2076 - 2859 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Two portions cut out from title, 1x into the portrait; first 2 quires almost entirely loose. Frontwrapper detached.
- Occas. fold./ sl. frayed/ w. tears.
= Comprises i.a. "Declaratoir door het Committé Revolutionair aan de van hunne posten ontslagen staats-leeden, van den Lande van Utrecht; met vernietiging van de twee voorstemmende leden van Staat" (Utr., Paddenburg en Zoon, 1795) and "Waarschouwinge Heil en Broederschap. De municipaliteit der Stad Delft, tot haar innig leedweezen onwaar wordende, dat niettegenstaande (...)" (Delft, Jan de Groot, 1795).
= Comprises i.a. "Concept plan (...) Declaratie van de Rechten van den mensch en Burger" (1795), "Dagverhaal der verhandelingen van de tweede Nationaale Vergadering" (1797) and an appointment of "Willem van Zwieten" as "Eleve-chirurgyn, by het 1ste Bataillon 2de Regiment van Waldeck" (1802).
- Bindings sl. rubbed/ scratched; top (and foot) of spine sl. dam. Otherwise a fine copy.
= From the library of F.R.J. Knetsch (1924-2006), Professor of Dutch Church History at the University of Groningen (his stamp on the first free endpapers). PMM 155b; Ebert 1792; Zischka, p.7: "Das Werk ist eine Kritik historischer und philosophisher Grundsätze im Geiste der frühen Aufklärung. Die kritischen Anmerkungen überwuchern den eigentlichen Text."
- Bindings sl. rubbed.
= PMM 155b; Ebert 1792; Zischka p.7: "Das Werk ist eine Kritik historischer und philosophisher Grundsätze im Geiste der frühen Aufklärung. Die kritischen Anmerkungen überwuchern den eigentlichen Text."
- Browned throughout. Binding sl. worn.
= Three works that were published in response to the Colloquy of Kassel (1661), during which an agreement was reached between the Reformed professors of the University of Marburg, Sebastian Curtius and Johannes Hein, and the Lutheran professors of the University of Rinteln, Peter Musäus and Johannes Heinichen.
- Possibly lacks 2 views; all vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. waterstained; all text-p. browned. Two vols. lack backstrip; 2 vols. backstrip dam.; all vols. worn along extremities. Mediocre copy.
= With the plans and profiles of Antwerp and Brussels and many views of castles, nobles' houses, ruins and other important estates in the dukedom of Brabant.
- Lacks 2 plans; usual occas. browning/ foxing.
= Contains profile views of Charleroi, Gelder and Scherpenheuvel, and plans of Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels.
= I.a. on the training and conditions for exercising various medical professions ("de konste der Medecynen", "vry Meester Apotheker", "de Konste der Chirurgie ofte Heel-kunde"), tariffs for burials within all parish churches, dog taxes, and public estate sales.
AND a publication by the bishop of Antwerp, authorizing the consumption of meat on regular Saturdays and eggs and dairy during Lent, due to the scarcity of fish (1786, folded). - ADDED: VEEL-GELUK-WENSCH AEN ALLE WELPYZENDE NEDERLANDERS, over den langgewenschten zegen van de vredelievende vryheid, en bezonder aen die van Antwerpen (Antw., ±1790).
- Bookblock loosening; entirely browned and mostly waterstained in blank margins.
= The rare first edition in Spanish of Bentivoglio's Della guerra di Fiandra.
- Lacks at least 22 prelim. lvs, 3 titles (incl. general title), final 2 quires and several lvs. throughout; partly loose; lvs. frayed/ dam. throughout; numerous owner's entries in pen and ink on blank free endpaper by members of the "Douglas" family. Binding badly dam. Sold w.a.f. Not subject to return.
= Herbert 119.
- Frontisp. w. some offsetting; occas. sl. stained. Binding trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Rare. This French Bible translation by the Jansenist Solitaires of Port-Royal was both celebrated and criticised (for its alleged latent Protestantism and therefore censured) in France. Willems 1389; Rahir 3387. "Édition originale de cette célèbre traduction, connue sous le nom de Nouveau Testament de Mons; elle est fort belle et sort positivement des presses de Daniel Elzevier." (Willems).
(Treuvé, S.-M.). Le directeur spirituel pour ceux qui n'en ont point. Paris, E. Josset, 1692(?), new ed., (24),408p., contemp. gilt calf.
- Title-p. erroneously w. "M. DCICII". Lacks free endpapers; sl. later annot. in pen and ink on upper pastedown; title-p. lacks sm. blank portion; occas. sl. stained/ soiled/ dogeared. Binding sl. worn; lacks letterpiece.
= Rare. Copy of the often reprinted Christian directory by the French Jansenist theologian Simon-Michel Treuvé (1651-1730). Cf. Quérard IX, p.550.
AND 2 others similar.
- Upper hinge split(ting) but holding on cords; first and last lvs. (sl.) frayed/ stained; sl. wormholed throughout (mostly in margins); some lvs. w. sm. tears/ holes/ creases (occas. sl. affecting text/ ills.); 2 portraits w. tears (1 repaired w. paper tape); partly sl. stained in lower margin causing some lvs. to stick together. Covers and edges heavily stained; backstrip loosening at top and lacks portion at foot; dam. spots along extremities.
= The portraits show different German prince-electors and dukes; the plates show various characters/ prophets from the Old Testament and the Four Evangelists. Darlow/ Moule 4229.
- Owner's entry on verso first free endpaper; library stamp on title-p.; a few lvs w. pencil annots. Spine-ends dam. w. earlier repairs; upper joints splitting; dam. spots along extremities.
= Darlow/ Moule 4735.
- Both vols. w. owner's stamp "Christus-Kirche Antwerpen" on title-p. affecting text; occas. sl. stained/ browned. Vol. 1 frontcover sl. scorched and w. horizontal cut in backstrip below title. Otherwise fine.
= This Greek edition of the Old Testament by the German theologian Mill contains two lists of variants (with the Roman Septuagint) according to the 5th-cent. codex Colberto-Sarravianus, preserved in Leyden, of which a facsimile specimen is included. Darlow/ Moule 4736.
- (Traces of) library tickets on upper pastedowns and spines; occas. sl. foxed/ stained; a few lvs. w. sm. tears. Bindings w. dam./ rubbed spots on spine and along extremities; upper joints (sl.) splitting.
= Second work contains Syriac version w. Latin transl. of two letters on virginity attributed to POPE CLEMENS I reading from right to left. Darlow/ Moule 4753.
AND 2 others: C. REINECCIUS, Hē Palaia Diathēkē kata tous ebdomēkonta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum una cum libris Apocryphis (Leipsic, 1730, 2 parts in 1 vol., contemp. vellum) and J.C. DIETERICH, Antiquitates Biblicae (Giessen, 1671, engr. portrait of author by J.P. THELOTT, engr. title-vignette, contemp. vellum, folio).
- Library tickets of the Mennonite Church Amsterdam on upper pastedown and spine. Title loose(ning); heavily foxed/ browned.
= First posthumous ed. of this concordance of all the words in the Greek New Testament by Erasmus Schmidt (1570-1637), German philologist, theologian and mathematician. Cf. ADB XXXII, p.27f.
AND 1 other: J. USSHER, Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti (Geneva, 1722, new ed., 3 parts in 1 vol., engr. portr. of the author by J.G. SEILLER, contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, folio).
- Occas. sl. stained; a few lvs. sl. wormholed. Vol. 2 lacks portion of letterpiece and top of spine dam. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Concordance on the Septuagint, with a supplement on the Hexapla and an index of Hebrew and Chaldean words by L. BOS. Fürst III, p.448.
- Occas. foxed and stained.