2501 - 3523 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Partly sl. yellowed; vol. 3 bookblock shaken. Bindings w. various defects (sl. worn/ some dam. spots etc.).
- All vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown. All vols. top of spine restored; corners bumped; joints rubbed/ worn.
- Trifle fingersoiled and foxed.
= Nice and rare small printbible, with excerpts from the Bible told in a rebus-like fashion. Cf. Huiskamp B39 (1st ed., 1817) and B40 (5th ed., n.d.).
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ foxed; first vol. title sl. waterst. in outer margin. Both vols. joints splitting; first vol. portion of backstrip loose; binding sl. stained.
= The so-called "Groote-Bijbel van Mortier". Engravings after Luyken, Picart, Goeree, Tideman, Hoet by Baptist, Blois, Mulder a.o. Poortman II, p.98-105 and I, p.179; Klaversma/ Hannema 180 and 187; for the worldmap see Shirley 622.
- Lacks 2 plates.
= BNK 959; Ki.la.ki.le. 247; The Children's World of Learning 1334. Extremely popular hieroglyphic children's bible.
- Contents fine, w. only a few wormholes in outer blank margins. Corners showing; spine worn; some rubbed spots.
= This second edition similar to the first edition of 1708, but enlarged with 2 pages of accompanying text to every print and with 5 engraved maps and 29 oval (and 1 not oval) vignettes of the "Grooten Bybel" of Mortier (1700). One of the most monumental works by Jan Luiken. Klaversma/ Hannema 160/ 161; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 429, p.666; Poortman II, p.131. On the worldmap by I. van Huchtenburg and with the address of Covens and Mortier, Shirley 622: "A further world map by Pierre Mortier has the title in French and Dutch and is said to be from a biblical work so far unidentified. Across the top of the map are five circles showing Night and Day, the Flood, the phases of the moon, and the west and east hemispheres."
- Fine copy.
= First Dutch edition of this rare children's bible with illustrations as didactical aid to remember the contents, the orig. German ed. publ. Leyden, F. Lopes, 1681. The surprising mnemonic illustrations by Romeyn de Hooghe are divided in 10 small squares, in which each square depicts a chapter. Landwehr, R. de H. as book ill. 57; Poortman II, p.155: "Het ideaal van de 18de eeuw was de kinderen zoveel mogelijk thuis te laten geraken in de bijbel door middel van het memoriseren. Een typisch voorbeeld hiervan is het boekje van Ds. Johannes Müller uit Leiden (...) Van elk hoofdstuk van elk evangelie en eveneens van het Boek Openbaringen heeft hij prentjes laten maken waarop de voornaamste onderwerpen van dat hoofdstuk uitgebeeld worden. (...) Na de twee of drie bladzijden met prentjes volgt een gortdroge beschrijving, die als het ware een uittreksel van het bij de prentjes behorende bijbelgedeelte is." From the collection of John Landwehr w. his bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Second work lacks 1 text leaf (B2); new endpapers; inner margin of first textp. strengthened w. paper; 2 plates repaired w. paper on verso; 1 plate torn on fold; 1 leaf repaired w. paper w. loss of some words; occas. sl. (water)stained. Vellum sl. soiled/ stained.
= First Dutch edition of this rare children's bible with illustrations as didactical aid to remember the contents, the orig. German ed. publ. Leyden, F. Lopes, 1681. The surprising mnemonic illustrations by Romeyn de Hooghe are divided in 10 small squares, in which each square depicts a chapter. Landwehr, R. de H. as book ill. 57; Poortman II, p.155: "Het ideaal van de 18de eeuw was de kinderen zoveel mogelijk thuis te laten geraken in de bijbel door middel van het memoriseren. Een typisch voorbeeld hiervan is het boekje van Ds. Johannes Müller uit Leiden (...) Van elk hoofdstuk van elk evangelie en eveneens van het Boek Openbaringen heeft hij prentjes laten maken waarop de voornaamste onderwerpen van dat hoofdstuk uitgebeeld worden. (...) Na de twee of drie bladzijden met prentjes volgt een gortdroge beschrijving, die als het ware een uittreksel van het bij de prentjes behorende bijbelgedeelte is."
- Bookblock sl. shaken. Binding rubbed and sl. worn.
= Poortman II, p.90: "De tweede druk van de vertaling van Van Hoogstraten verscheen in 1683 (...) te Antwerpen voor de weduwe van J.J. Schippers te Amsterdam."
- Title lacks lower right corner w. some loss of the woodcut border and sl. soiled (strengthened on verso); p.225 lacks lower outer corner; p.408-409 lacks portion of outer margin. Upper joint starting at top of spine; paper ticket on backstrip.
= Extremely rare work containing only images from the Old Testament. Poortman II, p. 96 (nr. 3); BCNI 10045. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ sl. foxed. Covers trifle rubbed. Fine copy.
= Poortman II, p.139-145. Sumptuous printbible, the so-called "Prent-bijbel van Pieter de Hondt". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.
= Remarkably well preserved binding, without any damage to the binding or its contents. No copy traced of this edition of the Pslams of David: no copy in the STCN, and with sl. different title-p. from the edition of 1676. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.
- Heavily darkened and colours faded; several inevitable sm. defects, especially to the metal strands (loosening or partly lacking in places). Despite the defects in good condition for such a fragile object.
LOOSELY COVERING: Etrennes mignonnes Pour l'Année Bissextile de N. sgr. M.DCC.LXXX. Liege, J. Dessain, 1779, without pagination, num. woodcut ills., a.e.g.
- Rottestroom vol. lacks plate to Eerste Gezang; plates/ map and adjacent pages (sl.) foxed, mostly in blank margins. Bindings sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities; Rottestroom vol. frontcover w. a few dam. spots.
= Bound by the CREVENNA BINDERY, rolls/ tools identified: r I, II, III, XIII and XIX (see Storm van Leeuwen I, p.709ff). Final two vols. bound unif. with the first vol. of the first set.
AND 2 others by the same in 1 vol.: Israëls Baälfegorsdienst of gestrafte wellust (ibid., idem, 1753, 2nd ed., engr. frontisp. and title-vignette, contemp. gilt hcalf w. 2 contrasting letterpieces, sm. 4to) and Intreereden van Pieter Burman, den jongen, over de poëtische verrukking (ibid., idem, 1743, engr. title-vignette).
- Silver oxidized; some small parts loosening.
= A rare example of a remarkable delicate kind of binding with very refined silverwork decoration.
- Very fine copy.
= Verso of outer part of clasp w. letter "U", a crowned lion and a crowned coat of arms of Amsterdam; verso of the inner part of the clasp w. letter "W", a crowned lion and the letters "DL". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Contents w. minor imperfections; a few sm. pieces of the embroidery lacking.
= Provenance; bought in auction Brussels, 1995 by antiquariaat Brabant (Den Bosch); bought by collector's couple Buijnsters-Smets in 1996.
- Corners bumped; trifle rubbed; bound w. a number of lvs. from another work, w. extended margins.
- Contents loose. Upper joint starting.
= Hallmarks: 2e gehalte, with the mark of an unidentified silversmith (lozenge shaped "DL") and year mark of 1825.
- Occas. fingersoiled. Binding rubbed. = Rare.
AND 1 other in a cathedral binding.