2806 - 3510 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Two opposite leaves sl. stained in inner margin. Binding duststained; vellum over outer edge of covers split.
= Leendertz 140; Geerebaert CXXXVII 5.II.b.
- Lacks ties; vellum trifle soiled. = Schweiger p.1065.
- Used copy; lacks 1 prelim. text leaf and 2 lvs. (p.23-26) w. 2 ills.; thumbed and fingersoiled; later endpapers; hinges strengthened. Backstrip restored.
= The Children's World of Learning 5450; Muller 939. Rare edition of Comenius' schoolbook, containing lessons on i.a. natural history and grammar. "Zeer zeldzame uitgave" (Muller). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
- Sl. foxed. Lacks binding (backstrip for the greater part worn away).
= On the work by Confucius, ESTC, T140229: "[B]asically a translation of Le Morale de Confucius, philosophe de la Chine (Savouret, 1688), The Morals of Confucius was translated and abridged from the Latin translation of Prospero Intorcetta, Philippe Couplet, and others, or from an intervening French translation attributed to Louis Cousin or Jean de La Brune". Rare third edition in English of The Morals of Confucius, the first published work to introduce English readers to Confucianism. Stated second edition, though actually the third edition: this is a reissue of the edition of 1706, with a cancel title page; the first edition was published in 1691.
- Spine worn/ dam. = Very rare.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Binding rubbed/ worn along extremities; top of spine dam.; covers partly dam. (silverfish).
= The desirable panorama in fine condition. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 34. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper; libr. stamp on title. Paper over boards partly torn off/ worn; ticket on foot of spine.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
ADDED: Idem. Oudheden en gestichten van Rhynland, En wel voornamentlijk van de Stad Leiden. Dutch transl. H.V.R. (= H. van Rijn). Ibid., idem, 1719, (56),708,(19)p., 5 (of 6) fold. engr. plates, contemp. hvellum.
- Lacks 1 plate; bookplate/ stamps on first free endpaper and title. Paper over boards renewed; ticket on foot of spine.
= Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Covers sl. foxed/ (dust)soiled; paper over spine partly worn off.
= Songs by the Haarlem society 'Democriet'. Scheurleer II, p.116; Scheepers II, 260.
- Title trifle foxed. Joints sl. rubbed and splitting.
- One quire browned; engr. plate browned. Paper over covers chafed.
= Petzhold p. 98; De Backer/ Sommervogel IV, 172, 84.
- First few lvs. soiled; sl./ trifle foxed.
= Although the title mentions Europe, this part only covers the Italian school, with short biographies and finding places of art works of 45 Italian artists. Rare.
- Occas. trifle/ sl. foxed; new endpapers. Paper ticket at top of spine partly worn off.
- New endpapers.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; trifle yellowed.
AND 1 other: P. ALER, Gradus ad Parnassum, sive novum synonymorum, epithetorum, phrasium poeticarum, ac versuum thesaurus (n.pl., n.d. (17th cent.), contemp. vellum. Lacks title-p.).
- Lacks first free endpaper. Paper ticket on spine. A good/ fine copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 246. The first edition.
- Bookblock broken; inner margin of title neatly glued to opposite page.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 246. The first edition.







































