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[4] + 77 + [3] pp. + frontispice (scène representant les 19 martyrs), 15cm., texte en Français, reliure du 19e siècle (plats marbrés, dos en cuir peu taché), feuilles de garde marbrées, texte frais, bon état, rare, [Edition à l'occasion de la béatification des martyrs de Gorcum, par le pape Clement X, en 1675], H96543
[xvi] + 79 + 15pp., with engraved vignette on title page (scene of some martyrs being hanged) & 15 martyrs' portraits in text + 2 other engravings ("De floculo miraculoso ad BB. Martyrum sepulchrum" & "Penses a la fin. Il faut mourir et comprendre", 15cm., 19th cy. black full-leather binding, marbled endpapers, text clean and bright with only few stains, minor defect at lower margin of first pages, good condition, [The last 15 pages contain: "Exercitium pietatis ad S.S. Martyres meditatio"], H96542
112 Pages. Features: Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part IX; Holy Week Procession in Seville (includes photos of Nazarene's in costumes similar to those of Klansmen); My Texan Elopement -John H. Jones impersonates Miss Sally Steddem; A Naturalist in Cannibal-Land - adventures of Captain H. Cayley-Webster in the cannibal islands of the South Seas (with photos of Cayley-Webster); Jinkers and Jinkering - photo-illustrated article shows how buildings are moved by horses and oxen in Western New South Wales; My Klondike Mission - Lilian Agnes Oliver of Chicago set out for the Klondike to raise money to support her invalid husband - a photo-illustrated account; Through Pygmy-Land - Part I - photo-illustrated article by Albert B. Lloyd; The Heroes of Niagara - a series of graphic narratives, each illustrated by a photo of the hero and his apparatus; "Dago" - eminent actor Kyrle Bellew relates a remarkable mining incident - with photos; The Martyrs of Ku-Cheng - photo-illustrated article on the slaughter of Christian missionaries in the interior of China and the decapitating retribution; My First Leopard - by Walter H. Bone; Round the World in a Home-Made Boat - Joshua Slocum and the 'Spray'; Wolves in a Blizzard - Mr. and Mrs. E. Howard in North-West Canada; My Cycle Ride to Khiva - part II - an account of a remarkable bicycle ride across the deserts of Kara-kum and Kizil-kum by Robert L. Jefferson, F.R.G.S.; Attacked by Leeches - W. Harcourt-Bath describes a horrible jungle; Incredible photos of dozens of prisoners on treadmill in the great prison of Rangoon; Photo of dead Armenian heroes in Samsoun; and more. Average wear. Complete and intact. Few pencil markings. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
[xxxii +] 400pp., later hardcover binding binding (spine in leather with gilt title and decorations, some traces of use at edges of boards and corners), 17cm., text in latin, text clean and bright with only very few contemporary underlinings and annotations (in margin of text) in ink, small wormhole in margin (not in the text) of first pages, good condition, [This is a rare second Latin edition, (first edition = Douai Balthasar Bellerus 1603). Willem Estius, born at Gorcum 1542, died at Douai 1613, based his work on the eye-witness account of his brother Rutger Estius and on his own investigations afterwards ; the author felt personally involved since his uncle and some of his friends (both priests of Gorcum & Hieronymus) were among the martyrs. // Continuation of the title: "Quibus pro coronide subiuncta est, eodem Authore appendix de martyrio Guilielmi Gaudani, item Minoritae quod contigit anno 1573. Habes & aliorum quorumdam martyria, opportunis locis commemorari: nominatim Cornelii Musii Delfii theologi & poëtae."], H96551
viii + 108pp., 20cm., gecart. band met lederen rug (slijtage aan randen, kleine herstelling aan rug), tekst helder, goed, zeldzaam, [SAMEN INGEBONDEN MET: 1: NN, Twee-hondert jaerigen Jubel-galm der XIX. salige Martelaren van Gorcum, met een kort verhael van hun leven, wonderheden, reliquien, ende salig-verclaeringe (Mechelen, Van der Elst, 1772, [4] + 59pp.), 2: NN, Jubel-Galm tyer gelegenheyd der twee-honderd-jaerige geheugenis en feest over den roem-ruchtigen zegenprael door de groote en wyd-vermaarde gelucksalige de gelucksalige Martelaeren, geseyd van Gorcom voltrocken ten Briele in Holland, op 9. Julii 1572 (Tot Brussel, by Franciscus t'Serstevens, 1772, 16pp., zijdelingse bladranden wat kort hersneden met verlies van enkele lettertjes van tekst) // Deze jubelvieringen n.a.v. de tweehonderdjarige herdenking van de Gorcumse martelaren vond plaats in Leuven in de kerk der Minderbroeders Recollecten, van 5 tot 20 juli 1772], H96552
Folio, with 2 copper-engraved portrait frontispieces, engraved and printed titles and 38 fine copper-engraved engraved plates, some mild offsetting and age-staining as usual; contemporary full calf, back with six raised bands ruled in blind, second compartment with red leather label lettered and tooled in gilt (label worn without loss of lettering), boards moderately age-scuffed and worn, board edges and corners worn and bruised, joints cracked (but all cords and binding entirely sound, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy. The 'Life' is complete with frontispiece and 9 plates; the 'Lives' complete with frontispiece and 29 plates. Small unobtrusive repair to bottom blank margin of Q1; p.285 of the 'Life'; wrongly numbered 286 as usual; p.345 of the 'Lives' wrongly numbered 348 as usual. AN UNUSUALLY CLEAN, SOUND AND COMPLETE COPY OF A HANDSOME AND GRAPHIC EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EDITION IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED CONTEMPORARY BINDING.
[8] + [XX] + [3] pp., with engraved title vignette (depicting Franciscus of Assisi receiving the Stigmata) and one full-page coat-of-arms ("Per virtutis in honoris") and engraved printer's device on last leave and 20 engravings in text some of which by A. Pauli [= Pauwels] and most probbaly some by A.v.Diepenvelle (the first one depicting "Rex martyrum Christus", the 19 others depicting each of the martyrs meeting their death), leaves printed on recto side only, bilingual: text in Latin and Dutch in parallel columns, some occasional staining in margin of text, 19th century hardcover binding (marbled boards, spine in leather with gilt title and decorations, corners bit bumped), marbled endpapers, with ex-libris "J.W.L.Smit" and ex-dono ex-libris tipped in on endpapers, good condition, rare, [contains biographical sketches of Franciscan martyrs in the Netherlands during the 16th century wars of independence against Spain. Deals with the martyrs P.F. Johannes Amicus, the six martyrs of Alkmaar, Engelbertus Terburghis, the 19 martyrs of Gorcum, Reynerus a Lintris (Roermond), Johannes Mahusius (Oudenaarde), Guilelmus Goudanus, Johannes Cuyper (Diest), Arnoldus Knapper Donaet (Amersfoort), Adrianus Beverloo, Nicolaus Delfius, Johannes Schuermans (Peer), Johannes van Amsterdam, Johannes Gray, Johannes Puteanus, Martinus Suetens, Albertus van Leiden, Thomas van Beringen & Joachim van Delft. ], H96548