2076 - 2859 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing. = Tiele 1033. Incl. nice views of Strasbourg and Vienna.
- Fine set.
- Both vols. w. owner's entry on first free endpaper and bookplate on upper pastedown. Corners sl. worn/ rubbed; backstrips sl. rubbed; vol.2 upper joint starting.
= The relatively scarce abridged version, using the sheets that were printed for the first abridged edition printed by J. Kearsley in 1789, but without the htitles (which explains that the first preliminary leaf of both vols. is absent).
- Binding worn; frontcover loosening.
= Goldsmiths 9339; not in Kress and Einaudi. Details on formats and prices of glass. The publisher Prault obtained the right to publish these tariffs in 1758 and continued to publish them until the arrival of the Empire. With a few loosely inserted lvs. w. annots. and calculations, incl. 2 contemp. playing cards.
- Lacks one map. Binding chafed; lower joint splitting.
= Contains a worldmap in 2 hemispheres "De aard-kloot volgens de hedendaagse gedaante" (17x29,3 cm.) and fine ½-page portraits of Baruch Spinoza and Baltasar Bekker.
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing; 2nd-4th vols. new endpapers.
= Includes a nice map of the eastern part of North America: "Nieuwe Kaart van de Grootbrittannische Volksplantingen in Noord America".
- Partly foxed; all vols. bookplate on upper pastedown. Corners and spine-ends sl. rubbed; lower end of upper joint of vol.2 split over 12 cm.
= The portraits, plates and maps all in fine condition. Landwehr, R. de Hooghe the etcher p.159. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Fine copy.
= Willems 287 note; Rahir 252. Colophon at the end dated 1630, but the engr. title still mentioning 1627.
- Apart from a few textleaves w. foxed spots, a very fine and clean copy.
= Tiele 303; Navari 452: "his books on the Morea and Archipelago are compiled from other sources and are of special interest for their plates"; Blackmer sale 89. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Old owner's entry on first free endpaper (illegible); gilt on top edge dulled.
= The rare continuation of Greenwood's Boere-Pinxtervreugd, first publ. Rott. 1733 and here included in the 2nd edition as the second part. Boere-Pinxtervreugd is a satirical poem on the Pentecost festivities in a Dutch village, illustrated with 4 nice etchings, starting with the festive entry of the drummers and ending with a mass brawl at the inn.
- Bookplate on verso first free endpaper (in vol. 4 also annot. on title-p.); occas. sl. foxed/ soiled/ (water)stained/ creased (esp. first and last lvs.). Bindings trifle rubbed.
= Latin text with Dutch translation of a work that Grotius wrote at the age of 19 and of which only the third book has been rediscovered. Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 750; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 192g. Including the 4th vol. "Register (...) gevolgd door eene narede, gelijk mede door Athenen onder Cleo, of eene verhandeling over het tooneeldicht van Aristophanes: De ridders, als bijlage tot het hoofddeel der vrijheid en slaavernij".
- Vol. 1 partly waterstained in lower blank corner, not affecting text; vol. 2 sm. owner's entry on first blank. Bindings worn.
= Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 232, 913 and 1249: "L'ouvrage est en grande partie basé sur des manuscrits et des lettres manuscrites". The main old source for the Grotius study in first edition.
- Occas. sl. yellowed. Frontcover almost loose; binding w. severe acid bite/ dam. from mottling; backstrip dam. on letterpiece, on part of raised bands and at spine-ends.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 6; Ekama 120; Hollstein XXXIII, 391 and 417-427 (Van de Velde); Hollstein XXIII, 2 and 3 (P.J. Saenredam); McMurtrie, The invention of printing 848; Bigmore/ Wyman I, 8 and II, 326; not in Carter/ Vervliet. One of the finest Dutch town descriptions with beautiful etchings by Jan van de Velde II. Also important for being the main early source for Laurens Jansz. Coster as inventor of the art of printing and for its typography with the alternating use of roman, gothic and civilité types. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Lacks 2 lvs. w. blazons and 2 fold. plates; 4 fold. plates lack one or more parts; plates occas. sl. creased and erroneously assembled or bound. Usual (sl.) foxing/ yellowing; occas. sl. soiled and a few lvs. w. marginal (water)stain. Binding soiled/ sl. stained. Sold w.a.f.
= Bibl. Belg. J.37; Praz 307; Scheurleer 138; Simoni H.104; Ekama 59; Moes/ Burger IV, p.257-261; Carter/ Vervliet 307. Generally considered the most beautiful Dutch rhetorical work. The rhetorical competition - in plays and poems on Christian charity - was organized by the Haarlem Chamber of Rhetoric "Trou moet blijcken" and the most important Dutch chambers participated (i.a. Leyden, Katwijk, Schiedam, Amsterdam, Noordwijk, The Hague). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Browned. = Bierens de Haan 2697.
Enschedé, A.J. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van den Grafelijkheidstol te Sparendam. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (1874), 52p., orig. boards.
- Paper over backstrip for the larger part worn off.
AND 5 others similar, i.a. P. BOEKEL, Geschiedenis van het Haarlemmermeer in schetsen en tafereelen (Amst., 1868, 2 fold. lithogr. maps, orig. wr.).
- Spine broken (contents loose(ning). Backstrip lacking. = Ekama 480.
- Fine copy. = Ekama 712.
- Lacks the map. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Ekama 721. Contains views of "Duin en Daal", "De nieuwe Brouwerskolk", "Het Slot van Heemstede" and "Beverwijk".
- All issues w. 2 contemp. seal stamps on title-p. = Rare uninterrupted run.
- Plates sl. browned; occas. trifle foxed. Paper over boards partly worn off; joints splitting; worn along extremities.
= Ekama 543; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 54; McMurtrie 1082.
Naam-register, van de Heeren van Regeering der Stad Haarlem, van de Ministers van dien; en van derzelver Commissien; als meede van eenige Ampten en Employen binnen dezelve. Ibid., G. van Kessel, 1733, no pagination, woodcut printer's mark, contemp. hroan, 4to.
- Fine, untrimmed copy.
= Warranted by the municipal secretaries D. Guldewagen and P. Steyn on verso title-p. Interesting copy with numerous extensive manuscript additions and annotations on interleaved blanks and blank spaces of the printed pages, supplementing the printed data to approx. 1853.
AND 2 others on Haarlem.