2342 - 2933 OLD AND RARE BOOKS
- Remains of ticket on upper pastedown; owner's stamp on first free endpaper. Top of spine sl. worn/ dam. Good copy.
= Large paper copy w. type area ±5x10 cm. and leaf size ±9x15cm. Cohen/ De Ricci 1007; Schweiger II, p.1129.
- Both vols. (severely) browned; fold. prize repaired w. large tear. Bindings sl. worn; spines discol.
= Fold. school prize to "A. Fockema". Spoelder 4.
AND 2 odd vols.
- Later owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. contemp. owner's annots.; lower hinge splitting. Upper joint splitting at top of spine.
= Schweiger II, p.1173.
- Lacks 2 plates; occas. sl. foxed and yellowed.
= Rossetti G1191; Cicognara 2804. Fine plates of ancient artefacts, deities, sculptures, ritual objects etc.
- Lacks the 2nd vol. of the 1st work and the 1st vol. of the 2nd work; occas. wormholed; final vol. sl. mouldy and waterwrinkled. Bindings sl. rubbed; one vol. top of spine chipped.
= Picot 381: "Charmante édition (...) et justement recherchée, sinon pour le texte lui-même, du moins pour la beauté de l'impression et du papier et pour l'élégance des figures."; Brunet II, p.280: "Cette édition des oeuvres des deux Corneille est devenue, depuis quelques années, un objet d'une très grande importance auprès des bibliomanes français (...)".
- Ex library copy w. a few scattered library stamps and contemp. annots., incl. on title-p.; paper ticket on upper pastedown; new endpapers. Binding sl. rubbed. Nevertheless a good copy.
= Knijff/ Visser 2026. Rare.
- Upper hinge broken; final part sl. wormholed in inner margin; sl. yellowed; one leaf loose. Vellum darkened and soiled.
= De Backer/ Sommervogel II, p.1689, nr. 1; BCNI 7192.
- Bookplate of G. Jaspers on upper pastedown. Vellum duststained.
- Bookplate of A.W. Barten on upper pastedown. Spine sl. chafed.
= Reichelt 97 (?). Oppermann 1119: "Baillieu benutzte hier wiederum die alten Originaldruckstöcke aus Garnier'schem Besitz, ebenso ungeordnet wie in der letzten Ausgabe von Troyes. Aber während 1728 der Text rediviert und modernisiert wurde, bringt die vorliegende Ausgabe wieder den ursprünglichen von 1486. Seltene Ausgabe, die letzte die mit den Originalstöcken veranstaltet wurde."
- Trifle browned; upper hinge sl. widening; first 10 lvs. wormholed in outer blank margin, not affecting text; bookplate on upper pastedown; fold. plates strengthened on verso, 1 w. sm. tear in image. Vellum sl. dam. along edges.
- Contemp. owner's annot. on title-p.
BOUND WITH 4 similar others on Delfland (dated 1754, 1739, ±1780 (a series of 55 ordinances) and 1838).
- One leaf loose. Lacks backstrip. Very clean copy.
= Goedeke IV,1, 10, III. Contains poems by i.a. Hölty, Jacobi, Kretschmann and Lavater. Three more vols. were published between 1774-1776. Rare.
- Modern bookplate on first free endpaper.
- Contemp. owner's entry on verso first free endpaper of vol.1. Both vols. final 50 leaves inkstained in outer blank margin. Covers of vol.1 inkstained in lower margin; both vols. leather affected by acidity of mottling and a few chafed spots. Good/ fine copy.
-Text vols.: pagination occas. erratic but complete; most vols. partly sl. browned/ foxed; a few vols. partly waterst. in blank margins, not affecting text. Most covers sl./ trifle rubbed; a few covers sl. stained; most backstrips sl. worn: letterpieces dam., a few lacking portions; a few spine-ends dam. Plate vols.: 1 fold. plate torn (2/3 of plate loosely inserted); partly (sl.) browned; remnants of erased library stamps on title-pages; ident. bookplate on upper pastedowns; covers trifle rubbed; spine-ends dam., restored on vol. I and II; joints splitting, crudely restored w. glue on vol. III.
= Contains plates of the following series: I. Sciences Mathématiques (76), Art militaire (19) and Marine (27); II. Anatomie (16); Chirurgie (13); Chimie (23); Architecture (64); Musique (19); III. Supplement (121 plates and 8 maps). Erratic pagination of the plates, as stated in the headings of chapters. The Encyclopédie is considered one of the most important works of the Enlightenment. The work being not only an encyclopedia but also a philosophical program with famous contributors such as Voltaire, Rousseau and D'Holbach. The aim of the Encyclopédie was to change the common way of thinking through the expansion of knowledge. Printing and the mind of man 200: "A monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the ancien régime and in heralding the French Revolution; a permanent source for all aspects of eighteenth-century civilization (...) The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alambert remained, and remains, unique." En français dans le texte 156: "Sous la direction de Diderot et d'Alembert, plus de deux cents collaborateurs connus ont collaboré à cette entreprise, l'une des plus ambitieuses qu'ait tentées l'édition française sous l'Ancien Régime. Médicins, écrivains, juristes, artisans, artistes, grands commis, officiers, amateurs d'art, prêtres ou pasteurs, ils avaient le projet commun de présenter à l'Europe cultivée de leur temps un tableau aussi clair que possible de l'ensemble des connaissances acquises depuis la Renaissance. Quelques-uns, les "Philosophes", pensaient en outre modifier chemin faisant la commune façon de penser en matière de religion ou de politique." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Double-p. plates are counted as 2 plates. Lacks 5 plates (from the drawing section). Vol. 5 partly (water)stained in upper mostly outer corner. All vols. binding worn and dam. along extremities (corners showing).
= PMM 200; Graesse II, p.389. The plates to the famous Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, first published 1751-1765, covering all aspects of science, industries and arts. Contains plates of i.a. the following series: "Chymie", "Chirurgie", "Chasses", "Arts mechaniques", "Machines hydrauliques", "Pêches", "Potier de Terre" and "Sculpture en tous genres".SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Corners and joints restored; letterpiece and paper over covers sl. rubbed. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Rare monograph on Dutch snakes w. parallel Dutch/ French text. Nissen, ZBI 2509; Agassiz III, 472; Landwehr, Dutch Books Col. Plates 113. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Owner's entry on 2nd blank; partly w. tiny wormholes in lower blank corner. Otherwise fine.
= BCNI 8710.
- Bookplate and vague owner's entry on verso first free endpaper; sm. annots. on title-p. and once in blank margin; sl. foxed/ browned; some sm. marginal waterstains; one plate repaired in outer lower corner. Joints splitting; covers rubbed along extremities; top of spine dam.
= First edition of this early eighteenth century French work on exchange, which also deals with the common European banking systems. Kress 3686; Goldsmiths 6537; not in Einaudi.
- Title-p. first part cut short in lower blank margin and w. old owner's entry; occas. (water)stained; sl. fingersoiled. Vellum sl. stained and darkened; upper joint dam. at top of spine.
= Popular Italian merchant's handbook. Cf. Kress 534 (1st ed., 1638); cf. Goldsmiths 3400 (ed. 1697); cf. Einaudi 4392/ 4393 (eds. 1649/ 1697).