2499 - 3244 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Occas. sl. foxed and fingersoiled. Spine-ends dam.; corners bumped.
= Large paper copy. Rius I, p.806; Cohen/ De Ricci p.216: "Superbes illustrations; livre très recherché".
- Both vols. w. several library stamps on first title-p./ text leaf; occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed. Covers sl. scratched; lower corners showing.
= Collected sermons by Joachim de la Chétardie, pastor of the Church of Saint-Sulpice and private confessor of Madame de Maintenon (spouse of Louis XIV).
- Large paper copy. Majority of the double-p. plates foxed and or browned. Top of spine chipped/ sl. dam.; corners rubbed/ sl. worn.
= Landwehr, VOC 544; Tiele 304; Cordier, Sinica 2348 and 27; Lipperheide Le4; Lust 507. The first edition, describing the 2nd and 3rd embassies of the VOC to China, with accounts of the events on Formosa and a description of China. The second part in second issue with the 4 folding plates with reproductions of Chinese illustrations, always lacking in the first issue. The plates and illustrations show a great variety of (large) town views, architecture, customs, natural history etc. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVI.
- Contents fine. Paper over frontcover and corners (sl.) worn; leather backstrip sl. dried and sl. rubbed.
= Rare work, visually chronicling China's history with each plate illustrating the memorable acts of the emperors of China. Lust 1133; Cohen/ De Ricc p.479. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Num. old/ contemp. annots.; owner's entries on title-p. partly cossed out; occas. sl. foxed; title-p. and endpapers duststained. Vellum soiled.
= Schweiger I, p.62.
- Lacks 1 plate; waterst. at the beginning and end; occas. foxed. Binding trifle rubbed.
= Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.31.
- Without the prize. First and final few lvs. sl. (damp)stained. Vellum sl. (dust)stained; paper ticket on spine. Good copy.
= Ebert 3282; Schweiger I, p.46; Dibdin I, p.363: "An admirable and truly critical edition, comprehending the labours of Davis, Clarke and Vossius". For the binding: Spoelder 6.
- Without the 1st vol.; upper hinge weak. sl. yellowed and stained at the beginning. Binding worn; spine-ends dam.
= Rossetti G1191; Cicognara 2804. Fine plates of ancient artefacts, deities, sculptures, ritual objects etc.
- Rebacked; covers reattached; wr. sl. soiled and darkened.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine-ends sl. rubbed. A near fine copy in an attractive binding.
= Schweiger p.179-180.
- Annot. on upper pastedown; library stamps and bookplate on (verso) title-p.; partly sl. waterst. in margin. Spine-ends chipped; joints splitting; remnants of tape; corners showing.
= From the library of Ezechiel Spanheim (German diplomat, 1629-1710, paper ticket on upper pastedown). Schweiger II, p.242.
Terentius Afer, P. Les comédies. French transl. by Anne Dacier. Frankf. a.M./ Leipsic, E.G. Kruge, 1733, 3rd ed., (2),1262p., contemp. overlapping vellum, 12mo.
- A few annots. Vellum sl. soiled. = Rare.
- Frontisp. attached to first free endpaper along inner margin and sl. dam. in lower corner; sl. foxed; partly yellowed/ browned. Binding sl. worn and w. some restorations.
= Schweiger p.322. Nice plates, i.a. showing Babylon.
- Without the prize. Lacks ties. A fine copy. = Schweiger p.323. On the binding: Spoelder 4.
- Sm. inkstain on frontisp. and title-p.; sl. later owner's entry on title-p. and first free endpaper. Frontcover sl. fingersoiled. Fine copy.
= Rare edition, complete with the map. Geerebaert 105, 2b; Muller 340 (ed. 1683 w. 10 plates); De Vries 361 (without the map); Scheepers II, 312-313 (ed. 1688 w. 10 plates and ed. 1764).
- Occas. sl. dampstained in upper margin. Backstrip sl. rubbed.
= With manuscript schoolprize of the Deventer Gymnasium on first blank, dated 1812.
- Sl. foxed; stamps on verso title-p.
- Lacks the portrait. Bookplate on (sl. dam.) upper pastedown. = Rare.
Aytta Zuichemius, V. ab. Epistolae politicae et historicae ad Joachimum Hopperum. Ed. S.A. Gabbema. Leeuw., H. Rintius, 1661, (16),560p., engr. title., contemp. gilt vellum w. central floral ornament within decorative border and 4 corner fleurons on both covers, a.e.g., sm. 8vo.
- Lacks quire "Ii" and contains 2x quire "I". Bookplate on upper pastedown; 1 leaf w. tear repaired w. tape. Lacks 1 tie; gilding frontcover partly worn off.
ADDED: Vol. 2 only of P. OVIDIUS NASO, Alle de werken. Het tweede deel: Bestaande in de vyfthien boeken der Herscheppingen (Amst., 1700, engr. frontisp., num. engr. ills., contemp. blindst. (dam.) vellum. Large paper copy. Geerebaert CXXII, 26b).
- Upper hinge broken; title frayed and rubbed spots; new endpapers. = Graesse II, p.495.
- Vol. 2 w. sm. tears in htitle; 1 quire loose. A good/ fine set. = Zischka 26; Graesse II, p.540.
- Lacks the 4 fold. woodcut plates depicting the city of Babylon. Sl. foxed throughout; partly sl. stained/ creased. Sl. chafed; spine-ends chipped; upper joint splitting.
= With the Latin text by L. VALLA, revised by H. ESTIENNE. Two lvs. w. red initials from a 16th-cent.(?) ed. of Bartolus de Saxoferrato's commentary on the Digestum Novum used as endpapers. Graesse III, p.255; Schweiger p.138.