AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE).

Explanatio Psalmorum. [Incipit:] Annotatio principaliu[m] sententiariu[m]/ principaliu[m] sente[n]tiariu[m] in expla-natione psamo[rum]...(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1489. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 31 x 21.5 cm). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with 1 brass clasp and remnants of a 2nd.

[1 blank], [14], [1 blank]; [146]; [192]; [192], [5 blank] ll.A complete copy of one of Saint Augustine's chief exegetical works. The present Amerbach edition is only the second time Augustine's explanation of and commentary on the Psalms was ever printed. The first time was in ca. 1485, only a few years earlier, and was printed by an anonymous press in the Low Countries.The work starts with an introduction, which is followed by three parts, or "quinquagena", containing the explanation of 50 Psalms. Explanatio Psalmorum was not written as a single work, but rather is a collection of sermons and treatises compiled by later theologians to form the present work, also known under the title Enarationes in Psalmos.Augustine of Hippo (354-430), in Latin known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, but best known as Saint Augustine, was the bishop of Hippo Regius (in present day Algeria). He was a theologian and is considered one of the most important church fathers, as his writings greatly influenced both Western Christianity and philosophy. His teachings were also embraced by the Protestants during the Reformation and he is still recognized as a saint in the Lutheran Church today.With an owner's inscription on the front pastedown, an annotation in the upper outer corner of the recto of the first blank flyleaf, a (partially) scraped out annotation in the bottom margin of the first text page, and an annotation on the verso of the last text leaf. The boards are rubbed and scraped, strongly affecting the clarity of the blind-tooling, the bottom edges and corners of the boards are scuffed and a tear in the leather at the bottom corner of the back board has been repaired, the edges of the book block are somewhat dust soiled. The gutter between the first two blank flyleaves is cracked, exposing the sewing supports and leather of the binding, a water stain in the bottom corner of the first 4 leaves (including the 2 blank flyleaves), a torn corner on leaf R7 of the 2nd part and leaf (5)6 of the 3rd part, margins foxed throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l BM, Catalogue of German books, p. 54; BM, General catalogue, p. 530; Goff A-1243; GW 2909; Hain-Copinger 1971; IDL 519; ISTC ia01272000; Proctor; 7582; USTC 743124; cf. McCarthy, An ecclesiology of groaning: Augustine, the psalms, and the making of Church. In: Theological studies, vol.66 (1), p.23-48, 2005.

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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius.

Confessio Augustiniana in libros quattor distributa, et certis capitibus locorum theologicorum, qui sunt hodie scitu dignissimi, comprehensa: nunc primum ex omnibus B. Aurelii Augustini libris in unum opus bona fide ac studio singulari redacta per D. Hieronymum Torrensem ...Dillingen, Sebald Mayer, 1567. 4to. With Mayer’s full-page woodcut device (a pelican feeding her young with her own blood, with motto “sic his qui diligunt”, copied in mirror image from that of Frans Behem in Mainz) on the last otherwise blank leaf, and some fine decorated woodcut initials. 18th century mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, red sprinkled edges.

[32], 330, [24] lvs.First edition of an apologetical collection of citations from Augustine's Confessions compiled by the Spanish Jesuit Jerome Torres (Hieronymus Torrensis, 1527-1611), then professor of theology at the University of Dillingen. He selected passages from all the works of Saint Augustine to provide a systematic overview of authorized Catholic religious belief following the principle of "loci communes" (a term taken from Melanchthon’s overview of Protestant belief), especially concerning certain questions under debate in the second half of the sixteenth century - after the Council of Trent.With an extensive manuscript prize certificate in Latin on the first free endleaf ("E figiris ad infimam Classem Grammatices gradum faciens Secundus probus ac ingenius adolescens Johannes Vlaming Amstelodamum"), including 6 Latin hexameters, ending with "Sum Fratris Joannes Bolsteni 1779". With a stamp of the "Bibliotheca Conventus - Vorden" at the foot of the title-page and an old owner's inscription in ink on the title-page dated 1679. Calf partly detached from the boards at the turn-ins. Slight marginal water stains in the first leaves. Otherwise a good copy of a Catholic prize book with an interesting provenance and a manuscript prize certificate.l Adams A2177; Bucher, Dillingen 241; De Backer-Sommervogel VIII, pp. 127-128, no. 3; VD16 A4172; cf. De Prijs is het bewijs 75 (different prize book from the Megen Latin School, in 1666, also with ms. certificate and no prize-binding).

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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.Two rare early post-incunabula containing Latin sermons, both printed in Cologne. The first work contains sermons by bishop Augustinus (de Campellis) of Leonissa (d. 1435), from the Augustine order, in two parts, with fifty and twenty-eight sermons respectively. This appears to be the third edition, printed by the heirs of the famous Cologne printer Heinrich Quentell who had died in 1501. The second collection of sermons, containing 37 sermons (most subdivided into chapters) numbered in 5 series arranged by subject matter, is attributed on the title-page to Saint Bonaventura (1221-1274). Numerous sermons incorrectly attributed to Bonaventura were published at Zwolle in 1479, but the present ones were first published at Paris in 1482, in the same arrangement. They centre around the four final stages of human experience: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Extensive contemporary manuscript notes and some owner’s inscriptions. The foot margin of the title-page of ad 1 has been cut off, removing most of an inscription, but with no loss of printed text, and there are worm holes in the last quire of ad 2, slightly affecting the text and (repeated) woodcut in the last leaf. Otherwise in good condition.l Ad 1: USTC 69367; VD 16, A4321; ad 2: USTC 693643; VD16, ZV22667; STC German p. 141.

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[AURELIUS, Cornelius and Ellert de VEER].

Die cronycke van Hollant, Zeelant ende Vrieslant. Dordrecht, Peeter Verhaghen, 1591, 1591, 1590. 3 volumes bound as 1. Small folio (30.5 x 20.5 cm). With 3 title-pages, each with a different woodcut full-length portrait (the first count of Holland Dirck I, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain), 1 double-page engraved map of Holland in part 2 (in its first state), and 36 woodcut portraits in text. Blind-tooled vellum (ca. 1740?).

[6], 264; [6], 162; [1], 1-110, 110-130, [6] ll. plus the map.One of the four issues (differing only in the imprint) of the third major revision and extension of the famous Dutch national chronicle, known as the "Divisiekroniek", the first edition to include the important continuations by Ellert de Veer (to the year 1591), along with the double-page engraved map of Holland, drawn and engraved for the present edition (so here in its first state) by Jan Pieterszoon Saenredam, but often lacking. The work is beautifully illustrated with 36 woodcut full-length portraits in the text, depicting the counts of Holland and their coats of arms. The Christian humanist scholar and Augustinian monk Cornelius Aurelius lived with Erasmus in Paris in 1497-1498, working in his shadow. His chronicle serves as a foundation for the historiography of the Northern Netherlands and he imbued it with an unequivocal patriotism. His new division of Holland's history into the early "Batavian" period, the medieval history of the county of Holland, and contemporary Burgundian-Habsburg history (to 1517), and his critical research into the sources, gave the inhabitants of the Northern Netherlands a new collective historical identity, providing the beginnings of a national consciousness. His work marks the start of the Renaissance historiography of the Northern Netherlands.With owner’s inscriptions. With a small tear in leaf 230 of vol. 2 and leaf 56 of vol. 3, and margins of the first leaves and the map a bit frayed (not affecting the text or map image), but still in good condition. The front hinge has been repaired and the back hinge is cracked, but the binding is otherwise good. A foundational work for Dutch historiography.l Moes & Burger III, pp. 243-247; K. Tilmans, Historiography and humanism in Holland in the age of Erasmus: Aurelius and the Divisiekroniek of 1517 (1992); Typ. Batava 2994 & 2436; for the map: Blonk, Hollandia Comitatus 20 (2 copies).

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[AURELIUS, Cornelius].

Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt en[de] Vrieslant beghinnende va[n] Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jh[es]u[m] voertgaende tot de[n] jare M.CCCCC. ende Xvij.Leiden, Jan Seversz., 18 August 1517. Folio. With the title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut between different woodcut borders, and 239 woodcuts in text, including 121 woodcut portraits. Black blind-tooled goatskin (1637), with gold-tooled title and binding date on side.

[2], 436 ll.First edition of the famous and beautifully illustrated Dutch national chronicle, known as the "Divisiekroniek", because of its publication in 32 devisions. The chronicle contains various narratives of historical, ecclesiastical and hagiographical nature, “cobbled together by an Augustinian canon, Cornelius Aurelius, from late medieval folklore and romances, local fables and chronicles as well as a superficial reading of Tacitus’ Germania” (Schama). It is profusely and beautifully illustrated with woodcuts of various size and style. Only ten of the woodcuts were specially designed and cut for the "Divisiekroniek": apparently the Leyden printer Jan Severszoon used whatever he happened to have in stock.Most of the woodcut illustrations used to be ascribed to Lucas van Leyden, however, Jeudwine only acknowledges about eight (including the full-page Crucifixion, the Christ standing on the globe, the Virgin in glory, and some portraits). Most of the other woodcuts are now ascribed to Van Leyden's contemporaries: the artist Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen and the painter Cornelis Engebrechtsz.Of particular interest is the black goatskin binding with gold-tooling on the front side and the spine. There are 21 other volumes known with similar bindings, all with the date "1637" on the side, as well as the name of the author or the (short) title (here: Hol: Cronyck). Most of the volumes, though not all, bear a gold-tooled shelf mark on the spine, with a number at the top (here: "102") and a capital letter at the bottom (here: "E"). The highest number so far is "158", the letters run from A to F.Professor Jan van Gelder has shown that the volumes originally belonged to the art-collector Pieter Spiering Silfvercrona (d. 1652), who was responsible for the uniform black leather bindings. After Spiering's death the collection apparently was dispersed. According to a later inscription on the pastedown, the present copy was acquired by the Dutch engraver Frans Koerten (Coerten; ca. 1603-1668), who left a note on the verso side of the flyleaf. The auction catalogue of Frans Koerten's book collection (1668), indeed lists two copies of the Chronijck van Hollandt, Zeelandt en Vrieslandt, van Adams tijden tot 1500. The other volumes can be found today at the British Museum, the British Library, UL in Amsterdam, F. Lugt collection in Paris, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and one was sold in Bern in 1973.With an owner's inscription on pastedown by Van Meurs (?), who bought the present copy at the auction of the library of Johannes Enschedé. Binding rubbed along the extremities, lower raising band half loose, slightly damaged on spine, without the often lacking index of four leaves, slightly browned, but otherwise in very good condition.l Adams A2253; J. van Gelder & I.Jost, Jan de Bisschop and his icones and paradigmata, classical antiquities and Italian drawings for artistic instruction in seventeenth century Holland (1985), pp. 196-211; Jeudwine, p. 253, and nr. 388; Nijhoff & Kronenberg 613; S. Schama, The embarrassment of riches: an interpretation of Dutch culture in the golden age (1988), pp. 72-74; Tilmans, Historiography in Holland, passim.

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[AUSTRALIA - PHOTOGRAPHY]. PAINE, John & Steven SPURLING II.

[Photograph album containing pictures of New South Wales and Tasmania].[Australia, 1870s-1880s]. 16.5 x 37 cm. With 34 mounted albumen prints, mostly between 10 x 15 cm and 18 x 23.5 cm, with the smallest ca. 7 x 10 cm, most of them captioned underneath in ink. Oblong half morocco photo album, titled "Queensland" on the front.

