1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Remnants of wr. on spine.
(Guelphe, F.). Relation de la retraite de M. Arnauld dans les Pays-Bas en 1679. Mons, Migeot le fils, 1733, (6),71,(1) p., later wr. (contents sl. foxed).
- Contents occas. trifle foxed, but fine. Spine-ends chipped; corners (sl.) worn; leather over covers chafed/ sl. worn; lower joint starting.
= Contains 3 extra portraits and i.a. 3 fold. plates of the churches of Mechelen, Louvain and Brussels.
- One map sl. foxed. Covers rubbed; spine-ends sl. chipped.
= Contains profile views of Charleroi, Gelder and Scherpenheuvel, and plans of Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels. Ghent, Ostende, Rijssel and Yperen.
- Lacks 1 map and 1 view, otherwise internally very fine. Covers chafed; spine-ends chipped.
= Contains profile views of i.a. Charleroi and Gelder and plans of i.a. Antwerp and Ghent.
- Spine-ends sl. worn.
= The rare first ed.; Bibl. Gantoise 2768: "Première édition peu commune, et préferée aux deux autres, qui furent imprimées en 1752 et en 1780. Cette édition qui est devenue rare, mérite d'être conservée, parce qu'on y trouve plusieurs choses qui n'ont pas été réimprimées."
- Large fold. plate of the relic holder torn. Joints starting at spine-ends; corners showing.
= The legend, which takes place in the 14th century, tells of the miraculous return of sacred hosts after they were stolen from this church by a group of Jews. Six Jews were sentenced to death for the "killing" of the sacred hosts. Title page reads 'Eersten druck' and 'nieuwen Druck'.
- Bookblock loosening; entirely browned and mostly waterstained in blank margins.
= The rare first edition in Spanish of Bentivoglio's Della guerra di Fiandra.
- Poor copy: lacks title-p. to the 1st part and final 2 text lvs. (supplied in contemp. manuscript); 1st frontisp. mounted to first blank; 2 plates lack portions; fingersoiled and stained. Binding worn and dam. Sold w.a.f.
- Contemp. owner's entries on titles and first free endpaper; bookplate on upper pastedown. Upper corner backcover dam.
Busbequius, G.A. Omnia quae extant. Leyden, Ex Officina Elzeviriana (B. and A. Elzevier), 1633, 575,(23)p., engr. title by C. DUYSEND, later boards, 12mo.
- Trifle yellowed. Frontcover detached.
= Willems 380; Rahir 363. "Second des deux éditions sous la date de 1633, où le titre courant des Lettres (pp. 468 à 575) est orthographie Epistolae." (Berghman 1417). First edition of the letters and works of the famous Belgian diplomat and traveller Gislenius A. Busbequius. The fourth letter contains a short list of words and phrases in use among the Goths of the Crimea, which show that their language was still essentially a form of Gothic. His Epistolae ad Rudolphem II (...) gives an interesting account of affairs at the French court. Page 24/25 deal with the hyacinth.
AND 1 other.
- Lacks the Latin title. Rebacked w. cloth; covers worn.
= The very rare first translation into Amharic of the New Testament. Darlow/ Moule 1556: "Translated into Amharic by Abu Rumi, an Abyssinian monk, under the supervision of M. Asselin de Cherville, the French Consul at Cairo. The translation was made from the Arabic corrected by the Vulgate, with collateral help from the Hebrew, Greek and Syriac. Edited by T. P. Platt (1798-1852) (...)." The collation given by Darlow/ Moule suggests that the Latin title is absent from our copy.
- Partly sl. browned, otherwise almost entirely yellowed; occas. sl. foxed; occas. cut sl. short, esp. towards the end of the New Testament, with loss of letters; late 18th and early 19th cent. owner's entries on first blank.
= Rare edition in an attractive binding: Darlow/ Moule 1684; Herbert 791 ("Probably printed abroad (...) General title, Assings for Assigns. Headline on Gg 12 b, S. Jean for S. John.").
BOUND WITH: The Psalms of David in Meeter (Edinb., Evan Tyler, 1682. Browned/ yellowed, a few sm. stains and cut sl. short, with loss of letters).
- Owner's entry in pen and ink on verso first free endpaper "J.C. Reinhart", dated 1775.
- Bookblock shaken. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Vol. 2 of the "Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis (...)" (Cologne, 1639).
- (Sl.) foxed/ water-/ dampstained almost throughout; a few leaves stained; final ±165 leaves waterstained/ mouldy in lower blank outer corner; some maps attached to new stubs w. tape; worldmap sharp split at lower end of fold. Spine restored w. use of old backstrip.
= Poortman I, p.238. For the worldmap with Stoopendaal's signature and with number 6, Shirley 513: "finely-executed general map in two hemispheres with the same corner decorations as in the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658, entry 406''.
- Hinges broken but holding on cords. Otherwise fine.
- Lacks 2 maps; frontisp. and maps frayed/ cut short in (blank) margins; partly waterst.
= Poortman I, p.244. For the worldmap by D. Stoopendaal after N. Visscher: Shirley no. 498 and cf. 431.
- Lacks clasps and catches. Backstrip sunned and worn.
AND 4 other Dutch bibles, all but one 19th cent., 3x w. silver clasps and catches (partly dam. and one clasp loosening).
- Plates loose; upper hinge broken; first blank loose. Hole of ±1 cm. in spine; gilt sl. worn off.
BOUND WITH 4 others: HET NIEUWE TESTAMENT (...) (Amst.,1795, 28 engr. plates, a few plates loose and occas. sl. browned; 1 plate lacks portion of lower outer blank corner); HET BOEK DER PSALMEN (...) (ibid., 1801); CATECHISMUS (...) (N.pl., n.d.) and CALENDER DES BYBELS (...) (n.pl., n.d.).
- Spine-ends restored; corners showing; leather over covers dam.
= Rare pocket bible, consisting of the New Testament, the Psalms in the translation of Petrus Dathenus and the Catechism. Darlow/ Moule 3323. Warranted by the Dordrecht secretary N.(?) Dussers(?).
- Partly waterstained; a few lvs. sl. mouldy along inner margin; hinges weak. Joints split(ting); backstrip sl. dam.; covers sl. rubbed.
= Warranted by "Antonius Hoefslach, Canonik Graduaet van de Cathedrale Kerk" in 1683.