2806 - 3510 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Vol.1 (of 4) only. Occas. sl. foxed. Vellum at spine-ends worn/ torn off.
- All lvs. browned; library stamp on first free endpaper; two lvs. w. a few annot./ underlining; a few quires w. sm. waterstain in lower margin. Binding sl. rubbed; a few sm. wormholes in corners of binding.
= Very rare binding. On the work: cf. Schweiger II, p.173 (ed. 1579), this edition not mentioned. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
AND 1 other: P. OVIDIUS NASO, Tristium (Frankf. and Leipsic, 1701, contemp. vellum. Schweiger III, p.660).
- Upper hinge of bookblock of the second part broken. Decoration on the frontcover to the first part partly almost worn off; vellum adjecent to the clasps darkened. Otherwise a fine copy.
= A very fine example of one of the rarer types of binding, even rarer on a Dutch wordly songbook. For the songbook see Scheurleer p.64/65 (other eds.); no copy of these editions in the STCN. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE LXII.
- Without the plates (as bound, possibly to prevent too much handling of the binding); occas. trifle yellowed/ foxed. Upper joint partly splitting.
= Storm van Leeuwen I, pp. 410-436; on the contents: Poortman II, p.139-145.
- Bookplate and stamp on first free endpaper; facs. plate w. sm. closed tear in inner blank margin. Otherwise fine.
- Contents foxed, otherwise fine. Covers w. some tiny scratches; corners, joints and spine-ends (sl.) worn.
- Lacks last index leaf; some sl. occas. foxing. Hole in upper compartment of backstrip; gilt on covers partly rubbed off; backcover sm. stain.
= With printed schoolprize w. manuscript entries and engr. coat of arms bound in. Spoelder 10; Dekkers p.124, 16.
- Without the prize. Lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.348; Dibdin II, p.3-4: "This is the celebrated Variorum edition, which Mr. Gibbon declares to be "superior to all others, even to that of Havercamp." It is, indeed, a very admirable performance, and contains, besides the treasures of all preceding editions, some excellent notes of Verheyk, various readings of valuable MSS. (...) we may safely pronounce it one of the very best and most elegant productions of the eighteenth century (...)." Spoelder 2.
ADDED 1 other: THEOCRITUS, BION and MOSCHUS, Carmina Bucolica (Leyden, 1810, Latin and Greek language, contemp. boards. Contents loose(ning); backstrip lacking; frontcover almost loose; not collated, but apparently complete).
- Without the prize; bookplate on upper pastedown; partly waterstained and yellowed. Lacks ties.
= Spoelder 1. Darlow/ Moule 4726. On the worldmap (with California still depicted as an island): cf. Shirley 457 and ill. p.477. "Some bibles printed in Amsterdam in the early eighteenth century have a worldmap which is a very close copy of Moxon's" (Shirley p.475).
- Lacks ties, otherwise a fine copy. = With the prize to D.W. Nibbelink bound in at front. Spoelder 2.
AND an identical schoolprize binding of DORDRECHT (Spoelder 2), on S.J. FRONTINUS, Strategematicon. Ed. F. Modius, P. Scriverius a.o. (Leyden, 1779, engr. frontisp., with the prize bound in at front. Sl. browned; owner's stamp on title-p.; lacks ties. Otherwise fine).
- Occas. sl. foxed. Otherise fine.
= Spoelder 2. With the prize awarded to "D.G. Nibbelink" and dated 1851.
AND 2 others in 4 vols., i.a. P. VIRGILIUS MARO, Opera. Ed. C. Ruaeus (The Hague, 1723, engr. frontisp., 1 fold. map and 14 plates, contemp. gilt vellum schoolprize binding of Groningen. Binding dam; gilt faded; Spoelder 1).
- Backcover chafed; scratch on frontcover.
= Spoelder 4. With an attractively calligraphed prize in pen and red and black ink surrounded by a gilt vegetal border around sides bound in before the title-p. and awarded to "Petro Smit de Klemp", dated "MDCCCXXXVI". Schweiger p.226.
- Vellum sl. dustsoiled; lacks ties.
