2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Pastedowns loose; sl. foxed. Vellum trifle soiled.
= Scheepers I, 205. "Verder etste Jan van Vianen de titelpagina van de in 1712 gepubliceerde Poëzy van de Haarlemse dichter en student in de rechten Lukas Schermer die in 1711 op 22-jarige leeftijd was overleden. Het boek geldt als een der fraaist geïllustreerde literaire werken uit de 18e eeuw en men neemt aan dat ook de ongesigneerde etsen in de tekst van de hand van Jan van Vianen zijn." (Cat. Harlemia illustrata 220-224).
AND an incomplete copy of J. GOEREE, Mengel-Poëzy (Amst., 1734, contemp. hcalf).
- Lacks 25 plates; owner's stamp on first free endpaper; a few sm. plates loose/ repaired on verso; sl. foxed. Frontcover loose(ning); binding worn. Sold w.a.f.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 277; Ekama 508; Klaversma/ Hannema 1297; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 488. The second edition, the first with the plates.
- Title lacks part of upper blank margin, prob. w. old owner's entry; sl. browned; lacks pastedowns. Vellum sl. soiled; sm. drawing in pen and ink on backcover.
= Rare, not in Van der Haar.
- A few lvs./ quires loose(ning); one fold. plate dam./ torn on fold. Covers rubbed and sl. worn.
- Bookplates on upper pastedown; stamp on first free endpaper and second blank; occas. sl. foxed/ stained; stains on first free endpaper. Covers trifle rubbed; stain on frontcover.
= Comprehensive documentation on the famous incest case against Onno Zwier van Haren (1711-1779), politician and close friend of William IV. Comprises i.a. ''Extract uit het Register der Resolutien van de Hoog Mog. Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden'' (1761, 7p.); ''Aan den Hove van Vriesland'' (1761, 3p.); ''Memorie en Rapport van de Heer O. Z. van Haren aan de Staten van Friesland'' (1761, 2p.); ''Aan den Hove van Friesland'' (n.d., 3p.); ''Tweede Deductie voor Jr. Onno Zwier van Haren'' (1762, 50,(18)p.) and ''Derde Deductie voor Jr. Onno Zwier van Haren'' (1762, 27p.).
- Two stamps on title-p.; sl. foxed/ (finger)soiled. Covers rubbed, mainly along extremities; paper ticket on spine.
= With contemp. dedication on verso of the title-page: ''Dit exemplaar werd aangeboden aan Mevrouw de Wilde, geb. van Alsenburg''.
- Sm. owner's entry on first blank; occas. trifle browned.
= First edition of this epic poem on the legendary first king of the Frisians.
- Partly sl. waterstained. = Very rare, only one copy in NCC. Cf. Wolfstieg 6379 (ed. Mechelen, 1825).
BOUND AFTER: Marchetti, G. Beredeneerd uittreksel van het geregtelyk onderzoek gehouden tot Romen, over de Wonderbaere Opening en Beweeging der Oogen van veele Beelden in die Stad, van den 9. July 1796. tot in January 1797. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (1801), LVIII,197,(3)p.
- Partly sl. waterstained in upper (blank) margin; library stamp and paper ticket on first blank. Binding worn.
= Flemish edition after the Roman edition of 1797.
- Annots. on (h)title; occas. sl. (water)stained. Covers rubbed; joints starting to split; spine-ends worn.
- Quire R bound behind quire S; lacks 2 lvs. (Aa 11 and 12); upper hinge weak; partly vaguely waterstained in outer (blank) margin. Vellum sl. soiled.
= The rare second edition. Buisman 767; Waller 687; Muller 23; De Vries 12. The "prototype" of all Dutch arcadian novels, interspersed with many interesting articles on witchcraft, magic, Dutch history, East Indies, Dutch folklore etc. The first edition of 1637 was published with the title Inleydinghe tot het ontwerp van een Batavische Arcadia.
- Extensive and interesting biographical contemp. annots. about Van Heemskerk on upper pastedown and first blank; bookplate on verso htitle. Vellum sl. stained.
= Mateboer 89; Buisman 773; Muller 29 (erroneously 6 plates); De Vries 18. The "prototype" of all Dutch arcadian novels, interspersed with many interesting articles on witchcraft, magic, Dutch history, East Indies, Dutch folklore etc.
- Joints starting; corners bumped and showing; sl. stained.
= Early biography on Cranach.
- Both vols. spine-ends dam. and upper joints splitting. Contents good.
= One of three variants of the first edition, as mentioned by Tchemerzine VI, p.192 b; Cioranescu 33651; Encycl. of Philosophy 3, p.471ff. In his posthumously published De l'Homme, Helvétius (1715-1771) strongly reaffirms the ideas he was forced to disavow, following publication of his book De l'Esprit.
BOUND WITH: an incomplete copy of IDEM, Le Bonheur (London, 1773, new ed. Lacks quire c, which is replaced by a duplicate quire e).
- Some offsetting from turn-ins; occas. trifle foxed. Covers trifle rubbed. A good copy.
Knibbe, D. De leere der gereformeerde kerk, Volgens de order van de Heydelbergse Kathechismus (...). Leyden, J. Lugtmans, 1696, (36),825,(37),28,(2)p., engr. fold. portrait, contemp. mottled hcalf w. gilt spine and red mor. letterpiece, 4to.
