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First steps in occultism, being 1. Practical occultism, By H.P.B. 2. Occultism V. The occult arts, By H.P.B. 3. Comments on 'Light on the Path' By M.C. (Reprinted from Lucifer). 'Lotus leaves III'.
London, Theosophical Publ. Society, 1895, sm. in-8vo, 122 p., publ.'s clothbound.
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THE HISTORY OF THE CHVRCH OF ENGLANDE Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Stapleton Student in Diuinite. Imprinted at Antwerp By Iohn Laet, at the signe of the Rape: with priuilege, Anno. 1565. First Edition in English. [14], 192, [4] leaves. 180mm x 130mm. Title page device, full-page woodcuts on H3r and V1r and half-page woodcut on N4r, all showing scenes relating to the conversion of King Ethelbert of Kent, numerous decorative intitial letters. Soiled title page with closed tear and fraying with loss to fore-edge and lacking portion across tail affecting publishers details with restoration and silking also affecting woodcut of E.R. Coat of Arms to verso within ornamental border, first leaf of dedication with sm. worm? hole, Leaf 10 with sm. closed tear, text cropped to head and fore-edge of leaves with occasional loss to running title and side-notes and affecting top line of text of preliminary leaves >1 and >4, early ownership inscription to title page, occasional marginalia. [Bound with] A FORTRESSE OF THE FAITH first planted amonge vs englishmen, and continued hitherto in the vniuersall Church of Christ. The faith of which time protestants call, papistry. By Thomas Stapleton student in diuinite. Imprinted at Antwerpe : by Ihon Laet, with priuilege, 1565. 1st Edition. 162, [2] leaves. Title page device, decorative initial letters, decorative devices. Text cropped to head and fore-edge of leaves with occasional loss to running title and side-notes and leaf numbers, last leaf with loss and restoration to blank portion, penultimate leaf silked.
, 2 works bound together as issued. Sm. 4to. Some browning, rebound in modern gilt lettered tan morocco.
¶ First work STC (2nd ed.) 1778; ESTC S101386. First edition in English of this work which had been the earliest of all mediaeval historical works to appear in print and the most important work of the Monk of Jarrow. Completed in 731 the main theme, presented in literary form, is the history of the Anglo-Saxon church from St. Augustine’s mission to 731. The introduction covers the early history of England up to the Anglo-Saxon invasion and settlement and the final part contains a brief chronological summary of the important events in the body of the work, an account of Bede’s life and writings and a prayer. Bede’s grasp of historical method, his naming of authorities and other sources of information and his system of dating from the incarnation were all unique in the middle ages and are the reason why his Ecclesiastical History has retained its reputation and value. Second work STC (2nd ed.), 23232; ESTC S117792. ‘Based on material in: the Venerable Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ... Imprimatur on verso of title page:’ Stapleton a catholic controversialist, left England soon after Queen Elizabeth’s accession in 1558. He remained in self imposed exile until his death some forty years later. His writings were highly esteemed by Pope Clement VIII and he was one of the English writers on whose information Pius V mainly relied when he issued his bull against Queen Elizabeth (1570). In the above work Stapleton exhorts the English by reference to Bede’s Ecclesiastical History and to other historical and biblical precedents to return to the traditional "Papist" faith.
¶ First work STC (2nd ed.) 1778; ESTC S101386. First edition in English of this work which had been the earliest of all mediaeval historical works to appear in print and the most important work of the Monk of Jarrow. Completed in 731 the main theme, presented in literary form, is the history of the Anglo-Saxon church from St. Augustine’s mission to 731. The introduction covers the early history of England up to the Anglo-Saxon invasion and settlement and the final part contains a brief chronological summary of the important events in the body of the work, an account of Bede’s life and writings and a prayer. Bede’s grasp of historical method, his naming of authorities and other sources of information and his system of dating from the incarnation were all unique in the middle ages and are the reason why his Ecclesiastical History has retained its reputation and value. Second work STC (2nd ed.), 23232; ESTC S117792. ‘Based on material in: the Venerable Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ... Imprimatur on verso of title page:’ Stapleton a catholic controversialist, left England soon after Queen Elizabeth’s accession in 1558. He remained in self imposed exile until his death some forty years later. His writings were highly esteemed by Pope Clement VIII and he was one of the English writers on whose information Pius V mainly relied when he issued his bull against Queen Elizabeth (1570). In the above work Stapleton exhorts the English by reference to Bede’s Ecclesiastical History and to other historical and biblical precedents to return to the traditional "Papist" faith.
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THE BIBLE ... Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. And also a mos profitable concordance for the readie finding out of any thing in the same conteined. THE NEWE TESTAMENT [only, LACKING Old Testament]. of our Lorde Iesus Christ, Conferred diligently with the Greeke and best approued translations in diuers languages. Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker Printer to the Queen’s most excellent Maiestie 1596. [4], 441-554 leaves. Architectural and figurative border to title page, several decorative head and tail pieces, dec/historiated initial letters. 1 leaf with significant loss, title page with loss and repairs to edges. [Bound with]. TVVO RIGHT PROFITABLE AND FRUITFULL CONCORDANCES, or large and ample tables alphabeticall. The first conteining the interpretation of the Hebrue, Caldean, Greeke, and Latine wordes and names scatteringly dispersed throughout the whole Bible, with their common places following euery of them: and the second comprehending all such other principall wordes and matters, as concerne the sense and meaning of the Scriptures, or direct vnto any necessary and good instruction. The further contents and vse of both the which tables (for breuitie sake) is expressed more at large in the preface to the reader: and wil serue as well for the translation called Geneva, as for the other authorized to be read in churches. Collected by R.F.H. Imprinted at London by the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie [1598]. [164]p. Title page device, several decorative head and tail pieces, several dec. initial letters. 3 leaves with significant loss. Manuscript details of several of the Place family from Holywell Flint to verso of title page. [Bound with]. THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES Booke of Psalmes by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrue, with apt notes to sing them withall. ; Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people togither [sic] and after morning and euening praier: as also before and after sermons and moreouer in priuate houses, for their godlie solace and comfort, laieng apart all vngodly songs and balades, which tend onelie to the nourishing of vice and corrupting of youth. London Printed by Iohn Windet for the assignes of Richard Daye 1597. [10], 62 [only of p.86]. Title page device, dec. head piece and initial letter, some music.
