[BIBLE - PRAYERBOOK - DUTCH].

Het nieuwe testament ofte alle boeken des nieuwen verbonds onses heeren Jesu Christi.Amsterdam, "in Compagnie", 1746.With: (2) [PSALMS]. Het boek der psalmen, nevens de gezangen bij de hervormde kerk van Nederland in gebruik ...Including: [CATECHISM]. Catechismus, ofte onderwysinge in de christelyke leere, ...Amsterdam, heirs of Hendrik van der Putte, 1788.2 works in 1 volume, the second in 2 parts. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved title-page (within collation), woodcut decorated initials (2 series) and woodcut ornamental tailpieces; ad 2 part 1 with an engraved title-page (of the 1774 edition, outside of collation) and the publisher's woodcut device on the typographical title-page, printed musical notations for the psalms and songs, and one woodcut decorated initial; ad 2 part 2 with its own divisional typographical title-page showing an ornamental woodcut vignette and a floral woodcut tailpiece. The text is mainly set in Gothic type, with some incidental Roman type. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf with the gold-tooled A VOC (the Amsterdam Chamber of the VOC) monogram on the front board, with two decorated brass clasps.

[4], 312; [8], [276] ll., 71, [1] pp.A very rare edition of an eighteenth-century Dutch prayer book in a remarkable Dutch East India Company (VOC) binding. The present work includes the New Testament in the famous Dutch States translation, commissioned during the National Synod in Dordrecht in 1618-1619, the psalms in their famous 1773 State-commissioned rhyme-edition, chants, and the forms of unity (including the catechism). All psalms and chants are accompanied by musical notation.With an elaborate manuscript presentation inscription, written in Dutch in brown ink on the verso of the first free flyleaf; and some Dutch and English newspaper clippings inserted between the front endpapers. Ad 1 with a manuscript signature on the verso of the title-page beneath the small Amsterdam coat of arms beneath the "act of consent" (= privilege); ad 2 with the manuscript signature of J. J. Kessler beneath the small (but slightly more prominent) Amsterdam coat of arms beneath the 1773 "Acte van Consent" for the Psalms. Somewhat foxed throughout, the last four pages (including 3 blank flyleaves) are lightly water stained, the edges are somewhat browned. Leaf A1 in ad 2 is missing a small part of the bottom outer corner, slightly affecting the text of the printed commentary in the margins. The spine shows clear signs of use and wear, the joints are weakened but all sewing supports are still intact, the boards are slightly scuffed. Otherwise in good condition.l Ad 1: STCN 168398591 (3 copies, including 1 incomplete); WorldCat 68856396, 606428796, 1386292514 (4 copies); Ad 2: STCN 24068463X (6 copies, including 4 incomplete); WorldCat 475516231, 67541856 (3 copies).

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[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - LATIN].

Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum.Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1564[-1565].With: (2) [INDEX]. Hebraea, Chaldaea, Graeca, et Latina nomina virorum, mulierum, populorum, idolorum, urbium, fluviorum, montiu[m], caeterorumq.; locorum quae in Bebliis sparsa leguntur ... cum Latina interpretatione: additis etiam Bibliorum locis in quibus ita scripta legu[n]tur: qua in re interpretationem quae in Bibliis Compluti excusis erat ....Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1565. With Hebrew and Greek types.2 works in 1 volume, the 1st in 2 parts. 16mo (11.2 x 7.2 cm). Contemporary blind- and gold-tooled calf.

316, [68]; [111] [1 blank] ll.Two complementary works printed by Plantin: a Latin New Testament and an alphabetical list of Hebrew, Greek and Latin names of biblical people and places, appearing together in a lovely binding with beautifully decorated edges. The New Testament opens with Saint Jerome's preface and his short introductions also accompany the different books. The order of the ecclesiastical year with the different readings is included at the end. The present New Testament appeared in a series of parts of the Bible (Voet 682 I-VI & VI bis), all in a 16mo format. The second work "must be considered to be the last volume of this edition" (Voet I, p. 352).Rebacked, with the remnants of the original spine laid down, slightly damaged, with faint water stain on front board, not affecting the book block. Minor corrosion spots, only on the inside of the front board and in the margins of the first few leaves, not affecting the text, some very slight, very light foxing throughout. A good copy of Plantin’s 16mo New Testament in a contemporary binding with extensively and beautifully decorated edges.l Ad 1: Belg. Typ. 443; Voet 682 VI and VI bis (8 copies). Ad 2: Belg. Typ. 443 and 1390; Voet 1750 (2 copies).

