2990 - 3707 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Trifle foxed. = LARGE PAPER COPY. Geerebaert CXI, 40; Riedel Horatiana O, no.2.
- Partly sl. waterst.; occas. sl. (damp)stained. Extremities sl. worn.
= Printed w. the ancient and humanist commentaries of i.a. H. Acron, P. Porphyrion and A.G. Parrasio and scholia of i.a. A. Poliziano and A. Manuzio. Rare ed. Adams H933; EDIT16 22754 (online).
- Modern owner's entry on title; yellowed and occas. sl. waterstained.
= From the library of H.A. Schultens (1749-1793), Dutch rector of the Leyden University w. his owner's entry in pen and ink on title. Dibdin II, 96; Graesse III, 352.
BOUND WITH: Lucilius, C. Satyrarum quae supersunt reliquiae. Ed. F. Dousa. Ibid., idem, 1597, (24),139,(1)p.
= Editio princeps. Graesse IV, p.286; Schweiger p.571; Adams L1642.
- Bookplates on upper pastedown; first and final lvs. sl. foxed. Attractive copy.
- Portion of upper outer blank margin of engraved title cut off (not affecting image); all vols. first blank upper corner cut off; title w. (erased) owner's entries and a few sm. holes. Vol.3 upper joint split; all vols. spine-ends worn.
= Willems 405; Rahir 392; Schweiger p.533; Dibdin p.167. "L'édition de 1634 est celle que les amateurs préfèrent, parce qu'elle est la mieux imprimée. On y joint parfois le volume des notes de Gronovius, édition de 1645." (Willems). First Elzevier edition.
- Good copy w. ample margins. Binding partly sl. worn along extremities. = Schweiger III, p.576.
- Owner's entry on title-p.; occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed. Spine-ends dam.; joints starting; shelftickets on spine; corners showing.
= Rare collected introductions to Mabillon's work on the lives of Benedictine Saints.
- Contents fine. Vellum sl. duststained; lower joint starting.
= Not in the usual reference works.
- Browned; upper hinge broken.
= Collection of numerous essays dealing with scriptural, religious and historical matters.
- Vol. 2 upper hinge broken; a few quires loosening; 2nd part of "Blad-wyser" erroneously bound at the end of vol. 3. Spine-ends sl. worn; vol. 2 spine dam. Good set.
= De Rynck/ Welkenhuysen p.273; Geerebaert CXXII, 26a, calling for 125 plates. The binder's index calls for 124 plates. Rare copy containing all (and several extra) plates. All plates bound in vol. 2, as a result of which this vol. is much more sizeable than the others. For this reason an extra title-p. (vol. 2, part 2) was issued, so the vol. could be split into 2 parts (this title bound at the beginning of vol. 3 in our set).
- Library stamp on title and textp.; owner's entry on upper pastedown; final ±50 lvs. (vaguely) waterst. in lower half. Covers wormholed; foot of spine worn/ dam.; top of spine w. remnants of libr. ticket.
= Not in Schweiger and Dibdin.
Curtius Rufus, Q. De rebus Alexandri Magni recte tandem captui juventutis accomodatus, Oder: Deutliche und nach dem Begriff der Jugend endlich recht eingerichtete Erklaerung des Quinti Curtii (...). Ed. E. Sincerus. Ibid., Heirs J.J. Lotter, 1745, 5th rev. and enl. ed., (66),865,(159)p., double-p. letterpress title, engr. frontisp., contemp. calf.
- Section of first free endpaper and letterpress title cut/ torn off; lacks final free endpaper; library stamp on letterpress title and textp.; (sl.) foxed. Joints split(ting).
= Schweiger I, p.323.
- Lacks the 3rd part (Panegyricus) and Index; both vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown; vol. 1 lacks final free endpaper. Bindings sl. worn; top of spines chipped.
= Rare ed. Gaskell 208; Schweiger p.807.
AND 1 other.
- Bookplate and stamp on prelim. lvs.
= Geerebaert CXXVII, II.m. The nice illustrations depict i.a. a whale-hunt and a dodo. Rare edition.
- Possibly lacks a number of portraits; occas. (sl.) yellowed/ browned. Covers sl. rubbed; vol. 7 backstrip and volume-piece dam.; 8 vols. joints splitting at (worn/ dam.) spine-ends.
- Partly w. vague marginal waterstains.
= From the library of Kurt Lindner (Bibliotheca Tiliana) w. his bookplate on upper pastedown and sm. stamp on verso of title-p. and of final leaf. Important source of music, theatre and hunting in antiquity. Graesse V, p.392; Hofmann III, p.345; Schweiger I, p.270.
= Rare.
- New endpapers; (sl.) foxed; occas. (water)stained.
- First blank and title w. contemp. owner's entries; hinges weak. Backstrip worn/ dam. = Schweiger p.897.
Suetonius Tranquillus, C. (...) et in eum commentarius. Ed. J. Schildius. Leyden and Rott., ex Officina Hackiana, 1667, 4th ed., (32),845,(88)p., engr. title, 12 portraits, schoolprize in contemp. gilt panelled overlapping vellum w. gilt coat of arms of ROTTERDAM on both covers.
- Contemp. underlining/ annots. in pen throughout; occas. sl. waterst. in blank margins; a few inkstains. Upper joint split; frontcover clumsily reattached and vellum sl. wrinkled; backstrip dam.; gilding worn.
= Schweiger p.977. On the binding: Spoelder 1.
- Pastedowns loose. = Willems 1553; Rahir 1690; Schweiger II,2 p.940f.