1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
76 2675 Hume D 
76 2675 Hume D 
- Lacks p.1-2 (htitle?); title sl. soiled and lacks lower blank corner. Upper joint split.
= Second edition (1st ed. was publ. in the same year without the author's or publisher's name) of Hume's famous work in which the nature of God is discussed through dialogue between three characters: Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes.
76 2676 Hungary Vanel J de 
- Armorial bookplate on upper pastedown. Dam. spot at foot of spine; sl. worn along extremities.
= The Magnate conspiracy, also known as the Zrinski-Frankopan Conspiracy in Hungary, was a 17th-century attempt to throw off Habsburg and other foreign influences over Hungary and Croatia. Plates showing the executions of counts Zrinski, Frankopan and Nádasdy.
76/2677 Hunting and falconry Poetae Latini rei venaticae scriptores et bucolici antiqui 
- Sl. yellowed/ occas. foxed. Dam. at top of spine; joints starting; backstrip creased; corner backcover showing; sl. rubbed along extremities.
= With the letterpress prize, filled out in manuscript to "Ludovicus Asser" dated 1818. A collection of classical works on hunting and bucolic poetry. Brunet IV p.759: ''Collection estimée''; Schweiger p.1287.
76 2678 Hutten U von 
76 2678 Hutten U von 
76 2678 Hutten U von 
- Sl. foxed; 3rd work sl. yellowed and waterstained.
= Very rare, outspokenly anti-papal pamphlets by the early protestant reformer Ulrich von Hutten. STC BM, German p.425; not in Adams. "Hutten was one of the most engaged and engaging figures of his era and was for a brief time a major force in Reformation politics. In later centuries he caught the imagination of his fellow Germans as no other contemporary author except Luther" (The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation II, p.282). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CV.
76 2679 Huygens C 
76 2679 Huygens C 
76 2679 Huygens C 
- Fold. plan dam. in centre, laid down on modern paper and reattached; waterstain in outer lower corner; occas. sl. foxed; upper hinge widening.
= Bibl. Belg. H120; Van Someren 2677a.
76 2680 Huygens C 
= Rare collection of Huygens' juvenile poems. Each of the six books with divisional title comprising: I. Farrago Latina; II. Des heures oisues, Qui contient les efforts francois & italiens; III. Daer in meest Bibel-Stoff; IV. daer in 't Kostelick Mall ende 't Voorhout; V. Daer in de stemmen eeniger Steden ende Dorpen van Holland, mitsgaders sijne Characteres oft Printen; VI. Daer in van als. Scheurleer, Liedboeken 150. Very fine copy.
BOUND WITH: Heinsius, D. Nederduytsche Poemata. Amst., W. Jansz., 1618, 2nd ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., (20),132; 29-67,(1)p., the first work with engr. title by C. DE PASSE II, 1 plate, 4 small engravings to the Poemata by C. DE PASSE I and II, 48 small engrs. to Het ambacht van Cupido and the Emblemata amatoria by C. DE PASSE I and II, 12 engrs. to the Hymnus of Lof-Sanck van Bacchus after D. VINCKBOONS, and 2 other small engrs.
- Partly (sl.) waterstained; a few leaves sl. frayed.
= Praz p.366; Landwehr 293 (our copy without cancellans plates); Franken, De Passe 1348. Not in Oberlé, Bibl. bachique; cf. Oberlé, Fastes 1032 (1st ed.). Rare.
AND WITH: Idem. Lof-sanck van Iesus Christus, den eenigen ende eeuwigen Sone Godes. Ibid., idem, 1618, (24),92[=94]p., engr. title-vignette, title-p. printed in black and red. - AND WITH: Verheiden, J. Af-Beeldingen Van Sommighe in Godts-Woort ervarene Mannen, die bestreden hebben den Roomschen Antichrist. Arnhem, J. Janssen, 1604, (10),147,(1) lvs., engr. title, 50 portraits and 1 plate by H. HONDIUS.
- Imprint corrected by pasting over. Otherwise fine.
76 2681 Inchofer M under pseud E Lavanda 
- Old owner's entry on titile-p.: "Soctis Jesu Osnabrug: 1667". Covers sl. warped; backcover stained.
= Backer/ Sommervogel IV, 563, 12: "Cet ouvrage est relatif à la controverse soulevée en Allemagne, à l'occasion du decret de Ferdinand II qui restituait aux églises, dépouillés par les protestants, les biens qui leur avaient appartenu. Ce fut le P. Paul Layman, S.J., qui prit la plus grande part à cette controverse, où il eut par adversaires Scioppius et le bénédictin Dom Hay."
76 2682 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Augustinus A 
- Lacks leaf G3; pastedowns loose; waterstained in upper inner margin throughout. Lacks chain attachment; glass in title window broken; sl. dam. at top of spine.
= Adams A2156. Vol. 10 of the 11 vols. (incl. the index vol.) of the first edition, edited and published in 1506 by Amerbach in Basel. This 10th vol. contains 65 treatises.
76 2683 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Bartholomeus Anglicus 
76 2683 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Bartholomeus Anglicus 
76 2683 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Bartholomeus Anglicus 
76 2683 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Bartholomeus Anglicus 
76 2683 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Bartholomeus Anglicus 
- Lacks the following leaves: ē6, text leaf W8, folio 465 & 3 blanks (2 leaves replaced by a facsimile leaf: ē6 (with woodcut) and folio 465 (the printer's mark at the end); the three blank leaves that Campbell lists in his collation are all replaced by sl. later blank leaves (listed by Campbell as Feuille 1, Feuille 246 and Feuille 466). Occas. small stains, some fingersoiling in margins, some repaired marginal tears and small renewed portions in blank margin of 5 leaves. A good/ fine copy.
