2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- New endpapers; second blank w. repaired holes and (crossed-out) owner's entries; sl. waterstained in lower blank margin; 1 table w. sm. tear. Vellum sl. soiled; scratch on spine.
= Ad. 1: The rare first edition of this famous work, written during Grotius' imprisonment in Loevestein castle. Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 757; Ruit Hora VI A; ad. 2-4: Willems 283, 172 and 173.
- Occas. sl. foxed; all vols. blind owner's stamp in first blank. All vols. covers rubbed; spine-ends chipped; letterpieces lacking and joints and corners worn/ rubbed.
= Dekkers p86, 14.
- Frontisp. bound behind title-p.; trifle browned. = Dekkers p.109; De Buck 2182.
- Lacks first textleaf; most lvs. repaired w. paper, mainly in corners; sl. foxed/ water(stained). Wr. sl. dam.
= In this rare work Antonio De Molina intents to prove in six sections on behalf of Don Pedro de Quesada that those who pretend to be guilty of the murder of his brother Fernando de Quesada are indeed responsible. Approximately half of the first section is missing.
"Vera Effigies Sacri Vultus Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (...)". Engraving by P. CASELLI, printed on cloth, 32x21 cm., w. papal stamp "SS. Patriarchalis Basilica Vaticana", Rome, A.M. Stocker, ±1925.
- Sm. pinholes in corners; some creases; sl. frayed.
= The Veil of Veronica. With accomp. letterpress certificate.
ADDED: "Vollen Aflaet in de Kercke van het Groot Beggyn-Hof binnen Mechelen op den feest-dagh van de H. Ursula". Mechelen, J.F. vander Eldt, 1768, broadside, letterpress text w. sm. woodcut portrait. - AND a few small publications.
- Paper remnants on upper pastedown; occas. sl. foxed; a few sm. waterstains in upper blank margin; final 2 parts (sl.) browned; owner's entry on first title-p. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Dekkers p.151. Comprises: Commentarius in Gelriae et Zutphaniae consuetudines feudales (1658, 3rd ed.), De pactis antenuptialibus rerum judicatarum observationes (1657) and De feudi juris scripti, Hollandici, Westfrisicique, successione (1657).
- Without part IV and V; owner's entry on second blank; sl. browned/ (water)stained. Covers sl. rubbed along extremities; spine sl. cracked.
= Dekkers p.157, 11.
- Partly wormholed, (mostly professionally) restored; 2 stamps on title-p. Vellum sl. darkened; upper joint splitting.
= Cat. NHSM p.944; Dekkers p.178, no.1-3. Rare first edition.
- Lacks engr. frontisp. portrait; trifle foxed.
= Dekkers p.183; Van Heynsbergen 112-114. First and only edition of Voorda's main work.
- Owner's entry "Carl von Hünefeld" in pen and ink on title; curious erotic engr. ex libris(?) pasted on verso 1st title; upper margin both title sl. cut short.
= Henze III, p.179ff; Mendelssohn I, p.875-877: "(...) The volumes contain descriptions of the islands Rodriguez, Mauritius, and Batavia, together with an interesting account of the Cape and the Hottentots, and of the Dutch settlements in the Colony. (...)". Howgego L109: "17th-Century French Huguenot who described his adventures in the Indian Ocean, including a landing on what has been identified as the island of Rodriguez. The voyage has always been regarded with some suspicion, some suggesting that it was composed by François Macimilien Misson from other French sources. To add to the confusion, other scholars regard Misson himself as totally fictitious." "Op Rodrigues wonen wérkelijk andere mensen met andere gebruiken. (...) De literatuur over het eiland is gering en van het meest tot de verbeelding sprekende boek dat ooit over het eiland verscheen, werd - en wordt door sommigen nog steeds - beweerd dat het fictie is en niet authentiek. Voyage et aventures de François Leguat (...) is een robinsonade, dat wil zeggen het verslag van enkele mensen die op een onbewoond eiland schipbreuk lijden, overleven, en uiteindelijk zichzelf naar de bewoonde wereld kunnen slepen of gered worden. Toen Leguat (1638-1715 [of later]) zijn boek publiceerde was het bepaald een bestseller - toch zijn de eerste (roof)drukken erg gezocht en kostbaar - en latere edities werden voornamelijk gelezen als een avonturenroman en niet als een waar gebeurd verhaal. Hoewel François Leguat de la Fougère een uniek verslag schreef van de natuur van een obscuur eiland en in het bijzonder het enige bericht neerpende over de nu al zo lang uitgestorven dodo-achtige loopvogel, de solitaire, verdween zijn boek in de negentiende eeuw uit de aandacht van de lezers. Pas na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd Leguat gerehabiliteerd." (B. Büch, De hele wereld in een vitrinekast, p.206-208). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLV.