, Sm. 4to. 8 x 6 inches. Heavily defective harsh cropping particularly to the first work affecting running titles, signatures, side notes and text in some cases, some staining, much early marginalia, last work with much marginal repair work affecting text with loss, corners fraying, some staining, marbled e.ps., hinges taped, C19th cloth boards with calf corners (with some loss), rebacked in modern calf with old title label to spine.
¶ The Newe Testament [only, lacking Old Testament]. STC (2nd ed.) / 2169.|Darlow & Moule (Rev. 1968), 234 ‘Geneva version. The NT title is dated 1596. A close reprint of No. 197.’ ESTC S121175; ‘The Geneva version, translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others. With the Apocrypha. At foot of title: Cum gratia & priuilegio Regi? Maiestatis. The Newe Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ has separate title page dated 1596; register is continuous. Issued with Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances by Robert F. Herrey. Alt Title Newe Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ.’ Two Right ... ESTC S124434 ‘ R.F.H. = Robert F. Herrey, possibly the pseudonym of Robert Harrison. Publication date from STC. At foot of title: Cum priuilegio Regi? Maiestatis. In this edition, B of signature mark B4 is under ab of habitation [impossible to verify in our copy as signatures all missing due to shaving].’ Preface dated 1578. Book of Psalms STC (2nd ed.), 2492; ESTC S1467 ‘Two columns, black letter. Collation from STC; no complete copy reported. Quire G is in the same setting as STC 2490. The colophon is dated 1595. [lacking in our copy].’
¶ The Newe Testament [only, lacking Old Testament]. STC (2nd ed.) / 2169.|Darlow & Moule (Rev. 1968), 234 ‘Geneva version. The NT title is dated 1596. A close reprint of No. 197.’ ESTC S121175; ‘The Geneva version, translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others. With the Apocrypha. At foot of title: Cum gratia & priuilegio Regi? Maiestatis. The Newe Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ has separate title page dated 1596; register is continuous. Issued with Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances by Robert F. Herrey. Alt Title Newe Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ.’ Two Right ... ESTC S124434 ‘ R.F.H. = Robert F. Herrey, possibly the pseudonym of Robert Harrison. Publication date from STC. At foot of title: Cum priuilegio Regi? Maiestatis. In this edition, B of signature mark B4 is under ab of habitation [impossible to verify in our copy as signatures all missing due to shaving].’ Preface dated 1578. Book of Psalms STC (2nd ed.), 2492; ESTC S1467 ‘Two columns, black letter. Collation from STC; no complete copy reported. Quire G is in the same setting as STC 2490. The colophon is dated 1595. [lacking in our copy].’
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![BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien., [Collection of revised ornithological offprints from Comptes rendus].Including:Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des pigeons. Paris, 1855.Tableaux synoptiques de l'ordre des hérons. Paris, 1855.Catalogue des genres et sous-genres d'oiseaux contenus dans le Muséum Brittanique. Paris, 1855. Note sur les oiseaux des Iles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius. Paris, 1855.Tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des gallinacés. Paris, 1856. Excursions dans les divers musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique, et tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des échassiers. Paris, 1856. Ornithologie fossile servant d'introduction au tableau comparatif des ineptes et des autruches. Paris, 1856.Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1855-1856. 4to. 7 parts in 1 volume. With a collective title-page for several of the offprints: Tableaux paralléliques des oiseaux praecoces ou autophages. Gallinacés, échassiers, palmipèdes et rudipennes (Paris, 1856) and all first leaves of the quires signed with a "B", indicating a revised offprint. Modern half morocco.](https://www.forumrarebooks.com/uploads/item/689EGAV992D0/689egav992d0_bonaparte1.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Collection of revised ornithological offprints from Comptes rendus].Including:Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des pigeons. Paris, 1855.Tableaux synoptiques de l'ordre des hérons. Paris, 1855.Catalogue des genres et sous-genres d'oiseaux contenus dans le Muséum Brittanique. Paris, 1855. Note sur les oiseaux des Iles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius. Paris, 1855.Tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des gallinacés. Paris, 1856. Excursions dans les divers musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique, et tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des échassiers. Paris, 1856. Ornithologie fossile servant d'introduction au tableau comparatif des ineptes et des autruches. Paris, 1856.Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1855-1856. 4to. 7 parts in 1 volume. With a collective title-page for several of the offprints: Tableaux paralléliques des oiseaux praecoces ou autophages. Gallinacés, échassiers, palmipèdes et rudipennes (Paris, 1856) and all first leaves of the quires signed with a "B", indicating a revised offprint. Modern half morocco.
