2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- All vols. pastedowns loose; occas. trifle foxed; some lvs. loose. First vol. remnants of paper ticket on spine.
= The first edition of the Dutch translation. Buijnsters, Spectatoriale geschriften 1.7.
- Partly (vaguely) waterst. in (blank) margins, occas. touching text; title-p. loose; lacks pastedowns. Frontcover and spine dam.
= Second edition (first 1698) of one of the best old sources. The first part is a translation of Bayle's article on Spinoza in his "Dictionnaire historique", in which Bayle "credits Spinoza with having been the first to systematize atheism" (cat. H. Aug. Bibl. 93).
- Catalogue entry mounted on upper pastedown. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Bibl. Spinoza p.13; Van der Linde 402 (3rd ed. 1754); Bierens de Haan (1st ed. 1720). Main work by this follower of Descartes and opponent of Spinoza.
- Lacks upper and lower pastedown; library stamp on first 4 lvs. (incl. htitle and frontisp.); later owner's entry and ticket on verso of first free endpaper; first 30 p. and last 5 plates (sl.) water-/ dampstained. Covers sl. worn/ chafed; spine-ends dam., upper joint splitting; corners bumped.
= Van der Linde, Spinoza 106; Bibl. Med. Neerl. 522; Caillet 8009 (French ed.); Bierens de Haan 3561. Main work of this follower of Descartes and opponent of Spinoza, "intended to demonstrate the existence of God by teleological arguments. Never before had this been tried on such a scale, and none among Nieuwentijt's numerous imitators equalled his completeness." (DSB).
- Sl. yellowed; title-p. loosening; upper hinge broken (holding on cords). Binding sl. worn.
= Feith 199; Tiele 1044 and Mendelsohn II, p.426 (all listing the Dutch ed. 1793).
- Lacks one fold. map (no.56 "Plan of the principal Field of Action"); both vols. partly w. waterstain at upper and/ or lower end of inner blank margin (not affecting images); one plate sl. dampstained; occas. (sl.) foxed; two bookplates on upper pastedown. Upper joint of vol.I weakening.
= Abbey, Travel, 719; Cox II, p.285; Sabin 91075; Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 6452; Rouffaer/ Muller p.624; Kolfin p.43-48 and passim. The DELUXE HANDCOLOURED edition of the most desirable book on Surinam, the former colony Dutch Guiana. Captain John Gabriel Stedman, officer in the Scots Brigade in Holland, volunteered for service in the campaign against the black slaves in Dutch Guiana. During his stay there he married Joanna, a Mulatto, subject of plate 8. "While he did his duty as a soldier (...) he does not disguise his sympathy with the rebels (...) His description of the cruelties practised on the negroes, and of the moral deteriation resulting to their masters, forms one of the most vivid indictments of slavery that have ever been penned." (DNB). "De spannende tekst met informatieve beschrijvingen en prachtige illustraties had grote invloed op de beeldvorming omtrent slavernij. Enkele elementen uit het relaas werden voortdurend benadrukt: de gruwelijkheid van de slavernij en het romantisch verhaal van de jonge militair die er niet in slaagde zijn mooie en geliefde slavin Joanna vrij te kopen. (...) In de Narrative komt de auteur naar voren als iemand die slavernij niet wil afschaffen, maar wel een menswaardige behandeling van slaven eist." (Kolfin). The following quote from the Wikipedia entry on Stedman hightlights the relationship between Stedman and William Blake: "Stedman's Narrative associated him with some of Europe's foremost radicals. His publisher, Johnson, was imprisoned in 1797 for printing the political writings of Gilbert Wakefield. Johnson commissioned William Blake and Francesco Bartolozzi to create engravings for the Narrative. Blake engraved sixteen images for the book and delivered them in December 1792 and 1793, as well as a single plate in 1794. The images depict some of the horrific atrocities against slaves that Stedman witnessed, including hanging, lashing and other forms of torture. The Blake plates are more forceful than other illustrations in the book and have the "fluidity of line" and "hallucinatory quality of his original work". It is impossible to compare Stedman's sketches with the Blake plates because none of Stedman's original drawings have survived. Through their collaboration, Blake and Stedman became close friends. They visited one another often, and Blake later included some of his images from Stedman's Narrative in his poem "Visions of the Daughters of Albion"." SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE CLVI.
- Both vols. heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown; 4th part vaguely waterst. in lower corner at the beginning. Top of spine vol. 2 restored; lacks letter- and vol. pieces.
= Sabin 91077; Cat. NHSM, p. 282; Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 6455; Rouffaer/ Muller p.625; Tiele 1046; Muller 1489. The first Dutch edition, rarely found complete and in contemp. bindings. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLVI.
- Binding sl. dam., internally fine.
= At the end the famous treatise "Een eenvoudige, dog duidelyke verklaaring over de zo genaamde onverslaanbare parnasdreun te bruilofte &c. door den autheur zelver opgestelt, alleen uit liefde en zugt voor de onbedreeve poëten en dozynwerkers van zyn gelukkig vaderland". "In het werk dat zoveel weerstand heeft opgeroepen verwerpt Van Sw. het polijsten van verzen en de onderworpenheid aan regels, principes (...). Daartegenover stelt hij inspiratie en extase. Zijn overtuiging wordt gemotiveerd door de hermetische filosofie op naam van Hermes Trismegistos, waarin lijdzame overgave en extatische terugkeer naar de goddelijke harmonie kernthema's zijn. Het unieke satirisch-hermetische werk van Van Swaanenburg dient men te beschouwen tegen de 18de-eeuwse achtergrond van deze filosofie" (Moderne Encycl. van de Wereldliteratuur IX, p.198).
- Lacks 5 plates; occas. sl. waterstained. Covers reattached at hinges; binding worn/ dam.
= With the VERY RARE second volume (published in 1743). Buisman 2225; Waller 1637; Muller 178; De Vries 252; Scheepers II, 589; Jagtenberg 27.
- One handcol. plate extra bound in; partly (sl.) foxed; some offsetting; new endpapers. Trifle rubbed along joints.
= Cohn 153; Abbey Life 356.
- First 2 plates of part 1 sl. foxed in blank margins. Wrappers of part 1 sl. stained, otherwise wrappers occas. sl. frayed, but fine. Dropback box restored on the inside; edges of box partly dam. and joints splt(ting).
= Abbey Life 265 (our copy without the advertisements, except for 6p. bound with in part I) . SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLVII.
- A few lvs. sl. waterstained in blank margin, occas. touching text; paper over lower pastedown dam. Vellum sl. soiled.
- Lacks 4 leaves: A1, G3, N1, S2 (i.e. the frontisp. and the plates to the 1st, 3rd and 5th act of the play) ; final ±30p. w. vague waterstain at top end of inner margin; bookplates on upper pastedown. Foot of spine dam.
= The very rare first edition (even in this incomplete condition). Oversteegen VII, I. Sold w.a.f.
- Lacks 1 vol. (Eerste deels eerste stuk). Eerste deels tweede stuk (sl.) dampst. in outer blank margin throughout; 2 plates loosening. Vol.2 hinges weak; title-p. and 2 lvs. loosening; first 150 and final 100p. (sl.) yellowed. Both vols. bindings worn/ dam. and lacking letterpieces.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 267.
- Incl. incomplete and odd volumes; all sl. foxed; covers rubbed/ soiled.
= Contains: Aphorismes de controverse ou instructions catholiques tirées de l'écriture des conciles et des Saint-Pères dédiées au Roy de la Grande-Bretagne (Cologne, 1687); L'esprit De M. Nicole Ou Instructions Sur Les Vérités De La Religion (Paris, 1765, engr. frontisp. portrait) and La Morale Pratique des Jesuites. Premier Volume/ Second Volume (n.pl., 1683).
- Upper hinge broken and a few quires loosening. Vellum sl. soiled. = De Backer 3047.
- Lacks title-p.; sl. (water)stained almost throughout; final 4 lvs. w. restorations (partly w. loss of text).
= Rare and early Dutch translation of De imitatione Christi, prob. the first by Nicolaas van Winge. Pettegree/ Walsby 29172.
- One leaf sl. waterstained in blank margin; frontisp. sl. foxed; hinges of first 3 textleaves splitting at both ends.
= Gay/ Lemonnyer I, p.866 and II, p.464. Barbier I, p.893: "En ce temps, on fit un livre hardi, mais bien fait, où, sous le nom de l'Isle imaginaire des Hermaphrodites, on blâmait tous les vices de la cour. Le roi se le fit lire, et ayant su le nom de l'auteur, qui s'appelait Arthus Thomas, il ne voulut qu'on l'inquiétât, faisant conscience, disait-il, de fâcher un homme pour avoir dit la vérité." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLVIII.
- Portion cut from title-p.; intereaved copy occas. contemp. annots. Bindings rubbed and sl. worn.
= Gouda Quint p.202.
- Lacks 2 plates of part II; bookplate OF "Baron Snouckaert van Schauburg" on both upper pastedowns; owner's entries on first free endpaper. Bindings sl. rubbed, mostly on backstrips.
= Part III (Dordrecht) bound behind part I (Delft).