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CATS, JACOB.
Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus: vitae humanae ideam,
emblemate trifariam variato, oculis subijciens
[with
Monita amoris virginei, sive
Officium puellarum . . . Maechden-Pflicht, ofte Ampt der Jonckvrouwen
]. Dutch,
Latin, and French text. Folding engraved plate showing children’s games; engraved
emblems in text throughout. 244; 123 pages, including engraved additional title. 2 parts in
one volume. 4to, 227x172 mm, 19th-century sheep gilt, worn, spine faded; contents toned
and soiled with scattered marginal foxing and minor stains, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
stamp on letterpress title, plate separated at fold.
Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu, mid-1600s
[250/350]
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CASIRI, MIGUEL [i. e., MIKHAEL
AL-GHAZIRI].
Bibliotheca Arabico-His-
pana Escurialensis.
Latin and Arabic
text. [16], xxiv, 544; [8], 352, [214] pages. 2
volumes. Folio, 372x265 mm, disbound;
infrequent minor foxing, St. Charles
Borromeo Seminary stamp on title and
accession number on next leaf in each
volume; uncut.
Madrid: Antonio Pérez de Soto, 1760-70
[1,000/2,000]
FIRST EDITION
of a catalogue of over 1800
Arabic manuscripts, largely by Spanish Muslim
authors as well as some by Jews writing in
Arabic or Greek authors in translation, in the
library of the Escorial outside Madrid. The
descriptions are organized in sections by subject,
with a comprehensive index. Casiri was a
Maronite scholar who settled in Spain. Graf
III, 475; Palau 47287.
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CATS, JACOB.
Alle de Wercken.
3 folding plates; profusion of emblems and
other illustrations in text. [32], 666, [10];
[22], 390, [6], 393-608, 61, [1] pages,
including half-titles, 2 engraved additional
titles, 2 portraits of Cats and Anna Maria
Schurman, and 2 pictorial divisional titles
in Volume 2. 2 volumes. Folio, 393x248
mm, 18th-century
1
/
2
mottled calf gilt
with morocco lettering pieces, top of
spines chipped; vertical crease and short
marginal tear in Volume 1 half-title, let-
terpress title foxed, scattered minor foxing
and stains in Volume 2.
Amsterdam & Utrecht: Daniel van den
Dalen et al., 1700
[1,000/1,500]
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