2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Binding rubbed.
AND 3 others i.a. A. GELLIUS, Noctium Atticarum libri XX (Zweibrücken, 1784, engr. title vignette, contemp. hcalf).
- Lacks prize and free endpapers; partly (sl.) waterst. Vellum soiled; boardedges sl. worn; lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.1136; Brunet V, p.1178: "Édition la plus estimée"; Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.423; Spoelder 10.
Lomeier, J. Epimenides sive De veterum gentilium lustrationibus syntagma. Zutphen, J. van Spyk and D. Schutten, 1700, 2nd ed., (30),485,(46)p., engr. title-vignette, 18 plates, contemp. vellum, 4to.
- Lacks frontisp. and (free) endpapers; partly browned; some quires loosening. Frontcover and backstrip (almost) loose and dam.; sl. stained.
= Rare copy of Lomeier's work on propitiatory sacrifices in Antiquity. Graesse IV, p.250.
- Bookplate with coat of arms of Moseley family on upper pastedown; a few lvs. sl. waterst. in margin; scattered later annots. Covers loose but holding on cords; sl. worn/ dam. at backstrip and along extremities.
= Schweiger p.1136; Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.423.
- Bookblock loose; blank margin of title-p. cut off; occas. sl. stained. Vellum soiled.
= Rare ed. of works by Luccan Neolatin poet Bartolomeo Beverini (1629-1686).
Secundus, J. Opera. Ed. P. Scriverius. Leyden, F. Hegerus (= Ph. de Croy), 1631, (28),384p., engr. title, portrait, later boards, 12mo.
- A few lvs. sl. dam. (and repaired); contents otherwise fine. Binding dam./ worn at backstrip (lacks portion) and extremities.
= Willems 1669 note; Rahir 1849. The third edition (first edition published in Leyden, 1612). "L'édition de 1651 reproduit textuellement la précédente [= ed. 1631], elle a le même titre gravé et le même portrait, mais elle est plus jolie et son format se rapproche davantage de l'in-12 elzevirien." (Willems).
AND 1 other.
- Without the prize. Lacks ties. Contents fine.
= Schweiger p.70; Spoelder 8.
- Binding worn. = Rare.
- Rebound w. most inner margins of first ±70 lvs. strengthened; scattered contemp. owner's entries on first and final lvs.; sl. wormholed in blank margins throughout; sl. (finger)soiled; 2 modern bookplates on pastedowns.
= Schweiger, p.247.
- Partly waterst. in lower right corner; fingersoiled. Binding worn; frontcover loose(ning); foot of spine dam.
= Lipperheide Ba 7; Cohen/ De Ricci 271.
- Sl. browned; owner's entry on title: "Latijnsche school Schiedam". = Rare edition of this rare schoolbook.
- Owner's entry on first textleaf; occas. trifle spotted. Binding sl. worn/ dam. at extremities; otherwise fine.
= Enl. edition (first: 1650) of this collection of 45 student' speeches held at the Delft Latin School, by its rector Jacques de La Croix (1579-1635).
- Endpapers sl. browned/ foxed; library ticket and stamp on verso title; contemp. owner's annots. on first free endpaper.
= Schweiger p.322. Nice plates, i.a. showing Babylon and the hanging gardens. From the Trautner-Falkiana library w. its bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Lacks schoolprize. = Spoelder 3.
- Vol. 1 joints splitting at top of spine. = Schweiger p.90. Attractively bound set.
AND 1 other in 5 vols.: L'ABBÉ TAILHIÉ, Abrégé de l'histoire Romaine à l'usage des jeunes gens (Paris, 1784, contemp. unif. gilt calf w. 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces).
- Contemp. owner's entry below engr. frontisp.
= Schweiger I, p.106; cf. Dibdin I, p.515 (ed. Leyden/ Amst., 1670); Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as a book illustrator 6 (idem); cf. Caillet 3638 (ed. 1695).
- Occas. trifle yellowed. Sm. ticket on spine. = Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 499; Schweiger p.119: "s. selten".
AND 1 other: HERODOTUS, Musae sive Historiarum Libri IX (London, 1830, stipple-engr. frontisp. portrait, contemp. gilt vellum schoolprize binding of Utrecht).
- Lacks title-p. of 2nd and 3rd work; a few fragments in 1st work erased (censored?) w. contemp. pen and ink; sl. yellowed. Binding sl. rubbed.
- Endpapers lacking/ detached; a few lvs. sl. (ink)stained; partly sl. wormholed (mostly in margin). Binding in poor condition: leather dried; backstrip and top edge dam.; upper joint split (holding on cords); title in pen and ink on fore-edge.
= Schweiger p.131; Adams H 176; Graesse III, p.235: "L'éditeur s'est servi de quatre manuscr., à l'aide desquels il a ôté beaucoup de fautes et suppléé plusieurs lacunes. Toutes les éd. postérieures, à l'exception de celles de Coray, sont basées sur celle de Commelin." Rare bilingual edition of Heliodorus' Aethiopica, "the oldest and best of the Greek romances that have come down to us" (Encyclopaedia Britannica p.223), with the first Latin translation by S. WARSZEWICKI.
Gellius, A. Noctes Atticae. Geneva, J. de Tournes, 1621, (16),698,(124)p., woodcut title-vignette, later calf, sm. 8vo.
- Pastedowns detached; textlvs. from an Aristotle ed. used as free endpapers. Joints split(ting); dam. at backstrip and corners.
= With the owner's entry of Francis White (±1652-1715, fellow of Balliol College, Oxf. Univ.) on first blank. Schweiger p.378.
- Both vols. partly sl. waterstained in margins; occas. sl. foxed; bookplate of "Henn Wolfram Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach" on first free endpaper.
= With the Latin text in the edition of C. SAUMAISE accomp. by his commentary notes and those of I. CASAUBON and J. GRUTER. Graesse III, p.304; Brunet III, p.226.
- Fine copy. = Geerebaert XLVIII, 7; Muller 318; Scheepers II, 326. Rare.