77 2496 Ironwork Courtivron G D de and Bouchu E J

77 2496 Ironwork Courtivron G D de and Bouchu E J

- Without the 2 supplement parts. Occas. sl. yellowed. All vols. backstrip dam./ lacking.

= From Descriptions des Arts et Métiers. Vol.2 w. an extra suite of 16 plates (3rd section). Poggendorff I, p.489 and III, p. 168. Rare.

77 2497 Isidorus Hispalensis

- New upper endpaper; quires Y and Z bound in reversed order; verso of title-p. and A3 strengthened w. sellotape; a few lvs. w. sm. (marginal) tears and wormholes; partly sl. stained.

= Rare edition of a mystical interpretation of the first Old Testament books by St. Isidore of Seville.

77 2498 Isidorus Pelusiota

- Waterst. throughout; partly browned (mostly at the end); sl. wormholed in blank lower margin at the end; part of first free endpaper torn off; 2nd part w. some old annots., underlining and erasure in pen and ink. Binding darkened/ waterst. at lower edge.

= From the library of Théodore Marcile (1548-1617), a French humanist of Dutch origin, with his entry on the pastedown. A Greek-Latin edition of 1443 letters by the 5th-cent. saint Isidore of Pelusium.

77 2499 Italy Pinelli B

77 2499 Italy Pinelli B

77 2499 Italy Pinelli B

77 2499 Italy Pinelli B

77 2499 Italy Pinelli B

77 2499 Italy Pinelli B

- Sl. foxed, mostly in blank margins; library stamp "Bibliotheek Pulchri" on title-p. and plates 1, 21 and 28; inventory number on title-p.; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding sl. dam. along edges; paper ticket on spine.

= Lipperheide Ja 16; Hiler & Hiler, p.667; Colas 2378. The plates documenting the costume and various scenes in and about Rome, including festivals, the wine harvest, young men serenating a woman, a magic lantern show, a puppet show, and numerous local costumes and games. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.

77 2500 Italy Rome Moschetti A a o

77 2500 Italy Rome Moschetti A a o

77 2500 Italy Rome Moschetti A a o

- Sl. foxed in blank margins. Lacks backwr.; frontwr. sl. creased/ frayed.

= Detailed prints of exteriors and interiors of Roman landmarks embellished with characters, carriages etc. Rossetti 7252: "The number of plates may vary from copy to copy." (we found copies w. between 32 and 41 plates). Some plates read: "In Roma presso Agapito Franzetti al Corso". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.

77 2501 Italy Venice Freschot C

77 2501 Italy Venice Freschot C

- First and final few leaves (incl. title-p., engr. title and pastedowns) browned in margins from turn-ins. Spine-ends trifle rubbed; sm. spots of (unobtrusive) wear on covers. Otherwise a fine copy.

= Rare.

77 2502 Ittig T ed

- Frontisp. cut sl. short, affecting left side image and caption; library stamp on verso title-p.; traces of ticket on spine. Otherwise a fine copy.

= A collection of the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, in which the German Lutheran theologian Ittig included only those who stood in what he regarded as the 'apostolic tradition'. Cf. J.A. Fischer, 'Die ältesten Ausgaben der Patres Apostolici. Ein Beitrag zu Begriff und Begrenzung der Apostolischen Väter. Erster Teil' (Historisches Jahrbuch 94 (1974), p.178).

77 2504 Jansenius C

= Van der Aa, VII, p.32: "(...) [dit werk was] het gevolg van eene uitdaging der Hervormde predikanten van 's Hertogenbosch, aan de Roomschgezinden in 1630, om met hen in tegenwoordigheid der regering, over de waarheid en den ouderdom der Roomsche kerkleer, te redetwisten, waarvan echter niets kwam en waarom Jansenius goed vond het eerste werk in het licht te zenden [1630], dat hij, nadat het door Voetius beantwoord was, door zijne Spongia Notarum deed volgen."

77 2505 Japan Assendelft de Coningh C T van

- Small waterstain on title; bookplate on upper pastedown; new endpapers. Damaged spot on backscript. Otherwise a remarkably clean copy.

= Cordier, Bibl. Japonica p.522. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.

