r). Further with 2 woodcut headpieces. Near contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. VIII, 91, [8], [1 blank], [6] pp. interleaved with blank pages. Full description
€ 3,500
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Colourful collection of mostly 17th- and 18th-century devotional prints,
showcasing a wide variety of decorative techniques, from the library of a Belgian countess

[DEVOTIONAL PRINTS]. [Collection of 37 devotional prints and drawings].
[Flanders and Paris, various publishers, ca. 1630-1850]. 2 volumes. Oblong folio (ca. 29 x 42.5 cm); sheet size ca. 12 x 9 to 35 x 23 cm. With 24 contemporary hand-coloured engravings, of which some heightened with gold, 1 contemporary hand-coloured woodcut illustration, 1 chromolithographed print, 7 watercolour drawings (including 2 on vellum), 3 silk embroidered prints in various sizes, and 1 image made of paper ornaments glued onto a black netting fabric. Further with a folded alphabetical list of the Antwerp printers and engravers of devotional prints in a 19th-century hand tipped onto the first leaf of the album. Several prints are tipped into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled brown morocco album, a blind-tooled ornament in the centre of both boards with the crowned initials "J.B." on the front, surrounded by a double fillet frame with elaborate corner pieces, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. The work is housed in a 19th-century marbled slipcase, with a paper label with the name of Countess Julie Visart de Bocarmé mounted on the front. The remaining prints have been tipped onto a sheet of sturdy paper, inserted into a clear plastic file folder, which are loosely inserted into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled purple morocco album, with the word "album" lettered in gold on the front, surrounded by a blind-tooled Gothic style border and an elaborate gold-tooled border, gilt edges, black watered silk end papers. Full description
€ 16,500
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By order of the Pope: Jesuits and other missionaries in the Far East renounce the Chinese rites;
from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps

[MANUSCRIPT - CHINESE RITES CONTROVERY - Lourenço de SANTA MARIA E MELO et al]. [Collection of manuscript anti-Rites oaths, from the years 1746-1767].
[Goa?, 1746-1767]. Folio. With 19 manuscript documents (18 in Latin, 1 in Italian) in different sizes, some with a papered seal.
19th-century brown paper boards from Thomas Phillipps' Middle Hill Press, with the manuscript title on the spine. The work is housed in a clamshell box of gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, yellow cloth sides, and a brown paper lining. [51] ll. Full description
€ 75,000
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German manuscript of private devotion by a woman

[MANUSCRIPT - PRIVATE DEVOTION - MÖHLMAN, Geertruy]. Möchte meiner Seuftzer schallen, möchte das Vergnügte wallen...
[Germany], 1746. 8vo (ca. 16.7 x 9.4 cm). With a colourful hand-drawn title page. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. [33] ll. Full description
€ 1,950
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First edition of Pieter Mortier's renowned picture bible, uniformly bound in three volumes

[MARTIN, David and Willem SEWEL (translator)]. Historie des ouden en nieuwen testaments, verrykt met meer dan vierhonderd printverbeeldingen in kooper gesneeden.
Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1700. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page for both parts (vols. 1 and 3), a large engraved vignette on each of the 3 typographical title pages, 3 engraved headpieces (1 in vol. 1 and 2 in vol. 3), 28 engraved tailpieces is vol. 3, 2 identical engraved initials (one in vol. 1, the other in vol. 3), a total of 210 full-page engraved plates containing 2 illustrations each (64 in vol. 1; 72 in vol. 2; 74 in vol. 3), and 5 double-page engraved maps in volume 3. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf,with a green and a blue label lettered in gold on each spine, sprinkled paper sides. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [14], 128; [1], [1 blank], 129-282 [= 154 pp.], [8]; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [22], 154, [1 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [1 blank], 155-163 [= 9 pp.], [1 blank], [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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