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[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - SYRIAC]. GUTBIER, Aegidius.

Novum Testamentum Syriacè...Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1664 (engraved title-page “1663”). With: (2) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Lexicon Syriacum, continens omnes N.T. Syriaci dictiones et particulas...Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667.(3) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Notae criticae in Novum Testamentum Syriacum... Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667.3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an architectural title-page, a woodcut vase of flowers on the letterpress title-page and decorations built up from typographic ornaments. With woodcut decorated initials and other decorations built up from typographic ornaments throughout the volume. Set in roman, italic and Syriac types, with incidental Greek and Hebrew. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.

[32], “606” [= 604]; [16], 146, [50]; 55, [1] pp.First edition of by far the best edition of the Syriac New Testament published before the 19th-century, edited by Aegidius Gutbier, which remained the standard Syriac text until Samuel Lee's 1823 edition. For the first book (the gospel of Matthew) it includes Gutbier's Latin translation of the Syriac at the foot of the page. With the New Testament are two complementary works by Gutbier, produced in matching format and intended to accompany it: his Syriac lexicon giving the Syriac words with their Latin equivalents, followed by an index of the Latin words; and his extensive notes on the Syriac text of the New Testament, with alternative readings from the many sources he examined. The Syriac text provides valuable clues to the original Aramaic sources of the New Testament. With a 1691 Amsterdam purchase inscription and two 1859 owner's inscriptions. In good condition, with the lower right corner of the engraved title-page under-inked, the paper slightly browned and an occasional minor spot or small stain. Binding with some of the vellum tapes broken at the hinge, some cracks in the hinges and with the back of the bookblock reinforced, but still generally good. Three complementary books forming the most important reference work for 17th- and 18th-century Syriac studies.l Coakley, Typography of Syriac W23; VD17, 39:142375F, 3:316277C, 75:689489C; not in Philologia orientalis.

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[BIBLE - KOSRAEAN].

Orekma lun met sap. Published by the Hawaiian Board.Honolulu, Henry M. Whitney, 1869. 12mo. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Rebacked with brown cloth.

63, [1 blank] pp.Rare edition of the Acts of the Apostles in Kosraean (Kusaiean), spoken on the islands of Kosrae, the Caroline Islands and Nauru. The translation is by Benjamin G. Snow, a pioneer of Micronesian Mission. He settled in Kosraea in 1852 and published several translations of parts of the New Testament from 1862 until his death in 1880, all printed at Honolulu.The printer of the present booklet, Henry M. Whitney, was born at Waimea in 1824. He was educated in the United States, where he became acquainted with the printing trade, working as foreman in the printing office of Harpers & Bros, New York. Upon his return to Hawaii, Whitney became the editor of the newspaper Polynesian. He later founded an independent newspaper at Honolulu and imported the first power press to Hawaii.In very good condition.l WorldCat (without any location); cf. Darlowe & Moule 6036-6045; for Whitney: The Independent vol. XVIII, no. 2894, August 18, 1904.

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[BIBLE - PSALMBOOK]. PSALTERION.

Prophetou kai Basileoos tou David [in Greek type] - Davidis Regis ac Prophetae Psalmorum Liber. Ad exemplar Complutense.Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. 16mo (11,8 x 8 cm). With woodcut printer's device on the title-page, text is partially printed in Greek. Late seventeenth-century dark brown calf, with gold-stamped coat of arms of Pierre-Daniel Huet on both covers and gold-tooled dubbel-lined borders on covers and spine, (remnants of) red speckled edges.

267, [13] pp.The text of this Book of Psalms is printed in Greek and Latin, in parallel columns and on each page the inner column contains the text in Greek, while the outer column contains the same in Latin. There are separate Greek and Latin indexes at the end of the work. This copy belonged to Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721), a French clergyman and scholar. According to title-page, this bilingual work was published by Plantin after the example of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible (1520). Plantin also issued a 24mo edition in the same year.The present copy is bound in dark brown leather with the coat of arms of Pierre-Daniel Huet stamped in gold on the front and back covers. Huet was the Bishop of Soissons, and later Avranches. He was the cofounder of the Académie de Physique in Caen and in 1674 he became a member of the Académie française. He was one of the most learned men of his age; he studied Greek and Hebrew and he claimed to have read the Hebrew text of the Bible 24 times. Although Huet was not a member of the Jesuit order, he lived his final years in a Jesuit home in Paris. After his death, he bequeathed his library to the Jesuits and upon the dissolution of the order in France in 1764, king Louis XV bought Huet's books and they are now part of the colleciton of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The bookplate on the front pastedown was made by the Jesuits to commemorate Huet's donation of his library.Covers show signs of wear, spine has been expertly restored. With an ex libris-label of Pierre-Daniel Huet on the front pastedown: "Ex libris bibliothecae quam Illustrissimus Ecclesiae Princeps. D Petrus Daniel Huetius [...] 1692.", an inscription in brown ink in Hebrew and several inscriptions in pencil, all on the first fly leaf. With crossed out inscriptions (except for "164" in the bottom left corner) on the verso of the third fly leaf and at the head of the title-page, with some annotations in dark brown ink (in Greek) throughout, very slight foxing throughout, a small water stain in the top margin of the second half of the book, without affecting the text. On pp. 29-30 a small corrosion spot, on p. 30 a marginal stain, and a small hole in the text in p. 87, all very slightly affecting the text. This is a well preserved copy of a bilingual book of psalms, with an interesting provenance.l BMC STC Dutch, p. 26; Voet 671; Olivier 1684. cf. NBG XXV, col. 381-385; Voet 672; Adams B-1390 ["32mo"].

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[BIDLOO, Govert].

Beurze-Stryd, of Saemen-Spraek tusschen Galenus, en Baldus.[The Hague, Meyndert Uytwerf?], 1692. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Bound on two modern chords.

[8], 9-24 pp.One of variant issues of this satirical pamphlet supposedly written by the famous physician (he became a few years later the personal physician of Stadholder/King William III), anatomist, poet and playwright and above all colorful Govert Bidloo (1649-1717).In February 1692 the Hoge Raed (Supreme Court) of the Dutch Republic had renewed their ordinance of 1652, ‘t Reglement op het stuck van het salaris van Advocaeten en Procureurs, to protect those who seek legal assistance from the sometimes exceedingly overcharging barristers and solicitors. Considering this as an infringement on their honor, the furious barristers reacted with a fierce account entitled Consideratien ende Grieven by de heeren Advocaten gemaeckt … op ende jegens de Ordonnatie op het stuckvan haer luyden salaris … (1692; Knuttel , 13806): meat and drink for Bidloo who immediately wrote this razor-sharp satire, anonymously printed without the name of the printer/publisher (probably it was he publisher/bookseller Meyndert Uytwerf at The Hague), in the form of a dialogue of a physician (Galanus) and a totally upset lawyer (barrister; Baldus).With many contemporary marginal annotations, the Latin nicknames have been identified and the names of the actual barristers are written in the margins by a contemporary hand (as in more copies), f.e. ‘Arminius Lanicutis Albus’ = Mr. Pieter Schaep; ‘Pub. Acrimonius Voetianus’ = Mr. Surendonck; ‘Pentadomus’ = Procureur Vijfhuysen, etc.. Also the Latin sentences and motto’s are translated and the author is named on the title-page: ‘auctor bedloo M.D.’.l Knuttel, 13808 (copy with manuscript annotations); Knuttel, Verboden boeken, 57; Knuttel, ‘Govert Bidloo voor het gerecht’, in: De Ned. Spectator, 17.6.1899, pp. 193-195; NNBW, 8, cols. 104-108; R. Krul, Rapport van de Commissie voor de gesch. Der geneesk. in Ned. … Het Haagsche Chirurgijns-Gilde (1891), p. 416.

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[BIDLOO, Govert and Romeyn de HOOGHE].

Komste van Zyne Majesteit Willem III. Koning van Groot Britanje, enz. in Holland; ofte omstandelyke beschryving van alles, het welke op des zelfs komste en geduurende zyn verblyf, in 's Graavenhaage en elders, ten teeken van vreugde en eere, is opgerecht en voorgevallen.The Hague, Arnoud Leers, 1691. Folio. With an engraved title-page by Romeyn de Hooghe, a letterpress title-page with Leer's woodcut device, a portrait of King William III by Van Gunst and 14 engraved plates (11 double-page) by Romeyn de Hooghe, showing his triumphal entry into the Hague, the ceremonies, the triumphal arches, their paintings and sculptures, the nightly illumination of the town hall, the fireworks, etc. Further with an extra added engraved plate of King William's tomb by Daniel Marot. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges.

[12, incl. frontispiece], 127, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a beautifully illustrated commemoration of the triumphal entry of William III into the Hague, it was "the costliest and most elaborate public display ever held on Dutch soil" (Nierop) and the first time of a triumphal entry since the rebellion against Spain. The two directors of the festivities were Govert Bidloo (1649-1713), personal physician to William, and Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), one of the greatest artists to come out of the late Dutch Golden Age. The project served as De Hooghe's rehabilitation after he fell from grace the year before, when he got caught in a feud between William III and the city of Amsterdam. The Orangist leadership now thought that De Hooghe had suffered unjustly for their cause. He not only participated in the planning and design, but also made the splendid plates for the present commemorative volume. A slightly altered French edition followed a year later.From 1672 onwards, William governed as Stadtholder Willem III of Orange over most provinces of the Dutch Republic. In addition, from 1689 onward, he reigned as King William III over England and Ireland, and as King William II over Scotland. After dealing with the last remnants of the rebellion in Ireland, William finally found time to return to Holland in 1691.Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities, but otherwise in very good condition.l Berlin Kat. 2925; Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 146; Muller, Historieplaten 2827; Nierop, The life of Romeyn de Hooghe (2018), pp. 364-372.

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BIENATO, Aurelio.

In elegantiarum sex libros Laurentii Vallae disertissimi epithomata nuper recognita.Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio, for Melchiorre Sessa, 1539. Small 8vo. With Sessa’s charming woodcut device showing a cat with a mouse in its mouth, with motto “Dissimilium infida societas” below, repeated on the last page. Later half vellum, gold-tooled spine, boards covered with decorated paper.

63, [1] ll.Rare Venetian post-incunable edition of a pedagogical humanist treatise by Aurelio Bienato (ca. 1450-1496), dedicated to an adolescent nobleman, Sebastiano de Agustinis. Born in Milan, Bienato studied at the University of Naples and was appointed bishop of Martirano (Catanzaro) in 1485.Bienato provides a commentary on and shortened version of the famous and influential De elegantia Latinae linguae libri sex by the humanist Lorenzo Valla (1407-57), a highly original work in which Valla subjected the forms of Latin grammar and the rules of Latin style and rhetoric to a critical examination, and placed the practice of composition on a foundation of analysis and inductive reasoning. It formed a foundation for the Humanists’ movement to reform Latin prose style, moving it in a more classical and Ciceronian direction on a scientific basis. Valla's work was controversial when it appeared, but its arguments carried the day. As a result, humanistic Latin sought to purge itself of post-classical Latin words and features, and became stylistically very different from the Christian Latin of the European Middle Ages. The book collates: A-H8 = 64 ll. Bienato had published his book at Naples, where three editions appeared before his death: ca. 1478/80, 1488 and 1491. The fourth edition appeared at Venice in 1521 and probably served as the model for Sessa, who printed and published a 1531 edition there, followed by the present edition jointly published with Nicolini da Sabbio.In very good condition.l EDIT 16, CNCE 6056 (4 copies); USTC 814497 (same 4 copies); for the author: DBI 10, pp. 369-370; cf. GW IV, 4343-4345 (ca. 1478/80-1491 eds.); ISTC (same eds.); WorldCat (1531 ed.); not in Adams; BMC STC Ital.; cf. Dict. histoire et de geographie ecclésiastiques VIII, 1439.

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BIENFAIT, Anna G.

Oude Hollandsche tuinen... Met medewerking van Marg. Kossmann en een voorwoord van Prof.dr. J.Q. van Regteren Altena.The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1943. Text (8vo) and atlas (obling folio) volume. With the title-pages printed in green and black, 3 plates and 4 illustrations in text; atlas with 317 plates showing 372 illustrations. Original publisher's decorated green cloth.

XII, 301, [1]; XV, [1] pp.First edition of a classic in the history of historical Dutch gardens, especially of interest for its rich illustrative material, collected from a great variety of sources. Bienfait treats her topic historically from the Middle Ages to stadholder Willem III (1650-1702), and continues with a horticultural description of different regions in the Netherlands. The accompanying atlas volume contains reproductions of paintings, book illustrations, maps etc. of gardens but also showing architecture, arranged chronologically and topically in accordance with the order of the text volume.Both volumes with the library stamp of Nanne Ottema (1874-1955) and a deaccession stamp on flyleaf (Tresoar, Leeuwarden). Some spots to book edge of text volume, otherwise in very good condition.l Y.B. Kuiper, Buitenplaatsen in de Gouden Eeuw (2015), p. 15.

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BIJNS, Anna.

Konstighe refereynen vol schoone schrifture ende leeringen, begrepen in drye verscheyde boecken, waer van de twee eerste wederlegghen de dolinghen comende uyt de Lutersche secte, ende abuysen deser tijden: het derde toont d'oorsaecken der plaghen, met veel seer stichtighe vermaninghen tot de deught.Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen the younger, 1646. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the same woodcut printer's device on 3 individual title-pages. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, traces of ties.

[24], 76; 91; 226, [10] pp.First edition of the complete collection of religious and moralizing poems by Anna Bijns (1493-1575), a nun and schoolmistress in Antwerp. Since she was a faithful orthodox Catholic, many of her poems harshly criticize Martin Luther and Protestantism in general, naming herself an "avenging angel of the insulted faith". In the margins of most poems references to specific Bible passages can be found. Her poems are so-called "refreinen", "a complex poem of a least four 15 to 19 line stanzas with an epigrammatic refrain, natural rhythm, a complicated rhyme scheme, enjambment and caesura. Bijns's refreinen are filled with extraordinarily vivid and acerbic images drawn from daily observation and well illustrate her motto 'more sour than sweet' (meer suers dan soets)" (Aercke). She is often called one of the greatest "rederijkers", an association of Dutch poets from which Bijns, being a woman, was actually excluded.The title of the first part reads Konstighe refereynen, which was first published on its own in 1528. The second and third part are both titled: Schoone refereynen, vol schrifture ende leeringhen teghen alle ketterijen van desen tijdt.With traces of old manuscript entries on the title-page and a small owner's label on paste-down: "H D[iericx]". Binding slightly soiled and showing some signs of wear, mainly around the foot of the spine, slightly browned throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l Aercke, "Anna Bijns", in: Women's writing from the Low Countries (2010), pp. 160-161; Bibl. Belg. I, B15; Scheepers I, 20; STCV 3130083 (5 copies); cf. Mak, De rederijkers, p. 35.

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BILDERDIJK, Willem.

Redevoering, over de voortreffelykheid der schilderkunst, in derzelver voorwerp beschouwd. ...1794.[The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior], 1794. (2). KASTEELE, Reinier Pieter van de. Redevoering tot lof der vaderlandsche schilders en aanspraak.... 1809.The Hague, P.F. Gosse, [1809]. With an engraved plate with seals of the Academie engraved by C. Lotter. (3). KASTEELE, Reinier Pieter van de. Redevoering over het aangename en nuttige van de beoefening der teekenkunde. Uitgesproken in de akademiezaal van Pictura. Op den 3 van Bloeimaand 1810.The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior, 1810. With an engraved plate with seals of the Academie engraved by C. Lotter. (4). LIMBURG, T. van. Redevoering over het vermogen der schilderkunst ter gelegenheid van het uitdeelen der prijzen... 1811. The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior, 1811. 8vo. 4 works in 4 volumes. Contemporary decorated paper wrappers.

[24], 22, [2]; [16], 43, [3]; [20], 46; [20], 30 pp.Set of 4 published lectures held on the occasion of the annual award ceremonies at the Vrije Haagsche Teeken-Akademie (the Academy of Art in The Hague). The theme of each lecture is the importance and use of the art of drawing and painting, especially Dutch painting at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. All the booklets start with a “naamlyst”, a list of names of the members of the Academy.Hinges weak, back-strips mostly lost. Ad 4: lacks plate. Otherwise all in good condition.l Ads 1-4: Kunst op schrift 1404, 1652, 1673, 1701.

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[BINDING - EMBROIDERED].

Esercizio da premettersi dalle donne in stato di gravidanza per conseguire da dio per l'intercessione del glorioso San Torello protettore insigne l'essenzione da tutti i pericoli e felicità nel prossimo parto.Florence, Stamperià Arcivescovile alla Croce Rossa, 1822. 8vo. Beautifully embroidered contemporary pink silk over paperboards, with flowers and a border along the edges of both sides, and the initials “CM” in centre of front cover, preserved in a modern marbled slipcase.

