2685 - 3623 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Lacks the portrait (as often) and 1 fold. leaf.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 332. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Two bookplates on upper pastedown (i.a. from the collection of F.C. Koch). Upper joint starting. A good/ fine copy.
= Tiele 39 (ed. 1750); Sabin 1407; Lauridsen II, 48; Cat. NHSM p.301 (German ed. only); Ingalls 446: "First published in 1746, Anderson's detailed account of the arctic regions was immediately accepted and highly regarded". The second enlarged edition of the Dutch translation (first ed. 1750). Contains i.a. an account of whaling and a Danish-Dutch-Greenlandish vocabulary and grammar. The description of Davis Street makes this book also an important Americanum.
- New endpapers; first quire reinforced along inner margin; occas. sl. foxed; final ±30p. lower outer corner waterstained.
= Sabin 1629; Cox I, p.49; Borba de Moraes I, p.38: "This is a classic account of circumnavigation which has been published in countless editions in French and other languages (...). The first edition, of 1748, is the one most sought after". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
- Plates sl. waterst.; hinges weak (some lvs. loosening). = Tiele 559; Cat. NHSM I, p.308.
Muller, S. De reizen der Nederlanders naar de Noordpool. Haarlem, Kruseman and T. Willink, 1877, 24p., 6 woodcut plates, contemp. wr.
- Contents fine; wrappers frayed; covers loosening (strengthened w. paper tape).
- Fine copy. = Cf. Scheurleer, Ned. liedboeken p.107.
- Lacks the fold. plate; occas. sl. foxed; a few scattered stains. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Landwehr, R.d.H. as book illustrator 9.
Vos, J. Alle de Gedichten. Amst., J. Lescaille, 1662/ 1671, 1st ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., (14),844; (24),244p., woodcut printer's mark, engr. coat of arms, contemp. gilt hcalf w. red mor. letterpiece.
- Lacks the portrait; later annot. in pen on verso first blank; bookplate and owner's entry on upper endpaper and first blank. Binding worn.
= First edition of the collected poetry, containing occasional poetry, plays, epigrams, and laudatory poems.
AND an incomplete copy of C. HUYGENS, Koren-bloemen, Nederlandsche Gedichten (...) in XIX Boecken (The Hague, 1658, 1st ed., engr. frontisp., portrait by C. DE VISSCHER after C. HUYGENS, contemp. vellum, 4to. Lacks the plan of Hofwijck; backstrip dam.).
- The lot sold w.a.f.
- One plate w. sm. tear at inner margin of image. Frontcover and first 4 lvs. sl. wormholed in lower inner corner; backcover trifle rubbed.
= Tiele 795; Howgego N24; cf. Graesse IV, 674; Cox I, 237; Aboussouan 682-683 and Lipperheide Lc6. Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) travelled extensively in Arabia, Persia, Palestine and Asia Minor. By his descriptions and maps and the richness of his observations the pioneer of a more profound knowledge of the Orient. Henze III, p.610: "Als erste literarische Hauptfrucht der langen Reise veröffentlichte er in 1772 die Beschreibung von Arabien, ein Werk klassischen Gepräges, das mehr Stoff darbrachte als alle früheren europäischen Werke zusammengenommen; hinzu kam, daß es großenteils auf Autopsie basierte. N. hielt sich fern von jeder Kompilation nach anderen Autoren und trug nur vor, was er selbst beobachtet und gesammelt hatte". "His accounts are probably the best and most authentic of their day" (Cox). On Niebuhr see also Europa und die Orient, cat. 1/190.
- Trifle foxed. Vellum stained. = Cf. Bierens de Haan 511/ 512 and Fowler 54 (other eds.).
- Lacks first free endpaper, engr. title and 2 fold. tables; title-p. trifle dam. in upper left corner; small hole in 1 textleaf and in upper blank margin of one plate; occas. cut sl. short in outer margin (affecting caption).
= Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
- Sl. yellowed. Binding rubbed along extremities.
- Lacks vol.1; first ±20 lvs. (incl. frontisp. and title) w. brown stain/ occas. w. restored paper in lower outer corner; 2 plates lack sm. part; occas. trifle foxed.
= Fowler 253 and Kat. Orn. Berlin 4726 (both Augsb. edition 1708-1711); cf. The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection 103. In teaching perspective, Pozzo used examples of details from his own buildings including unexecuted projects. His ability to synthesize seemingly incompatible sources influenced the next generation of Italian architects. "(...) the crowning glory of the baroque art of illusion, of negating the distinction between the real and the imaginary or theatrical - the world of frescoes and quadratura painting, and of scenography, arts in which Pozzo excelled" (auction cat. Library of the late M.F.d.C., 1995, no. 253).
- Occas. sl. foxed; occas. vaguely waterstained (sometimes affecting the image); a few plates bound in the wrong order. Bound sl. tightly.
= Kuyper, p.221-224; Fuhring 4969-5030 ("The edition is identical to that of Clemendt de Jonge of 1665"); cf. Kat. Orn. Berlin 2228 (ed. 1688). The second edition (first by Blaeu in 1648) published by Clemendt de Jonge in 1665. "It was natural that Philips' designs should be republished in the years when - on account of the demand from England - Dutch architectural books enjoyed such a boom. His work appeared in 1665, produced by Clemendt de Jonghe, in the Kalverstraat, Amsterdam, an edition which surprisingly has been overlooked by most historians of Dutch architecture. But as an edition it has other unusual features: the different publisher, a complete resetting of the (unchanged) text and a re-engraving of the plates, which appear with Philips' name but not the engraver's." (Kuyper). "Kuyper was the first to note that Clemendt de Jonge had published copies of the original plates however they are etchings and not engravings" (Fuhring). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
- Upper hinge weak; first work w. contemp. owner's entry on title; partly sl. dampst. in upper outer blank margin. Corners and spine-ends crudely restored/ strengthened w. leather; top of spine worn.
= Contains the following works: 1. Commentarii (...) in tres libros de anima, Aristotelis Stagiritae (1627); 2. (...) in quatuor libros de Coelo, Meteorologicos, Parva Naturalia, & Ethica Aristotelis Stagiritae (1616); 3. (...) in libros meteorum Aristotelis Stagiritae (1616); 4. (...) in libros Aristotelis, qui parva naturalia apellantur (1616); 5. In libros ethicorum Aristotelis ad Nicomachum aliquot Conimbricensis cursus disputationes (1616).
- Boards worn. Otherwise fine. = Van Herwijnen 814. Scarce.
- New endpapers. Vellum sl. soiled. Contents fine.
= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator 93 (1 portrait less); Van Someren I, p.242. Fine portraits of i.a. Menno Simons, David Joris, Martinus Luther, Theodorus Sutor and Paracelsus. A third volume was published in 1729.
- Vol. 2 partly sl. stained in top blank margin. Bindings trifle rubbed at extremities. A good/ fine copy.
= Kunst op Schrift, no.960 and 1010; cf. Buijnsters, Hieronymus van Alphen, p.113 ff. Rare.
- Lacks 8 plates (no. 117 and 119 and 125-130); two plates w. pink inkstain; plates 36-50 and plate 61-63 w. (receding) brownish stain in inner margin (affecting image, especially of 118); plates 107-112 w. receding brown stain in upper right corner of engraving, final few plates loosening; some plates fingersoiled in lower and outer blank margin. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
= Not in Kunst op schrift. Rare.
- Partly waterst. (mostly blank margins, incl. some of the plates). Joints, spine-ends and corners worn; spine darkened.
= Cohen/ De Ricci p.177; Bigmore/ Wyman p.72: "(...) a work notable for its completeness for the time of its production, and for its plates, which have been reproduced by most subsequent writers on art". This third edition augmented by the French engraver Cochin. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
= Rare.
- Waterstained (partly only vaguely) almost throughout in upper half; a few restored spots and tiny tears.
= Prob. 17th cent. owner's entry in pen and ink at the end of the dedication (A4): "Liber di me, Camillo Zanini". Important work on art theory. "L'Aretino (1557), Dolce's main work on art, has been said to have been a riposte to Vasari's Lives of the Artists, whose first edition of 1550 did not even include Titian, which Vasari rectified in the second edition of 1568. (...) It takes the form of a dialogue in three parts between Pietro Aretino, representing the Venetian point of view, and the Florentine humanist Giovanni Francesco Fabrini. Beginning with a discussion of the principles of art, the dialogue moves on to a paragone or comparison between Raphael and Michelangelo, and to discuss a number of other contemporary painters, and then ends with a biography and appreciation of Titian." (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodovico_Dolce). Arntzen/ Rainwater H39: "A dialogue on painting and notes on painters written by a member of the Venetian circle of Aretino, Titian, and Sansovino." Adams D730; Cicognara 111. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
BOUND WITH: Doni, A.F. La Fortuna di Cesare. Ibid., idem, 1550, (7),(1 blank),40 lvs., woodcut printer's mark on title-p. and on recto of final textleaf.
- Preliminary leaves and first 25 lvs (mostly sl.) waterstained in upper half. = Adams D815.