18 ll.Large album containing photographs of Australia in the late 19th century. Although titled "Queensland" on the front cover, the album does not actually contain a single picture showing the territory of Queensland. The first 17 portray several official buildings in Sydney including St. Patrick's College, the Colonial Secretary's building and the neo-Italian Renaissance General Post Office and show parts of the landscape in the vicinity of the city. Several other photographs show the Jenolan Caves, gold miners on Mount Morgan and the highly popular tourist attraction of Barron Falls "as usually seen". Two group portraits show Aboriginal Australians. Most of these photographs are captioned and signed on the negative by John Paine (1833-1908), a British photographer who settled in Australia and specialized in pictures of Sydney and the Blue mountains.A group of six photographs shows the landscape near Launceston, Tasmania. These photographs were produced by Steven Spurling (1847-1924), the son of a New Zealand photographer who settled in Launceston in the 1870s and is known for his experimental outdoor photography.Binding very little worn at the extremities and slightly discoloured at the edges. Some foxing on the album leaves but, with the exception of some minor tears, the photographs are undamaged.l Cf. Burgess, "Stephen Spurling", at: Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.

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[AUSTRIA]. JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Anton von STÖRCK and Johann Jakob de WELL.

Apotheek der Oostenrijksche staaten.Rotterdam, Reinier Arrenberg, 1780. Large 8vo (21 x 12.5 cm). Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

[1], [1 blank], [6], 309, [35] pp.First and only edition of the Dutch translation of the pharmacopoeia for the Habsburg Monarchy, published as part of the medical reforms instigated by Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772), and based on the second edition of 1775.With the owner's inscription of J.J. Verlinden dated "1802" on the front and back flyleaves. Binding worn, with an imprint circle at the front and the head of the spine damaged; a few spots throughout and ink stains in the lower margin of p. 226, but otherwise a good copy.l Blake, p. 347; STCN (7 copies); Kletter, "The civil pharmacopoeias of Austria", International society for the history of pharmacy - history of pharmacopoeias (histpharm.org); Wellcome VI, 356; WorldCat (10 copies).

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[AUSTRIA - PHARMACOPOEIA].

Pharmacopoea Austriaco-castrensis.Vienna, Albert Anton Patzowsky, 1795. 8vo. Half calf, spine label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges.

[4], 102 pp.First edition, in Latin, of the first military pharmacopoeia for Habsburg Austria, with the privilege for 10 years in German, dated 29 September 1795 and granted to the publisher Albert Anton Patzowsky on behalf of the last Holy Roman Emperor, Franz II Joseph (1768-1835), who was to become Franz I, the first Emperor of the Austrian Empire, in 1804.Until 1794 the Austrian army met its pharmaceutical needs with help from civilian pharmacists. Problems with the quality of the services provided led to the establishment of a professional military pharmaceutical service in 1794. To provide the medical support that the army needed, garrison hospital pharmacies were built. Patzowsky published a German edition of the present pharmacopoeia in the same year: Oestrreichischen Militär-Pharmacopoea zum Gebrauche der Oestrreichischen Fieldärzte (Vienna, A.A. Patzowsky, 1795). In spite of the privilege a pirated edition appeared in the same year in Pavia.Spine slightly worn, otherwise in good condition.l Blake, p. 347; cf. Wellcome IV, p. 356 (1795 edition, Pavia).

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[AUSTRIA-HUNGARY - GERMANY].

[Photographs of Budapest, Vienna and other cities].Budapest, Dresden, Innsbruck, München, Calderoni és társa, Verlag von Stengel & Co, Fritz Gratl, 1897/1899. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). Album with 43 photographic prints of various sizes (22 x 16.5 to 30 x 24 cm ), pasted on thick paperboard. Half black leather, red buckram sides, gold-stamped spine with the date "1899".

