2499 - 3244 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Upper pastedown loose. = Geerebaert CXI, 40; Riedel Horatiana O, no.2.
- Without the prize; occas. sl. foxed. Lower joint splitting. Good copy.
= Schweiger II, p.493; Dibdin II, p.140: "These [the two Gronovius editions of 1719/ 1760] are very accurate and elegant editions, and greatly superior to all that preceded them. The latter is the more valuable edition, both from the quantity of matter it contains, and from its correctness". Spoelder 3.
Ovidius Naso, P. Metamorphoseon libri XV. Annots. by J. Minellius and P. Rabus. Amst., R. and J. Wetstein and G. Smith, 1729, (12),621,(9)p., contemp. vellum, 12mo.
- Owner's entries/ annots. on endpapers and covers; upper hinge weak. Sm. inkstain on fore-edge.
= Schweiger II, p.651. Rare.
AND 2 others, incl. another ed. of Ovidius.
- First ±60 and last ±35 lvs. (sl.) waterst.; contemp. owner's entry on first blank. Rebacked w. use of orig. letterpiece.
= Geerebaert CXV, 3; Schweiger p.548.
- Sl. foxed. Spine cracking and sl. darkened. = Schweiger p.576. Large paper copy.
Vergilius Maro, P. Opera. Accedit M. Manilii Astronomicon. Zweibrücken, Ex Typographia Societatis, 1783, 2 vols., 470; 392p., 2 diff. engr. portraits on title-p., contemp. unif. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece.
- Trifle foxed. = Schweiger p.1179
AND 1 other: D.J. JUVENALIS and A. PERSIUS FLACCUS, Alle de schimpdichten, door verscheide dichteren in Nederduitse vaarzen overgebracht (Haarlem, 1709, 2 parts in 1 vol., contemp. vellum. Lacks the frontisp.).
- Partly sl. browned/ foxed; occas. sl. soiled in upper margin; final blank and endpaper waterst.
= Graesse IV, p.436; Brunet III, 1514f: "Mascov est le premier historien allemand qui ait écrit l'histoire de sa nation en même temps que celle des empereurs."
- Vellum trifle (ink)stained; lacks ties. = Schweiger II, p.300.
AND another ed. of the same work (Leyden, Ex Officina Hackiana, 1675, engr. title, 12 ills., contemp. overlapping vellum. Schweiger II, p.298).
- Occas. sl. foxing, first free endpaper and first blank sl. frayed. Vellum soiled; lower cover sm. dam. spot; lower joint partly split; vellum over boards loosening on turn-ins.
= Geerebaert p.145 (ed. 1671). Bound with P.C. HOOFT, Paris oordeel. Tafelspel (Amst., 1703, engr. title-vignette).
- Title cut sl. short in right margin; occas. sl. soiled. Upper joint splitting. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Title-edition of the editions published for J.J. Schipper, P. Robyn, D.C. Houthaek, J. Jansz and J. van Hilten, all Amsterdam, 1643. Very rare, this ed. not in STCN. Cf. Schweiger p.685f; Leendertz 69.
- A later paper piece mounted on verso of title-page and last leaf, somewhat shining through; last few quires with stain near inner margin; lvs. (sl.) browned.
= Geerebaert CXXII, 1 (l); De Rynck/ Welckenhuysen p.276; cat. Ovidius herschapen 19; not in Muller, De Vries, Scheepers, Waller.
- Without the 3rd vol. (publ. 1751); both vols. w. a few scattered (library) stamps and first blanks loose(ning); some foxing; hinges sl. weak. Bindings sl. worn; spine-ends dam.
= Illustrated overview of Giovanni Batista Passeri's collection of "antique" oil lamps. The larger part of the collection however later turned out to consist of fakes.
- Occas. sl. foxed; 1 vol. a few lvs. sl. wormholed. Bindings sl. worn at extremities; 2 vols. upper joint splitting; 1 vol. backstrip loosening. A good/ fine set.
= Schweiger II, p.796.
- Occas. sl. foxed; vol.1 and 3 owner's annots. on final blank. Vol.1 and 2 upper joint splitting/ dam.; all vols. spine and boardedges sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Schweiger p.793. All vols. w. the bookplate of J.G. van Marle on first free endpaper.
- Erratic pagination, but complete; final 20 leaves sl. waterstained in (mainly blank) upper and outer margins. = Geerebaert p.67, 3 note.
- Lacks ties. Very fine copy.
= With the letterpress prize, filled out in manuscript to Henricus Wilhelmus Brantsen, dated "13° Sept 1784" on first blank. For the binding see Spoelder 2; cf. Brunet IV, p.793 and Graesse V, p.398.
- Upper hinge breaking; sl. yellowed almost throughout; partly trifle wormholed in lower margin. Backstrip loosening; top of spine restored; sl. worn along edges.
= With portraits of Greek philosophers and poets, i.a. Thales, Solon, Socrates, Xenophon, Euclides, Plato, Aristoteles, Zeno, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Epicurus, Homerus, Aeschylus and Sappho.
- Bookplate ("Richard T. Pennefather") on upper pastedown; upper hinge weak (first free endpaper loosening). Top of spine dam.; 1 corner showing.
= Schweiger p.965: "Saubrer Abdr. des Gronovsch. Textes; mit guten Auszügen aus den Anmerkgg. früherer Erklärer, auch aus Gronov.'s diatribe. Ziemlich seltene Ausg."
- One plate loose, otherwise fine.
= With printed schoolprize w. manuscript entry to "Sebaldo Fulconi Rau", dated 1776. Dibdin II, p.443; Ebert 21938; Schweiger p.980: "Sein Erläuterungen bes. über d. Sprache sind höchst schätzbar".
- Htitle strengthened in inner margin; fore-edge partly sl. inkstained. Good copy.
= Also includes P. SYRUS' Sententiae (an alphabetical collection of moral maxims, 11p.). Schweiger p.1068.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Covers sl. chafed/ worn. Good set. = Cohen/ De Ricci 984; Schweiger p.1081.
- Lvs. yellowed, occas. sl. browned; margins (sl.) duststained. = Schweiger p.1068.
AND 1 other: POMPONIUS MELA, De Situ Orbis (Leyden, 1782, contemp. vellum schoolprize binding of Dordrecht).