2076 - 2859 OLD and RARE BOOKS
= Landwehr 477/ 488/ 369; Klaversma/ Hannema 961/ 1026/ not in Klaversma/ Hannema (cf. 729 (for the 3rd ed. dated 1700); Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 6/ 124/ 171.
- Hinges splitting; sl. soiled/ stained. Binding sl. worn; lacks letterpiece; upper joint splitting at foot; 2 corners showing.
= Landwehr 480; Klaversma/ Hannema 965; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 448.
ADDED: 1 other (Dutch bible, ±1800).
- Hinges weak. Backcover w. sm. dam. spot; vellum worn.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 975; Landwehr 512; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 439. The first edition.
= Landwehr 503; Klaversma/ Hannema 991-994; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 435.
- Vellum dustsoiled.
= Cf. Praz p.416 (note); cf. Landwehr 550 (ed. Amst., 1659) and Scheurleer, Ned. Liedboeken p.58.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown and first free endpaper; occas. minor defects to the contents.
= Praz p.416; Landwehr 550 (ed. Amst., 1659). This ed. not in Waller, Scheurleer etc.
- Sm. bookplate on upper pastedown; lacks first free endpaper; sl. fingersoiled and occas. trifle waterstained in outer blank margins. Spine-ends restored w. use of leather; sl. rubbed along extremities.
= BCNI 16871; Landwehr 593; Praz 435. "The emblems are derived from Imago Primi Saeculi S.J., see nr. 378" (Landwehr). Rare.
- Title-p. sl. dam. in centre; sl. yellowed almost throughout; occas. sl. foxed; one leaf loosening. Foot of spine sl. dam.; sm. old ticket at top of spine.
= Voet 2168; Landwehr 709; Praz, p.148; Adams S218; Fairfax Murray, German 391; Funck, p.391. The rare first edition, also interesting for the fact that it contains the first book illustration of a tennis game on p.133. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
- A very good/ fine copy, with the following minor defects: one fold. plate (Visser 1a) strengthened on folds; a few leaves cut sl. short in top margin (affecting the running title or just touching the borderline); occas. sl. waterstained (in mostly lower) blank margin (touching the border of only a few plates); 19th cent. marbled endpapers.
= The most complete copy of this sumptuously illustrated work traced on the auction market in the past 30 years.
Contains i.a. the following series: P. GOOS and W. TYBAUT (after), The four ages; M. DE VOS (after), The four elements; J. BASSANO (after), The four seasons; J. DE GHEYN II (after K. VAN MANDER), The 12 patriarchs; H. GOLTZIUS (after), The seven Virtues; H. VAN CLEVE (?) (after), The Signs of the Zodiac; K. VAN MANDER a.o. (after), The prodigal son; H. GOLTZIUS (after), The Passion and Resurrection; H. VON AACHEN, The Roman Empire (Italy, Germany, France and Spain), and a large series of "Bijbelsche Tafereelen" after P. VAN DE BORCHT.
From the list of plates that Visser mentions in his Broeders in de geest vol. II, Bijlage IV, 2, the following numbers are not present: Visser 1c, 76, 155a, 182a, 263a and j, 310, 343/344, 354/355, 357bis, 358bis, 359bis, 363bis, 364bis, 365bis (but 357, 358, 359, 363, 364 and 365 are present) and 386-397 (but these are present in the bis version). This is the edition w. "Johanne" instead of "Johannis" on the engr. title (the second issue acc. to Visser). Our copy contains the following extra plates: "Iohannes spreeckt (...) den Engel sprack" (bound after Visser 75); "Dum sedet in mensa Rex ebrius, hic mala fata scribuntur muro (...)" (bound after Visser 103) and the engr. to "Van Joannis des Doopers jonckheydt, en beginselen in de Woestijne" (bound before Visser 398). See also: Visser vol. II, Bijlage I, 13.b1 1654; Van der Coelen p.164ff. Poortman, Bijbel & Prent, dl.II, p.34ff. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
- Sm. closed hole in title. Vellum sl. duststained. Otherwise fine.
= From the library of A.M. Ledeboer (owner's entry and bibl. reference on upper pastedown. Landwehr 725.
- A few leaves sl. stained; first blank closed tear. Top of spine dam.; lacks ties; closed tear in backstrip. A good/ fine copy.
= From the library of H. Hensbergius, not traced. The rare first edition. Landwehr 727; Praz p.493. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
- One w. closed tear (into image). Lacks final free endpaper. Good/ fine copy.
= Praz p.498; not in Landwehr. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Lacks the portrait of the author and 1 plate, but extra illustrated with 4 fold. plates by N. Visscher (1x torn).
= Landwehr 753; Praz p.501.
- Second vol. good/ fine copy. First vol.: a few engravings coloured in later hand; a few quires waterstained; most leaves (sl.) fingersoiled/ foxed and occas. sl. stained. Binding of vol.1 partly stained and backstrip sl. dam.
= Landwehr 759 and 760; Praz p.502. Rare set. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Ttitle-p. and first seven engravings crudely coloured w. red (occas. offsetting onto opposite page); lacks both free endpapers; final textleaf (w. publisher's address) laid down on verso backcover. Lacks 1 clasp and catch; binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Landwehr 815; Praz p.166. The authors are the "Rhetores Coll. Soc. Iesu Anverp."
- Occas. sl. (water)stained in blank margin. Old stain on backcover. Otherwise a good copy.
= The rare first edition of 1615. Landwehr 837; Praz p.526. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Small restored spot in inner margin of title-p. Contents otherwise very fine. Chafed spots on both covers; spine-ends chipped.
= Impressive series of emblemata. Landwehr 820; Praz p.523; De Vries 36. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Libr. stamp on first free endpaper and title-p. of the second work mentioned. Corners rubbed/ sl. worn. Fine copy.
= Ad 1: Landwehr 882; Schuytvlot 51; Unger 77. Ad 2: Landwehr 889; Schuytvlot 55; Unger 85.
AND 1 other translated by the same and unif., bound with the preceding: P. OVIDIUS NASO, Herscheppinge (Amst., A. de Wees, 1671, engr. frontisp., engr. ills. Libr. stamp on first free endpaper and printed title-p. Otherwise fine).
- Occas. stained/ foxed in margins; two leaves dam. in lower outer corner (both w. loss of text); margins occas. repaired; one leaf w. closed tear; pointers of lottery table missing. Leather over covers sl. worn; rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip.
= The engravings by Crispin de Passe were originally done for Gabriel Rollenhagen's Emblemes (published 1611-13). George Wither wrote the new accompanying verses in English. Veldman, Crispijn de Passe and his Progeny p.196-197 ("De Passe's prints appear in their original order, but Rollenhagen's epigrams were cut off from the plate and replaced with Wither's long-winded and extremely moralistic English poems"); Praz p.538; Franken, Van de Passe 1344. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Spine-ends chipped. Fine copy.
= Frontcover reading "Encyclopédie voor Vrouwen en Meisjes uit den beschaafden Stand". Contains chapters on embroidery, fashion etc., but also on "De behandeling van de wasch en het uitdoen van vlekken", "Aangename kunstwerkjes", "Over het verwen", "Van het ordonneren eener tafel", "Over het kappen en de behandeling van het hoofdhaar", "Bevordering van vrouwelijke schoonheid" and "Over de vorming van verstand en hart bij de vrouwen".