[43] ll.From mountains in Austria to city views and interiors of churches in Budapest, Vienna, Innsbruck and München: all can be found in the 43 photographic prints in the present album. They were taken in at the end of the nineteenth-century, probably in 1897 and 1899 according to blind-stamps in the prints. The photographers of most images are unknown, except for the 6 photographs of Innsbruck which were made by the Innsbruck photographer and publisher Fritz Gratl. He likely made some of the other photographs of Austrian mountains, towns and the city of Salzburg as well, since his other known photographs cover similar subjects. Most prints of Vienna and some of Budapest were published by Stengel and Company in Dresden, Germany in 1897. They and also Fritz Gratl were famous printers and publishers of postcards with similar picturesque images and the photographs in the present album are possibly the original images used to make the postcards.22 photos bear the blind stamp of the photographic studio. 4 photos have handwritten captions in pencil. The binding shows some minor signs of wear, slight foxing or browning of the outer edges of the paperboards, not affecting the photographs, some photographs slightly faded or rubbed, mostly at the edges, not affecting the actual image, the paper board of the print of "Budapest - Neues Parlament" has a slightly damaged spot in the lower margin, not affecting the integrity of the board or the print. Overall in good condition. An album of 43 photos showing the sights of Hungary, Austria and Germany.

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[AUSTRIA - PHARMACOPOEIA - TAXES].

Taxa medicamentorum in pharmacopoea Austriaco-provinciali contentorum. = Taxe der in der österreichischen Privincialpharmakopee enthaltenen Arzneyen.Vienna, Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattner, 1777. 8vo. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, brown morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, red edges.

[8], 95 pp.Medical ordinances and a list of the new taxes on nearly 2000 named medicinal components. As the Habsburgs in the 1770’s attempted to strengthen their control over the professional standards and business activity of pharmacists and medical personnel in their realms, the authorities imposed new taxes on behalf of Empress Maria Theresa, covering all components of medicaments described and prescribed in the Pharmacopoea Austriaco-Provinciali the official book of pharmacological recipes for the entire Habsburg empire, with editions published almost every year from 1776 to ca. 1822. The ordinance on the subject was promulgated on 25 November 1775 and took affect on 1 January 1776, so the 1776 edition was clearly the first, but the 1790 edition calls itself the second. It is therefore not certain whether the present copy is the true second edition or a reissue of the first. The ordinance (pp. [3]-[8] of the preliminaries) is signed by Christian August Graf von Seilern, Statthalter, and Thomas Ignaz Freiherr von Pöct, Kanzler, and contains seven points, including sanctions and criminal procedures in case of fraud. Trattner was printer and bookseller to the Imperial Court.Foot of spine damaged, otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Blake, p. 24 (1776 ed.).

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[AUTHOGRAPH - LETTER]. CAVALLI.

[Letter to an unknown person].Paris, 18 August 1726. 4to.

[1] leaf.The writer of the letter, a certain Cavalli was apparently a kind of spy in the service of an unidentified ambassador, reporting on the activities of members of the French Royal court. He indicates he is writing at the request of the ambassador, but we have not identified the recipient, perhaps an official or journalist. He first tells the addressee that the “the Ambassador” is not very well: he has no fever nor is he shivery, and he even goes out during the day. But, having not slept during the night and having a somewhat fast pulse, he cannot write himself and has ordered the writer to send the two annexed letters (not now present).He notes that he will report in the first - following the ambassador’s order - what opinions, ideas and rumours are circulating among “la dessus” (in the highest circles).He mentions further that the King (Louis XV) will go to Fontainebleau the next Wednesday at 8 o’clock and that the disease of the Queen (Marie Leszczynska) seems to be not very dangerous.Monsieur Le Blanc thinks that one can do “the thing”(?!) after the operation: an enigmatic communication.Much of the letter remains mysterious beyond the identities of Cavalli, the ambassador he served and the recipient of his letter. Charles-Henri, comte d'Hoym appears to have been Polish ambassador in Paris around this time and might have wished to keep an eye on the Queen’s circumstances, but we find nothing to link him to a Cavalli, whose name sounds Italian. Charles François de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, and his son Louis César were both at the court at this time, but we find nothing more to associate either with the “Monsieur Le Blanc” of the letter nor any clue to what they think might be done concerning Marie Leszczynska after whatever operation she was to undergo. It certainly places the letter in the dark atmosphere of court intrigues and secret operations flourishing in 18th-century Paris.The letter was formerly bound in a volume containing more letters and documents. This volume had been part of the famous Sir Thomas Phillipps collection.Small repair in the fore-edge margin.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. ROUSSIN, Admiral Albin Reine.

