- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. sl. stained/ foxed. Backstrip sl. dam.; joints starting; 3 corners showing.
= Schweiger p.576.
- Last 10 lvs. sl. wormholed; final free endpaper dam.
= Unidentified contemp. engr. armorial plate bound with.
Scriptores rei rusticae veteres latini. Ed. J.M. Gesner. Leipsic, C. Fritsch, 1773-1774, 2nd ed., 2 vols., (8),LVIII,936; (4),484,163,(1)p., engr. frontisp., 2 diff. title-vignettes, 4 (of 6) fold. plates, contemp. calf w. gilt spine, sm. 4to.
- Lacks 2 plates; both vols. sl. wormholed; contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. dogeared/ creased; vol.2 lacks p.7-10. Both vols. binding stained; corners bumped/ worn; spine sl. rubbed/ worn.
= Schweiger p.1307.
= Brunet III, p.1392.
- Occas. foxed/ yellowed. Binding sl. rubbed, corners (sl.) worn. A good copy.
= Cohen/ De Ricci p.768: "Magnifique ouvrage"; Geerebaert CXXII, 39; cat. Ovidius Herschapen 41.
- Paper over boards chafed. Otherwise a fine and very clean copy.
= All plates w. French text/ captions. Reprint of the ed. Amst., 1732; Dutch transl. I. Verburg. Geerebaert CXXII, 39. For the orig. French ed. Paris, 1767-1771, with the same ills. see Cohen/ De Ricci 769-772 ("Superbe ouvrage (...). C'est un des plus galamment illustrés de tout le siècle"), Sander 1472, Fürstenberg p.79 ("Hauptwerk französischer Illustrationskunst") and Levine p.395 ("One of the most elegantly illustrated books of the last century"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- Title-p. and preliminary leaves sl. yellowed; title-p. sl. creased; new endpapers. Corners worn and spine-ends dam.
= Geerebaert p.145 (ed. 1671). Bound with P.C. HOOFT, Paris oordeel. Tafelspel (Amst., 1703, engr. title-vignette).
- Lacks 10 lvs.; a few engravings cut out and pasted over other engraving or cut short and remargined; (sl.) waterst.; fingersoiled; upper endpaper renewed; bookblock sl. shaken.
= Adams O 504; New Hollstein VI, no.1655-1834; not in Schweiger. Fine engravings.
- A few lvs. stained (incl. the ills.); sm. owner's stamp on htitle; occas. trifle yellowed/ foxed. Binding sl. dam.; covers scratched.
= Brunet IV, p.285.
- One leaf sl. stained in lower blank margin. Backcover stained in upper half. Good/ fine copy.
= 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.
- Occas. old annots. in pen and ink. Backcover sm. stain. Otherwise fine. = Cf. Schweiger p.766.
- Contents loose(ning); water-/ dampstained and (sl.) foxed throughout; owner's entry/ armorial bookplate ("John Field") on upper pastedown. Binding worn along extremities; leather on backstrip dried.
= Schweiger p.790.
Lucretius Carus, T. De rerum natura libri sex. London, R. Taylor, 1824, 295,(1)p., contemp. gilt blindst. calf, sm. 4to.
- Endpapers (sl.) foxed; paper cutting pasted on first blank. Upper joint split; backcover (sl.) chafed; top of spine dam. (restored). Contents clean.
= A reissue of the 1813 edition, privately printed for Dr. Keate, headmaster of Eton. Cf. Lowndes, p.1411: "An elegant and very correct edition, without notes"; Brunet III, 1221: "un superbe specimen des efforts typographiques de M. Taylor"; Schweiger p.578.
- 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.
- Fine copy.
- Contents fine. Binding rubbed along extremities; top of spine chipped. = Schweiger p.830.
AND 1 other: PHAEDRUS. Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Ed. P. Burmannus (Utr., 1718, 2 parts in 1 vol., engr. frontisp., contemp. blindst. vellum. Partly foxed).
- Without the prize. Fine copy. = Schweiger p.859; on the binding: Spoelder 3.
- Occas. annots. in text and/ or margins, partly in pen. Libr. stamp on title-p.; contemp. annot. on verso first free endpaper. Spine and corners rubbed/ sl. worn.
AND 5 others, i.a. P. OVIDIUS NASO, Tristium libri quinque. Ed. R. Merkelius (Berlin, 1837, contemp. gilt treecalf w. "Praemium Alcmaariensis" at foot of spine. Sl. foxed; frontcover sl. waterst.; binding trifle rubbed along extremities) and J.G. HEINECCIUS, Antiquitatum Romanarum Iurisprudentiam illustrantium syntagma secundum ordinem Institutionum Iustiniani (...) (Frankf. a.M., 1771, 2 parts in 1 vol., engr. frontisp., contemp. gilt hcalf w. red mor. letterpiece. Leather of backstrip sl. dried and rubbed).
- Bookplate and sm. ticket on upper pastedown; a few lvs. waterstained.
= Willems 321 note; Rahir 293. The second of two 1629 editions, this one w. p.63 mispaginated "36".
Emmius, U. Graecorum Respublicae. Ibid., idem, 1632, 2 parts in 1 vol., 426,(6); 323,(7)p., engr. title, contemp. vellum, 12mo.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. = Willems 364; Rahir 345.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; contemp. owner's entry on title in pen and ink; first few lvs. w. tiny wormhole. Vellum soiled.
Velleius Paterculus, C. (Opera). Ed. G. Vossius. Ibid., Ex Officina Elzeviriana [L. and D. Elzevier], 1664, 2 parts in 1 vol., (12),116,(28); 128,(1)p., engr. title-p., contemp. vellum, 12mo.
- Upper pastedown partly loosening. Vellum trifle stained.
= Willems 1329; Rahir 1373; Schweiger p.1127.
- Later endpapers, otherwise fine.
= Praz p.498. A finely illustrated gallery of mythological and historical pictures.