= With manuscript dedication to "Nobilissimi Amplissimi quatuor Kiri Hujus gymnasii curatores. Dignissime rector". Spoelder 3; Schweiger III, p.736 (ed. 1727).
AND a gilt vellum schoolprize binding of Gouda (Gilding sl. worn off. Spoelder 5).
= With the letterpress and manuscript prize for David Borking (dated 15th of May, 1807). Spoelder 6.
- Lacks ties.
= Spoelder 7. With the prize awarded to "Petrum Cornelium van der Hoeven" in 1834 by the Latin school of Schiedam.
- FIrst part only, numb. A-N. Without the prize; browned. Lacks ties.
= Spoelder 4. From the library of François Haverschmidt (Piet Paaltjens, 1835-1894), with his owner's entry on upper pastedown, dated "1853".
- Binding sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities. = Spoelder 4.
- All with various defects.
= A few titles: R. QUINTUS CURTIUS, Phraseologia Curtiana, Das ist: Deutliche Erklärung Der Vornehmsten Redens-Arten Welche In dem berühmrten Auctore Quinto Curtio gefunden werden, Zur Erleichterung der Exposition, in unsere Teutsche Mutter-Sprache sorgfältig übersetzt (Ulm, 1741, 4th enl. ed.); C.C. TACITUS, Jaarboeken en historien, ook zijn Germanië (Amst., 1684); V.L. VAN SECKENDORF, Uitvoerige en onpartydige Historie der Reformatie door Dr. Martin Luther En andere Voortreflyke Mannen, zedert den Jare 1515 en vervolgens, in Duitschland en de aangrenzende Ryken door Godts Zegen gewrocht (...) (Delft, 1728, 3 (of4) vols.).
- Waterstain in lower margin throughout; blank outer margin of frontisp. cut short and loosening at lower end; vague stamp on (partly loosening) upper pastedown; 18th cent. owner's entry on first blank. Vellum soiled.
= Landwehr VOC, 829; BMN p.61; cf. Pritzel 7157, Hunt I, 244, Borba de Moraes II, p.676, Bosch 109 and Rouffaer/ Muller, suppl. II, p.124. Hirsch I, p.524 (J. de Bondt) and IV, p.577-578 (Willem P. Piso); Garrison/ Morton 2263 (ed. 1642): "Bontius was probably the first to regard tropical medicine as an independent branch of medical science. He spent the last four years of his life in the Dutch East Indies, and his book incorporates the experience he gained there. It is the first Dutch work on tropical medicine and includes the first modern description of beri-beri and cholera." DSB X, p.622: "Piso's fame rests on his work as physician of the Dutch settlement in Brazil (1636-1644), which had Johan Maurits van Nassau as governor. In Brazil he gathered data for the books that made him famous. (...) Piso recorded what he had learned in Brazil in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Amst., 1648], a folio volume in twelve books, the first four of which are by Piso while the others, which deal chiefly with natural history, were written by Georg Markgraaff. The latter was probably an assistant to Piso (...). His [Piso's] editing of De Indiae [utriusque re naturali et medica, Amst., 1658] was done because the work was intended to be a handbook of tropical medicine, pharmacology, and natural history. His share covered the Americas, while the East Indies were represented by adding the works of Jacobus Bontius." The present edition is not a translation, but an abstract of the writings of Bontius, that Piso and Markgraaf ("doctoren in de Medicijne") compiled for the use of naval and tropical surgeons. The second part by Johan Verbrugge ("chirurgijn binnen Middelburg in Zeelandt") forms a catalogue of drugs that were usually taken by surgeons on travels to the East- and West-Indies, and comprises also a list of diseases that are common on those voyages and their cure. Cf. BMN p.296, listing the third edition published ±1675. Very rare edition; 3 copies in STCN (2 incomplete).
- Library cancel stamp on verso of title-p. ("Ausgeschieden"). Paper tickets at spine-ends.
= With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION "vom Verfasser" to "Herrn Doctor J. Bosworth hochachtungsvoll" on verso of first blank. Rare first edition of this work by the famous linguist and one of the main instigators of the study of Indo-european languages. Copies of Bopp's works with autograph dedication are rare.