- (Sl.) dampstained; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Text for a small play, dedicated to Johan Wilhe[l]m Lormier ("Oud Collonel; Raad in de Vroedschap der Stadt Rotterdam"), and "op Ockenburch den 19 July 1760, tot een bewys der ware achting zyner gewezene Officieren voor desselfs Hoogdierbaren Persoon, by gelegentheit van zyn Hoogedel Afscheidsmaal, vertoont; Eerbiedig opgedragen door zyn Hooged; Oud Capitein Luitenant, en Aller ootmoedigsten Dienaar Johan Herman Hering. als den Autheur."
= A.M. "Majoor" Bosshardt thanks the anonymous addressee for the poem and mentions she sent it to the editors of the "Strijdkreet".
Idem. AUTOGRAPH LETTER and AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED "AM Bosshardt Majoor" and "AM Bosshardt Lt. Kolonel voor ieder dag "Majoor''", to "Beste Meneer René", 1x dated "2 November 1989", fold. leaf, recto only; small card, recto only, ballpoint, w. orig. autogr. addressed envelope. - AND 6 other similar autograph correspondence cards/ sentiments or signatures, mainly by Dutch religious figures, i.a. Huub Oosterhuis and Jan J. Buskes.
- Foliation jumps from leaf 12 to 59; one quire loose(ning). Sm. spot on frontcover.
= An extremely rare and important manuscript by Aernout van Buchell (Utrecht, 1565-1641). Encouraged by the demolition and destruction of buildings and works of art after the Reformation, he began to record endangered inscriptions, gravestones, coats of arms and other remarkable objects in text and drawings. He compiled a number of manuscripts that are invaluable for research into missing buildings and inventories. Van Buchel hardly published anything during his lifetime. The University of Utrecht houses the archive of Aernout van Buchell and describes his works as a very rich source about the man, his city, his network and his time.
This historically significant document describes the history of several noble estates and its owners in the vicinity of Utrecht, i.a. "Ameyde", "Lievendael", "Hagestein", "Nievelt", "Hoeflaken", "Blyenborch", "Zeyst" and "Woerden". The three remarkable drawings show castles and are one of the earliest, if not the earliest depictions of these castles. Huis te Oud-Wulven was established in the 12th century. Not much is known about castle Oud-Wulven. The second castle (Slot Zuylen) was built in the 13th century. It was pulled down and rebuilt by Johan van Toll, a wealthy merchant from Utrecht who purchased the estate in 1634. The renovation was completed in 1640. The drawing by Buchelius predates this renovation. Huis Zuylenstein was probably first built in the 14th century. After multiple owners, prince Frederik Hendrik van Oranje purchased the estate in 1630 and started renovations. The drawing by Buchelius also predate these renovations.
Provenance: the collection of M.P. Smissaert, sold at auction at Frederik Muller, 1906 (lot 293). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Lacks possibly a foreword and part of the text.
- Some chafed/ dam. spots on paper over covers, otherwise fine.
= I.a. transcripts of ordinances and later updates/ revisions of these ordonances concerning the "Beenhouwers Gilde", the "Beddeverkopers Gilde", "'t Gilde der Boekdruckers, Boekverkoopers en Boekbinders", "het Boekweidmaalders Ambagt", "het Chirurgijns Gilde", "Het Fruijteniers Gilde", "de Hoedemakers Gezellen", "het Kaarsgieters en Vettewariers Gilde", "Kalck-Dragers", "het Knopmakers Gilde", "het Kuipers Gilde", "het Oude Kleerkoopers Gilde", "het Pasteijbaker en Cockx Gilde", "het Peperkoekbakkers Gilde", "het Sceppers of Naeijers Gilde", "op 't Stuck van de Schoolen en Schoolmeesters", "van de Stoeldraijers, Witwerkers en Blokmakers", "Previlegie van St Lucas Gilde", "op het Wagenaars en Slepers Gilde der Dampoort dezer Stad Middelburg", "op het Wijn Heeren en Biertappers Gilde" and "Previlegie van het Zilversmeeden Gilde" (lists the names of the members of the gold and silversmith guild from 1564-1774) etc.
- Dogeared; partly duststained in margins.
- Lacks all maps; partly waterstained.
= Tiele 6; NHSM I, p.107. The second volume nly of Van der Aa's rare collection of voyages, solely devoted to the travels of the Portuguese. Seven more volumes were published by Van der Aa (the first vol. on the voyages of the Portguese; 2 vols. on the voyages of the Spaniards; 2 vols. on those of the English and 2 vols. on the voyages of other nations). Sold w.a.f.
- Lacks upper pastedown and endpapers; occas. trifle wormholed/ waterstained. Lacks clasps and catches.
= Manuscript annots. on final endpaper concerning deaths of the Jansma family, 1677-1710.
Costerus, S.F. Sermoonen op alle de epistelen van de sondaghen van den gheheelen Iare (...). Ibid., idem, 1616, 4 parts in 1 vol., engr. title, 3 ident. engr. title-vignettes, contemp. vellum, folio.
= Contains the following works: Catholiicke Sermoonen op de Epistelen van de Sondaghen van den Geheelen Jaere (1616); Catholiicke Sermoonen op Octave van 't Sacrament des Autaers (1616); Acht Sermoonen Ter Eeren der H. Moeder Godts op de Acht Capittelen van Salomons III. Boeck ghenoempt Canticum (1616) and Waerachtighe historien stichtighe exempelen ende sekere miraculen (1615). BCNI 6242.
- Lacks frontisp. and the large general map of Africa; title-p. and first quire bound w. sl. cramped inner margin; hinges strengthened.
= The second revised and best edition (first 1668). Tiele 298; Gay 219; Mendelssohn II, p.119. The first large general description of the African continent. The work is based on the early accounts of the Portuguese and Spanish explorers, the English works by Purchass and Jarrick, the journals and descriptions of Dutch navigators like Van Noort, Van Neck, Linschoten, Spilbergen, but especially on unpublished reports and eye-witness accounts of Dutch merchants, visitors and soldiers. Very detailed on the West Coast, where the Dutch ivory-, gold- and slave-trade flourished and on Angola (Luanda was captured by a WIC fleet in 1647). On the settlement on the Cape only a cursory note is found, while the surrounding tribes are described in remarkable detail. The second part, devoted to the African islands, from Malta to Madagascar, includes an ample account of the French colonization of the latter. The work is famous for its splendid detailed maps and plates, i.a. engraved after drawings by Reinier Noomsz (Zeeman).
- Later endpapers; otherwise a fine copy.
= Preliminary leaves and first 6 numb. leaves capitals rubricated in yellow. Renouard p.83, 11; Adams C29; Schweiger p.41 ("Nachdruck der Aldine von 1513"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- Num. old/ contemp.(?) manuscript annotations in margin (mostly in first half); upper blank outer corner partly sl. waterstained; occas. (sl.) foxed in blank margins; title-p. duststained.
= Leaf T4 is blank as published; Renouard p.105, 1; Adams L1241; Schweiger p.90f; Norman Library 428; cf. Durling 908; Garrison-Morton 20: "The De Medicina is the oldest medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about AD 30 it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus's superb literary style won him the title of Cicero medicorum. De medicina deals with diseases treated by diet and regimen and with those amenable to drugs and surgery. The manuscript.(...) was lost during the Middle Ages and re-discovered in Milan in 1443." The Medicinae libri VIII is the only preserved part of a larger encylopaedia written by Celsus. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- A few lvs. and fore-edge sl. inkstained; first lvs. upper outer corner sl. bumped. Fine copy.
= Renouard p.162, 17; Adams C1921; Schweiger p.166.
- Upper hinge broken; vaguely dampst. in upper margin; ±30 lvs. sl. wormholed in right (blank) margin; a few old annots. and underlining (incl. a collation note by the classical scholar Henry Drury); bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine darkened.
= Renouard p.157, 11; Graesse II, 169. Revised reprint of the Aldine edition of 1547.
- The general title w. vague traces of former bookplate, which has been removed, resulting in loss of most of the first Aldine printer's mark; tiny hole in lower margin of general title; modern owner's entry and two brown stains on first blank; annot. in ballpoint on final free endpaper; later (18th cent.?) scattered annots. in pen and ink in margins; occas. foxed in blank margins.
= Renouard p.73, 8; Sander 2321. The first Aldine edition of Dante to include illustrations. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
- Partly waterstained in lower blank margin (mostly in second half of the text); several leaves sl. waterstained in text/ occas. sl. stained/ foxed in margins; title (dust)stained. Corners trifle rubbed; later marbled endpapers; upper joint starting; backcover 2 small wormholed patches. Nevertheless a good copy.
= Renouard p.166, 15; Schweiger p.531; Adams L1342. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- Old owner's entry of "Joannes Antonius Costa" on first free endpaper; scattered underlining and manicula in contemp. hand in pen and ink; crossed out entry on title-p.; partly (sl.) foxed (mainly in margins). Good/ fine copy.
= Renouard p.33, 3; Schweiger p.560; Adams 1557. The first Aldine edition of Lucanus' poem on the Roman civil wars. As Aldus writes in his preface addressed to Marcus Antonius Maurocenus (Marcantonio Morosini) (the owner of the manuscript used by Aldus for this edition), he has published it in a portable format that is easier to handle than the larger 4to and folio tomes in which the classics were usually published. He had also used this format a year earlier, in 1501, for his edition of Horace's Carminum Liber. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
- Two sl. rubbed spots on frontcover. Contents very fine.
= Ad 1: Bertelli 70; Renouard p.139, 24 and Adams M25; ad 2: Bertelli 41; cf. Renouard p.120, 5 (note), dated 1537 and Adams M40 (variant title "Il Prencipe" and dated 1540). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
- Title-p. dam. and repaired in lower blank margin; lacks first free endpaper; three leaves restored in blank outer margin; four leaves sl. chipped in blank outer margin.
= Renouard p.81, 8; Adams M1991; Schweiger p.208. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
- Some lvs. w. scribbling (mostly in first half); first two leaves sl. yellowed in margins.
= Renouard p.94, 2; Adams P1487; Schweiger p.761.
- Pastedowns detached; lacks final free endpaper; first ±20 lvs. (sl.) spotted/ stained (1x w. loss of some words; 2x upper margin strengthened w. paper) and w. old annots./ underlining. Vellum sl. wrinkled. Nevertheless a good copy.
= Reprint of the Aldine edition of 1514 (with a list of Greek words used in the text and their Latin translation). Renouard p.93, 14; Adams Q56; Schweiger p.843. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.