= Incunabula in Dutch Libraries 678; Campbell 258; GKW 3423; Jaspers, Blokboeken 47 and 48; Goff B-142; Polain B507; Hain/ Copinger 2422. Dutch translation of "De Proprietatis Rerum" by Bartholomeus Anglicus (Jaspers suggests that the translation might have been done by the printer Jacobus Bellaert). The work was written before 1283 and became a very popular medieval text and was translated into French, Engish, Spanish and Dutch. More than 20 editions published before 1501 are known, the first dating to around 1470. The present edition is printed by the first printer of Haarlem, Jacob Bellaert. As stated on the first leaf, it is an encyclopaedia "sprekende (...) vande eygenschappen der dingen dats te segghen vant rechte in wesen alder gheschapen dinghen so wel sienlich als onsienlich lichamelic en onlichamelick niet wtghesondert". It contains chapters on a wide range of subjects: family life, herbs, history, astrology, meteorology, geography, botany, zoology, colours and music etc. One of the attractive woodcuts shows flowers and plants in what is in effect an early depiction of a landscape per se in a book. Provenance: Eric Sexton copy, with his bookplate and those of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, John Duncanson and Edmund McClure. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CV.
76/2684 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Breviarium Ratisponensis pars aestivalis 
76/2684 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Breviarium Ratisponensis pars aestivalis 
- Lacks title-p.; first leaf w. old stamp and sm. drawing(?) pasted over w. bookplate; occas. interleaved w. old annots.; sl. fingersoiled; final leaf w. closed tear. Binding trifle rubbed.
= Hain 3884; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 5434. With the Commune sanctorum from the Pars hiemalis, dated 1487, bound after leaf 283. Erhard Ratdolt was active as a printer in Venice before settling in Augsburg, where he adopted various innovations in printing which he acquired during his Venice years. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CV.
76/2685 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Breviarium secundum ritum Curiae Vercellensis 
76/2685 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Breviarium secundum ritum Curiae Vercellensis 
76/2685 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Breviarium secundum ritum Curiae Vercellensis 
- Lacks the title (?) and 16 preliminary lvs. ("tabulae" and "rubrica") and leaf 1 to 24 of the Psalterium; 2 lvs. numb. 241; partly waterstains in margins; scattered wormholes, mostly in margins; a few scattered sm. (contemp.) annots.; some lvs. w. tear in lower margin; last two lvs. frayed and dam. in lower margin (not affecting text); the Psalterium is bound at the end.
= Very rare. Copinger/ Hain 1329. Bohatta: Lit.Bibl. 537; Pell 2953; CRF VI 500; ISTC ib01187250; Gesamtkataloge Wiegendrucke 5504.
76 2686 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Bühel H von 
- Lacks 29 lvs. (incl. title) w. 19 half-p. woodcut ills. (supplied in photocopy); all lvs. (finger)soiled; leaf LXII remargined w. use of modern paper. Sold w.a.f.
= Despite the large numb. of lvs. lacking, this is an excessively rare work of German mediaeval literature in an exceedingly rare edition. COntemp. handcol. copies are even rarer. Only 14 copies known of which 8 are incomplete. HC 10039; GW 5707. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVI.
76 2687 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gellius A 
- Upper hinge (nearly) broken; a few lvs. loose(ning); bookblock trimmed, occas. affecting glosses.
= Adams G354; Schweiger p.377.
76 2688 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gratianus 
76 2688 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Gratianus 
- Fol. I chipped (and repaired) in outer margin; fol. CCXCV sl. dam. in lower blank margin (no loss of text); large fold. plate a few (closed) tears. Rebacked w. sl. later calf; foot of spine chipped; lacks ties. Clean copy.
= Adams 1044; Renouard, Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle, vol. I, p.5-6, no.7. Beautifully printed.
76 2689 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Lactantius L C F 
- Title-p. sl. soiled and lacks part of upper and right blank margin w. some minimal loss of letters on recto and verso (remargined w. later paper (w. later stamp "A. Simons")).
= Adams L13. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVI.
76 2690 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Raulin J 
- Partly waterst.; final 2 lvs. lower margin restored; a few quires loosening. Binding sl. worn.
= Contemp. annot. on 1st blank: "Heer Wolter van Voerst preester in Campen. Broeder van Zoelen carmelyt binnen Utrecht heeft ghecoft dit boeck van die erfghenamen des voerscreuen heren [...] gode bevolen". Rare, not in Adams. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVI.
76 2691 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Suetonius Tranquillus C 
- Lacks 2 prelim. text lvs.; title-p. doubled, sl. stained/ soiled and w. owner's entries and sm. stamp; occas. waterst. and fingersoiled; later annots. on first endpaper.
= Renouard p.91; Adams S 2035. Reissue of the 1516 edition.
76 2692 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Valla L 
76 2692 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Valla L 
- Wormholed almost throughout (worse at the beginning). Lacks clasps and catches.
= Adams V 167. Very rare edition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVI.
76 2693 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vergilius Maro P 
- First and final leaf sl. fingersoiled; trifle foxed. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Heavily annotated copy in pen and ink in 16th century hand. This ed. not in Adams; Schweiger p.1193.
76 2694 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vivaldus G L 
76 2694 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vivaldus G L 
76 2694 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vivaldus G L 
76 2694 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vivaldus G L 
- Occas. (sl.) waterstained. A few sm. holes in covers; backcover lightly rubbed; upper joint starting; clasps attached to later vellum straps. A good/ fine copy.
= Prob. the 4th edition. Adams V 929. Contains 4 woodcuts (Stabat Mater, Dance of Death and 2 Quodlibets). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.