1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Frontisp. formerly torn out and reattached; remnants of paper tickets(?) on pastedowns; occas. sl. foxed. Two ties broken.
= Spoelder 2. With the prize to Cornelius Johannes Kneppelhout, dated September 1787 and signed by i.a. J. S[chilthouwer] van Hoey and rector C. Boonzajer, w. the acceptance speech of the first. On the contents: Schweiger p.368.
- Without the prize; owner's stamp on title-p. Spine sl. darkened; lacks ties.
= Spoelder 2. On the contents: Schweiger p.611.
- Without the prize. Lacks ties; vellum sl. dustsoiled.
= Spoelder 5.
- Both coats of arms sl. rubbed.
= Spoelder 4. With schoolprize to Petrus Drooglever Fortuin, dated 1806, bound before frontisp. Schweiger p.70.
- Without the prize. Otherwise fine. = Spoelder 5.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Carminum appendix. Ibid., idem, 1779, (2),68p., engr. title-vignette.
- Without the portrait to the main work. Otherwise a fine and attractively bound copy.
- Lacks the prize; sl foxed. Two ties broken. = Spoelder 5; cf. Schweiger p.736 (ed. 1727).
AND 1 other schoolprize binding of GOUDA in contemp. gilt vellum (poor condition).
- Contents foxed; title-p. sl. frayed and first quire sl. browned in margins. Vellum duststained.
= Spoelder 5; Schweiger p.831: "Diese schätzbare Ausg. soll schon längst nicht mehr im Handel zu haben sein".
AND a gilt vellum schoolprize binding of The Hague on: C. STEPHANUS, Dictionarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum: Gentium, Hominum, Deorum Gentilium (....) (Cologne, 1693, contemp. gilt vellum w. coat of arms of The Hague within double gilt fillet lines on both covers, gilt spine, 4to. Pastedowns loose; backstrip and one corner (sl.) dam.; covers sl. soiled/ stained. Not collated but apparently complete).
- Without the prize; pastedowns loose. Lacks ties. = Spoelder 3; Schweiger p.299.
- Very fine copy.
= Spoelder 2; Schweiger p.492; Dibdin II, p.140.
= Spoelder 2. With the prize to Lamb. Henr. Emmen, dated 1768 and signed i.a. by "gymnasiarch" A. Buning. Fine copy.
- Without the prize. Backstrips sl. worn.
= Spoelder 3; Schweiger I, p.46; Dibdin I, p.301: "Peter Burman the Younger had the care of this edition, which contains the unedited notes of Stephen Bergler and Charles Duker; also the fragments of the lost comedies collected by Canter and Coddaeus, with their indexes by Fabricius and Meursius. (...) The animadversiones of Duker are very excellent, and contribute much to the elucidation both of the text and Scholia."
- Upper hinge weak. Top of spine worn; upper joint splitting. Otherwise fine.
= Spoelder 2. With the manuscript prize to [Johannes?] Wybrandus Quaestius, dated "XIV Kal." January 1780. On the contents: Dibdin II, p.492. Not in Schweiger.
- Lacks one tie; vellum sl. dustsoiled.
= Spoelder 2. With manuscript schoolprize to Wybrand Quaestius, dated "XII Kal. Januar MDCCLXXIX". Schweiger p.33.
- Without the prize. Top of spine sl. chipped. = Spoelder 4; Schweiger p.611f.
- Without the prize. Binding sl. rubbed; letterpiece loosening/ dam.; lower joint splitting; lacks ties.
= Spoelder 4. On the contents: Schweiger p.611f.
- Without the prize. Bookplate on upper pastedown; upper joint splittting; corners rubbed. = Spoelder 4.
AND 2 other Groningen calf schoolprize bindings, both conform Spoelder 4, both gilt and almost identical to the preceding, but w. different outer borders and w. different corner pieces (one w. floral corner pieces and the other w. aeolian harp corner pieces): M. TULLIUS CICERO, De officiis (Leipsic, 1820, 2 parts in 1 vol.) and M.H. DE LALAING, Maldeghem la Loyale. Mémoires et archives (Brussels, 1849. Foot of spine rubbed).
- Owner's stamps on first blank. Without the prize. = Spoelder 4.
- Sm. chafed spot on frontcover (2,1x1,6 cm.). Otherwise fine.
= Spoelder 4. With an attractively calligraphed prize in pen and red and black ink surrounded by a gilt vegetal border around sides bound in before the title-p. and awarded to "Henrico Reiger", dated "MDCCCXX". Schweiger p.226.
AND 1 other in 2 vols.: a dam. and worn schoolprize binding of Groningen with a similar calligraphed prize bound in in the first vol. (covers loose and worn/ rubbed along extremities; backstrips partly lacking/ loose. Spoelder 4).
- Without the prize. Trifle rubbed along extremities. Otherwise fine. = Spoelder 4.
AND 1 other calf schoolprize binding of Groningen: on C.G. HEYNE, Apollodori Atheniensis Bibliothecae libri tres et fragmenta (Gottingen, 1803, 2 parts in 1 vol., engr. title-ill.).
- Sl. foxed. Otherwise fine.
= Spoelder 4. With nicely calligraphed prize to Wybrand Adrianus Reiger, dated 1856, bound before htitle.
AND 1 other calf schoolprize binding of Groningen: on C. MUSONIUS RUFUS, Reliquiae et Apophthegmata. Ed. J. Venhuizen Peerlkamp (Haarlem, 1822).