2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Occas. sl. yellowed; endpapers and pastedowns sl. browned. Gilding on spine sl. worn away; top of spine repaired/ sl. dam.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Lacks 1 view(?); some occas. yellowing/ sl. foxing; fold maps. occas. sl. creased and w. (sm.) tear in margin; endpapers w. offsetting from turn-ins. Bindings sl. rubbed; remnants/ traces of sm. ticket at top of spines.
= Contains maps of i.a. Haarlemmermeer, Rijnland, Gooiland, Delftland, Schieland/ Krimperwaard, Amstelland and Kennemerland and (profile) views of i.a. Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Delft, Gouda, Haarlem, Rotterdam and The Hague. Apart from plans of all the large towns in Holland, a number of plans of smaller cities are included, i.a. Enkhuizen, Geertruidenberg, Gorinchem, Medemblik, Purmerend, Schiedam and Schoonhoven.
- Bookblock and quires partly loose(ning); first few lvs. w. sm. wormhole in lower margin; sl. frayed along edges and soiled. Binding dam.
= Conrad Mel (1666-1733), German preacher.
- Lacks one plate; (sl.) foxed throughout; endpapers browned. Spine-ends and corners sl. rubbed.
= Cohn, no. 663. On the scandal surrounding Caroline of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the wife of King George IV. Rare.
- Pastedowns loosening; owner's entry on upper pastedown; sl. foxed/ browned; some sm. waterstains. Vellum soiled.
Hornius, G. Kerkelyke en wereldlyke historie, Van de Scheppinge des Werelts, tot 't Jaer des Heeren 1666 (...) Waer aen is bygevoegt de Kerkelyke en wereldlyke historie, sedert den jare 1666. tot 1684. Door Balthasar Bekker (...). Nevens een derde vervolg tot den jare 1696. Door Melchior Leydekker. Ibid., A. van Someren, 1696, 3rd ed., 4 parts in 1 vol., (14),392,(30); (8),62,(2); (2),78; (2),146,(9)p., engr. frontisp., 1 plate and 18 (half-p.) ills., contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- A few quires loose(ning); pastedowns dam. Some sm. red stains on covers.
= Van der Haar 675 (2nd ed. 1696).
- Pastedowns loose; occas. sl. foxed; one leaf sm. tear, sl. affecting text. Letterpiece mostly worn away; vellum sl. soiled; lacks ties.
= Leendertz 125 and 124.
- Vellum trifle soiled; upper joint splitting at foot of spine. Good copy. = Leendertz 138.
- Very fine copy. Joints trifle rubbed.
= Landwehr, R. de H. as bookillustrator 88; Sander 181. One of the finest and most famous series of bookillustrations by Romeyn de Hooghe, second issue of the first edition. We quote from the description in Auction Sale Van Gendt, 1977, no. 1108: "The first, which has exactly the same collation was published by Gallet in 1697. It seems possible that the 1699 edition is, in fact, of the same issue, and that only the first quires of both volumes, which include the title pages were replaced by new ones with the new date, to make the book look more up to date. - The edition of 1702, also published by Gallet has "seconde édition", which, we think, sustains our theory." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIII.
- Fine copy. Joints and corners sl. rubbed.
= From the library of Sir William Augustus Fraser of Ledeclune and Morar (bookplate on upper pastedown). Attractive copy with the often absent explanation of the plates in Dutch. Cohen/ De Ricci 232; Sander 350; Landwehr, R.d.H. as bookillustrator 84; Lipperheide Gb26; cf. Praz 398. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVII.
- Occas sl. waterst., mostly in blank margins; occas (sl.) browned. Vols. III, IV and VII vellum sl. stained; a few joints starting.
= Claes 165.
- Sm. wormhole in upper and lower margin throughout (occas. just touching text). Upper joint starting at top of spine. Lacks letterpiece; binding dam. by acidity of mottling.
AND 1 other.
- Lacks the fold plan (as often); partly (sl.) waterst. in lower right corner. Upper corners dam. Good copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 305. The (very) rare second edition, incl. the author's neo-Latin poem "Westfrisia".
BOUND WITH: (Eyck, J. van der). Corte Beschrijvinghe Mitsgaders hantvesten, privilegien, costumen ende Ordonnantien vanden Lande van Zuyt-Hollandt. Dordr., N.V. van Spierinckhouck, 1628, (24),450,(6)p., woodcut printer's mark on title, fine engr. frontisp. by W. HONDIUS after A. VAN DE VENNE, num. woodcut coats of arms.
- Partly vaguely waterstained, sl. affecting text; frontisp. sl. cut short in outer margin.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 92.
- Bookblock and last quire loose(ning); sl. browned. Paper ticket on frontcover; vellum sl. soiled.
- Lacks frontisp., 2 emblems and 2 lvs. (H2 and M7); partly waterstained; a few quires loose(ning); upper hinge weak. Backstrip dam.
= Cf. Landwehr 338; cf. Praz p.375.
Nederduitse en Latynse Keurdigten, By een verzamelt door de Liefhebberen der Oude Hollandse Vryheit. Rott., P. van der Goes, 1710, new enl. ed., (4),581,(10)p., engr. frontisp., 1 plate, contemp. mottled calf w. gilt tooled border w. floral motif on both covers, richly gilt spine w. red mor. letterpiece, gilt boardedges.
- Browned; partly waterstained in inner margin; remnants of bookplate on first free endpaper.
AND 5 others, mostly sl. defective, i.a. F. DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE FÉNÉLON, Telemachus. In Nederduitsche Vaerzen overgebragt (Amst., 1763, engr. frontisp. and title-vignette, contemp. paper over boards, 4to).
- Vol. I frontisp. portrait bound after the "Voorreden"; all vols. occas. sl. foxed; sm. contemp. owner's entry on first blanks. Backstrips sl. darkened.
- Occas. sl. fingersoiled in lower outer corner and sl. duststained in outer margin. Foot of spine sl. dam.; corners sl. rubbed.
= Attractively handcoloured copy. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVII.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; first free endpaper upper corner torn off; sl. foxed. Backstrip loosening; letterpiece worn away; spine-ends and corners dam.
= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator 92. Without the usually bound with Boerekermis by the same (1708).
- Lacks 2 plates by Baptist; 2nd part a few lvs. w. waterstain in inner margin. Foot of spine dam.; corners showing, otherwise binding rubbed and sl. soiled.
= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator 92. Without the usually bound with Boerekermis by the same (1708).
- Lacks endpapers; occas. sl. soiled (mostly title-p.) Wr. sunned.
= First and only edition of this well-known but rare anti Stadtholder treatise against Prince William III (the later King of England). Van de Klashorst 251; Knuttel 8794a; Meulman 3998. The author defends the thesis that "a stadholder would be a menace to and not the perfection of the aristocratic constitution, in particular the Prince of Orange whose ancestors tried to attain sovereign authority and whose private interests are not necessarily in accordance with the national interest." (Van de Klashorst).
- Lacks p.1-2 (htitle?); title sl. soiled and lacks lower blank corner. Upper joint split.
= Second edition (1st ed. was publ. in the same year without the author's or publisher's name) of Hume's famous work in which the nature of God is discussed through dialogue between three characters: Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes.