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With all folding maps finely handcolouredBiblia, dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.
Dordrecht, (colophon: printed by) H. and J. Keur and Amsterdam, M. Doornick in compagnie, 1686.
Elephant folio. [20], 302, [2] 134, [11], 164, [2], 66 ff. With 6 folding handcoloured engraved plates (complete) and an engraved title-page.
Contemporary blind-tooled calf with complete copper fittings. Modern calf spine.
Beautifully illustrated copy of the 1686 Dutch "Keur" Bible edition, the standard Bible of the Dutch Reformed Church, corresponding to Luther's version in Germany and King James' Bible in England. This copy with all 6 folding maps nicely contemporary handcoloured, clean and crisp. The plates by Bastiaen Stoopendaal (1637-1707) depict respectively the world (with America and Australia still incomplete); "Paradise" i.e. the Middle East; The Journey of the Children of Israel (Sinai Peninsula and Israel region); city plan of Jerusalem;… Read More

Indigenous burial rites prohibited
Isidoro Sainz de Alfaro y Beaumont; Pedro Ocón.
Circular, que dirige el Senor Gobernador de la Sagrada Mitra á los Parrocos, Eclesiasticos y Fieles Cristianos del Arzobispado de Mexico, sobre Ereccion de Cementerios fuera de las Poblaciones.
México City, Oficina de Doña María Fernández de Jaúregui, 1809.
8°. [2], 36 pp.
Contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
First and only edition of an explanation of the rules and regulations for burying the dead in the Archdiocese of Mexico. The rules for the Christian way of burial were not well observed by the local population. The rules of Christian burial were not well observed by the local population and this prompted the Archbishop of Mexico to commission his cousin the Inquisitor to write the current work. Author Isidoro Sainz de Alfaro y Beaumont was Inquisidor and the cousin of Archbishop And Viceroy Francisco Javier de Lizana y Beaumont. To make his point, he cites examples from the Old Testament that emphasize the… Read More

Controversial manuscript on the expulsion of Jesuits from South America
["Ministro di Stato" (= Bernardo Tanucci (1698-1783)?].
Notizie Anecdote.
Italy (Naples?), 1759.
4°, 8 pp. Manuscript in black ink in a notarial hand on 18th century paper.
Ruthlessly anti-Jesuit manuscript, possibly by Bernardo Tanucci: prime minister of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The text summarizes the events involving the Jesuits in the years 1755-1759, from the controversy over the Paraguayan Missions to the trials for the assassination of Joseph I of Portugal. This autograph is not signed but clues to the identity of the author can be found in a rare 1759 published analysis of the contents of this manuscript, titled Sposizione letteral delle notizie anecdote giustificative della condotta de' MM. RR. PP. Gesuiti nel Paraguai, e nel Portogallo per aggiungere al loro manoscritto di Napoli (Barcelona [= Naples?], Antonio Michele Cervellò). In the second edition of this work (1760, same publisher), editor Alfonso Nicolini… Read More

Rare Paula de Benavides imprint, from library of José Maria Andrade
Estevan García.
El maximo limosnero, mayor padre de pobres, grande arçobispo de Valencia, provincial de la Andaluzia, Castilla, y Nueva-España, de la orden de San Augustin, s. Thomas de Villanueva [...] Ofrecela al excell.mo señor don Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva, duqve de Alburquerque […].
Mexico City, viuda de Bernardo Calderon [= Paula de Benavides], 1657.
4°. [8], 85 [i.e. 95], [1] ll. ℗3, A3-C3, D2-I2, K2-N2, O2-T2, V2, X2
With a woodcut coat-of-arms and very attractive woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.
Later quarter calf with marbled sides, gold-tooled spine.
Mexican biography of St. Thomas of Villanova (1488-1555), Augustinian ascetic, Archbishop of Valencia, after who Villanova University (Pennsylvania) was named. He seems never to have visited America but sent friars of his order to evangelise in Mexico in 1533. He is stated as a saint on the title page, a year in advance of his actual canonization. Author… Read More

Unrecorded Dutch anti-Catholic treatise, with prominent Utrecht provenance


François [de la Salle] Monginot (1569-1637); Daniel Costerus (1620(?)-1646) [translator].

Ontbindinge der twijffelingen ofte corte en clare verhandelinge van de voornaemste verschillen tusschen de Gereformeerde ende de Roomsche Kercke […].

Utrecht, Amelis Janssz van Paddenburgh, 1631.

8°. [34], 83, [3] pp. A-G8, H4.

Contemporary vellum.



Rare (not in STCN) first and only Dutch edition of a plea to Catholics to convert as Protestants. First published in French in La Rochelle, 1617 as Résolution des doutes, ou Sommaire décision des controverses entre l'Église réformée et l'Église romaine, in which Monginot explains why he converted from the Catholic to the Protestant faith.
This translation was dedicated to the magistrates of Utrecht and approved by the Dutch Synod. Translator Daniël Costerus, a preacher in Houten near Utrecht, added a 14-page preface and a 3-page prayer at the end. The only STCN record of… Read More