Collection of revised ornithological offprints from Comptes rendus (a French scientific journal published since 1666), by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, a well-known ornithologist and nephew of Napoleon. Included are taxonomic classifications of various birds, including pigeons, herons, galliformes (gamefowl) and ostriches, birds found in the collections of various museums in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Marquesas Islands, and also a review of George Robert Gray's Genera and subgenera of birds (1855). Apparently several similar collections were published, containing various articles by Bonaparte from the Comptes rendus.Some foxing near the edges, otherwise a good copy.l Ronsil 294; Zimmer, pp. 72-77.
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![CARRIÉRE, Jan Ph., Herbarium van bloemen en planten. 1ste deel.[Watergraafsmeer, ca. 1884]. 1 volume. Small folio (22.5×20.5 cm). With 30 drawings of flowers in watercolour and ink, each with a description in Dutch on a separate leaf. The whole preceded by a title-page, a table of contents (1 page), and an introduction (2 pages). Contemporary black cloth, rebacked, modern endpapers. With: (2) CARRIÉRE, Jan Ph. Herbarium van naar de natuurgeteekende bladeren, "afdeeling boomgewassen". [Title volume 2:] Herbarium van boombladeren.Watergraafsmeer, 1884. 3 volumes. Small folio (22.5×20.5 cm). With 90 drawings of tree leaves in watercolour and ink, with a description in Dutch on a separate leaf. The first two volumes each with a title-page, a table of contents (1 page) and an introduction (1 page), and the third volume without preliminaries. Contemporary blue (vols. 1-2) and black (vol. 3) half cloth. The third volume rebacked with original backstrip laid down.](https://www.forumrarebooks.com/uploads/item/FAFBY2YD4ZB1/fafby2yd4zb1_carriere1.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Herbarium van bloemen en planten. 1ste deel.[Watergraafsmeer, ca. 1884]. 1 volume. Small folio (22.5×20.5 cm). With 30 drawings of flowers in watercolour and ink, each with a description in Dutch on a separate leaf. The whole preceded by a title-page, a table of contents (1 page), and an introduction (2 pages). Contemporary black cloth, rebacked, modern endpapers. With: (2) CARRIÉRE, Jan Ph. Herbarium van naar de natuurgeteekende bladeren, "afdeeling boomgewassen". [Title volume 2:] Herbarium van boombladeren.Watergraafsmeer, 1884. 3 volumes. Small folio (22.5×20.5 cm). With 90 drawings of tree leaves in watercolour and ink, with a description in Dutch on a separate leaf. The first two volumes each with a title-page, a table of contents (1 page) and an introduction (1 page), and the third volume without preliminaries. Contemporary blue (vols. 1-2) and black (vol. 3) half cloth. The third volume rebacked with original backstrip laid down.
Set of 2 unpublished botanical manuscripts by one Jan Ph. Carriére, with watercolour illustrations, clearly intended for publication, as is apparent from the introduction. The first work gives descriptions of 30 different flowering plants, each accompanied by a beautiful illustration. It is said on the title-page that it's the first part, but the other volumes in this set form, although clearly related, a separate work. The second work gives descriptions of 90 different trees and shrubs, each accompanied by a beautiful illustration of a leaf, including. The author notes in the introduction, that the illustrations aren't as distinguished as in the first work on flowering plants, as the illustrations of leaves are primarily intended for identification purposes.A few leaves a bit browned, some occasional thumbing and a large restored tear in the description of plate 24 in ad 2, volume 3. Ad 2, volumes 1 and 2 with their spines a bit rubbed and slightly discoloured, the other volumes rebacked. Otherwise in very good condition.
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Four "Expositions au profit des pauvres à Gand": 1.: Exposition de tableaux anciens et modernes, d'antiquités et d'objets d'art, à l'Hotel de Ville, Salle du trone et de l'Arsenal. 1862. Au profit des ouvriers sans travail. 52 pp. (incl. 1er Supplement, and pp. 50-52: 2me Supplement. - 2.: Exposition des tableaux anciens, antiquités et objets d'art au vestibule de l'Université. 1845. Au bénéfice des pauvres.(ii),iv,36 pp. (brown spots in places). - 3.: Exposition de tableaux anciens et modernes, d'antiquités et d'objets d'art, au Palais de l'Université. 1854. Au profit des indigents. 70 pp. (few spots on last leaves). - 4.: Bound together with (first part in the volume): N. Van de Walle. Notices sur la richesse artistique et scientifique de la ville de Gand à propos d'une exposition (au secours du pauvre).1845. 24 pp. with frontispiece (lithograph). Extract of "Messager des Sciences historiques de Belgique". (a few brown spots, mainly on the frontispiece). - Added: Vente publique sous la dir. de Ferd. Verhulst dans la Salle de St. George, 22 Octobre 1851. Cadres et panneaux sculptés par le célèbre Laurent Van der Meulen, avant appartenus à M. De Rudder, de Gand. Exposition le jour de la vente. 4 pp. and 2 plates, lithographed by Gevaert, depicting 2 of the 7 items described. (serious brown spots to the text-pages).
Gand (Ghent, Gent), resp. Busscher frères, Eug. Vanderhaeghen, D. Verhulst and Leonard Hebbelinck, resp. Busscher frères, Eug. Vanderhaeghen, D. Verhulst and Leonard Hebbelinck, 1845-1862. 5 part,bound together in a contemporary, halfcloth binding, gilt title on spine; covers with marbled paper. - Rare . Gewicht/Weight: 400 grs.
