2501 - 3523 OLD and RARE BOOKS
81 2561 Architecture Bosboom S 
81 2561 Architecture Bosboom S 
- Lacks p.10-12 and 2 plates; title-p. laid down on paper leaf; a few scatterred library stamps. Binding worn along extremities. Nevertheless outstanding fine architectural plates.
= Bierens de Haan 511 (ed. 1682 w. 44 plates); cf. Fowler 54, calling for a plate no.7 and plates 12-56 but at the same time calling for 48 plates in total, and not mentioning engr. ills. Also mentioning in the note an undated edition of "1680?" with an extra quire A(5) of 5 lvs. and 'plates' (ills.) A-F, bound between plates 54 and 55, which is also present in the present copy. The present copy contains the following: p.3-4 Nieujaers-gifte; p.5-6 Tot Den Discreten Leeser; p.7 Tot alle nijdige, en vuyl-spreeckende Lasteraers; p.8-9 Lof-Dicht; unnumb.; numbered plates 10, 12-16; page w. text titled "Leert perfect u Frontispisen soo rondt als recht maecken" and ill. numb. "17"; numb. plates 18-51 and 2 unnumb. plates; loose quire A(5) w. 6 engr. ills.
81 2562 Architecture Broeke M van den 
- Without vol. 1. Wrs. backstrip (sl.) sunned.
AND 5 others, i.a. W. VAN DER HAM (ed.), Een kleyn paleis. De geschiedenis van de Haagse Buitenplaats Ockenburgh (Zutphen, 2020, (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. boards, 4to).
81 2563 Architecture Fournier G 
81 2563 Architecture Fournier G 
- Lacks first free endpaper, engr. title and 2 fold. tables; title-p. trifle dam. in upper left corner; small hole in 1 textleaf and in upper blank margin of one plate; occas. cut sl. short in outer margin (affecting caption).
= Very rare.
81 2564 Architecture Marolois S 
81 2564 Architecture Marolois S 
81 2564 Architecture Marolois S 
81 2564 Architecture Marolois S 
- Lacks 5 plates; several plates torn/ dam.; first title heavily dustsoiled and frayed; second title cut short and laid down on first texleaf 2nd part. Binding worn and sl. dam. Sold w.a.f.
= Published as parts 5 and 6 of S. Marolois, Opera mathematica. Ou Oeuvres mathematicques traictans de geometrie, perspective, architecture, et fortification. Fowler 432, note; Kat. Orn. Berlin 4707.
81 2565 Architecture Schübler J J 
- Inner margin of frontisp. strengthened and lower blank margin waterstained; title sl. foxed.
= Rare work by Johann Jacob Schübler (1689-1741), an important Nürnberger architectural theoretician, in which he shows the mathematical basis for an exact design of an architectonic sketch. Kat. Orn. Berlin 4791. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
81 2566 Architecture Schübler J J 
81 2566 Architecture Schübler J J 
81 2566 Architecture Schübler J J 
81 2566 Architecture Schübler J J 
81 2566 Architecture Schübler J J 
- Ticket on upper pastedown and on title of 2nd part of the third work. Despite a few minor imperfections a fine copy.
= I. Kat. Orn. Berlin 3836. II. Kat. Orn. Berlin 1998. The first part deals with windows, cabinets and ovens. The second part with coaches, chais and sledges. A third part was published in 1728. III. Kat. Orn. Berlin 2182 ("Dächer. Treppen. Brücken. Holzverbindungen. Maschinen"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
81 2567 Architecture Schübler J J 
- Trifle foxed. Otherwise fine. = Beautiful plates of baroque chamber-stoves. Kat. Orn. Berlin 3836.
81 2568 Architecture Walter C 
- Upper joint spliting.
= Kat. Orn. Berlin 2186: "Dächer. Türme. Kuppeln. Geländer. Treppen.". Poggendorf II, p.1257.
81 2569 Arent J and Zesen F van 
81 2569 Arent J and Zesen F van 
- Partly cut sl. short w. occas. loss of running title/ signature; owner's stamp on first free endpaper. Joints starting; binding sl. rubbed.
= Cf. Klaversma/ Hannema 59 and 60; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 196.
AND 5 others.
81 2570 Ariosto L 
81 2570 Ariosto L 
81 2570 Ariosto L 
- Lacks final textp. of 2nd work, which is supplied in neat ms.; final part sl. wormholed (w. loss of some letters). Vellum sl. soiled. Nevertheless a good copy.
= Provenance: Isaac Meulman (bookplate on upper pastedown). Muller 59; Scheepers II, 700; Buisman 48 and 1999. Rare.
81 2571 Ariosto L 
- LARGE PAPER COPY. Upper hinge of 1st vol. broken.
= Reprint of the ed. Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. Cohen/ de Ricci p.98.
81 2572 Arnoud van Halen's Pan Poëticon Batavûm verheerlijkt door lofdichten en bijschriften grootendeels getrokken uit het stamboek van Michiel de Roode en nu eerst in't licht gebragt door het geno
- Waterstained in upper margin throughout. Spine-ends chipped.
= Arnoud van Halen, a Dutch artist, painted and collected over 200 portraits of poets. The collection was later bought by Michiel de Roode and Arnoude de Jonghe. Both expanded the collection with another 111 portraits. This work is a poetic homage to Michiel de Roode and his collection. In 1811 the collection of 350 pieces was auctioned and 77 of them were bought by the Rijksmuseum.
81 2573 Artists' manuals Alphen H van 
81 2573 Artists' manuals Alphen H van 
- Vol. 2 partly sl. stained in top blank margin. Bindings trifle rubbed along extremities. A good/ fine copy.
= Kunst op Schrift, no.960 and 1010; cf. Buijnsters, Hieronymus van Alphen, p.113 ff. Rare.
81 2574 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
81 2574 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
81 2574 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
- Lacks title and 26 engravings; a few engravings loose (1x w. trimmed margins); occas. sl. foxed. Binding worn and dam.; covers loose(ning).
= Bolten p.253: "The leading example of the master model in the Netherlands is the drawing book by Abraham Bloemaert. (...) Bloemaert's drawing examples are not derived from those of other authors. They represent the fruits of a life of industrious study in academies and after nature (...)."
81 2575 Artists' manuals Bosse A 
81 2575 Artists' manuals Bosse A 
- Ad 1: Lacks 5 plates; occas. sl. (water)stained in blank margin. Ad 2: lacks 3 plates; frontisp. cut sl. short; occas. foxed in blank (inner) margins.
= Bierens de Haan 522 (ed. 1694). The famous universal method of perspective by Abraham Bosse (1602-1676). Cat. Spelman, The complete artist 186 (other ed.): "Bosse was the first professor of perspective at the Academie Royale and "one of the last great defenders of geometrically correct perspective construction". His unacknowledged appropriation of his fellow academician Desargue's work, in attempting to formulate a complete theory of painting based upon the principles of scientific perspective, led to his dismissal from the Academie." The first Dutch edition of this influential work.
81 2576 Artists' manuals Gilpin W 
- Upper hinge weak; later endpapers; sl. foxed. Backstrip rubbed; lacks letterpiece. = Kunst op Schrift 1211.
81 2577 Artists' manuals Goeree W 
81 2577 Artists' manuals Goeree W 
81 2577 Artists' manuals Goeree W 
- Frontisp. to the 2nd work sl. trimmed. Vellum stained. = Kunst op schrift 4-6.
81 2578 Artists' manuals Goeree W 
81 2578 Artists' manuals Goeree W 
- Frontisp. creased in lower margin and splitting along part of the platemark (strengthened on verso); 2 fold. plates reattached to textp. (1 fold. plate w. brown glue stains along left border; 1 fold. plate splitting on folds and w. (closed) tear in inner blank margin; owner's entries on title-p.; sl. fingersoiled mainly in lower margin/ corner margin almost throughout. Vellum (geen) soiled and upper joint split.
= The first edition of "Goeree's most important contribution to the theory of proportions" (Bolten p.214).
BOUND WITH: Idem. d'Algemeene Bouwkunde, Volgens d'Antyke en Hedendaagse Manier (...). Ibid., idem, 1681, 1st ed., (16),213p., engr. frontisp., title-vignette.
= Kunst op Schrift 99.
81 2579 Artists' manuals Gool J van 
81 2579 Artists' manuals Gool J van 
81 2579 Artists' manuals Gool J van 
- Contents occas. trifle foxed. Paper over covers (sl.) worn; backstrips (sl.) cracked.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater H96: "Biographical accounts of Netherlandish painters, a continuation of Houbraken."
Houbraken, A. De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (...) zynde een vervolg op het Schilderboek van K. v. Mander. The Hague, J. Swart, C. Boucquet and M. Gaillard, 1753, 2nd rev. ed., 3 vols., (10),381,(10); (2),361,(7); (4),408,(7)p., engr. frontisp., portr. of the author, 42 plates with 1 to 4 portraits of Dutch painters and 5 other (fold.) plates, some textengrs., bound unif. w. the above.
- Pages largely uncut. Paper over covers (sl.) worn; backstrips (sl.) cracked.
= Chamberlin 2008: "As valuable for the 17th cent. in the Low Countries as Van Mander is for the 16th"; Arntzen/ Rainwater H97: "Important source"; Kunst op schrift 422-424.
(Dezallier d'Argenville, A.J.). Tooneel der uitmuntende schilders van Europa, en byzonderlyk van Nederland, zedert de vinding' der olieverw' tot Anno MDCCL (...) 1e deel [all publ.]. The Hague, Mattheus Gaillard, 1752, LXXX,(2),410p., 45 engr. portrait ills., bound unif. w. the above.
= Kunst op schrift 415; Arntzen/ Rainwater cf H89. Only vol. 1 publ. in Dutch; rare. All vols. in this lot bound uniformly and together form an attractive set.
81 2580 Artists' manuals Gool J van 
81 2580 Artists' manuals Gool J van 
81 2580 Artists' manuals Gool J van 
- Occas. sl. foxed. Joint sl. rubbed.
= Attractively bound copy. Arntzen/ Rainwater H96: "Biographical accounts of Netherlandish painters, a continuation of Houbraken."