- Without the prize. Lacks ties. Contents fine.
= Schweiger p.70; Spoelder 8.
- Binding worn. = Rare.
- Rebound w. most inner margins of first ±70 lvs. strengthened; scattered contemp. owner's entries on first and final lvs.; sl. wormholed in blank margins throughout; sl. (finger)soiled; 2 modern bookplates on pastedowns.
= Schweiger, p.247.
- Partly waterst. in lower right corner; fingersoiled. Binding worn; frontcover loose(ning); foot of spine dam.
= Lipperheide Ba 7; Cohen/ De Ricci 271.
- Sl. browned; owner's entry on title: "Latijnsche school Schiedam". = Rare edition of this rare schoolbook.
- Owner's entry on first textleaf; occas. trifle spotted. Binding sl. worn/ dam. at extremities; otherwise fine.
= Enl. edition (first: 1650) of this collection of 45 student' speeches held at the Delft Latin School, by its rector Jacques de La Croix (1579-1635).
- Endpapers sl. browned/ foxed; library ticket and stamp on verso title; contemp. owner's annots. on first free endpaper.
= Schweiger p.322. Nice plates, i.a. showing Babylon and the hanging gardens. From the Trautner-Falkiana library w. its bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Lacks schoolprize. = Spoelder 3.
- Vol. 1 joints splitting at top of spine. = Schweiger p.90. Attractively bound set.
AND 1 other in 5 vols.: L'ABBÉ TAILHIÉ, Abrégé de l'histoire Romaine à l'usage des jeunes gens (Paris, 1784, contemp. unif. gilt calf w. 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces).
- Contemp. owner's entry below engr. frontisp.
= Schweiger I, p.106; cf. Dibdin I, p.515 (ed. Leyden/ Amst., 1670); Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as a book illustrator 6 (idem); cf. Caillet 3638 (ed. 1695).
- Occas. trifle yellowed. Sm. ticket on spine. = Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 499; Schweiger p.119: "s. selten".
AND 1 other: HERODOTUS, Musae sive Historiarum Libri IX (London, 1830, stipple-engr. frontisp. portrait, contemp. gilt vellum schoolprize binding of Utrecht).
- Lacks title-p. of 2nd and 3rd work; a few fragments in 1st work erased (censored?) w. contemp. pen and ink; sl. yellowed. Binding sl. rubbed.
- Endpapers lacking/ detached; a few lvs. sl. (ink)stained; partly sl. wormholed (mostly in margin). Binding in poor condition: leather dried; backstrip and top edge dam.; upper joint split (holding on cords); title in pen and ink on fore-edge.
= Schweiger p.131; Adams H 176; Graesse III, p.235: "L'éditeur s'est servi de quatre manuscr., à l'aide desquels il a ôté beaucoup de fautes et suppléé plusieurs lacunes. Toutes les éd. postérieures, à l'exception de celles de Coray, sont basées sur celle de Commelin." Rare bilingual edition of Heliodorus' Aethiopica, "the oldest and best of the Greek romances that have come down to us" (Encyclopaedia Britannica p.223), with the first Latin translation by S. WARSZEWICKI.
Gellius, A. Noctes Atticae. Geneva, J. de Tournes, 1621, (16),698,(124)p., woodcut title-vignette, later calf, sm. 8vo.
- Pastedowns detached; textlvs. from an Aristotle ed. used as free endpapers. Joints split(ting); dam. at backstrip and corners.
= With the owner's entry of Francis White (±1652-1715, fellow of Balliol College, Oxf. Univ.) on first blank. Schweiger p.378.
- Both vols. partly sl. waterstained in margins; occas. sl. foxed; bookplate of "Henn Wolfram Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach" on first free endpaper.
= With the Latin text in the edition of C. SAUMAISE accomp. by his commentary notes and those of I. CASAUBON and J. GRUTER. Graesse III, p.304; Brunet III, p.226.
- Fine copy. = Geerebaert XLVIII, 7; Muller 318; Scheepers II, 326. Rare.
- Endpapers doubled; library stamp ("Fraters Oss") and sm. repair w. tape on title; 2 textlvs. torn in half. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Geerebaert XLVIII, 8; Muller 319; De Vries 368; Scheepers I, 327. The first complete Dutch translation.
= Geerebaert CXI, 9 (ed. 1654); Schuytvlot 797; Unger 511. Juxtaposed Latin and Dutch text. Engraved title dated 1657.
Hoogstraten, D. van. Beschryving der heidensche Goden en Godinnen, getogen uyt de Fabelschryveren en Oude Dichteren. Amst., J. Winkel, 1733, 3rd ed., (16),272,(32)p., engr. title-p. after J. GOEREE, 15 (of 16) plates each w. 2 ills., contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Lacks 1 plate and 1 text leaf; vaguely waterst. at the beginning. = Rare edition.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ stained; later annots. in pen on first blank. = Schweiger p.404.
Cicero, M.T. Orationum Selectarum Liber. Ed. J. Gruter. Amst., C. Commelin, 1663, 216p., contemp. vellum.
- Sl. stained and fingersoiled; some old annots. and underlining; first free endpaper loose(ning). Vellum sl. soiled.
= Rare edition, not in Schweiger and Graesse.
= Schweiger p.493; Dibdin II, p.140: "These [the two Gronovius editions of 1719/ 1760] are very accurate and elegant editions, and greatly superior to all that preceded them. The latter is the more valuable edition, both from the quantity of matter it contains, and from its correctness".
AND 1 other: A. VINNIUS, In quatuor Libros Institutionum Imperialium commentarius Academicus & Forensis (Amst., 1665, 4th ed., contemp. vellum, 4to).
- A very fine and clean copy. = Schweiger p.511.