2076 - 2859 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Library stamps on first free endpapers/ htitles; occas. browned/ foxed; 8 vols. sm. blank portion cut from top margin of title-p. (prob. owner's entry); vol. 3 partly wormholed in engr. title. Letterpieces dam.; a few corners sl. worn.
= Fine and complete set of the extensive commentaries on the entire Bible (except Job and Psalms) by the Flemish Jesuit Van den Steen, who exegetes Scripture through the four senses. Comprises: I. Commentaria in Pentateuchum Mosis (1681); II. Commentarius in Josue, Judicum, Ruth, IV. libros Regum et II. Paralipomenon/ (...) in Esdram, Nehemiam, Tobiam, Judith, Esther, et Machabaeos (1676/ 1679, 3 parts in 1 vol.); III. Commentaria in Salomonis Proverbia (1681); IV. Commentarii in Ecclesiasten/ (...) in Canticum Canticorum/ (...) in librum Sapientiae (1680, 3 parts in 1 vol.); V. Commentaria in Ecclesiasticum (1674); VI. (...) in quatuor Prophetas Maiores (1676); VII. (...) in duodecim Prophetas Minores (1673); VIII. Commentarius in quatuor Evangelia (1681, 2 parts in 1 vol.). IX. Commentaria in omnes Divi Pauli Epistolas (1679); X. (...) in Acta Apostolorum, Epistolas Canonicas, et Apocalypsin (1684/ 1681, 3 parts in 1 vol.). De Backer/ Sommervogel IV, p.1511ff, no. 2-11 (except 3).
- First free endpaper in first vol. partly cut out and owner's stamp on htitle; occas. sl. foxed. Otherwise fine.
= Hill 980 (ed. Paris, 1833-35); cf. Sabin 38985 ("valuable work"); Borba de Moraes p.457, Ferguson II, 1669 and Henze III, p.147f. Dutch translation of the French edition of Laplace's account of his first Journey in the Favorite. "The purpose of his voyage was to show the French flag in eastern and other waters, in order to re-establish French influence over Indo-China and the Pacific. The voyage was also very succesful scientifically. (...). The hydrographic work was thorough and reliable, the work done in the Anamba and Natuna groups of Malaysia was valuable, and a good collection of natural history specimens was brought back." (Hill). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Three leaves w. receding brown stain in text (sl. affecting 1 ill.); the last 10 lvs have mild waterstains, mainly to upper middle fold. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Fine illustrated Dutch edition, with very sharp impressions of the plates of the famous complaint by Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474-1566). It is usually found together with Saeghman's edition of De Groote Spaensche Tiranye, which was published in 1667. First published in Spanish in 1552, it made Las Casas the first political activist of the New World. His account of the sufferings of the Indians at the hands of the Spaniards remained very popular, especially during the Eighty-Years War of the Dutch against the Spaniards, when the work was published with the aim of discrediting the Spanish enemy. It was first published in Dutch in 1578 and was enlarged in 1621 with an account of the discovery of the New World, and a note on the situation in the Americas before the Spaniards arrived. The 17 plates were copied from the German editions of De Bry from 1597-1599 and helped to create the image of the Spaniard as a ruthless and inhuman monster. One plate was replaced by an engraving of the ship of Columbus. Our edition has an extra plate, showing Columbus breaking an egg, also copied from De Brys collection of voyages. Sabin 11264; Tiele, Mémoire 329; cf. Waller 1006 (Amsterdam ed. of 1607). Provenance: Eric Quayle. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CII.
- New endpapers. Binding worn along extremities.
- Second and third vol. (sl.) foxed throughout. All vols. binding sl. worn along extremities.
- Lacks the engr. portrait; modern owner's entry in pen on title; without the prize. Some dam. spots in gilt ornaments on both covers; tiny inkstains on frontcover.
= Star Numan 461-468; Dekkers p.16,19.
- Sl. stained.
