2499 - 3244 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- All vols. (sl.) foxed; vol.2 (sl.) dampstained in upper inner blank margin.
= Attractively bound set.
- Lacks first free endpaper; occas. sl. fingersoiled/ sl. stained. Covers (sl.) worn.
= The first Dutch ed. of the account of Cook's second voyage. Beddie 1231; Chavanne 5724; Cox I, p.59/60; Sabin 16275. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Without the Chart of the Straights of Magellan; a few maps not bound according to binder's index (i.a. the general chart of the South Sea bound at the end of vol. 2); all vols. owner's stamp on title-p. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities; vol. 2 covers (water)stained.
= Published in the same year as the first edition. Cox I, p.19; Hill 782; Sabin 30934; Beddie 648; Henze II, p.713; Kroepelien 535; Smith p.46f. Contains the official account of Cook's first voyage commanding the Endeavour, edited from his journals by Hawkesworth and containing in the preceding sections the official accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis and Carteret. Hawkesworth's compendium contains the cream of English exploring voyages of the mid-18th century. "Hawkesworth was expected to add polish to the rough narratives of sea men, and to present the accounts in a style befitting the status of the voyages as official government expeditions, intended to embellish England's prestige as a maritime power." (Hill). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- From the library of H. Boekenoogen (bookplate on upper pastedown). Frontisp. and double-p. title doubled and both splitting at lower end of central fold; occas. sl. (dust)stained. Rebacked w. modern giltlettered calf backstrip.
= Dünnhaupt 53.2; Bertsche 55a; Goedeke II, p.240,27; Heyse 897; Jantz I,309; Warthin p.76. Not in Oppermann, Reichelt, etc. The second edition (first 1710). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Fine copy.
= Reichelt 88; cat. Memento Mori, Dansen met de dood 39. Not in Oppermann etc. The rare first Dutch edition of the Besonders meublirt und gezierte Todten-Capelle, oder Allgemeiner Todten-Spiegel.
- Part of the woodcuts in sl. weak impression; endpapers and blanks foxed; a few leaves trifle fingersoiled in lower blank margin (1 page sl. stained); title-p. trifle foxed, otherwise contents fine. Binding in splendid condition.
= Mortimer 288: "(...) the Holbein blocks appeared in a 1554 edition under this title of Icones mortis (...), with a Basel imprint but with no publisher or printer named (...). This is not strictly a page-for-page reprint, but it closely follows the 1547 Icones, and not only the blocks for the illustrations but the initials (with one possible exception) are from Frellon's stock. There is a good possibility that this 1554 edition was actually printed by Frellon at Lyons for sale at Basel. See Baudrier, vol. 5, p.156-157, 160, for brief notes on Frellon's connection with Basel"; Hollstein XIV, A99, p.205; Schultz Jacobi 17. Not in Adams, Oppermann, Reichelt and cat. Memento Mori, Dansen met de Dood. Containing 53 woodcuts, consisting of the 41 blocks from the 1538 edition and 12 new woodcuts after drawings by Holbein. According to Woltmann these new woodcuts were first recorded in the Lyon, 1547 edition, but no copy traced by Hollstein. "Holbein's contribution to the traditional Dance of Death was a sharpening of the humor and satire and a heightening of the drama, so that the customary procession of figures becomes instead under his hand a series of fully realized scenes." (Mortimer). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Lacks title; engr. title cut out and pasted onto 2nd free endpaper; remnants of bookplate on upper pastedown; last p. partly torn along inner margin. Rebacked w. use of orig. (sl. worn) backstrip. Sold w.a.f.
= Schultz-Jacobi 94; Waller 1458/59 and Scheepers I, 347 (both other eds.). Oppermann 1183: "Seltener und fast unauffindbarer Totentanz mit der wesentlichen Neuerung, dass Rusting den Tod in das Alte Testament einführt, was sonst nie vorkommt".
- Partly waterst. Vellum over backcover sl. wrinkled; frontcover sl. warped.
- Hinges weakening; lacks first free endpaper; sl. foxed. Spine-ends chipped; covers chafed.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Owner's entry and annot. of M.A. Snoeck on first free endpaper/ blank; 2 lvs. vaguely waterst.; 2 plates w. tear repaired w. paper on verso. Good copy.
= Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer 2789; Bodel Nijenhuis 418. Translation of Foppens' Hist. episcopatus Sylva-Ducensis (1721).
- Occas. sl. browned/ stained (vol. 4 sl. inkstained); vol. 1 w. owner's entry cut out. Poor bindings: sl. chafed; dam. at spine-ends and letterpieces; 2x letterpiece lacking; 3x remnants of tape.
- Occas. sl. yellowed. Covers sl. duststained.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 341a and 463a; Bodel Nijenhuis 2901..
- Frontisp. rubbed; cut short, occas. sl. affecting text; title-p. cut short (w. loss of address below image); final text leaf remargined; 19th cent. owner's entry on first free endpaper ("Caroli Pauli Augustini Comberbach"). Frontcover detached but holding on cords; binding worn.
= Very nice phrase-book. The first part is divided into 8 conversational situations (i.a. "Dat eerste Capittel is een maeltijt van thien personagien ende houdet veel ghemeyne redenen die men over tafel besicht"; "(...) om naer den wegh te vraghen met andere ghemeene proposten" and "(...) ghemeyne koutinge zynde ter herberghe"), the second part is a list in (Dutch) alphabetical order of frequently used words. The final part contains a few remarks on basic grammar and pronunciation. Peeters-Fontainas 347.
- Used copy; lacks final 4(?) text lvs.; yellowed/ fingersoiled; hinges weak; lacks pastedowns. Binding darkened and worn; lacks portion of vellum over backcover.
= Very nice phrase-book. The first part is divided into 8 conversational situations (i.a. "Dat eerste Capittel is een maeltijt van thien personagien ende houdet veel ghemeyne redenen die men over tafel besicht"; "(...) om naer den wegh te vraghen met andere ghemeene proposten" and "(...) ghemeyne koutinge zynde ter herberghe"), the second part is a list in (Dutch) alphabetical order of frequently used words. The final part contains a few remarks on basic grammar and pronunciation. Peeters-Fontainas 347.
- Vol.1 in mediocre condition: final ±150 leaves waterstained; final few quires waterwrinkled; final endpaper and backcover mouldy (leather over backcover loosening). Vol.3 covers sl. rubbed.
- Sl. yellowed/ fixed (worse towards the end). Spine strengthened w. tape; joints splitting.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 17; Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as Bookillustrator 45.
- Contemp. owner's entry ("L. Ovens") on prelim. lvs. and title; 19th cent. entry on title. Inkstains on frontcover.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 44; De Vries 24; Muller 92; Waller 316; Buisman 268.
- Occas. stained and fingersoiled; bookblock sl. shaken.
- Wormhole in first lvs. (incl. title); sl. yellowed; occas. waterst.
= Rare edition, the second part titled: J. VAN FOCQUENBERGUES, De Reyze na Beth-el, Ofte Het Huys Godts.