2076 - 2859 OLD and RARE BOOKS
= Nice miscellaeneous collection concerning i.a. the First Stadtholder Tijdperk and the inheritance of Prince Willem III.
- Endpapers, first blank and felt trifle wormholed; hinges weak; occas. sl. (water)stained/ dogeared. Binding sl. worn/ dam.
= Portuguese practical guide to understanding and practicing the Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Very rare. Not found in Worldcat/ usual reference works.
José, P. De Jesus Maria. Mystica cidade de Deos praticada em meditaçoens para toto o tempo do anno. Ibid., F. Borges De Sousa, 1764, vol.1 (of 3), (32),399p., contemp. gilt mottled calf w. marbled edges and mor. letterpiece.
- Title-p. loosening; a few lvs. sl. stained. Binding sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Portuguese collection of Catholic meditations throughout the year based on the Spanish revelational book Mystical City of God by the 17th-century Franciscan nun Mary of Jesus of Ágreda. Very rare. Not found in Worldcat/ usual reference works.
AND 1 Italian Catholic directory: B. DA CASTELVETERE, Direttorio mistico per li confessori, ovvero istruzione (Rome, 1756, contemp. vellum).
- Occas. trifle foxed/ yellowed; first free endpaper loose. Binding worn.
Bruin, C. Noordhollandsche Arkadia; verrykt met aantekeningen van den heere Gerrit Schoemaker. Amst., E. Visscher, 1732, (20),502,(8)p., etched/ engr. frontisp. and 22 (of 24) plates w. 2 views each by A. ZEEMAN, 1 full-p. plate, contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Mediocre copy: lacks 2 plates; most leaves waterstained in margins; bookplate loose. Sold w.a.f.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 53; De Vries 26; Waller 343. The first and only edition.
- First ±30 leaves (incl. title-p.) waterstained in lower half (diminishing towards p.XXXII); a few leaves loose. Vellum wrinkled.
= Rare. Veldman, Profit and Pleasure, VI and p.61-72; Hollstein 855, cf. the second edition of 1616; the engravings in first state (without the number in lower right). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Most plates w. offsetting from former flimsies. Binding trifle rubbed along extremities.
= The engravings printed from the orig. plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Partly foxed; binding trifle worn.
- Sl. later owner's entry in pen and ink on upper pastedown; sm. owner's ticket on first free endpaper. Upper joint completely split w. remnants of former reattachments still visible along edges; corners showing.
= All titles either by Andries Pels or by members of/ on behalf of the society Nil Volentibus Arduum, of which Pels was one of the founders.
- Corners showing; spine-ends worn; vol. 2 w. contemp. owner's entry on title-p.
- Waterstained almost throughout (affecting text and engravings). Sold w.a.f. = Very rare.
- Library stamps on first blank and verso title-p.; outer margin of 1 plate extended; a few lvs. w. sm. marginal tear; sl. foxed/ stained. Spine dam.; lacks ties.
= From the library of the Jesuit College of Ingolstadt (annot. on title-p.). Anti-Lutheran historical publication by the Jesuit Gottfried Weyer (1610-1682). Plates showing Melanchthon, Zwingli and Luther. De Backer/ Sommervogel VIII, p.1087. Cf. C.T. Berkhout, Early Printed Books in the Heiko A. Oberman Library at the University of Arizona (Tucson, 2017), p.33f.
Widerlegtes L.L.L. Das ist: Liederlich-Lutherisch-Lomerisches neulich außgestecktes fünfft - Evangelisches Panier oder Zeichen, deme von recht-gesinnten Catholischen Gegneren Billich und kräfftig wiedersprochen wird. Augsb., sold by J. Stretter, 1701, 8 parts in 1 vol., contemp. vellum w. ties, 4to.
- Lacks first free endpaper; annots. on upper pastedown and title-p. Occas. sl. stained and dogeared.
= Collection of 8 (Jesuit) pamphlets against the work Evangelisches Panier (1701) by the Lutheran theologian Gottfried Lomer. Cf. De Backer/ Sommervogel I, p.873f. Jantz, reel 595, no. 3349.
- Paper over spine and boards partly worn off.
= First printing of the third edition of Immanuel Kant's major work, with "verbesserte" on title-page instead of "unveraenderte". "Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy" (PMM 226). Warda 61; cf. Norman 1167.
- Partly sl. foxed. Good copy.
= First edition thus, being the first collected edition of Leibniz' philosophical works in French and Latin, and containing the first printing of one of Leibniz' most important philosophical works, his "Nouveaux essays sur l'entendement humain" (New Essays on Human Understanding), in which he attacks and refutes Locke and his "Essay on Human Understanding" and gives important testimony to his own philosophical ideas (as stated in the preface by Raspe, p.X). Graesse IV,152. With the armorial bookplate and owner's entry of Joseph (Ferdinand), Count of Rheinstein-Tattenbach. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Partly (sl.) foxed; heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown; hinges partly split. Foot of spine dam.; corners worn; upper joint split at top end; covers rubbed/ sl. worn.
= Tall (large paper?) copy (47x31 cm.). Beautiful plates. A Dutch edition was published in the same year as the French edition. Cohen/ De Ricci 531; cf. Fürstenberg, Das französische Buch 71 and Sander 1899. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown. Both vols. frontcover loose(ning) and backstrip worn (vol. 1 lacks portion at foot).
- (Sl.) yellowed throughout; old annots in pen and ink on first free endpaper; sm. section of lower margin of first free endpaper cut out. Covers w. old stains.
= Standard work on papal history, originally published in Venice, 1479. BM German books S12.
- First frontisp. cut sl. short. Part 2 a few pages sl. browned. Spine-ends trifle worn; corners bumped. Good/fine copy.
= Rather rare and only edition.
- Preliminary leaves of vol.1 sl. stained in lower margin. Fine set. = All vols. in first edition.
- All bindings worn/ rubbed; spine-ends dam.
= The third vol. also contains "Het leven van Hubert Korneliszoon Poot".
AND 3 others in 6 vols., i.a. the same work (Delft, 1726-1747, 2nd (vol. 1 and 3)/ 1st (vol. 2) ed., 3 vols., engr. frontisp., title-vign., portrait, full-p. divisional titles and headpieces, contemp. (unif.) (h)calf, sm. 4to. All vols. remnants of bookplate on upper pastedown; vols.1 and 2 hinges weak. Backstrip worn/ dam.).
- (Sl.) waterst. at the beginning (incl. frontisp. and title-p.); bookplate on upper pastedown. Covers vaguely waterst.; lower corner backcover bumped.
= Dünnhaupt 26.
AND 1 other: B.H. BROCKES, Verdeutschte Grund-Sätze der Welt-Weisheit (...) als der Irdischen Vergnügens in Gott Dritter Theil (ibid., 1728, engr. frontisp., contemp. vellum).