2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
75 2934 Hume D 
- Sl. yellowed and foxed. Backstrips cracking; letterpieces lacking.
= Cf. Goldsmiths 9314; Kress 5712; Higgs 1616 (all various editions). First published in 1753. With almost every new edition new essays were added by Hume. Rare edition.
75 2935 Hurd W 
- Occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed (incl. the plates). Vol. 1 backcover loosening.
75 2936 Huygens C 
75 2936 Huygens C 
75 2936 Huygens C 
- Lacks 2 leaves (K4 and K5); title-p. sl. dam. and doubled; title-p. cut trifle short in upper margin (just touching "Constantini Hugenii"); a few scattered contemp. annots. in pen and ink on first 25p.; trifle yellowed; new endpapers; lower hinge splitting.
= The very rare second edition of this collection of Huygens' juvenile poems, in an attractive oblong duodecimo edition. Containts: I. Farrago Latina; II. Des heures oisives de Constantin Huygens (...) Qui contient les efforts francois et italiens; III. Der ledige uren van Constantin Huygens (...) Daer in meest Bibel-stoff; IV. Der ledige uren (...) Daer in 't Costelick mall ende 't Voor-hout. Met weinigh meer; V. Der ledige uren (...) Daer in de Stemmen eeniger Steden ende Dorpen van Holland: Mitsgaders syne Characteres oft Printen; VI. Der ledige uren (...) daer in van als. Bibl. Belg. H102; Scheurleer, Liedboeken 150. No copy traced in the JAP 1990-2020. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVIII.
75 2937 Iceland Troil U von 
75 2937 Iceland Troil U von 
- First free endpaper and first blank waterst.; occas. trifle yellowed.
= Fiske p.609; Pinkerton I, 621-734; Chavanne 2181. Originally published Uppsala, 1777. Uno von Troil joined the expedition to Iceland undertaken by the English naturalist Joseph Banks and the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander. Cox I, p.185: "According to Pinkerton, the most valuable version of these letters is the French translation by Lindholm [sic], Paris, 1781, for which the Swedish original was revised by von Troil and to which he added notes from the English and German editions. Banks and Solander will be remembered as members of Cook's first expedition to the South Seas." Also containing letters on the Edda and about volcanoes, an Iceland bibliography containing 120 entries and a small chapter on the printing history of Iceland. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVIII.
75 2938 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Das aller edlest und bewertest Regiment der gesundhait 
75 2938 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Das aller edlest und bewertest Regiment der gesundhait 
- Most lvs. outer blank margin remargined; occas. stained/ fingersoiled; new endpapers.
= Second German edition of "Sirr al-asrar", an Arabic manuscript written in the 10th century, which, under the title "Secretum secretorum", was one of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages. It is written in the form of an instruction from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great and contains rules for the prince's personal and political conduct. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVI.
75 2939 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Ariosto L 
75 2939 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Ariosto L 
- Seven text-ills. cut out, causing loss of text on verso; all edges title trimmed. Joints weak(ening); binding rubbed along extremities; corners showing.
= Rare, early edition. The Orlando Furioso was first published w. 40 canti in 1516; only in 1532 a third edition was published, extended to its complete form containing 46 canti. Sander 567 note; STC Italian p.39; cf. Mortimer I, 28 (Giolito-ed. 1554): "The Orlando blocks were cut for Giolito's 1542 edition. They are the first Ariosto illustrations of any artistic merit, following Niccolò Zoppino's idea of providing one illustration to each canto but going far beyond the Zoppino blocks in skill of design and cutting (...). Bongi records twenty-eight illustrated editions from 1542 to 1560. Other Venetian printers copied the Giolito set (...)."
75 2940 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Boccaccio G 
75 2940 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Boccaccio G 
- Two bookplates on upper endpaper; final leaf sl. dam./ nibbled by silverfish(?); a few lvs. at the end cut sl. short in upper margin. Joints, spine-ends and corners sl. rubbed.
= STC Italian p.108; not in Adams. Rare edition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIX.
75 2941 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Breviary for the use of Fontevrault 
75 2941 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Breviary for the use of Fontevrault 
- Probably lacking the two first leaves (aa1 and 2); lacks leaf g8 (probably a blank, g7 ends with "Finis" and leaf aaa starts with an incipit); blank margins cut short; occas. old marginal annotations in pen and ink (cut short); 18th cent. annot. on final leaf in Latin in pen and ink. Frontcover detached; binding worn.
= EXTREMELY RARE BREVIARY FOR THE USE FOR THE ABBEY OF FONTEVRAULT. The incipits for the parts: (Calendar); Hyemale tempus breviarij sanctiomonialium ordinis Fontebraldensis; Psalterium ordinatum per ferias secundum usum ordinis Fontebraldensis; Breve temporis Hyemalis divini oficij sanctimonialium ordinis Fontebraldensis; Quicumque libri huius possessor eo uti volet (...). Probably a UNIQUE COPY printed for the Benedictines of the Abbey of Fontevrault. Works from the library of Fontevrault are very rare because a large portion of the library was lost when the ship that carried the works to safety during the Revolution sank at sea. Yolande Bonhomme headed the Kerver workshop "à la licorne" between 1522 to 1557, most often under the name of her first husband, printer Pasquier Bonhomme (see Renouard, 1965, p. 45). Interestingly, she was also responsible for printing all liturgical texts for the Abbey of Fontevrault. Bohatta 1303.
