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TextA dialogue between a predestinarian and his friend
Wesley, John, 1703-1791Summary: A dialogue on predestination. -
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TextSerious considerations on absolute predestination
Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690Summary: Extracted by John Wesley from the writings of Robert Barclay. -
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TextThe Christian's pattern : or, A treatise of the Imitation of Christ
Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471Summary: -
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TextBeschouwing der wereld : bestaande in hondert konstige figuuren, met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712Summary: -
TextEthica naturalis, seu, Documenta moralia e variis rerum naturalium proprietatib[us], virtutum vitiorumq[ue] symbolicis imaginibus collecta
Weigel, Johann Christoph, 1661-1726Summary: First edition, first issue of an educational emblem book based on various aspects of nature and human nature with 100 engraved emblems by Jan Luiken (41 images) and Caspar Luiken (59 images). Each emblem is accompanied by a 10-line Latin verse in letterpress by the German engraver and publisher Johann Christoph Weigel. -
TextR P. Ioannis Kreihing Societatis Iesu Emblemata ethico-politica carmine explicata : ad serenissimum principem Leopoldum Wilhelmum Archiducem Austriae &c. ...
Kreihing, Johann, 1595-1660Summary: First edition of this beautifully illustrated Jesuit emblem book. The work is dedicated to Leopold Archduke of Austria with a full-page dedicatory illustration and 162 numbered etched text emblems. -
TextLes poesies du P. Pierre Le Moine, de la Compagnie de Iesus
Le Moyne, Pierre, 1602-1671Summary: -
TextEmblemata : emblemes chrestienes et morales : sinne-beelden s treckende tot christelicke bedenckinghe ende leere der zedicheyt
Heyns, Zacharias, 1566-1638Sumary: -
TextPia desideria : emblematis elegiis & affectibus SS. Patrum illustrata
Hugo, Herman, 1588-1629Summary: "Editio princeps of perhaps the most influential religious emblem books" (Landwehr). Herman Hugo (1588-1629), born in Brussels, joined the Jesuit order in 1605, became Spinola's father confessor and accompanied the general in all his campaigns. He died of the plague at Reinberg. The engravings in this beautifully illustrated emblem book are attributed to Boetius à Bolswert (Boëce van Bolswert: ca. 1580-1633), who also is noted as the publisher (one illustration is signed "W. Simpson sculp."). -
TextI quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio : ne' quali, dopo vn breue trattato de' cinque ordini, & di quelli auertimenti, che sono piu necessarij nel fabricare : si tratta delle cose priuate, delle vie, de' ponti, delle piazze, de' xisti, & de' tempij
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580Summary: -
TextDe rebus adiaphoris epistola concionatorum Hamburgensium ad D. Philippum Melanthonem, & responsio eiusdem
Summary: Letter by a counsel of preachers in the city of Hamburg to Philipp Melanchthon regarding the adiaphoristic controversy regarding the re-introduction of some Catholic elements into the liturgy, which Melanchthon viewed as harmless and permissible. Melanchthon's reply is also included in this short booklet. -
TextAndreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550Summary: Third edition of Alciatus in France, "with new woodcuts superior to those of the 'Augsburg' editions" (Landwehr). The emblems are attributed to Mercure Jollat. "It is the Paris edition which set the standard for the popular field of emblem literature (Mortimer, French, no. 13, p. 13). Alciatus was not happy with the two earlier Augsburg editions; but the expanded Wechel edition which appeared in Paris in 1534 with entirely new woodcuts by Jollat set a new standard.
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