Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc.

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/121

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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35. [HARTGERTS, J.]. Oost en Westindische Voyagien: Met de Be- schrijvingen van Indien. (16 voyages, all published.) Engraved frontis- piece; general title; 10 leaves of Preface and 15 parts, each with a separate title; 11 plates, each containing 6 illustrations; shipping vignettes on titles. Library stamp on engraved and general title. Iwo volumes, quarto, half morocco (rubbed). Amsterdam, J. Hartgerts, 1648. $650.00 A FINE, COMPLETE COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST COLLECTIONS OF VOYAGES. It con- tains 16 of the most important Dutch voyages to the East Indies, China, Japan, Amer- ica, Australia, Africa, and to the north, from 1594 to about 1630. For a detailed list of the voyages, see John Carter Brown Library catalogue. The Preface (Inleydinge . . .) gives an interesting history of the East India Com- pany, being at the same time the first attempt at a colonial history of the Dutch, and of their development of trade routes all over the world. “This extraordinary collection of voyages is sometimes called the ‘Dutch De Bry’ or the “Dutch Hulsius’; for in beauty of execution and intrinsic interest it rivals both of these famous ileum In point of rarity there is no comparison, this one being scarcely known to bibliographers. . . . This collection has an advantage over De Bry and Hulsius that many of the voyages are in the language in which they were originally written...” SABIN 30680 _J.c.B. II-2, p. 370 = TIELE, Memoire Bibliographique, pp. 15-18 TIELE, Nederlandsche Bibliographie, p.258. Not in CHURCH 36. HENRICUS de Herpf [Herp or Erp]. Groote ende nieuwe spieghel der volcomenheit [Speculum Perfectionis, in Flemish]. 228 leaves; wood- cut on title, on verso of title, and large printer's device at end. Octavo, contemporary limp vellum with overlapping edges. Antwerp: Widow of Roelants van den Dorpe, 1501. | $125.00 FIRST EDITION in Dutch of the Speculum Perfectionis or Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei as it was called in the early Latin editions. Its author was a Belgian Franciscan of the Strict Observance and a distinguished writer on mysticism (died 1478 as guardian of the convent of Mechlin). A very fine copy, fully rubricated and with an extremely handsome ornamental border, painted in various colors, on the first page of text. NIJHOFF-KRONENBERG 1062 37- HORAE. Heures a Pusaige de Rome. [With the Almanac for the years 1497—-1520].92 leaves; with 17 beautiful full-page woodcuts within architectural borders, including Pigouchet’s large device on the title-page; 38 small woodcuts in the text; each page surrounded by a splendid metal- and woodcut border piece of rich pictorial design. PRINTED ON VELLUM throughout. Octavo, old dark velvet, g.e. Paris: [Philippe Pigouchet] for Simon Vostre, 15 October 1499. $ 1,000.00 A very fine, complete copy, the woodcuts and borders entirely uNcoLorED, of one of the masterpieces of Pigouchet’s “‘high-water-mark” period. It contains the remark-

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