2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- First ±20 lvs. strengthened w. japanese(?); sm. tear in centre of portrait repaired on verso.
= Comprises: Principia philosophiae; Specimina philosophiae: seu dissertatio de methodo (...), dioptrice, et meteora; Passiones animae. Willems 1196; Thijssen-Schoute p.134. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXX.
- Bookblock loose; first few lvs. frayed/ sl. brittle along edges; first part w. 19th cent. owner's entry in red pen and ink on title-p. and strengthened along inner margin; new endpapers. Vellum soiled; upper corner frontcover nibbled by rodents(?). With the printed general title "Alle de werken".
= U.B. Catalogue Glazemaker 7 and 8; Thijssen-Schoute 25 and 31. Part II and III (of VIII) R. Descartes, Alle de werken (Amst., 1657-1661). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXI.
- First quire loosening. A good/ fine copy. = UB Catalogue Glazemaker 16.
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ browned.
= U.B. Catalogue Glazemaker 19; Thijssen-Schoute 34 (note). Part III of R. Descartes, Alle de werken (Amst., 1690-1692). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXI.
- Fold. plan and 1 view dam., stained and doubled; fold. view strengthened w. tape on verso along folds; occas. trifle foxed/ browned; new endpapers Covers and top of spine sl. dam./ rubbed.
= A second vol. was published in 1788.
- Modern bookplate on first free endpaper.
- Bookplates on upper pastedown and first free endpaper; (sl.) browned (except for the maps). Vellum sl. soiled; lacks ties; spine-ends sl. dam.
= De Backer/ Sommervogel II, p.1693/ 1694; BMC-German 1601-1700, C1384. Two very fine pictorial titles. The second title with various scenes depicting the story of Saint Ursula and her 11.000 maidens, virgin martyrs, slaughtered by Huns at Cologne. Herman Crombach, born and died at Cologne 1598-1680.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ yellowed; first 60p. of vol. 2 sl. waterstained/ waterwrinkled in outer margin. Fine and attractively bound copy.
= Zaunmüller p.130: "Richtunggebend für Rechtsbeschreibung und Wortgebrauch, technische und sonstige Fachausdrücke wenig berücksichtigt."
- Final ±80 lvs. (sl.) waterstained in inner and upper (blank) margin. Top of spine chipped; joints starting at spine ends; trifle rubbed.
= Claes 2172. The first edition was published in 1704.
Pitiscus, S. Lexicon Latino-Belgicum novum. Dordr./ Amst., J. van Braam/ G. onder de Linden, 1725, 2nd ed., (42),1338,(13)p., engr. frontisp., contemp. polished calf w. richly gilt spine in 6 compartments and red mor. letterpiece, 4to.
- Browned and w. a few stains; partly sl. (vaguely) waterstained in upper blank margin, just touching text; sm. contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Binding rubbed; sm. chip at top of spine.
= Claes 2168; cf. Zaunmüller p.286, listing the edition published in Rotterdam, 1771. The first edition of this Latin-Dutch dictionary was published in 1704.
- "Nalezing" in vol. I sl. browned, otherwise fine.
= Important publication explaining the origin and the meaning of approximately 1500 Dutch proverbs. The four parts at the end of vol. 2 contain the Dutch translation of Regimen Sanitatis Salernitatis, popular meteorological knowledge/ forecasts/ superstitions etc.
- Two leaves misbound; occas. sl. waterstained; fold. plates partly (sl.) torn on folds; fold. plan w. sm. dam. (without loss) on intersection of folds. Paper over covers rubbed/ chafed.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 17; Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as Bookillustrator 45.
- Bookblock loose; contents bound in 4 quires.
= Contains the names of all city council members, the military, clergy, all notable professions etc. As well as information on the postal service, opening and closing of the city gates, transport time tables etc.
- First and last leaf of 1694 edition loose and frayed/ torn along edges; 1694 and 1737 editions bound, others loose in (bound) quires; some contemp. annots., occas. foxed/ browned.
= Contains the names of all city council members, the military, clergy, all notable professions, as well as information on the postal service, opening and closing of the city gates, transport time tables etc.
- Lacks pastedowns; bookblock partly broken, some quires loosening. Vellum soiled.
= Rare edition, with as second title: J. VAN FOCQUENBERGUES, De Reyze na Beth-el, Ofte Het Huys Godts (Utr., 1693).
- Prob. lacks htitle 2nd part; occas. sl. foxed/ (water)stained (incl. map). Letterpiece sl. worn away.= Tables contain demographic information, i.a the number of houses, marriages and deaths in Coevorden, Roswinkel, Schonebeek, Emmen, Zuidlaren, Gieten, Norch, Aspen, Beylen, Hogeveen, Ruinen, Ruinerwolt, Koekangen, De Wyk and Meppel. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 469a.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; title-p. trifle frayed. Corners rubbed.
= Willems 1197; Rahir 1223. Reprint of the first Elzevier edition 1649.
AND 1 other: ANONYMOUS, Le Nouveau Sécretaire de la Cour, ou lettres familieres sur toutes sortes de sujets, avec des responses (...) (Paris, 1767, rev. ed., contemp. calf w. gilt spine. Backstrip dam.).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; new, marbled endpapers; occas. trifle foxed. Joints starting; spine-ends sl. dam.; corners bumped.
BOUND WITH: J.P. Brissot, Député du Département d'Eure et Loire, a ses commettans (...). Paris/ London, P. Provos/ R. Edwards, 1794, 89,(1)p. - AND WITH: Memorial espagnol presenté a sa Majesté Catholique contre les pretendus Jansenistes du Pays-Bas (...). N.pl., n.publ., 1699, VI,(2),127,(1)p., text in 2 columns in Spanish and French.
- First and final leaf both bound in twice.
- Pastedowns loose. Two paper tickets on spine and frontcover.
= Cf. Goldschmidts 11372 (first French ed. 1776); cf. Einaudi 1208.
- Lacks title-p.; contemp. annot. on first blank. = Wildenberg 1033.
- Lacks backstrip. One leaf sl. waterstained. Otherwise fine.
= Goldsmiths 11518; Higgs 6537. Mirabeau's earliest work, important for its proclaiming of democratic ideas and its attack on despotism.