Akte van beschuldiging met het arrest van teregtstelling in zake tegen Hendrik Jacobus Jut en zijne huisvrouw Christina Goedvolk. Met plattegrond van het huis waarin de moorden zijn begaan. The Hague, C.A. van Reyn, 1876, 23p. (incl. wr.)., 2 groundplans, folio.
- Folded; a few lvs. frayed.
= "Bijvoegsel, behoorende bij "Het Vaderland."" Interesting bill of indictment against H.J. Jut and his housewife C. Goedvolk for murdering the widow Van der Kouwen and her servant H. Beelo and the unlawful appropriation of stocks and cash money. Notorious crime from which the Dutch proverb Kop van Jut originates.
= Kress 343/ 344; Goldsmiths 443. A call for better control of finances in the realm, including abolition of the Paulette or Droit Annuel, to be paid by the "propriétaires d'offices" if they were to pass their position over to their heirs.
Cahiers generaux des articles resolus et accordez entre les Deputez des 3. Estats. Paris, n.publ., 1615, 40p., modern boards (unif. w. the preceding).
- Sl. yellowed/ (water)stained; one leaf w. some sm. inkstains.
= Rare. Not traced in the usual reference works.
- Spine-ends sl. worn.
Ordonnantie ende maniere van procedeeren voor den Geregte der Stad Amsterdam. Ibid., S. Lamsveld, 1742, 196,(4)p., contemp. hcalf, 12mo. - BOUND WITH 6 others similar. - AND 5 miscell. others, i.a. E. OTTO, Notitia Praecipuarum Europae Rerumpublicarum (Utr., 1739, contemp. hcalf).
- Trifle yellowed. Binding w. minor imperfections. = Dekkers p.100, no.1.
- Cut sl. short in upper margin. Tear at foot of spine.
= Rare pamphlet, comprising (judicial) procedures issued by the mayor and city council of Wijk bij Duurstede on January 29, 1656. Not in Knuttel.
- New endpapers; some browning; first 50 lvs. upper half waterstained. Rebacked; corners showing.
- Rather poor copy: partly mouldy; edges partly brittle and fragile. Needs rebinding (binding heavily worn/ eroded). Sold w.a.f.
= Dekkers p.27, 1.
Le Roy, J. Institution de la Chambre des Comptes du Roi en Brabant à Bruxelles, du 19. Juin l'an 1404 (...). Brussels, t'Serstevens, 1716, (2),94p., contemp. wr., sm. 8vo.
- Worn copy; wr. loose(ning).
- Part 1 frontisp. and title-p. reattached w. traces of glue in inner margin; vol. 2 upper hinge weak and tear at top of spine backstrip. Fine copy.
= Warranted on verso title-p. by A. van Slingelandt. Dekkers p.161, 1.
- Title-p. w. contemp. owners' entries; new endpapers; (sl.) foxed/ browned throughout; occas. dampstained; partly wormholed in outer blank margin. Vellum w. a few dam. spots.
- Vol. 2 sl. wormholed in lower inner margin at the beginning; both vols. waterstain on title-p. from erased owner's entry. Bindings rubbed and sl. worn.
= Dekkers 181,9: "Voet's major work, often reprinted. Voet (1647-1713) was the first at Leyden University to teach both roman and modern law."
- Backcover sl. stained. = Dekkers p.185.
Oudenhoven, J. van. Oude Hollansche [sic] Landen, Heeren, Luyden, Rechten en Rechtsplegingen, oprechten van 't Hoff van Hollandt Zeelant en West-Vrieslandt, Leenhoff in Hollandt, en den Hogen-Raedt, &c. Amst., S. van Esveldt, 1743, (8),228p., engr. title-vignette, modern plain hvellum, sm. 4to.
- Trifle dustsoiled; title-p. waterst. in outer lower blank margin.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 366j. Published posthumously.
AND 1 other on the Codex Batavus.
- Title-p. sl. dampstained/ yellowed; later endpapers.
= Arpots 63. With 4 nice plates, one of which shows the Burcht in Leyden and two others showing skating scenes.