2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Owner's stamps on title-p.; 2nd leaf lacks lower outer corner, not affecting text.
= Pettegree/ Walsby 22729.
- Margins trimmed (without loss of text), sl. soiled. = Knuttel 3450.
- Sm. inkstain on title-p. Covers rubbed. = Knuttel 18034.
BOUND WITH 11 similar, i.a. Heylzaame raadt aan alle manhafte burgers deester stad Amsteldam (Deventer, (1748), 16p.); Nasporing van de beswaarnissen (...) der stadt Leyden (Leyden, (1748), 32p., Knuttel 18089); Zinnebeeldige graf-schriften op vijftien in leeven zynde opper-baasen, der zogenaamde muitelingen (n.pl., (1748), 8p.) and Het gedrag van de regenten of bestierders (...) der Ver. Nederlanden gedurende den tegenwoordigen oorlog (London (= Amst.), 1747, 31p.).
= Collection of rare pamphlets, partly on the Doelisten movement in 1748.
= On various subjects, but mosty all on taxation and excise duties.
- Upper endpaper renewed; sl. cramped inner margin between title-p. and first free endpaper; occas. sl. stained and fingersoiled. Binding restored along edges; later letterpiece.
= Tchemerzine V, p.73; Printing and the Mind of Man 152. Counterfeit of the first edition, published in the same year, with the Desprez monogram on the title-p. replaced by the fleuron of the 1657 edition of Pascal's Les Provinciales and the errors in the pagination as given by Tchemerzine.
- Lacks frontisp.; title-p. yellowed; one leaf loosening. Covers stained/ acid-bitten.
= Important work in the conflict between the Jesuits and the Jansenists in the 17th century
- Old bookplate on upper pastedown; two lvs. at the end misbound, but compete. Binding chafed and worn.
= Willems 1419; cf. Tchemerzine IX, 66-67, listing the first edition published in 1656-1657; cat. Imprimé en Hollande p.48: "De jansenisten - genoemd naar de voorman van deze religieuze beweging Cornelis Jansen - trachtten op katholieke grondslag het werk van Augustinus te hernieuwen. Centrum van de beweging was het klooster Port Royal nabij Parijs. Toen in 1653 paus Innocentius XI enkele uitspraken van Jansen veroordeelde, reageerde Antoine Arnauld met een apologie van Jansenius. Tegen de veroordeling van dit werk door de Sorbonne, het machtscentrum van de jezuieten, polemiseerde Pascal, onder pseudoniem, met zijn Lettres de Louis de Montalte à un Provincial de ses amis. De delen verschenen eerst afzonderlijk en clandestien van 1656 tot 1657 en werden al snel verboden. De eerste integrale uitgave verscheen bij Elzevier. Het werk is de geschiedenis vooral ingegaan als een schoolvoorbeeld van heldere polemiek. Ook de latere filosofen, die overigens niets moesten hebben van Pascals antihumanistische opvattingen, bewonderden de zuiverheid en natuurlijkheid van stijl en argumentatie."
- "Louis de Montalte" crossed out and "Pascal" added in pen and ink on title; first free endpaper loosening; sl. yellowed; 2 final lvs. waterstained. Binding worn along extremities.
= Cf. Tchemerzine IX, p.70; Querard VI, p.614; Graesse V, p.145. First polyglot edition of Pascal's famous satirical work in the form of letters written by Louis de Montalte documenting his encounters with jesuits.
- Hinges weak; paper over pastedowns worn off; sm. owner's entry on upper pastedown. Corners and spine-ends sl. dam.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Gebruik én misbruik des Tooneels. Ibid., Kunstgenootschap etc., 1718, 3rd rev. ed., (14),76,(4)p., engr. frontisp., title-vign. by G. DE LAIRESSE and headpiece by GOUWEN after ELLIGER. - AND WITH: Idem. J. Oudaans aanmerkingen over de Q. Horatius Flaccus Dichtkunst. Amst. G. onder de Linden, 1713, (30),56p., engr. frontisp. by B. BERNAERTS after J. GOEREE, title-vign. by G. VAN DER GOUWEN after A. HOUBRAKEN.
- Bookblock loose(ning); frontisp. sl. browned and w. sm. cut in blank margins. Frontcover loose(ning); lower joint weak; corners bumped.
BOUND WITH 6 others similar, all w. engr. frontisp. and (3x ident.) title-vign.: Loon naar werk; kluchtspel (ibid., 1709); Voor- én naaspél, gemaakt om vertoond te worden by Gierige Geeraard. Blyspél (ibid., 1713, 4th ed.); De belachelyke sérenade. Kluchtspel (ibid., 1713, 2nd ed.); De gelyke twélingen. Blyspél (ibid., 1715, 4th ed.); Het spookend weeuwtje. Blyspél (ibid., 1715, 4th ed.) and De schaakingen, blyspel (ibid., 1763). - AND 13 others similar.
- Title-p. dam., lacks portion of outer upper corner (no loss of image of text). Probably rebound w. new endpapers; vellum darkened.
= Cf. Muller 783 (ed. 1665).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; a few leaves sl. (ink)stained; sm. drawing in pen and ink on final textpage. Backstrip and corners (sl.) worn; covers rubbed.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLII.
- Title-p. partly doubled w. old paper, sl. frayed, yellowed and w. old owner's entry (dated 1690); blank margin wormholed at the end; sl. fingersoiled.
= STC Italian p.505; Adams P820. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLIII.
- Binding sl. scratched and rubbed; professionaly rebacked.
= Cohen/ De Ricci 531; cf. cat. Bilderwelten no.4 (first and only German ed. of 1754). The first edition of this beautifully illustrated work.
- Three (1x contemp.) owner's entries on first blank; renewed endpapers, 2 blanks sl. waterst.
- Partly trifle yellowed. Upper joint split; foot of spine chipped.
- Some plates cropped (affecting captions) or bound sl. too tight, obscuring the caption; occas. trifle foxed; 3 plates with small (restored) chip/ sm. tear in outer margin. Bound as usual without the orig. wr. of the separate issues of the magazine and without the leaves To Readers as usual [vol. 4 of our copy, however, contains the 2 To Readers leaves]. Attractively rebacked with fine matching backstrips.
= Abbey, Life 214; Tooley 421. Contains the first appearance of Doctor Syntax under the title The Schoolmaster's Tour (later published in bookform as Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque), with the 28 plates by Thomas Rowlandson. The poem by William Combe "was composed (...) from the drawings of Rowlandson, and not, as would be expected, vice versa. (...) Invariably rebound with the leaves To Readers removed [only present in vol.4 of our copy]." (Abbey, Life). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLIV.
- Hinges weak. Backstrip for the larger part worn off; binding worn.
= First edition of this poem by Polignac (1661-1742) in which he refuted the ancient materialism of Lucretius (De rerum natura) and Epicurus, and that of his contemporary P. Bayle, and demonstrated the existence of God, the supernatural world and the immortality of the soul. Brunet IV, p.777; Graesse V, p.388; Quérard VII, p.249.
- Second vol. for the greater part waterstained. First vol. joints starting/ splitting; a few dam. spots neatly restored w. use of leather.
= In this poem Polignac (1661-1742) refuted the ancient materialism of Lucretius (De rerum natura) and Epicurus, and that of his contemporary P. Bayle, and demonstrated the existence of God, the supernatural world and the immortality of the soul. Brunet IV, p.777; Quérard VII, p.249.
- All vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. foxed; first vol. owner's entry on first free endpaper and inkstain on second blank. Vellum sl. soiled/ stained.