75 2942 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Charles VII King of France 
75 2942 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Charles VII King of France 
- Lacks quire k, leaves t2 and final blank; leaf a2 partly loosening; all leaves waterstained in lower and outer (mostly blank) margin; upper blank margin cut short (loss of later added ms. pagination); final ±30 leaves wormholed in outer and inner margin, with some loss of letters; leaf v4 lacks sm. portion upper blank margin; later ms. annots. in pen and ink on verso and recto of 1st and final leaf and a few scattered annots. in blank margins. Binding rubbed; paper over covers chafed.
= Very rare edition of the Pragamatic Sanctions of Bourges, issued on 7 July 1438. In effect this created the Gallican church and declared the French king authoritive and resulted in the loss of the papal power in France. HC 1462; Goff C211.
75 2943 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Cicero M T 
75 2943 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Cicero M T 
- A few scattered wormholes in the lvs., more in the first and last few quires; last few lvs. w. repaired chips/ sm. tears. Lacks the clasps and catches; back cover stained; pigskin in upper outer corner back cover dam./ worn away.
= First volume only. Schweiger II, p.172; Adams C 1749.
Lactantius, L.C. Divinarum institutionum libri septem proxime castigati, et aucti. Ibid., idem, Manutius, 1535, (12),224 lvs., 18th cent. calf, gilt spine w. mor. letterpiece, w. 19th cent. gilt crest on both covers, a.e.g.
- First vol. only; owner's entry and stain on title-p.; lvs. unevenly browned (waterstained?), mostly in lower part. Spine dam.
= Rénouard 113:2; BM STC It. p.366; Brunet II, 736. L2714.
75 2944 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Dionysius Carthusianus 
75 2944 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Dionysius Carthusianus 
75 2944 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Dionysius Carthusianus 
- One leaf (P2) chipped in outer margin, affecting glosses; new endpapers. Contents otherwise fine. Binding w. some white traces in blindst. decoration from previous cleaning with wax.
= Text rubricated in pen and red ink throughout, occas. w. underlining and with some small ornaments in borders. Adams D543 (calling for 201 leaves). Very rare complete copy. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE CXXXIX.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Meditationes nuncque antehac typis excusae. N.pl. (Cologne), Petrus Buscius, 1530, (24) lvs., title-p. within fine woodcut borders (dated 1529), woodcut vignette of the infant Christ with Mary and Martha on verso of the final leaf, both by A. WOENSAM.
= Text rubricated in pen and red ink. Adams D606.
75 2945 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Dionysius Halicarnassus 
- Lacks first free endpaper; first ±170p. waterstained in outer margin (affecting title-p. and text); final ±200p. (partly sl.) waterstained in lower outer corner and lower margin (just touching text); hinges strengthened w. paper. Rebacked w. modern brown morocco.
= Adams D 629. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIX.
75 2946 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Erasmus D 
75 2946 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Erasmus D 
75 2946 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Erasmus D 
- Two contemp. owner's entries on title (i.a. "f. van booms") and w. extensive contemp. marginal annotations and occas. underlinings in pen and ink; p. 336 sl. dam; sl. yellowed/ occas. sl. browned; hinges broken. Rebacked w. use of leather; corners showing; covers sl. chipped.
= Very rare Eramus print. Bezzel 1766. Not in Adams. Rare so-called "Spes-binding" by the Flemish binder Jacob Pandelaert (who is generally identified as being indicated by the initials "I.P"). Pandelaert was active as bookbinder and bookseller between 1520-1555 in Louvain. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIX.
75 2947 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gratianus 
75 2947 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gratianus 
- Fol.I chipped (and repaired) in outer margin; fol. CCXCV sl. dam. in lower blank margin (no loss of text); large fold. plate a few (closed) tears. Rebacked w. calf; foot of spine chipped; lacks ties. Fine and clean copy.
= Adams 1044; Renouard, Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle, vol. I, p.5-6, no.7. Beautifully printed. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXL.
75 2948 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gratianus 
75 2948 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gratianus 
75 2948 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gratianus 
75 2948 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gratianus 
- Sl. wormholed at the beginning and end; first leaf w. printer's mark sl. darkened/ dustsoiled; extensive (old) annots. on upper pastedown; a few lvs. (sl.) stained; final text (index) leaf w. large closed tear and lower blank margin restored; otherwise internally mostly fine. Binding sl. wormholed and worn; lacks clasps and catches.
= Rare edition of the famous collection of Canon Law, also known as the Concordia Discordantium Canonum, compiled and written in the 12th century as a legal textbook by the Italian canon lawyer Gratian. Not in Adams. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXL.
