BEECHER STOWE, Harriet.

De negerhut. (Uncle Tom's cabin.) Een verhaal uit het slavenleven in Noord-Amerika.Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1853. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed title-page in each volume and a tinted lithographed author's portrait as frontispiece in the first volume. Contemporary half sheepskin.

[1], [1 blank], IV, 368; [1], [1 blank], 403, [1 blank] pp.Very rare first edition of the second(?) Dutch translation of the famous anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's cabin by the abolitionist writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), translated by C.M. Mensing. Another equally rare Dutch translation was published in Ghent (Belgium), without a year of publication, but generally thought to have been published in 1852, the same year as the original English edition published in Boston. The novel became extremely popular in the Netherlands. Kruseman printed 1100 copies of this translation, which sold out almost immediately (a first edition of a novel would normally consist of 300 copies). Slightly browned, some spots. Bindings slightly worn along the extremities, corners damaged. Overall in very good condition.l Huisman, Verhalen van vrijheid, pp. 60-61; NCC (3 copies); WorldCat (1 additional copy).

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BEECHEY, Frederick William.

Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait...London, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 3 lithographed maps (2 large folding), 20 engraved plates, 3 two-page folding plates, and 1 engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary half green morocco, marbled sides, gold-tooled title on spine, marbled edges.

XXVI, [1], [1 blank], 472; IV, 330, [1], 331-452 pp.First octavo edition of Beechey's account of his celebrated Pacific voyage, which was preceded by a quarto edition in the same year. It "is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambier) Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California" (Hill).Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856), English naval officer and hydrographer, was appointed to command the Blossom and to sail to the Bering Strait to assist in finding a northwest passage. In the winter and spring of 1826-1827 he visited California, Hawaii, Macao, the Ryukyu Islands (Japan) and the Philippines. The account also includes valuable descriptions of San Francisco and Monterey before the American conquest, with many details regarding the mission among the indigenous Americans.The plates include portraits of John Adams, indigenous Alaskans (Eskimos), views of the Pictairn Islands, Gambier Islands and Ryukyu Islands (Loo Choo). The account concludes with an extensive appendix, including a vocabulary of the language of the western Alaskan Eskimos.Binding slightly rubbed (especially the marbled sides), corners slightly bumped. With a small tear in the first large folding map. Otherwise in good condition.l Forbes 772; Hill 93; Howes B309; Howgego, 1800-1850, B22; Judd 16; O'Reilly & Reitman 849; Sabin 4347; cf. Alt Japan Kat. 180 (German edition); not in Abbey, Travel; Cordier, Japonica.

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BEECQ, Jan Karel Donatus van (Jean-Charles-Donat).

Plusieurs pieces maritimes.Paris, "rue St. Jacques aux 2 Piliers d'or" [= Gérard Audran, ca. 1683]. Oblong folio. Series of 6 numbered engraved plates after designs by Van Beecq, including title-page and 5 naval views with captions below. The title-page indicates that the series is engraved by Moyse Jean-Baptiste Fouard, but three of the other plates name Gérard Audran as the engraver.With: (2) POILLY, Nicolas de. Livre de plusieurs navires de guerre et vaisseaux marchands.Paris, Nicolas de Poilly, [ca. 1683?]. Oblong 4to. Series of 6 plates, the first with the title as a caption below and the name and address of De Poilly, the others only note "NDePoilly ex C.P.R.", that is "cum privilegio regis". 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary calf.

[12] ll.Ad 1: Third (or second) copy located of an attractive print series by the Dutch marine painter J. van Beecq (1638-1722), a nearly forgotten master who had left the Netherlands when the art market collapsed in the "year of disaster" 1672. He first followed Willem van de Velde, father and son, to England, but soon moved to France where he became painter to Louis XIV, a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and a protégé of important patrons. In 1685, the art-loving naval official Esprit Cabart de Villermont wrote a letter to the Minister of the Navy Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay, recommending Van Beecq to his attention: "He is the only one here [in France] who excels in this genre". We have located only one other copy, in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Schwartz also notes a copy in the Bibliothèque National, but the title is not in their online catalogue.Ad 2: Only copy located of a naval print series by the French engraver Nicolas de Poilly (1626-1696). He learned the art of engraving under his better known brother François de Poilly and mostly produced portraits and religious and historical engravings. The first plates show large war and merchant ships and the last shows several battered ships in the aftermath of a storm.A stain at the top right corner throughout, only affecting a small corner of the plates, and a vertical fold though the centre of the second series, otherwise in very good condition. Binding restored.l Ad 1: Hollstein I, p. 192 (no location); G. Schwartz, "J. van Beecq" in: Les échanges artistiques entre les ancien Pays-Bas et la France 1482-1814 (2010); KVK & WorldCat (1 copy); Wurzbach I, p. 68; not in Cat. NHSM; CCfr; Groot & Vorstman; Polak; SUDOC; ad 2: not in CCfr; Polak; SUDOC; WorldCat; for Poilly: Nagler XIII, pp. 68-69.

