Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

SCHULTENS, Albert. Institutiones ad fundamenta linguæ Hebrææ.
Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár, Klausenburg), Sándor (Alexander) Szathmári Pap, 1743. 4to. Set in roman and italic types with extensive Hebrew, incidental fraktur, Greek (2 sizes) and Arabic, and one 3-letter word in Samaritan. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled tanned sheepskin, each board with the Diesbach Belleroche coat of arms, probably a son of Nicolas de Diesbach Belleroche (1668-1735) in Switzerland. [30], 501, [84], [1 blank] pp. Full description

SCRIBANI, Charles. Antverpia.
Including: [SCHONDONCK, Gilles]. Hê prôtogeneia kai epistrephomonê tychê tês Anbersês.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank page following the main part.
With: (2) SCRIBANI, Charles. Origines Antverpiensium.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page, woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank last page, folding engraved map of Antwerp and 6 double-page engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume; 1st work in 2 parts. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [8], 146, [1], [1 blank]; 1-24; 1-172, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

SEBASTIANI, Pietro de’. Nuovo metodo, che facilita la lingua Toscana disteso con regole grammaticali, ...
Rome, Paolo Moneta, 1683. Small 12mo (14 x 8 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers. [4], 47, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SELS, Willem Hendrik. Salomon, Koning van Israël. In XII boeken.
Amsterdam, F. de Kruyff, A. van der Kroe, 1765[-1768]. 4to (23.5 x 17.5 cm; binding 24.5 x 19.5 x 4 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, a small engraved scene on the title page, and an armorial engraving above the dedication, all coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gold. Contemporary richly gold-tooled dark olive morocco by the so-called "Three Acorn Bindery" in Amsterdam, with a central ornament on both boards, surrounded by an elaborate decorative frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a red morocco title label on the spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, green ribbon marker. [22], 292 pp. Full description

SENAULT, Louis (calligrapher & engraver). Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Écrites et gravées par L. Senault.
Paris, "l'autheur" and Claude De Hansy, [1690 or soon after]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a richly engraved title-page with the title in a wreath of flowers with 2 dolphins and the crowned coat-of-arms of the Dauphine, and 260 engraved calligraphic text-pages, richly decorated and illustrated, including 8 engraved divisional titles, this copy with the frontispiece, the 4 illustration plates and 2 otherwise blank pages with gilt borders. 18th-century richly gold-tooled (browned) olive-green goatskin morocco, each board with a wide border, spine with the title in roman capitals in the 2nd of 6 compartments and a flower built up from several stamps plus several decorations in each of the other compartments, rolls on the raised bands and at the head and foot, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges, 2 silver clasps with a stamped mark, red silk paste-downs, gilt edges, red silk ribbon marker. [1], [1 blank], 260 engraved pp. plus 5 engraved plates including frontispiece. Full description

SERRE, Jean Puget de la and Jan DULLAART (translator). Fatsoenlycke send-brief-schryver...
Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamijn, 1663. 12mo. With an engraved title-page (dated 1652), showing a writer at his desk, a small ornamental vignette on the title-page, an ornamental tail-piece, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 446 pp. Full description

SERRURIER, J.F. Fruitkundig woordenboek, behelzende all hetgeen betrekking heeft tot de kennis en het huishoudelijk gebruik der verschillende soorten van fruiten; tot het aankweeken, veredelen, snoeijen en behandelen van vruchtboomen; tot het aanleggen van broeibakken, trekkassen en oranjehuizen enz. Gevolgd naar het hoogduitsch van J.C. Christ en verrijkt met het wetenwaardigste uit het op last van het Engelsch Gouvernement uitgegeven werk van W. Forsijth.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1805-1806. 2 volumes. Royal 8vo. With 18 (17 folded) plates. Publisher's red speckled boards, spines with printed label (preserved in 2 recent boxes). pp. viii, 483, (1); pp. (6), 517. Full description

[SERVASANCTUS DE FAENZA and others] (spuriously attributed to Saint BONAVENTURA). [Sermones de tempore et de sanctis].
(Colophon: Zwolle, [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479). Small (Chancery) folio (27.5 x 20.5 cm). With one 5-line and hundreds of 2- and 3-line spaces left for initials, filled in with manuscript "Lombardic" capitals in red; manuscript paragraph marks in red; and capitals rubricated throughout. Set entirely in a single textura gothic type (103 mm/20 lines) in 2 columns of 39 lines to the page. Early 18th-century tanned sheepskin. [1 blank], [340] ll. Full description

SHIRWANI, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-. Nafhat al-Yaman fi-ma yazulu bi-dhikrihi al-shajan. [= Breezes from Yemen].
Calcutta, printed by Mawlawi Kabir Ud Din Ahmad at the Urdoo Guide Press, 1881. 8vo. Original publisher's pebble-grain lilac cloth. [2], 276, [2] pp. Full description

SIKE (SIECKE), Heinrich (editor). Evangelium infantiae. Vel liber apocryphus de infantia servatoris. Ex manuscripto edidit, ac latina versione & notis illustravit ...
Utrecht, François Halma, Willem vande Water, 1697. 8vo. With the main text in Arabic with a parallel Latin translation on the facing pages. Contemporary vellum. [22], 161, [7], 93, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description