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La cuisine d'aujourd'hui. École des jeunes cuisiniers. Service des déjeuners - Service des diners. Plus de 300 manières de préparer les oeufs. 260 dessins, dont 40 planches gravées. Quatrième édition, soigneusement corrigée, avec de nombreuses additions. Blind wrappers, restored with new endpapers. (ii),xvi,821,(v: blank) pp. incl. frontispiece. Richly illustrated. - (Inner margin first leaves renewed; only a few annot. in ink on first 'Préface'-leaf). Interior clean.
Paris, Librairie E. Dentu, Curel et Fayard Frères, Librairie E. Dentu, Curel et Fayard Frères, 1897. . Gewicht/Weight: 2700 grs.
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![[DUBREUIL, Jean] and others., Advis charitables sur les diverses oeuvres, et feuilles volantes du Sr. Girard Desargues Lyonois. Publiees sous les titres.I. De Brouïllon Projet d'une atteinte aux evenements des rencontres du cone avec un plan: ...II. De Brouïllon Projet d'exemple d'une maniere universelle, touchant la pratique du traict a preuves, pour la couppe des pierres en l'architecture.III. D'une maniere de tracer tous quadrans d'heures égales au soleil, au moyen du style posé: ...Mis au jour. ...With: [DUBREUIL, Jean]. Diverses methodes universelles, et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie pour faire des perspectives. ... Tirees pour la plus-part du contenu du livre de La perspective pratique. Ce qui servira de plus de response aux deux affiches du Sieur Desargues, contre ladite Perspective pratique.Paris, Melchior Tavernier, François l'Anglois, dit Chartres, 1642. 2 works (4 & 2 parts) in 1 volume. 4to (25.5 x 18 cm). The first work in 4 parts. It lacks two small engraved plates. The second work with 10 full-page engravings on integral leaves. Half white sheepskin parchment (ca. 1900?).](https://www.forumrarebooks.com/uploads/item/15442/15442_dubreuil1.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Advis charitables sur les diverses oeuvres, et feuilles volantes du Sr. Girard Desargues Lyonois. Publiees sous les titres.I. De Brouïllon Projet d'une atteinte aux evenements des rencontres du cone avec un plan: ...II. De Brouïllon Projet d'exemple d'une maniere universelle, touchant la pratique du traict a preuves, pour la couppe des pierres en l'architecture.III. D'une maniere de tracer tous quadrans d'heures égales au soleil, au moyen du style posé: ...Mis au jour. ...With: [DUBREUIL, Jean]. Diverses methodes universelles, et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie pour faire des perspectives. ... Tirees pour la plus-part du contenu du livre de La perspective pratique. Ce qui servira de plus de response aux deux affiches du Sieur Desargues, contre ladite Perspective pratique.Paris, Melchior Tavernier, François l'Anglois, dit Chartres, 1642. 2 works (4 & 2 parts) in 1 volume. 4to (25.5 x 18 cm). The first work in 4 parts. It lacks two small engraved plates. The second work with 10 full-page engravings on integral leaves. Half white sheepskin parchment (ca. 1900?).
Ad 1: [4], [4]; 10; 14, [2 blank]; 17, [3 blank] pp.; Ad 2: [15] pp., 10 double-page spreads, [1 blank] p.Very rare and important first editions forming the culmination of an on-going war of words on perspective, conic sections, cutting stones for architectural use and making sundials, with the Parisian Jesuit architect Jean Dubreuil (1602-1670) attacking the Lyonese mathematician and engineer Girard Desargues (1591-1661), who spent much time in Paris in the circles of Descartes, Fermat and Pascal (the young Blaise and his father) and pioneered the modern principles of perspective drawing. Ironically the publications on both sides of this war came from the same printing and publishing office. Desargues's rigorously mathematical Exemple de l'une des manieres universelles ... touchant la practique de la perspective ... (Paris, 1636), is now recognized as the pioneering work on the mathematics of projective geometry, the key to understanding the principles of perspective. Although Dubreil's two present works do not explicitly cite it, both respond to Desargues's criticisms and the title-page of the Advis charitables cites Desargues's later publications that reiterated parts of his 1636 treatise and added further material.With a neat manuscript list of the contents and reference to the 1864 edition of Desargues's works on the front paste-down. Two parts of the first work each lacking one small engraved plate, as noted, but no complete copy with all parts has been located. Otherwise a good copy and including the two integral blank leaves. With traces of a blue, 19th-century blue paper wrapper stuck to the first title-page, covering two letters in the title, and some water stains and spotting in the second work. A very rare pair of works on perspective and related matter, part of a dispute concerning methods of using perspective.Extensive description available on request.l BAL 338 note (mentioning ad 1 & ad 2, without noting ad 1 part I); Taton, L'oeuvre ... de G. Desargues (1951), pp. 50 ff. (ad 1 & ad 2); WorldCat (7 copies of ad 1, none with all parts and plates; 7 copies of ad 2).
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Étude sur l'Iliade d'Homère. Invention, composition, exécution. Paris, Hachette, 1888. 8,577 p. Cl. 22 cm (Rebound; paper of the first 4 preliminary leaves brittle, resulting in marginal tears and a loosening title)
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Bagus Umbara, Prince of Koripan. The Story of a Prince of Bali and a Princess of Java. Illustrated on palm leaves by a Balinese artist, with Balinese text and English Translation. First edn.
London, Trustees British Museum, 1968. 4°. orig. cloth, gilded illustration of both outside cover, gilded title on spine. 55pp. Tinted facsim. illustrations from the episode at top margins of pp. 18-51featuring the original palm leaves with old balinese script at tails, translated into modern balinese and english at tail margins, preceded by preface, acknowledgements, introduction and summary of the story preceding the episode illustrated on first 16 pages. Episode in modern balinese language with english language translation featuring an episode from a Love story between a Balinese Prince and a Javanese Princess, originally written and illustrated on palm leaves (lontar) by an unknown Balinese Artist. Fine copy.
