2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Vellum sl. stained and wrinkled; upper joint splitting; top of spine sl. dam.
= Hollstein VII, 648-684.
BOUND WITH: Martin, C. Les Genealogies, et anciennes descentes des Forestiers et Comtes de Flandre, avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies et gestes (...). Ibid., A. Bax for P. Balthasar, n.d. (±1580), (6),119,(3)p., engr. title-p., heraldic plate, map of Flanders, allegorical plate and 40 full-length portraits of the Counts and Forresters of Flanders.
= Adams M717. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLI.
- Frontisp. doubled w. thin paper and lacks tiny portion of lower corner.
= De Wind p.421-424. A history of Holland and Zeeland up to 1433, first published in Latin, 1635.
- Final vol. w. wormhole in frontcover; almost all bindings w. whitish traces from cleaning or polishing on covers; a few spine-ends chipped. Good/ fine set.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Lacks the general map of the Netherlands and the sea travels to the East and the West Indies. Byvoegsels sl. yellowed/ trifle foxed. Bindings rubbed along extremities.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Lacks 5 plates; occas. sl. yellowed. Bindings worn along extremities.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Lacks 16 portraits, 5 fold. maps and 1 fold. plan; all vols. bookplate on upper pastedown and owner's stamp on first free endpaper and/ or second blank; occas. sl. foxed.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
AND 5 others.
- Upper margin bookblock cut sl. short; title-p. waterst. and w. sm. stamp. Old paper ticket on spine.
= Rare edition. No copy in NCC.
(Hoogstraten, F. van). Desiderius Peregrinus, of Begeerders Pelgrimaedje naer 't Huis der Liefde. Rott., F. van Hoogstraeten, 1679, (2),273p., 38 (of 41) engr. ills., later leather, 12mo.
- Lacks 3 lvs. w. 3 ills.; lacks free endpapers and frontisp.; yellowed/ fingersoiled; 6 lvs. lower blank corners torn off; 2nd half w. brownish stain in inner margin, growing larger towards the end.
= Rare variant of De Schat der Zielen (1678), containing 3 ills. after J. LUIKEN (these possibly absent in our copy). Klaversma/ Hannema 435; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen I, 5 (note).
- Lacks 1 textleaf; one quire partly misbound; some lvs. loose(ning); sm. wormhole; occas. sl. foxed/ (water)stained. Sm. stain on frontcover.
= Rare. Cf. BNK 1172; Waller 1592; Muller 998; Van Veen sale II, 222 (all undated or dated 1752). Popular schoolbook telling of the French occupation of the Netherlands in 1672-73 in the Franco-Dutch War, in the form of a dialogue between a father and his son. It was first published in 1674 and was still in use at the end of the 18th century.
- Vellum sl. soiled.
= Cf. Van der Linde, Spinoza 106; Bibl. Med. Neerl. 522; Wellcome IV, p.238; Caillet 8009 (French ed.); Bierens de Haan 3561. Main work of this follower of Descartes and opponent of Spinoza.
- First vol. (sl.) waterstained; both vols. occas. sl. foxed; sm. tear in one portrait, sl. affecting the image. Vellum trifle soiled.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Lacks 2 plates (as often); some foxing (incl. the plates); owner's stamps on first free endpapers. Bindings trifle rubbed.
= Cat. (...) des Russica V538.
- First vol. w. title-p. attached to following blank p., cut short along outer margin and w. sm. tear (not affecting image); lacks p.83-84 and 93-94; some plates cut sl. short. Binding trifle soiled. Fine copy.
= Without the supplement vol. Pagination erratic due to extra inserted pages. Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.47; Brunet VI, 2514; Ebert 2439; Graesse I, S.433.
- Endpapers doubled; owner's stamp on first blank; (h)title (sl.) foxed. Top of spine sl. worn.
= The first descriptive catalogue of the famous Royal Dutch collection of medals and cameos. The supplement was published in 1824.
ADDED: F. BARRÊME, Le livre des comptes-faits, ou tarif general des monnoyes (Paris, 1735, contemp. gilt calf. Lacks title; owner's entry and annots. on first p., frontisp. and lower pastedown. Joints splitting; spine-ends dam.).
- Lacks title-p. and at least last quires Ff, Gg and Hh1 and Hh2; first few lvs. dam.; bookblock loose; (finger)soiled. Sold w.a.f.
= Lipsius 298; Bibl. Belg. IV, 0 114. The rare Dutch edition of this work (usually in French). Both sides of 1685 coins depicted in life-size, both for the use of money changers as well as for collectors to be able to distinguish forgeries.
- Contents fine. Backstrip dam.
= With autograph signed dedication on title-p. Rare, privately published series of letters by Benjamin Oakley. The 13 portraits (mainly of his children) contained in the work are relatively early examples of the use of lithography for book illustration. Not listed in Twyman.
- Binding trifle worn along extremities.
= Rutilio Benincasa was an Italian astrologist. His Almanacco Perpetuo (first publ. 1587) contains notions of astrology, cosmography, chiromancy etc. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLI.
- Old annot. in blank margin dedic. plate. Spine-ends chipped and binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Houzeau/ Lancaster 5437; Bibl. Esot. 2966; Caillet 7184: "Ce bel ouvrage très réputé, contient de fortes études sur Mithra et les mystères de ce culte solaire - Les mystères de Ceres (...) - Le culte des dieux infernaux - Les Druides et le Druidisme - Les mystères de Bacchus (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLII.
- Sl. foxed; owner's entry on title-p.; first free endpaper repaired w. tape. Frontcover loose; binding severely worn.
= Rare. Caillet 7366.
- New endpapers.
= Muller 539; Waller 1315; cf. Scheepers I, 552 (1st ed. 1659): "Bestrijding der gruwelen den zoogenaamden heksen aangedaan, waarvan vreeselijke voorbeelden worden aangehaald." Rare work on witchcraft, sorcery, demonology and black magic, in which the author expresses and illustrates with awful examples his discontent with the atrocities committed against presumed witches. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLII.
- Trifle foxed/ fingersoiled. A good set.
= Caillet 8756: "Ouvrage utile à toute personne s'occupant de l'occulte"; Bibl. Esoterica 3690.