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Rare manuscript, early relic certificate Slovenia Graz 1620

Rare survival of an early seventeenth-century Authentica Reliquiarum, a type of document that was normally enclosed within a reliquary and often lost when reliquaries were opened, damaged or dispersed. Original signed relic authentication dated 1620, issued during the height of the Counter-Reformation, confirming the authenticity of a large group of saints' relics. Personally confirmed by Erasmus Paravicini (ca. 1562–1640), Papal Nuncio at the court of Emperor Ferdinand II and titular Archbishop (later Bishop) of Alexandria. Connected to the Franciscan convent at Pettau (today Ptuj, Slovenia), one of the oldest medieval monastic centres in present-day Slovenia. The handwritten text states that the relics have been investigated and were found authentic. In the text: Erasmus Paravicini, Ambrosii de Tabia (Ambrosius van Tabia), Graeci (=Graz) 18 juli 1620, Frey, 19 juli 1620, Joes Ant. Cattaneus (Cattaneo ?), Gregory de Mediolano (Gregorius from Milan, Milaan), conventum Pettoviensem (convent in Ptuj, Pettau, Slovenia), Conventum S. Marise Misericordiae di Tabia, Nos Fr. Ambrosius de Tabia, Sacrae Theologiae Magister, ac congregationis Styriae et Carinthiae Vicarius Generalis…

20.07.2026 - 14:54

1450,- EUR

Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur

[Gefangenengeld Notgeld Hamburg]

Original complete collection of prisoner money (Gefängnisgeld) issued by the Hamburg prisons during the German hyperinflation of 1923, preserved as assembled at the time. Prison money, Notgeld 1923 | Notgeldsammlung der Hamburgischen Strafanstalten aus dem Jahre 1923, 15 original specimen notes present from 5-5 million mark, 10 pp. Extremely rare complete set comprising 17 different prison vouchers, ranging from 1 Mark to 50 Million Mark, documenting the dramatic progression of Germany's inflation crisis within a single institutional issue.

20.07.2026 - 14:51

815,- EUR

Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur

(Kräuter, Tiere, Mineralien) HORTUS SANITATUS.

Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De Animalibus & reptilibus. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius & Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511. Chancery folio (286 x 198 mm). 367 leaves, without the final blank. Double column, 53 lines plus headline, initial spaces with guides. Title within a decorative woodcut border, 3 full-page woodcuts and more than 1,000 column-width cuts of plants, animals and genre images, one page of 18th-century manuscript notes in Italian bound in after the ‘Tractatus de lapidibus’, some leaves lightly browned, occasional wormholes, title supplied from a slightly shorter copy with marginal repairs and worming, aa1 and aa6 with marginal repairs and restoration [not affecting text] and slightly shorter [probably supplied], repaired tears to U8 and cc6, a few small wormholes to final 3 text leaves, final leaf with repairs to upper corner and fore-edge. Crushed brown morocco by Douglas Cockerell, stamped with his monogram and dated 1903 on lower turn-in (binding rubbed and bumped with slight wear to heads of joints)

Sachgebiete: Alte Drucke 16. Jahrhundert , Bergbau, Kräuterbücher, Mineralogie, Zoologie

20.07.2026 - 14:47

18000,- EUR

Antiquariat Michael Kühn

Erpenius, Thomas (1584-1624). First professor Arabic in Leiden University.

Edition of two Arabic grammatical treatises: 1. The Ajurrumiya or Gjarumia, compiled by Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Sanhaji, a classic introduction to phonology. This is the first vocalized edition. 2. The Hundred Rules of Syntax or Mi’at’al-amil by Abd a’-Quahir al-Jurjani. Grammatica Arabica dicta Gjarumia. / With Latin translation and annotated by T. Erpenius, Leidae, ex typ. Erpeniana 1617, (8)+157+(2) pp. Text in Arabic and Latin. With manuscript notes. Works by Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624), the first professor Arabic in Leiden University. His commentary in Latin on the Ajurrumiyah, a highly influential medieval Arabic grammar by Moroccan scholar Ibn Ajurrum (died 1327), and the Mi’at ‘amil (“hundred rules) of Abd al-Qadir al-Jurjani (died 1078). The Ajurrumiyah is “the most widely used primer in the whole history of Arabic Grammar” and inspired countless epitomes and commentaries, of which Erpenius’s edition was especially important: the first edition, published at Rome in 1592, was printed entirely in Arabic so “was by no means easily accessible to European scholars unfamiliar with Arabic linguistic terminology” (Vrolijk & van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 32).

