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How to teach young children to pronounce the various sounds of the Dutch language

HEIJNINGEN BOSCH, Mattheus van. Figuurlijk onderwijs. Abe-prentjes voor moeder en kind.
Groningen, Mattheus van Heijningen Bosch, 1820. Oblong 32mo (ca. 7.8 x 9.5 cm). With 31 small woodcuts on 16 pages, illustrating the pronunciation of the letters of the alphabet which are printed in red, all pages are framed in a typographical border. Original blue wrappers with title printed on the front and an advertisement for educational booklets by the same publisher on the back, both in a lithographed floral border. 18, [4] pp. Full description
€ 600
Children's Books Education & Pedagogy Miniature Books
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"Father of History" in elegant & famous first Greek edition by Aldus Manutius, from the Arenberg library

HERODOTUS. [Historiarum] libri novem. Quibus musarum indita sunt nomina.
(Colophon: Venice), Aldus Manutius, (colophon: September 1502). Folio (29.5 x 20 cm). With Aldus's anchor and dolphin device on the title page and the verso of the last leaf. Late 19th-century blind-tooled, polished tan calf, the central panel with the arms of the Dukes of Arenberg. [140] ll. Full description
€ 29,500
Aldine Press Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Egypt Greek & Non-Western Types North Africa West Asia
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Rare Latin treatise on the Greek Bacchanals

HERRENSCHMID, Jacob. Peripatheticus orgiorum ethnico-pontificius. Justè castigatus, justius profligatus, justissimè condemnatus. Hoc est, brevis dissertatiuncula De Bachanaliorum nomine, origine, progressu, placentis, larvis, excusationibus, exemplis, poenis, ludis, choreis, symposiis, ludibriis, &c.
Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, [1626]. 12mo.19th-century red half morocco, marbled paper sides. 132 pp. Full description
€ 550
Classical Antiquity History / 17th Century School & Textbooks
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Collected poems by the owner of one of the most famous Dutch Alba amicorum

HEYBLOCQ, Jacobus. Farrago Latino-Belgica, of mengelmoes van Latijnsche en Duitsche gedichten, gepast op allerhande gelegentheden en voorvallen.
Amsterdam, Pieter van den Berge, 1662 (engraved title: 1663). 8vo. With the title printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device, an engraved title, a full-page engraved view of 't Huys Mannepat, an engraved illustration in the text, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum. [24], 267, [1] pp. Full description
€ 950
Alba Amicorum Dutch Literature Songbooks
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Introduction to reading the Bible, intended for young people

HOFFMANN, Gottfried. Außerlesene Kern-Sprüche Heiliger Schrifft, durch kurtze Fragen deutlich erkläret und nützlich angewendet, nebst einer ausführlichen Einleitung zum Bibel-Lesen ...
Leipzig, Friedrich Lankisch, 1705. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, a folding letterpress table and occasional lines in Greek and Hebrew type. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [34], 704 pp. Full description
€ 950
Church History & Missions Education & Pedagogy
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The first book printed with roman type in Turkey

[HOLDERMANN, Jean-Baptiste Daniel]. Grammaire Turque ou méthode courte et facile pour apprendre la langue Turque ...
Istanbul, [Ibrahim Müteferrika & Zaïd Aga Effendi], 1730. 4to. With a double-page engraved table of Arabic letters in 7 different styles. Set in roman type with frequent Turkish words and phrases in naskh Arabic type. Contemporary blind-tooled calf. [16], 194, [6] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
Book History, Printing & Typography Language & Linguistics Literature Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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From the library of the Dutch explorer and diplomat Pieter Nuyts, discoverer of the southern coast of Australia in 1627

HOMER [and Henri ESTIENNE (editor)]. Opera omnia, cum interpretat[ione]. lat[ina]. ad. verbum ... et breves notae marginales. Editio novissima.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1650. Small 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title (within collation) and a few woodcut tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, red painted edges. [16], 895, [1 blank], [14] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Australia Book History, Printing & Typography Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics
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