1471 - 1567 VARIA. EROTICA, FASHION and COSTUME, JUDAICA, MUSIC, OCCULTISM, PHILOSOPHY, TEXTILES, THEOLOGY etc.
- Binding sl. chafed and worn.
= Verhandelingen, raakende den Natuurlyken en Geopenbaarden Godsdienst, uitgegeven door Teyler's Godgeleerd Genootschap. IV. Deel.
- Text lvs. (sl.) foxed; cl. over upper joint partly torn.
= Privately bound for "G.M. van der Kuijlen", dated "16 juli 1903", giltlettered on frontcover. From the 19th century up to World War I Van der Kuijlen was the most important stud farm and livery stable keeper for luxury horses of the Netherlands.
= This edition was printed in 1999 numbered copies. Perhaps a proof copy? Rare.
AND 2 small others on golf.
- The large cloth w. some sm. dam. spots; the small cloth sl. stained.
= Variant sizes with the same design, showing the flags of the participating countries along the sides, with the Olympic emblem in all four corners.
AND an unused postcard from the 1936 Olympic Village.
- Binding sl. worn along extremities.
= Fashion trade-catalogue with textile samples for summer dresses.
- Colours still bright. Binding soiled.
- Lacks a few samples. Frontcover detached; lacks part of backstrip (?); boards soiled.
Crépatte, Strauss et fils. Lainages & Soieries. Hiver 1939-40. Ibid., idem, 1939, 2 parts in 1 vol., 40,16p. w. num. mounted textile samples, col. plates by L. MENETRIER, orig. clothbacked boards, folio,
- Contents mostly fine. Binding w. minor imperfections.
= Both attractive trade catalogues for (summer and winter) dresses.
- Lacks a few samples; w. some samples encircled w. pen. = I.a. textiles for winter coats.
= Attractive Dutch trade catalogue.
- Traces of former ticket at foot of both spines. = Rare.
Merx, A. Bardesanes von Edessa, nebst einer Untersuchung über das Verhältniss der elementinischen Recognitionen zu dem Buche der Gesetze der Länder. Halle, C.E.M. Pfeffer, 1863, 1st ed., (4),155,(1)p., early 20th cent. cl. w. red mor. letterpiece.
- Covers sl. foxed.
= Rare. "Earliest known Syriac author. He was active at the court of Abgar VIII (177-212) in Edessa (...) His own writings, which included works against Marcion and the Chaldeans (that is, astrologers), are unfortunately lost, since his views on cosmology were later considered unorthodox." (quote from the online Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage).
Levene, A. The early Syrian Fathers on Genesis. From a Syriac Ms on the Pentateuch in the Mingana Collection (...). London, Taylor's Foreign press, 1951, VIII,352,(2)p., orig. giltlettered cl. Drijvers, H.J.W. Old-Syriac (Edessean) Inscriptions. Leyden, E.J. Brill, 1972, XVIII,117p., orig. wr. - AND 11 miscellaneous others in 12 vols., mainly on (Far-)eastern language and culture, i.a. PATROLOGIA SYRIACA, complectens opera omnia SS Patrum, Doctorum scriptorumque catholicorum (...). Vol. 1,1 and 1,2 (Paris, 1894, 2 (of 3) vols., Syriac and Latin language, orig. unif. giltlettered cl.) and A Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac as spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North-West Persia, and the Plain of Mosul (Oxf., 1901, 1st ed., orig. giltlettered (dampstained) cl. Contents fine).
- Partly (sl.) foxed; all 4 vols. w. libr. stamp on (general) title-p.
= Rarely found complete. "In the first part, with the sub-title Das Jahrhundert des Heils, he investigates the time in which Christ lived; in the second, entitled Die heilige Sage, he treats of the authenticity and literary character of the first three Gospels, and in the third, Das Heiligthum und die Wahrheit, he discusses the Gospel of John. The work, therefore, is a detailed investigation of the character and significance of the New Testament from an historical point of view, and is based on a wealth of materials." (Wikipedia).
- Backstrip vol. 1 w. dam. spot.
AND 3 miscell. others, i.a. I. DA COSTA, De Sadduceën (Leyden, 1824, contemp. boards).
- Joints sl. worn; backstrip browned.
Groenewegen, H.IJ. De Remonstrantie op haren driehonderdsten Gedenkdag 1610 - XIV januari - 1910. Leyden, S.C. van Doesburg, 1910, (8),57,(2)p., 16 facs. plates, orig. richly gilt cl., folio.
- Cloth sl. wrinkled and stained.
AND 7 others in 10 vols., i.a. H.C. DIFEREE, Drie eeuwen kerkgeschiedenis (Amst., (1930), num. plates/ ills., orig. gilt cl., folio); H.C. ROGGE, Caspar Janszoon Coolhaes, de voorlooper van Arminius en der Remonstranten (ibid., 1865, 2 vols., orig. unif. boards) and J.H. MARONIER, Jacobus Arminius. Een Biografie (ibid., 1905, portrait, orig. wr.).
- No.9 cut sl. short; no.5 w. faint vertical fold; wr. partly sl. affected by silverfish.
= Rare Maastricht provo-periodical, assembled and designed by members of "Luuks Groep", i.a. Ger Brouwer, Hans Mol and Kees Graaf. No.9 (Slurfje) w. the often lacking supplemental cut-off part.
AND duplicates of no.4 and 8 (no.4 w. piece of sandpaper mounted on frontwr.).
- A few publications sl. worn/ torn/ dam. Incl. duplicates.
= I.a. issues of Provo, Real Free Press Illustratie, God Nederland & Oranje, a programme booklet for Festival of Fools (1975), De Gabber. De Hardcore Underground Krant van Gabberland (1997), publications by the squatters movement (i.a. Handleiding voor krakers (1978, 4th ed.)) and a few underground comics (i.a. Rebel Comix. No.1 and 2).