75 2949 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gringoire P 
75 2949 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gringoire P 
75 2949 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gringoire P 
75 2949 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gringoire P 
- Sm. rust hole in the woodcut on fol. 32. A fine and complete copy.
= Cat. Fairfax Murray (French books) 659; Cat. Harvard College Library 260 and cf. 259 (earlier edition) (both copies are incomplete); Brunet II, 1752; Lacombe 404. Extremely rare: this copy was sold by Van Gendt auctions in 1978, no copy traced afterwards."This [edition] has been generally described as the fourth edition, but comparison with the Hofer copy of the third edition proves it to be a reissue of that edition, with the first signature ([A]4) reset. In the original setting of the title, the first line ends, "en francoys"; in the new setting the line ends, "nostre dame/". The almanac on leaf [A]4v has been changed to 1534-1549." (Cat. Harvard College Library 260). In our copy the almanac dates are 1534-1549, setting the printing date of this copy at circa 1534. This is one of two editions printed in 1534: one without the privilege on the final leaf of the second part and one with the privilege (as in our copy). On the remarkable woodcuts, Cat. Harvard College Library 259 states: "The last cut (leaf m2r) is signed with the monogram "GS" surmounted by the Lorraine cross. This monogram, formerly attributed to Geoffroy Tory and others, has been identified by Albert Ohl des Marais as that of Gabriel Salmon, a painter and engraver at Nancy between 1504 and 1542 (...)." The woodcuts in the first part include a cut of the Anatomical Man (on leaf B1r), from the 15th century block used in Kerver Horae BMV. Provenance: the library of the Comte Lanjuinais (bookplate on upper pastedown). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXL.
75/2950 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Manuale Zamoranum 
75/2950 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Manuale Zamoranum 
75/2950 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Manuale Zamoranum 
75/2950 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Manuale Zamoranum 
75/2950 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Manuale Zamoranum 
- Very clean and well preserved copy: a few scattered minor stains and a few sm. wormholes; title-p. sl. dampstained in blank margins; first free endpaper and blank renewed. Some wear (nibbling by insects?) on backcover and backstrip affecting part of the blindst. decoration; frontcover cracked (restored).
= With annotation in pencil on final free endpaper concerning the rarity of this work and the unicity of this copy: "Unique copy of an undescribed edition. Only one other edition (of 1488) of which only a copy of the collophon [sic] leaf (described by Haebler) survives, is known to have existed for certain. A second edition is reputed to have been printed in 1496 at Monte Rey but no copy and no fragment of it appears to have been recorded anywhere. (written in 1964)". We could not trace any copies or any new information to review this claim. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLI.
75 2951 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Seneca 
75 2951 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Seneca 
75 2951 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Seneca 
75 2951 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Seneca 
- Contemp. manuscript annotations throughout in pen and ink (incl. on title); stained and sl. fingersoiled in lower outer blank corner.
= A rare edition of one of the first printed works with German translations to make the ethical and moral philosophy of Seneca available to a Renaissance audience. Hain 14629; Proctor 2906. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLI.
75 2952 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Terentius Afer P 
75 2952 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Terentius Afer P 
75 2952 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Terentius Afer P 
75 2952 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Terentius Afer P 
75 2952 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Terentius Afer P 
75 2952 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Terentius Afer P 
75 2952 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Terentius Afer P 
75 2952 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Terentius Afer P 
- First and final quires w. num. sm. wormholes; one textleaf sl. stained; 2 textleaves w. tear in blank margin; 1 textleaf (Z2) w. a few tears in centre of text (but complete and restorable); margin cut sl. short towards the end (once or twice just affecting top of the letters of the running title); cat. clipping and bookplates on upper pastedown. Upper joint starting at spine-ends; sm. hole (Ø 8-10 mm) in outer margin of frontcover.
= Provenance: Six van Hillegom and Bob Luza (bookplates on upper pastedown); before that prob. Fraeylema borg library; two old (17th cent.) manuscript owner's entries on title-p. ("S. de Bucquoy" and "A. Avador[?]". No other handcoloured copies of this edition traced in the market. The third Grüninger edition, with the same full-page illustrations as in the 1496 and 1499 editions (the smaller woodcuts were specifically made for the 1503 edition), and with the commentary by Aelius Donatus and Calphurnius. The woodcut illustrations show Grüninger's method of using various separate blocks in various combinations to create new images. The artist who illustrated the work became known as the "Terenz Meister" because of his lively and attractive illustrations for Comico Carmine and in due time became Grüninger's most favoured illustrator. Fairfax Murray, Early German Books 407; Adams, T 304; Proctor 9889; Schweiger p.1054. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE CXLI.
75 2953 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vivaldus J L 
75 2953 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vivaldus J L 
75 2953 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vivaldus J L 
75 2953 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vivaldus J L 
75 2953 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vivaldus J L 
- First and final lvs. trifle yellowed; a few lvs. vaguely waterst. in lower blank margin. Otherwise (very) fine.
= Adams V929; STC BM French p.445 not in Mortimer. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLII.