Constanter 1658

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Stephen Ferguson

“Con­stan­ter 1658″ the ex lib­ris of Con­stan­tine Huy­gens (1596–1687) on the title page of Willem Piso, De Indiae utriusque re nat­u­rali et med­ica, libri quatuordecim (Ams­ter­dam: L. and D. Elze­vir, 1658) Call num­ber (Ex) 8607.723q.   For more details on the library of Con­stan­tine Huy­gens, see: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/verduin/constanter/. See fur­ther par­tic­u­lars about Con­stan­tine Huygen’s copy of the First Folio A.J. West’s arti­cle pub­lished in Folio­ma­nia! (Wash­ing­ton, DC: Fol­ger Shake­speare Libary, 2011.) Other copies of his books at Prince­ton:❧ Bacon, Fran­cis, 1561–1626. Resus­ci­ta­tio, or, Bring­ing into pub­lick light sev­er­all pieces of the works, civil, his­tor­i­cal, philo­soph­i­cal & the­o­log­i­cal, hith­erto sleep­ing; of the Right Hon­ourable Fran­cis Bacon, baron of Veru­lam, Vis­count Saint Alban. Accord­ing to the best cor­rected cop­pies. Together with his lord­ships life. By William Row­ley … Lon­don, Printed by Sarah Grif­fin for W. Lee, 1657. RHT copy has inscrip­tion on t.p.: Con­stan­ter 1660. (Own­er­ship inscrip­tion of Sir Con­tan­tijn Huy­gens, 1596–1687) RHT copy with the auto­graph of Jas. Rigg on front fly­leaf, and with the armo­r­ial book­plate of Down­field [seat of the Rigg fam­ily; Franks cat­a­logue no. 25049]. (18th cent) There are no mark­ings for 19th cent own­ers. 20th cent mark­ings are as fol­lows: dealer’s code for Ximenes Rare Books, NYC, [book listed in their Occa­sional List No. 69 (1984)] and then RHT book­la­bel. Call num­ber (RHT) 17th-701. ❧❧ Gay­ton, Edmund, 1608–1666. Pleas­ant notes upon Don Quixot. Lon­don, Printed by W. Hunt, 1654.Call num­ber (EXOV) 3170.686 Ex copy has inscrip­tion on t.p.: Con­stan­ter Lon­don Aug. 1663. (Own­er­ship inscrip­tion of Sir Con­tan­tijn Huy­gens, 1596–1687). This copy was auc­tioned in the sale of March 15, 1688. ❧❧ New­cas­tle, Mar­garet Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. The Worlds Olio Lon­don, J. Mar­tin and J. Allestrye, 1655. Call num­ber (RHT) 17th-753. RHT copy has inscrip­tion on t.p.: “Con­stan­ter” and the fol­low­ing record of pre­sen­ta­tion from the author “Antver­piae 17 jul. 1655 dono March. New­cas­tle mar­iti autoris.” Huygen’s jour­nal for 17 July 1655 states “Saluto mar­chionem NEW CASTEL.” This copy was auc­tioned in the sale of March 15, 1688. ❧❧ Impe­ri­ali, Gio­vanni, 1596?-1670. Musaeum his­toricum et physicum. Venetiis, Apud Jun­tas, 1640. Call num­ber (EX) In process. Acquired Octo­ber 2012. Ex copy has inscrip­tion on t.p.: Con­stan­ter 1650. (Own­er­ship inscrip­tion of Sir Con­tan­tijn Huy­gens, 1596–1687).