2499 - 3244 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- (Sl.) duststained/ fingersoiled throughout; w. traces of former blue wrappers in inner margin of first and final page.
= The extremely rare first edition (no copy traced in the market). Sammlung Freytag 4712; Goedeke 2, p.430, 267b; not in Weller. The fine woodcut showing 3 "Landsknechte" in a pub with a Nürnberger stove, from which the devil watches them. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVII.
- Owner's stamp on recto and bookplate on verso of first free endpaper; partly sl. wormholed in outer margin. Frontcover sl. stained in lower margin. A good/ fine copy.
= LARGE PAPER copy.
- Title-p. w. stamp of the Bibliothèque du Roi de Neuilly. A good/ fine copy.
= Very rare, no copy traced on the market. This misogynous 'nursery rhyme' in Sicilian, directed against (the love of) women, caused much (poetical) commotion: "Si alzarono quindi in difesa del loro sesso due poetesse l'una Geneviefa Bisso, e l'altra Dorotea Isabella Bellini Guillon moniale nel monastero di santa Chiara in Palermo; e ambedue risposero in versi siciliani." (Prospetto della storia letteraria di Sicilia, p.245).
- Sl. yellowed; occas. trifle foxed. Covers darkened and worn.
= Rare (only) work of poetry by the Amsterdam jeweller Dirk Schelte, published one year prior to his death.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; bookplate on upper pastedown; trifle foxed. Corners and backstrip (sl.) worn.
= Goedeke V, p.227, 9 (p.XIV, line 23 without "l" for "lebendig", but final textp. w. 3 corrections, the other corrections however on the final separate and unnumb. page).
- Occas. sl. creased; final 5 leaves misbound; bookplate on upper pastedown
= Early edition (first ed. publ. 1781), of which Marcuse 75 states: "Nachdruck, aus einem Sammelband?"; not in Goedeke.
- Occas. trifle wormholed. Copy without portrait (copies are found both with and without a portrait). Good copy.
- Pastedown loosening. = Very rare.
- Paper over covers partly trifle rubbed. A very good and clean set, printed on heavy paper.
= Posthumously published, all parts warranted on verso title-p. by A. van Slingelandt. Dekkers 161, 1.
- Title loosening and portion torn out w. publisher; hinges broken; pastedowns detached; some lvs. sl. wormholed. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Ad 1: Höweler/ Matter p.290 or p.293; Goovaerts 930 (sl. diff. title) or 932; Scheurleer p.40. Ad 2: Höweler/ Matter p.293; Scheurleer p.42.
De beeldsprakige bijbel, met vier honderd versieringen. Rott., Wijnhoven Hendriksen, n.d. (±1830), 4th ed., (4),98 [of 102]p., title-p. within woodcut pict. border, num. sm. woodcut ills., contemp. boards, sm. 8vo.
- Lacks pp.1-4. Frontcover loose; lacks backstrip.
= Nice and rare small printbible, with excerpts from the Bible told in a rebus-like fashion. Cf. Huiskamp B39 (1st ed., 1817) and B40 (5th ed., n.d.).
- Lacks large portion of title-p. and lower corner of first text leaf (w. loss of text); prob. lacks htitle or leaf A2; occas. sl. browned.
= Scheurleer p.178. Contains a total of 130 mostly amorous songs, as well as a few drinking songs at the end. Rare.
- Lacks 5 plates; one fold. map w. large tear (repaired on verso); erased owner's entry on title (causing a dam. spot). Joints splitting; frontcover stained; spine-ends chipped.
= Tiele 361; Borba de Moraes p.329; Sabin 25927.
- Without the first part. Erratic pagination but collation complete; occas. waterstained (mostly in blank margins). Lacks clasps and catches; vellum darkened. Despite defects a good/ fine copy of this rare work.
= It contains the accounts of several Portuguese voyages to the East Indies, the voyages of Ulrich Schmidel to Brazil and Argentina and that of Hans von Staden to Brazil; those of the latter two, both of whom were German mercenary soldiers, are amongst the earliest accounts of South American travels and discovery. Schmidel's account is the first printing of the earliest account of colonisation of the River Plate and of the founding of Buenos Aires. One of the rarest early German collections of voyages. Borba da Moraes p.317; Palau 304834; Sabin 77677. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVII.
- Without the second vol., published in 1770.
= Miguel Casiri, who transcribed and cataloged about 1800 manuscripts in Arabic preserved in the royal monastery of San Lorenzo, better known by the name of Escorial. The work, which contains texts dating for the most part to the era of Arab rule in Spain, is divided in sections by topic, Grammatica, Rhetorica, Ethica, Medica, Historia naturalis, etc. The first book with Arabic characters printed in Spain.
- Partly sl./ trifle browned. Spines sl. dustsoiled. = Buijnsters, Spectatoriale geschriften 26.1; Waller 1577.
- Vellum sl. soiled. Otherwise fine.
= Bibl. Spinoza p.13; Van der Linde 402 (3rd ed. 1754); Bierens de Haan (1st ed. 1720). Main work by this follower of Descartes and opponent of Spinoza.
= Rare large engraving showing a splendour richly complemented by fireworks.
- Lacks final 2 (index) text lvs. Binding sl. worn. = Van der Haar, Schatkamer S793.
- All vols. owner's stamp on htitle; vol.5 three quires waterstained in lower blank margin. All vols. boards (sl.) soiled; vol.6 lacks paper over frontcover. Good set.
= Lipperheide Ma 9; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 447/448. "The first treatise on geographical anthropology" (Landwehr). A German transl. was published 1805-1809. The fine, delicately handcol. plates, engraved by L. Portman after Jacques Kuyper, all depict ethnic types.
- Occas. sl. (finger)soiled in margin; 1 plate sl. waterst. in lower blank margin; 1 plate lacks sm. portion in outer blank margin. Extremities and letterpieces sl. rubbed/ worn. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Sabin 91077; Cat. NHSM, p.282; Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 6455; Rouffaer/ Muller p.625; Tiele 1046; Muller 1489. The first Dutch edition of Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796), rarely found complete and in contemp. bindings. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIX.