2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- One leaf lacks large portion (p.401-402), the following leaf repaired w. tape; upper hinge broken; lower hinge strengthened; a few lvs. vaguely (water)stained in lower margin;.
= Very rare songbook. Scheurleer 39.
- Three leaves (incl. title-p.) vaguely browned/ sl. stained in outer margin, otherwise contents fine. Joints splitting; corners rubbed.
= Höweler/ Matter p.164; Goovaerts 744; Scheurleer I, p.39; Van den Doel p.244.
- Sl. waterstained/ yellowed in upper margin throughout touching text; occas. identification of poets in pencil. Vellum trifle soiled.
= First and only edition of a songbook with contributions by i.a. J. van Heemskerck, J. van Vondel, P.C. Hooft and B. van Hemert. Extremely rare: only 3 copies auctioned in the past 30 years (incl. another copy in our rooms in November 2001). 1. Minne-plicht. Tentoongestelt inde Vryagie van Diana en Filandre. Een vande waerdigste stuckjes uyt de on-waerdeerlijcke Astrea. 2. Stryd of Kamp, Tusschen Kuysheyd En Geylheyd. 3. Kinder-werck, Ofte Sinne-Beelden Van de spelen der kinderen, Seneca. Scheurleer p.151; Unger 106; Leendertz 200. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.
- Lacks large portion of title-p. and lower corner of first text leaf (w. loss of text); prob. lacks htitle or leaf A2; occas. sl. browned.
= Scheurleer p.178. Contains a total of 130 mostly amorous songs, as well as a few drinking songs at the end. Rare.
- Lacks 1 textleaf (p.273-274) and the 2 final (index) leaves; 2 leaves lack corner w. loss of words; frontisp. and title-p. soiled, dam. (hole in the sky/ text), doubled (closing the hole) and cut sl. short; first 2 textleaves after the title also w. hole in text (loss of letters); occas. cut sl. short (affecting page numbers, running title or quire signature) and partly waterstained in margins.
= This edition not in STCN. Cf. Scheurleer p.178 (the 8th corr. ed. publ. in Antw. by Peters Rymers, n.d. (±1767). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.
- Lacks letterpress title-p., p.63-64 (but quire (D) complete) and p.303-304 (blank?); partly waterstained; title-p. touched w. colour. Bookblock loose. Sold w.a.f.
= Scheurleer p.152; Scheepers I, 304 (w. 9 engravings): "Een der aardigste Nederl. liedboeken, belangrijk voor de zeden en gewoonten. 3 gravures stellen gezichten van Haarlem voor. Versch. beschrijvingen geven slechts 7 gravures aan. (...) Zeer zeldzaam." Very rare, nicely illustrated songbook, only 1 in the JAP 1970-2022 and only 1 copy of this ed. in STCN. SEE ILLUSTRATION ON TITLE-PAGE.
- Partly (sl.) yellowed/ browned; occas. waterst. in upper blank margin. Binding sl. stained and dustsoiled; calf dam. at board edges and lower corners.
= Bibl. Spinoza p.13; Van der Linde 402 (3rd ed. 1754); Bierens de Haan (1st ed. 1720). Main work by this follower of Descartes and opponent of Spinoza.
- Occas. sl. foxed (incl. the plates). Backstrips sl. dried/ rubbed. A good/ fine set.
= Lipperheide Ma9. Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 447/448. "The first treatise on geographical anthropology" (Landwehr). A German transl. was published 1805-1809. The fine, delicately handcol. plates, all depicting ethnic types, engraved by L. Portman after Jacques Kuyper.
- Two fold. plates and one quire loose; (sl.) browned/ foxed. Covers soiled; paper over spine worn/ splitting.
= Lipperheide Ma9. Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 447/448. "The first treatise on geographical anthropology" (Landwehr). A German transl. was published 1805-1809. The fine, delicately handcol. plates, all depicting ethnic types, engraved by L. Portman after Jacques Kuyper.
- Sm. annots. and ticket on upper endpaper; occas. sl./ trifle stained.
= Rare. First, and so far only (complete), Dutch translation of the Chronica of Sulpicius Severus (±363-425). The 2nd part is a translation of De quatuor summis imperiis of Johannes Sleidanus (a continuation of the Chronica). De Vet, Pieter Rabus (Amst., 1980), p.54.
Eusebius Pamfilus. Kerkelyke geschiedenissen zedert den dood van onzen zaligmaker tot aan den volkomen bloeistand van 't kristendom. Dutch ed. A.A. vander Meersch. Amst., F. Houttuyn, 1749, 3 parts in 1 vol., (46),382; (2),383-584; L,116,(36)p., engr. frontisp. by J.C. PHILIPS, 2 fold. maps, 13 ills. after J. LUIKEN and 2 sm. ills. showing medallions, contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, 4to.
- Library stamp on title-p.; occas. sl. stained/ foxed. Binding sl. worn along edges; spine-ends dam.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 502; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen p.339. Includes two maps: "Nieuwe kaart van het Roomsche Keiserryk" and "Nieuwe kaart van het ooster gedeelte des Roomschen Keizerryks".
- Occas. (sl.) foxed and unobtrusive (vague) waterst.; bookplate on upper pastedowns and owner's entry on first free endpapers; vol. 2 one plate and 2 textleaves loose; vol. 1 first free endpaper loosening and upper hinge weak. Joints splitting at top (leather dry); top of spines worn/ sl. dam.
= Contains i.a. a map of Switzerland, 2 maps of Italy and a map of Malta together with Gozo and Comino, a plan of Geneva, a view of Rome and 2 nice panoramic views of Basel and Venice.
- Interleaved copy w. later annots.
= Oversteegen II, 1; Unger II, 2, A. The only edition with the poem of "J.N." verso title-p. Very rare.
- Binding worn and soiled.
= With contemporary manuscript annotations and additional names in pen and ink and on last free endpaper and pastedown two manuscript family trees "Geslagt-Register van Moederszijde haar Grootvader & grootmoeder van vaderszijde" (i.a. van der Hulst) and "Haar grootvader & grootmoeder van Moederszijde". And loosely inserted contemporary and later (19th/ 20th century) manuscript leaves concerning members of the Teyler family, i.a. Pieter Teyler van der Hulst.
- Sm. bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. sl. foxed/ soiled; most lvs. restored in lower margin. Spine (badly) rubbed; covers sl. warped.
= Nijhoff 3501. Rare. Provenance: the famous Paul Gourary Collection of Feast and Ceremonial Books, w. his ex-libris.
- Dam. and waterstained in lower inner margin throughout affecting first and final lvs., most w. some loss of paper and text (incl. title). Backcover lacks portion; binding heavily soiled; lacks ties.
- Partly w. (sm.) defects.
- Title cut short w. partial loss of lower margin; occas. sl. foxed. Lacks mor. letterpiece.
- Hinges broken.
Augustinus. De Belydenis. Ibid., Dominicus vander Ween, 1741, (22),518,(20)p., contemp. calf.
- Pastedowns loose.
Strauss, D.F. Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet. Tübingen, C.F. Osiander, 1837, 2nd ed., 2 vols., XX,801,(3); XII,758p., contemp. unif. giltlettered hmor.
- Browned.
AND 6 others on theology.
- Yellowed/ sl. browned/ partly waterstained throughout; multiple contemp. owner's entries on first free endpaper and title; first title creased and w. folds, lacks outer blank margin. Dam. at top of spine; joints splitting; corners showing; covers chafed.
= Cf. Graesse VII, p.140 and Brunet V, p.826 (other editions).
- Yellowed/ waterst. at the beginning; owner's entry (dated 1952) on title-p. Lower joint split; portion of spine restored/ strengthened w. glueish substance; lacks ties.
= Arents 234-b ("undoubtedly a pirated edition").