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![[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - BOOK OF HOURS (DIOCESE OF UTRECHT)]., [Incipit, A2r:] Alst my gaet niet nae mij[n] syn / Soe wil ic my liden en[de] swyghe stil ...[Diocese of Utrecht, the County of Holland], 1488. Large 8vo (19 x 13.5 x 4 cm). Written in Dutch on vellum by 2 gothic textura hands in 1 column (20 lines/page for the first hand for the main text and calendar; 22 lines/page for the additions written by the second hand). All leaves are numbered in pencil in the upper margin of the rectos by a 19th- or 20th-century hand. Richly iluminated by the Master of the Brussels Hours of the Bezborodko Group, being one of the stylistic groups of the Masters of the Dark Eyes, with 6 full-page miniatures, 2 historiated initials and 4 larger decorated initials, several smaller decorated initials, and many 1-line lombardic initials in blue and red. Also with a 6-line blue penwork initial on a red penwork ground, being a contemporary addition. Also with three- and four-marginal border decoration (an uncoloured background filled in with small dots or short tendrils in black, show acanthus leaves in different colours, various flowers and several brightly coloured birds and fabulous beings, with gold and black/white dots among them). Contemporary blind-tooled calf over rounded ("cushioned") wooden boards. With the original brass catch- and anchor-plates, the latter with remnants of the leather fastenings, and the later silk red ribbon markers loosely preserved.](https://www.forumrarebooks.com/uploads/item/ABC_46242/46242_bookofhours1.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Incipit, A2r:] Alst my gaet niet nae mij[n] syn / Soe wil ic my liden en[de] swyghe stil ...[Diocese of Utrecht, the County of Holland], 1488. Large 8vo (19 x 13.5 x 4 cm). Written in Dutch on vellum by 2 gothic textura hands in 1 column (20 lines/page for the first hand for the main text and calendar; 22 lines/page for the additions written by the second hand). All leaves are numbered in pencil in the upper margin of the rectos by a 19th- or 20th-century hand. Richly iluminated by the Master of the Brussels Hours of the Bezborodko Group, being one of the stylistic groups of the Masters of the Dark Eyes, with 6 full-page miniatures, 2 historiated initials and 4 larger decorated initials, several smaller decorated initials, and many 1-line lombardic initials in blue and red. Also with a 6-line blue penwork initial on a red penwork ground, being a contemporary addition. Also with three- and four-marginal border decoration (an uncoloured background filled in with small dots or short tendrils in black, show acanthus leaves in different colours, various flowers and several brightly coloured birds and fabulous beings, with gold and black/white dots among them). Contemporary blind-tooled calf over rounded ("cushioned") wooden boards. With the original brass catch- and anchor-plates, the latter with remnants of the leather fastenings, and the later silk red ribbon markers loosely preserved.
144 ll. including 6 inserted leaves with miniatures and 2 blank endpapers used as paste-downs.An extensively and beautifully decorated Dutch-language book of hours, written on good quality vellum and dated 1488, and illuminated by the Master of the Brussels Hours of the Bezborodko Group, being one of the stylistic groups of the famous Masters of the Dark Eyes. The present book of hours was hitherto unrecorded as manuscript of these famous illuminators of medieval manuscripts and it appears to be the earliest example of a manuscript decorated by the Master of the Brussels Hours of the Bezborodko Group.With regards to the text, the present manuscript can be considered as a quite common book of hours, as it contain texts often present in these books (the Hours of the Virgin, the Long Hours of the Cross, the Hours of the Holy Spirit, the Hours of Eternal Wisdom, the Office of the Dead and the Seven Penitential Psalms, including a litany) and some other suffrages and prayers. However, with regards to the decoration program, the present manuscript is notorious, as it was a yet unrecorded example of a manuscript illuminated by one of the Masters of the Dark Eyes, more specific the Master of the Brussels Hours of the Bezborodko Group. Many thanks to dr. Klara Broekhuijsen for conforming this and for providing us the material to study this manuscript in relation to other manuscripts of the Bezborodko Group.The Masters of the Dark Eyes are considered to be the "most important and most prolific illuminators working in the County of Holland" (Broekhuijsen, Masters and miniatures) and were named after their most prominent feature: the heavy shadows around the eyes of their figures. They were responsible for the illumination of many works of which an unusually large number of over seventy manuscripts are left and they are known for the lavishness and extent of their decoration programmes. On stylistic grounds, the Masters of the Dark Eyes are divided into seven groups, all flourishing between ca. 1490-1510, of which one is called the Bezborodko Group, "the best among the Masters of the Dark Eyes in terms of quality" (Broekhuijsen, Masters and miniatures). Features of the Bezborodko Group are a refined use of colour, their specific border decoration (acanthus leaves in various colours, flowers and fabulous beasts with gold or black dots among them, leaving the bare vellum visible) and moreover their use of engravings and woodcuts as models for the compositions of their miniatures.In the Bezborodko Group we distinguish two painters: the Master of the Bezborodko Hours and the Master of the Brussels Hours. The decoration program of this book of hours is an outstanding example of the work of the Master of the Brussels Hours. Differences between both Bezborodko Masters come out in the first place in their use of colour. The Master of the Brussels Hours has a preference for more dark reds and blues in the draperies of figures and in the border decoration instead of the softer colours (pink, yellow, pale blue) of the Master of the Bezborodko Hours. The border decoration in this manuscript show especially many vivid red and blue and especially the draperies of the figures in the miniatures are almost all painted in a dark deep blue. Another feature of the way they shape their figures in the miniatures. The figures as painted by the Master of the Brussels Hours are somewhat taller, slender