2499 - 3244 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Box dam.
= The clasps and catches show as usual Moses and Aaron and the four Evangelists, the corner pieces show angels. Cornerpieces with the hall mark of silversmith Roelof Jans Snoek from Leeuwarden and the catches with an unidentified hall mark of an acorn. With a loosely inserted manuscript leaf, probably from an other family bible with baptism dates of i.a. Doetje Lykles (1770 in Hallum), which indicates a Frisian heritage.
- Dam. at spine-ends; lower joint chipped; one upper spine-piece lacks portion of silver.
= With contemp. owner's entry on 2nd blank ("Caroline De Jongh van Claes(?)"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.
- Some lvs. trifle stained. Both vols. joints starting at top of spine; letterpieces sl. dam. Good copy.
= Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846) governed the short-lived Kingdom of Holland (1806-1810), a client state created by his brother Napoléon; A.P. Giraud designed the coat of arms (1808).
ADDED: 2 other dictionaries.
- Spine-ends chipped; joints rubbed; corners showing; boardedges worn and w. some sm. dam. spots.
= Guigard, p.30.
- Sl. dustsoiled; covers sl. warped; corners showing.
- Frontcover lacks left sphinx in lower section; various (sm.) missing/ dam. parts; lacks the key. Backstrip worn/ discoloured.
= Despite its flaws a beautifully decorated, highly attractive portfolio.
- Very fine copy. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.
- First 4 leaves loose; sl. rubbed along extremities. Golden lock lacks key (or maybe part of clasp).
- Silver decoration sl. dulled but still a remarkable binding with a few small defects (some sl. worn and sl. chafed spots).
- Binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
AND 2 other 19th-cent. gilt red mor. bindings, incl. 1 w. floral borders, turn-ins and spine.
- 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).
- Frontcover sl. scratched along spine; upper hinge weak; foot of spine chipped.
AND 2 Middelburg schoolprize bindings on contemp. calfbacked boards w. green mor. letterpieces, both with the prize, on: J.N. BOUILLY, Nouvelles Causeries d'un veilliard (Paris, ±1845, engr. plates. Lower corner of frontcover dam.) and P. BLANCHARD, Petit voyage autour du monde (Paris, 1836, 11th ed., engr. plates. Corners trifle rubbed).
- Provenance: both vols. w. library stamp of the "Bibliothèque de la Reine. Palais Royal" on the first blank. Contents occas. trifle foxed. Fine copies.
= All published (one more volume was planned but never saw the light). Very attractive French royal bindings. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.
- Contemp. owner's entry on first blank; occas. sl. foxed. Backstrip sl. discoloured; corners sl. bumped.
= Rare. After the death of his eldest son Gosewinus (1832-1851), Voogt published extracts from his surviving diary (NNBW X, p.1132).
Claudius, M. Liedjes. Leeuw., G.T.N. Suringar, 1834, 2nd ed., VIII,112p., engr. title by P. VELIJN, 7 engr. vignettes by J.C. BENDORP, contemp. gilt triple panelled (incl. 1 floral panel) red mor., gilt floral spine and turn-ins, a.e.g.
- Contemp. owner's entry on first blank; occas. trifle foxed. Extremities trifle rubbed.
= Before Claudius' Liedjes, the first lvs. of J.P. Cau's Dissertatio historico-politica inauguralis continens historiam marchionatus Verae et Vlissingae (Leyden, 1838, (h)title and praefatio) are bound.
AND 3 other 18th-/ 19th-cent. dissertation bindings, incl. W.H. ELIAS, De taxatie bij zeeverzekering (Amst., 1869, dissertation, contemp. richly gilt red mor. w. central ship (paddle steamer) ornament on frontcover and Minerva on backcover, within gilt and (2x) blindst. borders, a.e.g.).
- Lacks ties; covers trifle (dust)stained. = Spoelder 4. Schweiger p.598.
- Lacks ties. Otherwise fine.
= Spoelder 9 or 13. On the contents: Schweiger p.106; Dibdin I, p.515 (ed. Leyden/ Amst., 1670); Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as a book illustrator 6 (idem); cf. Caillet 3638 (ed. 1695).
- Fine copy.
= With the (partly torn) letterpress prize w. woodcut ill. of the Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen, filled out in manuscript to "Hendrik Pörtener" dated 15 July 1801. Cf. De prijs is het bewijs 45. On the contents: BNK 1534; Buisman 335.
- Sl. foxed throughout; paper ticket on first blank. Lacks ties at backcover.
= Spoelder 2. With the ms. prize awarded to Willem Anne Schimmelpenninck Van der Oije by H. CANNEGIETER, rector of the Latin school, on 7 September 1761. On the contents: Graesse V, p.403 ("Dans cette éd. 11 mss. ont été consultés de manière qu'une récension entièrement nouvelle a été établie."); Schweiger II, p.611.