- Sl. waterstained throughout; partly sl. wormholed.
= Willems 1350; Rahir 1400; Schweiger p.283f; Dibdin I, p.471.
- Lacks free endpapers; partly waterstained; occas. sl. dogeared/ foxed. Lacks ties; covers w. sm. holes/ stains.
= Willems 293 note; Rahir 260. The first (Elzevier) edition was published in 1626.
Seneca, L.A. a.o. Tragoediae. Amst., J. Janssonius, 1664, corr. ed., 288p., engr. title, contemp. vellum, 12mo.
- Pastedowns detached; hinges weak; occas. sl. (water)stained/ foxed. Dam. spot at lower joint/ edge of backcover; corners sl. rubbed.
= Rare ed. of all the 10 tragedies by/ attributed to Seneca: Hercules furens, Thyestes, Thebais (= Phoenissae), Hippolytus (= Phaedra), Oedipus, Troas, Agamemnon, Medea, Hercules Oetaeus and Octavia. Schweiger p.940.
- Lacks printed title; sl. waterstained in upper corners at beginning and end; later endpapers. Lower hinge split.
= Willems 1324; Rahir 1368.
= Willems 1025; Rahir 1025.
Sulpitius Severus. Historia Sacra. Leyden, Ex Officinâ Elsevirianâ (= B. and A. Elzevier), 1643, 212p., woodcut printer's mark, 19th cent. full red mor. w. richly gilt vegetal ornamental border, richly gilt spine, signed by SIMIER at foot of spine, sm. 8vo.
= Willems 561; Rahir 553. Reprint of the edition 1635.
AND 1 other: M.J. JUSTINUS, In historias Trogi Pompeji epitomarum editio novissima (Utr., 1668, contemp. overlapping vellum).
- Upper joint splitting at top; portion of backstrip loosening; covers sl. scratched and chafed.
= Schweiger p.322. Nice plates, i.a. showing Babylon and the hanging gardens.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; trifle yellowed. Good copy.
= Schweiger I, p.106; Hoffman II, p.13.
- Partly sl. (water)stained/ wormholed (in blank margin). Vellum trifle stained. = Graesse II, p.495.
- Bookblock sl. shaken; pastedowns loose. Vellum. sl. stained. = Graesse II, p.495.
- Sm. hole in backstrip.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; lacks first free endpaper. Binding sl. worn.
= Rare Trnava (in present day Slovakia) edition.
- (Sl.) browned/ stained at beginning and end; 1 leaf w. sticker. Bindings (sl.) worn along extremities; vol. 2 frontcover and headband loose(ning); spine cracking.
= From the library of Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (his bookplate on pastedowns). Brunet III, p.569; Graesse III, p.480; Dibdin II, p.132: "the correctness of the Greek text, the judgment displayed in the annotations, the utility of the indexes, and the consummate knowledge which is evinced of the history and antiquities of the times, render this work deserving of every thing said in commendation of it by Fabricius, Harwood, Harles, and Oberthür."
- Occas. sl. foxed/ stained; pastedowns w. tears on turn-ins.
= Rare first ed. of this historical study of Greek and Latin pagan and Christian inscriptions by the English preacher William Fleetwood (1656-1723), known for constructing a price index in his Chronicon Preciosum (1707). Graesse II, p.594.
ADDED: D. CALDERWOOD, Altare Damascenum, seu Ecclesiae Anglicanae politia, Ecclesiae Scoticanae obtrusa (Leyden, 1708, impr. ed., woodcut printer's mark, contemp. blindst. double panelled vellum w. central floral ornament, 4to).
- Bindings rubbed along extremities and joints/ spine-ends sl. worn. Good set.
= Geerebaert no.24/ II and 27; P. de Rynck and A. Welkenhuysen p.208.
AND another translation by J. VAN 'S GRAVENWEERT.
- Pages between p.384-p.400 replaced in manuscript (in pen and ink in old hand); lacks Hhh1 and Hhh8 of index; partly browned; sm. hole in final leaf; occas. w. later annots. in blank margin. Backstrip dam.; covers rubbed.
= Rare edition, only 1 copy traced (in the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel). The publishers C. Dietzelius and C. ab Heyden were the successors of the publisher Riehel of Strassburg, who had published an edition of the Ilias and Odyssey in 1572.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ yellowed; 19th cent. owner's entry on title-p. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Geerebaert CXI, 41 II.
BOUND WITH: Idem. The same work. Amst., W. Barents, 1726, L,(2),210p., engr. frontisp., title-vignette.
- Nineteenth cent. annots. on first free endpaper.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ yellowed; 19th cent. owner's entry on title-p. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Geerebaert CXI, 41 II.
- Sl. foxed/ browned throughout; partly trifle dogeared. Binding sl. worn at extremities.
Eklogai historikai. Selecta principum historicorum. Herodoti, Thucydidis, Xenophontis, Polybii illustres loci, Plutarchi Vitae Demosthenis et Ciceronis. Ed. D. Wyttenbach. Leyden/ Amst., S. and J. Luchtmans/ P. den Hengst and son, 1820, 3rd ed., (6),XLII,476p., contemp. boards w. paper letterpiece.
- Annotation and owner's entry in pen and ink on (h)title; lower hinge weak; occas. sl. stained; 1 leaf w. tear. Binding/ letterpiece sl. worn/ dam.; corners showing.
= Rare. Schwieger p.140
AND 5 other 19th-cent. books.
- Covers sl. chafed and scratched.
= With letterpress and manuscript schoolprize (to "J.J. van Hees", dated 1822) bound at the beginning. Schweiger p.406.
- First free endpaper, frontisp., title-p. and first preliminary leaf sl. foxed in upper blank margin; without the prize and lacks ties. Otherwise fine.
= Schweiger II, p.491; Dibdin II, p.139; on the binding: Spoelder 2.
AND 3 other prize-bindings (incl. 1 odd vol. and 1 sl. incomplete vol.), i.a. C.V. CATULLUS, Carmina. Ed. F.G. Doering (Altona, 1834, contemp. gilt marbled calf w. gilt coat of arms of KAMPEN on both covers. Corners and backstrip sl. rubbed. Spoelder 1).
- Lacks first free endpaper; both pastedowns sl. dam.; partly sl. waterstained/ trifle wormholed; upper hinge weak; a few lvs. w. pencil annots. Vellum sl. stained; two owner's entries in pen and ink on frontcover.
= Willems 1548: "Cette édition, qui renferme en un seul volume toute l'histoire de Tite-Live, est imprimée sur deux colonnes, avec caractères d'une extrème finesse et d'une grande netteté." Schweiger p.534: "In Frankr. wird diese Ausg. in guten Exx. sehr gesucht u. theuer bezahlt". Dibdin II, p.167: "These are the excellent editions of Gronovius, of which the first is a very neat and valuable one (...). The edition of 1678 is in one volume, in double columns, and may be pronounced a master-piece of printing. The text of Livy had never before appeared in so small a space (...)."