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1810. Au Palais du Fontainebleau, le 2 novembre 1810. Broadsheet, 2pp. Special permission is needed to build a house on a dike in Holland.

Grenoble, Alexandre Giroud, 1701. 4to. 8pp. Reminder of the rules and regulations relevant to the printing trade given in VIII articles.

Grenoble, Alexandre Giroud, 1701. 4to. 8pp. Reminder of the rules and regulations relevant to the printing trade given in VIII articles.

Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana apud Ioannum Moretum, 1598. 4to. 77 pp. Original limp vellum binding with arms in black on both the front- and back covers. A light, but not serious, default on the back coverTraces of ties. A good copy with on the covers (slightly later?) arms in black that I have not been able to identify.A new edition, the last one of the sixteenth century of this work on amphitheatres that was first published in 1584. The work is divided into two parts, each with a separate titlepage but with a continuous pagination. In the first part the author gives a description, in the form of a dialogue, like a guided tour, of the Colliseum of Rome. The second part consists of a short description of some amphitheatres (e.g. Verona in Italy, Nîmes and Doué-la-Fontaine in France, Pula in Croatia etc.). The work is illustrated with 8 copper engravings (two double-page plates; 5 full-page plates and one illustration in the text). For the present edition the engravings have been re-engraved by… Leer más

Zutphen, Johannes Columbius at Deventer for Henricus Beerren, 1669. 8vo. (16),341,(3)pp. Index. Last leaf with errata and colophon. Small hole in margin of last page. Very browned throughout. Full calf, spine goldtooled. (bottom of spine damaged & small wormhole in top of spine). First edition. Johannes Lomeier (1636 - 1699), noted Dutch philologist and bibliophile was professor of belles-lettres and philosophy at Zutphen. In the present work, which is his most famous work he writes about the history, architecture and organization of libraries, about librarians and enemies of books. Chapter ten contains a survey of the most important libraries in Europe. In the Netherlands he is especially interested in Zutphen, a town he knew well and which still houses a famous chain library. For France he gets most of his information from travel guides. The work was plagiarized by Pierre Le Gallois in his 'Traité historique des plus belles bibliothèques de l'Europe' (1680). This, his most famous work is… Leer más

With: De Furibus Librariis Dissertatio Epistoli. Parts I-II in one volume. Leiden, 1704-1708. 121,(1)pp., (1)f. blc, 77pp. 8vo. (Later) blue boards (some light foxing throughout).Thomas Crenius (Brandenburg 1648 - Leiden 1728), whose real name was T.T. Crusius, was an erudite orientalist and philologist. He became a corrector at Leiden and Rotterdam printing houses. In this work, consisting of two 'dissertations', separately published between 1704 and 1708, Crenius discusses plagiarism. Among the authors discussed here are: Grotius, Lipsius, Descartes etc. Brunet II,413 (states 1705 as publication date for the first text). Our first edition contains only the first two essays, the second edition (1716) is expanded with a third.

1868. Edam, Wed. P. de Boer Pz, 1868. 48pp. + 2 folding plates. Original printed orange wrappers.

1738. Hannover, Sumptibus Haeredum B. Nicolai Foersteri et Filii, 1738. Titlepage with engraved vignette, (xiv),232,(8)pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf. (top & bottom of spine repaired). Spine goldtooled. Binding in places a bit rubbed. Offsetting & browning throughout. Various head- and tailpieces. Koecher (1699-1772) was a lawyer and professor at the University of Jena and also used the pseudonym Gratian Aschpanus.

1836. Amsterdam, J.M.E. Meijer, 1836. Original printed wrappers (front wr. detached). xxiv,144pp + 4 coloured plates. On the treatment of tuberculosis. This Dutch edition by Dr. van Horstok of Amsterdam is based upon a translation into German by Dr. Carl Hohnbaum from the original English edition by Dr. Francis Hopkins Ramadge.

1834. Paris, 1834. 115pp. Later clothbinding. Orwrs. bound-in.

1856. Berloni, Typis Gustavi Schade, (1856). 39pp. Original blue wrappers (sl. dam.). Bigmore & Wyman 242: "A University thesis against the claims of Haarlem to be the birthplace of Printing".

