Religion & Devotion

FOKKE, Simon. [12 drawings of Old Testament scenes].
Amsterdam, 1783. Twelve pen and ink wash drawings (each ca. 8 x 6.5 cm) in subtle shades of grey and sepia. All 12 drawings mounted on a single contemporary stiff paper support (44 x 61 cm), neatly arranged in three rows of four, each with a border of lines drawn around it in ink. A contemporary pencil inscription below the lower right drawing reads "S. Fokke Amsterdam 1712-1784". Another in a later hand in the lower right corner of the support reads "S. Fokke". Full description

FON, René de la (pseudonym of Louis RICHEOME). Response de Rene de la Fon pour les religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus. Au playdoyé de Simon Marion en l'arrest donné contre iceux le 16. Octobre 1597.
Villefranche, Guillaume Grenier, 1599. 8vo. With a small vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments and 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Later vellum with leather ties. "238" [= 239], [1 blank] pp. Full description

FRANCK, Sebastian. Werelt-boeck, spieghel ende beeltenisse des gheheelen aerdtbodems, ...
The Hague, Albrecht Heyndricxz., 1595. Folio. 17th-century parchment, new endpapers. CXXXIIII, [4] ll. Full description

[FRENCH INDIA - MANUSCRIPT]. Des castes Indiennes.
Karaikal, 11 April [1743]. 4to (ca. 24 x 18.5 cm). Manuscript written in dark brown ink on beige laid paper. Blue mottled stiff paper wrappers. [23], [1 blank] pp. Full description

FÜRER VON HAIMENDORF, Christoph. Itinerarium Aegypti, Arabiae, Palaestinae, Syriae, aliarumque regionum orientalium.
Nuremberg, Abraham Wagenmann, 1621 (colophon: Nuremberg, printed by Abraham Wagenmann, 1620). Small 4to. With finely engraved full-page portrait of the author by Peter Isselberg, full-page engraved Fürer von Haimendorf coat of arms, 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [16], 118, [114] pp. Full description

GALLENSIS, Johannes (John of WALES). Co[m]muniloquium sive su[m]ma collationu[m].
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg = Georg Husner], (colophon:) 25 May 1489. Small folio. Printed in Gothic type in 2 columns, with 52 lines to the page, and a headline. Modern vellum, reusing an old manuscript antiphonary leaf. [79] ll. Full description

GALLE, [Theodoor and] Johannes. Levenschetsen van de twaalf apostelen.
[Antwerp, ca. 1640-1650]. Ca. 12.5 x 9.5 cm. With 14 engravings (ca. 9 x 6.5 cm) printed on fine vellum, in an oval with ornamented corners with subscriptions and number underneath, with protective tissue paper, bound with 17 paper leaves (ca. 11.5 x 8.5 cm) containing short and concise biographies of the apostles written in a neat 19th-century hand. 19th-century vellum over boards with the manuscript title on the spine ("Levens van de XII Apost. MS"). [17] ll. and 14 engravings on vellum. Full description

GANSFORT, Wessel. De sacramento eucharistiae. Et audienda missa.
[Zwolle, Simon Corver, ca. 1521].
With:
(2) IDEM. Epistola adversus M. Engelbertum Leydensem ... et aliae epistolae. [Zwolle, S. Corver, between 30 July and the start of September 1522].
(3) IDEM. Tractatus ... De oratione & modo orandi cum luculentissima Dominicae orationis explanatione.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(4) IDEM. Farrago ... olim uulgo dicti, rarae & reconditae doctrinae, notulae aliquot & propositiones ...
[Zwolle, S. Corver, beginning of 1522].
(5) GOCHIUS, Pupper. In divine gratie et christianae fidei, commendationem, contra falsam & Pharisaicam multorum de iustifiis & meritis operum doctrinam & gloriationem, fragmenta aliquot ... nunquam excusa.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(6) GANSFORT, Wessel. De autoritate officio et potestate pastorum ecclesiasticorum.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1522]. 6 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ads 1-3 and 6 with a woodcut title frame on each of the title pages and several large woodcut decorated initials. Ads 4-5 with several large woodcut decorated initials.
Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 2 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine. Further with brass catch- and anchor plates and one clasp, and a paper label at the head of the spine, lettered in ink referring that this is a collection of Wessel Gansforts works, dated 1520. [3536]; [32]; [4], “CX” [= XC]; [4], XCVIII; “46” [= 44 (of 46)]; [16]; [24] (belonging to ad 2) ll. Full description

GANSFORT, Wessel. Farrago rerum theologicarum uberrima ... In hoc libello tractatus I. De benignissima dei providentia ... II. De causis misteriis, & effectibus dominicae incarnationis & passionis. III. De dignitate & potestaate ecclesiastica. De vera & recta obedientia. Et quantum obligent subditos mandata & statuta praelatorum. IIII. De sacramento, penitentiae, & quae sint claves ecclesiae, De potestate ligandi & solvendi. V. Quae sit vera communio sanctorum, De thesauro ecclesiae, de participatione & dispensatione huius thesauri, De fraternitatibus &c. VI. De purgatorio, quis & qualis sit ignis prugatorius. De statu & profectu animarum post hanc vitam &c.
(Colophon:) Wittenberg, [Melchior Lotter the Younger, 1522]. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Modern blind-tooled sheepskin. [4], LXXXVI ll. Full description

GARCIA, Diego S.J. Sermon funebre en las exequias de la serenissima Señora D. Mariana de Austria Reyna Madre del Rey N. Señor Carlos II. Rey de las Españas. Que celebrò la nobilissima, y fidelissima ciudad de Mallorca en su Iglesia Catadral á 28. de Noviembre de 1696.
Palma de Mallorca, Miguel Capo, 1697. 4to. With the title in an ornamental frame built up from typographic ornaments (a fleur-de-lis and Vervliet vine leaf 207), three woodcut initials and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern marbled boards. [12], 26 pp. Full description