1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Neatly closed tear in final leaf. Top of spine chipped.
= Compilation of 6 treatises written by 7 authors on the habits and customs of the Asian and Arabic peoples. Rahir 1857; cf. Gay 3452; Blackmer 1544 (listing the ed. Paris, 1619): "This important work contains early descriptions of Bagdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca and Aleppo. The Geographia Nubiensis seems to have provided the major Arabic source for 17th century historians and geographers. (...)."
- Remnant of catalogue entry on upper pastedown. Fine copy.
= Willems 416; Rahir 404. The enlarged second edition (first 1630).
- Occas. waterst. (worse at the beginning, incl. frontisp.); bookblock sl. shaken.
= Landwehr 167; Cats STCN 201; Mus. Catsianum 168.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Gedachten op slapeloose nachten (...). Leyden, J. van der Deyster, 1732, 8th ed., (16),235,5 (publisher's catalogue)p., engr. frontisp., div. title, 28 ills.
= Cats STCN 43; Mus. Catsianum 213.
Idem. 's Werelts Begin, Midden, Eynde, beslooten in den Trou-Ring, met den Proef-Steen van den selven. Amst., I. vander Putte, n.d., (42),673,(3)p., engr. title and 1 div. title, 2 portraits, 48 ills., contemp. vellum.
- Partly vaguely waterst.; frontcover sl. soiled. = Cats STCN 254; Mus. Catsianum 188.
- Partly trifle foxed and yellowed; sm. bookplate on upper pastedown. Upper joint splitting at top. A good/ fine copy.
= Landwehr 214; Praz p.323.
- Sl. soiled/ thumbed; new upper endpaper; upper hinge broken; lower endpaper waterstained; bookblock weak/ shaken. Binding stained.
= Landwehr 276; Praz p.361; BCNI 15221.
- Wormholed and waterstained almost throughout, occas. dam. w. loss of words/ letters. Vellum of upper cover dam. on outer edge. Sold w.a.f.
= First illustrated edition of a work also known as "Hieroglyphica", first publ. in 1505 by Aldus (without emblems). Mortimer, French 315: "Kerver was the first to commission the emblematic woodcuts and to print the Horapollo text itself in the form of an emblem book."; Pettegree FB 74164; Adams/ Rawles/ Saunders, French embl. books F.330; Landwehr, Romanic 381; Praz 374; Adams H850. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Title-p. sl. fingersoiled. Backcover loose; binding dam.
= Bodemann 82.1; Landwehr 433; Praz p.392; Wildenberg 1131. Van de Klashorst 310: "Collection of fables, each of which is interpreted, usually in a political, republican sense. The author warns continuously against the dangers of monarchy. He also expounds a Cartesian psychology". The Children's World of Learning 3094: "The book represents a perfect example of the coexistence and cross-fertilisation of fable and emblem books, which took place in The Netherlands in the late 17th century." First and only edition.
- Occas. trifle foxed; 1 leaf lacks portion of outer blank margin, not affecting text or image. Some stains on backcover. Nevertheless a good copy.
= Cf. Klaversma/ Hannema 937; cf. Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 443; cf. Landwehr 525. The illustrations i.a. depicting children's games, incl. "De Kolf".
- Sl. waterstained in upper blank margin, not affecting text or image.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 945; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen, p.XIX: "Aangaande de jongelingsjaren van Jan Luyken is met zekerheid weinig belangrijks bekend, vooral met het oog op zijne werkzaamheid. Ter uitspanning beoefende hij vlijtig de dichtkunst; met name geschiedde dit in gezelligen kring van jongelieden, waar hij aanleiding vond tot het vervaardigen van zijner minnedichten, die in 1671 bijeenverzameld werden uitgegeven onder de titel: Joan Luykens Duytse Lier (...)".
BOUND BEFORE: Idem. Zedelyke en stichtelyke gezangen (...). En Den Lof en Oordeel van de Werken der Barmhertigheid. Ibid., K. vander Sys, 1734, (8),300,(8),17,(1)p., 2 engr. frontispieces and 30 large emblems.
- From the library of J. Greshoff, w. his bookplate on upper pastedown; some offsetting from turn-ins. Frontcover loosening, holding on cords.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 1044; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 399; Landwehr 387.
- New endpapers; hinges strengthened; library and cancellation stamp on title. Spine restored w. use of leather; remnant of library sticker on backstrip at foot of spine; binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Cf. Praz p.416 (note); cf. Landwehr 550 (ed. Amst., 1659) and Scheurleer, Ned. Liedboeken p.58.
- Some plates (esp. in section VII) sl. waterstained in margin (occas. inside image); other plates occas. sl. foxed (1x sl. stained). Backstrip dam. and covers worn.
= Kat. Orn. Berlin 4595; Landwehr 505; Praz p.473f.
- Bookplate of Baron de Worms on upper pastedown. Heavily restored binding. Exceptionally clean copy.
= Landwehr 730; Praz p.493.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. fingersoiled and occas. (water)stained.
= Landwehr 879; Unger 74; Schuytvlot 48;
- Extensive (contemp.) owner's entries and annots. on blanks; new endpapers. Upper joint starting at spine-ends.
= Landwehr, Dutch emblembooks, 877; Unger 72; Schuytvlot 46.
- Partly sl. waterstained in lower (and outer) blank margin, not affecting text; occas. trifle browned; some scattered annots. Professionally restored and rebacked.
= Cf. Bezzel 116 (ed. 1544) and 120 (ed. 1550).
- First ±30 and final ±30 lvs. w. some sm. wormholes in text; contemp. owner's entries on title and blank prelim. and final lvs.; pastedowns loose; p.377 and 601 text partly crossed out. Both covers sl. wormholed; lacks clasps; paper ticket on spine; joints splitting; corners showing.
= Rare edition of Erasmus' popular collection of more than two thousand aphorisms, apothegms and anecdotes, intended to be both educational and entertaining. Bezzel 200; Van der Haeghen I, p.15.
- Trifle yellowed. Binding badly worn along extremities. = Rahir 1662; Willems 1533.
Idem. De immensa dei misericordia. Leyden, J. Maire, 1641, 143p., woodcut printer's mark, contemp. vellum, 12mo.
- Bookblock sl. shaken; pastedowns loose. Vellum. sl. stained.
= Graesse II 495.
- Occas. sl. foxed; outer upper corner sl. waterstained.
= Rare. Bibl. Belg. E 956; Vander Haeghen I, p.124. Translation in verses by the Dutch poet Jacob Westerbaen.
- Upper pastedown and first few lvs. (incl. title-p.) sl. mouldy; sm. library stamp on title-p. Frontcover sl. rubbed.
= Bibliotheca Medica Neerlandica I, p.167. The first original French edition was published in Amsterdam, 1771. Hagelin p. 125: "Bienville's Nymphomania and Tissot's L'Onanisme, where Latin gave place to the vernacular, made them two bestsellers but they also generated an evil flora of books and pamphlets constantly pouring out all over Christian Europe and North America during the nineteenth century and well up to the 1960s. (...) Bienville's and Tissot's pioneer works (...) are good examples of really bad literature that has caused much more harm and misery than the subject itself. (...) Bienville's Nymphomania and Tissot's L'Onanisme have a permanent place within the history of psychiatry."