1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Scattered old annots.; title-p. speckled; occas. waterst.; some inkstains; one leaf w. burning hole; lvs. S1 and S2 misbound.
= Adams A1949; Schweiger p.62.
- Vol. 1 w. extensive pencil annots. on title-p. Corners showing.
= Schweiger p.64; Ebert 1130. An attractively bound set.
- Waterst./ mouldy in outer blank margin at the end. Binding sl. stained.
= With schoolprize to Henricus Dequer, dated 1681, bound opposite title-p. Dibdin I, p.332f: "(...) well-known editions of Isaac Casaubon (...)"; Schweiger p.70; on the binding: Spoelder 1.
- Lacks htitle; oblique fold in title-p.; occas. sl. stained/ foxed. Lacks ties; upper joint splitting, but holding well; a few tears in backstrip; vellum duststained.
= Dibdin I, p.332f (on the editions of 1597 and 1612/1657): "(...) well-known editions of Isaac Casaubon (...)."; Hoffmann I, p.396. On the binding: Spoelder 4.
- Contemp. and later annots. on upper pastedown and first free endpaper. Contemp. owner's entry on title; title lacks upper blank corner; bookblock shaken. Binding dam.
= Willems 344; Rahir 319.
Sallustius Crispus, C. (Opera). Cum Veterum Historicorum Fragmentis. Editio Novissima. Ibid., iidem, 1634, 1st ed., (14),310,(34)p., engr. title, woodcut portrait of the author, 19th cent. blindst. calf, 12mo.
- Upper hinge broken; lower hinge strengthened; inner margin title and first leaf glued onto upper pastedown. Lacks backstrip; binding worn. Sold w.a.f.
= Willems 412; Rahir 399.
- Nineteenth cent. annots on first free endpaper and verso first blank. Lacks ties. Otherwise fine.
= Not in Schweiger. Spoelder 4.
- Upper pastedown renewed, loose and doubled. Lacks ties. Fine copy.
= With the manuscript prize awarded by the latin school of Zutphen to Johannus van Meghen on first free endpaper, dated ""a.d. VIII Kalend. Februar: MDCLXXXIV", signed by Samuel Pitiscus. Willems 1505; Rahir 1624; Schweiger II, p.45. Reprint of the Elzevier edition 1661.
- Pastedowns loose. Fine copy.
- Without the prize; auction catalogue clipping on upper pastedown; owner's stamp on first free endpaper; occas. (sl.) waterst. in upper/ lower margin (incl. ills.). Gilding on both covers worn; lacks 1 tie.
= Schweiger p.45. On the binding: Spoelder 1.
- (Crossed out) pencil annots. on first free endpaper. Binding trifle soiled and lacks ties.
= With manuscript prize to Johannes Jacobus Westrenus on first blank, dated 1699, signed by historian and classicist Samuel Pitiscus.
Curtius Rufus, Q. Historiarum Libri de vita et expeditione Alexandri Magni. Utr., G. Zylius, 1666, (12),449,(18)p., engr. title, 1 plate, contemp./ sl. later boards, 12mo.
- One leaf w. large tear. Lacks backstrip; covers worn.
- Contemp. annot. on first free endpaper of vol.1. Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities.
= From the library of the archaeologist A.E. van Giffen (w. his stamp on first free endpaper of all vols.
- Bookblock loose(ning). = Rare edition. Van der Haeghen II, p.17.
= With letterpress schoolprize, awarded to "Jacobo del Court" (in manuscript), 15 October 1789. On the book: Schweiger p.203. On the binding: Spoelder 5.
- Sl. yellowed. White stains at foot of spine. = Schweiger p.204.
Idem. Epistolarum libri XVI. Ed. J.G. Graevius. Amst., H. Wetsteen, 1689, (10),638,(15)p., engr. frontisp., contemp. vellum.
- Hinges weak; partly (vaguely) waterst. Backstrip chipped at foot. = Schweiger p.162.
AND 1 other: C. NEPOS, De Excellentibus Viris (Amst., 1756, engr. title-vignette, contemp. vellum).
- First capital later handcoloured. Lacks ties. = Rare edition.
- Partly sl. and vaguely waterstained in upper margin. Corners rubbed; top of spine of vol. 1 chipped.
AND 1 other: HORATIUS. Les Poësies (Amst./ Jena and Leipsic, 1762, 2 parts in 1 vol., contemp. calf, sm. 8vo. Owner's name on title-p. cut out; binding dam.).
= Willems 1025; Rahir 1025.
Sulpitius Severus. Historia Sacra. Leyden, Ex Officinâ Elsevirianâ (= B. and A. Elzevier), 1643, 212p., woodcut printer's mark, 19th cent. full red mor. w. richly gilt vegetal ornamental border, richly gilt spine, signed by SIMIER at foot of spine, sm. 8vo.
= Willems 561; Rahir 553; Copinger 4326. Reprint of the edition 1635.
- Some foxing.Vellum sl. soiled/ stained.
= Schweiger p.323. On the binding: Spoelder 5.
- Outer turn-in and upper pastedown dam.; owner's entries on firste free endpaper; sl./ trifle foxed; last few quires w. waterstain near upper outer corner. Binding sl. soiled.
= Rare edition. Geerebaert 105, 2b; Muller 340 (ed. 1683 w. 10 plates); De Vries 361 (without the map); Scheepers II, 312-313 (ed. 1688 w. 10 plates and ed. 1764).
- Both vols. leather over spine cracked; top of spines chipped; backcover vol. 1 and frontcover vol. 2 sl. rubbed.
= Hoffmann I, p.570; Brunet II, p.721; cf. Cioranescu 18849; Graesse II, p.397.