2990 - 3707 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- New endpapers; title tipped in along inner margin on new endpaper; sl. foxed; 1p. w. sm. cross in ballpoint in lower blank margin.
= Waller 783; cf. Muller 675 (ed. Antw. 1624).
- Sm. owner's ticket first free endpaper: "Dr Jan Te Winkel"; browned and waterstained.
= Debaene p.222-223. Waller 755; Muller 687 (dating it ±1790).
- New endpapers. = Waller 757.
- Sl. cut short in lower margin, only affecting the printer's address on title; contemp. owner's entry on title in blank margins; modern annot. on frontwrapper in ballpoint.
= Very rare chapbook.
- Contemp. owner's entries on verso of both wrappers. A good copy.
= The Children's World of Learning 1805; Waller 760; cf. Van Heurck, p.86ff.
- New endpapers; verso p.6 w. smudged inkstain.
Ribadeneira, P. and Puente, L. de la. Het leven ons heere Jesu-Christi, Gedeylt in dry deelen, Met schoone Leeringen op elke verholentheyd des zelfs. Dutch trans. F.B. Ibid., idem, ±1763, 56p., 7 woodcut ills., contemp. simple wr.
= Van Heurck p.110-111.
- Spine restored w. use of orig. backstrip; corners restored. A very good/ fine copy.
= Landwehr, VOC 544; Tiele 304; Cordier, Sinica 2348 and 27; Lipperheide Le 4; Lust 507. The first edition, describing the 2nd and 3rd embassies of the VOC to China, with accounts of the events on Formosa and a description of China. The second part in second issue with the 4 folding plates with reproductions of Chinese illustrations, always lacking in the first issue. The plates and illustrations show a great variety of (large) town views, architecture, customs, natural history etc. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
= Contains De neef van Curaçao.
Hasebroek, J.P. (under pseud. Jonathan). Waarheid en droomen. Haarlem, Erven F. Bohn, 1840, 1st ed., (4),257,(1)p., steelengr. title-p., contemp. clothbacked boards.
- Foxed. Lower joint splitting.
AND 4 others, i.a. A.J. VAN LOON, Schetsen uit het menschelijk leven (Amst., 1843, steelengr. title-p., contemp. cl. From the collection of M. Buisman. Sl. foxed.)
- Vaguely waterst. at the beginning. Binding sl. chafed and rubbed.
= Bodemann 97.1; cf. Fabula Docet 124; Landwehr F062.
- New endpapers; old owner's entry title erased. Fine copy.
= Entirely in Greek, edited by the Bohemian humanist S. Gelenius (1497-1554) with his extensive commentary surrounding the text. VD16 A3268; Hofmann I, p.268; Dibdin I, p.297-298; Adams A-1715. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- With manuscript prize to Petri Zynen on 2nd blank, dated "MDCCCIV XI Junii". Bookplate on upper pastedown; w. 19th cent. ms. note tipped in on first free endpaper. Lacks ties; gilding partly worn off.
= Schweiger p.70; Spoelder 1.
- New (Japanese) endpapers; top margin trimmed (sl. affecting 1 textp.); sl./ vaguely waterst. in lower margin. Foot of spine lacks portion.
= Schweiger p.79; EDIT16 10363 (online). Anthology of 4 ancient authors with short biographies; the fragments attributed to C. Gallus are actually by Maximianus.
- First work title w. libr. stamp on verso; occas. sl. browned.
= Works in the tradition of the antibarbari, describing the incorrect use of language (barbarisms and neologisms), written by historian, classical scholar and professor of rhetoric and history at Halle University Christopher Cellarius (1638-1707).
- Sl. yellowed; sm. waterstain upper margin of title. = Adams C1922. Rare.
- Lacks frontisp.; vol. 1 w. manuscript index on first free endpaper; all vols. occas. sl. foxed; all but one vol. w. piece of paper attached to upper pastedown. Bindings sl. chafed; sl. worn along extremities; some vols. joints starting.
= Rare, monumental edition of Cicero's works. Schweiger p.108; Brunet II, p.11.
= Second (first complete) edition of Le Clerc's highly important work on classical scholarship. Graesse IV, p.137.
= Later edition of the correspondence of the Dutch scholar and minister Jaques de la Croix (1579-1635).
- Title-p. partly loosening, sl. waterst. and w. large (blank) portion restored; sl. foxed; partly waterst. in upper margin. Binding sl. chafed and rubbed.
= Adams D501.
- Lacks upper free endpaper; first ±45 lvs. w. sm. wormhole in lower (mostly blank) margin, occas. affecting letters; trifle yellowed; 19th cent. owner's entries on upper pastedown. Binding worn/ rubbed; joints splitting; leather of backstrip dried and cracked/ dam.
= Schweiger p.157.
- Sl. browned; partly waterstained.
= Important, extensively annotated ed. of Horace by the Antwerp humanist bishop L. Torrentius (1525-1595). Simoni H180.