1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Bookplate of P.J. Barnouw on upper pastedown; new endpapers; hinges broken but holding strong.
AND 1 other: IDEM, Uitbreiding en uitlegging over den brief van den apostel Paulus aan de Romeinen (ibid., 1725, engr. title-vignette, contemp. blindst. (dam.) calf. Lacks pastedowns. With bookplate on verso frontcover).
- First quire reattached; sl. yellowed; first lvs. (incl. frontisp. and title-p.) waterst. in upper margin. Rebacked w. cloth.
= Tiele 695 (note); Cat. NHSM I, p.133 (ed. 1652); Stoye p.382-389; cf. Von Hünersdorff/ Hasenkamp II, p.903 (Lithgow's writings brought news of coffee houses to England). William Lithgow (1582-1645?), famous Scottish traveller, who walking from Scotland, through Europe, the Levant and North Africa, on his way to Africa, was imprisoned and tortured by the Spaniards, first on suspicion of being an English spy and later for being an heretic.
- Rebacked w. use of modern calf; new endpapers. Corners showing.
= Yolton, Bibl. John Locke 365.
- The lot sold w.a.f.
- Lacks one ill. (no.9: page left blank); some sl. foxing/ thumbing/ soiling throughout; one leaf w. repaired tear in lower margin w. brown gluestains. Backstrip rubbed/ worn; spine-ends sl. dam.
= The engravings, except for the title, were done by JACQUES CALLOT, after G. BILIVERTI, F. BOSCHI, A. MASCAGNI, POMERANCIO, M. ROSSELLI and TEMPESTA. Plan 73-112; Lieure 80-119. This copy with the plates of the first edition of 1619, numbered in the right lower corner only and w. erratic order (corrected in later eds.) and with the title (a later(?) copy on Japanese paper) undated (like the 3rd ed.), but w. the address of the 2nd ed. of 1636; also without the general "L'Annonciation" plate, only present in the first ed.: "Il se rencontre des exemplaires de l'ouvrage avec le titre du 3e état et les estampes du 1er. Cette anomalie "ne peut s'expliquer d'après Meaume, que par la découverte d'anciens exemplaires restés en magasin, mais incomplets du titre"." (Lieure p.32). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
- Title-p. sl. duststained. Pink stain on vellum on frontcover; otherwise binding duststained; lacks first free endpaper and ties.
= Foppens II, 1091; BNCI 4504. Rare.
- Cut sl. short, affecting the plates; bookplate on upper pastedown; contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper; prob. lacks 1 plate.
= BCNI 13049.
- Vague owner's entry on title-p. = Rare edition. De Backer/ Sommervogel V, 101.
- A few plates sl. (water)stained; some folding plates strengthened on folds/ in margins; bookplate on upper pastedown. Covers sl. warped.
= Atabey 734; Blackmer 1038; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 394; Gay 2122; Röhricht 2145; Henze III, p.289. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXII.
- The plates of sl. shorter size and taken from another copy; occas. sl. foxed. Upper joint split; backstrip loosening; covers worn.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 814; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 464.
ADDED: 2 others, i.a. (A. ROSS), ('s Weerelds gods-diensten, Vertoog van alle de Religien en Ketteryen in Asia, Africa, America en Europa (...) (Amst.?, n.d., engr. ills., contemp. vellum. Lacks frontisp. and title-p.; upper hinge broken).
- Owner's entry and stamp on first free endpaper; one plate and opposite page inkstained; one leaf w. tear of 3 cm. in lower margin, repaired w. scotch tape; one page w. blue/ red pencil scribblings; occas. (finger)soiled; final 25 lvs. waterstained in upper margin. Binding soiled.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 1273; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 416.
- Four vols. waterstained/ foxed in margins (affecting several quires); otherwise a few foxed spots. Bindings worn/ dam. on corners and outer edges; paper over covers partly dam./ chafed; a few spine-ends chipped.
= Zischka p.14.
- Lacks 2 plates; title-p. and text lvs almost torn in two; occas. foxed (mainly in margins); trifle dampstained in outer margin(s). Frontcover loose; binding worn along extremities; backstrip dam.
= Petrus Laurentius Regout (1801-1878) was a wealthy industrial and founder of the internationally acclaimed Regout factories of ceramics and glass in Maastricht, later to be known as De Koninklijke Sphinx. The album contains several plates (incl. nice bird's eye views) depicting the family estate at Vaeshartelt which was purchased by Regout from king Willem II, as well as images of the factories, heraldic plates, portraits etc. Very rare and monumental work on industrial history in Maastricht and the Netherlands as a whole, published in a small number of copies. Early use of photography (albumen prints) in a bookpublication. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXII.
WITH another (variant and incomplete) copy of the same work, containing 1 text leaf ("Preface" in three languages) and 6 col. lithogr. plates, in orig. clothbacked boards w. title on frontcover reading "Propriété de Monsr. P. Regout à Maestricht Hollande. À location meublée ou non meublée".
- Binding worn along extremities.
= Interesting variants of the plates: in general the colours of the plates are less pronounced and three of the plates are different from the plates in the preceding album in that they have no staffage of people.
- Old underlining and annots. throughout; bookblock trimmed. Backcover sl. stained.
= Bertelli/ Innocenti 107; Gerber II, p.58, 2; Adams M42.
- Last 10 lvs. sl. wormholed; section of final free endpaper torn and sticking to lower pastedown.
= Unidentified contemp. engr. armorial plate bound with.
- Both vols. library ticket on upper pastedown, stamps and (crossed-out) annots. on first free endpaper and title-p. Joints splitting; bindings worn.
- Occas. sl. foxed; some scattered small restored spots in blank margin. Upper joint restored; corners sl. worn. Good/ fine copy.
= Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 75; Klaversma/ Hannema 1060.
- Partly yellowed/ browned; bookplate on upper pastedown; some scratching in pen and ink in lower blank margin of title-p.; sm. bookplate on upper pastedown. Vellum sl. scratched and wrinkled and sl. browned along margins; lower joint splitting at foot of spine; top of spine chipped; corners worn; lacks ties.
- Browned; paper ticket on upper pastedown. Some acid bite.