Religion & Devotion

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER BOOK - GERMAN]. Geistlicher Seelen-Wecker. Allen in Gott Christlich glaubenden Seelen zu Nurz[!] und grösserem Eyfer zusam[m]en getragen. Darin[n]en Schöne auserlösene Morgen- Abend- Mess- Beicht und Communion Gebetter.
[Germany, Franconia, diocese Würzburg?, ca. 1780]. 8vo (17.5 x 11.3 cm). Written in a clear German cursive in brown ink with chapter titles and captions in Fraktur script in gold, blue, black, and red with red pen flourishes; the text is written within a manuscript double-lined frame in brown ink. With two mezzotint engravings of Christ carrying the cross and Christ's Vera effigies with a crown of thorns, mounted on p. [6] and p. 7; both engravings show Christ's wounds and blood painted red. The engravings are by Johann Martin Will (1727-1806), engraver and art dealer in Augsburg. Contemporary gold-tooled dark brown leather. [1], [3], 307, [9], [4 blank except for the text frames] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER BOOK - GERMAN]. Andachts Eyfer Worinnen enthalten Fruh- Abend- Meess Beicht und Kommunion dann andere heilige Gebether. Geschrieben in Jaht Christi 1791 von Johann Karl Erbes.
[Germany], 1791. 8vo (18.5 x 11 cm). Written in a clear Roman script by Johann Karl Erbes, title in a structured floral frame, all text is written in 15 to 18 lines per page, all within a manuscript floral frame. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco. The work is kept in a mottled leather and floral paste paper slipcase. [1 blank], [2], [1 blank], 206, [2], [6] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - SPANISH - Vincent MORALES]. Compendio de la exemplar vida, y santa muerte, [d]el p[adre] Juan de S[an]tiago...
[Córdoba?], ca. 1770. 8vo. With a large engraving of Juan de Santiago on the second leaf and a pen drawing on page 102. Contemporary limp parchment. [4], "159" [= 162] pp. Full description

MARINI, Giovanni Filippo de. Relation nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao. [Part 2:] Histoire nouvelle ...
Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1666. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Later half sheepskin. [8], 327, [5], 329-436 pp. Full description

MARLOT, Guillaume (& FLODOARDUS REMENSIS). Metropolis Remensis historia ... [Title of vol. 2:] Metropolis Remensis historia. Sive supplementum Frodoardi, ab anno CMLXX. ...
Lille, Nicolas de Rache, 1666 (volume 1) & Reims, Protasius Lelorain, 1679 (volume 2). 2 volumes. Folio. With woodcut vignettes on the title pages, volume 1 with a full-page engraving and 6 half-page engravings. Further with woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Volume 1: gold-tooled calf (dated 1740), each board with the coat-of-arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI; volume 2: contemporary mottled calf. [14], 668, [16]; [8], 1-754, [2], 755-858, [2], 867-886, [28] pp. Full description

[MARNIX VAN SINT ALDEGONDE, Philips van]. Binenkorb dess Heyl. Römischen Imenschwarms, seiner Hummelszellen (oder Himmelszellen) Hurnausnäster,Brämen- geschwürm und Wäspengestöss. Sampt Läuterung der H. Römischen Kirchen Honigwaben; Einweihung und Beräuchung oder Segfeurung der Imenstöck: und Erlesung der Bussenblumen, des heydnischen Klosterhysops, der Suiter Säudisteln, der saurbonischen Säubonen, dess Magisnostrischen Liripipesenchets, und dess Imenplatts der Plakimen: auch dess Messthaues und H Saffts von Wunderbäumen, &c. Alles nach dem rechten Himelstau oder Manna justirt, und mit Mentzerkletten durchzirt.
Christlingen [= Strassbourg], Ursino Gottgewin [= Bernard Jobin], 1580. Small 8vo. The title-page, with the woodcut illustration of a beehive, is printed in red and black, the same woodcut repeated in the text, and a devotional woodcut by T. Stimmer in the text. 19th century half vellum. 246, [18] ll. Full description

[MARTIN, David and Willem SEWEL (translator)]. Historie des ouden en nieuwen testaments, verrykt met meer dan vierhonderd printverbeeldingen in kooper gesneeden.
Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1700. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page for both parts (vols. 1 and 3), a large engraved vignette on each of the 3 typographical title pages, 3 engraved headpieces (1 in vol. 1 and 2 in vol. 3), 28 engraved tailpieces is vol. 3, 2 identical engraved initials (one in vol. 1, the other in vol. 3), a total of 210 full-page engraved plates containing 2 illustrations each (64 in vol. 1; 72 in vol. 2; 74 in vol. 3), and 5 double-page engraved maps in volume 3. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf,with a green and a blue label lettered in gold on each spine, sprinkled paper sides. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [14], 128; [1], [1 blank], 129-282 [= 154 pp.], [8]; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [22], 154, [1 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [1 blank], 155-163 [= 9 pp.], [1 blank], [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description

MARTINI, Martino. Tartaros en China, historia.
Madrid, Joseph Fernadez de Buendia for Lorenço de Ibarra, 1665. Small 8vo (14.5×10 cm). Late 18th-century gold-tooled mottled goatskin. [40], 188 pp. Full description

MATTEI, Giuseppe. Compendio della storia della persecuzione mossa contro la Cattolica religione nell' impero della Cina l'anno del signore MDCCLXXXIV.
Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789. 8vo. Contemporary (?) vellum. 131, [1 blank] pp. Full description

MATTHIAS, Johannes (Johannes Matthiae Gothus). Copie van een brief van Joh. Matthias Luthers bisschop in Sweden aen de koningh van Sweden inde welcke hy Sijn Majesteyt versoeckt, de Kerckelijcke eendracht onder de evangelische, te willen promoveren. Uyt het Latijn over gheset.
1656. 4to. Modern boards. 8 pp. Full description