1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Trifle dustsoiled; title-p. waterst. in outer lower blank margin.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 366j. Published posthumously.
- Both vols. w. sm. owner's entry on title-p.; leaf Qqq3 in vol. 2 w. large tear. Bindings rubbed/ sl. worn.
= Camus 149; Graesse V, p.504, note. Fifth edition of the famous French translation by Barbeyrac, whose Oratio inauguralis de dignitate et utilitate juris ac historiarum et utriusque disciplinae amica conjunctione is added at the end.
- Some sl. occas. foxing/ yellowing; fold. plate w. tear in blank margin. Backstrip sl. soiled and traces of ticket. A fine copy.
= Pitlo/ Gehlen p.87-93; Dekkers p.153.
- Trifle yellowed/ foxed; last few lvs. of the second work waterst. in upper part. Binding badly worn; lacks letterpiece; paper over covers dam.
= Ad 1: Pitlo/ Gehlen p.67-71; Dekkers p.155. Ad 2: Pitlo/ Gehlen p.98-101; Dekkers p.93. The rare first edition.
- Calf of binding (badly) flaked due to acidity of mottling; spine-ends dam.; upper joint split.
= Pitlo/ Gehlen p.67-71; Dekkers p.155.
- Traces of removed tickets on spine. = Dekkers p.156, 3.
- Spines trifle rubbed. Fine set. = Warranted on verso title-p. by A. van Slingelandt. Dekkers 161, 1.
AND 1 other: M. SIEGENBEEK, Lofrede op den raadpensionaris Simon van Slingelandt (Leyden, 1819, contemp. richly gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece).
- Old owner's entries on first free endpaper. Covers rubbed. = Dekkers p.172, 13.
Matthaeus, A. Zinspreuken by de Neederlandsche rechtsgeleerden gebruikelyk. (...) In welke behalven de Roomsche Rechten, coustumen en instellingen, en die van andere Volkeren, het Utrechtsche recht verklaard en opgehelderd word. Amst., S. van Esveldt, 1775, 297p., engr. title-vignette, modern marbled boards, sm. 4to.
- Sm. libr. (cancel) stamp on title-p. Occas. sl. waterstained (one quire waterstained in lower half of page).
= Dekkers p.111. Dutch translation by Willem Lucas Kramp of Paroemiae Belgarum jurisconsultis usitatissimae (1st ed. Utr., 1667).
Schrassert, J. Codex Gelro Zutphanicus ofte Handboeck (...). Harderwijk, W. Brinkink, 1740, 1 vol. (of 2), (56),520p., contemp. vellum, sm. 4to.
- The first vol. only.
= The main work by the well-known jurist. This first part forms an alphabetically arranged legal dictionary (the second contains the documents to it). Dekkers p.157,10; Van Heynsbergen p. 105: "(...) groote verdienste voor het Geldersche recht"; Wittop Koning 128.
- Binding sl. warped. = Dekkers p.184.
- Backcover sl. stained. = Dekkers p.185.
- Both vols. w. owner's entry of lawyer, judge and politician L.C. Luzac on upper pastedown/ first free endpaper; first vol. hinges strengthened w. paper tape. Bindings sl. worn/ rubbed; first vol. rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip.
AND 3 others, incl. J. VAN DER LINDEN, Beredeneerd register op het Wetboek Napoleon, ingericht voor het Koningrijk Holland (Amst., 1809, contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece. Extensive contemp. owner's annots.).
- Sm. stamp on title; contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper in pen and ink. Vellum sl. soiled; sm. paper ticket on spine.
= Published in the form of a dictionary and still an important source for old Dutch law. Dekkers p.197, 2; Zeylemaker 154-155.
- Some foxing; pastedowns loosening. Covers some sm. stains, upper joint split; backstrip lacks portion (4,5x3 cm.) at foot of spine.
= Published in the form of a dictionary and still an important source for old Dutch law. Dekkers p.197, 2; Zeylemaker 154-155.
- First half w. sm. wormhole(s) in lower blank corner; first 40p. w. vague waterstain in fore-edge margin. Binding soiled; foot of spine trifle dam.
= Dekkers p.198.
- Occas. yellowed and fingersoiled; bound w. 18 photocopied lvs. of a similar work by the same. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Atlas van Stolk 4579; Arpots 221 (listing 4 copies): "Koepeltitel voor een verzameling van 53, soms eerder verschenen stukken, waarvan sommige met een eigen afz. titelpagina."
- Partly trifle yellowed; bookplate on upper pastedowns; sm. owner's stamp on titles. Vellum sl. stained/ soiled.
= Van der Haar, Schatkamer L281-284.
- One leaf dam. in margin w. sl. loss of text; frontisp. cut sl. short in lower margin; occas. sl. foxed in margins. Rebacked w. modern calf.
= Very rare, only 1 copy traced on the net (in the auction catalogue of Comtesse D'Yve, part I, sold in 1819).
- Bookplate of John Evelyn on upper pastedown. Ad 1: Lacks fold. plate; margin of 1 leaf flawed, not affecting text; sm. waterstain upper outer corner title. Ad 2: Contemp. ms. annots. on title.
= Ad 1: Adams L536; Sabin 228. First Latin edition of the original French edition (La Rochelle: Pour Antoine Chuppin, 1578), translated by Lery himself. One of the earliest eye-witness accounts of the New World, on the first settlements in Brasil, and its natural history. The woodcuts mainly depict Brazilian natives and their customs.
Ad 2: Voet 639; Adams B566; Bibl. Belg. B123; Index Aur. 116.334; Nissen, ZBI 305; Pritzel 695. First Latin edition of the original French edition, Plantin 1555, with addition of a few notes by Carolus Clusius. The work is divided into three books, the first about Crete, the Greek islands, continental Greece and Constantinople, the second about the islands of Asia Minor, Egypt, Sinai, Palestine and Syria, the third about Asia Minor. "The work contains observations about geography, fauna, plants, mines, agriculture, religions, the life of inhabitants, monuments and archaeological descriptions such as the city of Troy, the pyramids or the mummies." (Labore et Constantia 127). The woodcuts mainly depict plants and animals, but also a map of Turkey and a view of Alexandria. "In the same letter of 12 March 1587 interesting details are given about the illustrations. Clusius must have expressed the wish to reproduce the woodcuts as given in the 1555-publication, but Plantin tried in vain to recover the wood-blocks of his 1555-editions, sold at the auction of his press in 1562. He was forced to give Clusius' French edition to Pieter van der Borcht to copy the illustrations. The illustrations are, consequently, in reverse of the ones of Plantin's 1555-edition. (...) In fact not all the 1555-illustrations were copied; for six plants (pp.6, 93, 255, 258, 291, 475) and one animal (p.493) blocks were used from herbals and similar works published by Plantin in the preceding years." (Voet).
Ad 3: Voet 638; Pritzel 609 note; Bibl. Belgica B 124: "Dans ce livre, le dernier et peut-être le plus intéressant des ouvrages de Belon, l'auteur donne la liste des arbres exotiques qu'il serait utile d'introduire en France, et il invite le collège des médecins de Paris à fonder un établissement pour l'acclimatation des plantes étrangères." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
- Final (index) lvs. sl. yellowed. Calf w. some eroded spots on both covers.
= Title-edition of the edition publ. by C. Vermey, Leyden, 1721, w. replaced title-page. Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Sl. fingersoiled; bookplate (of J.W. Six) on upper pastedown. Upper joint splitting.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 222. Supplied with a large number of extra plates/ views/ plans/ portraits from various other works by an 18th or 19th cent. former owner. The fold. plan and 2 fold. maps published w. the book also present.