Beschrijving
Leiden (Lugd. Bat.), Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1643, 12mo., full parchment spitsel binding, 212 pp., smudged but intact parchment, on the inside the thin wooden cover boards are visible along the edges of the parchment, with original handsewn headbands, hinges slightly worn on the inside, but the bookblock is still solid with clear and beautiful printwork. The front flyleaf has been cut diagonally. There are several contemporary handwritten notes in the margins (in Latin) and some phrases or words have been underlined. With a beautiful printer's mark on the titlepage (Non Solus) and lovely decorative initials, as well as some refined head- and tailpieces.
With (crossed out) handwritten notes of ownership on the titlepage: ‘Gustafv Adolfs Humble, Ao. 1688’ and another name that seems to read ‘Bruhnnsbergh’ (Brunsberg was the maiden name of his mother). On the flyleaves in the back there are some more handwritten notes, in Swedish, two lists of which one reads:
3 skiortor (= in Dutch: 3 hemden)
4 natlappor (= 4 nachtlapjes)
6 par ha[ls]ärmar (= 6 paar [?]mouwen)
2 halsdukar (= 2 halsdoeken)
1 näsduk (= 1 neusdoek)
One dated to ’28 Julij 1757′ and the other to ’17 December 1735′.
Gustaf Adolf Humble (1674-1741) was a Swedish bishop and he was 14 years old when he owned this book in 1688. He was the son of Peter Humble (a Swedish judge) and Elisabet Brunsberg.
