2047 - 2618 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Some offsetting from turn-ins on margins of first and final few leaves. Joint trifle worn at top of spine. Otherwise fine.
- Lacks preliminary leaf )(4 (dedicatory leaf?); title-p. sl. yellowed and fingersoiled. Vellum and endpapers duststained.
BOUND WITH: Schurzfleisch, H.L. Notitia Bibliothecae principalis vinariensis iussu ducis serenissimi Wilhelmi Ernesti conscripta. Accedunt Claudi Salmasi in chronicum Hieronymi latinum variae lectiones et emendationes e IIII Palatinis codicibus olim erutae et nunc primum cum eruditis ex vinariensi Bibliotheca communicatae (...). Frankf./ Leipsic, W. Michaelis, 1712, (22),295,(11)p.
- Partly vaguely dampstained in outer blank margin; trifle yellowed.
- A few fold. portraits w. sm. tear at inner margin of fold. Very good copy.
= Besterman 710; Petzholdt, p.367; Bibl. Belg. III, F5; Winchell AA 376; Zischka p.148; Graesse II, p.613: "Les planches des portraits employés dans ce livre avaient déjà servi pour les Elogia belgica de Miraeus et pour l'Académie de Bullart (...)". Contains portraits of i.a. R. Dodonaeus, A. van Dyck, D. Erasmus, H. Goltzius, H. Grotius, D. Heinsius, A. Ortelius, C. Plantijn, J.J. Scaliger and A.M. Schuermans. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXX.
- Fine copy.
= Petzholdt p.317: "Die in chronologischer Ordnung aufgeführten Schriftsteller sind nach "Vita, Mors, Scripta" geschildert. Die Aufzählung der "Scripta" ist nicht ohne einigen bibliographischen Wert."
- With a small contemp. drawing in pen and black ink of a sundial on first blank. Bookplate on upper pastedown and on verso of final free endpaper. Lacks ties; vellum w. old stains; top of spine rubbed/ worn.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to the humanist Erycius Puteanus (1574-1646) on title-p.: "Amplissimo Domino Consiliario Erycio Puteano author in obsequij [...] offerabat." Bonacini 831. Scholarly work on the origin of various scripts and alphabets, writing utensils, the manufacture of paper and ink, with interesting chapters on cryptography, e.g. 'De occulta literarum missione', 'De invisibili literarum scriptione', 'De occultanda scriptione per transpositionem literarum', 'De occulta scriptione per notas'. At the end there are chapters 'De inventione typographiae' and 'De ornatu librorum'. The Jesuit Herman Hugo (1588-1629) taught at Antwerp and Brussels. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
- Four fold. plates and their opposite leaf browned along inner margin from former inserted paper strips. A few sm. inkstains on both covers.
= Graesse III, 387; Bonacini 832. Scholarly work on the origin of various scripts and alphabets, writing utensils, the manufacture of paper and ink, with interesting chapters on cryptography, e.g. 'De occulta literarum missione', 'De invisibili literarum scriptione', 'De occultanda scriptione per transpositionem literarum', 'De occulta scriptione per notas'. At the end there are chapters 'De inventione typographiae' and 'De ornatu librorum'. This is the second ed. of the work, but the first with the detailed notes by Ch.Trotz (1703-1773), professor of law at Franeker and Utrecht.
= Cf. Petzholdt p.26 (on the ed. of Helmstadt, 1705: "Das beim Ordnen seiner Bibliothek in Anwendung zu bringene Sytem des Verf., eigentlich gar kein System, besteht in dem einfachen Ausspruche: "Librorum dispositio arbitrarium est, eam tamen cum jucunditate et utilitate conjunctam oportet esse." (...).
BOUND WITH: Almeloveen, J.T. ab. Bibliotheca promissa et latens. Huic sujuguntur GEORGII HIERONYMI VELSCHII De Scriptis suis ineditis Epistolae. Gouda, J. ab Hoeve, 1692, (16),160p.
= Breslauer/ Folter 83: "Renaissance authors often cited books which they intended but never got around to write; Almeloveen, in countless hours of research, compiled this list of some 750 such "ghosts" (...). The strange title may be loosely translated as "Bibliography of books planned and unknown."; Petzholdt p.269.
BOUND WITH: Hodannus, J.F. Dissertatio de libris legendis, quaedam de studiis rectè tractandis admixta habens. Hannover, S. Ammonius, 1705, 48p.
= A collection of 3 rare works on libraries and their origins, covering the period from the classical age to the mid-18th century. SEE ILLUSTRATION ON THE TITLE-PAGE.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Covers sl. rubbed along extremities and w. some darkened spots.
= With the bookplates of "Johis Currer de Kildwick" and "Richard Henry Roundell" on upper pastedown.
- False crease (printing flaw) in frontisp. Traces of paper ticket at top of spine. Otherwise a good copy.
Idem. Bibliotheca historico-critica librorum opusculorumque variorum et rariorum; Oder Analecta Literaria von lauter alten und raren Büchern und Schrifften. Nürnberg, A.J. Feltzeckers heirs, 1736, (8),432,(16)p., contemp. gilt hcalf.
- Contents trifle foxed. Backstrip and corners sl. rubbed; traces of paper ticket at top of spine. = Rare.
- Uncut copy.
= Extensive collection of diverse manuscripts, often catalogued with the author's notes, but with hardly any bibliographical details.
- Small inkstain in lower corner of general title. Binding worn.
- Some (crossed out) contemp. annots. on title-p.; occas. trifle browned/ marginally waterst. Binding w. some rubbed spots; overall fine.
= On the binder: Flety, p.32: "l'un des meilleurs relieurs de son temps. Grâce à sa sûreté de main et l'extrême finesse de sa dorure, la technique du métier arriva à son apogée." Ornaments show impressions of Culot roulette 44, Culot combination (corner fleurons) 14 and Culot palette 11. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
- Gilt sl. faded and partly rubbed off; spine cracking; corners restored.
- Fine copies.
- Foot of spine dam.; rubbed along extremities.
- Contemp. owner's entry. Spine sl. dried; binding w. a few chafed spots.
- Binding trifle rubbed along extremities.
- Frontcover w. sm. surface cut; spine sl. cracking.
= Clasps and catches apparently taken from an earlier bible.