Recent Arrivals from Antiquariaat FORUM BV

[16], LXXIV; 63; 17 ll.Two very rare post-incunables printed, respectively, in Deventer and in De Hem (near Schoonhoven), and a very interesting manuscript probably written in Rooklooster. All three works being primary sources for the history of the Modern Devotion in the Low Countries in general and the famous monastery Rooklooster at Auderghem in the Zonia forest near Brussels… Read more about this item

[1], [1 blank], [22], 480 pp.Second edition of the French translation of the biography of Saint Francis of Borgia, a Spanish Roman Catholic reformer and third general of the Jesuits. The original work was written by the famous Spanish jesuit Pedro Ribadeneyra (1527-1611), the present translation, first published by the same printer in 1596, was made by Michel d'Esne… Read more about this item

What at first glance appears to be a conventional devotional image of Saint Anthony of Padua is actually composed of hundreds of microscopic words, forming both the image of the saint and martyr and the prayer "Si quæris miracula" ("If, then thou seekest miracles") from the "Officium rhythmicum s. Antonii" that is sung every Tuesday at the Basilica of… Read more about this item

39, [1] ll.Well-produced fourth(?) edition of a Gospel Harmony, concentrating on the Passion of Christ and beautifully illustrated by Urs Graf, by the publisher of the first (1509) edition. The book is beautifully printed in a fine rotunda in various sizes, with the extensive commentary arranged all around the text, with auxiliary texts in two seizes of roman. The… Read more about this item

[6 (of 8)], 315, [5] ll.First Spanish edition of 87 Portuguese letters by Jesuit missionaries in Japan, very valuable for the history of the Jesuits in Japan, India, and other parts of (Southeast) Asia. The work was first published in Portuguese, in Coimbra in 1570 and contains 10 additional important Jesuit letters which had never published before. Noteworthy are… Read more about this item

[8], "152" [= 160]; 55, [1 blank]; [8] pp.Ad 1: Re-issue under a joint title of two works on the Hebrew and other languages of the Holy Scripture by the Franeker professor and orientalist Johannes Drusius (1550-1616). Drusius had first published these works for the benefit of his students in Franeker where he was a professor of Oriental languages… Read more about this item

[1], [1 blank], 260 engraved pp. plus 5 engraved plates including frontispiece.Beautiful, wholly engraved calligraphic book of hours originally dedicated to Marie Anne Christine Victoire de Bavière (1660-1690), dauphine of France from 1680 to her death in 1690, in a luxurious contemporary binding. The text is calligraphed in a beautiful and very regular pointed-pen hand (the style that Senault… Read more about this item

[1], [1 blank] [12], 257 [1]; [1], [1 blank], [14], 88, [37], 48, [1] pp.Two very rare collections of case-histories of the miracles wrought by Maria of Scherpenheuvel, listed by Philip Numan, secretary of the city of Brussels and of the Archbishop of Malines, and published by Rutgeert Velpius at Brussels. In the first part miracles are recorded which… Read more about this item

[1], [1 blank], [42], 748; [1], [1 blank], [10], 123, [1] pp.Ad 1: First French edition of António de Gouvea's account Jornada do Arcebispo de Goa Dom Frey Aleixo de Menezes, first published in Portuguese in Coimbra, 1606. It details the Jesuit-Portuguese success in aligning the St. Thomas Christians of Malabar with the Latin Church, which was related to… Read more about this item

[1], [1 blank], [10], 358, [9], [1 blank] pp.Rare, nicely illustrated second edition of a work containing extensive information about and documentation on sacred places in the Holy Land, by Jacques Goujon. Goujon (1621-1693), a Franciscan born in Dijon, was initially a fur trader, but took part in a crusade to the Holy Land in 1636. In 1666, he… Read more about this item

[1], 626-671 [= 45], [1 blank] pp.A scientific article from The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin vol. 53, no. 3, which has been separately reprinted for private circulation. The research focuses on a specific part of the Oman mountains, the Jebel Akhdar anticline, which contains a section of massive limestones, ranging in age from Permian to late Tertiary.… Read more about this item

[14] postcards.Remarkable, complete set of 14 postcards, published by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil to celebrate the flourishing petroleum industry and (probably) its nationalisation in 1972. The first 2 postcards show the building of the ministry and the official state portraits of then President of Iraq Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914-1982) and Vice Chairman Saddam Hussein (1937-2003). The remaining 12… Read more about this item

24 pp.Rare and remarkable periodical, published by the Palestine National Liberation Movement or Fatah. This was a revolutionary group, and later a political party, founded in 1957 by Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), Khalil al-Wazir (1935-1988) and 3 or 4 others. The movement published numerous periodicals and pamphlets between 1968-1972, but Fateh is the most important one. Originally published in Arabic,… Read more about this item

[16] pp.A very scarce, abundantly illustrated railway guide for Sudan, complete with a large folding map showing the train routes between Cairo and Mombasa. Railway guides were often discarded after use and thus rarely survive.This charming work meant for British travellers explains how to reach Sudan from England, describes the history and services of the Sudan Railways, and recommends… Read more about this item

XII, 345, [3 blank] pp.Rare first edition of a work intended to teach the Western world about the Arab people, complete with a map of the Arabian peninsula and almost 60 photographs of people and towns. Paul W. Harrison (1883-1962) was a medical missionary from Nebraska, who served in Arabia from 1909-1954. The present work is his first book… Read more about this item

Fascinating overview of the United Nation's (UN) involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the 1980s, presented in 8 UN publications. These works were likely published in response to UN General Assembly resolution 3236, adopted in 1974, which recognised Palestinians' right to self-determination, allowed the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) to participate in all Assembly sessions, and added "the question of… Read more about this item

Beautifully engraved, heavy sterling silver cigar box, with a map of Oman and views of Fort Nizwa and Fort Bahla, two important historic sites in Oman, on the top. The box was made by the workship of master silver- and goldsmith George Grant MacDonald (1947), who also makes silverware for the British royal family. The work was commissioned by… Read more about this item

A collection of publications about Zionism from almost all decades of the 20th century, written in English. The majority of these works were published by Zionist organisations. Together they offer a historical overview of the development of the movement and the problems it faced throughout the 20th century.With two stamps on the wrappers of ad 1, a small manuscript… Read more about this item

494 pp.Manuscript dictionary comprising some 9,000 Arabic terms and their Italian translations. It was formerly owned by the German oriental scholar and Franciscan priest Arsenius Rehm (1738-1808), who lived in Cairo between 1769 and 1776, building a large collection of manuscripts, which he brought with him when he worked for some time at the Franciscan abbey of Frauenberg at… Read more about this item

[6], XXX, [14], 343, [1]; [12], 285, [1], [2 blank]; [12], 289, [1], [2 blank]; [12], 256 pp.Attractive, complete set of the third and final edition of the "Commentarios" of the Portuguese admiral and second Viceroy of Portuguese India, Afonso de Albuquerque (ca. 1453-1515), remembered as "a great conqueror, and the real founder of the Portuguese empire in the… Read more about this item