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BEELDSNIJDER, Joost Jansz.

Vernieuwde Kaart van Noordholland en Westfriesland, benevens het voornaamste gedeelte van Rhynland, en daar aan grenzende Landen.Amsterdam, Yntema & Tieboel, 1778. (92 x 68 cm). Large hand-coloured engraved map on 2 sheets, decorated with arms, figures and products from the regions shown, and with the title at the foot. Framed.

A large engraved map of what is now North Holland, showing its situation largely as it was in 1575, but with some revisions made in 1608. It is the most detailed map to show this region before the major drainage projects that began early in the seventeenth century. At a scale of about 1:82,000, it covers all but the northernmost tip of North Holland, from De Zijp in the North to Leiden and Utrecht in the south, including Haarlem, Amsterdam and Edam. It shows not only canals, inland seas, cities and towns (most represented by their churches, though other buildings or fortifications are sometimes depicted), dozens of boats and ships in the water, dunes and other topographic features, but also roads and paths, not included in Van Deventer’s 1542 map or the other major early maps. A compass appears in the sea (magnetic north above, with true north slightly to the left), and a small cartouche at the foot has a pair of compasses whose span indicates one mile. The northern part of the present day North Holland was formerly called West Friesland, and the top part of the large cartouche at right contains the coat of arms of the province of Friesland, surrounded by those of the West Friesian cities Alkmaar, Enkhuizen, Purmerend, Medemblik, Monnikendam and Hoorn. Below it is a dedication to the States of North Holland and West Friesland by Harman Allertsz. van Warmenhuysen (from 1608) and Johannes Le Francq van Berkhey (dated 1778). Below that is a key to 9 numbered regions in West Friesland and 149 numbered estates, as well as symbols for a few other features. Below that is the 1575 imprint of the original publisher. The whole cartouche is decorated with a ship’s pilot and his equipment, a woman in local dress, a ship, and products of the regions depicted.Joost Jansz. Beeldsnijder or Bilhamer (pre-1541-1590) in Amsterdam began his map in 1571 for the Duke of Alva’s Alkmaar campagne of 1573 in the Eighty Years’ War, but he published it only in 1575. His original woodcut edition is not known to survive, but Harman Allertsz. van Warmenhuysen produced a revised edition in copperplate in 1608, and his edition was copied by the engraver Jan van Jagen (the large cartouche by C. Bogerts) in 1778. It is printed from two copperplates on two large sheets of paper. It was an initiative of the medical doctor and natural historian, Johannes Le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812), and the publishers advertised for subscriptions on 11 March 1777 and 19 December 1778, the latter announcing publication for 29 December and also noting that the copper plates would be destroyed after printing, an early example of the deliberate limitation of an edition as a selling point. Probably because it was never reprinted, it is very rare on the market.A large and detailed eighteenth-century edition of a lost sixteenth-century map. In very good condition, with only a few small marginal tears, one slightly affecting the border.l Blonk-van der Wijst, Hollandia Comitatus, pp. 35-36 (note); Boomgaard, Holland, pp. 40-41 (ill.); Donkersloot-de Vrij 677 note (6 copies); V.d. Krogt, Advertenties 1391 & 1429.

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BEHR, Johann Heinrich.

Der aufs Neu-verschantzte Turenne oder gründlich alt- und neue Kriegs-Bau-Kunst.Frankfurt and Leipzig, widow of Reinhard Wächtler, printed by Christoph Balthasar Lampe, 1690. Oblong 8vo (11 x 17 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates. Contemporary calf.

