1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- First leaf w. traces of paper clipping in lower margin; all lvs. large stain in lower blank margin (2 lvs. the last (two) lines affected); sm. wormhole in outer lower blank margin.
= Goff B-627.
- Leaf with German text mounted on stiff paper.
= Consisting of 1 leaf each from i.a. ETYMOLOGICUM (Venice, Zacharias Kallierges for Nikokas Blastos, 1499); BONAVENTURA, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis (Zwolle, Johannes de Vollenhoe, 1479) and M.T. CICERO, Scripta philosophica (Rome, Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1471).
= Lacombe 130.
- Sl. foxed/ sl. fingersoiled; upper hinge partly split.
= Third edition of this account of the mission by the Jesuit Ridolfo Aquaviva to the Court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great in 1580, first published in Rome, 1663. Aquaviva was the first missionary to enter the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great in 1580. He stayed there for 3 years, but left the court when his efforts to convert the Mughal Emperor remained fruitless. He was killed in 1583 on his subsequent mission to the Hindu Kshatriyas of Salcette, not far from Goa. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Part of bookplate on upper pastedown. = Rahir 333; Willems 354 note.
- Sl. yellowed. Binding sl. rubbed. = Rahir 333. Willems 354 note.
- Title-p. sl. yellowed and foxed. Spine-ends sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Gay 3639; Blackmer 643; Atabey 470. Scarce. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Lacks 1 plate; 1 minor plate lacks part of image; 1 plate strengthened on fold; one plate sl. frayed and creased. Rebacked w. old vellum; covers duststained.
= Tiele 756; Cat. NHSM I, p.194; Cox I, p.116 (other eds.); cf. Lipperheide Ci 51. The rare first Dutch edition (orig. ed. 1691) of this detailed guide for Italy, very popular in its day, running through a large number of editions. Views of i.a. Augsburg, (the Bay of) Naples, Rome and Venice. Also costume-plates (i.a. of Augsburg and Nürnberg), architecture and natural history.
- Contents fine. Covers rubbed; top of spine chipped; backstrip worn at top of spine and along upper end of upper joint; corners worn.
= Tiele 756; Cat. NHSM I, p.194; Cox I, p.116 (other eds.); cf. Lipperheide Ci 51. The rare first Dutch edition (orig. ed. 1691) of this detailed guide for Italy, very popular in its day, running through a large number of editions. Views of i.a. Augsburg, (the Bay of) Naples, Rome and Venice. Also costume-plates (i.a. of Augsburg and Nürnberg), architecture and natural history. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Rebacked w. cloth; closed tear in frontcover; corners sl. worn; covers sl. yellowed.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Partly yellowed; sl. fingersoiled in lower outer corners.
= The regulations and constitutions of the "Fraternita della Gloriosa Vergina Maria della Misericordia de Bianchi" from Palaia (Pisa). Contains i.a. regulations on how to enter the "Fraternita"; the proceedings after a member of the confraternity dies (the members will accompany the body to the "Sepultura" with a lit candle in hand); a prohibition to curse God, the Virgin Maria or any other saint and an obligation to love, help and assist any member of the confraternity since we are all "fratelli in Christo". The regulations and constitutions of the confraternity are approved and confirmed by the bishop of Lucca, Alessandro Giudiccione (senior (1549-1600) or junior (1557-1637)). With manuscript annotations dated "9 Julij 1600".
- Sl. yellowed and occas. trifle foxed. Vol. 1 upper joint splitting; covers sl. chafed.
= Schudt p.173. Attractive views, intended for "(...) ceux qui voudront voïager dans ce beau païs; (...) ceux qui y ont deja été: & enfin (...) ceux qui ne l'ont jamais vû (...)" (preface). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIX.
- Sl. yellowed.
= Rare contemporary account of the bloody massacre of protestants in the valley of Valtellina, Northern Italy, during the Thirty Years' War. First published in German in Zürich.
- Four plates dam. (chipped/ torn); upper hinge broken; traces of tape on frontisp. Vellum soiled; corners worn/ dam..
= With 5 plates more than called for. Schudt, Le Guide di Roma 210. Rare.
- Lacks 4 plates (no.18, 34, 51 and 81); partly sl. yellowed and fingersoiled; first ±25 plates waterst. in blank margins. Binding heavily worn; lacks backstrip.
= Rossetti 824; Brunet I, 759. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIX.
- Lower blank margin mouldy/ dam. throughout; final plate w. closed tear into middle of image. Covers also mouldy/ dam. in lower margin.
= Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIX.
- With manuscript schoolprize for "Cornelii Kneppelhout". Lacks W12 (as usual); owner's entry on first free endpaper; endpapers detached. Fine copy.
= Rossetti 9001; not in Landwehr. Spoelder 1.
- Occas. sl. waterst. in margins. Joints splitting; spine-ends sl. dam. and w. a few wormholes; corners showing.
= Cicogna p.76; STC BM Italian, p.80. First published in 1551 by the Aldine Press.
- First and final few leaves (incl. title-p., engr. title and pastedowns) browned in margins from turn-ins. Spine-ends trifle rubbed; sm. spots of (unobtrusive) wear on covers. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Rare.
- Pastedowns loose; owners' annots. on first free endpaper/ title-p./ final blank; hinges split(ting). Binding soiled/ stained.
= From the library of J.W. Six (van Vromade), w. his bookplate. Barbier III, p.545.