2076 - 2859 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Bookblock trimmed; old owner's entry(?) on title-p. Covers rubbed.
= Kress 337. The "Droit annuel" often called the Paulette, had to be paid by the "propriétaires d'offices" if they were to pass their position over to their heirs.
Le Financier à Messieurs des Estats. N.pl., n.publ., 1615, 43[=42],(1)p., modern boards.
- Yellowed.
= Kress 343/ 344; Goldsmiths 443. A call for better control of finances in the realm, including abolition of the Paulette.
- Binding partly worn along edges.
= Rare biography of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen Consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of the Netherlands.
Soulavie, J.-L. Mémoires Historiques et Anecdotes de la Cour de France, pendant la faveur de la Marquise de Pompadour. Paris, A. Bertrand, 1802, LXIV,424,6p., 12 engr. plates by F. JOURDAN (after MME. DE POMPADOUR), later gilt hleather w. black mor. letterpiece.
- Htitle reattached.
= Biography of Madame de Pompadour, to whom the author attributes the degradation of the prestige of the monarchy and the advent of the French Revolution.
AND 1 other: A. DE TILLY, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des moeurs de la fin du 18e siècle (Paris, 1828, 3 vols., contemp. unif. gilt hcalf).
- Brown offsetting on endpapers; (sl.) foxed; owner's entry on first free endpaper. Binding w. rubbed spots along extremities.
= Rare copy of this pseudonymous work by the German Catholic controversialist Caspar Schoppe (1576-1649). Dünnhaupt 48.3; Hohenemser 4762. On Schoppe, see Killy Literaturlexikon X, p.559ff.
= This unique academic satire is a result of the polemic between two Franeker professors and a local doctor, in the form of a supposedly unpublished and only fragmentarily transmitted satire by the Greek comedy-writer Aristophanes, 'translated' into Dutch, in which the Athenian popular assembly judges the doctor's previously published open letter to the professors. Cf. D. van Miert, 'Vroegmoderne campus novels? Academische satire als discours over kennisidealen', in: L.J. Dorsman and P.J. Knegtmans eds., Spiegel of Lachspiegel? De betekenis van de campusnovel voor de wetenschaps- en universiteitsgeschiedenis (Hilversum, 2015), 27-48.
- Sl. yellowed. Spine-ends and joint sl. worn.
= Warranted by the author on verso of title. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 347a; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 209.
- 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. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- Title-p. sl. stained/ spotted and w. crossed out owner's entry; pastedowns creased/ wormholed.
= Cf. Adams F1150 (ed. Paris, 1578); cf. Sabin 26140. Contains short chapters on Gutenberg and Columbus on p.634. Battista Fregoso was doge of Genua.
- Wrappers sl. stained and soiled.
= Beautifully illustrated periodical cum trade-catalogues of furniture, interior decoration and furnishing for wealthy homes. The plates numb. I-IX, mostly with multiple items, all numbered and with extenisive description in the text part. I.a. chairs, mirrors, cabinets, as well as an entire carriage and wall paintings. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- One plate sl. browned in blank margins, not affecting image; occas. (sl.) foxed/ yellowed. Lacks portion of backstrip at spine-ends.
= From Descriptions des Arts et Métiers. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- New endpapers; partly (vaguely) waterst.; title-p. stained and w. some rubbed spots (erasing part of publication year); one quire loose(ning). Vellum trifle stained; fore-edge frontcover sl. trimmed.
= A 16th century guide with precepts for preserving good health. Eobanus, a humanist and distinguished poet, also studied medicine for several years. The book includes chapters on daily life, food, herbs, brewing beer and wine. Woodcuts include: a vomiting drunkard ("De ebrietate"), a man taking a siesta ("De somno meridiano"), a couple embracing in bed ("De venere") and a man crouched over a chamber-pot. Durling 2293; Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica 221; cf. Oberlé, Bibliothèque Bachique 54 (ed. 1582); cf. Vicaire 331 (ed. 1531); cf. Bibliotheca Walleriana 2768 (ed. 1560). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Vellum sl. soiled. = Rare.
Haes, F. de. Stichtelyke Gedichten. Ibid., N. Smithof, 1746, (32),208,(2)p., engr. title-vignette by J. PUNT, contemp. hcalf, 4to.
- Binding sl. rubbed.
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing. Otherwise fine.
- Bindings trifle worn. = The 3rd Dutch edition. Landwehr F107; Waller 589; Bodemann II, 158.
AND a later edition of the same work (Dordr., 1829).
- Occas. sl. (water)st./ soiled. Covers, boardedges and corners sl. rubbed/ worn; dam. spots on backstrips; letterpieces defective/ lacking.
= The 3rd Dutch edition. Landwehr F107; Waller 589; Bodemann II, 158.
- Pastedowns detached; first lvs. sl. mouldy in upper margin. Vellum dam. at upper edge covers; lacks part of backstrip.
= On the author, calling himself the "onghestudeerden Vlaemschen Boer van Hardye", see at large Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek XI, p.250-254 ("controversist").
- Lacks vol.2. One plate trifle browned/ frayed in portion of outer margin (strengthened on verso). Upper outer corner of frontcover of vol.1 restored; spine-ends of vol.3 restored; both vols. backcover sl. scratched.
= Six (occas. 5) coats of arms remained blank in all copies. An additional part without plates was published in 1772/ 1781.
- Joints splitting at top of spine; corners showing.
- Partly sl. browned (worsening towards the end).
- Owner's entry on first blank, repaired tear in title-p.; first and last lvs. sl. waterst./ foxed. Backstrip sl. rubbed.
= First posthumous ed. of a fundamental essay on Italian Protestantism by the German Calvinist theologian and historian Daniel Gerdes (1698-1765), a passionate defender of the Protestant freedom of conscience. See NNBW III, p.460ff.
- Inkstain on upper pastedown and inner margin of preliminary leaves; sl. foxed. Top of spine dam.; corners worn/ dam.
= Guide to the reading and understaning of royal and imperial German official documents.