- Lacks 2 plans; usual occas. browning/ foxing.
= Contains profile views of Charleroi, Gelder and Scherpenheuvel, and plans of Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels.
= I.a. on the training and conditions for exercising various medical professions ("de konste der Medecynen", "vry Meester Apotheker", "de Konste der Chirurgie ofte Heel-kunde"), tariffs for burials within all parish churches, dog taxes, and public estate sales.
AND a publication by the bishop of Antwerp, authorizing the consumption of meat on regular Saturdays and eggs and dairy during Lent, due to the scarcity of fish (1786, folded). - ADDED: VEEL-GELUK-WENSCH AEN ALLE WELPYZENDE NEDERLANDERS, over den langgewenschten zegen van de vredelievende vryheid, en bezonder aen die van Antwerpen (Antw., ±1790).
- Bookblock loosening; entirely browned and mostly waterstained in blank margins.
= The rare first edition in Spanish of Bentivoglio's Della guerra di Fiandra.
- Lacks at least 22 prelim. lvs, 3 titles (incl. general title), final 2 quires and several lvs. throughout; partly loose; lvs. frayed/ dam. throughout; numerous owner's entries in pen and ink on blank free endpaper by members of the "Douglas" family. Binding badly dam. Sold w.a.f. Not subject to return.
= Herbert 119.
- Frontisp. w. some offsetting; occas. sl. stained. Binding trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Rare. This French Bible translation by the Jansenist Solitaires of Port-Royal was both celebrated and criticised (for its alleged latent Protestantism and therefore censured) in France. Willems 1389; Rahir 3387. "Édition originale de cette célèbre traduction, connue sous le nom de Nouveau Testament de Mons; elle est fort belle et sort positivement des presses de Daniel Elzevier." (Willems).
(Treuvé, S.-M.). Le directeur spirituel pour ceux qui n'en ont point. Paris, E. Josset, 1692(?), new ed., (24),408p., contemp. gilt calf.
- Title-p. erroneously w. "M. DCICII". Lacks free endpapers; sl. later annot. in pen and ink on upper pastedown; title-p. lacks sm. blank portion; occas. sl. stained/ soiled/ dogeared. Binding sl. worn; lacks letterpiece.
= Rare. Copy of the often reprinted Christian directory by the French Jansenist theologian Simon-Michel Treuvé (1651-1730). Cf. Quérard IX, p.550.
AND 2 others similar.
- Upper hinge split(ting) but holding on cords; first and last lvs. (sl.) frayed/ stained; sl. wormholed throughout (mostly in margins); some lvs. w. sm. tears/ holes/ creases (occas. sl. affecting text/ ills.); 2 portraits w. tears (1 repaired w. paper tape); partly sl. stained in lower margin causing some lvs. to stick together. Covers and edges heavily stained; backstrip loosening at top and lacks portion at foot; dam. spots along extremities.
= The portraits show different German prince-electors and dukes; the plates show various characters/ prophets from the Old Testament and the Four Evangelists. Darlow/ Moule 4229.
- Owner's entry on verso first free endpaper; library stamp on title-p.; a few lvs w. pencil annots. Spine-ends dam. w. earlier repairs; upper joints splitting; dam. spots along extremities.
= Darlow/ Moule 4735.
- Both vols. w. owner's stamp "Christus-Kirche Antwerpen" on title-p. affecting text; occas. sl. stained/ browned. Vol. 1 frontcover sl. scorched and w. horizontal cut in backstrip below title. Otherwise fine.
= This Greek edition of the Old Testament by the German theologian Mill contains two lists of variants (with the Roman Septuagint) according to the 5th-cent. codex Colberto-Sarravianus, preserved in Leyden, of which a facsimile specimen is included. Darlow/ Moule 4736.
- (Traces of) library tickets on upper pastedowns and spines; occas. sl. foxed/ stained; a few lvs. w. sm. tears. Bindings w. dam./ rubbed spots on spine and along extremities; upper joints (sl.) splitting.
= Second work contains Syriac version w. Latin transl. of two letters on virginity attributed to POPE CLEMENS I reading from right to left. Darlow/ Moule 4753.