39 pp.Unrecorded account of the life and works of the blessed Torello of Poppi (1202-1282), a Franciscan hermit in Tuscany. Although here called “San Torello”, he was beatified in the 18th century but has not been canonized. Accounts of his miracles saving small children led people to treat him as a patron of pregnant women (pp. 3-12), with directions for a nine-day exercise for pregnant women to invoke a fortunate pregnancy, with a mediation devoted to San Torello on pp. 13-30. On pp. 31-34 is a responsory in verse, to be recited at the tomb of San Torello, followed by a method to invoke the mediation of San Torello, some citations from the Bible and short prayers (pp. 35-39).Very good copy in a beautiful contemporary embroidered binding.l Not in KVK; WorldCat.

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[BINDING]. [GHELARDI SCOLOPI, Orazio Antonio].

La pace tra la virtu', la gloria, ed amore. Componimento drammatico da cantarsi in occasione delle faustissime nozze del nobil uomo signor Silvestro Michele Arnolfini con la nobil donzella signora Beatrice Luisa Bernardini dedicato alla medesima.Lucca, Giuseppe Rocchi, 1767. Small 4to (17 x 14 cm). Contemporary red velvet, embroidered with silver and gold thread and white and yellow silk (each board with an emblematic image: a crowned mirror[?] showing a hand planting a flag, perhaps intended as the groom's hand on the front and the bride's hand on the back), sewn without supports through 3 holes, brocade paper endpapers (grape vines and large flowers, white on a copper background), green silk ribbon marker.

24 pp.Only copy located of a memento book for the occasion of the marriage of Silvestro Michele Arnolfini and Beatrice Luisa Bernardini, both from noble families that had been prominent in Lucca since the 16th century. The present copy is bound in red velvet with gold and silver embroidery and brocade paper endpapers, no doubt for the bride and groom. The text is a dramatic composition in verse to be sung at the wedding, with a 4-page introduction where the priest-author speaks of music and poetry, but also takes the opportunity to provide moral advice while flattering the bride and groom. Very slightly and evenly browned and with minor wear to the corners of the binding, with the book and binding in very good condition. An extremely rare memento of the 1767 marriage of a noble couple in Lucca, giving us a view of attitudes toward and social circumstances of marriage, in an emblematic red velvet binding, embroidered in silver and gold.l Memorie e documenti per servire all' istoria del Ducato di Lucca, X (1831), p. 233, note 2; Cesare Lucchesini, Opere editie e inedite, XX (1834), p. 38 & note 60 (based on the 1831 Memorie); not in ICCU; KVK; WorldCat.

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[BINDING - SILVER].

[Pair of embossed silver book covers, with two engraved silver clasps].[Netherlands?, ca. 1725?]. Pair of embossed silver book covers (34 x 25 x 3 cm); each cover with a large scrollwork cartouche surrounded by extensive vine and flower decorations and with medallion portraits in each of the four corners, the front showing the crucifixion flanked by Mary and St. John (with an "INRI" scroll above, flanked by a crescent moon and a sun, and a skull and crossbones below), with portraits of four saints, each with a blank scroll (above left bearded with a regal crown; above right clean-shaven with a round-topped mitre; below left and right bare-headed and bearded), the back showing the resurrection with an angel and two astonished guards, with portraits of the four Evangelists.

Beautiful, richly decorated early 18th-century Dutch silver binding. The large silver covers, together weighing about 750 grams, bear no silver marks. Although no spine is present, the clasps show that the binding was made for a book about 2 cm thick, suggesting 200 or 300 pages, so most likely made for a folio missal. The clasps are hinged to the back cover, each with a round hole that fastens to a round-headed pin on the fore-edge of the front cover.With a 1 cm crack on the fore-edge of the back cover, another slightly affecting the arm of one guard and a few tiny holes where the tips of the noses of some figures have worn, but still generally in good condition. A lovely and unusually large pair of embossed silver book covers.l Cf. J.W. Frederiks, Dutch silver, vol. 4 (1961), nos. 238-239 & plates 235-237 (vaguely similar silver bindings from 1732 & 1738); nothing similar in J.F. Hayward, Silver bindings from the J.R. Abbey collection.

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[BINDO GUERRI of Siena] with a prologue by Antonius de RAMPIGOLLIS.

Reportatorium Biblie aureum [= Biblia aurea].[Augsburg], [printing office of the Abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra], [in the period 1473 to early 1475]. Chancery (Foolscap) folio (28 x 22 cm). With the title in a note following the prologue, at the foot of the first page (and abbreviated at the end of the book), a 2-page alphabetical table of contents and the main text comprising 139 entries.Burgundy goatskin morocco (ca. 1890?). With the armorial bookplate of Robert Proctor.

[231], [1 blank] pp.First edition, in the original Latin, of the Biblia aurea (Golden Bible), long attributed to Antonius de Rampigollis (ca. 1360-ca. 1423?), a well-known Augustinian monk from Genoa, who in fact wrote the present one-page prologue for a different but related work of his own, the first edition of Compendium morale, by the Ulrich and Afra printing office in 1473. The printing office added Rampigollis’s prologue to the present work, written by Bindo Guerri of Siena (active ca. 1350?, d. 1390), leading to the confusion about the author. The Biblia aurea presents 139 Christian virtues in alphabetical order, each with a heading (beginning with the key word, from abstinentia to zelus indiscretus) and a discussion of the virtue (about one-and-a-half pages on average, but some fill less than a page and some more than two). The entries are based on the Bible, and many priests throughout Europe used the book when preparing sermons for church services. At least eleven Latin editions and a German edition appeared before 1500 but few after 1516 (though a Czech edition appeared in 1543), while Rampigollis’s Compendium morale became more common, going through many editions up to 1585 (mostly under the title Figurae Bibliae). Clement VIII placed the Biblia aurea on the Index of prohibited books (for mis-quoting the Bible), apparently in the 1590s, but the prohibition was soon lifted and another Latin edition appeared in 1628.In 1903, Proctor gave a detailed account of the Ulrich and Afra printing office that produced the present first edition of the Biblia aurea (Proctor owned the present copy), basing his study on a convolute at Cambridge University Library that contained five works (three by the Ulrich and Afra printing office, including the present edition) and included lengthy and very informative manuscript notes by its first owner Ulrich von Ellenbog (ca. 1435-1499) in Augsburg, who worked together with the printing office, initiating their production of the first edition of Quadragesimale viatoris, set in the present type sometime in the period 1473 to 1476. The main texts of the Biblia aurea and the Compendium morale both begin with “De abstinentia” but continue differently, the former with “Abstinentia est primo meriti argumentativa ...” and the latter with “Castigo corpus meum et in servitutem redigo ...”. Not surprisingly, the two works have sometimes been confused.The manuscript note “Beyharting” above the opening of the text means the book came from the Augustinian Beyharting Monastery, dissolved in 1803, whose collections were dispersed ca. 1807 (Beyharting, 35 or 40 km southeast of München, is now incorporated into Tuntenhausen). With the armorial bookplate of the pioneering incunabulist Robert Proctor (1868-1903), who bought it from the dealer Caspar Haugg in Augsburg 1892; a pencilled chronology of the book dealers who owned it: Lüdwig Rosenthal ca. 1885, Caspar Haugg in 1891 & 1892, Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930) to 1910 and H. Th. Wenner in 1965; and a detailed typescript description in German taped to the back paste-down, noting Proctor’s 1903 death (at age 35, climbing in the Tirolian Alps) and his article of that year. The first leaf is somewhat worn, with traces of a couple old creases, some marginal spots and a marginal water stain in the upper outside corner, most leaves have a smaller marginal water stain in the lower outside corner and a few have a small browned spot on the edge of the leaf at the head, which has led to a tiny chip, only about 2 mm deep. Further with some small marginal worm holes or trails, mostly confined to about 20 scattered leaves. Otherwise in very good condition and with generous margins. The binding shows some faint stains and minor scratches but is otherwise also very good. Robert Proctor’s large-margined copy, from the Augustinian Beyharting Monastery, of the first edition of an important and very popular Augustinian religious work, also a remarkable display of a roman printing type that deserves to be better known: nearly the first roman type used north of the Alps and one of the best of the earliest roman types.l BMC II 340; Goff R13; GW M36960; Hain-Copinger 13678; Hubay, Augsburg 1746; Hubay, Eichstätt 877; ISTC ir00013000; Madsen 3449; Proctor 1635; Robert Proctor, “Ulrich von Ellenbog and the press of S. Ulrich at Augsburg”, The library, s2, 4 (1903), pp. 163-179 at pp. 166, 170, 177 (reprinted in his Bibliographical essays, 1905, pp. 73-88, at pp. 80 etc.), viewable on zendo.org; Sallander 1923; Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1939 pp. 153-154 (reprinted in his Fifty essays, 1966, pp. 141-143; USTC 748381.

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