1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Rebacked; frontcover darkened/ sl. eroded at upper edge.
= Cf. Cohen/ De Ricci p.266f. Rare edition.
- Portion of upper blank margin cut from title-p. Backstrip sl. dam. at foot; upper joint splitting; covers rubbed along extremities.
= Gay/ Lemonnyer III, p.1237 ("Ouvrage curieux par les faits qui s'y trouvent rapportés").
- Sm. owner's entry on title-p. Otherwise fine.
= Cf. Gay/ Lemonnyer I, p.902. Treatise dealing with all forms of love. Contains i.a. chapters on marriage, prostitution, unnatural love, incest and fornication.
- Two bookplates and sm. owner's stamp on upper endpaper, i.a. of Ulco Proost, the sm. owner's stamp repeated on all title-pages. Spine-ends trifle rubbed. Good/ fine set.
= The rare first complete German edition. Hayn/ Gotendorff p.286f: "Sehr seltene Ausgabe, deren grösster Teil bei Erschienen durch die Censur vernichtet wurde."
- One leaf sl. waterstained in blank margin; frontisp. sl. foxed; hinges of first 3 textleaves splitting at both ends.
= Gay/ Lemonnyer I, p.866 and II, p.464. Barbier I, p.893: "En ce temps, on fit un livre hardi, mais bien fait, où, sous le nom de l'Isle imaginaire des Hermaphrodites, on blâmait tous les vices de la cour. Le roi se le fit lire, et ayant su le nom de l'auteur, qui s'appelait Arthus Thomas, il ne voulut qu'on l'inquiétât, faisant conscience, disait-il, de fâcher un homme pour avoir dit la vérité."
- Upper hinge sl. weak; traces of removed bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding sl. worn along extremities; corners bumped.
= Hirsch/ H. V, p.687-688; cf. Bibliotheca Walleriana 9613 and Gay/ Lemonnyer III, p.565. Popular work (re)printed twenty-four times between 1760 and 1836. The first edition was published in Lausanne in 1760.
- Lacks leaf Rr2; publisher and date erased from title-p.; engr. title frayed and cut sl. short; sl. stained and fingersoiled. Binding worn/ dam.
= BMN I, p.221; cf. Wellcome V, p.340.
- Yellowed/ sl. browned. Vellum sl. soiled.
= On divorce on the grounds of homosexual actions by the husband. Dekkers 4.
- First 5 leaves wormholed in lower blank margin (partly closed and affecting address on first title-p.); a few leaves trifle foxed; one page sl. soiled in upper margin. Contents otherwise fine.
= Bodemann 199.3; cf. Cohen/ De R. 371 (on the ed. 1743) and Cat. Fabula docet no.36 and 63: "Die lateinische Fabeln des Gabriele Faerno hatten durch wiederholte Druckauflagen bei Plantin (Antwerpen) ein breites Publikum ausserhalb Italien gefunden (...) 1699 übergab Charles Perrault (...) seine französische Faerno-Bearbeitung dem Druck".
AND the first vol. only of J. DE LA FONTAINE, Fables choisies (Lausanne, 1772, 1 vol. (of 4), engr. ills., contemp. vellum. Occas. sl. dam.).
- Occas. trifle fingersoiled/ duststained in blank margins; bookplate on upper pastedown. Top of spine professionally restored; sl. dam. at foot of spine; covers sl. rubbed.
= Lipperheide Gb 39; Landwehr 358: "The first Dutch book of costumes dealing with various provinces (...); it gives also interesting details on the morals and customs of these regions. (...) carefully hand-coloured plates (...)". Beautiful large paper copy with 3 additional anonymous mounted drawings (2x col.) and 2 mounted engravings on blank leaves at the end of the work. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- First few quires (up to p.14) (sl.) mouldy/ dampstained in outer (and occas. upper) blank margin, not affecting the image/ text. Covers rubbed/ sl. worn; backstrip sl. worn.
= The second edition of this fire fighting classic, introducing the hose-pump and showing in its plates several large fires in Amsterdam between 1652-1684 and the tools and implements used before and after the introduction of the author's new hose-pump. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CII.
- (Sl.) foxed/ browned, plates mostly fine; some initials handcol. (by a child?) in col. pencil. Joints split(ting) at spine-end(s); corners sl. bumped.
- Sm. contemp. owner's entry on title-p. Upper joint split(ting); backstrip dam.
- Occas. sl. foxed; one plate w. sm. tear on fold, sl. affecting the image. Binding sl. rubbed.
- Lacks htitle; endpapers stained and w. some offsetting; bound rather tightly.
Hering, J.H. Bespiegeling over Neêrlandsch waternood, tusschen den 14den en 15den Nov.: MDCCLXXV. Eerste deel. Ibid., Wed. Loveringh en Allart, 1776, 1 vol. (of 2), (4),XVI,38,245,(3)p., engr. title. w. circular ill., armorial vignette, 7 fold. views by N. VAN DE MEER after H. KOBELL, contemp. hroan.
- Without the 2nd vol.; partly waterst.; occas. sl. mouldy.
- Lacks (as often) the 2nd frontisp.; first frontisp. loosening.
= Scheepers I, 104; Scheurleer, Liedboeken, p. 174; cf. Waller 548 (both vol. dated 1709).
Hoogvliet, A. Abraham de aartsvader. Rott., J.D. Beman, 1757, 6th ed., (58),288p., engr. frontisp., contemp. hroan.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed.
AND 1 other in 2 vols.: J. ANTONIDES VAN DER GOES, Gedichten. Ed. W. Bilderdijk (Leyden, 1827, 2 vols., orig. unif. publ. boards, sm. 8vo).
- Occas. sl. waterstained in top margin.
AND 3 others, incl. 1 odd vol. in an attractive binding and i.a. L. RIETBERG, Lenteloveren (Zwolle, 1810, engr title-p., orig. publ. boards. Spine-ends trifle rubbed) and L. ROTGANS, Poëzy, van verscheide mengelstoffen (Leeuw., 1715, engr. frontisp., title-vignette, num. vignettes, contemp. giltlettered hcalf. Sl. foxed; backstrip and covers dam.).
- Sl. yellowed and fingersoiled; vol. 1 waterst. at the end. Bindings sl. rubbed.
(Wilde, C. de). Opwekkelyke nasporingen by het genot van 't eenzaam buitenleven; Lettervruchten van stille dagen en andere stichtelyke gedichten, door Vrouwe C.P. Ibid., C. Meyer, 1754, (4),177,(3)p., engr. title-vignette by J. SCHIJNVOET, 20th cent. hleather.
- Fingersoiled and partly vaguely waterst.; old owner's entry on title-p.
- Sl. frayed; some plates w. sm. tears in blank margins along fold; bookplate on upper pastedown; partly sl. waterstained in inner and lower (blank) margin. Rebound w. new endpapers.
= Cf. Huiskamp F29; BNK 1091.
- Both vols. occas. sl foxed. Joints split(ting).
= An attempt to explain the philosophy of Christian Wolff to women. Barbier 397. Cf. Cioranescu 29162.