and more elegant with finer faces, more pointed chins (especially for women) and sharper contours in contrast to the figures of the Master of the Bezborodko Hours, which have more thickset, compact forms with rounder faces. In the present manuscript the figures all have pointed chins. When we compare the compositions in the present book of hours with those in other manuscripts illuminated by the Master of the Brussels Hours, we find almost one-to-one matches in the decoration program.The present manuscript is the earliest dated example of a book of hours illuminated by the Master of the Brussels Hours, being signed 1488. Five other manuscripts of the Bezborodko Group are dated (two date from 1489, one from 1490, two from 1491). It is quite hard to say precisely where the manuscript must have been made, as it is for almost every manuscript illuminated by the Masters of the Dark Eyes, but we can assume that the present book of hours is illuminated in the former County of Holland. The present manuscript was long time unrecorded as a manuscript illuminated by one of the Masters of the Dark Eyes because it circulated for years in private collections. We know that the manuscript was formerly part of the library of the Old Catholic Clergy of Sts. Gummarus and Pancratius in Enkhuizen (based upon the 19th-century inscription on the verso of the front endpaper). In May 1909 the manuscript was at auction (Frederik Muller, nr. 814) and again a year later, on 16-17 June 1910 (nr. 1736), where it was bought by the jurist W.H. Köhler, living in Maarssen. The manuscript was sold again on auction at Van Huffelen on 7 February 1946, where it was bought by W.A. Hofman. From then on, the present manuscript remained family property, obtained by the current owner by inheritance.Binding slightly worn and professionally restored around the spine. Fastenings (2) and 1 anchor plate lost. Some marginal dust-soiling of the leaves, some marginal spots and stains, a few very minor marginal tears (never affecting the miniatures or text), two small wormholes in the last quire (not affecting the text) and some more worming on the last endpaper, endpapers browned and chipped, a few marginal creases, some miniatures, initials and border decoration show signs of wear, but overall the book of hours, being a beautiful and curious example of book illumination by one of the Masters of the Dark Eyes, is still in good condition.l The description made by Willem de Vreese of the present manuscript can be found in the Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta, 856. For the Masters of the Dark Eyes and the Brezborodko group: Klara H. Broekhuijsen, The Masters of the Dark Eyes. Late medieval manuscript painting in Holland (2009); Klara H. Broekhuijsen, Masters and miniatures. Proceedings of the congress on medieval manuscript illumination in the Northern Netherlands (Utrecht, 10-13 December 1989), pp. 403-412.
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![[JOCELIN, Elizabeth Brook]., Uyterste wille van een moeder aan haar toekomende kind, toegeeigent aan de volmaaktste huysmoeder. Den Tweden Druk. [With extensive verses and other additions by Adriaan SPINNEKER].Together in a single edition with: HOUTE, Soetgen van den. Uyterste wille, dewelk sy hare kinderen David, Betgen en Tanneken, tot een memorie en voor het alderbeste goet heeft nagelaten, en heeft dat met haren dood bevestigt, tot Gent in Vlaenderen. [With several educational verses by Gezine BRIT].SPINNEKER, Adriaan. Morgen- en avondgezangen, gebedswijze berijmt.Amsterdam, Jacobus van Nieuweveen, 1699. 3 works plus additional verses in 1 volume. Small 8vo. A single edition, containing three main works, each with its own title-page with Van Nieuweveen’s imprint (the first undated, the others 1699) and with all engravings on integral leaves (frontispiece and 16 nearly full-page emblematic engravings by Jan Luyken and 6 smaller emblematic engravings plus 2 small engravings of Hope and Faith, some possibly by Jan Luyken). The first work with a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, an engraved figure of Faith (with cross and book) on the title-page, and 7 nearly full-page engraved emblems; the second with an engraved figure of Hope (with anchor and bird) on the title-page, a nearly full-page engraved portrait of the author writing in her prison cell, 2 nearly full-page engraved emblems and 4 smaller emblematic engravings in the main text, and 6 nearly full-page engraved emblems and 2 smaller ones accompanying the added verses; and a woodcut vase of flowers on title-page of the third work. Further with several woodcut tailpieces and decorated initials. Contemporary vellum.](https://www.forumrarebooks.com/uploads/item/6773/6773_jocelyn1.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Uyterste wille van een moeder aan haar toekomende kind, toegeeigent aan de volmaaktste huysmoeder. Den Tweden Druk. [With extensive verses and other additions by Adriaan SPINNEKER].Together in a single edition with: HOUTE, Soetgen van den. Uyterste wille, dewelk sy hare kinderen David, Betgen en Tanneken, tot een memorie en voor het alderbeste goet heeft nagelaten, en heeft dat met haren dood bevestigt, tot Gent in Vlaenderen. [With several educational verses by Gezine BRIT].SPINNEKER, Adriaan. Morgen- en avondgezangen, gebedswijze berijmt.Amsterdam, Jacobus van Nieuweveen, 1699. 3 works plus additional verses in 1 volume. Small 8vo. A single edition, containing three main works, each with its own title-page with Van Nieuweveen’s imprint (the first undated, the others 1699) and with all engravings on integral leaves (frontispiece and 16 nearly full-page emblematic engravings by Jan Luyken and 6 smaller emblematic engravings plus 2 small engravings of Hope and Faith, some possibly by Jan Luyken). The first work with a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, an engraved figure of Faith (with cross and book) on the title-page, and 7 nearly full-page engraved emblems; the second with an engraved figure of Hope (with anchor and bird) on the title-page, a nearly full-page engraved portrait of the author writing in her prison cell, 2 nearly full-page engraved emblems and 4 smaller emblematic engravings in the main text, and 6 nearly full-page engraved emblems and 2 smaller ones accompanying the added verses; and a woodcut vase of flowers on title-page of the third work. Further with several woodcut tailpieces and decorated initials. Contemporary vellum.