- Very fine copy.
= First edition thus, being the first collected edition of Leibniz' philosophical works in French and Latin, and containing the first printing of one of Leibniz' most important philosophical works, his "Nouveaux essays sur l'entendement humain" (New Essays on Human Understanding), in which he attacks and refutes Locke and his "Essay on Human Understanding" and gives important testimony to his own philosophical ideas (as stated in the preface by Raspe, p.X). Graesse IV,152.
- Two bookplates and cat. clipping on upper endpaper. Backstrips faded. A good/ fine and attractively bound copy.
= From the library of Ulco Proost. Gay/ Lemonnyer II, p.828-829; cf. Cohen/ De Ricci 621f (on the first ed. of 1750): "Edition originale de ces jolies lettres qu'on attribuait jadis à l'avocat Louis Damours, mais qui semblent plutôt être de Crébillon le Fils".
- Occas. sl. browned/ waterstained; lower hinge widening. Spine sl. cracked/ rubbed.
- All vols. stamp on verso or recto of title-p. and sl. foxed. One vol. lacks frontcover; paper on boards loose/ worn away. Fine set.
= Comprises: Het Leeven van Sixtus, den vyfden, Paus van Rome (Amst., 1702, 3th ed., 2 vols., engr. frontisp., 2 portraits and 18 plates); Het leven van Don Pedro Girona, Hertog van Ossuna (Dordr., 1731, 2nd ed., 2 vols., engr. frontisp. and 12 plates); Het leven van Filips den II, Koning van Spanje (Amst., 1733, 2nd ed., 2 vols., engr. frontisp. portrait, title and 15 plates); Het leven van Olivier Cromwel (Leyden, 1734, 4th ed., 2 vols., engr. frontisp., 7 portraits, 9 plates); Het leven van kiezer Karel, den vyfden (Amst., 1735, 4 vols., frontisp. portrait, 53 portraits (1x fold.) and 9 plates (8x fold.)) and Het leeven van Elizabeth, Koniginne van Engeland'' (Amst., 1737, 4th ed., 2 vols., 2 ident. engr. frontisp. by J. Goeree and 14 plates). Klaversma/ Hannema ad. 1: 850; ad. 3: 859 (ed. 1699) and ad. 4: 863 (ed 1719). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLV.
- The final 18 leaves w. increasing yellowing affecting 2 half-p. views and ending w. the final leaf entirely yellowed/ browned and remargined; engr. title sl. yellowed.
= Tiele 959; Cat. NHSM p.225; Tobler p.91/92; Röhricht p.232/233. Parker, Books to build an empire, p.86: "(...) George Sandys, who divided his account of eastern travels into four books describing Greece and Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, and the Mediterranean Islands. This is a painfully detailed picture of the eastern Mediterranean area (...)". The first Dutch edition, first published in England in 1615. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLV.
- Fine copy, with the following small defects: a few lvs. sl. frayed; 1 leaf loose(ning); endpapers sl. foxed. Binding sl. soiled; corners bumped.
= The first and only Dutch edition. Tiele 1103; Nissen ZBI, 4157 and Hunt 445; Blackmer sale 329 (French edition, 1717) and Atabey 959-961 (various editions). "Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was one of the greatest botanists of his time, discovering many new plant species during his travels in the Levant." (Blackmer). "The botanist Pitton de Tournefort set out for the Levant in 1700 on a mission for Louis XIV. He was accompanied by the artist Claude Aubriet, whose drawings were engraved for the work, and by the doctor Gundelsheimer. The party travelled extensively in the Greek archipelago and Crete, continuing on to Constantinople and Asia Minor, then overland to Persia, returning to Paris in 1702." (Atabey). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLVI.
- Owner's stamp on first free endpaper; owner's entry on title-p.; occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned; sm. ballpoint marking in margin. Paperticket on spine; lacks sm. portion of spine, showing cords.
= Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Occas. sl. foxed; a few sm. waterstains in lower blank margin; portion of outer upper corner first free endpaper cut off. Covers sl. rubbed along extremities; paper over covers sl. worn away at corners.
= Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Lvs. frayed. Wrapper heavily dam.; frontcover loose(ning).
= Dekkers p.118, 3; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 338h.
- Hinges sl. widening; lvs. frayed along edges; vol. III partly sl. waterstained in outer blank margin, not affecting text. Paper over spines heavily worn.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 201. Vol. II contains the "Register"/ "Bladwyzer der zaaken" to the first part (Vol. I).
- Bookblock loose(ning); tape remnants on title-p.; partly sl. wormholed in inner margin, sl. affecting text; 1 map w. sm. tear in inner margin, just touching image; 1 view w. wax (?) stain in outer blank margin. Binding trifle rubbed along extremites.
= Overvoorde 1155; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 223.