2510 - 2895 OLD and RARE BOOKS from the library of P.J. Buijnsters and L. Buijnsters-Smets
- Bookplate of D.F. Scheurleer and Melchior on upper endpaper. Occas. sl. wormholed in lower blank margin (five leaves restored); upper hinge wormholed at lower end; (sl.) foxed (mostly in blank margins); a few leaves yellowed. A good/ fine copy.
= The rare first edition of this famous emblem book, enlarged with Van der Veen's popular songbook. The only edition to contain the captions to the emblems in French as well as in Dutch and the only edition in 4to format, all the reprints in 8vo size. With a manuscript index ((1)p.) in contemp. pen and ink. Landwehr 842; Praz p.522-523; Hollstein XXIV,181; Scheurleer p.156.
- Hinges weakening and lower outer corner partly sl. fingersoiled. Frontcover trifle stained in upper outer corner. Otherwise a good/ fine copy.
= Landwehr 903; Praz, p.539. Rare.
- Bookplate of J. Steenks on upper pastedown; catalogue clipping laid down on first flyleaf; 18th cent. ms. annots. in text (adding the full name of the authors in places where the initials are given); p.13-14 lower corner repaired. Occas. vague waterstains in blank margin, but otherwise a remarkably clean copy, with sharp, early impressions of the illustrations.
= The first edition of this famous songbook, meant to spread the glory of the prince of Zeeland, with contributions by 18 poets born or living in Zeeland (i.a. A. Roemers Visscher, J. Cats, A. Valerius, Ph. van Borssele, J. de Brune). The plates, belonging to the best of 17th cent. Dutch bookillustration, are of emblematic and folkloristic interest. Praz p.540; Scheurleer p.149; Meertens, Letterkundig leven in Zeeland, p.217-239; Franken, Van de Venne p.97; Hollstein, W. de Passe 58; Hollstein, C. van den Queborn 95; Hollstein, Serwouters 76; Hollstein, De Jode I, 120-135 (?); Hollstein, Van de Venne 446-455; Landwehr 588 mentions P. de Jode, C. van Queboren and A. Matham as engravers.
- Occas. cut sl. short in top margin affecting caption. Frontcover (almost) loose; upper joint rubbed; title on backstrip worn off.
= From the library of G.S. Overdiep (and by descent his son H.K. Overdiep). Landwehr 909 (calling erroneously(?) for 74 emblems, but quire signatures in our copy indicate completeness). Extremely rare (one copy in STCN).
- Paper over boards chafed. Fine copy.
= The first edition of the Dutch translation by J. Konijnenburg of one of the earliest works on mimicry (first German ed. 1785-1786). Kunst op Schrift 1304.
- Sl. fingersoiled in margins, occas. also in the plate. Binding rubbed along extremities.
= Contains the following (in order of appearance in the book): the ages of men (youth, adolescence, old age (numb. 1594-1596)); seasons (spring and autumn (numb. 3018 and 3021)); birds (numb. 2331-2333); dogs (numb. 3131-3133); three naked wildmen (numb. 1416, 1417 and 1418 (bound at three different places in the book); horsemen (numb. 2745-2748); cavalrymen (numb. 1244, 1245 and 1247); various types of soldiers (numb. 1242, 1247 and 1243); "Les modes d'Hongrie, et Transylvanie, et de Valachie" (numb. 1388-1393); the elements, the times of the day, the continents, the temperaments (4 diff. plates, numb. 2882-2885); the ranks and the functions of soldiers and the commands given to cavalarists (numb. 2737-2744); types of food and drink (numb. 2597-2600); sayings (numb. 2653-2556).
- Both sets very fine and clean.
= Provenance: the first work w. owner's entry of Snellen van Vollenhoven on first free endpaper. Nissen, ZBI 3999 and 4000; Horn-S. 21554; Landwehr 191. Two very fine entomological works with beautiful contemp. handcoloured plates (occas. heightened w. gold).
- Plates partly sl. yellowed. Lacks ties. Otherwise a very fine copy.
= All published. The extremely rare first edition of this seminal work in which once and for all Swammerdam put to rest the notion of spontaneous generation by insects and the claim that they did not have an internal anatomy. Our copy is not only desirable for its rarity and its fine and attractive contemporary binding or its remarkably effective manner of illustrating the points that Swammerdam makes in his book, but also for the fact that almost all plates are contemporarily handcoloured. No handcol. copies of the first edition were traced by us in the market. Osler 961; Nissen, ZBI 4052; Garrison-Morton 294; Hagen 2:208; Krivatsy 11599.
- Recased. Very fine copy.
= Franken 1369 III; Hollstein 183, IV (ed. of 1701 w. the plates in reverse); Landwehr, Crispyn de Passe als uitgever-auteur A9 (in: Jaarboek Ned. Gen. van Bibliofielen, 1994) and Inger Leemans, Spiegel der schoonste courtisanen. Van hoerengids tot persoonlijke afrekening, (in: De Boekenwereld, jrg. 21, nr. 5 (juli 2005), p. 266-282). Extremely rare series of famous courtesans, newly engraved (incl. 1 new portrait of "Schoon Barbertjen") after the Miroir des plus belles courtisanes de ce temps by Crispyn de Passe II, Amst., 1630. The text was written by Jan van Hoogstraten (1662-1736).
- Title-p. w. 2 sm. dam. spots in outer blank margin (sl. affecting text on verso and repaired w. Japanese). Corners restored; sm. wormholes in upper joint.
= Typographia Batava 1902; BCNI 2077. Very rare edition of this popular 16th century devotional work on the suffering of Christ in an interesting contemporary binding. A fine copy.
= Not collated but apparently complete.
- Very fine copies.
= All published, with the extremely rare 4th year. Richly illustrated peridocial showing the fashionable way of life in the early 19th century. With plates of costumes, new hat styles and interior decorating and one curious fold. handcol. plate of Daniel Lambert, an obese English man. Hiler p.268; Colas 954; Lipperheide 4597. Only 1 complete set traced in the market (our copy, purchased in 1978).
- With scattered circular stamps "Buitengewoon te zegelen. Koninkrijk der Nederlanden" and "Buitengewoon zegel. Noord-Holland" throughout in lower corner.
= "Bij niet weinigen werd de wensch levendig zich aan het verpligtend gezag van vreemde Modewetten te ontslaan (...) De ondergeteekenden, hiertoe, te zamen overeengekomen, rekenen het zich tot een aangenamen pligt, derzelver vrouwelijke Landgenooten met haare oogmerken en bedoelingen eenigzins nader bekend te maken, als ook met de middelen, welke ter bereiking van dezelve, zullen worden in het werk gesteld." Not in the usual reference works.
- According to P. Buijnsters this copy is from the collection of Willem I, King of the Netherlands w. "G" for Guillaume. Sl. worn along extremities.
= Very fine and rare series in an attractive binding. Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 289: "The difference [with Maaskamp's costume book] is to be found in Greeven's artistic approach of the subject since he places his figures against fine scenery as background." Lipperheide Gb 48; Colas 1311.
- One hinge starting/ splitting; trifle thumbsoiled; old owner's entry and sm. ticket and bibliographic clipping on upper pastedown. Sm. stain on frontcover; spine-ends trifle frayed.
= The nicely handcoloured plates showing people in regional dress from Scheveningen (2x), Urk, Marken (2x), Zaandam, Volendam, Zeeland, Friesland, Beveland and Hindelopen (2x). Landwehr, Dutch books w. col. plates, 317.
- Compared to the printed binder's instruction lacking 3 plates, but with 2 plates extra not mentioned in the same instruction. Compared with the only 2 complete sets we traced, probably lacking 2 portraits. A few plates (sl.) stained from colouring. Tops of 2 spines sl. dam., otherwise attractively bound set.
= Lipperheide Zb8; Colas 1584. Extremely rare complete run of the first Dutch periodical devoted mainly to fashion, but also to furniture, theatre, gardens, poetry etc.
- Lacks vol. 8 containing the lacking 24 plates. Rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip. Very fine set.
= Lust en Leering p.41; The Children's World of Learning 507-510; not in Landwehr, Dutch books w. col. plates. The nice illustrations show examples of all kinds of objects, i.a. purses, tobacco-pouches, fashion attributes, flowers, baskets, needlework, cardboard objects, cushions, ring-cords, souvenirs, vases, screens etc. A lot of attention is paid to the techniques involved in making such objects and the fabrication and use of i.a. decorative cloths, paper and paint. "Maar haar [A.B. van Meerten Schilperoort's] grootste roem geldt het tijdschrift voor dames Pénélopé (...). Het verscheen in 8 delen van 1821 tot 1835 bij haar vaste uitgever Beijerinck en is met zijn 192 handgekleurde platen op afstand het fraaiste en kostbaarste Nederlandse periodiek uit de negentiende eeuw. De prijs, honderdtwintig gulden, was er ook naar! Anna Barbera heeft trouwens steeds de hoogste eisen gesteld aan de uitvoering van haar geschriften. Het schone en het goede lagen voor haar dicht bij elkaar". (Lust en Leering).
- Both vols. w. old libr. stamp and annot. on first free endpaper; plate 91 blank outer margin restored.
= Colas 2686; Lipperheide Of 13.
- Part of the plates pasted over w. a another etched plate; lower outer corner of title-p. restored; preliminary leaves sl. foxed. Joints trifle rubbed. Nevertheless a desirable and nicely bound copy.
= BCNI 15104; Lipperheide Oe8 (1st ed. of 1688 only).
- Bookplate and owner's entry on upper pastedown; apart from some minor foxed spots contents fine. Binding sl. rubbed; backstrip professionally restored.
= Lipperheide Gb45; Colas 2710; Hiler p.793. Plates of the local costume of i.a. Amsterdam (2x), Antwerp, Brabant, Broeck, Friesland, Hindelopen, Mons, Noord-Holland (2x), Rotterdam (8x), Valenciennes (7x) and Willemstad.