81 2955 Hoorn Velius Th

- Lacks letterpiece; waterstain on frontcover; binding sl. worn. Otherwise a fine copy, with the engravings in strong impressions.

= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 307, the 4th enl. and best edition. Illustrated with an extra plate of the large fold. plan "Platte grond der Stad getekent, Ao 1615". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.

81 2956 House of Orange Beaufort L F de

- Vol. I frontisp. portrait bound after the "Voorreden".

81 2957 House of Orange Bitaubé P J

- Occas. sl. yellowed/ soiled. Backstrip darkened. = Rare.

81 2958 House of Orange Commelin I

81 2958 House of Orange Commelin I

- New endpapers; 2 plates doubled; outer margin of 5 plates strengthened. Corners and joints neatly restored w. use of modern vellum.

= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 117-b; Alden and Landis 652/56; Borba de Moraes I, p.194. Complete copy of the first Dutch edition. Describing the life of the famous Dutch general, the book gives a good survey of the history of the Netherlands between 1627 and 1647. The plates depicting i.a. plans of Breda, Den Bosch, Maastricht, Oldenzaal and Wesel; sea-battles and plates of Brazilian interest: Olinda and the Rio Grande.

81 2959 House of Orange Huët D Th

- Occas. sl. waterstained in outer blank margins. The second work lacks the view "Het Stadhuis van Vere met zyne Eersieraadjen".

= Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 227-228; Kat. Orn. Berl. 2967 and 2968; Lipperheide Sd 31; Vinet 642; Lotz, Feuerwerk p.105.

81 2960 House of Orange L S = L Sylvius

81 2960 House of Orange L S = L Sylvius

81 2960 House of Orange L S = L Sylvius

- Both vols. first and final few lvs. sl. browned; frontisp. cut out and reattached; vol. 2 partly sl. waterst.; a few lvs. trifle wormholed in blank margin. Covers worn; corners bumped.

= Klaversma/ Hannema 1387 en 1388. In 1677 William the Third (1650-1702) married his 15-year old cousin Mary Stuart, daughter of James II, king of Britain. After the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688, he and Mary were crowned king and queen of Britain.

81 2961 House of Orange Orlers J

- Waterstained and sl. wormholed in upper margin throughout.

= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 362c.

81 2962 House of Orange Rotgans L

- Fine copy.

= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator 92. Without the usually bound with Boerekermis by the same (1708).

81 2963 Hurd W

81 2963 Hurd W

81 2963 Hurd W

81 2963 Hurd W

81 2963 Hurd W

- Each vol. bookplates on upper pastedown/ first blank. Corners strengthened w. sellotape. Otherwise a good set.

= The first volume is partly devoted to the Jewish faith and customs and partly to the Japanese. In other vols. the religion of the Chinese, Indians, Persians and Catholicism, Islam and the Byzantine church are dealt with in full detail. Volume 6 is entirely devoted to the rites of different churches in Amsterdam.

81 2964 Hurd W

- Without the first vol. (dealing with the Jewish and the Japanese religion); occas. sl. foxed.

= Catholicism, Islam and the Byzantine church are dealt with in full detail. Vol. 6 is entirely devoted to the rites of different churches in Amsterdam. Also concerning the religion of the Chinese, Indians and Persians.

81 2965 Huygens C

- Lacks the portrait; waterst. in lower margin almost throughout; partly sl. mouldy. Vellum lacks ties.

= Bibl. Belg. H120; Van Someren 2677a.

81 2966 Huygens C

81 2966 Huygens C

- Foxed (incl. fold. plates)/ occas. browned. Lower joint of vol.1 splitting.

= Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as book ill. 19; Scheepers I, 112.

81 2967 Huygens C

- Recurring (vague) waterst. in blank margin. Vellum sl. soiled and loosening at lower turn-in of frontcover; sm. dam spot.

= Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as book ill. 19; Scheepers I, 112.

81 2968 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Avicenna

- Seventeenth cent. owner's entry in upper margin of title-p. (partly crossed out); identical owner's stamps on verso of title.and on verso of final leaf ("VF" and an unidentified libr. stamp); a few scattered annots. in pen and ink in margin (esp. in the first 40 lvs); occas. foxed/ fingersoiled in margins; first and final few leaves some browned spots; without free endpapers. Binding restored w. use of the orig. blindstamped calf over covers.

