2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- One cover trifle oxidyzed.
= Kept together in modern board box w. hinging lid.
- Lacks clasp.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Joints weak at spine-ends; top of spine sl. worn.
= With pencil annot. attributing the fine binding to L.-A. Boyet (1685-1733). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIV.
- Binding sl. rubbed along extremities; one vol. lower corner upper cover showing; joints rubbed; large scratch on backcover 1st vol.; scratch on frontcover 2nd vol. A fine copy in a very fine binding.
= Cats, STCN 2; Mus. Cats. 2. Storm van Leeuwen I, p.282ff. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIV.
- Possibly lacks a portrait. Lacks ties.
= Spoelder 10. Letterpress schoolprize awarded to "Everardo Schooneveldt" by the rector A.G. van Capellen of the Latin School on 21 September 1838. With an extra letterpress schoolprize w. calligraphed ms. lettering and elaborate engr. border.
- Lacks the prize; sl./ trifle foxed. Lacks ties. = Spoelder 10. Schweiger p.118; Dibdin I p.548f.
ADDED: 1 other.
- Waterstained in lower margin. Binding sl. duststained; gilding on backcover occas. worn off; gilding on frontcover occas. w. dam. spots due to hot pressing.
= Spoelder 12. With the letterpress prize awarded to "Nicolao Jano Broere" by the rector W.J. Zillesen of the Latin School, dated 24 September 1824. Schweiger p.231.
- Without the prize; upper hinge sl. weak; one leaf loose. Lacks ties; vellum trifle stained. = Spoelder 2.
- Frontcover stained; backstrip speckled; vellum dam. at lower corner backcover; lacks 2 ties.
= With manuscript schoolprize on first free endpaper. Spoelder 1.
- Binding lacks ties; gilding on backstrip worn off. = Spoelder 3. Schweiger II,1 p.70
Schoolprize binding of Amsterdam: contemp. overlapping vellum w. gilt coat of arms of AMSTERDAM within double gilt border and 4 cornerpieces on both covers, gilt spine. - ON: Florus, L.A. Cum notis integris Cl. Salmasii et selectissimis variorum, accurante S.M.D.C. Additus etiam L. Ampelus. Amst., Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1674, (16),588,(108),46p., engr. title.
- Binding lacking ties. = Spoelder 4. Willems 1490; Rahir 1598
- Lacks ties. Contents sl. foxed/ yellowed.
= With the typescript/ manuscript prize for Marguerite Hendrix (dated 11 November 1807). Spoelder 6.
- Waterst. at the end; trifle yellowed. Binding sl. dustsoiled; frontcover w. a few sm. dam. spots. = Spoelder 5.
- Two bookplates on upper pastedown; contemp. annot. on first blank; modern annot. on lower pastedown. Both covers w. 2 holes for lacking ties.
= Spoelder 1. Extensive work on ancient, especially Roman, funeral rites. Landwehr, RdH 20; Cicognara 1772.
= Very fine copy of the only edition of works by Vlissingen-born poet Janus de Bisschop. Contains i.a. odes to Michiel de Ruyter, Amsterdam and the Stadtholder-King Willem III. Rare.
- Occas. trifle (finger)soiled; blank verso final leaf sl. stained. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Funck p.281; BCNI 8801; Hollstein 24. The plates show the massacre of Friars Minor by the 'Geusen' at Antwerp and Brussels during the independence war against Spain, ca. 1575-1590. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIV.
- Lacks 4 plates; one vol. partly with rather small stain, mainly in blank margin; two lvs. and one plate w. tear. Foot of three spines trifle dam./ worn.
= Large paper copy. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 75c; cat. Collection Van Eeghen 271-274; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 9. "Het is ongetwijfeld de rijkste en echtste bron voor de geschiedenis van dat tijdvak." (Van der Wind p.241). With the plate of the stranded whale.
- Frontisp. sl. fingersoiled in blank margin. Lacks ties; vellum sl. wrinkled and sl. warped; upper joint starting.
= Bibl. Belg. B30; Scheepers I, 87. Very rare work with rhetorical poetry. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Partly (sl.) yellowed/ foxed.
- Occas. trifle foxed; owner's stamp on first blank. Upper joint split; lower joint starting.
AND another by K. BRANDT.