20.07.2026 - 14:45

5900,- EUR

Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur

Böhme, [Boehme, Behmen], Jacob [Mysticism, Occult, 1651]

Signatura rerum. Or the signature of all things, shewing the sign and signification of the several forms and shapes in the creation and what the beginning, ruin and cure of every thing is, it proceeds out of eternity into time (…) and comprizeth all mysteries. Written in high Dutch 1622 by Jacob Behmen, alias Teutonicus Phylosophus. London, Macock for Calvert, 1651. A very rare, first edition copy of the English-language translation of Jakob Boehme’s (1575-1642) Signatura rerum (1622). The writings of Boehme, a German mystic and theosopher, inspired the 17th-century Christian movement known as Behmenism. Controversial for its religious heterodoxy, Boehme’s mysticism nevertheless attracted a great number of followers across continental Europe and England.

20.07.2026 - 14:40

2200,- EUR

Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur

Imray, J.F., Jenkins, H.D. Nautic guide book 1881

The English Pilot, The Seaman’s Guide to the Navigation of the Indian Ocean with numerous illustrations, charts and plans, London Imray 1881, xlviii+1296 pp, TOGETHER WITH Sailing Directions for the Suez Canal including Port Said and Suez with notes on the Gulf of Suez & Red Sea, London Imray 1881, 32 pp. Rare edition of a famous nautical guide. Three books in one binding:1) The Seaman’s Guide to the Navigation of the Indian Ocean with numerous illustrations, charts and plans, 1881, 1296 pp. To which is added notes on the physical geography of the Indian Ocean by W.H. Rosser. With a stamp on the title page of D. McGregor & Co Liverpool. 2) Sailing Directions for the Suez Canal including Port Said and Suez with notes on the Gulf of Suez & Red Sea, 1881, 32 pp. 3) Catalogue 1881, Charts, Works on Navigation and nautical instruments, Imray & Son London, 1881, 61 pp.

20.07.2026 - 14:38

13000,- EUR

Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur

ARNIM, LUDWIG ACHIM v.

Versuch einer Theorie der elektrischen Erscheinungen. Mit einer gefalteten Kupfertafel. Halle, bey Johann Jacob Gebauer 1799. 175x110 mm. (2) Bll., 146 S. Marmorierter Pappband d.Zt. mit Rückenschild und –vergoldung. Etwas berieben, kleine Schabspur und zeitgenöss. Papieretikett a.d. Rücken. //// Contemporary marbled paperboard binding with spine label and gilding. Slightly rubbed, with a small scuff mark and a contemporary paper label on the spine. //// Reliure en carton marbré d'époque, avec étiquette et dorures sur le dos. Légèrement usée, petite trace d'éraflure et étiquette en papier d'époque sur le dos.

Sachgebiete: Erstausgaben, Literatur bis ca. 1900, Naturwissenschaften, Physik

20.07.2026 - 14:35

7000,- EUR

Günther Trauzettel

VOC notebook Rotterdam ca 1750 with 4 silver clasps

Rare VOC notebook with silver clasps (4) showing VOCR for VOC chamber of Rotterdam, and silver shields (2) with a Dutch VOC ship. With original pencil / stylus (with silver mark) that closes the binding. Notebook with later manuscript notes, some dated 1910, some 1918, further undated. In the back a secret compartment made of decorated paper and cloth (the cloth with severe wear). Black shark skin leather binding (“Segrijn”), 13,5 x 7,8 cm. Silver without traceable silver marks. Also blank pages.

20.07.2026 - 14:34

9800,- EUR

Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur