1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Spines dried.
= Graesse VI/2, 431; Ebert 23707; Spoelder 1. With manuscript schoolprize to W.R. van der Weide, Meppel, 1802.
- Without the prize; a few scattered libr. stamps; lacks first free endpaper. Lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.363; Spoelder 7.
AND 1 other: S.A. PROPERTIUS, Carmina. Ed. C. Lachmannus (Leipsic, 1816, contemp. gilt vellum schoolprize binding of UTRECHT. Foxed throughout; without prize. Spoelder 9).
- Occas. trifle waterstaind; sl. yellowed. = Schuytvlot 791; Unger 426.
Horatius Flaccus, Q. Hekeldichten en brieven. Transl. B. Huydecoper. Amst., W. Barents, 1726, L,(2),210 p., engr. frontisp., armorial plate and 1 ill. after A. HOUBRAKEN, title-vignette, contemp. gilt hcalf, 4to.
- Owner's stamp on first free endpaper. Outer margin of frontcover sl. worn.
= Geerebaert CXI, 40; Riedel Horatiana O, no.2.
AND 3 others (incl. 2 w. defects), all Latin text, i.a. A.L. PHRAEDRUS, Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque (Venice, 1787, 19th cent. gilt hcalf, 4to. Owner's/ libr. stamp on first free endpaper and on title-p.; paper shelf-no. ticket on frontcover. Fine copy).
- Occas. trifle yellowed. Spine trifle rubbed. Fine copy.
= Cicognara (1119): "Edizione splendidissima in carta massima". From the library of William Stirling Maxwell, with his heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown. Schweiger p.1174. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Bookblock partly nibbled by silverfish in upper corner; first work sl. yellowed.
= Rademaker, Life and Works of G.J. Vossius p.360, no.13/ p.363, no.16.
- Bookblock broken; new endpapers; owner's entry on first free endpaper; final 3 lvs. waterstained in outer blank margin. Vellum sl. soiled; stain on backcover.
Hoogstraten, D. van. Beschryving der Heidensche Goden en Godinnen, getogen uyt de Fabelschryveren en Oude Dichteren. Amst., N. ten Hoorn, 1726, 2nd ed., (14),272,(32)p., engr. title-p. after J. GOEREE, 26 (of 32) ills. on 13 (of 16) plates, contemp. hcalf.
- Lacks 3 plates w. 6 ills.; final 11 lvs. w. inkstain in outer blank margin; contemp. annots. on first blank. Paper over covers dam.; corners bumped and showing.
- Without the prize. Vellum sl. soiled. = Not in Schweiger or Dibdin. Spoelder 5.
- Bookplate of Mortimer L. Schiff on first free endpaper. Binding trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Rahir 451; Willems 455.
- Fine complete copy. = Willems 1124.
- From the library of Georges Montandon with his bookplate on upper pastedown. Frontcover detached.
= Rahir 278; Willems 309.
AND another ed. of the same work: Lyon, P. and C. Rigaud, 1648, modern overlapping vellum, 12mo.
- Lacks 14 plates (all plates from the first part, "de Stadt Maccauw"), part no.XVII ("Beschrijvinge van 't Coninkrijcke Guzaratta, ende Decan"), leaf Rrrr4(?), quires Hhh1-Llll4 and Aaaaa1-Eeeee1; lacks lower half of the worldmap; occas. waterstained and yellowed/ sl. browned; new endpapers. Binding rubbed along extremities. Sold w.a.f.
= Landwehr VOC no. 250, listing three editions (1644 (only 2 copies known), 1645 and 1646); Tiele 82; Tiele (Mémoire) pp.13-15; Cox I, p.9; cat. NHSM I, p.105; Sabin 14959; Rouffaer/ Muller I, p.52; Roeper/ Wildeman (Reizen op papier) p.140.
- Partly waterstained (also affecting some of the plates).
= Tiele, Mémoire, p.68 (h); Tiele 81 (18); Landwehr, VOC 366. Part of Commelin's collection of voyages.
- Bookblock broken; waterstained in outer lower margin throughout (not very visible). Binding worn along extremities; spine cracked.
= Immensely popular book, first published at Middelburg, 1679. A combination of a conjuring book and a book of secrets. Waller 1870-1877 (eds. 1692-1773); Muller 555 (ed. 1698); De Vries 529.
- Final 3 lvs. waterstained; title-p. part 2 stained in upper margin. Trifle rubbed along extremities.
- Bookplates on upper pastedown and first free endpaper; (sl.) browned (except for the maps). Vellum sl. soiled; lacks ties; spine-ends sl. dam.
= De Backer/ Sommervogel II, p.1693/ 1694; BMC-German 1601-1700, C1384. Two very fine pictorial titles. The second title with various scenes depicting the story of Saint Ursula and her 11.000 maidens, virgin martyrs, slaughtered by Huns at Cologne. Herman Crombach, born and died at Cologne 1598-1680.
- Partly waterst. Vellum over backcover sl. wrinkled; frontcover sl. warped.
- First free endpaper loose; profile/ endpapers sl. browned. Vellum on both joints cracked; spine-ends worn; vellum warped.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 34.
- Partly waterstained; sl. yellowed. Frontcover sl. stained and lacks portion along upper part near edge.
= Nijhoff/Van Hattum 40.
- A few old annots. Vellum sl. darkened and stained.
= Willems 1106/ 1107. Contains i.a. the Latin translation of Descartes' celebrated Discours de la Méthode, first published in French in 1637. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Plates (vaguely) waterstained in lower (blank) margin; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding w. traces of acid bite.