2342 - 2933 OLD AND RARE BOOKS
- Title-p. darkened; stamp on upper pastedown ("J.M.J. Mariënburg"); sl. waterstained.
= BCNI 13026.
- Lacks title to first part (supplied in photocopy); occas. (sl.) foxed/ trifle fingersoiled and waterstained.
= Typographia Batava 1978.
- Lacks one leaf of the final part (fol. LXXV); occas. sl. soiled/ stained (1x larger stain on Eee5); library stamp on title-p.; title-p. reattached; bookplate on upper pastedown; crossed out old annot. on first free endpaper. Binding stained.
= Typografia Batava 1981; cf. Alden/ Landis 595/29; cf. Sabin 25470 (note); cf. Tiele 358; this edition not in Borba de Moraes. Rare Dutch edition of Seb. Franck's Chronica (first publ. Emden, 1563), incorporating the Werelt-boeck (1534) by the same author, esp. noteworthy for the section dealing with the Americas, which describes i.a. the travels of Columbus, Cortes and Vespucci.
- Some offsetting from turn ins; box sl. dam. and w. sm. waterstain. = Wolfstieg 34810.
- Upper hinge widening. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities, some loss to lacquering.
BOUND WITH 6 other sm. publications, all published in Leeuwarden 1756-1757, all w. woodcut title-vign., i.a. NIEUW-JAARS WENSCH VAN DE FRIESCHE POSTRYDERS, VOOR 'T JAAR 1757 (16p.); NAAM-REGISTER DER PREDIKANTEN, WELKE ZEDERT DE REFORMATIE BINNEN DE STAD LEEUWARDEN HEBBEN GESTAAN (...) (16p.) and C. SPRONGH, Het Klein Chronykje van Oost- en West-Friesland, Stad Groningen, Ommelanden en Drenthe, enz. (32p.).
- All plates in superb condition. Without title-p.; lacks 10 plates and a significant part of the text. Backcover loose; binding worn.
= Despite its incompleteness, a desirable collection of handcoloured plates, showing designs by one of the most famous furniture designers of the 18th cent. in England. By the time of his death in 1806, he had only progressed to the letter "C" in his Encyclopaedia.
WITH a loosely inserted embroidery of a man with sword on horseback, 18th cent., 25x20,8 cm., laid down on board.
- Modern owner's entry on title. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
= Rosier 614; BCNI 14583.
- Spine worn; covers sl. rubbed and fingersoiled. = Bibl. Gastr. 3210; Landwehr 62.7.
- Lacks 17 plates (present are nos. 8, 9, 17, 18, 26, 27, 28 and three unnumb. plates (or number unread)) and lacks leaf A (leaf no. 1). Pagination and signature marking at times erroneous but text continuous and complete; portrait and title-p. vaguely waterstained in upper margin and sl. spotted/ stained in other margins; the plates bound out of order, sl. thumbed and occas. sl. foxed, one plate loosening and three plates w. sm. marginal tear; one woodcut ill. cut short in upper and lower margin, sl. affecting the image in lower margin; last textleaf of Il Trinciante sl. dam./ wormeaten in blank fore-edge margin; title-p. and verso of two plates w. vague library stamp ("Biblioteca Municipale Ancona"(?)); upper and lower hinge weakening. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
= The most important and interesting Renaissance cookbook, by Bartolomeo Scappi (1500-1577), who can be considered the first 'celebrity chef'. Early in his career he served several cardinals; later on he became the private chef of first Pope Pius IV and then Pius V. He acquired fame with the publication of his cookbook, which contains some thousand recipes as well as advice on techniques and the use of tools, illustrated by the plates showing the interiors of different kinds of kitchens, kitchen utensils, pots and pans, furniture and other items to do with (the serving of) meals. Book 4 of the Opera lists a large number of menus for lunches and dinners to be served at different times of the year, also providing instructions on how to serve them, e.g. with how many knives. The last book provides recipes for healing dishes for the sick and convalescent. Il Trinciante is a treatise on the art of meat-cutting. A book extremely valuable for gastro-historical history. Two variants were published in 1570. This is the variant published earliest, the title-p. undated and unsigned except for Tramezzino's device. The plates, of which two states exist, must therefore be in the first state. Mortimer II, 467; Adams S 608; BL Italian II, p.831-832 (ed. 1622); Vicaire p.771-771 (variant 1570); Oberlé 75 (ed. 1605); Bitting p.419; Simon 1356.