[3], [1 blank], [20], 616 pp.Rare second edition, complete with all the preliminaries and engravings, of a detailed practical handbook of fortification design. This second edition, revised and improved by the author, emphasizes the new advances in fortification introduced in the Netherlands. The first edition, published in 1677, was itself a reworking of Christoph Nottnagel's popular Manuale fortificatorium from 1659. Like its predecessors, Der aufs Neu-verschantzte Turenne was published in "pocket" size, although "coat pockets were large at that time" (Jähns). In his introduction, Behr gives his reasons for naming his treatise after the French marshal Turenne and not after some German prince or general. The title should be understood to be anti-French, and implies that although the French were renowned for their military science, there was so much engineering talent to be found in the German states that Turenne would lock himself in a fortress in fear (*2v).Binding damaged at the extremities with the hinges cracked, back cover with restored fold and ca. 3 cm of the backstrip missing. Text browned and with some spots and wormholes at the lower outer corner of pp. 385-422; a fair copy.l Jähns, pp. 1373-1374; Sloos, Warfare 08062; VD17, 23:313315R (4 copies, 3 lacking the plates); WorldCat (14 copies, many incomplete).

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BEIER, Gottfried and Johann Arnold FRIDERICI.

Aloen publicae florae cultorum censurae.Jena, Johann Werther, [1670]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Modern half vellum.

[28] pp.Rare dissertation on the cultivation of the aloe plant by Gottfried Beier, with Johann Arnold Friderici (1637-1672), professor of medicine and botany at the University of Jena, as praeses. "The work provides an account of the origins in Arabia and Indian Ocean regions, the varieties, the nature of its extracts and their uses. The greater part deals with the plant's cultivation and the climate necessary for it to thrive, and includes a number of references to a variety cultivated in the Americas (i.e., Agave)" (Landis).Gottfried Beier (fl. 1669-1674) would act as praeses himself a few years later for dissertations by A. Werner (1673) and D. Valder (1674). Title-page very slightly browned, but otherwise in very good condition.l Alden & Landis 670/83; BMC NH, p. 124; D.C. Landis, Drugs from the colonies: the new American medicine chest (online); Krivatsy 4380 (cf. 1049-1050); VD17 39:142078N; Wellcome II, p. 132.

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BEILSCHMIED, Karl Traugott.

Pflanzengeographie, nach Alexander van Humboldt's Werke ueber die geographische Vertheilung der Gewächse.Breslau, Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 1831. 8vo. With 1 folding lithographic chart and 1 folding letterpress table. Contemporary black paste-paper over boards, red spine label.

XIII, [1 blank], 201 pp.First and only edition of a supplement to Alexander von Humboldt's work on the distribution of flora and their climatic classification, dedicated to Humboldt. The erratum leaf, printed with the preliminaries, has been bound at the end as intended, so that its conjugate is nearly detached, but still a good copy, with only slightly browned patches in the chart and occasional minor foxing. Binding rubbed and back-strip chipped. A supplememt to Alexander von Humboldt's work on the climatic distribution of flora.l BMC NH, p 125; Pritzel 578.

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BEKKER, Balthasar.

De betoverde weereld, zynde een grondig ondersoek van 't gemeen gevoelen aangaande de geesten, derselver aart en vermogen, bewind en bedryf: als ook 't gene de menschen door derselver kraght en gemeenschap doen. In vier boeken ondernomen.Amsterdam, Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. With the woodcut printer's device of Daniel van den Dalen on the title-page of each book (part) and a full-page woodcut of the Oldenburg Horn.With: (2) BEKKER, Balthasar. Ondersoek van de betekeninge der kometen, by gelegenheid van de gene die in de jaren 1680. 1681. en 1682. geschenen hebben.Including: Berigt aangaande 't uitvinden der lengte van Oost en West, voorgegeven van Liewe Willems Graaf.Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1692. 4to. 2 works in 1 volume, the first work in 4 parts. With a woodcut on the title-page, depicting a group of people doing astronomical research.2 works in 1 volume, the first work in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary calf, blind-ruled frames on the boards.

[18], 138, [2]; [8], 262, [2]; [8], 188, [4]; [6], 277, [3]; [8], 102, [18] pp.The second editions of two works written by the famous Balthasar Bekker (1634-1698), best known for his “indecent” work De betoverde weereld. Bekker was a Dutch reformed pastor and theologian, born in Friesland in 1634, who studied at Franeker and who preached in Amsterdam from 1679 to his death in 1698. Although De betoverde weereld brought Bekker fame, it also sparked a major scandal, causing him many difficulties. Many people voiced their disapproval in numerous pamphlets and in 1692 Bekker was removed from his office in Amsterdam by the synod of Alkmaar, because of heterodoxy.In De betoverde weereld Bekker attempted to prove that the devil is unable to exercise any influence upon the destiny of mankind. By using Cartesian thought, Bekker concludes that the common notion of the devil having power in the natural world should be seen as a remnant of pagan religion and as superstition. This hypothesis relegated all stories of sorcery, witchcraft, ghosts and phantoms to the realm of fancy. Our copy also includes a part of 32 pages called the Naakte uitbeeldinge, also issued separately, bound at the beginning of the third book. The Naakte uitbeeldinge contains a survey of the whole work.De betoverde weereld is here bound with the enlarged 1692 edition of Bekker’s treatise on comets and their meaning, a work of him that caused less polemical problems. It was first published in 1683 by Hero Nauta in Leeuwarden, but was reprinted in 1692. The work was reprinted by two different printers: one by Nauta in Leeuwarden, but also - as our copy - by the Amsterdam printer Jan ten Hoorn. In this treatise, Bekker takes a clear position against the apocalyptical meaning of comets. Although this work wasn’t as controversial as Bekker’s De betoverde weereld, it shows the sceptical character of the Amsterdam preacher who never took the “truth” as it was told him for granted. Both works therefore form part of 17th-century Dutch religious and scientific history, mirroring the views and opinions of people on these subjects.With the certifying signatures of Bekker at the end of the preface of every part of his Betoverde weereld and an owner's inscription on the last endleaf dated 9 May 1712. Without the frontispiece portrait of Bekker included in some copies. Binding worn around the edges, slightly water stained throughout, some minor stains not affecting the text, but otherwise in good condition.l Ad 1: Coumont B40.2; Hoogendoorn BEKB03.2; Van der Linde 16, 17, 19, 20; cf. Crowe, p. 41; Knuttel, Verboden boeken 53 (1691 8vo edition), p. X; Thorndike VIII, p. 583. Ad 2: Hoogendoorn BEKB02.3.1; Van der Linde 3 (note); cf. Van Sluis, 'Balthasar Bekker in 1683: kometen, reizen en de vroege verlichting', in: De Achttiende Eeuw (1998), pp. 125-139.

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BELCHER, Edward.

Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in Her Majesty's ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China, from Dec. 1840 to Nov. 1841.London, Henry Colburn, 1843. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a folding map of the Canton river, folding map with the routes of the H.M.S. Sulphur, large world chart also showing the route of the Sulphur, 19 steel-engraved views and several illustrations in text. Gold-tooled blue sheepskin, shell-marbled sides. Rebacked. In modern slipcase.

XXII, 387; VI, 474 pp.First edition of an account of the voyage around the world by Captain Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877), commander of the Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842. Belcher was ordered to follow the trans-Pacific route from South America to England. During the voyage Belcher visited several islands, including the Solomon Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides and New Guinea. His party also surveyed various harbours along the coast of California and northwest to Alaska. The book shows several pictures of natives in the Indonesian Archipel and their customs. The steel engravings show Panama (2), Honolulu, Mount Elias, Sitka at New Archangel, the volcano of Consequina, Fort George at Astoria, Port Anna Maria, attack on the war junks, Thoka-nauta or Phillips, natives of Port Victoria, native of New Guinea, bow of a state canoe, Prahu of Geby, native of Celebes, native women of Celebes, attacks on first bar battery, Chinese soldiers with gingals and Chinese soldiers at great guns.One map frayed, otherwise a ince set in good condition.l Ferguson 3564; Forbes 1377; Howes B 318; Lada-Mocarski 117; Sabin 4390.

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[BELGIAN REVOLUTION; ART EXHIBITION].

Lyst van kunstwerken, door beoefenaars en verzamelaars bijeengebragt, om verloot te worden te behoeve van het Vaderland; tentoongesteld te Amsterdam, in het Nationale Geregtshof.Amsterdam, Christiaan Andersen Spin, 1831. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece. Slightly later neoclassical gold- and richly blind-tooled long-grained red morocco, gilt edges.

