‎Louis Ryckeboer (Belgique ou Pays-Bas), Ex-libris.‎
‎ Ex-libris.‎

‎Ex-libris Bourguignons.‎

‎Paris chez Emile Paul et fils et Guillemin, 1907. In-4 broché, sans couverture, 66 pages, l'ouvrage liste 700 noms patronymiques avec une description de leur ex-libris, héraldique, devise, quelques reproductions. Rare.‎

‎TA TÔN PHILOSTRATÔN LEIPOMENA HAPANTA. Philostratorum quae supersunt omnia. Vita Apollonii libris VIII; Vitae Sophistarum libris II, Heroica, Imagines priores atque posteriores et Epistolae. Accessere Apollonii Tyanensis epistolae, Eusebii liber adversus Hieroclem, Callistrati descript. statuarum, omnia ex MSS. Codd. recensuit, notis perpetuis illustravit, versionem totam fere novam fecit Gottfridus Olearius. ‎

‎Leipzig (Lipsiae), Apud Thomam Fritsch, 1709. (Colophon at the end: 'Typis Christophori Fleischeri, an. MDCCIX') ‎

‎Folio. (VIII),XLIII, (I);987 p. Vellum 37 cm (Ref: Hoffman 3,77/78; Ebert 16744a; Brunet 4,619; Graesse 5,273; not yet in VD18) (Details: Back with 6 raised bands. Boards with blindstamped borders. Blindstamped floral ornament in the center of the boards. Title in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title: a pegasus flying among the clouds. Text in 2 columns, Greek with parallel Latin translation. The commentary is printed on the lower part of the pages. Occasional text engravings) (Condition: Vellum age-toned, spotted and scuffed. Front joint split, but strong. Rear joint starting to split. Endpapers worn and waterstained. Small blind stamp near the lower edge of the title. Paper browning, occasionally severe foxing) (Note: The Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, knows three Greek sophists called Philostratus, three generations living between 160 and 250 A.D. The first one is thought to have written most works, the 'Vita Apollonii' (Life of Apollonius), the 'Vitae Sophistarum' (Biographies of Sophists), the 'Gymnastikos', the 'Heroikos', the 'Eikones', and 'Dialexeis', and a collection of 73 letters, mostly love letters. (Neue Pauly 9, Philostratos 5-8) In the first years of the third century Philostratus moved to Rome, where he entered the court of the emperor Septimius Severius. There he wrote ca. 307 A.D. at the behest of the empress Julia Domna Augusta, whose favour he enjoyed, a biography of the neopythagorean ascetic and wandering philosopher, and also miracle-monger, Apollonius of Tyana. Few books have over a long period of time aroused so much upheaval among Christians as this biography. Apollonius was born in the year when Jesus Christ is supposed to be born. It is almost impossible to reveal Apollonius' true identity, or to decide whether this is a biography of a real or fictionalized hero, or just an Heliodoran romance or a romantic hagiography, or even a documentary romance. The question can be dealt from so many angles, that the Philostratean studies constitute a separate branch in the research of the culture of the Early Roman Empire. The problem is 'that Philostratus, as a man of letters and sophist full of passion for Greek romance and for the studies in rhetoric, was hardly interested in the historical Apollonius'. (Dzielska,M., 'Apollonius of Tyana in legend and history', Rome 1986, p. 14) A fact is that contemporary sources reveal next to nothing about Apollonius. 'To satisfy the empress's demand, who asked him (Philostratus) to narrate the life and achievements of Apollonius, he had to invent this figure as it were anew. Thus using his literary imagination, this moderately gifted writer turned a modest Cappadocian mystic into an impressive figure, full of life, politically outstanding, and yet also preposterous'. (Op. cit. p. 14) Nothing proves that the 'Vita Apollonii Tyanensis' was widely read in the 3rd century. It would probably not have survived, were it not for the gouvernor of Bithynia, Sossianus Hierocles, one of the inspirators of the persecution of the Christians at the beginning of the third century in his province under the emperor Diocletian. At the beginning of the 4th century he published his 'Philaletes', a treatise against Christianity, in which he ridiculed the divine attributes of Christ, and praised Apollonius' virtues and thaumaturgic abilities. In the 'Philaletes' Hierocles propagated his pagan Christ Apollonius. The Christians were furiously enraged, because Hierocles dared to contrast Apollonius with their Saviour. The Christians won under Constantine, and the 'Philaletes' vanished soon from the face of earth. It is only known through the 'Against Hierocles' a treatise of the Churchfather Eusebius. The 'Vita Apollonii Tyanensis', in which it was believed that Apollonius was presented as the equal, if not the superior of Christ, survived however the burning of pagan literature by Christian mobs in early christianity. The 'Vitae Sophistarum', is a collection of biographies of 59 Greek sophists of the so-called Second or New Sophistic. Philostratus consulted their works, but used also the oral tradition. This work is a valuable source for the history of philosophy from Nero to the beginning of the third century. The 'Gymnastikos' is a treatise on Greek athletics. In the 'Heroikos' the ghosts of Heroes, especially Protesilaos, tell remarkable particulars about themselves. The 'Imagines', the description of paintings, of Philostratus and the 'Descriptio statuarum' , the description of statues, written by Callistratus, belong to the rhetorical genre of 'ecphrasis', in which the relation of the verbal and visual was explored. Ancient Greek rhetoricians defined it as a 'speech that brings the thing shown vividly before the eyes', for instance the famous description of the Shield of Achilles by Homer in the 18th book of the Iliad, vs. 478/608. 'In modern criticism ecphrasis has come to be defined as the 'description of a work of art, a category that may be restricted to the visual arts (painting and sculpture) or expanded to include architecture and other arts'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 291, s.v. Ecphrasis) The German theologian and classical scholar Gottfried Olearius, 1672 - 1715, was appointed professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Leipzig in 1699. In 1693 he started a journey which brought him to Oxford and Cambridge, where he stayed for more than a year to study Greek manuscripts. (ADB 24, 277/78; he has also a lemma in Wikipedia) (Provenance: At the lower edge of the title a blind imprint of a small oval stamp, in the center of which an imperial eagle. The legend reads: 'empire francais zuiderzée, decret du .. vrier, 181?'. Napoleon annexed in 1810 the Netherlands into the French empire. The provinces North Holland and Utrecht were transformed into the 'Département Zuiderzée'. The legend probably refers to the 'decret du 5 février 1810' (decree of the 5th february 1810) in which Napoleon regulated the booktrade. On the front pastedown has been pasted a small paper label reading: 'Henry Bousquet') (Collation: pi4, a-e4, f2 (leaf f2 verso blank); A-6H4, 6I2 (leaf 6I2 verso blank)) (Photographs on request) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping costs) ‎

‎L'Ex-Libris - Revue Internationale paraissant tous les deux mois, Puis tous les trois mois - Armoriaux - Blasons - Généalogies -Héraldique - Ordres de chevalerie - Reliures Armoriées - (Questions, Réponses, Mariages, Décès, Avis divers - Bibliographie)- 1929 - Les Ex-libris occultisres d'Henri Chapront - Sydney Hunt, graveur - Jules Grosfils - Le fer de Reliure du baron F. de chalençon-Rochebaron - Les Chevaliers de Malte - Ex-libris de louis XVII - Les Armoiries des soeurs de Saint-Jean l'Evangéliste d'Evreux - P.-L. Courier - Jeanne d'Arc - G. Granger, Peintre, Sculpteur & graveur d'Ex-libris - E. Jung-Daulte - H. Bacher - J.-M. Boulan - L'Abbé Xaupi.- 1930 - H. Heeren & la question des Ex-libris multiple - Héraldique belge - E. Lefebvre - Ex-libris de Catherine II de Russie - Les rose-Croix - J. Berszten Tiomakowski - La Légion d'honneur et le Clergé - Documents & Armoiries inédites - M.-C. Mittay - Famille Guirard - A. Ballet - Ex-libris d'aviateurs - Ex-libris italien - Blasons en exil : La chute d'un roi & la Grande Maîtrise de la toison d'Or (Espagne) - M. Grognot .- 1931 - A. Hinter - Edouard le Marant de Kerdaniel (Bretagne) - R.-J. Weissenbach - J. Carlu - Les comtes de Paris - Un bouquet d'Ex-libris offert au président Poincaré - Héraldique hongroise (hongrie) Mde G. Lantoine-Neveux - Etude sur l'Héraldique belge - Héraldique anglaise : le cimier, la devise, Armoiries modernes - A. Tardieur - J. Desthieux - Pour Goethe - La Bannière et les Compagnons de jeanne d'Arc - Les origines du drapeau belge - Ch-J. Hallo - Ex-libris de charles Le Goffic - Les Chevaliers pontificaux - Le Minitier Central des notaires de Paris - La sorbonne.- 1932/1933 - Ex-libris d'actualite : le Yo-Yo - L'Ordre de Malte - L'Ordre du Saint-Sépulcre - les Sanctions de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur - Petit Musée d'Ex-libris féminin - Etude sur l'Héraldue Belge - Les Pénitents Noirs de Marseille - J. Aroud - A. Comtat, vice-Président suisse -Le Chevalier E. Salomon - La Croix Gammée ;: ses origines & les insignes hitlériens - Les Pénitents Blancs d'Avignon - Les Pénitents des Mines de Saint-Etienne en Forez .- 1934 - Les Ex-libris de Jean-Emile Laboureur (13 illustrations) Ex-libris suisses du XVI è siècle - E. ROEthlisberger - Quintoa et le Val d'Andorre - ex-libris de dentistes - L'Ordre de Malte - L'oeuvre graphique d'H. Grimm - en flanant dans Paris.‎

