2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Occas. sl. soiled in margins/ dogeared; a few lvs. trifle wormholed; stamp on first blank. Binding sl. dustsoiled. Nevertheless a fine copy.
= Leendertz 140; Geerebaert CXXXVII 5.II.b.
- Fine copy. = Geerebaert 137, IIc; Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 705.
- Library and cancellation stamps and tickets on prelim lvs. Joints starting at spine-ends.
= Geerebaert 137, IIc; Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 706.
- Contemp. or sl. later owners' entries on prelim lvs. (incl. title) i.a. "L.C. Valckenaer"; hinges weak.
= Willems 1611: "Dans plusieurs exemplaires le feuillet d'errata manque, et les mots opera et studio Cl. Salmasii du frontispice sont remplacés par ceux-ci: ex editione Cl. Salmasii. [as in our copy] (...) Cet élégant volume, bien digne de figurer dans la collection des elzeviers sort également des presses de F. de Heger." Rahir 1187. Gay/ Lemonnyer I, p.15 ("Jolie édition donnée par Saumaise.").
- Occas. trifle foxed. Covers sl. chafed/ worn. Good set. = Cohen/ De Ricci 984; Schweiger p.1081.
- Lacks div. title to 5th part. Later owner's entry on frontcover.
= Geerebaert CXXXVIII/ 12II; Scheepers II, 370. Rare Dutch translation of Terence's comedies.
- Library stamp (Gymnasium Assen) on first free endpaper; without the prize; sl. waterstained and foxed. Lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.325; Spoelder 8.
Nepos, C. Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum. Ed. A. van Staveren. Leyden, S. and J. Luchtmans, 1773, 2nd enl. ed., (30),832,(176)p., engr. title-vignette and 12 ills. (mainly portraits), contemp. gilt calf w. the coat of arms of ROTTERDAM on both covers, and mor. letterpiece.
- Lacks engr. title, prize and free endpapers. Partly sl. (water)stained in margin; scattered annots. Binding sl. worn/ rubbed; lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.302; Spoelder 1.
- Owner's entry of E.J. Kiehl, a Dutch classical scholar, with his annots. throughout. Binding worn.
= Schweiger p.332.
- Bookblock loose (holding on cords); frontisp. cut sl. short on the right; owner's entry on first blank.
= Willems 1119; Rahir 1135; Schweiger p. 1110.
Lucanus, M.A. Pharsalia, sive De bello civili Caesaris et Pompeii Lib. X. Ed. H. Grotius. Amst., D. Elzevier, 1671, (12),273p., engr. title, contemp. calf, 24mo.
- Owner's entries and library stamp on first lvs.; partly sl. waterst. Binding sl. worn; top of spine chipped.
= Willems 1448; Rahir 1535; Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 441; Schweiger p.564. Exact reprint of the first Elzevier edition of 1651.
- First and final lvs. sl. waterstained/ foxed. Binding sl. soiled/ stained; sm. ticket on spine. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Comprises: Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX. Schweiger p.1110; Graesse VI, p.245.
- Hinges broken; (sl.) waterst. in margin. Binding sl. worn; upper joint starting.
= Schweiger p.1130 ("Sehr wichtige Ausgabe"); Graesse V, p.163 ("Édition importante"); Dibdin II, p.525 ("a very excellent edition").
- Some sl. occas. foxing; first free endpaper loosening; pastedowns sl. dam. Binding sl. stained.
= Geerebaert CXLIII, IIBa; De Rynck/ Welkenhuysen p.380; not in Muller/ De Vries/ Scheepers.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper.
= Gaskell 673†. Cf. Dibdin II, p.558: only mentioning the 1758 12mo and the 1788 folio ed.; Schweiger II, p.1179.
- Contents fine. Some stains on frontcover; scratch on backcover. = Schweiger II, p.1180; Dibdin II, p.561.
- Lacks title-p.; occas. sl. waterstained in blank margin.
= Very rare. Geerebaert CXLIII, 1 IIB, b; Bibl. Belgica III, p.209; Scheepers I, 36 ("Zeldzame uitgave der vertaling van de 12 boeken").
- Vague owner's stamp on title-p. (crowned (illegible) monogram); occas. vaguely (water)stained (mainly in blank margin); one leaf w. old tear. Lower corners and foot of spine worn; lacks ties. A good/ fine copy.
= Adams V 941. The rare first edition of this group of three texts on Aristotle's De Anima in one volume. Part of the curriculum of medical students was that they were expected to have studied and written about Aristotle's De anima. Conrad Gessner, who had studied medicine and was deeply interested in the human soul, wrote his De anima in this tradition. It is the fourth of the works contained in this book and is published here for the first time. "Es ist Gessners Hauptverdienst, die fünf Sinne, die Mensch und Tier gemeinsam haben, über Aristoteles hinaus in Aussehen, Potenz und Akt klassifiziert zu haben." (A.-S. Goeing, in: Gessner-Katalog Zürich, 2016, S. 50).
- Both vols. endpapers browned; partly sl. wormholed; occas. sl. stained. Bindings sl. eroded (from acid bite?); vol. 1 top of spine chipped; upper joint starting.
= Brunet II, p.191; Graesse II, p.239.
- A fine set. The two large fold. maps are doubled w. linen; one fold. plate doubled; a few pages sl. foxed.
= Beddie 1552; Sabin 16250; Cox I, p.63; Forbes 69. "Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands on this, his third voyage of discovery, and named them the Sandwich Islands in honor of his patron, the Earl of Sandwich." (Judd/ Lind p.1); "On his return from the second voyage Cook was promptly rewarded for his achievements (...). In 1776 he volunteered for his third and final voyage, with specific instructions to investigate the coasts of the north Pacific, and to settle once and for all the question of the northwest passage. (...) While on Hawaii [after his return from the Bering Sea] relationships with the natives deteriorated, resulting in the death of Cook (14.2.79) during a skirmish. After the theft by natives of one of the Discovery's boats, Cook had gone ashore with a party of marines. A scuffle ensued which compelled the party to return to their boats, but during the retreat Cook received a blow from behind and was subsequently overpowered." (Howgego C175). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
- Lacks the frontisp. to Goede Vrydag; receding wormholes in blank inner margin of first part; p.144 sl. inkstained in lower blank margin; final 20 leaves sl. waterstained in lower blank margin.
= For the engravings see: New Hollstein, De Gheyn 36-49 (final (2nd and 3rd) states). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
- Lacks frontisp., 1 fold. plan and 2 plates (i.a. "Overschie in plano"); title reattached; plates w. closed tear (±10 cm.); sl. later owner's entry on upper pastedown. Paper over covers partly worn off; remnants of tickets on both covers.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 29. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.