77 2506 Japan Casembroot F de

77 2506 Japan Casembroot F de

- Mounted newspaper clippings on 1st and 2nd blank; plates sl. foxed. Dam. spot at foot of spine; binding sl. rubbed.

= The rare first edition of this account of the defence of the Dutch corvette Medusa, commanded by De Casembroot, against the ships and batteries of the Japanese, who attacked the Medusa in the strait of Shimonoseki on 11 July, 1863. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to the author's son on verso of first free endpaper. Tiele 234; Cordier 579 (2nd ed.). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.

77 2507 Japan Doeff H

77 2507 Japan Doeff H

- Spine-ends and corners trifle rubbed. A very fine copy.

= Tiele 318; Cordier 488; Alt-Japan-Katalog 422. Hendrik Doeff (1777-1835) was president of the Dutch factory at Decima. The present work is based on Doeff's memories of his 18 year long stay in Japan from 1801-1819, during which he gained practically unsurpassed knowledge of Japan and Japanese culture. On his return to Holland, the ship on which he and his pregnant wife travelled was shipwrecked. Apart from the sad loss of his (pregnant) wife, he also lost all his papers in the shipwreck, and as a result had to write these memoirs from memory. On Doeff in extenso J. Stellingwerff, De diepe wateren van Nagasaki (Franeker, 1983), p.39-68 and passim.

77 2508 Japan Kaempfer E

77 2508 Japan Kaempfer E

77 2508 Japan Kaempfer E

- Occas. trifle yellowed/ foxed. Vellum chafed and darkened.

= Landwehr VOC, 531; Cordier Bibl. Japonica, p.417f; Alt-Japan Katalog 717; DSB p.204ff; Howgego p.562; Henze III, p.3-6; cat. NHSM p.233; Tiele 584; Rouffaer/ Muller p.440; cf. Wellcome III, p.376. "Kaempfer's Werk is das erste auf Autopsie und Quellenauswertung beruhende Grundwerk über Japan" (Henze); "Kaempfer arrived in Java in October 1689. The following year he was appointed to accompany the annual voyage to Japan of the East India Company as a physician. He remained in Nagasaki from September 1690 to October 1692 and twice accompanied the chief of the factory at Deshima on his embassy to Edo (now Tokyo). In Nagasaki he made a profound study of Japanese history, geography, customs, and flora. (...). The History of Japan (1727) [of which our copy is the translation] was for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer, an account of his journey, a history and description of Japan and its fauna, a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendixes, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy (...)." (DSB). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.

77 2509 Japan Meijlan G F

77 2509 Japan Meijlan G F

- Htitle and 3 final lvs. browned; title sl. yellowed.

= Alt-Japan Katalog 1001; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 376; Cordier, Bibl. Japonica p.486. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.

77 2511 Judaica and hebraica Basnage J

- Binding sl. soiled. = Klaversma/ Hannema 132; not in Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen.

77 2512 Judaica and hebraica Buxtorf J

- Occas. foxed and (sl.) browned.

= Cf. Fürst I, p.138 and Freiman p.147 (not listing this ed.). The frontisp. showing i.a. a circumcision scene. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.

77 2513 Judaica and hebraica Coccejus J

77 2513 Judaica and hebraica Coccejus J

77 2513 Judaica and hebraica Coccejus J

- Occas. browned; a few wormholes in blank margins; two old annots. in pen and ink on first blank verso and title-p.; covers sl. rubbed. Fine, nicely bound copy.

= From the library of P. Scherrer-Bylund (1900-1992) w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. First edition of Coccejus' concordance and lexicon of biblical Hebrew and Aramaic w. transl. into Latin, Greek, German and Dutch; also vol. 8 of his Opera omnia. Fürst I, p.181.

77 2514 Judaica and hebraica Cunaeus P

- Lacks one prelim. text leaf; yellowed and (water)stained almost throughout; partly sl. mouldy. Vellum sl. darkened.

77 2515 Judaica and hebraica Danz J A

- Contemp. annots. and underlining in pen and ink throughout; owner's entry in ballpoint on title-p.; binding sl. rubbed/ worn.

= An influential Hebrew grammar by the German Lutheran theologian Danz. The table shows the accentuation of Hebrew prose words.