AND 2 others: C. REINECCIUS, Hē Palaia Diathēkē kata tous ebdomēkonta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum una cum libris Apocryphis (Leipsic, 1730, 2 parts in 1 vol., contemp. vellum) and J.C. DIETERICH, Antiquitates Biblicae (Giessen, 1671, engr. portrait of author by J.P. THELOTT, engr. title-vignette, contemp. vellum, folio).
- Library tickets of the Mennonite Church Amsterdam on upper pastedown and spine. Title loose(ning); heavily foxed/ browned.
= First posthumous ed. of this concordance of all the words in the Greek New Testament by Erasmus Schmidt (1570-1637), German philologist, theologian and mathematician. Cf. ADB XXXII, p.27f.
AND 1 other: J. USSHER, Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti (Geneva, 1722, new ed., 3 parts in 1 vol., engr. portr. of the author by J.G. SEILLER, contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, folio).
- Occas. sl. stained; a few lvs. sl. wormholed. Vol. 2 lacks portion of letterpiece and top of spine dam. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Concordance on the Septuagint, with a supplement on the Hexapla and an index of Hebrew and Chaldean words by L. BOS. Fürst III, p.448.
- Occas. foxed and stained.
- Vellum sl. fingersoiled (mainly on spine).
= Cf. Darlow & Moule 6181 (for the first ed. of 1590). The so-called Sistine Vulgate was the first edition to be edited by a Pope.
- Pastedowns detached, otherwise fine.
= Very rare separate edition w. Amsterdam imprint (we found only 1 copy: Tilburg, University Library, CBC TFH A 4234). Usually w. Leyden imprint as part of the (also rare) 8vo edition of Biblia, Dat is: De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonycke Boecken des Oude en des Niewen Testaments (Leyden, 1647, 6 parts in 1 vol.). States-General version; not in Darlow/ Moule.
- All maps sl. frayed (sometimes affecting image); first quire loose; sl. waterstained and yellowed. Top of spine sl. dam.
= Poortman I, p.233. For the worldmap with the address of N. Visscher, Shirley 431: "The map can be distinguished from Visscher's bible map of 1657 (entry 401) by the shorter form of title which is now contained in a banner rather than in a long panel at the top. The allegorical scenes in the corners are also presented in a more polished and artistic fashion."
- Extensive contemp. ms. annots. on first and final prelim. lvs. in pen and ink documenting the family Scholl. Corners showing.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Warrented by H. Spijkers.
- Spine-ends, corners and joints sl. worn. Otherwise fine.
AND 1 other: TH. À KEMPIS, Viator Christianus recta ac regia in coelum via tendens (Cologne, 1682, engr. plates, contemp. calf, 12mo. Not collated, but apparently complete; contents partly cut short in top margin; foot of spine dam.).
- Third vol. lacks 3 plates on death penalties. Joints starting; remnants of paper tickets at tops of spine; vellum sl. soiled
= Zischka p.31, listing the original French edition published in 1722-1728; Poortman II, p.169-171: "Calmet's Naam- en Woordboek is geen prentbijbel maar een woordenboek met prenten. Het zijn geen prenten die de bijbelse geschiedenis afbeelden, maar de zeden en gewoonten der Joden, de godsdienstplechtigheden, de tabernakel, de tempels enz." The plates illustrate the history and culture of the Jews: ceremonies, costumes, plans and views of synagogues and other buildings, views of Jerusalem etc. All copies traced had varying numbers of plates (at the most 157 plates).
- Lacks 4 plates. All vols. partly waterstained in (mainly) outer blank margins. All vols. spine-ends dam./ chipped; one vol. large dam. spot on frontcover; corners showing.
= Zischka p.31, listing the original French edition published in 1722-1728; Poortman II, p.169-171: "Calmet's Naam- en Woordboek is geen prentbijbel maar een woordenboek met prenten. Het zijn geen prenten die de bijbelse geschiedenis afbeelden, maar de zeden en gewoonten der Joden, de godsdienstplechtigheden, de tabernakel, de tempels enz." The plates illustrate the history and culture of the Jews: ceremonies, costumes, plans and views of synagogues and other buildings, views of Jerusalem etc. All copies traced had varying numbers of plates (at the most 157 plates).