- Portrait lacks lower half; sl. cut short in upper margin, not touching text; glue remnants on upper pastedown. Binding sl. worn along extremities; covers trifle rubbed.
AND 6 others similar (1 incomplete), i.a. F. JOSEPHUS, Historie der Jooden of alle de werken (Amst., 1736, engr. textills., contemp. calf, 4to).
- Partly w. waterstain in upper part/ margin; trifle foxed. Rebacked w. part of the orig. (?) backstrip; modern endpapers.
= Silver pieces hallmarked with French Lily. With owners' entries of Marie Marguerite Musy of Grandvillard (dated 1726) and Agnesse Castella(s) also from Grandvillard (dated 1806).
- First part lacks title-p.; occas. sl. foxed/ browned; owner's entry on first free endpaper. Sm. stain on spine.
= On this famous mystification De Troeyer I, p.267-278: "Daargelaten de kwaadwillige bedoeling vormen de Historie en de Sermoenen van Broeder Cornelis evenwel een historisch monument van waarde, omdat de samensteller die een tijdgenoot [van Corn. Adriaensz. Brouwer, 1521-1581] was ze "geënt heeft (...) op historische feiten en toestanden" (...). Tot in het begin van de achttiende eeuw kende het werk talrijke herdrukken en in zekere anti-roomse kringen werd het met graagte gelezen. Wat de inhoud betreft kunnen we ons voorlopig beperken tot deze formulering: heftige uitvallen tegen de zestiende-eeuwse hervormingsgezinden en hun leer. De vorm: ontstellend brutaal, ontstichtend, vaak zelfs scabreus". Written in common, often very violent en coarse Flemish, the book was particularly notorious for the descriptions of Broer Cornelis' "secret penitence", flagellation and more. The first edition was published 1569/ 1578 (part 2). Waller 724; De Vries 420; Pisanus Fraxi, vol. 2, p.212-224; Hayn/ Got. I, p.23/24.
- Contents good; cut sl. short in upper blank margin; a few small annots. on printed title. Both covers detached; spine-ends damaged.
= Brunet III, p.240 (first issue of the first French ed.); Macdonald Hargreaves 33. Second issue of the first French edition (with uninterrupted pagination) of the Elementa philosophica de cive (Paris, 1642). Collation slightly different from Macdonald Hargreaves: ***5v-***6v with Lettre de Monsieur Cassendi à Monsieur Sorbière (not mentioned by Macdonald Hargreaves).
- Pastedowns browned; first ±20p. waterstained in outer blank margins. Rebacked; calf scratched.
= The eighth part of the Opera Philosophica. Stammhammer I, p.107; Macdonald and Hargreaves 104, VIII; PMM 138. Our copy with title-p. described in Macdonald-Hargreaves 104 ("Each section has its own half-title (verso blank) bearing title only with no imprint of date.") but collation of no.45 (J. Blaeu, 1670). Macdonald and Hargreaves suggest: "Keynes 862 contains VI and VII only, apparently in original boards, suggesting that parts of the collected Opera were sold separately." The first Latin edition of the Leviathan which differs considerably from the English: it is the Latin version in which Hobbes really expressed his opinions. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVI.
- Both vols. w. sm. stamp on first title/ htitle "Demontigny de L Acad'Sc. M." First vol. wormhole in lower (mainly blank) margin throughout; occas. yellowed/ sl. browned; hinges broken. Joints of both vols. split(ting); binding worn.
= Title-p. in first volume: Macdonald-Hargreaves 105 but htitles in our copy do not correspond with their description. Each part w. separate htitle: 1. Problemata Physica. (4),44 (=56)p. (A4-F2). 2. Examinatio et Emendatio Mathematicae Hodiernae, Qualis explicatur in libris Johannis Walisii Geometriae Professoris Saviliani in Academia Oxoniensi. Distrubuta in sex Dailogos. 146p. (2A4-2T1). 3. Elementorum Philosophiae sectio prima de corpore. (8),261p. (3A4-4L3). 4. Elementorum philosophiae sectio secunda de homine. 86p. (2A4-2L3). 5. Elementorum Philosophiae sectio tertia de Cive. (16),174p. (3A4-4A3). 6. Dialogus Physicus de Natura Aeris Conjectura sumpta ab Experimentis nuper Londini habitis in Collegio Greshamensi. Item de duplicatione cubi. 42p. (a4-f1). 7. De Principiis et ratiocinatione geometratum, Ubi ostenditur incertitudinem falsitatemque non minorem inesse scriptis erorum, quam scriptis Physicorum & Ethicorum, Contra fastum Professorum Geometriae. 64p. (aa4-hh4). 8. Leviathan, sive De Materia, Forma, & Potestate Civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis. (4),365,(14)p. (3a4-5c2). The rare first edition of the collected works by Thomas Hobbes with the first Latin edition of the Levitathan which differs considerably from the English: it is the Latin version in which Hobbes really expressed his opinions. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVII.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; library stamp on title-p.; title-p. and 2 other lvs. waterst. in lower blank margin. Wr. dam.
= Rare.