2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Binding sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= The final part of the second work consists of EURIPIDES, Cyclops. Latin translation by Q.S. Florente. Schweiger p.710 and 717. Rare edition.
- Part 2 lacks prelim. text leaf (A1); occas. trifle yellowed. = Schweiger p.727.
- 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.
- Upper hinge sl. weak. Binding sl. worn; backstrip dam.
= The second issue of the first edition. Geerebaert CXXV,II; Landwehr F181; Fabula Docet 69; The Children's World of Learning 3181; Bodemann 94,2.
- Lacks first free endpaper; index partly waterstained. Otherwise fine.
= Landwehr F143 ("the first illustrated Phaedrus edition in Holland"), calling for 101 ills. only; Schweiger II, p.732; Ebert 16583; Brunet IV, p.588; Fabula Docet 68: "Die Fabeltexte sind nur noch Anfänger für die Ausbreitung von Gelehrsamkeit. Einer der ersten Kommentatoren dieser Richtung war Conrad von Rittershausen (1560-1615), ihm folgt in der vorliegenden Ausgabe Johannes Laurentius, ein Jesuit, über den kaum mehr bekannt ist als seine Herausgabe der vorliegenden Phädrus-Sammlung; wie Rittershausen ist auch er besonders auf die Nutzbarkeit der Kommentare für Rechtsgelehrte bedacht."; Bodemann 75.1, with a different collation but the same number of leaves: "Die Fabelbilder kaum an bekannten Vorlagen orientiert. Charakteristisch die mehrszenige Bildanlage mit Darstellung verschiedener Zeitstufen einer Fabelhandlung, Übertragung des Fabelgeschehens auf einen Vorgang im menschlichen Leben oder mit genrehafter Beschreibung der Umgebung."
- Receding waterstain in margin; partly w. inkstain/ annots. and underlining; occas. sl. foxed/ wormholed; library stamp on first free endpaper and title-p.; pastedowns sl. dam./ detached; hinges split(ting). Vellum sl. wrinkled/ stained; shelftickets on spine; lacks ties.
= Adams P 1548; Schweiger p.805; Graesse V, p.346.
- Occas. sl. foxed; vol.1 and 3 owner's annots. on final blank. Vol.1 and 2 upper joint splitting/ dam.; all vols. spine and boardedges sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Schweiger p.793. All vols. w. the bookplate of J.G. van Marle on first free endpaper.
- Lacks title-p.; first leaf (finger)soiled and cut halfway along hinge; occas. contemp. owner's annots.; final ±100 textlvs. and index trifle wormholed (w. loss of letters); 3 (index) lvs. torn in lower inner margin (repaired w. paper strip); a few inkstains. Boards sl. chafed; spine worn/ dam.; joints breaking.
= Adams P 1556; Schweiger 785.
- Both vols. hinges splitting; occas. sl. stained/ dogeared; vol. 1 first endpaper w. (old) annots.; contents otherwise fine. Bindings sl. soiled (vol. 1 also wrinkled); backstrips and corners sl. dam./ worn; lack ties.
= Very rare edition, not in NCC and the usual reference works (Schweiger, Goldsmith and Hoffmann). Engr. title of second vol. dated 1611 but letterpress title (erroneously?) has 1607 (w. pen altered to 1609).
- Contents fine. Binding rubbed along extremities; top of spine chipped. = Schweiger p.830.
Horatius Flaccus, Q. Hekeldichten, brieven en dichtkunst. Dutch transl. B. Huydecoper. Amst., Erven J. Ratelband/ H. Uitwerf, 1737, (20),292,(1)p., engr. frontisp., title-vignette and portrait, contemp. blindst. vellum, 4to.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ yellowed; 19th cent. owner's entry on title-p. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Geerebaert CXI, 41 II.
AND 2 others: PHAEDRUS, Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Ed. P. Burmannus (Utr., 1718, 2 parts in 1 vol., engr. frontisp., contemp. blindst. vellum. Partly foxed) and D. ERASMUS, Colloquia (Amst., 1754, engr. title, contemp. vellum, 12mo. Sm. hole in backstrip).
- Partly foxed/ sl. browned. Lacks ties.
= Cf. Schweiger p.363 (other eds.); for the binding: Spoelder 5.
- Manuscript title on frontcover and spine. Otherwise fine. = Schweiger p.878.
AND 1 other by the same: Opera quae extant (Paris, 1726, engr. title, contemp. vellum, 4to).
- Waterst. almost throughout; first endpaper chipped and w. several (old) annots. Vellum sl. wrinkled.
ADDED: M.T. CICERO, De oratore (Rott., 1804, engr. title, contemp. stiff wr., 12mo).
- Lacks De re rustica of Columella (vol. 1 and 2) and Palladius (vol. 4). Vol. 3 w. first and final lvs. sl. browned.
= The 3rd and 5th vol. of this collection of Latin agricultural treatises comprising: De re rustica of Cato and Varro (vol. 3); De mulomedicina of Vegetius; De curis boum (fragment) of Gargilius Martialis and De instrumento fundi of Ausonius of Popma (vol. 5). Schweiger p.1307.
ADDED 4 modern translations: C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, De wereld. Naturalis historia. Transl. J. van Gelder, M. Nieuwenhuis and T. Peters (Amst., 2004, 1st ed., 5 maps, orig. boards, large 8vo. Hinges strengthened w. tape) and 3 others in the series Ambo-Klassiek.
- Catalogue clipping mounted on htitle; library stamp in blank margin engr. title; upper and inner margin waterstained throughout; final 5 lvs. inner margin repaired/ strengthened.
= Graesse VI, p.348; Ebert II, 20860; Schweiger p.912: "Gesuchteste Ausg. des Lipsius" ; Dibdin II, p.397: "Harwood speaks highly of the magnificence and beauty of the volume, and of the excellent notes of Lipsius: the Bipont editors call it "Edit. rara et nitida"."
- Recased, w. orig. endpapers doubled. Fine copy.
= Bibl. Belgica S85; Valkema Blouw 4596; Geerebaert CXXXIII, 2; Laceulle-van de Kerk 9a; Ekama 13; Waller 1540; Muller 343; De Vries 382. Rare first edition of the first Dutch translation; the sixth publication by the Haarlem printer Jan van Zuren, active 1561-1564. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Partly sl. yellowed. Binding w. minor imperfections. = This ed. not in Schweiger.
- Frontisp. and title-p. cut sl. short in upper blank margin; 2 prelim. text lvs. w. large restorations (sl. loss of text); occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed.
- Lacks frontisp.; partly vaguely stained in margin. Vellum (sl.) soiled/ stained; lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.978f; Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.385; Spoelder 2. WITH manuscript schoolprize to Constantijn van Hoorn (±1690-1742, student at the Latin school in Middelburg and later member of the Zeeland Admiralty Board) on verso first blank, dated 1707.
AND: Horatius Flaccus, Q. Opera Omnia. Ed. F.G. Doering and G. Regel. Leipsic, Hahn, 1839/ 1836, new/ 3rd enl. corr. ed., 3 parts in 1 vol., XXXVI,444; XVI,383,(1); 395,(3)p., contemp. gilt hcalf.
- (Sl.) foxed/ browned. Joints splitting/ starting; sl. worn at extremities.
= WITH manuscript schoolprize to W. van Roggen on first blank (Gymnasium Schiedam, 1854).
- Binding sl. soiled/ stained; joints starting.
= In custom made (vaguely stained) cl. box w. giltlettered title-piece. Leendertz 140; Geerebaert CXXXVII 5.II.b.