1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Without the prize; remnants of paper ticket on upper pastedown. Binding worn/ stained; upper joint breaking; lacks ties. Contents fine.
= Spoelder 10. On the contents: Schweiger p.300.
- Without the prize. Pastedowns, first 10 leaves (incl. frontisp.) and final 10 leaves receding stain in outer blank margin (final free endpaper dam. in the stained area). Binding duststained.
= Schweiger p.979: "Ist bloss e. neuer Titel zur Utrechter Ausg. v. 1703". Spoelder 3.
AND 1 other in a similar binding (not panelled) w. gilt coat of arms of The Hague on both covers, on: VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Libri novem factorum dictorumque memorabilium. Ed. J. Perizonius, A. Schultingius and A. Torrenius (Leyden, S. Luchtmans, 1726, engr. frontisp. Frotcover spotted in margins and backcover stained. With the prize bound in at front to Henricus Didericus de Blaauw, dated "X Septembris MDCCCXXXII").
- Title trifle yellowed. = Schweiger p.977f; Rahir 2382.
- Both vols. upper hinge broken; owner's annots. on upper pastedown; owner's stamp(s) on title-p.; first and final few lvs. sl. foxed; vol.1 lower hinge broken. Both vols. binding rubbed; top of spine dam.
= Schweiger p.979; Dibdin p.442: "(...) This fine edition of Suetonius, which exceeds any of the former, is adorned with a vast number of beautiful cuts, which not only illustrate Suetonius's history, but likewise give a great light to the Roman antiquities (...)" (citing the Bibl. Harleian).
- New endpapers; trifle waterstained in lower blank margin. = Willems 1207; Rahir 1233.
Valerius Maximus. Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX. Ibid., D. Elzevier, 1671, (8),328p., engr. title, modern leather over contemp. boards, 12mo.
- Hinges broken; sl. yellowed. = Willems 1462; Rahir 3336.
Emmius, U. Graecorum Respublicae. Leyden, Ex Officina Elzeviriana [B. and A. Elzevier], 1632, 2 parts in 1 vol., 426,(6); 323,(7)p., engr. title, contemp. vellum, 12mo.
- Both hinges broken; partly waterstained. = Willems 364; Rahir 345.
- Upper joint splitting; vellum over frontcover sl. wrinkled; corners showing.
= Leendertz 140; Geerebaert CXXXVII 5.II.b.
- Partly w. (extensive) old annots. in pen and ink. Vellum wrinkled and sl. darkened.
= Schweiger p.1065.
Idem. Comoediae Sex. Dutch transl. and ed. H. Zwaerdecroon. Rott., P. van Waesbergen, 1648, (4),607,(1)p., opposite Latin and Dutch text, contemp. overlapping vellum.
- Lacks frontisp.; library stamp on title-p.; occas. stained and fingersoiled. Vellum stained/ soiled and lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.1065; Geerebaert p.173
AND 1 other edition of the same work in 2 vols. (Zweibrücken, 1779-1780, 2 diff. engr. title-portraits, 1 portrait of Catherine the Great, contemp. unif. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece).
- Final (index) lvs. sl. mouldy; lacks pastedowns. Backcover stained/ browned. = Schweiger p.1066.
AND 2 others, i.a. PHAEDRUS, Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Et novarum fabularum Appendix. Ed. P. Burmannus (Leyden, 1740, engr. frontisp., contemp. vellum, 12mo. Sl. worn copy).
- Sl. browned.
= Schweiger II, p.1068; Dibdin II, p.475: "A very useful edition of Westerhovius for young students (...)".
- A few scattered small (ink)stains; 18th cent. annot. on title-p.; lacks final free endpaper. Corners rubbed; foot of spine chipped; covers sl. scratched.
= Schweiger p.307: 'Ist noch immer die vollständigste u. beste Augs. Enth. 13 neue Reden u. die der vor. Ausg., deren Noten auch abgedruckt u. vom Herausgeber mit eigenen vermehrt sind.'
- Owner's entry on frontisp./ title; partly sl. stained in outer blank margin. Binding sl. soiled; spine/ front cover w. remnants of glue.
= Hoffmann III, p.483.
Martialis, M.V. Epigrammata. Ed. T. Farnabius and C. Schrevelius. Leyden, F. Hackius, 1656, (24),796,(51)p., engr. title, contemp. vellum w. blindst. title on spine.
- Upper pastedown/ engr. title w. owner's entry; remnants of bookplate on upper pastedown; lacks first free endpaper; contemp. underlining in pen and ink throughout; sl. browned/ foxed.
= Schweiger p.598f.
- First free endpaper w. large tear; lacks last free endpaper; sl. yellowed. Binding soiled/ stained; lacks ties.
= With manuscript prize to "Danielem Arnoldum Alexandrum Mackay", dated "10mo. Martii 1790". Spoelder 2; Schweiger p.318 ("Bis jetzt beste Ausg.").
AND 1 other schoolprize binding of ARNHEM (Spoelder 3), on: A. LYTTON BULWER, Athens; its Rise and Fall (Paris, 1837, contemp. blindst. and gilt calf. Without prize; top op spine dam.).
- Library stamp on first free endpaper; without the prize; sl. waterstained and foxed. Lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.325; Spoelder 8.
AND 1 other schoolprize binding of Utrecht (lacks prize. Spoelder 8).
- Two lvs. loose. Gilt of coat of arms on frontcover faded/ partly rubbed off.
= Schweiger p.1089; on the binding: Spoelder 4.
- Upper hinge broken; yellowed; pastedowns detached. Binding sl. soiled. = Rare edition, not in Schweiger.
Martialis, M.V. Epigrammata. Ed. T. Farnabius. Amst., J. Janssonius, 1645, (12),456p., contemp. overlapping vellum, 12mo.
- Hinges weak; lacks pastedowns. Vellum sl. dam. at foot of spine. Vellum sl. darkened and soiled.
= Schweiger p.598.
- Lacks the ties.
= Schoolprize binding with the prize awarded by the Latin school of Zutphen to "Gualtherus Everardus Jonas Tjeenk Willink" bound in at front.
- Upper pastedown partly loosening. Vellum trifle stained.
= Willems 1329; Rahir 1373; Schweiger p.1127.
- Title-p. and frontisp. foxed (frontisp. also sl. waterstained in lower margin); owner's entry on first free endpaper.
= Dibdin II, p.525: "(...) contain[s] the pure text of the editio princeps, and the best notes of all the preceding editors"; Schweiger III, p.1129.
AND 1 other: P. OVIDIUS NASO, Heroides. Ed. W. Terpstra (Leyden, 1829, contemp. gilt hcalf w. orange letterpiece on spine). - AND an incomplete vol. (title-p. lacking).
- Most plates foxed in blank margins, image usually fine. All vols. top of spine dam.; vol. 1 and 4 upper/ lower joint starting to split at top/ foot of spine.
- Plates partly cut short. Spine-ends and corners sl. rubbed. Good/ fine copy.
= Very rare illustrated edition, not in Rahir and not traced on the internet. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.