1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Fine copy. Occas. sl. yellowed/ soiled and w. a few foxed spots; title-p. w. old owner's entry in lower blank margin; extensive early 20th cent.(?) ms. annot. on prelim. leaf.
= Mortimer 403; Fairfax Murray 420 (both the 1st ed. of 1557). "The de Tournes Ovids, combining the Salomon illustrations and borders with French, Italian, or Flemish texts, are among the most attractive volumes produced at Lyons" (Mortimer). "Every page with delicately executed woodcuts attributed to Le Petit Bernard (178 in all), and with borders of beautiful design, consisting of interlacing arabesques, some white on black, figures of satyrs, tritons, &c., and including three extraordinary ones (repeated at intervals) composed of Rabelaisian monsters and other grotesque creatures" (Murray). Endpapers made from nice col. woodcut leaf w. floral motif.
- Lacks 10 lvs.; a few engravings cut out and pasted over other engraving or cut short and remargined; (sl.) waterst.; fingersoiled; upper endpaper renewed; bookblock sl. shaken.
= Adams O 504; New Hollstein VI, no.1655-1834; not in Schweiger. Fine engravings.
- Old paper ticket on spine. A good/ fine copy.
= Also contains: C. VAN MANDER, Uytbeeldingh der figuren: Vertoonende hoe de Heydenen hun Goden afgebeelt en onderscheyden hebben; hoe d'Egyptenaers hun verborge meyningen, met Dieren en andere dingen, te kennen gaven. Alles voor de Rijm-schrijvers en schilders seer nut (p.469-520, w. div. title w. imprint Rott., P. van Waesberge). Bibl. Belg. M96 note. Reprint of the edition of 1645.
- Lacks possibly 4 fold. plates; occas. sl. browned; waterstained throughout. Covers w. some dam. spots.
- Preliminary lvs. partly pasted on upper pastedown causing some tearing on inner margin; bookplate on upper pastedown; later quotations in pen and ink on first free endpaper; without the prize.
= Graesse V, p.239; Schweiger, p.724; cf. Dibdin p.276: ""Some years ago," says Dr. Harwood, "I read through this edition of Petronius Arbiter, published by Burman at Utrecht in 1709, and can affirm it to be one of the best edited of Dutch classics. Burman, by his immense erudition and critical sagacity, hath so wonderfully illustrated this difficult writer, that it is almost impossible for the best scholar to read Petronius in any other edition". According to the same authority, the curious prefer the first edition of 1709." The second vol. comprises Praedicanea by J. DOUSA, Commenta by J.A. GONSALIUS DE SALAS, Dissertationes et praefationes variae and extensive indices.
- New endpapers; hinges strengthened; later owner's entry on verso first free endpaper. All edges of covers restored; joints rubbed.
= Schweiger p.723. The second part consists of notes on the Satyricon by J. Bosch, the third part is the Priapeia.
AND 1 other.
- Loose(ning). Backstrip dam. = Schweiger p.247.
Terentius Afer, P. Comoediae Sex. Zweibrucken, Ex Typographia Societatis, 1779, 2 parts in 1 vol., (2),XLIV,306; 431p., 2 diff. engr. title-portraits, contemp. hroan.
- Sl. foxed and fingersoiled. Binding worn and rubbed. = Schweiger p.1071.
AND 2 others: C. SCHOETTGENIUS, Lexicon Graeco-Latinum (...). Ed. D. van Cruisselbergen (Leyden, 1755, contemp. gilt vellum schoolprize binding of Vlissingen (Spoelder 4)) and HOMERUS, De Muis- en Kikvorsch-Krijg (Utr., 1835, engr. title, without binding).
- Lower pastedown detached. Upper edge frontcover sl. sunned. A fine copy. = Schweiger II, p.766.
- Upper endpapers (sl.) mouldy/ dam.; 2 lvs. loose. Binding soiled/ stained; gilding partly worn; vellum torn/ dam. in lower inner corner frontcover and along lower joint; lower endpapers yellowed/ foxed.
= Schweiger p.812.
AND 2 others similar, both mediocre copies: L.A. FLORUS, Historia Romana (Franeker, 1690, engr. frontsp., contemp. gilt vellum) and EURIPIDES, Tragoedia Phoenissae (Leyden, 1802, Greek and Latin text).
- Spines sl. rubbed.
Vertot, (C.A.). Histoire des Révolutions arrivées dans le Gouvernement de la République Romaine. Paris, P. Didot l'ainé, 1806, 4 parts in 2 vols., contemp. unif. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, 12mo.
- Sl. foxed. Covers chafed.
AND 4 others, i.a. N.L.M. DESESSARTS, Galerie des orateurs Grecs et Latins, ou Tableau des effets de l'éloquence chez les Anciens (Paris, 1806, engr. portraits, sl. later hcalf) and O. GOLDSMITH, History of Greece abridged for the use of schools (Amst., 1804, contemp. hcalf).
- Upper joint splitting at foot of spine; corners bumped.
= Brunet IV, p.757; Graesse V, p.378. On the binding: Spoelder 3.
- Ex library stamps on title. Gilding on frontcover sl. faded; lacks ties. Otherwise fine.
= With the letterpress prize, filled out in manuscript to "G.A. la Borde", dated "23 decemb. 1795" on first blank. Cf. Brunet IV, p.793 and Graesse V, p.398.
- With letterpress and manuscript prize (to "Henrico Petro Timmers Verhoeven ", dated 1817) on first blank. Lacks letterpiece; lacks ties.
= Cf. Brunet IV, p.793 and Graesse V, p.398.
- Letterpiece rubbed; backcover scratched. Otherwise fine.
= With schoolprize to "Sijds Andries Banga" bound at the beginning. Schweiger p.831: "Diese schätzbare Ausg. soll schon längst nicht mehr im Handel zu haben sein". On the binding: Spoelder 2.
- Lacks ties; gilding for the larger part worn off.
= Graesse VI, p.166; Brunet IV, p.1398 (other eds.). On the binding: Spoelder 1.
- Lacks the first blanks and without the ties. Partly foxed.
= Cf. Schweiger p.363 (other eds.); for the binding: Spoelder 4.
- Sl. yellowed.
AND 1 other: G.H. NIEUPOORT, Rituum, qui olim apud Romanos obtunuerunt, succinta explicatio (Utr., 1723, (fold.) engr. plates, contemp. calf. Binding worn/ dam.).
- Lacks 2 plates; both vols. sl. wormholed; contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. dogeared/ creased; vol.2 lacks p.7-10. Both vols. binding stained; corners bumped/ worn; spine sl. rubbed/ worn.
= Schweiger p.1307.
- Libr. stamp on first blank. Spine-ends and joints trifle rubbed, otherwise fine.
= With the prize awarded by the Hageveld Seminarium to "Henrico van Beek" on 11 Aug. 1837.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; contemp. owner's entry on title in pen and ink; first few lvs. w. tiny wormhole. Vellum soiled.