No. 95384584

Apollo's Marsdrager - 1728-1731
No. 95384584

Apollo's Marsdrager - 1728-1731
Apollo's Mars Drager
Interesting publication of Apollo's Mars Carrier in 3 parts. Part 1: without year, Part 2: 1731, and Part 3: 1728.
Illustrated with hand-colored frontispieces and images, the black and white images with surrounding pages are not bound in. See below.
Title page:
Apollo's Marsdrager, guiding Age, Very lively, Sharp-witted and Entertaining, Fast, Trifle, Swear and Mix Poems: and under the Laws of the Traffic Game, the Praise of the Rhynish Wine, the Conversation about Tobacco, etc. Decorated with nice illustrations.
The seventy-ninth edition, increased by 37 Poems.
At Parnassus, by Valerius Maximus and Junius Juvenal in Company
Contents:
White (1 page) + title page (1 page, see text above) + To His Listenful Congregation (4 pages)
• 37 quick, Punt and Insult poems (numbered from 1 to 37, 14 unnumbered pages)
Collection of clever and amusing quick-witted and satirical poems (numbered from 1 to 584, pages 1 to 144)
In this series, 18 pages are missing, causing the black and white medallions on the following pages: 17, 33, 49, 73, 97, 113, 129, 145 to be missing.
Mengel-dichten. Student Praatjen about the Praise of Tobacco, and the practice of pickpockets between Johannes Likkebroer and Kornelius Slempius (pp 147 to 164) is also the End of the First Part (see photo).
Hand-colored frontispiece with the inscription: 'Apollo’s March Carrier, Second Part' + title page: Apollo’s March Carrier Selling All Kinds of Sharp-Witted and Amusing Quick, Puns, Insults, and Mix-verse, and below: The Storm of the Sun Worshippers, on Great Lent-Evening. Decorated with nice prints. Second part, The 40th Edition – At Parnas, By Valerius Martialis and D. Junius Juvenalis, In Company, 1731 + To his Joyful and Jovial Community (6 pages)
Collection of witty and amusing quick, pointed, and insulting poems (pp 1 through 192, numbered from 1 through 198)
In this series, 20 pages are missing, causing the black and white medallions on the following pages: 9, 33, 73, 129 to be missing.
In this series, 4 hand-colored illustrations on pages: 49, 89, 105, 153.
Printing densities (pp. 155 to 192), where pages 181/188 and 191/2 are missing.
Hand-colored frontispiece with the inscription: 'Apollo's Marschdrager, third part' + title page: Apollo's Marsdrager selling Various Clever and Amusing Fast, Point, Swear, and Mash poems. Decorated with nice prints. The Third Part by G. Tysens in Amsterdam, Hendrik Bosch, Bookseller, at the Girls' Orphanage, 1728 + Address to Ignorance (6 pages) + To the Reader (4 pages)
Fast, Dot, and Swear Poems (pp 1 through 141, numbered 1 through 391) – 2 pages missing, resulting in the medallion on page 77 missing – handwritten colored illustrations on pages 45, 53, 63, 97, 117, 133.
Science fiction stories (pp. 142 to 172)
Description state:
Bible cover – 15.5x11 – 5 ribbons – title and harp symbol in gold on back – 604 pages - signs of use.
The publication is in very good condition, except for the aforementioned shortcomings due to the missing 40 pages with 23 black and white illustrations, partly compensated by 12 beautiful hand-colored illustrations, including 2 frontispieces.
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