[8], "259" [= 267], [1, 4 blank] pp.First illustrated edition in any language of Jocelin’s famous Legacie, intended for children and adults, with 25 beautiful engravings, mostly made for this edition by Jan Luyken, and the first edition to supplement the Legacie with an earlier related Anabaptist work presented as a children's book - each of the two presents a mother's spiritual legacy to her child(ren) - together with a new children's hymnbook (songs for morning and evening prayer). They were published together as a single edition, each of the three main works with its own title-page (with imprint), but with a single series of page numbers and quire signatures. They are also here for the first time accompanied by additional verses, at least mostly written for this edition by the Mennonite poet Gezine or Geesje Brit (1669?-1747) and Mennonite preacher Adriaan Spinneker (1678-1745), apparently the moving spirits behind the present edition. Brit contributed a laudatory verse to the first work and added three or four extensive verses (with their own divisional title-pages without imprints) to the second, while Spinneker contributed numerous verses and explanations of the emblems in the first work as well as the hymns of the third work. Although the first title-page is undated and the publisher’s note to the reader in the preliminaries is dated 10 December 1698, the first work ends on I1r with a catchword pointing to the 1699 title-page of the second work on I2r (I1v is blank), so they could not have been issued separately.The frontispiece is signed by the artist and engraver Jan Luyken, who was also responsible for the 16 nearly full-page unsigned engravings. Only one of the 8 smaller engravings is signed, by the engraver Johannes van den Aveele (1655-1727), but it differs from the others stylistically (and unlike them has an oval scrollwork cartouche inside the rectangular frame) so it is not clear whether Jan Luyken or Van den Aveele was responsible for the other seven.With the bookplates of Albert Verwey and A.J. van den Tol. In fine condition.l Klaversma & Hannema 1425; Landwehr, Emblem & fable books, 386; Praz p. 383; STCN 843284927; Van Eeghen & Van der Kellen 339; cf. Bibelebontse Berg, pp. 152-154, discussing the "Uyterste wille van Soetgen van den Houte", with 3 ills.; not in De Vries, Emblemata; for Geesje Brit: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1780-1830/DVN/lemmata/data/brit.
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Geschriften.Noordwijk-Binnen, 1761. Oblong folio (21 x 33 cm). Manuscript calligraphic copybook in brown ink on paper, with a calligraphic title-page followed by sample texts (mostly from the Old and New Testament) in Dutch in a roundhand script with decorative flourishes, and verses by Jacob Cats on the outside of the first and last leaves, the last illustrated with a penwork father, son and a large fish eating a small fish. Side-stitched, with the first leaf and last leaf serving as wrappers.
[31] ll.A manuscript calligraphic copybook by a student learning penmanship, but with a calligraphic title-page giving his name, the title, place and year. Jacobus de Jong is a fairly common name, but Noordwijk-Binnen (now part of Noordwijk in South Holland, on the coast near Leiden) is fairly small and a boy of that name was baptised there (Dutch Reformed) on 27 August 1747, which would make him 14 if he began work on the present copybook at the beginning of the 1761/62 school year. He was the son of Roelof de Jong and his second wife Elizabeth Verkinderen.Nearly all leaves are written on the rectos only, mostly using Bible quotations (Old Testament, New Testament and Psalms) as sample texts, but the first leaf (before the title-page) serves as a front wrapper and has a verse quotation in 4 lines of large script on the front and a couple practise Gs on the verso (trials for the first letter of the title), while the last leaf has a normal sample text on the recto but has verses illustrated with penwork figures on the verso, serving as a back wrapper. The texts on both the front and the back wrapper are verses from Jacob Cats, Spiegel van den ouden ende nieuwen tijdt. All texts are in Dutch and executed in a roundhand (pointed pen) script, the most common style at this date for commercial correspondence. All the writing is fairly large, generally (but not strictly) decreasing from the first to the last pages, with an x-height ranging from 15 to 2 mm. Most samples include pen flourishes.Like nearly all children's school exercise books, this one has suffered with use. The edges of the leaves are tattered, especially the first two and the last one, and there are light stains in many leaves, but most of the sample texts are in good condition. The stitching of the lower half is lost. A rare example of a surviving copybook by an identified 14-year-old student.