= Notable Medical Books p.53: "His Canon is one of the most famous medical texts ever written, a complete exposition of Galenism. Neuburger says: "It stands for the epitome of all precedent development, the final codification of all Graeco-Arabic medicine". It dominated the medical schools of Europe and Asia for five centuries. (...)". Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.

81 2969 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Cato M P and Erasmus D

81 2969 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Cato M P and Erasmus D

- Title-p. restored around edges/ lacks sm. part of upper margin (just affecting the image) w. ink stains and 2 sm. holes; a few lvs. w. sm. restoration in lower blank margin.

= Rare. This ed. not in Adams and Van der Haeghen.

81/2970 Incunabula and early 16th cent books De Roma prisca et nova varii auctores

- Lacks title-p.; waterst. in upper edge almost throughout; some scattered old annots. Upper joint split; binding sl. worn along edges.

= Adams R699; BM Italian, p.564; not in Rossetti. Contains texts by i.a. Francesco Albertini, Pomponius Laetus and Flavius Blondus. Very rare.

81/2971 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Den oorspronck onser salicheyt

81/2971 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Den oorspronck onser salicheyt

81/2971 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Den oorspronck onser salicheyt

81/2971 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Den oorspronck onser salicheyt

- Lacks quires B, C and lvs. D1 and D4; leaf L6 misbound; title and first 3 textp. lack portion in centre (professionally restored and missing text and parts of woodcuts supplied in manuscript pen and ink); blank margins of first 7 p. strengthened/ remargined.

= Very rare work by Antwerp publisher Jan van Doesborch, only 5 copies found in libraries/ institutions (most also incomplete). Only 1 copy in JAP 1990-2024. Richly illustrated in the style of a Biblia pauperum, starting from the Creation until the Day of Judgment, with a strong emphasis on the lives of Jesus Christ and Mary. Nijhoff/ Kronenburg 1628. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.

81 2972 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Ovidius Naso P

81 2972 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Ovidius Naso P

81 2972 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Ovidius Naso P

- Partly sl. yellowed; occas. sl. soiled/ (damp)stained (mostly in blank margin); 3 lvs. repaired w. paper; 1 quire loosening. Extremities sl. worn; 1 corner cracked; backstrip trifle wormholed. Otherwise a good copy.

= Illustrated ed. of Ovid's Heroides with (printed around the text) commentaries of prominent humanists of the time, i.a. A. Volsco, A.G. Parrasio, J. Badius, D. Calderini. Very rare edition, only 3 copies in USTC and no copy traced on the market. EDIT16 37717 (online); not in the usual reference works. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.

81 2973 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vergilius Maro P

81 2973 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vergilius Maro P

81 2973 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vergilius Maro P

81 2973 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vergilius Maro P

81 2973 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vergilius Maro P

81 2973 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vergilius Maro P

81 2973 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Vergilius Maro P

- Occas. sl. stained in blank margins (1x sm. inkstain in one image); early 20th cent. marbled endpapers; rebacked w. modern morocco. Otherwise a very fine copy, with the woodcuts in sharp and fresh impressions.

= Provenance: Tobias Gutberleth (1609-1662, head of the Latin school at Leeuwarden) (owner's entry on title-p.), "G. van Olden jr. (not traced) and Adams V474; Mortimer 538 (incomplete and expurgated copy); Renouard, Badius Ascensius, vol.3, p.377ff, no.17. Contains numerous remarkebly beautiful anonymous woodcuts, printed from the same (now sl. worn, but in our copy still very good) blocks that were used for the first Lyons Badius edition of 1517. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.

81/2974 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Lot of 7 leaves from HARTMANN SCHEDEL Liber Chronicarum

- Fingeroiled/ stained and sl. frayed; some dam. spots in margins; one leaf w. extensive old annots.

= Lvs. XLVI, XLVII, CIII, CXXVIII, CXLV, CCLVI and CCLVIII of the Latin edition. The woodcuts depicting i.a. emperors and popes, the stoning of Saint Stephen, the Judgement of Solomon and a town view "Anglie Provincia".