Jacobs Heyman (3 results)

Klein-8° (ca. 14 x 9 cm). Seiten 1-188 (ohne Seite 177/178 und S. 189-191 = Schluss) mit Titelvignette. Leder der Zeit auf 5 Bünden. Blätter leicht gebräunt u. teils fingerfleckig, wenige leicht feuchtigkeitsrandig. Seiten 1-6 an rechter oberer Ecke u. teils am Rand restauriert, dort mit Textverlust. Einband ein wenig berieben, Ecken u. Kanten bestoßen, Rücken oben mit Einriss. Mit Namenseintrag von alter Hand (Jean Depoorter oder de Poorter?). - Versandkosten innerhalb Deutschlands EUR 5,00 (versicherter Versand).

Maastricht, Wed. G. van Gulpen, no date (ca.1795), 56 pag., woodcut vignette on title, 20th cent. halfvellum with marbled paper-covered boards, title in ink on spine, contemp. wrappers bound with, small quarto. = Rare edition, only 1 copy in worldcat (Leiden). Cf. Cat. The Children's World of Learning 243. Set in Civilité. É. van Heurck, De Vlaamse Volksboeken (1943), p.159. From the library of Émile van Heurck, with his ex-libris. Final leaf small marginal tear repaired. This rare edition from Maastricht, except for the preliminaries, is almost entirely set in "civilité"-type - a font first designed and cut by Granjon in the 16th century in Antwerp. Based on French handwriting of the day, it received its name from its use in Erasmus's Civilite puerile in 1559, and was thereafter frequently used in courtesy books.

Second copy located of an early edition of a small and inexpensive medical guide intended for the poor and therefore both giving advice for a healthy life style and suggesting herbal and other medicines, including many they could prepare themselves, rather than paying a doctor or apothecary. The main text gives recipes for medicines to treat more than 100 ailments, ranging from bad breath to the plague. It is followed by a list about 100 household medicines one can prepare one's self to administer to sick friends and neighbours for various ailments named, and an alphabetical list of about 150 medicines one can buy from an apothecary for various ailments named. "One of the simplest and most popular . health manuals" (Simon Schama, Embarassment of riches, p. 517). With the corner of 1 leaf cut off, and some even smaller marginal defects, one restored, but still in very good condition. Binding also very good. A remarkably well-preserved copy of an extremely rare edition of a medical handbook for the poor.l Homblé, "Geneeskundige volksboeken", in: Oostvlaamse zanten, 47 (1972), pp. 127-138, at p. 126; KVK & WorldCat (Utrecht UL copy); STCN (Utrecht UL copy); cf. Krivatsy 6191-6194; Waller 864 & 865. Recent boards covered with nonpareil marbled paper, sewn on 3 tapes, with a red morocco spine label. With Vander Plasse's woodcut publisher's device (square version) on the title-page, with a motto based on Matthew 7:24-25 that alludes to Vander Plasse's name with the word "plas-regen" (downpour or torrential rain), and a delicate woodcut headpiece (repeated as a tailpiece). Set in textura and roman types. Pages: [4], 177, [1], [2 blank] pp.