- Title-p. cut short in lower blank margin, w. loss of printer's adress; title-p. and last leaf restored (and reattached) w. tape; a few scattered contemp. annots; new endpapers. Rebacked; vellum sl. soiled.
= Owner's stamps on verso title-p. of C.B. Hiebendaal (1859-1873), mayor of Appeltern.
- Partly trifle yellowed. Otherwise fine.
- Trifle waterstained in outer blank margin. Vellum sl. soiled. = Rare.
BOUND WITH: David, J. Schild-wacht tot seker waerschouwinghe Teghen de valsche Waersegghers/ Tooveraers/ ende derghelijcke ongoddelijckheyt. 's Hertogenbosch, J.J. Scheffer, 1619, (6),56,(1)p., woodcut title vignette. - AND BOUND WITH 3 others.
- Owner's stamp on first free endpaper. Brown stain on upper outer corner of backcover. Otherwise a fine copy.
- Most plates sl. foxed. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities. Good/ fine copy. = Lipperheide Pk 18.
- Occas. waterstained. Binding worn along extremities. = BCNI 7438.
Bunjan, J. Eens christinnes reyze na de eeuwigheyd, tweede deel. Amst., J. Kannewet, n.d. (±1720), 269,(3)p., woodcut title, 1 plate, later hcalf, sm. 8vo.
- Bookplate of G. Jaspers on upper pastedown; sl. soiled/ thumbed. Binding worn.
AND 8 similar vols., all Dutch language, 17th-19th cent., i.a. Het bondelken van Myrrhe inhoudende Verscheyde Vierige Meditatien op de zeven Weeën van Maria (Mechelen, 1780, engr. frontisp., 7 plates, later wr., sm. 8vo).
- Ex library copy w. stamps and (contemp.?) annot. on title-p.; occas. (sl.) browned. Vellum heavily stained.
- Sm. (closed) tear in lower margin of frontisp.; occas. trifle foxed. Binding sl. warped.
= With extra bound in fold. engr. portrait of the author by A. CONRADUS (tear in image and on fold (partly closed)). Wittop Koning, Harderwijker boekdrukkers p.82/83: "Zijn gedichten zonder rijm hebben een zeer merkwaardige inleiding over de toepassing van de klassieke metra in Nederlandse verzen. De gedichten zelf zijn om deze techniek eigenaardig, maar overigens eerder zonderling te noemen". Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIV.
- Upper hinge weak; sl. browned along edges. Binding w. some rubbed spots.
= Rich collection on local history, but als containing quite a few index leaves to various ledgers (not present in the lot). I.a. regulations concerning the so-called "salmsteecken" in the River Maas around Dordrecht and Rotterdam (±1754); the "Staat van de Finance (van Holland) voor 1774-1781/ 1784"; on the origin of and threats posed by "IJsdammen" and on the local support for the solution proposed (±1726; short index to a ledger); "Notitie van het gepasseerde ontrent den Neder Rhijn en IJssel t'sedert den 23. Spt. 1660"; an extract from the "ordinairis Rolle van Proceduren gehouden voor heeren Scheepenen der stad Gorinchem (...) 1673-1696"; (il)legal fishery activities in the River Maas, such as the building of small dams in the river by fishermen that improve fishing but impede safe passage for ships; legal cases in the realm of private law concerning citizens in Gorinchem and surroundings, etc. etc.
- Sl. browned and waterstained in upper and outer (mainly) blank margins; modern marginal annots. in blue pencil throughout; p.17-18 lower corner dam. (crudely repaired w. tape); new endpapers. Etching by I. Collaert bound in after prologue.
= BCNI 5895. Rare.