‎ PARIS, chez H. Daradon, Libraire - Revue In-4 - 1 ère année 1929 - Tête de collection - Illustrations en texte, dans chaque numéro - Années 1929, 190 pages, 1930, 192 pages, 1931, 192 pages , 1932/1933, 192 pages, 1934 , 96 pages - Exemplaires non coupés, rousseurs, certains avec mouillures - Rare - Réf. 48213 ‎

‎Revue internationale de l'ex-libris héraldique, armoriaux, blasons, généalogies, reliures, ordres de chevalerie. Publicationa mensuelle. 4me année, no. 1-12 (en 6 fascicules).‎

‎Paris, H. Daragon, libraire-éditeur. 1920. In-4°. 190 p., 1 f. Broché.‎

‎No. 1-2, janvier-février: G. Paulian. Des Ex-libris Niçois (8 illustrations), B. Linnig. Des Ex-libris Belges (9 illustrations), e.a. - No. 3-4, mars-avril: G. Paulian. Des Ex-libris Niçois (17 illustrations), B. Linnig. Des Ex-libris Belges (3 illustrations), e.a. - No. 5-6, mai-huin: B. Linnig. Des Ex-libris Belges (22 illustrations), Bibliographie: 200 Ex-libris Guerre. - No. 7-8, juillet-août: B. Linnig. Des Ex-libris Belges (4 illustrations), E. Salomon. Un Ex-libris inédit du graveur lyonnais Aroux (1 planche), Ex-libris de Fréchencourt (1 illustration), P. Olivier. Ex-libris médicaux de la famille Arnaud, du Puy (5 illustrations), e.a. - No. 9-10, septembre-octobre: Mrquis de l'Eglise. Au pys de Grise-Gonelle (1 illustration), E. Salomon. Fers Lyonnais inédits (8 Illustrations), e.a. - No. 11-12, novembre-décembre: E. Salomon. Fers Lyonnais inédits (8 Illustrations), Ker-Frank-Houx. De la justification de l'Ex-libris (4 illustrations), e.a.‎

‎Verzameling van 7 ex-libris - gravures.‎

‎" Verzameling van 7 ex-libris, allen gesigneerd in potlood door de kunstenaar. Afgedrukt op dun (Japans ?) papier. Papiergrootte : 13 x 20 cm, plaatgrootte 95 x 70 mm. (voor 6), één is kleiner : 70 x 58 mm.Sommige ex-libris zijn ook gedateerd en gesigneerd in de plaat (zie hieronder). [1] Ex-libris Geo Kerkaert, gedateerd en gesigneerd in de plaat linksboven: 1937. [2] Ex-libris van de etser zelf; gedateerd in de marge van de plaat (rechtsonder) 1937. [3] Ex-libris Lisbeth Daenen. gesigneerd en gedateerd linksonder in de plaat; jaartal onleesbaar (1891 sic). [4] Ex-libris Henry De Geofroy (schilder !), niet gedateerd, wel gesigneerd. [5] Ex-libris Stanley Deason, gesigneerd en gedateerd, linksonder in de plaat, 1937. [6] Ex-libris, naam niet gegraveerd in banier hiervoor bestemd.Linksboven gesig. en gedat. , 1937. [7] Ex-libris, naam niet te lezen, kleiner formaat , niet gedateerd , noch gesig. (pril probeersel). In de oeuvre catalogus van De Coninck (AMVC - Pallemans, 1980) komt slechts één ex-libris voor (Item 9A). De reden dat deze gravures niet voorkomen in de catalogus wordt ook verklaard in zijn korte biografie. Op 3 november 1944 wordt zijn atelier op Antwerpen Linkeroever zwaar beschadigd door de inslag van een Duits V-1 cruise weapon. De meeste van zijn etsplaten worden vernield. Deze verzameling is een uiterst zeldzame getuigenis van de eerste stappen die de latere ''Meester'' van de Antwerpse Graveer Academie zette op het pad van graveer kunstenaar."‎