1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Without the prize. Bookplate and owner's entry on upper pastedown and verso of first free endpaper; final few textp. and index (sl.) waterstained; upper hinge weakening. Binding rubbed along extremities and a few chafed spots on covers (lower corner of frontcover sl. worse).
= Spoelder 4. From the library of Petrus Muntinghe (1713-1777), drost of Wedde and Westerwoldingeland, with his owner's entry on title-p. dated 1734.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Gilding trifle worn.
= Spoelder 4. With the prize to Petrus van Kleffens, dated July 1826. On the contents: Schweiger p.50.
- Without the prize; lower pastedown loose. Lacks ties; vellum trifle soiled.
= Spoelder 1. Schweiger p.504.
AND another schoolprize binding of Dordrecht, bound similar to the preceding (Spoelder 1).
- Without the prize. Lacks ties. Contents fine. = Spoelder 1.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Lacks the ties. Otherwise fine.
= Spoelder 1. With the prize awarded to Pompejius Hoefd in 1714 bound in at front.
- Sl. foxed. Vellum sl. soiled; gilding partly worn away; lacks 2 ties.
= Spoelder 1. With schoolprize.
- Without the prize; later owner's entry on engr. title. = Spoelder 2; cf. Schweiger p.363 (other eds.).
- Some mould on endpapers; without the prize. Lacks ties; gilt sl. rubbed/ faded stain on backcover.
= Spoelder 2. On the contents: Schweiger p.363.
Schoolprize binding of The Hague: full gilt vellum, both covers w. large central gilt "Hagae Comitis" vignette and gilt cadre sides, gilt spine. - ON: Justinus, (M.J.). Historiae Philippicae. Ed. A. Gronovius. Leyden, S. and J. Luchtmans, 1760, 2nd enl. ed., (46),XLII,1034,(171)p., engr. title-vign.
- Without the prize; lacks frontisp.; occas. sl./ trifle browned. Central stamp on backcover partly trifle faded/ rubbed; backstrip sl. soiled.
= Spoelder 5 (erroneously stating that the owl is placed before the staff and the books are absent). On the contents: Schweiger p.493; Dibdin II, p.140: "These [the two Gronovius editions of 1719/ 1760] are very accurate and elegant editions, and greatly superior to all that preceded them. The latter is the more valuable edition, both from the quantity of matter it contains, and from its correctness".
- Without the prize; frontisp. trimmed in upper blank margin, not affecting image; occas. sl. foxed. Binding soiled; lacks ties.
= Spoelder 2. On the contents: Schweiger p.738.
- Without the prize; lacks p.81-82; one leaf loose; upper hinge broken; occas. sl. dampstained. Both covers vellum burnt partly through along ornament edge; gilding rubbed/ worn; binding soiled.
= Spoelder 1.
- Without the prize; waterstain in upper inner corner/ upper part. Lacks vellum ties; vellum sl. dustsoiled.
= Binding by the First Dordrecht Prize Bindery. Storm van Leeuwen IIA, p. 496 and 497 (incl. ills.); Spoelder 1. Storm van Leeuwen states that eight bindings from this bindery have been registered, seven without prize. Schweiger p.248.
- Both vols. lack ties; binding sl. stained. Contents fine.
= Spoelder 2. The first vol. w. the prize to Petrus Henricus van de Wall, dated 1811 and signed i.a. by prefect H. Onderwater and rector H. Verbeek. Jhr. Mr. Pieter Hendrik van de Wall (1795-1853) would become president of the Dordrecht court and member of the special government committee concerned with the 1848 revision of the Dutch constitution. On the contents: Schweiger p.75; Hoffmann I, p.430.
= Not in Spoelder. Cf. Storm van Leeuwen, IIA, p.495. With the prize to Cornelia Sanders, dated 23 November(?) 1795. Fine copy.
AND 1 other similar vellum schoolprize binding of DORDRECHT (J. LUIKEN, Zedelyke en stichtelyke gezangen, 1767. Not in Spoelder. Mediocre copy; not collated).
- Without the prize; upper hinge broken. Lacks ties; binding sl. dustsoiled.
= This variant not in Spoelder. Schweiger p.511.
- Without the prize. Lacks ties; coat of arms frontcover sl. rubbed.
= Spoelder 1 (only Enkhuizen prize binding). Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 502; De Wind p.421-424: "Dit werk behelst eene uitvoerige geschiedenis van Holland en Zeeland, van den tijd van Dirk den eersten, tot aan het einde der regering van Jacoba van Beijeren, en dus tot 1433."
AND 1 other vol. w. schoolprize binding of Enkhuizen (gilding almost completely worn off).
- Without the prize; occas. sl. yellowed; upper hinge (nearly) broken. Gilding on frontcover sl. rubbed; lacks ties.
= Spoelder 1 (only Enkhuizen prize binding); Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 597; Ruit Hora 26; Dekkers p.70, 6.
- Without the prize. Partly misbound; bookblock almost loose; endpapers dam. Lacks 2 ties; binding sl. soiled.
= Spoelder 1; Schweiger p.735.
AND 1 other schoolprize binding of Enkhuizen, on G.H. NIEUPOORT, Rituum, qui olim apud Romanos, obtinuerunt, succincta explicati (Utr., 1774, 6th ed., engr. frontisp., title-vignette, 11 (fold.) tables/ plates, contemp. vellum. Pastedowns and turn-ins loose; binding soiled and gilt of the coat of arms partly worn off, lacks ties).
- Without the prize. = Spoelder 1.
- Without the prize; occas. sl. foxed. Covers sl. soiled and w. a few dam. spots; letterpiece worn. One vol. from a set of 8 vols.
= Spoelder 2. Early schoolprize binding of Franeker, this variant not dated in Spoelder before 1843. Cf. Spoelder p.558.
AND 3 other schoolprize bindings, i.a. of ZIERIKZEE (contemp. hcalf, gilt coat of arms of ZIERIKZEE on central red lozenge-shaped paper within gilt border on both covers, gilt spine w. red mor. letterpiece. Spoelder 3. Board edges sl. worn/ dam.; lacks ties).
- Without the prize; ticket on upper pastedown; occas. (sl.) foxed. Upper joint split.
= Alexandre des Essarts, former French capucin monk and mathematics teacher in Brussels, established French boarding schools in Amsterdam (1755) and Utrecht (1765) and wrote several pedagogical works. Rare.
AND 1 other French boarding school prize: D. DE SUPERVILLE, Elemens du Christianisme (Amst., 1759, contemp. marbled calf w. gilt spine. With the prize to A.M. Taunay, dated 21 February 1784).