2685 - 3623 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Final 2 leaves at the end of first part cut sl. short in lower margin (not affecting text). Pastedowns loosening. Vellum (sl ) stained. Contents fine.
= The first authorised and enlarged edition of this classic study on/ against witchcraft; the book was considered heretical (Knuttel, Verboden boeken 53). All parts warranted by the author.
- Occas. sl. wormholed in blank margin; new endpapers; owner's stamp in upper outer corner of title-p.; outer corners and outer margin of title-p. sl. dam./ chipped.
- Partly vaguely waterstained in lower outer corner; 2 old stamps and annot. on title-p.; new endpapers.
= Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Lacks title-p.; several leaves w. tear in outer margin (into text). Binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
= The number of textpages is smaller than other copies with the same imprint that we traced, but apart from the lacking title-p. our copy appears to be complete.
AND an incomplete copy of: C.F. MENESTRIER, La Philosophie Des Images Enigmatiques, Ou Il Est Traité Des Enigmes, Hieroglyphiques, Oracles, Propheties, Sorts, Divinations (...) (Lyon, 1694, 1 fold. engr. plate, 1 ill., contemp. wr. Lacks final 75p.; binding worn). - ADDED: 2 others, not related.
- Occas. trifle foxed, otherwise contents fine. Bookplate on upper pastedown; upper hinge nearly broken.
= A rare complete copy of the second edition, with many attractive bird's eye views of the major towns of Germany and surrounding countries. Tiele 102; Lipperheide Da 13; cf. Nebehay/ Wagner 94 (note). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Endpapers yellowed; otherwise a fine copy. Paper over boards occas. sl. rubbed.
= One of 1000 copies (numb. "662"), with Bewick's signed thumbmark receipt bound before title-page and with the seaweed printed over the woodcut on the receipt. Roscoe 45a.
- Library ticket on upper pastedown; owner's entry on first free endpaper; hinges strengthened.
= One of the SIGNED and numbered LARGE PAPER copies.
Bewick, T. A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by Himself. Newcastle/ London, J. Bewick/ Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1862, 1st ed., XIX,(1),344p., woodengr. vignettes by T. BEWICK, orig. cl.
= With thumbprint signature.
- Title-p. loose; p.431-433 stained (due to offsetting of plates?). Rebound w. use of contemp. leather.
- Owner's entry in pencil by "Lady Legard - Dorffield - July". Upper joint broken; lacks part of letterpiece.
- Sl. waterstained/ sl. soiled; preliminary lvs. browned; contemp. owner's entry on first blank. Paper over covers partly worn off and frontcover dented.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Joints splitting; sl. worn along extremities. = Hugo 203.
Gay, J. The Fables. York, T. Wilson and son, 1811, 252p., woodengr. frontisp. and ills. by T. BEWICK, contemp. calf w. mor. letterpiece, 12mo.
- Sl. soiled/ stained in margins; a few lvs. repaired w. paper/ tape. Rebacked w. modern leather.
= Hugo 263: "One of the finest of Wilson's books illustrated by Thomas Bewick".
Goldsmith, O. The Poetical Works. Hereford, D. Walker, 1794, 95p., 6 woodengr. ills. and vignettes by T. BEWICK, modern leather, 12mo.
- Sl. (finger)soiled; two lvs. w. annots. in pen and ink. = Hugo 79 (ed. 1795).
AND 8 others, incl. J.E. HARTING, Our Summer Migrants. An Account of the Migratory Birds (London, 1877, woodengr. ills. by T. BEWICK, contemp. richly gilt green leather w. mor. letterpiece and gilt tooled "ducet amor patriae" on frontcover) and J.H. WYNNE, Amusing and Instructive Tales for Youth (London, 1815, woodengr. ills. by T. BEWICK, contemp. hroan, 12mo) and another ed. of the first work of the lot (Alnwick, 1815).
- Contemp. owner's entry on first blank; occas. sl. foxed (esp. the portrait). Rebacked.
= Roscoe p.117-180; Hugo 428; Ray 52: "Bewick deplored this well-produced volume, which to his mind could only serve "to feed the whimsies of bibliomanists", but he tolerated its publication. Though some of the engravings hardly rise above the chapbook level (...) the book is useful as a record of his work before he achieved his mature style."
AND 2 other editions of the same work.
= Hugo, no.95.
- Lacks the title-p. of The Whole Booke of Psalms; general title trimmed to the border and laid down; both vols. owners' entries on first free endpaper ("Margaret Harwood June 29th 1763", "Barbara Hales June 16 1833" and "Charlotte Mary Wilton 1870"); occas. shaved (affecting letters). Otherwise fine.
= A very attractively bound copy of the so-called Pearl Bible (named because of its small size fit to carry in pockets). Darlow/ Moule 496; Herbert 635. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- Occas. trifle waterst in blank margins, otherwise a fine copy. Backstrips of both vols. sl. wormholed/ dam. not affecting contents; dam. spot (1,5 cm.) on frontcover of vol. 1.
- Pastedowns detached; occas. margins waterstained. Corners dam.; edges rubbed/ worn.
= Rare.
- Engr. title-p. of the Old Testament trimmed to the plate mark and laid down on first blank; old annots. in pen and ink on OT title-p.; scattered restorations in blank lower margin/ corner; sm. chipped spot in outer margin of engr. title-p. of the NT; final textleaf dam. in lower outer corner (sl. loss of text); lacks final free endpaper. Letterpiece dam.; leather of clasp renewed. A good copy.
= Rare bible.
- Engr. title and htitle of vol. 1 doubled; a few lvs. remargined. Bindings chafed; calf dam./ splitting at board edges.
= Illustrated Moerentorf-bible, better known as the Van Sichem-bible. The New Testament with date 1646 (as it should be). Poortman I, p.134: "Steekt ver uit boven alle andere nadrukken"; Darlow/ Moule 3314; Le Long 631, 649. Contains a number of additional woodcuts by C. van Sichem after H. Goltzius, all mounted on blank lvs.
- Lacks the maps/ plans. New endpapers; title-p. repaired w. paper and tape on verso; sl. waterst. in margins. Professionally restored binding. Sold w.a.f.
= Poortman I, p.151; Darlow/ Moule II, 3313.
- Lacks title-p. and final leaf (w. woodcut ill.). Bookplate on first blank; occas. sl. (water)stained. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Rare ed., only 2 copies in STCV (1x complete). Poortman I, p.236 lists this bible summarily.