[2], 76, 8 pp.Very rare and remarkable catalogue of artworks exhibited in Amsterdam to raise funds for the Dutch army. It lists 1985 artworks, not only paintings but all kinds of crafts: miniatures, drawings, engravings, lithographs, glass painting etc. All works were to be sold in a lottery to raise funds for the 10-day Campaign (Tiendaagse veldtocht) on 2-12 August 1831 by King Willem I in order to suppress the Belgian uprising. The catalogue includes a lithographed allegorical frontispiece depicting the nation in the form of a bust of King Willem I supported by art. This was designed by court artist Nicolaas Pieneman (1809-1860) and is accompanied by a poem by Jan de Breet. The present copy is the second, expanded and final edition, published shortly after the first. It lists all the artworks, including the later additions. The first edition lists only 1706 items, while the present second edition lists 1985. The frontispiece was slightly revised for the 2nd edition. The catalogue is very rare, the Dutch union catalogue (NCC) lists only 1 copy (Rijksmuseum, 2nd ed). WorldCat also records a copy in the Frick collection. The RKD has a copy of each edition.Minor rubbing on the extremities, otherwise in very good condition.l NCC (1 copy); RKD 283621; WorldCat (2 copies).

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[BELIGATTI, Giovanni (Cassiono Da MACERATA)].

Alphabetum Tangutanum sive Tibetanum.Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1773. 8vo. With a folding table, printer's device on title-page and an elaborate woodcut tailpiece after the preliminaries. Modern vellum, green title label.

XVI, 138, [2] pp.First and only edition of the abridged and improved version of the Propaganda Fide's Tibetan Alphabetum, a handy and simple guide to the basics of Tibetan grammar. The best known products of the Propaganda Press, apart from its missals, grammars, and dictionaries, are the Alphabeta" (Smitskamp 193). The present one was compiled by Cassiano (da Macerata) Beligatti (1708-1791) and edited by Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi (1740-1792), the director of the Propaganda Fide press. The alphabet is printed in the Tibetan type. Cassiano da Macerata was sent on a mission to Tibet in 1738.With 18 modern blank leaves before the title and 14 after the last page. With the bookplate of Dr. A. de Poorter tipped in on the last free endpaper before the title with a manuscript caption in Dutch in pencil indicating that this was made specifically for the present book by Helena Riedel in 1971. Fine copy, with ex-libris drawing for Dr. De Poorter by H. Riedel, dated 1971. In very good condition.l Amaduzzi, p. 8; Birrell & Garnett 17; Cordier, Sinica 2929; Lust 1069; Morrison II, 432; Smitskamp, Philologia Orientalis 208.

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BELLARMINO, Roberto.

De arte bene moriendi, libri duo.Venice, Giovanni Tibernino, 1746. Agenda 12mo (16 x 8 cm). Contemporary sheepskin parchment.

216 pp.A charming little agenda 12mo edition, in the original Latin, of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino's most famous and most popular work, known in English as The art of dying well. Roberto Bellarmino (1542-1621) or Robert Bellarmine, a learned and pious Italian Jesuit had a great reputation with Catholics and Protestants alike. He joined the Jesuits in 1560 and completed his studies at Louvain beginning in 1569, then served as professor of theology there until he returned to Italy in 1576. He became professor of theology at the new Roman College and was appointed Cardinal in 1598/99. Though a member of the committee that condemned Galileo's theses, when Galileo was much troubled by the fact that people thought he was under some severe penance, Bellarmino wrote him a certificate stating that Galileo was under no penance whatsoever, but only had signed a declaration that his theses were in contradiction with the words of the scripture. One of his famous sayings was "an ounce of peace is better than a pound of victory".With a small corner of 1 leaf restored, not approaching the text, and an occasional tiny foxed spot, but still in fine condition. The spine label is slightly damaged, but the binding is otherwise very good.l ICCU, TO0E 148488 & NAPE 01308.

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BELLARMINO, Roberto.

Dottrina Cristiana composta dall...Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1786. Large 4to. With 4 woodcuts on 3 plates, 1 full-page woodcut on the back of the title-page, and a few woodcut initials, factotums and decorations, as well as frames, factotums and decorations built up from arabesque and rococo typographic ornaments. Set in three columns in Ethiopic, roman and Arabic type. Contemporary vellum, gold-tooled spine title, red sprinkled edges.

97, [1] pp.Trilingual (Italian, Arabic and Ethiopic) edition of Robert Bellarmino's catechism (an abridgment of his 1598 "Dichiarazione piu copiosa della dottrina Christiana"), translated by the Maronites (Eastern Catholics) Vittorio Scialac (d. 1635) and Gabriel Sionita (1577-1648). This Arabic text, first published in 1613 as the first book set in Arabic type by the Roman Typographia Savariana (Savary de Brèves), is deservedly famous as a milestone in Catholic efforts to convert Islamic and other Arabic-speaking people in the Middle East and Africa. The present edition is the first to include an Ethiopic version, making this the only Ethiopian version published (printed with the Arabic and Italian text in three columns). The note to the reader at the end is in Italian and Ethiopic and as De Backer & Sommervogel notes, pages 94-96 provide a syllabary in Ethiopic and Hebrew.Insignificant paper defect in the title page repaired; binding slightly warped. From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).l De Backer & Sommervogel I, 1195; Sacy 1274; not in Philologia Orientalis.

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BELLARMINO, Roberto.

[Title in Arabic] | Dichiarazione piú copiosa della dottrina cristiana… Tradotta dalla lingua italiana nell’araba, e dora di bel nuovo stampata.Rome, [Propaganda Fide], 1770.With: (2) BORGIA, Stefano. Irsad li-ajl al-i'tiraf wa-tanawul al-qurban, … [= Instructions for confession and communion][Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1770?].2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. The catechism with a woodcut of fruits and branches on the title-page and 2 woodcut headpieces The instructions with the title in a decorative border built up from cast fleurons, 1 woodcut headpiece and several further decorations built up from cast fleurons. Except for the bilingual title-page to the Bellarmino and the imprimatur on the last printed page of the Borgia, both works are set entirely in Arabic type. Contemporary half sheepskin, manuscript title on spine, paste paper sides, sprinkled edges.

411, [1 blank]; 109, [1 blank], [1], [3 blank] pp.Ad 1: Third Arabic edition of the complete text of Bellarmino's immensely popular catechism. The catechism was translated into Arabic for the use of Catholic missionaries.Ad 2: Rare first and only edition of Stefano Borgia's Arabic instructions for confession and communion. Borgia (1731-1804) was appointed secretary of the Propaganda Fide in 1770, the year they published the third Arabic edition of Bellarmino's catechism. He added the present instructions, apparently intending them to be bound with the catechism.Very good copy, with only a few brown spots and a small hole in p. 337. Binding with a large spot at the first part of the title on the spine and the paper on the sides rubbed, especially at the back cover; but still firm and good.l Ad 1: De Backer & Sommervogel I, col. 1190; ICCU (2 copies); Schnurrer 303; WorldCat (5 copies); ad 2: De Backer & Sommervogel I, col. 1190 note; KVK & WorldCat (4 copies); ICCU (2 copies); Schnurrer 303 note.

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BELON, Pierre.

Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvées en Grece, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges.Paris, Guillaume Cavellat (colophon: printed by Benoist Prévost for Gilles Corozet, Guillaume Cavellat), 1555. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With title in woodcut border with Cavellet's device and initials at the foot, each part-title with Cavellet's woodcut device, 1 folding woodcut map (31.5 x 35 cm) showing Mount Sinai, 44 woodcuts in the text (including a portrait of the author by Geoffroy Tory), and numerous fine decorated initials. Overlapping vellum (ca. 1600?).

[12], 212, [1] ll.Third edition of Belon's Observations, the fruit of his extensive travels in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria from 1546 to 1549. Piere Belon (ca. 1518-1564), famous for his works on ornithology, was attached as naturalist to the French embassy to the Ottoman Empire, aimed at convincing Suleiman the Magnificent to join forces against Charles V. Unlike many contemporary travel writers, Belon does not elaborate on extraordinary travel adventures, but rather limits himself to detailed observations on mammals, fish, snakes, birds, plants and the manners and customs of the peoples he encountered, only commenting on what he had witnessed himself.With printed description from a sale catalogue on pastedown, slightly browned, some light waterstains, folding plate mounted. Binding slightly soiled, turn-ins partly detached from boards, spine damaged at the foot, boards slightly bowed. Overall in very good condition.l Adams B-564; Ibrahim-Hilmy, p. 61; Nissen, ZBI 304; Tobler, pp. 72-73; USTC 6761; cf. Atabey 93 (2nd edition); Blackmer 115 (same copy); Hage Chahine 393 (later ed.); for the author: Dictionnaire des orientalistes, pp. 75-76.

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