2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Sl. yellowed throughout; occas. sl. foxed and waterst. Frontcover loose; paper over covers lacking/ loose(ning); joints split; backstrip worn and dam. at spine-ends.
= 1. Sinne- en Minne-Beelden: Selfstryt: Tooneel der Mannelyke Agtbaarheydt (prob. lacks title-p.); 2. Houwelick, dat is, het gantsche Beleyt des Echten-Staets; 3. 's Werelts Begin, Midden, Eynde, Besloten in den Trou-ringh, met den Proef-steen van den selven; 4. Ouderdom, Buyten-leven, En Hof-gedachten, op Sorghvliet.
- Lacks 12 preliminary lvs.; one leaf repaired; one leaf misbound; some lvs. portion of outer blank margin torn off; (sl.) (finger)soiled/ (water)stained; modern annots. on endpapers and lower pastedown.
= On the first title: Landwehr 129; Mus. Catsianum 48.
AND 2 incomplete copies of IDEM, 's Werelts Begin, Midden, Eynde, Beslooten in den Trou-ring, met den Proef-steen.
- Small tear in inner margin of frontisp.; first part w. sm. portion cut out of plate 27; second part w. large tear along inner margin of leaf P2 (partly affecting text).
= Reissue of the edition 1717. The plates in strong impression. Mus. Catsianum 31; Cats STCN 17; Landwehr 127; De Vries 96.
- Without the 3rd part ("Kerkelyke oudheden"). Partly waterst. (worse at the end); final leaf loose. Binding worn and sl. dam.; vellum sl. wrinkled.
- Second blank partly torn off (probab. w. owner's entry); tiny owner's entry on title-p.; partly sl. waterstained in lower (blank) margin; 1 plate w. some foxing in image. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Translation of Primitive Christianity; or, the Religion of the Ancient Christians (1673). Knuttel, Kerkgeschiedenis p.61; Klaversma/ Hannema 360; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 239.
- Formerly folded thrice (yellowed on central horizontal fold).
- Lacks 2 plates; 1st quire (incl. frontisp.) outer margin restored w. sl. loss of text/ image; bookblock (nearly) broken; sl. foxed. Binding sl. worn; joints splitting.
= Rius 805.
- Apart from occas. sl. foxing and sm. specks contents fine. Upper joint splitting; binding worn along extremities.
= From the library of Bob Luza w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. Folio-size LARGE PAPER COPY. Rius I, p.806; Cohen/ De Ricci p.216: "Superbes illustrations; livre très recherché". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVIII.
- Partly (vaguely) waterstained in blank margin; second half of the book w. brown stain in upper inner margin, sl. touching the text, worsening towards the end, causing a brittle spot in the last part w. dam. in blank margin along hinge (last 3 lvs. repaired w. tape, last leaf w. loss of a few letters).
= Rare Dutch edition. Cat. NHSM I, p.134; Tiele 61; Cordier, Bibl. Sinica p.2089; Henze I, p.118/119; cf. Lust 311/ 312 and Cox I, p.75f for the English and French eds. "Since Avril's book was to be a guide for missionaries getting to China by overland routes, it is particularly strong on the Russian side, and the fringe regions of north and northwest China. Somewhat muddled but interesting on Jesuit outlooks, and on advances in Asian geography." (Lust).
- One double-p. view (Kinningfoe) with a few small inkstains; one fold. plate (w. reproduction of Chinese illustrations) browned and sl. frayed along one fold. Binding professionally restored. A (very) fine copy.
= Landwehr, VOC 544; Tiele 304; Cordier, Sinica 2348 and 27; Lipperheide Le4; 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.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ fingersoiled; first and final lvs. w. some closed holes and restored spots. Rebound in contemp. (wrinkled/ stained) vellum binding.
= Cordier I, p.10; cf. Lust 23 (calling for an 8vo edition): "The first serious survey of China, it ran to some 33 editions in Western Europe between 1585 and 1613. Its influence can be imagined. Mendoza was never in China. The work consists partly of travel accounts of Augustine and Franciscan Fathers, mostly on journeys via the Philippines to Ch'ao-chou, Canton, etc." First published in Spanish in 1585. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVIII.
- Map repaired on verso; partly waterst. Covers sl. rubbed; top of spine sl. dam.
- Annots. on upper pastedown; bookplate on first free endpaper; sl. foxed/ browned; final few lvs. waterstained. Spine lacks sm. portion of vellum.
= David Christiani (1610-1688) was a German mathematician, philosopher and Lutheran theologian. In 1643 he became a professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg.
- Browned; paper very brittle along margins, occas. w. some loss of pagination or text; engr. frontisp. and title lack upper outer corners; pastedowns loose. Vellum darkened/ soiled; upper corner frontcover dam.
= Cf. Buisman sale 762; Muller 395; Waller 409; De Vries 73 and Scheepers II, 746 (all 1st ed. Dutch 1652).
- Lacks 1 plate; upper hinge broken. Vellum trifle soiled.
= Contains i.a. the interesting "Plagiariorum Syllabus", mentioning i.a. Alciatus, Calvin, Heinsius, Junius, Lipsius, Manutius, Scaliger. The polyhistor Theodorus Janssonius ab Almeloveen (1657-1712) studied philology and medicine, practicised as a physician, became professor of Greek, history and rhetoric, later also of medicine at Harderwijk. Rare.
- Old owner's entries in pen and ink on title-p. and both pastedowns; illegible stamp on verso of title-p.; num. old annotations in pen and ink and in red pencil in margins. Lacks first free endpaper. Frontcover browned section in left half. A good/ fine copy in an interesting binding.
= Fine provenance: the owner's entry on the title-page is that of "Erasmus Schmidt Delitiamus" (Erasmus Schmidt of Delitsch, 1570-1637), the German philologist, who eventually became professor of Greek at the university of Wittenberg. The entry on the upper pastedown is probably also in the hand of Erasmus Schmidt and reads: "Emtus[?] à Vidua M. Joh. Grunii Wrtebergae Ao 1597.13 Julij". This possibly solves the question about whose monogram is stamped on the binding in the small portraits: "I.G.". Joh. Grunius is mentioned once as editor of "Commentar. in epistolas 2 ad Timotheum; librum de anima welches M. Joh. Grunius 1580 per diagrammara digestum ediret" (Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, p.389 under the entry on Melanchton). Adams A-1314; Hoffmann I, 206; Schweiger p.38; Dibdin p.274f. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIX.
- Vol. 1 w. extensive pencil annots. on title-p. Corners showing.
= Schweiger p.64; Ebert 1130. An attractively bound set.
- First few lvs. very brittle along edges (incl. title), causing some dam. Vellum shrunk along edges causing deterioration of the boards (now visible). Contents despite these defects in good condition.
= Schweiger p.51; Brunet I, p.459; Graesse I, p.211.
- Sl. foxed and occas. trifle browned. Binding dam.
= The first six volumes of Aristotle's Physics (8 in total) being lectures on nature and principles of natural or moving things, both living and non-living. VD 16, A 3286.
- A few lvs. (sl.) yellowed.
= Scheurleer I, p.331; Eitner I, p.354. Rare work on ancient flutes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIX.