2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Lacks prelim. leaf w. portrait of the author; trifle yellowed; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding sl. worn; spine-ends restored; upper joint wormholed.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 204,a; De Wind p.348-349; Van Someren I, p.103-104; Hollstein VI, p.240; F.M. 89. The second and most desirable edition (first Münster, 1609), the first with the illustrations. The full-page portraits showing places, buildings and scenes connected with the lives of the depicted persons in the background.
- First 8 lvs. waterst./ dam. in lower outer corner (repaired). Binding backstrip dam.
= Comprehensive documentation on the famous incest case against Onno Zwier van Haren (1711-1779), politician and close friend of William IV. Comprises i.a. "Publicatie" (1761, folded plano; Knuttel 18794 (rare)); "Het onteerend kindre verraad" (n.d., (4)p.); "Parodie of Tegenzang" (n.d., (4)p.); "Verdediging van de heeren Johan Alexander van Sandick, en Mr. Wilhem van Hogendorp" (1761, (2),55,(1)p.); "Deductie voor Vrouwe S.A. van Haren, Geborene Van Huls" (1762, 39,(14)p.); ''Tweede Deductie voor Jr. Onno Zwier van Haren'' (1762, 50,(17)p.); ''Derde Deductie voor Jr. Onno Zwier van Haren'' (1762, 27p.) and "Crimineele proceduren" (1762, (2),16p.).
- Backstrip reattached; sl. worn at extremities. Contents fine.
= The rare second edition of this important early bibliographical source for the history of Friesland. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 383b, also listing the first edition published in Cologne 1593 and a third edition published in Utrecht, 1730.
- Pastedowns loosening. Binding worn along extremities; chipped at top of spine. Fine complete copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 429; Tiele 976. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- A very fine copy, apart from the following minor defects: fol.1-2 lacks upper outer blank corner; left and right margins of map and plans trimmed to borderline. Lacks ties.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 523c; Carasso-Kok 98 and 224; De Wind p.555-557. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- Second part a few quires (very) vaguely waterstained in lower margin; scattered pencil annots. and a few 18th cent. annots. in pen and ink. Both vols. one spine-end and both joints neatly restored, and both vols. w. later endpaper. Nevertheless a fine copy.
= Provenance: Henry Seymour (bookplate on both upper pastedowns). Adams F1066.
- Sl. foxed. Backstrip stained.
= Landwehr 56,10, but with different collation: in conformity with the table of contents there are no pages 192-215.
- Lacks free endpapers. Frontcover sl. stained and soiled.
= Bibl. Gastronomica 235; Waller 192. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Lacks title-p. and prelim. text lvs.; title to the 2nd part ("Suyp-Stad, of Dronckaerts Leven") bound at the beginning; waterst. and sl. yellowed/ browned (worse at the beginning); some underlining in col. pencil; stitching holes in inner margin; lacks upper pastedown. Sold w.a.f.
= One of the few Dutch books on wine - and a beautiful edition to that with remarkable engravings, illustrating the use and abuse of wine. Oberlé, Fastes 1033; Bibl. Gastronomica 4939; Scheepers I, 144; Scheurleer p.153; Hollstein 140. D.P. Pers is the pseudonym of the publisher D. Pietersz.
- Bookblock loose; sl. foxed, stained and fingersoiled; one text leaf w. sm. hole. Rebacked; binding worn; calf over backcover dam. at board edges.
= Simon 1481; Bitting p.466f. Influential work on health and diet, i.a. promoting vegetarianism with regard to animal welfare and as a healthy lifestyle. It is believed to have prompted Benjamin Franklin to give up eating meat for a while.
- Occas. foxing (some plates somewhat more); title-p. yellowed. Backstrip trifle rubbed. A (very) good copy.
= Pastedown with the owner's entry of William Lee, one of the subscribers. With loosely inserted "Distillateur d'eau-de-vie" (1 engr. plate w. explanatory textleaf, prob. from a 4to ed. of Diderot/ d'Alembert. Badly foxed). Simon, Bibl. Vinaria p.50; Oberlé, Bibliothèque Bachique 115: "Édition fort rare d'une traité qui reparaîtra à Londres en 1805". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- Lacks htitle (supplied in photostat). Otherwise a very fine copy.
= The first edition of the first complete Dutch topographical and historical history of Gelderland, by Arend van Slichtenhorst (±1615-1657), who studied at Leiden and became a lawyer in his native city Arnhem. As acknowledged on the title, the work was based upon, and partly a translation of, Pontanus' Latin Historiae Gelricae, published in 1639, but Slichtenhorst thoroughly revised, corrected and much enlarged the Latin original. A classic in its field. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 281. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Large 17th cent. armorial bookplate mounted on upper pastedown by G. BOUTTATS; general map loose; occas. unobtrusive waterstain in inner blank margin. Joints starting at spine-ends; sm. paper ticket on frontcover.
= The second edition of the first complete Dutch topographical and historical history of Gelderland, by Arend van Slichtenhorst (±1615-1657), who studied at Leiden and became a lawyer in his native city Arnhem (first ed. 1653). As acknowledged on the title, the work was based upon, and partly a translation of, Pontanus' Latin Historiae Gelricae, published in 1639, but Slichtenhorst thoroughly revised, corrected and much enlarged the Latin original. A classic in its field. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 281.
- Lacks the panorama of Tiel; occas. trifle yellowed. Corners and spine-ends rubbed/ sl. worn.
AND 1 other: Wandelingen in een gedeelte van Gelderland, of geschiedkundige en plaatsbeschrijvende beschouwing van de omstreken der stad Arnhem (Arhnem, 1836, 5th corr. ed., engr. frontisp., contemp. gilt hcalf).
- Occas. sl. foxed/ stained. Spines and edges sl. worn; letterpieces (sl.) dam.
= The 3rd Dutch edition. Landwehr F107; Waller 589; Bodemann II, 158.
- A few vague stains.
- Partly sl. browned (worsening towards the end).
- A few wormholes at the end; occas. sl. yellowed and fingersoiled. Waterstain from drinking glass on frontcover; sm. dam. spot in backcover.
- Title-p. w. 3 restorations, owner's entry and sl. yellowed/ waterst.; lvs. A2 and A3 bound in reverse order.
- 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).