[Autograph letter, signed, to Louis-Marie Bajot].Rochefort, 31 August 1818. Double-leaf (31.3 x 20 cm). In French. 2 pp. text.

2 pp. text.A letter by Admiral Baron Albin Reine Roussin, dated "Rochefort 21st of August 1818", to Louis-Marie Bajot (1775-1854), the inspector-general of the libraries of the Ministry of the French Navy and editor of the Annales maritimes & coloniales.Roussin discusses an article published in the Annales Maritimes (which had appeared earlier in the Moniteur of 13 October) that criticized his survey of the African coast from Senegal to Guinea, as well as the work of several of his predecessors and colleagues, including Labarthe's Voyage à la côte de Guinée, où Description des côtes d'Afrique. Roussin published the results of his surveys a year later as Mémoire sur la navigation aux côtes occidentales d'Afrique (Paris, 1819).In very good condition.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. MELANCHTHON, Philipp.

[Autograph letter, signed, from Philipp Melanchthon to Sebastian Boetius].[Wittenberg], Easter [14 April 1555]. Folio (19.5 x 32 cm). In Latin.

[2] pp.Autograph letter in Latin, signed by Melanchthon to the Protestant theologian Sebastian Boetius in Halle, to recommend the young priest Christian Hertwig junior. Boetius (1515-1573), who had studied under Luther and Melanchthon at Wittenberg, succeeded Justus Jonas as superintendent of Halle and founded the famous Marienbibliothek, still in existence. In his letter, Melanchthon reminds his former student that their minds often run in the same channel, as their letters show, and describes the role of the ideal pastor. He recommends Hertwig for such a position, both on the strength of his doctrines and on that of his moral fibre.Slightly browned; traces of folds. In fine condition.l Koehler, Epistolae quaedam Phil. Melanthonis (1802), 37 note x; Melanchthons Briefwechsel (ed. H. Scheible), vol. VII, p. 295, no. 7449; De Wette/Seidemann, Dr. Martin Luthers Briefe VI (1856), 646.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. HALL, Basil.

[Autograph letter, signed, to Aaron Louis Frédéric Regnault, Baron de la Susse].Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey), 27 June 1842. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). Manuscript letter in English, in brown ink on one side of an 8vo double leaf. Signed at the foot by Basil Hall.

[1], [3 blank] pp.Autograph letter by the Scottish explorer Basil Hall, who made a voyage to the west coast of Korea and China (1815-1817), and voyages to South America (1820-1823) and North America (1827-1828).In the letter Hall thanks the French vice-admiral Aaron Louis Frédéric Regnault, Baron de la Susse (1788-1860) who was the commander in the Levant and captain of L'Inflexible, for the offered breakfast on the vessel. Hall commanded many ships involved in exploration and scientific and diplomatic missions. He described his travels in a several publications. These include his narrative of the Korean voyage titled Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea and the great Loo-Choo Island (1818), which was one of the first descriptions of Korea by a European, and Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru and Mexico (1823).In very good condition.l Cf. Howgego, 1800-1850, H3.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. ABEL-RÉMUSAT, Jean Pierre.

[Autograph letter, signed, revealing his work for deaf mutes to a critic].[Paris], 20th June 1825[?]. 1 leaf (20 x 12.6 cm). In French.

[1] p. text.Autograph letter by the French sinologist and physician Jean Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832), member of Conseil de Perfectionnement des Sourds et Muets ("Counsel for the Development of the deaf mutes") since 1824. In the letter Abel-Rémusat humbly reveals his work to a critic "Monsieur le Duc": ''J'ai peur qu'il ne vous en paraisse peu digne. Si vous daignez y jeter les yeux, vous saisirez aisément quelques uns de ces traits d'analogie qui m'ont fait trouver tant d'intérêt dans la développement de l'esprit des sourds-muets.''With biographical notes in manuscript in red ink at top of leaf. Right edge of leaf cut short, slightly affecting text. In very fine condition.l For the author: NBG XLI, cols. 968-975.

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