2806 - 3510 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Frontisp. sl. trimmed in right margin; bookplate on upper pastedown. Joints and backstrip sl. rubbed and scratched; upper joint splitting.
= With letterpress and manuscript schoolprize (dated 1829) bound before frontisp. Schweiger p.322. Nice plates, i.a. showing Babylon and the hanging gardens.
- Title-p. partly loosening, sl. waterst. and w. large (blank) portion restored; sl. foxed; partly waterst. in upper margin. Binding sl. chafed and rubbed.
= Adams D501.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; upper hinge weak. Lacks clasps and catches; wooden covers showing along borders and corners; spine-ends dam.
= Willems 252; Rahir 214. First posthumous publication and the first general survey of Greece.
- First 30 leaves and final 55 leaves w. receding blue stain in blank outer margin; occas. vaguely waterstained; hinges weak; a few leaves loose(ning). Backstrip partly lacking; both clasps lacking.
= Remarkable binding, w. two entire manuscript vellum leaves from an early 15th cent. manuscript in Latin (unidentified) used as pastedowns on both covers. BCNI 2641; Adams F337. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- Some scattered old annots.; portion of blank margin title-p. restored; a few lvs. w. large inksmudges; partly (sl.) waterst. in lower blank margin. Binding sl. rubbed; backcover vaguely waterst.
= Schweiger p.378; Adams G360.
- Vol.2 sl. waterst. in lower outer blank margin. Covers sl. worn/ rubbed; vol.4 joints strengthened w. leather strips and leather pasted over boards; 2 vols. top of spine chipped.
= Rare.
- Without the 2nd vol.; sl. thumbed and fingersoiled; title sl. frayed. Vellum partly loosening at turn-ins.
= Geerebaert XLVIII, 8; Muller 319; De Vries 368; Scheepers I, 327. Vol. 1 of the first complete Dutch translation.
- Lower blank margin of title-p. torn off; small hole in one index leaf affecting a few words; a few sm. inkstains in text. Vellum lacks ties, otherwsie fine.
AND one odd vol.: P. OVIDIUS NASO, Alle de werken. Vol.2. Herscheppingen en 't Digt tegen Ibis, Dutch transl. A. Valentyn (Leyden, 1678, 1 vol. (of 3), woodcut title-vignette, 15 engr. plates by C. DECKER, contemp. overlapping vellum. Occas. sl. damspstained; plates partly loose; backcover badly inkstained; 3 corners nibbled by mice).
- Owner's entries and bookplate on first endpaper and blank; occas. underlining; final lvs. sl. waterst. Binding sl. worn; spine-ends chipped.
= Schweiger p.511.
- Lacks title-p.; first few leaves of first part w. old underlining and annots. in pen and ink and sl. waterst. in upper margin; second part waterstained mainly in upper (blank) margin throughout (final few quires also in outer blank margin). Binding fine but darkened.
= Not traced in Schweiger and Brunet.
- First lvs. sl. foxed/ browned. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
= With letterpress and manuscript schoolprize (dated 1830) bound before frontisp. Dibdin II, 186 ("A very excellent edition"); Schweiger, p.564f; Brunet III, 1200.
- Contents fine. Covers rubbed; upper joint starting at top of spine.
= Also contains: C. VAN MANDER, Uitbeelding der figuren: Vertoonende hoe de Heydenen hun Goden afgebeelt en onderscheiden hebben; hoe d'Egyptenaars hun verburge meiningen, met dieren en andre dingen, te kennen gaven. Alles voor de Rijm-Schrijvers en schilders zeer nut (p.469-520, w. div. title w. imprint Amst., J. Lescaille). Bibl. Belg. M96.
- Pastedowns loose. = Schweiger II,2, p.599: "Beste Ausgabe der c. not. var. Im Auslande gesucht."
Justinus, M.J. Historiae Philippicae. Ed. P. Burmannus. Ibid., S. Luchtmans, 1722, 12,443,(60 index)p., engr. title, contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
= Schweiger p.492.
- Contemp. owner's entry on title-p. ("T. Gutberlethi"); hinges weak; pastedowns loose.
= Rare 2nd edition of the lexicon with an overview of the work by Plautus. Schweiger II, p.780.
ADDED: 1 other.
- Contemp. owner's entry on first blank and later owner's entry on title-p. Bookblock bound a bit tightly. Leather sl. dry. Otherwise fine.
Homeros. Ilias. German transl. by F.L. zu Stolberg. Vienna, n.publ., 1789, 2 parts in 1 vol., 52,XIV,(1),279,(1); 306p., engr. frontisp., 6 engr. plates (1x handcol.), contemp. calf w. burgundy mor. letterpiece.
- (Crossed out) owner's stamps and annot. on frontisp.; one plate reattached. Binding worn along extremities.
- Occas. trifle yellowed. Lacks ties. Otherwise very fine.
= With the mounted prize to D.W. Nibbelink on first blank and w. Nibbelink's green owner's stamp on title-p.; w. owner's entry on pastedown. Dibdin II, p.281: "This is the celebrated edition of Burman (...)"; Schweiger p.736 (ed. 1727): "Werthvolle Ausg. (...)".
- Partly sl. foxed.
= With the prize to Dideric Joannes van Kempen (undated) bound before title. Schweiger, p.736 (ed. 1727). On the binding: Spoelder 8.
- First free endpaper cut short; one leaf lower corner torn off w. sl. loss of text. Lacks portion of calf over frontcover.
= Schweiger p.243.
Cicero, M.T. Orationum Volumen I. Antw. (= Leyden?), C. Plantin, 1584, (40),511p., woodcut printer's mark, contemp. overlapping vellum.
- The first vol. (of 3) only; libr. stamp on title-p. Vellum stained and wrinkled; lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.129; Voet 963; The second and third vol. were published in Leyden (1585).
AND 5 miscell. others, i.a. M.T. CICERO, De Officiis Libri Tres (Leyden, 1611, contemp. vellum, 12mo).
- Yellowed/ sl. browned. Upper joint splitting at spine-ends; dam. spot at top of spine; lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.812. Spoelder 10.
BOUND WITH: Pacatus Drepanius, L. Panegyricus cum notis integris. Ed. J. Arntzenius. Ibid., widow and sons S. Schouten, 1753, (10),XV,(1),178,33p., engr. title-ill.
= Schweiger, p. 701.





































