2076 - 2859 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Trifle yellowed; 20 leaves at the end (sl.) waterstained in top half.
= Willems 1110; Rahir 3316. "Il y a deux éditions différentes sous cette date. On reconnaîtra la plus jolie des deux à la p.269 cotée par erreur 169 [this edition] (...)" (Willems).
- Occas. sl .soiled/ sl. foxed. Spine rubbed.
= Van der Haeghen I, p.126; Cohen/ De Ricci p.348; Cioranescu 32954; Sander 613.
- With modern copper-engr. erotic bookplate by W. ZWIERS tipped onto first blank (signed in pencil). (Sl.) foxed throughout (not affecting the plates).
= Extremely rare erotic novel. Our copy with other plates than the other copies that we found, which contain 8 and 10 plates. See at length Annemarieke Houben, "Venus en Cupido" (in: Mededelingen van de Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman. Jaargang 42). The two plates in our copy are refined and explicit (see Ars Erotica vol.3, p.211 and 213, plate 2 and 4). Buisman 2295 (calling for 8 plates); Waller 1733 (calling for 10 plates). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Lacks part VI. Etliche sonderliche Geistliche Schrifften. Partly sl. wormholed in lower margin; frontisp. w. vertical fold; otherwise a fine copy.
= Rare German translation of a collection of works by the French Reformed theologian Jean d'Espagne (1591-1659), who was a pastor at Orange, The Hague and London. See ODNB and NNBW IV, p.578f.
- Bindings rubbed and chafed.
= Kirchner 1548. Collection of decrees, letters, statements etc. by high officials, royals and other statesmen of Europe. A total of 115 vols. was published.
- Lower margin frontisp. cut to borderline w. loss of caption; title-p. cut short w. loss of printer and publication year; partly (sl.) wormholed (sl. affecting frontisp.); occas. trifle foxed; library ticket on upper pastedown. Letterpiece chipped.
= This work is concerned with the history of Christian missionary activities and how Christianity spread throughout the old and new world.
- Lacks lvs. 1, 2, 14, 18 and 43; several lvs. w. carefully restored margins and corners.
= Pardoel 511; cf. Thimm p.44f (listing the 1st edition of 1610 and the "2nd" of 1652); cf. The Mokken Collection 14 (1st ed. 1610); cf. Vigeant p.43f (idem). "Of all the Italian works on fencing, none ever had such a share in fixing the principles of the science" (Thimm); "Capoferrus, un des principaux auteurs italiens, est regardé comme chef d'école et le livre qu'il a composé mérite, non seulement d'être recherché comme oeuvre bibliographique, mais aussi comme traité original et pratique" (Vigeant). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- Partly yellowed/ (sl.) foxed. Binding badly worn/ sl. dam. at extremities; frontcover almost loose.
= Sander 657; Cohen/ De Ricci p.381; Ray p.7f; Boissais/ Deleplanque p.75.
- Occas. trifle/ sl. yellowed. Rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip.
= Sander 657 (note); Cohen/ De Ricci p.382; Lewine p.181.
= Fine copy, extra illustrated with the 24 plates from the French edition (Leyden/ Amst., 1761). Versnel 642; Scheepers I, 181.
- Lacks pastedowns; owner's blindstamp on 2nd blank; occas. sl. yellowed. Frontcover loose(ning); top of spine sl. chipped.
= Adams F330; Baudrier IX, p.315.
- First and last lvs. (heavily) stained; partly (sl.) browned/ stained; some offsetting from frontisp. on title-p. Covers loosening; bindings sl. rubbed/ scratched.
= A large paper copy of the first ed. of this work. Richard Fiddes (1671-1725) was an English Anglican priest and historian. Maslen and Lancaster 431/ 589; Lowndes I, p.796.
= Publication describing the use of an apparatus which consists of i.a. a long linen tube with holes at various heights, permitting people to escape a burning house: "En nu blijft hem niets meer overig dan vrouw en kinderen, kostbaarheden enz. door den Cilinder naar beneden te laten, en eindelijk zelf te volgen". Very rare.
- 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.
= Publication proscribing punishment for children lighting firecrackers in the streets: "en ten regarde van de onvermogende/ op poene van by de Kop gevat / op den Huyse van Hasenberg gestelt / ende vervolgens sonder verschoninge aen den Lijve gestraft te worden / sullende d'Ouders ten opsigte van de pecuniele boete voor hare kinderen / en de Voogden voor hare pupillen moeten instaen en betalen".
- Contemp. owner's entry on each title-page; all vols. pastedowns and first free endpapers browned due to offsetting from turn-ins; first vol. 2 frontispieces and upper pastedown loose.
= Cioranescu 30703; Cohen/ de R. 407: "superbes illustrations"; Sander 720.
- Fine copy.
= Clandestinely published memoirs on the civil wars of France under Louis XIII. Cf. Tchemerzine VII, p.42; cf. Willems 1997 (different pagination).
- Stamps and sm. annots. on titlepages. Joints and spines rubbed.
= Anonymous transl. of Vie d'Armand Jean, Cardinal Duc de Richelieu (Amst., 1694).
AND 1 other: (G. BERTOUX), Anecdotes françoises, depuis l'établissement de la monarchie jusqu'au régne de Louis XV (Paris, 1768, 2nd rev. enl. ed., contemp. gilt calf).
- Spine ends (sl.) worn.
= Ultra-royalist periodical containing various contributions on politics, published until 1820. In his memoirs, Chateaubriand writes that the revolution wrought by this journal was unheard of: in France, it changed the majority in the Chambers, abroad it transformed the spirit of the cabinets.
- Recased; hinges strengthened w. leather strip; contemp. owner's annot. on title. Covers rubbed/ worn.
= Brunet II, 1467. Cf. Cicognara 4035; Ebert 12739.