2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- A few sm. rubbed spots on covers.
ON: Sloet van Oldruitenborgh, J.G. Theses juridicae inaugurales. Quas, annuente summo numine ex auctoritate rectoris magnifici, Sebaldi Justini Brugmans (...). Leyden, Haak et Socios, 1811, (6),7p.
- Upper edge backcover chipped; broken at lower edge backcover (repaired).
- Engr. plate supplied in facsimile; partly sl. stained and fingersoiled. Binding rubbed and sl. worn along extremities.
ADDED: Psalterium Cisterciense, cum canticis, hymnis, antiphonis, responsoriis, et orationibus (...). Paris, D. Mariette, 1730, (26),522,CXIIp., engr. title-vignette, 2 full-p. ills., scores, printed in black and red, sl. later mor. w. 2 brass clasps and catches, a.e.g., large 8vo.
- One quire loosening; occas. sl. yellowed. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
AND 2 others, i.a. P. DENS, Tractatus theologici de Verbi Divini incarnatione (...) (Maastr., 1777, contemp. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece).
- Very fine. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXV.
- Title loosening.
= Contents: 34 blank lvs. First free endpaper w. sm. ticket of A. Giroux & Cie., Paris (art restorers and dealers). Very fine unused album.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVI.
- Calligraphed owner's entry on prelim. leaf in pen and ink "A. van Baars". Rubbed spot on frontcover.
= Goldsmith identified as J.W. Spiegeler by the previous owner. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXV.
- Bookblock loose(ning); large tear in title-p. Gold needs polishing; sm. dam. spot on frontcover.
Late 19th cent. mor. binding w. double fillet borders on both covers, 2 silver pierced clasps w. double floral and geometrical dotted decoration, silver pierced catches w. floral motif and geometrical dotted borders, spine w. 5 raised bands, all edges gilt and gauffred, marbled endpapers. - ON: Biblia (...). Amst./ Haarlem, J. Brandt en Zoon/ J. Enschedé en Zonen, 1878, 420lvs. - BOUND WITH: Het Nieuwe Testament (...). Ibid., idem, 1870, 132 lvs. - AND WITH: Het boek der psalmen (...). Ibid., idem, 1870, 136 lvs. - AND WITH: Catechismus (...). N.pl., n.publ., n.d., 34 lvs.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; contemp. owner's entry on 2nd blank. One catch on frontcover replaced; silverwork needs polishing; lacks sm. portion of backstrip at foot of spine.
= Barely legible silverstamps on inside clasps, probably walking lions and "199"; ilegible silverstamps on inside catches.
AND one other 18th cent. calf binding w. simple brass (?) catch and clasp.
- Very fine copy.
= On this remarkable type of binding: J. Storm van Leeuwen, Rondom een Middelburgse prijsband van 1828 (De Boekenwereld 1/5, p.2-5) and recently 'Om prijs en plaats'. De Middelburgse Teeken Akademie 1778-2003, p.99-110. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVI.
- Owner's entry on second free endpaper; warranted by the printer (BOSCH) on verso of title-p.; occas. sl. (finger)soiled/ stained; sl. wormholed in lower inner margin; extensive owner's entry on p.464. Back cover sl. worn/ stained; sl. dam. at top of spine; lacks ties.
= With the prize (to B. DE WITT), dated 1775, signed on first free endpaper by P. Pompe [van Meerdervoort] van Swijndregt. Cf. Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbindings in the Eighteenth Century, IIA, p.495.
- Some sm. (water)stains. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Spoelder 3, calling for a size of 12,7x8 cm., where this one is 12,0x7,5 cm.
- Ties of only 1 volume preserved; vellum occas. sl. soiled. Very attractive uniformely bound set.
= Remarkable collection, each volume w. fold. engraved schoolprize of the Hoorn Gymnasium filled out in pen to "Petro Gulielmo Scholten", dated 1794-1798 and signed by various members of the school board, all signed by M.J. de Crane, the rector magnificus of the school. On: L.A. Florus, Epitome rerum Romanarum. Ed. C.A. Dukerus (Leyden, J. van der Linden, 1722, engr. frontisp., 1 fold. map. Waterst. at the beginning; tear in schoolprize; Schweiger I,1, p. 362); P. Mela, De situ orbis libri III. Ed. A. Gronovius (ibid., S. Luchtmans, 1722, engr. frontisp., ills. Vaguely waterst.; ties preserved; Ebert II, 13632); G.H. Nieupoort, Rituum qui olim apud Romanos obtinereunt, succinta explicatio. Ed. G.O. Reizio (Utr., J. Broedelet, 1747, 5th ed., engr. frontisp., (fold.) plates. Cf. Camus 455); D. Petavius, Rationarium temporum (Leyden, T. Haak, 1724, engr. portr., title and 7 plates. A few plates loose; Ebert II, 16330); Phaedrus, Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Ed. P. Burmannus (The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1718, engr. frontisp. Rare edition); F. Sanctius Brocensis, Minerva, seu de causus linguae Latinae commentarius (...). Ed. G Scioppius and J. Perizonius (Amst., widow and sons S. Schouten, 1754, 6th ed., engr. frontisp.); Q.S.F. Tertullianus, Apologeticus. Ed. S. Haverkamp (Leyden, I. Severinus, 1718, engr. frontisp. portr., 1 fold. plate, 10 ills.); C. Velleius Paterculus, Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae. Ed. P. Burmannus (Rott., J.D. Beman and son, 1756, 2nd ed., engr. frontisp. Pastedowns detached; Dibdin II, p.525 ("these are very excellent editions"); Schweiger II,2, 1130).
= One vol. w. manuscript leaf from a bible in pen and red ink (part of Proverbs, chapter 6 and 7). The two other vols. bound with a leaf from a gradual as well as part of a leaf from a manuscript bible (part of 1 Chronicles 23).
AND 2 other 19th cent. dictionaries (one with 19th cent. caricatural schoolboy drawings in pen and ink on covers).
- First and last few textlvs. trifle foxed/ soiled. Marbled paper over covers sl. rubbed.
= Reprint of the 1527 edition, with some typographic corrections, printed in 300 copies. Adams B 2147; Ebert 2521.
- A few stains on vellum.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Opstandinge der twee getuigen, of Herstellinge van Waarheid en Godsdienst binnen de stad van Amsteldam in 't jaar MDLXXVIII. Als mede de Pligt der Dienaaren van het Nieuwe Testament. Ibid., idem, 1684, (34),148p.
- Some underlining and sm. annots. on title-p.
Grotius, H. Bewys van den waren Godsdienst. Mitsgaders zyne andere Stichtelyke Gedichten En Gesangen (...). The Hague, J. Tongerloo, (1683), 3rd ed., (14),237,(1)p., woodcut frontisp., contemp. vellum.
- Frontisp. dam., mounted and reattached; sl. (water)stained/ (dust)soiled in blank margins, occas. touching text; new endpapers. Vellum heavily stained and dam. at boardedges.
= Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 147.