1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Occas. a few very vague foxed spots; one catch professionally strengthened. Otherwise very fine.
- Bindings trifle dustsoiled/ stained. A fine set.
- Both vols. w. remnants of wax stamps on pastedowns; occas. sl. (water)stained; vol.2 one leaf portion torn off from outer blank margin; owner's annots. on final endpapers. Both vols. binding chafed/ dam.
= Zaunmüller p.285 (other eds.); Claes 1549/ 1550, note.
AND 2 others similar: C. SCHREVELIUS, Lexikon manuale Graeco-Latinum (Paris, 1779, contemp. calf, gilt spine w. green mor. letterpiece. Owner's entry on first blank; occas. (sl.) foxed/ stained. Binding worn) and J.P. JUNGST, Lexikon Latino-Belgicum (Zutphen, 1806, contemp. gilt hcalf. Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Covers worn; spine dam.).
- Library stamp on first free endpaper. Binding rubbed.
Idem. Dictionnaire françois et hollandois. Comprenant tous let mots de l'Usage avouez de L'Académie Françoise & autres Auteurs d'élite (...)./ Fransch en Nederduitsch woorden-boek, behelsende alle gebruikelyke woorden, door de Fransche Academie en andere Schryvers aangenomen (...). Amst./ Rott., J. van Eyl/ J.D. Beman en Zoon, 1762, 4th ed., (16),1208p., engr. title, bound similar w. the preceding, large 4to.
- Library stamp on first free endpaper. Binding rubbed; 1 corner lacks vellum. = Rare.
AND 1 other.
- First blank w. 18th cent. owner's entry in pen and ink. = Claes 235.
- Owner's entry and bookplate on upper endpaper. Backcover stained. = Rare.
AND 3 works in 2 vols., i.a. J. GORDON, Opuscula tria. Chronologicum, Historicum, Geographicum/ P. PROST, Spicilegiu, theologicum de Jubileo (Cologne, 1636/ Lyon, 1625, 2 parts in 1 vol., fold. table, contemp. overlapping vellum, sm. 8vo. Annot. in pen and ink on verso of title-p. to second part (shining through on recto); bookplates on upper pastedown).
- Handcolouring occas. sl. crude; one view w. closed tears. Upper joint splitting; ties lacking.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 17; Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as Bookillustrator 45.
- Title-p. stained. Two large holes in frontcover.
= Contains the names of all city council members, the military, clergy, all notable professions etc. As well as information on the postal service, opening and closing of the city gates, transport time tables etc.
- First few lvs. sm. wormhole in blank part; foxed/ browned; tear in lower free endpaper. Binding sl. warped.
= Dekkers p.128.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
= A posthumously released treatise by Jaques Kuyper, introduced by his tutor Izaak Schmidt. Kuyper had been co-president of the "stads-teeken-akademie" since 1801, after winning multiple honorary awards at the academy in 1781, 1782 and 1783. His passing was considered a big loss for the arts, as he gave it a significant impuls with his "scheppend vernuft" and his thorough knowledge of history and ancient art. (A.J. van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden, 1862). Rare.
AND 3 others, all early museum catalogues.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; some offsetting from turn-ins. Remnants of paper ticket on both covers. Good copy.
- Contemp. owner's entry crossed out on first free endpaper; waterstained.
Idem. Aloe amari sed salubris succi ieiunium. Quod in aula ser.mi utriusque Bauariae ducis Maximiliani. Antw., Widow J. Cnobbaert, 1638, (16),336,(2)p., engr. title, contemp. overlapping vellum, 12mo.
- Hinges weak. Lacks ties.
AND 2 others by the same, i.a. Nicetas seu triumphata incontinentia (Cologne, 1631, engr. title, 2 plates, contemp. overlapping vellum, 12mo).
- Title-p. doubled; bookplate on upper pastedown; free endpapers w. some brown offsetting.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 248a; Carasso-Kok 246; De Wind p.176-177: "Het is geen onbelangrijk werkje (...) Daar hij het grootste gedeelte van zijn leven in de Abdij te Egmond gesleten had, kon hem veel bekend geworden zijn, waarvan anderen onkundig waren." Rare.
- Bookblock loose; fold. plates mostly creased on folds and/ or split on folds and 2x loose. Lacks part of ties; vellum sl. duststained.
= Hilmy II, p.119; Gay 1567 (quoting Brunet:) "Cette édition est la troisième et la meilleur de cet ouvrage curieux (...)." The first ed. was publ. in Venice, 1605 and the 2nd ed. in Frankfurt, 1608. The various editions have different titles. The 1669 edition is the only one to contain an illustration of the Mensa Isiaca (also known as the Bembine Table of Isis), which is a richly worked tablet that originally was thought to be of Egyptian origin, but is now regarded as a Roman object made in the style of Egyptian art. Spoelder 2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Foxed almost throughout (partly also affecting the maps and plates, but most are in fine condition).
= Abbey, Travel 266; Atabey 1317; Blackmer 1767; Gay 2278; Ibrahim Hilmy, p 318; Prideaux p.223 and p.355 (refers to this work as "A more literary work on the same subject [Egypt] is Walsh's Journal (...) which is distinguished by that wide interest in topography, antiquities and social conditions, as well as purely military topics, characteristics of so many officers of the time."). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Fine copy, w. the 19th cent. engr. heraldic bookplate of Georges Montandon bound opposite the title.
= Willems 2010. Gay/ Lemonnyer III, p.141: "(...) l'édition de Leyde, 1665, sous le nom de Sambix, a, de fait, été imprimée chez Foppens à Bruxelles; les beaux emplaires sount d'un prix élevé (...)".
- New endpapers, otherwise fine.
= Willems 1301; Rahir 1341. Third and last Elzevier edition.
AND 1 other Elzevier edition: J. OWEN, Epigrammatum (Amst., L. Elzevier, 1647, engr. portrait and title, contemp. overlapping vellum w. blindst. spine, 24mo. Title-p. and portrait loosening (reattached)).
- Two sm. old owner's entries on title-p. = Willems 366; Rahir 347.
- TItle-p. cut short and partly doubled; partly vaguely waterstained; title foxed; owner's entry on verso first free endpaper and on recto of blank. Top of spine trifle chipped; top end of upper joint sl. wormholed; upper cover vague traces of nibbling.
= Willems 371; Rahir 355; Gay 258.
- Sl. yellowed/ foxed; (vaguely) waterstained in upper margin (first few lvs. also in lower margin); engr. title sl. frayed in blank fore-edge margin.
= Rahir 1864. Comprises: J.B. GRAMAYE, Respublica Namurcensis; L. GUICCIARDINI, Republicae Hannoniae; J. BERTELLIUS, Respublica, Historia et Descriptio Ducatus Luxemburgensis.
Respublica Hollandiae et urbes. Leyden, J. Maire, 1630, (4),434,(14)p., engr. title, contemp. overlapping vellum, 12mo.
- Bound somewhat cramped.
= Rahir 1843. Comprises H. GROTIUS, De antiquitate respublicae batavicae (Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 694); P. MERULA, De Statu Reip. Batavicae Diatriba; DECRETUM ORDINUM Hollandiae et West-Frisiae, de Antiquo Iure Reipublicae Batavicae; L. GUICCIARDINI, Hollandiae Selandiaeque descriptio; P. SCRIVERIUS, Hollandiae Selandiaeque principes, Desumpti ex Batavia lllustrata.