1775. Small card, c. 6 x 9cm. Text in Dutch in a decorative border, with handwritten note at the bottom. A couple of small pinholes at the top. De Ruth will teach a.o. French and will lodge people.

1778. 's Gravenhage, Isaac Scheltius, 1778. (issued 4 March 1778). Broadsheet. With woodcut arms and woodcut initials. (some offsetting of another broadsheet). To stimulate the import of cattle the taxes on imported cattle will be lowered.

1770. 's Gravenhage, Isaac Scheltius, 1770 (issued 10 December 1770). Broadsheet with woodcut arms and woodcut initial. On 28 November 1770 Princess Frederika Louise Wilhelmina, daughter of Prince Willem V van Oranje-Nassau and Wilhelmina van Pruisen, was born in The Hague. In this broadsheet it is decreed that the festivities to celebrate this happy event in The Hague and other towns are to be limited as the economic situation is very bad. The money saved should be given to the poor.

1774. 's Gravenhage, Isaac Scheltius, 1774. Broadsheet. With woodcut arms and woodcut initials. To stimulate the import of cattle the taxes on imported cattle will be lowered.

1856. Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1856. 20pp. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers (dam. & loose). Exlibris on inside front cover.

A la Haye, 1761. 8vo. 111, (i) pp. Modern half calf binding. Uncut. Some dustsoiling on the titlepage and around the edges.
First edition of this work by Louis Bollioud de Mermet (1709-1796) that discusses all aspects of bibliomania, the obsessive pursuit of book and compulsive book buying. The term 'bibliomania' was already in use in England in 1734 but the present work is one of the earliest works that use the term. De Bollioud Mermet who was a book collector himself states on page 9: 'En effet, avoir des collections de livres avec l'incapacité ou le défaut de volonté de lire & d'étudier, c'est un étrange manie, une aveugle ostentation. Entasser des amas de volumes sans nécessité, sans discernmenent, c'est une inutilité absurde, une vaine superfluité..." Scarce on the market. [c.f. Brunet VI ('Table'), 1795].

1752. Rome, J.M. Salivioni, 1752. Halftitle, title pp v-xvi, pp. 1-111, 1 blank, 113 - 119, 1 blank, 120 (misnumbered 211) - 130 pp, 1 errata leaf. 6 plates numbered I-VI, 4 of which are folding. (plates 1 & 6 with old restaurations). Half calf, decorated paper boards (binding rubbed, some waterstaining and foxing). Edges sprinkled red. A copy with large margins. Only edition of a fine work on mosaics by the learned archaeologist Furietti. The first plate depicts the celebrated mosaic of four doves perched on a drinking vessel which the author had discovered at the Villa Adria in 1737 and which Pliny mentions in his Natural History. It is now in the Capitoline Museum. [c.f.Berlin Katalog 3946; Graesse II, 647 (mistakenly indicating 8 plates)]

1691. No place, no date, but Jenae, Georg Heinrich Müller, (1691). 24pp. No wrappers (as issued), but decorated paper spine. Wrinkled throughout. Dissertation in Latin. (OCLC only shows copies in Europe, none in US libraries).

Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1664. Small 12mo. (32 pp - including the engraved titlepage and the titlepage), 151 pp, (26 pp.). 9 full page plates and 2 folding plates. Contemporary calf binding (binding solid but top hinge damaged & small bit of leather lost on spine & a cut in the middle of the pages 101/102, without loss). Edges sprinkled red.Two ex-libris pasted on inside front cover, name of the top one erased. A manuscript note on the inside back cover says: "A M. Rabault de Vilers, auditeur des Comptes à Paris en 1775. "Il a vû casser toutes les cloches de France pour en faire du caon et des solz. Ne voyez jamais un pareil temps."This work on bells and their religious and secular uses by Girolamo Maggi (c. 1523 - 1572) was first published in Hanau in 1608. This is the second edition with notes by François Sweerts (1567-1629). It describes the invention of the bell and discusses bells in public and private spaces, towers with bells like the Turis Garisenda and the tower of Pisa - illustrated.… Leer más