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![KANO RYO., [Title in Japanese:] Rangaku hitori an’nai. [= Guide to Dutch studies].[Tokyo?], Shimogakudo, [ca. 1856]. Small 8vo. Japanese introduction to the Dutch language, comprising 37 printed and 1 blank double leaves (with the fold at the fore-edge) printed from 37 woodblocks (35 double-page plus the first and last single-page), with the first double leaf (with the title-page) and the last double leaf (blank) serving as a paste-downs. With a second copy of the double-leaf with the title-page, loosely inserted. Side stitched and oversewn, with the original publisher’s yellow wrappers (without any label) and a contemporary wrap-around sleeve (fukuro), preserved in a brown cloth slip-case in Japanese style.](https://www.forumrarebooks.com/uploads/item/A3EGPV5OGQM3/a3egpv5ogqm3_matsuura1.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Title in Japanese:] Rangaku hitori an’nai. [= Guide to Dutch studies].[Tokyo?], Shimogakudo, [ca. 1856]. Small 8vo. Japanese introduction to the Dutch language, comprising 37 printed and 1 blank double leaves (with the fold at the fore-edge) printed from 37 woodblocks (35 double-page plus the first and last single-page), with the first double leaf (with the title-page) and the last double leaf (blank) serving as a paste-downs. With a second copy of the double-leaf with the title-page, loosely inserted. Side stitched and oversewn, with the original publisher’s yellow wrappers (without any label) and a contemporary wrap-around sleeve (fukuro), preserved in a brown cloth slip-case in Japanese style.
[1], 15, 10, 10, [1], [1 blank] ll.Japanese-Dutch manual or guide intended for Japanese people who wish to use Dutch in commercial trade. “Rangaku” means “Dutch studies” and “hitori an’nai” means “guide”. Intended as an aid to reading, writing and speaking. After the title-page, the first part gives a four-page introduction, then presents the Latin alphabet in two forms: one like a 19th-century roman printing type (capitals and lowercase) and the other like 19th-century script handwriting (capitals and lowercase), with the corresponding Japanese characters to indicate the pronunciation. It also presents roman and arabic numerals; the pronunciation of vowels, consonants and various syllables; some simples words; punctuation; symbols for weights, measures, monetary units and other symbols, marks and abbreviations; the names of months, seasons and four elements; names and signs of zodiac figures and planets. The second part presents more complicated words with Japanese translations, and the third part about 150 one- or two-line phrases in Dutch, often dividing words into separate syllables (with some words misspelled or arbitrarily divided at the end of a line). Waseda University Library has two versions of this manual, both printed from the same woodblocks. The present one matches bunko 08 C0560, which gives no place of publication or date, but Waseda’s description gives under “imprint” a three-character name (xià xué táng) that Google Translate renders as “Shimogakudo”. The other version, ho 10 01917, printed from the same woodblocks, has one additional page at the end giving publication details: Edo [= Tokyo], Izumi Hanbee, Ansei 3 [= 1856]. Each copy of the title-page shows two Japanese owner’s red ink-stamped seals (inkans or hankos), one above right (red on white) and the other below left (white on red), all with rounded corners and their texts in seal characters, in the bound-in title-page: rectangular with a single column of 2 characters (upper right) and square with two columns of 1 and 3 characters(?) (lower left); in the loosely inserted title-page: rectangular with 2 columns of 4 and 4(?) characters (upper right) and rectangular with 1 and 3(?) characters (lower right). The loosely inserted title-page has a third stamp on the back, rectangular with rounded corners, with a single column of 3 kanji(?) characters (red on white). With a few minor worm holes, one slightly affecting the border of the bound-in title-page and some other pages, and some minor water stains in the margins and the last (blank) leaf, but generally in fine condition.l www.wul.waseda.ac.jp (under bunko 08 C0560: see ho 10 01917 for the 1856 ed.); cf. Martin J. Heijdra, “At the shores of the sky”, in: Polyglot translators, pp. 62-75, at pp. 74-75 (1856 ed.); not in WorldCat.
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Residences memorables de l'incomparable heros de nôtre siecle ou Representation exacte de edifices et jardins de ... le Prince Eugene Francois Duc de Savoye et de Piemont, ... | Wunder würdiges Kriegs- und Siegs-lager ... oder Eigentliche vor und abbildungen der Hoff- Lust- und Garten-gebäude ...Augsburg, heirs of Jeremias Wolff, 1731-1740.With: (2) KLEINER, Salomon. Representation des animaux de la menagerie de ... la Prince Eugene François de Savoye et de Piemont ..., avec plusieurs plantes etrangeres du dit jardin ...Vorbildung aller ausländischen Thiere, so in dem Thier-garten Sr. Hochfürst. Durchl. Eugenii Francisci ...Augsburg, heirs of Jeremias Wolff, 1734. With 11 engraved title-pages, 2 engraved dedication leaves and 102 engraved illustration plates (11 folding). 2 works (the first in 10 parts) in 1 volume. Oblong Royal folio (32 x 46 cm). 19th-century calf.
[3], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9, 3 engraved ll.Splendid set, rarely found complete, of 102 monumental engraved views by Salomon Kleiner (1703-1761), devoted to Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt's famous Belvedere palace in Vienna, one of the most famous and magnificent private estates built in de 18th century, owned by Prince Eugene de Savoy (1663-1736). It is accompanied by Kleiner's complementary series on the estate's menagerie, showing some hundred animals and a few plants, many exotic, set among ruins, other buildings, sculptures and fountains. The plates in the 10 parts of the main series show plans, elevations, sections, views of the exterior and especially the lavish interior, details of decoration, sculpture and art. The interiors were designed by Claude le Fort du Plessy, the beautiful frescoes by Jonas Drentwett and the gardens and waterworks by Dominique Girard (imported from Versailles). Sets with all ten parts complete plus the menagerie are rarely found. With bookplate on paste-down. In good condition, with some marginal browning and a few tears repaired. Binding worn, spine damaged and some restorations. A magnificent series of 102 views of the Belvedere at Vienna and the animals in its menagerie.l Berlin Kat. 2117; Lipperheide 686; Nissen, ZBI , 2212 (ad 2 only); Springer 40.
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