2806 - 3510 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- First 189 pages sl. waterstained in lower blank margin; contents (sl.) foxed, incidentally browned; lacks first free endpaper. Backstrip. and corners dam.; leather over covers dried and rubbed; lacks ties.
= Rare edition. Bibliotheca Belgica IV, p.533, O 37.
- Backstrip sl. dam.
Huydecoper, B. Proeve van Taal- en Dichtkunde; in Vrijmoedige Aanmerkingen op Vondels Vertaalde Herscheppingen van Ovidius. Ibid., E. Visscher and J. Tirion, 1730, (12),682p., engr. frontisp., contemp. vellum, sm. 4to. Heemskerk, J. van. Batavische Arcadia, Waar in, Onder Liefkoozerye gehandeld werd, Wegens den oorspronk van 't Oud Batavien (...) Vrye Zee, Zeevonden, Vinders van verborgen Schatten (...). The Hague, P. Verbeek, 1708, 6th greatly enl. ed., (16),622,(22)p., engr. frontisp. and 8 plates by J. LAMSVELT, contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Occas. sl. yellowed; modern owner's entries on first free endpaper. Binding worn along extremities.
Moshem, J.L. Institutionum Historiae Ecclesiasticae Antiquae et Recentioris. Libri Quator. Helmstadt, 1764, (8),936,(32)p., engr. title-vignette, contemp. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, 4to.
- Sl. browned. Joints splitting; backstrip worn; corners showing.
- Lacks index lvs.; owner's stamp on title.
AND 2 others.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Frontcover detached; spine-ends dam.; corners showing.
ADDED: 2 others, i.a. P.D.M.F., Traitté de la paix de l'ame et du contentement de l'esprit (Saumur, 1680, later calf).
- All vols. hinges weak; pastedowns sl. wrinkled; occas. (sl.) foxed. Covers waterstained/ -wrinkled and sl. rubbed.
- First title creased and w. a few sm. holes in blank margins; 2 plates w. closed tears (1x affecting image); final plate sl. creased/ fingersoiled; lacks final free endpaper; partly yellowed.
- Engr. title cut short and a sm. dam. spot in inner margin; upper margin partly cut short (affecting running title and page numbers); bookplate on upper endpaper; owner's entries on both endpapers. Vellum duststained.
= Darlow/ Moule 4718a: "J. Leusden's third edition."
= Binding chafed along edges and on backcover. Internally fine.
= With letterpress and manuscript schoolprize (dated 1831) bound before htitle.
- Engr. title loosening and w. sm. dam. spot in printer's address; sm. modern annot. in ballpoint on final leaf. Binding worn along extremities.
= This ed. not in Darlow/ Moule (cf. 6214, 6215, 6221 etc).
He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum. Ed. J. Leusden. Ibid., Ex Officina Wetsteniana, 1717, 674,(1)p., engr. title, fold. map, later hcalf, sm. 8vo.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; library stamp on verso of letterpress title.
- New pastedowns. Entire backstrip professionally restored w. modern leather; leather over covers dried and scratched; lower left corner piece of upper cover loosening (lacks orig. nail). Contents fine.
= With the engraved names of "Barold Knock" and "Barbara Bay" (citizens of Leeuwarden, Friesland) on inside of clasps, possibly a wedding gift for the couple (married in Leeuwarden on March 1st, 1693). Poortman I, p.238 and II, p.83; for the worldmap see Shirley 513. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
- Two maps (not the worldmap) lack outer left margin w. some loss of image; upper hinge broken; new endpapers. Upper joint completely split.
= Poortman I, p.241. For the worldmap with Stoopendaal's signature and with number 6, Shirley 513: "finely-executed general map in two hemispheres with the same corner decorations as in the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658 (...)".
- Occas. sl. foxed; a few lvs. browned. Upper joint splitting; lacks portion of letterpiece; corners showing.
- Foxed almost throughout. Binding w. some worn/ sl. dam. spots.
= On the worldmap, see Shirley 498 and 431.
- Hinges sl. weak; occas. w. some yellowed/ partly browned lvs. Binding sl. worn.
= Poortman I, p.248; Darlow/ Moule 3350 (4to ed.).
- Trifle foxed. Otherwise a fine copy. = Poortman I, p.161.
- Lower clasp broken (but present).
- Waterst. almost throughout; occas. sl. mouldy; first 2 lvs. reattached; mismatching endpapers.
= On this nice printbible of Basnage and Alewyn, which went through 10 editions between 1705 and 1721, in extenso Poortman II, p.109-120. Landwehr, R. de H. as bookill. 100; Hollstein IX, 2; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 404; Klaversma/ Hannema 129.





























